Cool. Hubris provokes nemesis.
Posted on 03/05/2009 4:03:57 PM PST by AJ in NYC
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste of the court's time and suggesting the plaintiff's attorney may have to compensate the president's lawyer. In an argument popular on the Internet and taken seriously practically nowhere else, Obama's critics argue he is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural-born citizen" as the Constitution requires. In response last summer, Obama's campaign posted his Hawaiian birth certificate on its Web site. But the lawsuit argues it is a fake and that Obama was actually born in his father's homeland of Kenya, even though Hawaiian officials have said the document is authentic. "This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do," U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in his written opinion. The lawsuit didn't even use Obama's legal name but called him "Barry Soetoro," the name he went by while attending elementary school in Indonesia. It's one of many that has been filed claiming Obama is ineligible to serve as president. Robertson ordered plaintiff's attorney John Hemenway of Colorado Springs, Colo., to show why he hasn't violated court rules barring frivolous and harassing cases and shouldn't have to pay Obama's attorney, Bob Bauer, for his time arguing that the case should be thrown out.
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Ditto, that!!
In this case??
Surely, you jest, son
They wrote themselves a grandfather clause because they themselves were not born in the United States.
Washington was born in Virginia in 1732.
John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1735
Jefferson was born in Virginia in 1743
Madison born in Virginia in 1751
Monroe born in Virginia in 1758
Need more?
Ya know, you're an idiot...tha'ts the point the poster has been making.
Duh yourself
It’s been explained.
Lighten up Francis
They know it was an idiotic statement since they were born here and not England.
That's right DJ.
Which made Zero a British Citizen at birth, by his own web site's admission. His mother wasn't old enough to bestow Natural Born Citizenship to him.
I don’t think that it would matter if she was. His father was a foreigner.
I don't think that article does provide a very clear definition of natural born, especially as:
1. It is not very clear on the case where one parent is a US citizen.
2. It relies on more on quotes rather than laws and legal cases to make its points. Two of the persons referenced, "Alexander Porter" and "Morse" are not even identified.
It is clear. Our Presidents have all been born here but their parents were not. They wrote the clause as I explained in post 85 in order for them to be eligible.
You know what else is missing?
When a new POTUS is elected, all of his past acquaintances, school chums, girlfriends, hospitals and even the town he was born in speak up and vie for media attention.....except in this case.
Well, at least they're celebrating in Kenya, go figure
died in the wool
dyed in the wool
Good point. I hadn’t thought of that. It was mentioned during the campaign that he had no friends. Guess they were all under the bus.
Do I understand it correctly Lucy T? ( I don't want to spread misinformation)
I believe that is what I read. That law has been posted.
Better ping the experts...
I was sold on him being ineligible when I heard his father was Kenyan. The founders must be spinning like tops.
died and the wool died in the wool dyed in the wool
I thought it was 'dye in the wool' which makes sense.
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