Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:31:05 PM
"Donofrio then presented it to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who put it on the court docket for a conference on December 5. If four of the nine justices decide to hear the case, then full oral arguments will be scheduled."
Supreme Court to Review Obama's Citizenship (Latest Obama BC Investigation Links From "Death By 1000 Papercuts" Below Articles)
It looks like the Barack Obama citizenship issue will not die until he is inaugurated. It probably will not end even then.
Now the U.S. Supreme Court will discuss the matter in private because one justice decided it was worthy. Before fingering the member of our highest court, I will give a little background information on the case. If you do not think too hard about it, you can probably guess which Supreme Court Justice is responsible.
Leo Donofrio of New Jersey filed suit against Nina Wells, the New Jersey Secretary of State, claiming that she had not performed her duty to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.
Donofrio originally asked a state court to review the citizenship of Barack Obama, John McCain and Roger Calero. Calero was the Socialist Worker’s Party Presidential candidate. He was born in Venezuela. That is a cut and dry case.
John McCain was born in Panama but on an American military base. Legal scholars believe birth on an American military base qualifies as a “natural-born citizen.” A “natural-born citizen” is one of the requirements to be President.
For Obama, it is the old born in Kenya story again. Anyone who doubts that Obama was not born in Hawaii, please refer to Politifact and Factcheck investigations. Hawaii does not allow birth records to be publicly viewed. This is why no one can go in and see the certificate. It is not because Obama is hiding them, or they were never there. Read this article from Foolocracy if you want more information.
Anyway, after Donofrio’s case was rejected at the state level, he presented it to Supreme Court Justice David Souter who rejected it. Donofrio then presented it to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who put it on the court docket for a conference on December 5. If four of the nine justices decide to hear the case, then full oral arguments will be scheduled.
Now it is possible Thomas wants to review Calero’s eligibility as a Presidential candidate. There are plenty of acceptable reasons for this. However, the timing, 10 days before the Electoral College meets, only gives hope and ammunition for those who believe Barack Obama has conspired to create the greatest hoax in world history — that he and his family have been hiding his Kenyan citizenship since he was a few days old so he could run for President.
Gee, thanks, Clarence Thomas.
By the way, for those still questioning Obama’s and McCain’s citizenship qualifications, al-Qaeda did fly planes into the Twin Towers, aliens have not abducted millions of people for medical experiments, and the moon is not made of cheese.
Here is the Supreme Court docket. You can see the real thing here.
Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:13:00 PM
"Kenyan Ambassador Peter Ogego: "Barack Obama was born in Kenya!" Comment at: Obama’s Birth Certificate Challenger Keeps Going (below) See videos and more here at this website and see how the lawsuits began and have developed too.
November 2008
Obama: Sad Clown Caricature of "Leadership"
Without leverage, the clever folk around Barack Obama are fleas without a dog. None of them invented anything, introduced an important new product, opened a new market, or did anything that reached into the lives of ordinary people. They wore expensive cufflinks, read balance sheets, exercised regularly, sat on philanthropic boards, and assumed that their flea's ride on the Reagan dog would last forever.
Watching Barak Obama in press conference is an exercise in amused and tolerant disgust. With every attempt to answer a question, Obama's lack of depth and absence of solidity become clearer.
The American voter, it seems, cannot distinguish between persons of depth and experience, and persons who only look good giving prepared speeches to adoring crowds. Obama has no substance, and it is beginning to show.
The size of national and international problems that Obama will have to address is staggering. Never has it been so important for the leader of the world hegemon to be prepared for anything, than at the present. And then the dupes elect Obama. Buckle up!
Failed financiers run the Obama transition team. It used to be that the heads of great industrial companies got the top Cabinet posts. Now it is the one-trick wizards....For a quarter of a century, the inbred products of the Ivy League puppy mills have known nothing but a rising trend in asset prices. About the origin of this trend, they were incurious....Now that the stock market has collapsed, the private equity strategies cannot repay their debt, and their returns have evaporated.
All they knew was leverage, and now that the world is de-levering, they are trying to put leverage back into the system.
Obama Scores A's in Politics, Flunks Leader Test: Kevin Hassett
Commentary by Kevin Hassett
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A politician is a person who says one thing, does the opposite, and fails to acknowledge the contradiction. A leader is a person who does the right thing, no matter the consequences.
Every president must decide, on balance, which he will be.
When you look back at past presidents, the most successful ones, like Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, often led regardless of the political risks.
The less successful ones, like Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, operated without any clear compass and sailed with the political winds. Bush, for example, flip-flopped from tax-cutting conservative to prescription-drug peddler, all with an eye toward building a permanent majority. (He was right about the majority part, but he got the party wrong.)
Let's assume that most politicians want history to view them as leaders. As Barack Obama is already finding out, it isn't easy. We are already learning a good deal about his leadership style, and for those hungering for a post-partisan direction, his performance has been disappointing.
Take the proposed bailout of the U.S. auto manufacturers, a policy that has been tirelessly advocated by the president-elect and sadly seems to be gaining support from enough members of both parties to have a chance of passage.
Economics 101 suggests that the government shouldn't bail out the automakers. They are saddled with enormously high costs relative to the competition and have been unable to deliver a product that is attractive enough to earn big markups and make up the difference.
Creative Destruction
When the manufacturer of a product has trouble in the marketplace, it needs to change its product or its cost structure, and government intervention can only slow the adjustment process. The fastest and most efficient path to economic growth is through the reorganization that generally occurs in bankruptcy.
So what arguments might cause one to reject the Economics 101 answer? The first is that there will be a contagion if the U.S. automakers enter bankruptcy. They are too big to fail.
This analysis is indefensible. Firms operate in bankruptcy all the time. The airlines seem to do it as a matter of habit. Forcing the unions and automakers to make tough choices in bankruptcy court isn't the same as shutting down the factories. Factories usually continue to operate in such circumstances. And if a few plants are shut, it will allocate workers and resources toward more efficient uses. That is a plus, not a minus.
The Little Guy
The second argument in favor of the bailout is that it serves social justice. In this view, Washington politicians are here to fight for the little guy, and now is their chance. Those poor blue-collar workers in Detroit didn't have a voice in Washington, and now they do.
This argument is worse than the first. The U.S. automakers are hemorrhaging money, it's true, and a big reason they are doing so is they are shoveling it out the door to the workers.
Times are tough, and people all over the country have been losing their jobs. When an auto worker at one of the U.S. automakers who has worked at least 10 years loses his job, he gets a severance payment of $140,000. Most everybody else in the U.S. gets a minimal severance or nothing.
And those who don't lose their jobs are compensated richly. The average cost of an hour of United Auto Worker member work is about $73. The average cost for an hour of work for a Honda Motor Co. worker in the U.S. is about $43.
Higher Pay
Some of those higher costs are attributable to the great retirement benefits that are provided to UAW members, who on average have a retirement that is about twice as comfy as the typical senior relying upon Social Security.
Even excluding the rich benefits, a typical Chrysler assembly worker had an annual salary of $64,100 in 2006, compared with $49,568 for the average American household. Including benefits, the UAW worker is solidly encamped in the upper third of the income distribution.
Bailout proposals all have the effect of fueling this gravy train for the auto workers. It is difficult to see how anyone could claim that this serves social justice. If you take general revenue, which is collected from everyone in the U.S., and transfer it to high-salaried auto workers, then you aren't serving social justice; you are subverting it.
Why would anyone propose such a thing? It might be that the proponents of the bailout are just mistaken about the first point and believe that bankruptcy is death, that a systemic economic calamity will follow if the automakers enter Chapter 11. Or they might not have understood the distributional consequences of their actions.
Simple Explanation
But it seems unlikely that President-elect Obama, surrounded as he is with brilliant economists, could have missed this point. The auto bailout is political payback, pure and simple.
After all, the Center for Responsive Politics reports that organized labor contributed a sum of $58 million during the 2008 election cycle to both parties. Republicans picked up $4.85 million; Democrats got $53 million. ... (More) Excerpted from: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=amI2XKsFI0bI&refer=home
(Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He was an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in the 2008 presidential election. The opinions expressed are his own.) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=amI2XKsFI0bI&refer=home
Last Updated: November 24, 2008 00:02 EST
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* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: The Curious Behavior of the Obama Campaign
* Obama, Bill Ayers, and FactCheck.Org: All Have Ties To Annenberg Foundation
- World Net Daily has really ramped up their coverage of the Obama birth certificate issue today. WND’s front page contains almost nothing else but stories on the matter. Such as:
* Rathergate II: Certification of Live Birth a clear forgery
* Proofin’ the prez: Who’s in charge? Constitutional lawyer says electors have duty to investigate citizenship
* Obama’s birthplace heats up Liddy show
* Is he or isn’t he? The debate over Obama’s eligibility
World Net Daily is the home to Dr. Jerome Corsi, author of Obama Nation, and a visitor to Kenya who was ejected from the country quickly upon arriving weeks ago.
Does World Net Daily have something that it is about to break on this story?
We don’t know. But we notice things.
- The Kenyan Ambassador.
Earlier today we provided a link to a video of the Kenyan ambassador stating that Barack Obama’s birthplace in Kenya is already getting plenty of visitors since he became president. [MORNING INTELL: Kenya, Iran, Israel, PC Nazis, Natalie Holloway]
This slip–or not–of the tongue, combined with Justice Clarence Thomas’ conference scheduled for December 5 on Denofrio v. Wells, has added fuel to the Obama citizenship fire. (MORE) Excerpted from: http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/11/obama-birth-certificate-wnd-kenya-and-african-press-internatl/