WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday
he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like
security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the
one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of
Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying
to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but
we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism
or Marxism."
Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the
Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for
a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the
military.
"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what
the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a
national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as
the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech
in Colorado about building a new civil service corps. Among other
things, he called for expanding the nation's foreign service and
doubling the size of the Peace Corps "to renew our diplomacy."
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve
the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July.
"We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as
powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
Broun said he also believes Obama likely will move to ban gun
ownership if he does build a national police force.
Obama has said he respects the Second Amendment right to bear arms
and favors "common sense" gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that
as meaning he'll at least enact curbs on ownership of assault weapons
and concealed weapons. As an Illinois state lawmaker, Obama supported a
ban on semiautomatic weapons and tighter restrictions on firearms
generally.
"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to
remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not
comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the
potential."
Obama's transition office did not respond immediately to Broun's
remarks.
Are you a
Natural Born Citizen of the U.S.?
Are you legally qualified to hold the Office of President?
Dear Mr. Obama:
On October 24, 2008, a federal judge
granted your request to dismiss a lawsuit by Citizen Philip
Berg, who challenged your qualifications under the “Natural Born
Citizen” clause of the U.S. Constitution to legally hold the
office of President of the United States of America.
Mr. Berg presented factual evidence
to the Court in support of his claim that you are either a
citizen of your father’s native Kenya by birth, or that you
became a citizen of Indonesia, relinquishing your prior
citizenship when you moved there with your mother in 1967.
In your response to the lawsuit, you
neither denied Mr. Berg’s claims nor submitted any
evidence which would refute his assertions. Instead, you argued
that the Court lacked the jurisdiction to determine the question
of your legal eligibility because Mr. Berg lacked “standing.”
Astonishingly, the judge agreed,
simply saying, “[Mr. Berg] would have us derail the democratic
process by invalidating a candidate for whom millions of people
voted and underwent excessive vetting during what was one of the
most hotly contested presidential primary [sic] in living
memory.”
Unfortunately, your response to the
legal claim was clearly evasive and strikingly out of character,
suggesting you may, in fact, lack a critical Constitutional
qualification necessary to assume the Office of President: i.e.,
that you are not a “natural born” citizen of the United
States or one who has relinquished his American
citizenship.
Before you can exercise any of the
powers of the United States, you must prove that you have fully
satisfied each and every eligibility requirement that the
Constitution mandates for any individual’s exercise of those
powers.
Regardless of the tactics chosen in
defending yourself against the Berg lawsuit, significant
questions regarding your legal capacity to hold this nation’s
highest office have been put forth publicly, and you have
failed to directly refute them with documentary evidence that is
routinely available to any bona fide, natural born U.S.
Citizen.
As one who has ventured into the fray of public service of his
own volition, seeking to possess the vast powers of the Office
of President, it is not unreasonable to demand that you produce
evidence of your citizenship to answer the questions and allay
the concerns of the People. Indeed, as the one seeking the
office, you are under a moral, legal, and fiduciary duty to
proffer such evidence to establish your qualifications as
explicitly mandated by Article II of the Constitution.
Should you proceed to assume the
office of the President of the United States as anything but a
bona fide natural born citizen of the United States that
has not relinquished that citizenship, you would be inviting a
national disaster, placing our Republic at great risk from
untold consequences. For example:
·
Neither the Electoral College on December 15, nor the House of
Representatives on January 6 would be able to elect you,
except as a poseur - a usurper;
·
As a usurper, you would be unable to take the required
“Oath or Affirmation” of office on January 20 without
committing the crime of perjury or false swearing, for being
ineligible for the Office of the President you cannot faithfully
execute the Office of the President of the United States;
·
Your every act in the usurped Office of the President
would be a criminal offense as an act under color of law
that would subject the People to the deprivation of their
constitutional rights, and entitling you to no obedience
whatsoever from the People;
·
as a usurper acting in the guise of the President you
could not function as the Commander in Chief of the Army and
Navy and of the militia of the several states, as such forces
would be under no legal obligation to remain obedient to you;
·
No one in any civilian agency in the Executive Branch would be
required to obey any of your proclamations, executive orders or
directives, as such orders would be legally VOID;
·
Your appointment of Ambassadors and Judges to the Supreme
Court would be VOIDab initio (i.e., from the
beginning), no matter what subsequent actions the Senate might
take as well as rendering any such acts by such appointed
officials void as well;
·
Congress would not be able to pass any new laws because they
would not be able to acquire the signature of a bona fide
President, rendering all such legislation legally VOID;
·
As a usurper, Congress would be unable to remove
you from the Office of the President on Impeachment, inviting
certain political chaos including a potential for armed
conflicts within the General Government or among the States and
the People to effect the removal of such a usurper.
As an attorney and sitting U.S.
Senator, I’m sure you agree that our Constitution is the
cornerstone of our system of governance. It is the very
foundation of our system of Law and Order – indeed, it is
the supreme law of the land. I’m sure you also agree
that its precise language was no accident and cannot be ignored
if Individual, unalienable, natural Rights, Freedoms and
Liberties are to be protected and preserved.
As our next potential President, you
have a high-order obligation to the Constitution (and to those
who have fought and died for our Freedom) that extends far
beyond that of securing a majority of the votes of the Electoral
College. No matter your promises of change and prosperity,
your heartfelt intent or the widespread support you have
garnered in seeking the highest Office of the Land, the
integrity of the Republic and Rule of Law cannot, -- must
not -- be put at risk, by allowing a
constitutionally unqualified person to sit, as a
usurper, in the Office of the President.
No matter the level of practical
difficulty, embarrassment or disruption of the nation’s
business, we must -- above all -- honor and protect the
Constitution and the divine, unalienable, Individual Rights it
guarantees, including the Right to a President who is a natural
born citizen of the United States of America that has not
relinquished his American citizenship. Our nation has endured
similar disruptions in the past, and will weather this crisis as
well. Indeed, it is both yours and the People’s mutual respect
for, and commitment to, the Constitution and Rule of Law that
insures the perpetuation of Liberty.
As a long time defender of my state
and federal Constitutions, and in consideration of the lack of
sufficient evidence needed to establish your credentials as
President, I am compelled to lodge this Petition for Redress of
Grievances and public challenge to you.
Make no mistake: This issue IS a Constitutional crisis.
Although it will not be easy for you, your family or our
Republic, you have it within your ability to halt this
escalating crisis by either producing the certified documents
establishing beyond question your qualifications to hold the
Office of President, or by immediately withdrawing yourself from
the Electoral College process.
With due respect, I hereby request
that you deliver the following documents to Mr. Berg and myself
at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at noon on Monday,
November 17, 2008:
(a) a certified copy of your “vault” (original long version)
birth certificate;
(b) certified copies of all reissued and sealed birth
certificates in the names
Barack Hussein Obama, Barry Soetoro, Barry
Obama, Barack Dunham
and Barry Dunham;
(c) a certified copy of your Certification of Citizenship;
(d) a certified copy of your Oath of Allegiance taken upon age
of maturity;
(e) certified copies of your admission forms for Occidental
College, Columbia
University and Harvard Law School; and
(f) certified copies of any court orders or legal documents
changing your name
from Barry Soetoro.
In the alternative,
in defense of the Constitution, and in honor of the Republic and
that for which it stands, please announce before such time your
withdrawal from the 2008 Presidential election process.
“In a government of laws, the
existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to
observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the
omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches
the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the
government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it
invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites
anarchy.” Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 469-471.
Thank you for your understanding and
cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Schulz,
Founder and Chairman, We The People Foundation for
Constitutional Education, Inc.
"Smears" about Obama Largely True By: Lowell
Ponte
The Obama campaign says its
candidate is a victim of “smears” — and has even
created a Web site to fight such attacks.
But a Newsmax investigation
finds many of the so-called smears are largely
based in truth — and the Obama campaign uses
half-truths, clever language, and ad hominem
attacks to spin the facts.
Obama’s www.FightTheSmears.com
focuses mainly on anti-Obama messages being
repeated on the Internet and talk radio, the
only media where Obama's ideological allies are
not dominant.
These "smears" and the Obama
rebuttals are often framed in lawyerly language
that leaves much wiggle room in the candidate’s
answers.
FightTheSmears.com also makes
no attempt at objectivity, describing Obama’s
critics as “pushing misleading research and
distorted claims” because they are “ideologues”
busy “spreading a ‘pack of lies’ about Barack.”
In a section of the site
titled, “Who’s Behind the Smears?” visitors can
see a chart naming seven groups and six
individuals with lines that suggest multiple,
sinister connections between them.
The people and groups named
are real and are members of Washington’s small
but conservative sphere of power and influence.
The Obama conspiracy chart links all of these
conservative individuals and groups back to the
critics who dogged the “Clinton 1992 Campaign.”
This may come as something as
a surprise to Hillary Clinton, as many of the
“smears” against Obama first surfaced during her
heated primary contest with him.
Newsmax reviewed 10 random
claims and related rebuttals posted on Obama’s
ever-changing FightTheSmears.com to gauge their
veracity. Here’s what we found:
Claim No. 1: Obama's
campaign is funded by the rich, big corporations
and foreigners.
“Barack Obama was the only
major presidential candidate this year to
completely reject contributions from The
Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs
that have dominated our politics for years,” the
Obama site says of the persistent online
criticisms of its fundraising.
“Instead, this campaign has
been owned by the more than 3.1 million everyday
Americans who have donated in small amounts.”
Not so, according to campaign
finance records. Nearly half of the $600 million
raised by Obama to date has come from wealthy
donors and special interests. Obama's allies
months ago dropped their ad linking Republican
rival “Exxon John” McCain to Big Oil after it
came to light that Obama had taken far more
money from Exxon-Mobil than McCain.
“The Obama campaign has
complied fully with federal election law,”
claims the Obama site, “including donor
eligibility and contribution disclosure
requirements.”
However, one giant loophole
the politicians wrote into the law allows
contributions in amounts of $200 or less with no
donor identification. Obama claims that $300
million in campaign funds was given by these
small donors, and he won’t release their names
and addresses.
McCain has released his whole
donor database, including those who have
contributed less than $200.
Critics argue that the other
half of Obama’s campaign haul — the part not
raised from big corporate donors and special
interests — came in a small flood of anonymous
donations that might be foreign or corrupt, or
both.
Claim No. 2: Obama has had
a close, ongoing relationship with domestic
terrorist Bill Ayers.
The Obama site acknowledges
that its candidate and Ayers ”served on the
board of an education-reform organization in the
mid-1990s,” but maintains most stories about the
links between Obama and Ayers are phony or
exaggerated.
It does not mention that Obama
and Ayers worked together on the board
distributing millions of dollars with the aim of
radicalizing Chicago schoolchildren.
Nor does the site acknowledge
that Obama kicked off his first political
campaign in the living room of Ayers, the former
Weather Underground leader. (Obama is currently
saying it was not the first event. There is no
dispute that one of Obama’s first political
events in his first run for public office was
held in Ayers’ home.)
There is also no dispute the
Weather Underground bombed the Pentagon the
Capitol, the home of a New York Supreme Court
justice, and a police station, among other
targets. FBI agent Larry Grathwohl, who
infiltrated the group, has recounted Ayers
teaching him how to make bombs and saying, “In
the revolution, some innocent people need to
die.”
“Smear groups and now a
desperate McCain campaign are trying to connect
Barack to William Ayers using age-old guilt by
association techniques . . .” says the Obama Web
site.
Actually, McCain and Obama
critics are questioning why Obama would continue
to associate with a man who, as recently as
2001, said he did not do enough and wished he
had bombed more.
Conservatives also note that
if Ayers had bombed abortion clinics, the
liberal media would brand him a pariah forever.
What does it tell us about the liberal media’s
and Obama’s judgment and values that they see
nothing wrong with embracing unrepentant
terrorist Ayers today?
Claim No. 3: Obama takes
advice from executives of troubled mortgage
backer Fannie Mae.
“John McCain started smearing
Obama about non-existent ties to Fannie Mae in
some of his deceptive attack ads,” says
FightTheSmears.com. The site downplays
connections between Obama and two former heads
of the giant mortgage-backing institution —
James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines — whose
corruption played a key role in the current
financial crisis.
But an editorial in the Aug.
27, 2008, Washington Post described Johnson and
Raines, as “members of Mr. Obama’s political
circle.”
Raines advised the Obama
campaign on housing matters. Obama chose Johnson
to select his vice presidential running mate.
But because neither are advising Obama today,
this Web site’s present-tense claim that he
“doesn’t [not didn’t] take advice from Fannie
Mae execs” is technically, if deceptively, true.
Johnson also reportedly helped
raise as much as $500,000 for Obama’s campaign.
And despite Obama’s lack of
seniority in the U.S. Senate, he pocketed more
than $105,000 in political contributions, the
third-highest amount given to any lawmaker,
directly from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Obama’s Web site leaves all this unmentioned.
Claim No. 4: Obama has
close ties with the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group
suspected of massive voter registration fraud.
Obama’s site says the
candidate was never an ACORN employee and that
ACORN “was not part of Project Vote, the
successful voter registration drive [Obama] ran
in 1992.”
In defending Obama, the site
resorts to smearing former Ohio Secretary of
State Ken Blackwell — calling him a “discredited
Republican voter-suppression guru” — for daring
to fight the vote fraud so often associated with
operatives of ACORN, among the largest radical
groups in the United States.
As Newsmax has documented in ["Clever
Obama Tries To Bury ACORN Past,"] Obama’s
Web site is attempting to deceive when it says
Obama was never “hired” to work as a trainer for
ACORN’s leaders. In fact, he did the work for
free from at least 1993 until 2003.
ACORN spokesman Lewis Goldberg
acknowledges in the Oct. 11, 2008, New York
Times that Obama trained ACORN leaders. And
Obama worked as a lawyer for ACORN.
As to heading up Project Vote
in Illinois, Obama said during a speech to ACORN
leaders last November, "[When] I ran the Project
Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN
was smack-dab in the middle of it.”
Veteran journalist Karen
Tumulty described Project Vote in the Oct. 18,
2004, issue of Time magazine as “a nonpartisan
arm of the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now” after interviewing
its national director.
The co-founder of ACORN,
former Students for a Democratic Society
official Wade Rathke, described Project Vote as
one of ACORN’s “family of organizations.”
Over the years, ACORN and its
front groups, like the one Obama ran in
Illinois, have registered more than 4 million
voters. When authorities in Virginia checked
ACORN registrations, it found that 83 percent
were fraudulent or had problems. This, in
theory, could mean ACORN may have created the
opportunity for stealing more than 3.3 million
votes in this November’s election, a margin far
wider than that by which Obama is likely to win.
Claim No. 5: Obama has
shown only wavering support for individual
gun-ownership rights.
“During Barack’s career in the
Illinois and United States Senates, he proudly
stood to defend the rights of hunters and
sportsmen,” says Obama’s Web site, “while doing
everything he could to protect children —
including his own two daughters — from illegal
gun violence.”
But the National Rifle
Association, it continues, “is distributing a
dishonest and cowardly flyer that makes
confrontational accusations and runs away from
verifying them.”
Actually, the NRA does a
meticulous job of laying out documentation, as
Newsmax reported in September ["NRA
to Fight Obama Over Gun Rights Flip-Flops,"]
to show that Obama has supported handgun
confiscation; the handgun ban in Washington,
D.C.; a virtual ban on high-powered rifle
ammunition; and many other draconian
restrictions on Second Amendment rights.
If elected, wrote the NRA,
Obama “would be the most anti-gun president in
American history.”
Claim No. 6: A fervent
supporter of abortion rights, Obama supports
late-term and partial-birth abortions.
The Obama Web site dismisses
such criticism as the work of “radical
anti-abortion ideologues running ads against
Barack.”
But as an Illinois state
senator, Obama voted repeatedly against
legislation to protect infants who, during a
late-term abortion, were “born alive.” Such
protection, he has argued, already exists in
Illinois; it does, but is subject to the
abortionist’s decision whether such an infant
has a good likelihood of survival.
Nurses have reported instances
in which surviving aborted babies were left by
abortionists to die without water, food, or
warmth.
Obama’s Web site notes that
even the Republican author of one of these
bills, former state Sen. Rick Winkel, has
written that “none of those who voted against
[his bill] favored infanticide.”
True, but Obama’s site does
not quote the rest of Winkel’s statement:
“[T]heir zeal for pro-choice dogma was clearly
the overriding force behind their negative votes
rather than concern that my bill would protect
babies who are born alive.”
Obama has a 100 percent
pro-choice voting record according to NARAL
Pro-Choice America; his rating from the National
Right to Life Committee is zero.
How extreme is Obama on this
issue? In the U.S. Senate, he has voted against
bills that would prohibit minors from crossing
state lines for abortion without parental
notification.
"Look, I got two daughters — 9
years old and 6 years old,” Obama has said. “I
am going to teach them first about values and
morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want
them punished with a baby."
Claim No. 7: Obama showed
little interest or support for American combat
troops during his overseas visits.
Doubts about Obama’s true
support for the military cropped up during a
campaign trip to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Europe.
A widely circulated e-mail,
penned by Army Capt. Jeffrey S. Porter,
described Obama's visit to Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan: “As the Soldiers lined up to shake
his hand, he blew them off . . . He again
shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to
thank them for their service . . . I swear we
got more thanks from the NBA basketball players
or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from
[Obama].”
Porter later recanted, sending
a follow-up e-mail that said, in part: “After
checking my sources, information that was put
out in my e-mail was wrong.” He did not specify
which information was wrong, leading Obama
skeptics to suspect that this officer has been
disciplined by his superiors.
Heading home, Obama touched
down in Germany, where he “was scheduled to
visit the American hospitals at Ramstein and
Landstuhl.” But as The Washington Post reported,
Obama “canceled the trips after being told by
Pentagon officials that he could only visit in
his official capacity as a senator, not as a
candidate” and could not have his visits with
hospitalized soldiers videotaped by the media.
Prominent liberal mainstream
media reporters such as NBC’s Andrea Mitchell
rushed to defend Obama, saying that the press
had never planned to cover his visits to
military sickbeds. But Obama canceled both
visits and used his free time instead to shoot
hoops, with the media recording his best shots.
Claim No. 8: Barack Obama
is a Muslim.
FightTheSmears.com states
bluntly that Obama is a Christian, not a
follower of Islam.
In fact, Barack Hussein
Obama’s Kenyan father was raised Muslim, though
he reportedly was not religious.
His mother divorced and
remarried another man, a Muslim from Indonesia.
As a youngster in Indonesia, Barack Obama
attended two schools and was registered at both
as a Muslim. He received religious instruction
in both schools as a Muslim, including studying
the Quran. According to a childhood friend,
Obama occasionally attended services at a local
mosque.
It’s important to note that
Obama’s Web site does not say he was never a
Muslim. But in the past, Obama’s site and
FightTheSmears.com did make the claim Obama was
never a Muslim. Since that claim is obviously
false, it is no longer used.
Obama says he became a
Christian in his late 20s. He now describes
himself as Christian. Until recently, he spent
two decades as a member of a Chicago United
Church of Christ congregation that embraces
Black Liberation theology. Somewhat like the
Roman Catholic liberation theology of Latin
America, the Chicago UCC church preaches
elements of neo-Marxist class warfare. It
combines these radical socialist elements with
black racialism.
Claim No. 9: As president,
Obama would raise taxes dramatically for most
Americans.
Millions of Americans
recognize that Obama is likely to raise taxes.
But like a good conjurer, who tricks you into
watching his right hand while doing things with
his left, the Obama Web site assures readers
with a red herring.
The Illinois senator will not
tax your water, as claimed in some fringe
e-mails, FightTheSmears.com maintains.
What Obama will do, however,
is tax businesses and capital gains more
heavily, even though America already has the
world’s second-highest business taxes.
“Now our opponents tell you
not to worry about their tax increases” said
former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson at the 2008
Republican National Convention. “They tell you
they are not going to tax your family. No,
they’re just going to tax businesses! So unless
you buy something from a business, like
groceries or clothes or gasoline . . . or unless
you get a paycheck from a big or a small
business, don’t worry. It’s not going to affect
you.”
During his campaign, Obama has
promised to raise various taxes that will fall
on most economic classes, including the dividend
tax, the FICA tax cap, the capital gains tax,
the estate tax, and new taxes on gasoline.
He also called for the Bush
tax cuts to expire in 2010, which will
automatically raise taxes on most Americans. By
letting the Bush cuts expire, Obama would
produce a $2 trillion tax increase that some
economists predict will rumble through the
already weakened economy like an earthquake.
Claim No. 10: Obama was
born outside the United States and is ineligible
for the presidency.
The Obama Web site dismisses
the claim that the candidate was born anywhere
but in the United States as “completely false”
and “groundless.”
As proof, the Obama’s campaign
has produced a “certificate of live birth” from
Hawaii indicating that Barack Hussein Obama II
was born Aug. 4, 1961. Critics, however say the
document could have easily been forged and is
not a substitute for a certified birth
certificate.
No reporter has been allowed
to see the original certificate of live birth or
its certificate number, which is blacked out on
copies of it on the Obama site.
Skeptics note that Obama’s
“Father’s Race” is identified on this document
as “African,” a geographic and modern
politically correct term rather than a 1961
racial designation. The standard term used on
American birth certificates until the U.S.
Census changed it in 1980 would have been
“Negro.”
Former deputy attorney general
of Pennsylvania, Philip J. Berg, a Democrat with
mixed credibility (he has supported conspiracy
theories involving 9/11), has filed a lawsuit to
force Obama to produce a certified copy of his
birth certificate. According to Berg, Obama’s
paternal grandmother has said she was present at
his birth in Kenya, after which his mother
promptly returned with her baby to the United
States.
If that is true, Obama could
be constitutionally ineligible to be president.
Barack Tells Acorn they will Shape
His Domestic Policy
Obama's Online Birth
Certificate Verified a FAKE by Hawaii "CNN, Factcheck.org and Obama campaign
exposed as liars"
(HONOLULU)(November 1, 2008) Internet powerhouse Andy Martin has
ignited a firestorm in Hawai'i over Barack Obama's bogus
"original" birth certificate. Martin won a stunning victory
Friday afternoon (October 31st) when the State of Hawai'i backed
his assertion that there was an original, "typewritten, 1961"
birth certificate, called a "Certificate of Live Birth" or
"COLB" in Hawai'i, that no one has previously seen. Hawai'i
officials retrieved and examined the document
after Martin filed a lawsuit seeking access to the historic 1961
original.
Obama has falsely claimed to have placed the "original" on the
Internet. Factcheck.org has falsely claimed to have seen this
document and posted it on the Internet; that is not true. CNN
has falsely ridiculed Martin.
Hawai'i officials have now refuted Obama's false assertion.
Martin's victory in Honolulu will roil the final weekend of the
presidential campaign. Internet chatter is expected to explode
as the issue moves to the front page over Saturday and Sunday.
Swing voters may be swayed by the exposure that Obama has
brazenly been lying to the American people. "We just lobbed a
grenade into the final weekend of the presidential campaign,"
says Andy.
"I am ecstatic. I called Obama a liar. I called Factcheck.org
'ObamaLies.org.' I said CNN was sloppy and lazy and wrong. And I
was right. The State of Hawai'i has now backed me up. Whew. I
knew I was right, but I feel a lot more comfortable knowing that
I have started to get the machinery moving in state government.
The original document is now obviously protected and safe from
any tampering by Obama.
"My lawsuit started a firestorm in Hawai'i. The circuit judge
has set a hearing for November 18th (a report in the Honolulu
Advertiser for November 1st for an earlier hearing date of
November 7th is inaccurate; that date was cancelled).
"CNN also has egg on its face, because, once again, Hawai'i
backs my contention that the original document has never
surfaced in public. CNN tried to demean me by contradicting my
accurate claim.
"Now Obama, Factcheck.org and CNN have been exposed as liars. I
said there was a 'secret,' original, typewritten birth
certificate that had never been disclosed, and that document was
the original COLB, not the phony 'original' that CNN placed
before its viewers.
"Why would Hawai'i officials review the vault document at the
Eleventh Hour if my lawsuit wasn't causing a furor in Hawai'i
state government? Why? The Friday before the election?
"Mine is the only logical, rational, properly prepared lawsuit
that has been filed to open Obama's secret records. I sued in
the proper state in the proper court against the proper
officials for the proper remedy. And they are responding
properly. The judge has properly, although not as quickly as I
would have preferred, set a hearing to consider my claims. I
have not filed outrageous or exaggerated pleadings.
"I merely sought access to a document based on its scholarly and
news value and because I had been tipped by my sources inside
state government that Obama was lying. My network of informants
within state government helps me and guides me. Others filed
lawsuits outside Hawai'i that have either been dismissed or
discredited. My 'little engine that could' is chugging along.
"I have an outstanding record of high-profile public interest
litigation, as recognized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court five
years ago when they allowed me to represent a U. S. Marine in a
landmark lawsuit." See www.AndyMartin.com and
www.FirstRespondersOnline.us
In a Honolulu news conference on October 22nd Martin disclosed
that Frank Marshall Davis was the biological father of Barack
Obama, not Barack Obama senior. The Obama campaign has not
denied Martin's claim.
"Over the past month I have been on combat patrol from coast to
coast for the truth and for the United States Constitution,"
says Andy. "I have not the slightest link to John McCain. I am
connected to the Constitution and nothing else. I have waged
relentless war against Barack Obama's lies. And on the eve of
the final weekend in the presidential campaign Hawai'i
government has backed me by confirming that officials have
examined the original, typewritten 1961 document, and confirmed
that the document released by the Obama campaign was a
facsimile, not the original.
"I have won a major victory: I proved Obama was lying about what
he had posed on the Internet and falsely portrayed as 'the
original.' 'Barry, we caught you with your pants down. We caught
you lying, again.
"Saturday it will be my pleasure to return home to Chicago after
one of the most successful independent political battle
operations in media history, to wage the final weekend of war
for the truth and Constitution and against the Daley Machine and
Obama Gang. I have successfully been exposing and fighting Daley
Family corruption for over forty years. Barry Obama is part of
the second generation Daley Machine. He is a member in good
standing of this criminal operation.
"The Machine doesn't like me. But I have a history of coming up
with the truth, and a history of embarrassing powerful people.
In retaliation, they try to smear me. The disclosure that
Hawai'i officials have examined the true original COLB, and that
Obama lied to the American people by falsely claiming he had
posted the original 1961 document, is going to spread like
wildfire between Saturday and Tuesday night.
"This election is bizarre because the presidential candidate of
the Democratic Party, the Party's leader, is from the Daley
Machine in Chicago. And the leader of the Internet Army opposing
Obama and working
to defeat him and the Daley Machine is also from Chicago. My
Senator would be proud.
Martin is expected to announce Saturday that he is suing Fox
News as well as the New York Times, for defamation of character.
The lawsuit will be released Monday morning.
"For Fox News to treat me as they did is beneath contempt," says
Martin. "I am respected around the world for accuracy, honesty
and integrity. We know the New York Times is a corrupt media
operation. But Fox News? Well, Ruppert Murdock may want to
kow'tow to Barack Obama, but I will not kow'tow to Ruppert
Murdock. The crass executives deserve to be sued for their
malicious attacks on me. Someone ought to stand up for me: I
helped expose Bill Ayers and Khalid Al-Mansour. A slimy 'vice
president' that probably never worked a case or a story had the
nerve to demean me. What a compete corporate moron.
"How dare these media imposters and blowhards smear me with
lies, when I have worked tirelessly to expose the truth about
Barack Obama-and succeeded," Martin will charge. "I'll be happy
to face the Fox jerk, Vice President Bill Shine, in court and
defend my good name against Obama's mud merchants, the New York
Times and Ruppert Murdock. Ruppert Murdock's daughter is backing
Obama, for Chrissake.
"I also plan Saturday to thank Dr. Chiyome Fukino for confirming
my factual allegation that there was/is an original, typewritten
1961 'vault' COLB that has not been made public and that the
true 'original' COLB is in official files. That confirmation
makes Barack Obama a liar, on the last weekend of the campaign.
Thank you, doctor.
"Now you know why Obama and Axelrod and Gibbs call me the
'Internet Powerhouse' that can't be stopped. Barack Obama will
be bleeding through election night because of this massive lie
exposed on the eve of their election. I work for the American
people, not John McCain or the Republican Party. Friday, truth
arrived in Honolulu, and in the remaining 100 hours that truth
is going to be spread from coast-to-coast.
"Obama lied." Again!
Martin lands in Chicago at noon, and will proceed to his office,
for an afternoon news conference.
Martin is also soliciting financial support to fund his
litigation in Hawai'i.
Why I am Voting for McCain
Obama Mocks the
Holy Bible!
The Obama's on
Hillary and Her Supporters
Must View: Obama and His Radical Friends!
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Farrakhan calls Obama 'the Messiah'!
Why The Election Of Obama Would Mean The End Of America
By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin
This election isn't just about whether America is to be
ruled by a political party a little to the right or the
left of center. This is a uniquely dangerous election in
all of our history. The issue is whether we elect a
president and a party that will destroy America as we
know it and so weaken America's economy, national
defense, national security and foreign policy that
others will destroy us first.
I have been writing about Sen. Barack Obama five days a
week, because I was so appalled at what I found out
about him. And the more I investigated his background,
associates, collaborators, friends and positions the
more frightening the prospect of Sen. Obama in the White
House became. Based on everything I've learned, and
based on all my instincts and intuition about Sen. Obama
and what the mainstream media has been hiding from
voters, I'm convinced Sen. Obama would be an unmitigated
disaster. I'm convinced if the full truth were known, he
would look at least 100 times more dangerous than he
does now.
These are the factors that make the future look
catastrophic if Sen. Obama is elected:
1. We might well say, "Barack, we hardly know you." The
mainstream media has not vetted him. We are essentially
buying a cat in a bag. Even the wildly liberal Los
Angeles Times, almost totally supportive of Sen. Obama,
had to run a story saying reporters who cover him don't
even know him or what to expect from him. He is usually
scripted (and when he is not he makes horrendous
mistakes, as when he finally admitted his socialistic
objectives). He is kept from the press. He avoids news
conferences. His campaign ignores tough questions.
That's bad enough, but what we do know about him
suggests he's a far left liberal extremist and radical
and has flown with a platoon of racists, bigots,
America-haters, socialists, anti-capitalists and even
terrorists. It is inconceivable that such a man would
even be considered for the nomination, let alone win the
Democratic Party nomination, and be leading in the polls
with the days dwindling down to a precious few.
2. If he wins the White House, it is likely that he will
have a Congress controlled by the same radical liberal
wing of the Democratic Party that he represents - Sen.
Harry Reid in the Senate with a filibuster-proof
majority and Rep. Nancy Pelosi holding sway in the House
also with a supermajority. Already they are talking
about taking us down the most radical path in history
with more spending bills in the works, with tax hikes of
all kinds likely to kill business, with the "spread the
wealth" philosophy in the air and with the standard
Democratic Party cry of cutting defense spending.
They represent the old Democratic Party's approach of
endless taxing, spending, expansion of government,
limitation of freedom, and a feeble military and foreign
policy. But the Obama presidency would take that all to
a power of ten, and would add on a stream of radical
liberalism that we've never seen before.
3. This also means Sen. Obama, if elected, will be
naming perhaps three or more justices to the Supreme
Court. And he is already on record as favoring a living
constitution - code words for forgetting the intent of
the Founding Fathers and legislating from the bench. He
has also said he wants judges who empathize with the
single mother, the disabled and other vulnerable people.
This is his way of saying he wants judges who decide on
emotions and sympathy rather than on the rule of law.
That means there will be an explosion of far-out radical
liberal laws and regulations, coming from all three
branches of government. This means that the courts will
be able to legislate the far-left liberal agenda Sen.
Obama represents. That triumvirate is so far out that
they make people like Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis and
George McGovern look like conservatives. It is important
to observe that even Mr. McGovern, former presidential
nominee, has taken to the air to oppose proposed
legislation backed by Sen. Obama, the Democratic Party,
and labor bosses that in effect kills the secret ballot
for union elections. Unions will be organized by workers
just signing cards, subject to intimidation and
harassment, and unprotected by the secret ballot. I've
also detailed in earlier columns the anti-Democratic and
sometimes even Storm Trooper mentality of Sen. Obama and
his campaign. Unfortunately, Sen. Obama and the
Democrats are more committed to power and winning
elections that obeying and protecting democratic
principles.
4. And this barrage of radical liberalism will not just
be an updated version of the New Deal or LBJ's Great
Society. It will be a new form of radicalism that up to
now would not even be dreamed of. We will see "spread
the wealth" and "redistributive justice" on the face of
legislation rolling through Congress and being signed by
the president, without any checks and balances from a
minority party, without any veto, and without any
filibuster.
We will see even more radical ideas that will change the
face of America. As Rush Limbaugh reported on Oct. 29,
Sen. Obama and the Democrats have big ideas for changing
the very face of the nation. Sen. Obama has advocated
citizenship for all 12 million of the nation's illegal
immigrants. Sen. Obama has said, "... We cannot ...
deport all 12 million people. That's why we need to
offer those who are willing to make amends a pathway to
citizenship. That way, we can reconcile our values as
both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws."
The Democrats will rush that citizenship, as they want
to permanently tip the balance of power in favor of the
Democrats. There has been a fine balance of power
between the two parties, which will be ended by 12
million new voters who will favor the Democrats. That's
because minorities and immigrants tend to like the big,
benevolent, tax-and-spend governments that hand out
welfare, benefits and cradle-to-grave security. Dick
Morris, in his book Fleeced, points out how Sen. Obama
wants to include even illegal immigrants in his
universal health-care system. He argues that is sure to
overload the system and create such new demand for
health care that rationing will be in order. He goes on
to point out that means that our senior citizens will
probably have to be turned down for the most expensive
treatments and surgeries, taking a back seat to younger
immigrants and insureds, as their will not be the
medical resources to go around.
Senior citizens don't fair well in a system applying
rationing of medical care. What 47 million new insureds
will do to the cost, inflation rate and quality of
health care is too frightening and too obvious to even
need further explanation. Sen. Obama, by his tax plans,
his socialistic schemes, and his new welfare programs,
will destroy the health-care system and the economy in
short order. Small businesses, subjected to tax
increases probably even far in excess of those talked
about during the campaign, will be dead as a dodo. The
only question is whether we will be thus destroyed by
Sen. Obama's domestic policies, or whether we will be
first destroyed by his foreign policy that will weaken
our national defense, demonstrate weakness too our
enemies and invite attacks and the destruction of
America.
5. This all is more problematic in view of the
demonstrated dishonesty of Sen. Obama in explaining his
associations and positions. For more details see my
column, "Obama Tells the Greatest Lies Ever Told, Even
Before Beings Elected" (Oct. 30,) at www.thebulletin.us.
Further adding to the grim picture is the whiff of
corruption involving Sen.Obama and his campaign due to
both of their connections to ACORN and its furtherance
of voter fraud. During the debates, he said his only
connection with ACORN was as a lawyer, but he omitted
the more than $800,000 his campaign gave to an ACORN
subsidiary and his work as an organizer for ACORN. It
should also be noted Sen. Obama would have trouble
getting a security clearance if he were applying for a
federal job, due to questions about his loyalty and
reliability flowing from his long standing association
and collaboration with terrorists, subversives, radicals
and hate-America types.
6. The best demonstration of how Sen. Obama's foreign
policy would destroy America comes from Melanie
Phillips, who wrote the classic book Londonistan, on the
ongoing conquest of the United Kingdom by Islam. She
writes in The Spectator, a British publication, that the
impact of the financial crisis has obscured the most
important issue facing America. She says if Sen. Obama
becomes president, "U.S. defenses will be emasculated at
a time of unprecedented international peril and the
enemies of America and the free world will seize their
opportunity to destroy the west."
Ms. Phillips writes that to understand the choice
between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Obama you have to view
each man in the round, and get a total picture of each
man's world view, philosophy and values.
Here is some of Ms. Phillips' reasoning:
* "McCain believes in protecting and defending America
as it is. Obama tells the world he is ashamed of America
and wants to change it into something else. McCain
stands for American exceptionalism, the belief that
American values are superior to tyrannies. Obama stands
for the expiation of America's original sin in
oppressing black people, the third world and the poor."
* "Obama thinks world conflicts are basically the west's
fault, and so it must right the injustices it has
inflicted. That's why he believes in 'soft power' -
diplomacy, aid, rectifying 'grievances' (thus
legitimizing them, encouraging terror and promoting
injustice) and resolving conflict by talking. As a
result, he will take an axe to America's defenses at the
very time when they need to be built up. He has said he
will 'cut investments in unproven missile defense
systems'; he will 'not weaponize space'; he will 'slow
our development of future combat systems' and he will
also 'not develop nuclear weapons,' pledging to seek
'deep cuts' in America's arsenal, thus unilaterally
disabling the nuclear deterrent as Russian and China
engage in massive military buildups."
Sen. McCain knows we have to fight Islamofascism and win
that fight. Sen. Obama sees the source of evil in the
world as America. He has said, "A lot of evil's been
perpetuated based on the claim that we were fighting
evil." He has said Iran is a tiny country and not a real
threat. He quickly reversed himself but that tells you
something about his worldview. He said Hezbollah and
Hamas, the terrorist organizations that have murdered
Americans and are now doing so, have "legitimate
grievances." Ms. Phillips doesn't know what those
"legitimate grievances" are and I'd venture to say no
other rational man does.
To solve the conflict, writes Ms. Phillips, "Obama
places his faith in the UN club of terror and tyranny."
Sen. McCain knows better, and also knows Israel is the
victim rather than the victimizer. Sen. McCain knows
that Israel is surrounded by genocidal enemies that just
want to destroy the Jewish state. He also knows Israel
is the first line of defense of the free world and that
Israel is the first target in the Islamofascists attack
on the free world.
Sen. Obama's incredible naïveté is demonstrated many
times, but no more dramatically than by his willingness
to negotiate without preconditions with such genocidal
maniacs as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and by his opposition to
declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist
organization. A move to so declare it passed the Senate
by a wide margin.
His statements (often quoted in this column) show he
believes "Islamic terrorism is driven by despair,
poverty, and inflammatory US policy and the American
presence on Muslim soil in the Persian Gulf." Thus he
adopts the agenda of the Islamofascists.
This drift of his thinking should surprise no one as he
has closely associated with those in the Islamists'
camp. He has multiple links to anti-Americans,
terrorists, and subversives. The latest such association
involves Rashid Khalidi, former spokesman for a
terrorist organization. Mr. Khalidi, Sen. Obama, and the
unrepentant terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
all attended an Israel-bashing party when Mr. Khalidi
left Chicago to go to Columbia University. What's worse,
most of his foreign policy advisers have that typically
radical liberal view of blaming the ills of the world on
Israel and America. He brought in a few for cosmetic
purposes, such as Dennis Ross, but his initial selection
and his circle of collaborators and friends show where
he really stands.
Ms. Phillips summarizes her views of the meaning of a
Sen. Obama presidency for the future of America:
"There are, alas, many in the west for whom all this is
music to their ears. Whether through wickedness,
ideology, stupidity or derangement they firmly believe
that the ultimate source of conflict in the world
derives at root from America and Israel, whose
societies, culture and values they want to see
emasculated or destroyed altogether. They are drooling
at the prospect that an Obama presidency will bring that
about. The rest of us can't sleep at night."
But we can still vote. And we better consider that vote
carefully and not vote for a charismatic demagogue, who
gives pretty speeches, but whose reality is the opposite
of his rhetoric, who is inexperienced and shows it every
time he gets off his teleprompter, who has a razor-thin
resume, who has never done anything but run for office
and self-promotion, and whose policies, advisers, and
philosophy would destroy America as we know it.
Courtesy of William Long
I've been a Christian for 37 years. Before that I
was a radical. I was tear-gassed 5 times in Chicago in 1968 as a
Vietnam Veteran Against the War. I came back from Chicago and was
co-founder of an anarchist club on campus called 'CHAOS' Committee
for the Humane Appreciation of Students. After I became a Christian,
I became more or less politically inactive except for voting and
trying to stay informed.
A few weeks ago I watched
"Obsession", a DVD about Islamic terrorism. That led me to read
Brigitte Gabriel's book "Because They Hate". I've just finished
David Horowitz's book "Unholy Alliance" about the alliance between
radical Islam and the American Left. I decided to find out as much
as I could about Barack Obama, just researching the internet. What I
found is deeply disturbing. Any candidate who can support
Odinga in his campaign
promising Sharia in Kenya is
someone I don't want as president. Here's some more of what I
found.. I think it lays out a fairly complete picture of the
underlying dynamic for this election.
Start with the Big Picture.
Read Andy Martin’s expose of the Obama Ayers relationship
going back to 1987 and watch the documentary on we
will not be silenced
about the fraud and abuse in the Democratic primaries. The financial
crisis is influencing a lot of people to vote for Obama. So be sure
to check out the links under ‘Financial Crisis’ to find out who and
what really caused the
crisis. Note the part
that Barack Obama played, as a trainer for ACORN, as
a lawyer suing Citibank
to force it to make bad loans, and in his promise to let
ACORN help shape his
agenda. Read the
cult of personality
and listen to the 1985 interview with Yuri Bezmenov
about ideological subversion. Also, note what Yuri Bezmenov and the Cloward Piven Strategy
say about manufacturing a crisis. This election is so very
important.. Look over some of the other links.
The MSM has a blackout on
any negative information on Obama. The average American doesn't
listen to or read conservative channels of communication. The best
organized, and most knowledgeable, group I’ve found so far is
PUMA
(Hillary supporters who won’t vote for Obama). The average American
doesn't even know about PUMA much less visit any of their websites.
The fact that Shelly Mandell, President of the Los Angeles chapter
of the National Organization For Women, introduced and endorsed
Governor Palin at a rally in Los Angeles County is encouraging. Even
so, there’s still so much ignorance among the general population of
this nation.
The question is, how does a person get enough
information to vote intelligently?
Finally, (and most important) for those of us who
believe in a living God who is actively involved in the affairs of
men and nations – pray. And join together with others in prayer.
Bill Long
Stow, OH
Democrat: Obama's grandma confirms Kenyan birth
'This has been a real sham he's pulled off for the last 20
months'
(The real reason Barack is going to
Hawaii to see Grandma!)
The Pennsylvania Democrat who has sued
Sen.
Barack Obama
demanding he prove his American citizenship – and therefore
qualification to run for president – has confirmed he
has a recording of a telephone call from the senator's
paternal grandmother confirming his birth in
Kenya.
The issue of Obama's birthplace, which he
states is Honolulu in 1961, has been raised enough times
that his campaign website has posted an image purporting to
be of his "Certification of Live Birth" from
Hawaii.
But Philip J. Berg, a former deputy
attorney general
for Pennsylvania, told
the Michael Savage
talk radio program tonight that the document is forged
and that he has a tape recording he will soon release. "This
has been a real sham he's pulled off for the last 20
months," Berg told Savage. "I'll release it [the tape] in a
day or two, affidavits from her talking to a certain person.
I heard the tape. She was speaking [to someone] here in the
United States." He said the telephone call was from
Obama's
paternal grandmother affirming she "was in the delivery room
in Kenya when he was born Aug. 4, 1961."
Berg said he's pursuing the issue because
of "the most important document in the United States," the
U.S. Constitution.
"Nothing is more important than enforcing
the Constitution," he said. "The Constitution's provisions
are very small for qualifying for president. One, be over
35, and he is. Two, be in the country 14 years, and he has
been. Three, be a natural-born citizen. He is not."
Obama campaign officials acknowledged the
dispute by posting the image purporting to be a copy of his
certification of live birth earlier this year. But they've
declined to return WND requests for comment on the issues.
WND reported earlier this week Berg's claim that Obama
has legally "admitted" the accusations included in his
lawsuit, including that he was born in Mombosa, Kenya, by
not responding to the allegations.
Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court in August
alleging Obama is not a natural-born citizen and is thus
ineligible to serve as president of the United States.
His lawsuit is demanding that the courts
verify Obama's original birth certificate. Berg has
cited Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which
states that unless the accused party provides written answer
or objection to charges within 30 days, the accused legally
admits the matter.
Since Obama filed only motions to dismiss
the case and did not actually answer the claims, according
to Rule 36, Obama has legally admitted he is not a
natural-born citizen., asserted Berg, who has taken his
information public through his
website. Berg
addressed the existence of a birth announcement in the
Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, featured on
the Atlasshrugs2000 website, that suggests Obama was
born in the city Aug. 4, 1961.
But Berg explained to Savage he believes
Obama's mother was near the end of her pregnancy and unable
to travel by plane, so Obama was born in Kenya. The family
then traveled to Hawaii and registered the birth and
submitted the newspaper announcement. Besides Berg's
lawsuit, several other court challenges also have been
filed, including one in
Washington state
where petitioners are seeking to have the Washington
secretary of state "verify Obama's eligibility" to serve
prior to the election. The claim states, "The 'certificate'
that Mr. Obama has posted on his official Website is a
'Certification of Live Birth,' and not a 'Birth Certificate'
from Hawaii. There is no indication on even this certificate
as to specifically where the birth took place." Berg
also told Savage there is no information available on which
hospital Obama's mother used in Hawaii.
The Washington state case also alleges,
"Wayne Madsen, Journalist with Online Journal as a
contributing writer and published an article on June 9,
2008, stating that a research team went to Mombassa, Kenya,
and located a Certificate Registering the birth of Barack
Obama, Jr. at a Kenya Maternity Hospital, to his father, a
Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen. When Jerome
Corsi, senior WND investigator reporter, recently traveled
to Kenya to investigate several questions about the
candidate, he was told the records were sealed and would not
be made available. Though it hasn't given Berg the evidence
he seeks, the Obama campaign has publicly answered
allegations that the candidate was born in Kenya and faked
his Hawaii birth certificate.
"Smears claiming Barack Obama doesn't have
a birth certificate aren't actually about that piece of
paper," says the
"Fight the Smears" section of Obama's website, "they're
about manipulating people into thinking
Barack
is not an American citizen. "The truth is, Barack Obama was
born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the
United States of America," the campaign website states. It
also includes images of the Hawaii certificate bearing the
name Barack Hussein Obama II. The Washington claim states,
"If in fact Obama was born in Kenya, the laws on the books
in the United States at the time of his birth stated if a
child is born abroad and one parent was a U.S. Citizen,
which would have been his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham,
Obama's mother would have had to live ten (10) years in the
United States, five (5) of which were after the age of
fourteen (14). At the time of Obama's birth, his mother was
only eighteen (18) and therefore did not meet the residency
requirements under the law to give her son (Obama) U.S.
Citizenship much less the status of 'natural born.'"
Berg said he believed it also was a
complication that Obama's mother divorced his father,
married and moved to Indonesia for several years and Obama
attended school there at a time when, Berg said, only
Indonesia citizens were allowed in schools. Records that are
available from Indonesia revealed Obama was registered in
school as Barry Soetoro, and his religion was listed as
Islam.
When Obama later returned to Hawaii,
within the United States, there should have been a
government document affirming his citizenship, but that also
cannot be found. If that was not processed properly, Berg
said, Obama would be in a situation even worse than not
being a natural-born citizen. "If he didn't go through
immigration, he now is illegal and has been an illegal
alien. He couldn't even hold the position of senator for
Illinois," Berg said. Further, Berg said he suspected
Obama's college records may indicate he received aid as a
foreigner, and that's why those records have been withheld
by the campaign. "I really think it's because it probably
indicates he's from Kenya, or Indonesia, or received foreign
aid," Berg said.
"I feel very confident saying these
things," Berg told Savage.
Is Barack Eligible to be President?
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investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money
laundering. Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central
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Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of
terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management. Mr.
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on June 15, 2008 at 10:50 PM in Current Affairs
I must admit I initially thought this
was a farfetched question. But there is a significant body
of evidence, some circumstantial, that suggests the answer
may be “no.”
An internet friend (Katherine) has
pursued this relentlessly. She sent me the following:
According to the state laws in
Hawaii that were in effect at the time of Obama’s birth,
a child must be born to “TWO” U.S. Citizen parents (this
law was in effect from “December 24, 1952 to November
13, 1986,“ which means it applies to Barack’s birth.
But only Barack’s mom was a U.S. Citizen. Papa Obama
was a citizen of Kenya.
Well, the Hawaiian law stipulates:
…If only one parent was a U.S. Citizen at the
time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the
United States for at least ten years, at least FIVE of
which had to be after the age of 16.”
It appears that Obama’s mother was only 18 when Obama was
born, which means she was shy of the 21 years of age
required by the law. In other words, she was not old enough
to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship. At what
point was Barack Obama Jr., son of Barack Obama Sr.,
recognized by the U.S. Government as an American citizen?
When he moved to Indonesia with his mother and step-father
in the mid-1960s I am assuming he had a U.S. passport.
There is a law suit in the works. Of that you can be
sure. As was noted in an early post today on No Quarter,
Barack’s stubbornness on the birth certificate issue is
keeping the matter alive. Not a good idea going into the
General Election.
I am not a Constitutional scholar (nor is Barack for that
matter). The relevant clause of the Constitution stipulates
that:
No person except a natural born
citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time
of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible
to the office of President; neither shall any person be
eligible to that office who shall not have attained to
the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a
resident within the United States.
Now, I had always assumed that a
naturalized citizen (like Arnold) could not be President.
but the clause, “or a citizen of the United States,” seems
to open the door for people who become citizens. Any lawyers
out there?
Quote of the Decade: "I
think he can be ready, but right now, I don't think he is.
The presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job
training." - Senator Joe Biden (If his own running
mate has doubts about whether he's ready for the job... shouldn't you?)
Quote of the Year: "communities
are terrorized by ICE immigration raids" - Senator Barack Hussein Obama
(Federal Agents are compared to Terrorists? Barack, try showing some
support for law enforcement.)
Quote of the Month: From 'The Audacity Of Hope, "I will
stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly
direction."
-
Senator Barack Hussein Obama
(This is not a shocker!)
Quote of
the Week: "I ceased to advertise my mother's race
at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was
ingratiating myself to whites"
- Senator Barack Hussein Obama (Again, not a shocker!)
Democrats Didn't "GET IT" about
Freddie & Fannie 4 Years Ago!
Obama was PAID OFF
by Fannie Mae
Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party
Democrat's campaign denied allegations, but new evidence indicates
membership
Excerpt from New Party publication (Courtesy New Zeal
blog)
JERUSALEM – Evidence has emerged that Sen.
Barack Obama
belonged to a socialist political party that sought to elect members
to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far
leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist
agenda.
Several blogs,
including Powerline, previously documented that while running
for the Illinois
state Senate
in 1996 as a Democrat,
Obama
actively sought and received the endorsement of the
socialist-oriented New Party, with some blogs claiming Obama was a
member of the controversial party.
The New Party, formed by members of the Democratic Socialists for
America and leaders of an offshoot of the Community Party USA, was
an electoral alliance that worked alongside the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The New Party's
aim was to help elect
politicians
to office who espouse its policies.
Among New
Party members
was linguist and radical activist Noam Chomsky. Obama's
campaign has responded to the allegations, denying the presidential
candidate was ever a member of the New Party. But the
New Zeal blog dug up print copies of the New Party News, the
party's official newspaper, which show Obama posing with New Party
leaders, list him as a New Party member and include quotes from him.
The party's Spring 1996 newspaper boasted: "New Party members won
three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State
Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia
Martin (Cook County Judiciary). The paper quoted Obama saying "these
victories prove that small 'd' democracy can work."
The newspaper lists other politicians it endorsed who were not
members but specifies Obama as a New Party member.
Barack Obama pictured in New
Party publication
(Courtesy New Zeal blog)
New Ground, the newsletter of Chicago's Democratic Socialists for
America, reported in its July/August 1996 edition that Obama
attended a New Party membership meeting April 11, 1996, in which he
expressed his gratitude for the group's support and "encouraged
NPers (New Party members) to join in his task forces on Voter
Education and
Voter Registration."
Becoming a New Party member requires some effort on behalf of the
politician. Candidates must be approved by the party's political
committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they
will have a "visible and active relationship" with the party.
The New Party, established in 1992, took advantage of what was known
as electoral "fusion," which enabled candidates to run on two
tickets simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties. But the
New Party went defunct in 1998, one year after fusion was halted by
the Supreme Court.
Following the initial reports of Obama's purported membership in
the New Party, Obama associate and former Chicago New Party activist
Carl Davidson posted a statement on several blogs claiming his
former party was not socialist, but he admitted it worked with
ACORN. "[The New Party] was a pragmatic party of 'small d
democracy' mainly promoting economic reforms like the living wage
and testing the fusion tactic, common in many countries but only
operational in New York in the U.S. The main trend within it was
ACORN, an Alinskyist outfit, which is hardly Marxist," wrote
Davidson.
But the socialist goals of the New Party were enumerated on its
old website. Among the New Party's stated objectives were
"full employment, a shorter work week, and a guaranteed minimum
income for all adults; a universal 'social wage' to include such
basic benefits as health care, child care, vacation time, and
lifelong access to education and training; a systematic phase-in of
comparable worth and like programs to ensure gender equity." The New
Party stated it also sought "the democratization of our banking and
financial system – including popular election of those charged with
public stewardship of our banking system, worker-owner control over
their pension assets, community-controlled alternative financial
institutions." Many of the New Party's founding members were
Democratic Socialists for America leaders and members of Committees
of Correspondence, a breakaway of the Communist Party USA. Obama
attended several DSA events and meetings, including a DSA-sponsored
town hall meeting Feb. 25, 1996, entitled "Employment and Survival
in Urban America." He sought and received an endorsement from the
DSA.
According to DSA documents, the New Party worked with ACORN to
promote its candidates. ACORN, convicted in massive, nationwide
voter fraud cases, has been a point of controversy for Obama over
the presidential candidate's ties to the group. In 1995, the
DSA's New Ground newslet