Mr.Obama is not an American Citizen
Harry Hope
By: KEITH PHUCAS, Times Herald Staff08/25/2008
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PHILADELPHIA - A Lafayette Hill attorney filed a lawsuit in federal
court Thursday challenging Sen. Barack Obama's claim to United States
citizenship. The action seeks to remove the Democratic candidate from
the November ballot.
To be eligible to serve as U.S. president, a person must be born in
this country. According to Obama's birth certificate, which his
campaign posted on its Internet site in June to quell rumors that he
is foreign born, the Illinois senator was born in Hawaii on Aug. 6,
1961.
On Thursday, Philip Berg filed a temporary restraining order in
federal court to bar Obama from running for president, claiming the
Democratic candidate was actually born in Africa.
"We really don't believe he was born in Hawaii," Berg said. "We think
he was born in Kenya."
The presidential candidate's father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and
raised in a small village in Kenya, according to Obama's campaign Web
site.
Berg's suit claims the senator's grandmother, brother and sister, who
live in Kenya, believe they were present during Obama's birth in the
African country.
Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, and his parents met at
the University of Hawaii when Dunham was a student there, according to
the Obama campaign.
Eventually, Obama's father returned to Kenya, and his son grew up in
Hawaii with his mother and for a few years in Indonesia after Dunham
married an Indonesian man, Lolo Soetoro. Also, Obama lived with his
maternal grandparents in Hawaii.
"If he was born in Hawaii, and he was adopted in Indonesia by Lolo
Soetoro, (Obama) would lose his citizenship," Berg said.
The Obama campaign has a special section on its Web site, "Fight the
Smears," that debunks the birth certificate story and other reports
that have circulated about him during the campaign.
"It's part of a smear campaign," said an Obama campaign volunteer who
identified herself as Rachel. "There are just so many lies out there."
The lawsuit claims three "independent" document forensic experts
performed extensive tests on the digitally-scanned image of Obama's
"Certificate of Live Birth" posted on the campaign's site and found
the document to be "a forgery."
Jerome Corsi, author of the book, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics
and the Cult of Personality," has also deemed the birth certificate
phony, according to The Annenberg Political Fact Check, www.FactCheck.org.
The Annenberg Political Fact Check, a project of the Annenberg Public
Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, aims to expose
deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
Recently, FactCheck.org staffers "touched, examined and photographed"
the original birth certificate kept at the Obama campaign headquarters
in Chicago and concluded the document is genuine.
"The evidence is clear: Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A.,"
FactCheck.org staffers concluded.
Sean Smith, Obama's Pennsylvania communications director, was
contacted Friday about the suit but declined comment.
The civil suit filed by Berg will be reviewed by the U.S. Federal
Election Commission, according to Patty Hartman, a spokeswoman for the
U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Keith Phucas can be reached at kph...@timesherald.com or
610-272-2500, ext. 211.
Kurt Lochner
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>Born in the U.S.A.?
Still exflagellating the expired equine, hurt-dickless?
--And borrowing someone else's nym, you cowardly right-winger?