Conservative bloggers

[andrea ERICKSON]

Jan. 20 Looks Safe ><http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2008/ 11/24/AR20081124 02461_2.html? sub=AR>http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2008/ 11/24/AR20081124 02461_2.html? sub=AR > >Conservative bloggers are furious that the MSM is ignoring the two >petitions at the Supreme Court challenging Obama's election. But >lawyers for Obama, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and the Bush Justice >Department aren't paying attention, either. > >One of the petitions is nonpartisan, alleging that neither Obama >nor McCain (nor, for that matter, Socialist Workers Party >candidate Roger Calero) should have been listed on the New Jersey >ballot because none of the three is a natural-born citizen. That >petition says Obama would not be a natural-born citizen "even if >it were proved he was born in Hawaii," because his father was born >in Kenya. > >The other, filed by Pennsylvania lawyer Philip J. Berg, offers the >argument that Obama himself was born in Kenya. Berg and his >supporters are not buying the copy of the Hawaiian birth >certificate the Obama camp has offered up. > ><http://www.washingt onpost.com/ ac2/related/ topic/David+ Souter?tid= informline>Justice ><http://www.washingt onpost.com/ ac2/related/ topic/David+ Souter?tid= informline>David >H. Souter has denied applications for injunctions in both cases, >though Berg's petition is on the justices' private Dec. 8 >conference list (all petitions filed with the court get >consideration) . It's an indication of how seriously the government >takes the case that Solicitor General Gregory G. Garre has waived >his right to respond to the petition. __._,_.___