It is widely known that Obama's Selective Service Registration appears to be fake when examined closely by experts, and has many suspicious characteristics. It exhibits several inconsistencies.Here's the truth!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Forget the birth certificate...Obama's Selective Service Registration is a forgery!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
2008: the year man-made global warming was disproved
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.First,
all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare.Secondly,
2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed.Thirdly,
as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.Read the whole thing!
Fraudulent “Credit Crisis” Paves Way for Economic Disaster
Doing the kind of investigative reporting we should expect from the major media, a financial research and consulting firm has released a major analysis of the “credit crisis” that concludes that the claims made by Treasury Department Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to justify a socialist takeover of the financial industry were demonstrably false.
The analysis, Flawed Assumptions about the Credit Crisis: A Critical Examination of US Policymakers, concludes that the result of the unjustified massive federal intervention in the economy could be similar to the economic crisis in the Weimar Republic of 1922, where disastrous hyperinflation made the currency worthless and threatened the nation’s political system and stability.
Read more
The analysis, Flawed Assumptions about the Credit Crisis: A Critical Examination of US Policymakers, concludes that the result of the unjustified massive federal intervention in the economy could be similar to the economic crisis in the Weimar Republic of 1922, where disastrous hyperinflation made the currency worthless and threatened the nation’s political system and stability.
Read more
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Obama: Two mysteries
This is long and has several sections...first solves the mystery of why SCOTUS has scheduled TWO different dates in January for Berg v. Obama! Must read for yourselves.
Secondly (and way down) is this:
read the whole thing!
Secondly (and way down) is this:
What's the Secret?
written by Tiza, December 24, 2008
Whatever BO is hiding is truly a secret and will shock everyone! I was reading an article from Atlas Shrugs where Pamela Geller was talking about a discussion that she had with Joseph Farah from WND and that he knows the true story of BO's birth, however, he will reveal it at a time that he chooses. I think for those who know it they are hoping that BO will reveal it himself, give himself a chance to come clean.
There is another person who confirms this, so I'll quote it for you. This person calls BO, "Zero."
On his To The Point News website, Jack Wheeler has divulged that he knows "the true story" about Obama's birth situation, and it is "wild," but he - and the contact person who also runs a major news site and told him the facts - are apparently not yet prepared to reveal this shocker to the public. Wheeler said he will let the source of the information reveal it in his own time. "...The details of what he told me is for him to reveal when he chooses, not me. I can tell you it is OMG wild."
read the whole thing!
Racing to keep up with Obama-related corruption charges
It's hard to keep up with all of it and still have a life!
And all this even before Obama takes office!!!
Here's one more connected to Bloggy and here's one other big Dem fish being investigated!
And all this even before Obama takes office!!!
Here's one more connected to Bloggy and here's one other big Dem fish being investigated!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Why did the court order Michelle Obama to stop practicing law in Illinois?
ARDC is the agency of the Supreme Court of Illinois which registers attorneys and investigates complaints of misconduct filed against attorneys holding a license to practice law in Illinois...WHAT DID SHE DO THAT in 1993 -- AFTER only 4 YEARS -- HER LICENSE to PRACTICE LAW WAS REVIEWED AND PUT ON INACTIVE by a DISCIPLINARY AGENCY?...and what happened in the Rose Garden?
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Veteran Arrested For Placing Bible & Cross On Altar at VA Facility
I'll bet if Jesus was born today, there wouldn't even be room in a manger...
The VA rule only allows Bibles and crosses to sit on the floor next to the altar.From Gateway Pundit
The great Christmas cover-up...transparency you can believe in!
The report comes out late in the day on Tuesday, Dec. 23. They know that most folks like yourself are going to be off the air on Wed, or they are going to have holiday themed shows. Thurs, is obviously not a news day, and Fri is likely going to be the same. Next you have the dead week between Christmas and New Years.From an Assistant United States Attorney
Obama is in Hawaii until Jan. 2 with no public events planned where he might be asked questions. Emanuel is in Africa where he is out of contact on a long planned family vacation.
Consider that again -- the incoming WH Chief of Staff, in a "change of parties" transition from one Presidency to the next which is less than 4 weeks away -- and he's in Africa??????
And they want the press to have nothing on this story other than their self-serving exoneration of all key staffers.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Los Angeles Times' Obama cover-up
Oooops! The original story called attention to Obama's citizenship problem (just won't go away!) So, what's a good newspaper to do? EZ Peasy! Just change it :-)
Shhhh...maybe nobody'll notice...
Shhhh...maybe nobody'll notice...
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Who runs Chicago?
Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blagojevich & Chief of Staff John Harris (arrested 12/9/08)
Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
The leadership in Illinois? .....all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago:
Body count in the last six months: 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago (221 killed in Iraq)
State pension fund: $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax: 10.25% highest in country.
Chicago school system: rated one of the worst in the country.
Of course, they're all blaming each other. (They can't blame Republicans because there aren't any.)
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois...and he's going to '"fix" Washington politics for us?
Good luck and may God help us!
Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blagojevich & Chief of Staff John Harris (arrested 12/9/08)
Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
The leadership in Illinois? .....all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago:
Body count in the last six months: 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago (221 killed in Iraq)
State pension fund: $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.
Cook County (Chicago) sales tax: 10.25% highest in country.
Chicago school system: rated one of the worst in the country.
Of course, they're all blaming each other. (They can't blame Republicans because there aren't any.)
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois...and he's going to '"fix" Washington politics for us?
Good luck and may God help us!
The tip of the iceberg?
From 1997 to 2004, while Obama served in the state Senate, eleven of Rezko's thirty properties were located in Obama's district. And during that same time, Rezko continued to be Obama's main source of campaign contributions.
In 2003, Rezko held a fundraiser for Obama's run for US Senate seat in his Chicago mansion, in which reportedly 100-130 guests attended. Several days following, Obama reported contributions from 3 of Rezko's associates.
"The donor list included six people involved in the two federal indictments of Rezko.
Rezko's in jail, Blogovich is not far behind...who's next???
Gore's scientist fudged numbers
The Associated Press claims that the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since Bill Clinton's second inaugural. But after it was discovered that NASA's James Hansen, Gore's chief scientific ally, had been fudging the numbers, the agency was forced to correct its data. The 10 warmest years turn out to be, in descending order: 1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938 and 1939.Wanna know the truth? Al Gore is stupid and/or simply dishonest:
Speaking of rising sea levels, is Al Gore smarter than a fourth-grader? James O'Brien, emeritus professor at Florida State University who studies climate variability and the oceans, thinks not. "When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is floating ice, because it's displacing water," he points out.
"When the ice melts, sea level actually goes down. I call it a fourth-grade science experiment: Take a glass, put some ice in it, put water in it, mark level where water is. . . . After the ice melts, the sea level didn't go up in your glass of water. It's called the Archimedes principle."
New York Times ignores facts in today's Bush article...so what else is new?
Major fact #1:
Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone... Dems Ignored Warnings
Major fact #2:
Democrats defended Fannie and Freddie several times including this infamous Congressional hearing back in 2004
Major fact #3:
Democrats were also the top recipients of Fannie and Freddie campaign donations
SOURCE: White House Slams NY Times For It's Latest Irresponsible Hit Piece
Bush Called For Reform of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac 17 Times in 2008 Alone... Dems Ignored Warnings
Major fact #2:
Democrats defended Fannie and Freddie several times including this infamous Congressional hearing back in 2004
Major fact #3:
Democrats were also the top recipients of Fannie and Freddie campaign donations
SOURCE: White House Slams NY Times For It's Latest Irresponsible Hit Piece
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Obama sex scandal!
The ENQUIRER exclusively reports a "sex pervert" was Sen. Barack Obama's longtime mentor and "father figure".
For seven years, the presidential candidate had a "father-son" relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who has confessed to having sex with children, sadomasochism, bondage and practicing a wide array of deviant sexual activities.
In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama identifies his childhood mentor only as "Frank," but Obama insiders later confirmed he was referring to Davis, a journalist and poet who was a pal of Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham.
Funny...that reminds me of THIS!
For seven years, the presidential candidate had a "father-son" relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who has confessed to having sex with children, sadomasochism, bondage and practicing a wide array of deviant sexual activities.
In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama identifies his childhood mentor only as "Frank," but Obama insiders later confirmed he was referring to Davis, a journalist and poet who was a pal of Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham.
Funny...that reminds me of THIS!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Real Scientists Don't Eat Quiche...
...nor do they eat the pablum that the AP/Lefterners (who really DO pine for Todd Palin's facial hair) provide:
Did the AP forget how to do research? The warmest years on record mostly occurred before Clinton became President — and before Clinton was born.regurgitate Here!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Whistleblower blows for Obama
Connor's complaint charges Mutual Bank removed from the file an inconvenient appraisal he conducted of fraudulent appraisals submitted to permit the Rezkos and the Obamas to conclude working in collusion with one another.Read more
The complaint argues the initial fraudulent appraisal over-valued the property to permit the bank to loan the Rezkos the maximum possible to complete their side of the transaction.
Man, Fitz really goes both ways don't he?
Obama's chief fast-tracked illegals to get votes!
A former INS official who attended meetings with Rahm Emanuel when Emanuel was a White House aide says the hard-charging Democrat relaxed rules to naturalize even criminal immigrants and secure their votes for President Clinton ahead of the 1996 presidential election.Read more
President-elect Barack Obama, who has chosen Emanuel to run White House operations as his chief of staff, has promised to sign legislation that loosens immigration and puts even illegal aliens on a fast track to citizenship.
You know, where I live in the Los Angeles area, we've lost 11 emergency rooms in the last several years because of ILLEGAL immigrants.
Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and all these Democrats are WHORES. The will sell us all down the river just to get the votes and they always have.
The Republicans who've fallen for this scheme beware: It won't work. Think McCain!!!
Washington Post dispels Shinseki myths...finally!
It's about time! Just wish the Democrats that acosted me with these things during the last four years would actually see and read this article.
In memory of love
In a breath it can all change. Everything that we thought was important becomes frivolous, unmemorable. It only takes a single act, a moment– and life has passed. It happens so suddenly some times that we are left to wonder, what happened — and where did it go...In that fleeting moment, I could see him standing there, lumionous, hands pressed together, and a smile that melted tears. It was fleeting, but it was real.
When I’m not trying to overthrow a corrupt government, I cook–and write, among other gentle things. I’m all about spreading holiday cheer–...The driveway up the mountain to my home is a steady, long and steep climb–anyone who makes it deserves to have something lovely awaiting them at the top.--Peppermint Patty
When I’m not trying to overthrow a corrupt government, I cook–and write, among other gentle things. I’m all about spreading holiday cheer–...The driveway up the mountain to my home is a steady, long and steep climb–anyone who makes it deserves to have something lovely awaiting them at the top.--Peppermint Patty
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Google admits censorship
Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.Read more
Obama indictment to follow Blagojevich arrest?
I began learning about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich early in 2008 and wrote my first article mentioning Blagojevich in April. Why did I begin scrutinizing Rod Blagojevich? I was reading the transcripts from the Tony Rezko trial and investigation and the names of Rezko, Obama and Blagojevich were intertwined in a web of corruption and deception. On December 12, 2008, the Citizen Wells blog presented an article about corruption in the IL Health Planning Facilities Board. The article revealed the ties to Rezko, Levine and Weinstein in their indictments and Blagojevich in criminal charges placed against him. The article also requests that Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indict and/or arrest Barack Obama for his role in rigging the board when Obama was in the IL Senate. Article that was published and faxed to Fitzgerald.Read more
Patrick Fitzgerald and the investigators working with him have obviously been aware of Obama’s ties to crime and corruption in Chicago and IL for many months. They have been proceeding in a logical and methodical manner. Sentencing of Tony Rezko was delayed and obviously he has been talking. Anyone following this story all year knows much about Obama’s ties to corruption and Fitzgerald knows much more. Obama is the next logical target of indictment and/or arrest.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Stand by me
Scroll down past the article "Stand By Me" and watch this 5:27 minute video (you'll see people all over the world all singing this song--a masterpiece of editing!):
STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME
Did you know...?
Did you know?GATEWAY PUNDIT ROCKS!!!
** That if Pres. George W. Bush really WERE Hitler, most of his political opponents would be dead by now?
** That if politicians could run things like the auto industry successfully, the Soviet Union WOULDN'T have collapsed?
** That the national media's fantasy that Barack Obama and Chicago's political culture have little to do with each other is less statistically probable than being struck by lightning or winning the lottery?
Friday, December 12, 2008
Please call your Congressmen and Senators ASAP!
Dr. Vieira is a consummate constitutional authority. He says that if just one member of the House and one member of the Senate were to challenge Hussein’s eligibility to serve as President in writing when the Electoral College’s votes arrive in the Senate, the Congress would have to conduct a full investigation, complete with witnesses, testimony and documents. Dr. Vieira urges you to get in touch with your Congressmen and Senators for the purpose.Remember, you are not asking them to deny the presidency to Hussein. You are merely asking them to require him to prove his eligibility.•••.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Christmas cheer in Obamaland
...why would a judge extend the period before sentencing when the convicted prisoner expressed a desire to get on with prison? Without a new briefs deadline, the expedited Jan. 6 sentencing could now be pushed back further.Ho Ho Ho!
Because Rezko, in the hopes of reducing his sentence, is singing in his cell about Blagojevich and maybe others. He's not done with his song repertoire and the feds haven't fully checked out his information to determine how grateful to be in sentence-seeking.
More on the KHQA Obamagate coverup
American Digest "UPDATED: Missing Pages of History Restored: The Obama-Blago Story That Disappeared is Here"
For my previous post on this subject Click Here
For my previous post on this subject Click Here
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
OBAMA LIED! (Think it's the first time?)
Obama said he had no contact with Governor Blagojevich but he met with him on November 5, 2008!
HAT TIP: STOP THE ACLU
UPDATE: THANK GOD FOR SCREENSHOTS...THIS ARTICLE JUST MAGICALLY DISAPPEARED A FEW MINUTES AGO!!!
UPDATE #2: Here's why they pulled it but there’s still no explanation for why they reported on November 8th that the meeting had taken place!This is bad news for Obama since he got his Senior Advisor David Axelrod to say he "misspoke" when he was on Fox News November 23rd saying that Obama talked to Blagojevich about who should fill his Senate seat.
HAT TIP: GATEWAY PUNDIT
Think it's the first time Obama lied? Well if you think he could sit in a church regularly for 20 years and not hear what his preacher was preachin' [hint: Reverend Jeremiah Wright] or if you think that he could share an office with an associate for 3 years and get over 100 million from him for a project but only actually meet him once in a living room (oh, wait, in the guys own living room) [hint: William Ayers] then maybe.
(Hey, didn't Bill Clinton at least wait until he took office to start lying?)
HAT TIP: STOP THE ACLU
UPDATE: THANK GOD FOR SCREENSHOTS...THIS ARTICLE JUST MAGICALLY DISAPPEARED A FEW MINUTES AGO!!!
UPDATE #2: Here's why they pulled it but there’s still no explanation for why they reported on November 8th that the meeting had taken place!This is bad news for Obama since he got his Senior Advisor David Axelrod to say he "misspoke" when he was on Fox News November 23rd saying that Obama talked to Blagojevich about who should fill his Senate seat.HAT TIP: GATEWAY PUNDIT
Think it's the first time Obama lied? Well if you think he could sit in a church regularly for 20 years and not hear what his preacher was preachin' [hint: Reverend Jeremiah Wright] or if you think that he could share an office with an associate for 3 years and get over 100 million from him for a project but only actually meet him once in a living room (oh, wait, in the guys own living room) [hint: William Ayers] then maybe.
(Hey, didn't Bill Clinton at least wait until he took office to start lying?)
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Chicago PUMA's question: Could Obama be the first president ever taken into custody???
During this election, the media completely ignored Tony Rezko, Illinois political corruption, and Obama’s involvement in all of this…because they wanted Obama to be elected.Obama could become the first president ever taken into custody.
If the media took a bad land deal in Arkansas and turned it into the parade of Whitewater manufactured scandals, we shudder to think of what they could do with everything in Obama’s closet.
Governor Blagojevich has one Hell of a singing voice.
If special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has enough on him, through leaning on Tony Rezko and others here in Illinois, Fitzgerald will now lean on Blagojevich to give up Obama.
Everything from Obama’s land deal with Tony Rezko to the $10,000 bribe he took from Yesse Yehudah to divert state grants to “charities” Yehudah controlled could be brought up — in addition to whatever else Blagojevich knows.
Obama could become the first president ever taken into custody.
During this election, the media completely ignored Tony Rezko, Illinois political corruption, and Obama’s involvement in all of this…because they wanted Obama to be elected.
If the media took a bad land deal in Arkansas and turned it into the parade of Whitewater manufactured scandals, we shudder to think of what they could do with everything in Obama’s closet.
Governor Blagojevich has one Hell of a singing voice.
If special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has enough on him, through leaning on Tony Rezko and others here in Illinois, Fitzgerald will now lean on Blagojevich to give up Obama.
Everything from Obama’s land deal with Tony Rezko to the $10,000 bribe he took from Yesse Yehudah to divert state grants to “charities” Yehudah controlled could be brought up — in addition to whatever else Blagojevich knows.
PS: PRISON TIME FOR OBAMA?
Monday, December 08, 2008
Sunday, December 07, 2008
TAKE THE QUIZ!
PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE
Stupid is as stupid does
By Mark Alexander
After the most recent presidential election, when, as you may recall, our once great nation exposed its collective flank -- unmitigated ignorance -- to the world, a reputable pollster, John Zogby, endeavored to determine how 66 million of us could be so profoundly stupid.
We reported his findings in our "Non Compos Mentis" section two weeks ago, including, for example, that 56.1 percent of Obama supporters did not know his political career was launched by two former terrorists from the Weather Underground; that 57 percent did not know which political party controlled congress; that 72 percent did not know Joe Biden withdrew from a previous presidential campaign because of plagiarism in law school; and that 87 percent thought Sarah Palin said she could "see Russia from my house," even though that was "Saturday Night Live" comedian Tina Fey in a parody of Palin.
The Zogby polling was designed to determine how much influence the media had on shaping public opinion, and, thus, the outcome of the election. Of course, establishing that the political landscape would look very different if the media were neutral is filed under "keen sense of the obvious."
However, a report issued last week by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute is more relevant to understanding why Barack Obama received so much support from those between 18 and 30 years of age -- support that put him over the top.
For the last two years, ISI has assessed the civil literacy of young people at American colleges and universities, testing both students and faculty. The civics test included a cross section of multiple-choice questions about our system of government, history and free enterprise -- questions to assess the knowledge that all Americans should possess in order to understand their civic responsibility and make informed decisions in matters such as elections.
More than 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools nationwide were given the 60-question exam. More than 50 percent of freshmen and 54 percent of seniors failed the test. (So they get dumber?)
This year, ISI went beyond the "institutions of higher learning" to assess civic literacy across demographic groups. The 2008 civics quiz asked similar questions to those asked to college and university students in previous years, but also included questions about civic participation and policy issues. The results were then subjected to multivariate regression analysis in order to determine if college and university graduates had a higher civic IQ than the rest of society.
As you might expect, 71 percent of Americans failed the test, with an average score of 49. Educators did not fare much better, scoring an average of 55 percent. As the researchers noted, "Fewer than half of all Americans can name all three branches of government, a minimal requirement for understanding America's constitutional system."
College grads flunked, answering 57 percent of the questions correctly, compared to 44 percent for high school grads.
Less than 24 percent of those with college degrees knew that the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States. Further, only 54 percent can correctly identify the basic tenets of the free enterprise system.
Would you be shocked to know that elected officials have a lower civic IQ than the public they ostensibly serve? Indeed, these paragons of representative government answered just 44 percent of the questions correctly. Almost a third of elected officials could not identify "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as the inalienable rights in our Declaration of Independence.
Our Founders, those venerable Patriots who signed our Declaration of Independence and codified the liberty that is declared in our Constitution, understood that liberty could not long survive an epidemic of ignorance.
According to George Washington: "The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail."
John Adams wrote: "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. ... Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties..."
Thomas Jefferson insisted: "Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. ... If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
James Madison agreed: "A people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ... What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?"
Today, however, it would seem that ignorance is not only blissful but virtuous.
TAKE THE QUIZ!
Stupid is as stupid does
By Mark Alexander
After the most recent presidential election, when, as you may recall, our once great nation exposed its collective flank -- unmitigated ignorance -- to the world, a reputable pollster, John Zogby, endeavored to determine how 66 million of us could be so profoundly stupid.
We reported his findings in our "Non Compos Mentis" section two weeks ago, including, for example, that 56.1 percent of Obama supporters did not know his political career was launched by two former terrorists from the Weather Underground; that 57 percent did not know which political party controlled congress; that 72 percent did not know Joe Biden withdrew from a previous presidential campaign because of plagiarism in law school; and that 87 percent thought Sarah Palin said she could "see Russia from my house," even though that was "Saturday Night Live" comedian Tina Fey in a parody of Palin.
The Zogby polling was designed to determine how much influence the media had on shaping public opinion, and, thus, the outcome of the election. Of course, establishing that the political landscape would look very different if the media were neutral is filed under "keen sense of the obvious."
However, a report issued last week by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute is more relevant to understanding why Barack Obama received so much support from those between 18 and 30 years of age -- support that put him over the top.
For the last two years, ISI has assessed the civil literacy of young people at American colleges and universities, testing both students and faculty. The civics test included a cross section of multiple-choice questions about our system of government, history and free enterprise -- questions to assess the knowledge that all Americans should possess in order to understand their civic responsibility and make informed decisions in matters such as elections.
More than 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools nationwide were given the 60-question exam. More than 50 percent of freshmen and 54 percent of seniors failed the test. (So they get dumber?)
This year, ISI went beyond the "institutions of higher learning" to assess civic literacy across demographic groups. The 2008 civics quiz asked similar questions to those asked to college and university students in previous years, but also included questions about civic participation and policy issues. The results were then subjected to multivariate regression analysis in order to determine if college and university graduates had a higher civic IQ than the rest of society.
As you might expect, 71 percent of Americans failed the test, with an average score of 49. Educators did not fare much better, scoring an average of 55 percent. As the researchers noted, "Fewer than half of all Americans can name all three branches of government, a minimal requirement for understanding America's constitutional system."
College grads flunked, answering 57 percent of the questions correctly, compared to 44 percent for high school grads.
Less than 24 percent of those with college degrees knew that the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States. Further, only 54 percent can correctly identify the basic tenets of the free enterprise system.
Would you be shocked to know that elected officials have a lower civic IQ than the public they ostensibly serve? Indeed, these paragons of representative government answered just 44 percent of the questions correctly. Almost a third of elected officials could not identify "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as the inalienable rights in our Declaration of Independence.
Our Founders, those venerable Patriots who signed our Declaration of Independence and codified the liberty that is declared in our Constitution, understood that liberty could not long survive an epidemic of ignorance.
According to George Washington: "The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail."
John Adams wrote: "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. ... Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties..."
Thomas Jefferson insisted: "Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. ... If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
James Madison agreed: "A people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ... What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?"
Today, however, it would seem that ignorance is not only blissful but virtuous.
TAKE THE QUIZ!
Friday, December 05, 2008
Mr. Obama's Eligibility to be Aired Monday at the National Press Club
PRESS RELEASE
Mr. Obama's Eligibility to be Aired Monday at the National Press Club
Last update: 3:18 p.m. EST Dec. 4, 2008
QUEENSBURY, N.Y., Dec 04, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- On Monday, December 8, 2008, at 1:30 pm, the We The People Foundation will conduct a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
The licensed attorneys who initiated lawsuits in PA (Philip Berg), NJ (Leo Donofrio) and CA (Orly Taitz), challenging Mr. Obama's legal eligibility to hold the Office of President of the United States, will briefly summarize the facts, legal arguments and status of their cases. They will answer questions from the press.
Prior to the start of the conference, at 10 am, the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to announce whether it will consider applications from these attorneys who have asked the Court to delay the proceedings of the Electoral College pending a determination of the underlying constitutional question - the meaning of the "natural born citizen" clause of Article II of the Constitution and its application to Mr. Obama.
Robert Schulz will briefly discuss Mr. Obama's response to the publication of his Open Letter in the Chicago Tribune on Monday and Wednesday of this week. For the reasons given in the Open Letter, Schulz asked Mr. Obama to: (1) immediately authorize Hawaiian officials to provide a team of forensic scientists access to his original ("vault") birth certificate and (2) arrange for the delivery of other documents needed to conclusively establish Obama's citizenship status. Mr. Schulz will answer questions from the press.
"Under our Constitution, no one is eligible to assume the Office of the President unless he or she is a 'natural born citizen,'" said Bob Schulz, Chairman of the Foundation. "To date, Mr. Obama has refused all requests to release his original birth certificate or other documents that would definitively establish his citizenship status and thus his constitutional eligibility."
The Open Letter to Mr. Obama summarizes the evidence against Mr. Obama and the adverse consequences that would befall the Nation should he assume the Office of the President as a usurper.
"Should the state members of the Electoral College cast their votes for Mr. Obama in the face of such overwhelming evidence, and without verification of Mr. Obama's eligibility, they would be committing treason to the Constitution," said Schulz.
www.WeThePeopleFoundation.org
SOURCE We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education, Inc.
http://www.WeThePeopleFoundation.org
Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
Mr. Obama's Eligibility to be Aired Monday at the National Press Club
Last update: 3:18 p.m. EST Dec. 4, 2008
QUEENSBURY, N.Y., Dec 04, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- On Monday, December 8, 2008, at 1:30 pm, the We The People Foundation will conduct a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
The licensed attorneys who initiated lawsuits in PA (Philip Berg), NJ (Leo Donofrio) and CA (Orly Taitz), challenging Mr. Obama's legal eligibility to hold the Office of President of the United States, will briefly summarize the facts, legal arguments and status of their cases. They will answer questions from the press.
Prior to the start of the conference, at 10 am, the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to announce whether it will consider applications from these attorneys who have asked the Court to delay the proceedings of the Electoral College pending a determination of the underlying constitutional question - the meaning of the "natural born citizen" clause of Article II of the Constitution and its application to Mr. Obama.
Robert Schulz will briefly discuss Mr. Obama's response to the publication of his Open Letter in the Chicago Tribune on Monday and Wednesday of this week. For the reasons given in the Open Letter, Schulz asked Mr. Obama to: (1) immediately authorize Hawaiian officials to provide a team of forensic scientists access to his original ("vault") birth certificate and (2) arrange for the delivery of other documents needed to conclusively establish Obama's citizenship status. Mr. Schulz will answer questions from the press.
"Under our Constitution, no one is eligible to assume the Office of the President unless he or she is a 'natural born citizen,'" said Bob Schulz, Chairman of the Foundation. "To date, Mr. Obama has refused all requests to release his original birth certificate or other documents that would definitively establish his citizenship status and thus his constitutional eligibility."
The Open Letter to Mr. Obama summarizes the evidence against Mr. Obama and the adverse consequences that would befall the Nation should he assume the Office of the President as a usurper.
"Should the state members of the Electoral College cast their votes for Mr. Obama in the face of such overwhelming evidence, and without verification of Mr. Obama's eligibility, they would be committing treason to the Constitution," said Schulz.
www.WeThePeopleFoundation.org
SOURCE We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education, Inc.
http://www.WeThePeopleFoundation.org
Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. All rights reserved
Thursday, December 04, 2008
NEW WEBSITE TRACKS OBAMA LAWSUITS
CITIZEN WELLS ANNOUNCES AMERICAMUSTKNOW.COM IS NO LONGER ABLE TO UPDATE THEIR SITE
The Right Side of Life will take over here:
www.therightsideoflife.com/?page_id=1518
...and Dr. Orly Taitz (the lawyer representing Alan Keyes in his lawsuit to have Obama declared ineligible) has updates on her blog:
The Right Side of Life will take over here:
www.therightsideoflife.com/?page_id=1518
...and Dr. Orly Taitz (the lawyer representing Alan Keyes in his lawsuit to have Obama declared ineligible) has updates on her blog:
December 3, 2008, Dr. Orly Taitz, DDS Esq filed a second lawsuit in the Supreme Court of California; Lightfoot v. Bowen, docket number S168690. This is a "Petition for Extraordinary Writ of Mandamus for Stay".If you are an attorney and would like to assist Dr. Orly Taitz, or if you are a citizen who wants to help!
Why has Obama hired THREE law firms???
This story has gained credence, separating it from Internet rumors, because Obama has reputedly hired three law firms (firms, not lawyers) to make sure that no one gets access to his birth records in Hawaii or his college transcripts from Occidental College and Harvard. (It is speculated that the transcripts will show he applied for aid to foreign students.)
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
SET UP: CHICAGO LAWYERS PAVE THE WAY
UPDATE 12:36 AM 12/04/08: WORLDNETDAILY.COM COVERS THIS STORY!
No one wants to send a guy guilty of forging a US birth certificate to jail for 15 years. Instead, lets focus on how in 2006, Obama's buddies felt it necessary to put together a 26 page dissertation why the "natural born" clause is the "stupidest provision."
A commenter in an actuarial forum posted this (hat tip Phil) Coming out of Chicago, 2 years 9 months ago, a 26 page report on the importance of getting rid of the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution!
ATLAS SHRUGS REPORTS
No one wants to send a guy guilty of forging a US birth certificate to jail for 15 years. Instead, lets focus on how in 2006, Obama's buddies felt it necessary to put together a 26 page dissertation why the "natural born" clause is the "stupidest provision."
A commenter in an actuarial forum posted this (hat tip Phil) Coming out of Chicago, 2 years 9 months ago, a 26 page report on the importance of getting rid of the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution!
ATLAS SHRUGS REPORTS
Judicial Watch: Clinton Ineligible for Secretary of State!
Judicial Watch Announces Hillary Clinton Constitutionally Ineligible to Serve as Secretary of State
Contact:
Press Office 202-646-5188
Washington, DC -- December 2, 2008
Ineligibility Clause of Constitution Prohibits Clinton Appointment
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as Secretary of State in the Obama administration.
According to the Ineligibility Clause of the United States Constitution, no member of Congress can be appointed to an office that has benefited from a salary increase during the time that Senator or Representative served in Congress. A January 2008 Executive Order signed by President Bush during Hillary Clinton's current Senate term increased the salary for Secretary of State, thereby rendering Senator Clinton ineligible for the position.
Specifically, Article I, section 6 of the U.S. Constitution provides "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time." The provision is seen by most as designed by our Founding Fathers to protect against corruption.
Former President Richard Nixon circumvented this constitutional provision after appointing former Ohio Senator William Saxbe to the position of Attorney General. The Nixon administration managed to force legislation through Congress to reduce the salary for the position of Attorney General to the level that existed prior to Senator Saxbe's appointment. This scheme, known thereafter as "The Saxbe Fix," was also used to allow Senator Lloyd Bentsen to assume the position of Treasury Secretary under President Clinton.
"The Saxbe Fix" may reduce the salary of Secretary of State to previous levels, but it does not affect what is a clear constitutional prohibition. It cannot change the fact that the salary had been increased while Senator Clinton served in Congress. (President Ronald Reagan reportedly did not appoint Senator Orrin Hatch to the Supreme Court because of this provision.) Simply put, the Constitution does not provide for a legislative remedy for the Ineligibility Clause.
"There's no getting around the Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, so Hillary Clinton is prohibited from serving in the Cabinet until at least 2013, when her current term expires," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Barack Obama should select someone who is eligible for the position of Secretary of State and save the country from a constitutional battle over Hillary Clinton's confirmation. No public official who has taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution should support this appointment. And aside from the constitutional issue, Hillary Clinton's long track record of corruption makes her a terrible choice to serve as the nation's top diplomat."
HAT TIP: GATEWAY PUNDIT
Contact:
Press Office 202-646-5188
Washington, DC -- December 2, 2008
Ineligibility Clause of Constitution Prohibits Clinton Appointment
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as Secretary of State in the Obama administration.
According to the Ineligibility Clause of the United States Constitution, no member of Congress can be appointed to an office that has benefited from a salary increase during the time that Senator or Representative served in Congress. A January 2008 Executive Order signed by President Bush during Hillary Clinton's current Senate term increased the salary for Secretary of State, thereby rendering Senator Clinton ineligible for the position.
Specifically, Article I, section 6 of the U.S. Constitution provides "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time." The provision is seen by most as designed by our Founding Fathers to protect against corruption.
Former President Richard Nixon circumvented this constitutional provision after appointing former Ohio Senator William Saxbe to the position of Attorney General. The Nixon administration managed to force legislation through Congress to reduce the salary for the position of Attorney General to the level that existed prior to Senator Saxbe's appointment. This scheme, known thereafter as "The Saxbe Fix," was also used to allow Senator Lloyd Bentsen to assume the position of Treasury Secretary under President Clinton.
"The Saxbe Fix" may reduce the salary of Secretary of State to previous levels, but it does not affect what is a clear constitutional prohibition. It cannot change the fact that the salary had been increased while Senator Clinton served in Congress. (President Ronald Reagan reportedly did not appoint Senator Orrin Hatch to the Supreme Court because of this provision.) Simply put, the Constitution does not provide for a legislative remedy for the Ineligibility Clause.
"There's no getting around the Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, so Hillary Clinton is prohibited from serving in the Cabinet until at least 2013, when her current term expires," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Barack Obama should select someone who is eligible for the position of Secretary of State and save the country from a constitutional battle over Hillary Clinton's confirmation. No public official who has taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution should support this appointment. And aside from the constitutional issue, Hillary Clinton's long track record of corruption makes her a terrible choice to serve as the nation's top diplomat."
HAT TIP: GATEWAY PUNDIT
What about Pakistan???
No record of Obama holding an American passport prior to the one he received once becoming a U.S. senator has been found. If he traveled to Pakistan with an American passport, he wouldn't have been allowed in – since Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and under martial law. It was also on the State Department's travel ban list for U.S. citizens," she wrote.Read more
"If he couldn't get into Pakistan with a U.S. passport, perhaps he went there with an Indonesian passport. But the only way you can get one of those is if you are an Indonesian citizen..."
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
TIME-SENSITIVE: THE BEST 10 BUCKS YOU'LL EVER SPEND!!!
FedEx the Supremes about Obama's eligibility
WND makes it easy, cheaper to ask justices to resolve questions
WASHINGTON – You can make sure the Supreme Court justices have a piece of your mind when they review a case Friday challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which stipulates the position can only be filled by "a natural born citizen."
Because the Supreme Court justices do not accept faxes, e-mails or telephone calls, there is only one way to make your voice heard in time for Friday's preliminary hearing – overnight delivery of your letter.
To make that process simpler, more convenient and less expensive, WND has devised a plan to get a concise letter on the subject, over your name, delivered to all nine justices by FedEx for the price of just $9.95. This offer ends Thursday at noon Eastern time to ensure all letters are delivered by Friday morning to the Supreme Court. Another way to arrange to deliver your letter is to call 1-800-4WND-COM.
WND makes it easy, cheaper to ask justices to resolve questions
WASHINGTON – You can make sure the Supreme Court justices have a piece of your mind when they review a case Friday challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which stipulates the position can only be filled by "a natural born citizen."
Because the Supreme Court justices do not accept faxes, e-mails or telephone calls, there is only one way to make your voice heard in time for Friday's preliminary hearing – overnight delivery of your letter.
To make that process simpler, more convenient and less expensive, WND has devised a plan to get a concise letter on the subject, over your name, delivered to all nine justices by FedEx for the price of just $9.95. This offer ends Thursday at noon Eastern time to ensure all letters are delivered by Friday morning to the Supreme Court. Another way to arrange to deliver your letter is to call 1-800-4WND-COM.
PRAVDA GOES WILD!
Those of us old enough to remember will have a gut reaction to "Pravda" -- the old Soviet Communist newspaper! Well, have they gotten mainstream or what? You WILL NOT BELIEVE their final conclusion about Obama at the end...but don't cheat, read all 3 pages!
Monday, December 01, 2008
Obama and the coming constitutional crisis
12/01/2008
Obama Fomenting A Constitutional Crisis: Constitutional Lawyer Discusses Ramifications Of Controversy
By John P. Connolly, The Bulletin
Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. [see note at end] A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation.
According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama's critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department of Health officials have access to Mr. Obama's original records.
Some of Mr. Obama's critics have said he was born in Kenya and have claimed he is a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia, or even a British subject.
Edwin Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who has practiced for 30 years and holds four degrees from Harvard, said if it were to be discovered Mr. Obama were not eligible for the presidency, it would cause many problems. They would be compounded if his ineligibility were discovered after he had been in office for a period of time.
"Let's assume he wasn't born in the U.S.," Mr. Vieira told The Bulletin. "What's the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can't make him president. So what's the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he's aware he's not a citizen, then it's a perjured oath."
Any appointments made by an ineligible president would have to be recalled, and their decisions would be invalidated.
"He may have nominated people to different positions; he may have nominated people to the judicial branch, who may have been confirmed, they may have gone out on xecutive duty and done various things," said Mr. Vieira. "The people that he's put into the judicial branch may have decided cases, and all of that needs to be unzipped."
Mr. Vieira said Obama supporters should be the ones concerned about the case, because Mr. Obama's platform would be discredited it he were forced to step down from the presidency later due to his ineligibility, were it to be discovered.
"Let's say we go a year into this process, and it all turns out to be a flim-flam," said Mr. Vieira. "What's the nation's reaction to that? What's going to be the reaction in the next U.S. election? God knows. It has almost revolutionary consequences, if you think about it."
Mr. Vieira said Mr. Obama's continued silence and avoidance in the release of his birth certificate is an ethical issue because of the dire consequences that could be caused by a possible constitutional crisis.
"If he were my client and this question came up in civil litigation, if there was some reason that his birth status was relevant and the other side wanted him to produce the thing and he said 'no,' I would tell him, 'you have about 15 minutes to produce it or sign the papers necessary to produce the document, or I'm resigning as your attorney," said Mr. Vieira. "I don't think any ethical attorney would go ahead on the basis that his client could produce an objective document in civil litigation [and refused to do so]."
Further, Mr. Vieira cited a fraud ruling in a 1977 case called U.S. v. Prudden, which he feels applies in this case.
"Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal and moral duty to speak or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading," the ruling reads. "We cannot condone this shocking conduct ... If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately."
Mr. Vieira said such an ethical question of representing a client who refused to produce such a basic document is important, even in a small civil case. The current question is concerning the man who potentially could have his finger next to the nuclear button.
"[The birth certificate], in theory, should be there," said Mr. Vieira. "What if it isn't? Who knows, aside from Mr. Obama? Does Russian intelligence know it isn't there? Does Chinese intelligence know it isn't there? Does the CIA know that it isn't there? Who is in a position to blackmail this fellow?"
Mr. Vieira explained all laws have to be submitted to the president. In the event that there is no valid president, then no laws passed by Congress in that administration would be legally null and void. Because of that, this case will probably not go away, even after Mr. Obama takes the oath of office.
"If you don't produce it, you think it's going to go away," he said. "There are all these cases challenging Mr. Obama, and some challenging secretaries of state, and they run into this doctrine called standing."
Mr. Vieira explained although legal standing is difficult to get around in Federal courts, the document could be produced in any criminal cases stemming from legislation passed in the Obama administration.
"Let's assume that an Obama administration passes some of these controversial pieces of legislation he has been promising to go for, like the FOCA (Freedom of Choice) Act," said Mr. Vieira. "I would assume that some of those surely will have some severe civil or criminal penalties attached to them for violation. You are now the criminal defendant under this statute, which was passed by an Obama Congress and signed by President Obama. Your defense is that is not a statute because Mr. Obama is not the president. You now have a right and I have never heard this challenged, to subpoena in a criminal case, anyone who has relevant evidence relating to your defenses. And you can subpoena them duces tecum, meaning 'you shall bring with you the documents.' "
Such a criminal defense would enable the defendant to subpoena any person to testify in court and any person to bring evidence in their possession to the court.
Further, records could be subpoenaed directly, in the case of a birth certificate. Once the record could be subpoenaed, the birth certificate could be examined by forensic experts, who would then be able to testify to the document's veracity as expert witnesses. Any movement by the judges to make a special exception to the president in a criminal case would hurt the legitimacy of that presidential administration.
"I can't believe I'm the only lawyer who would think of this," said Mr. Vieira. "I think any criminal lawyer defending against one of these politically charged statutes is going to come up with this. That means it will never go away until that document is laid down on the table and people say, 'yes, there it is.' And therefore they're caught. If people keep challenging this and the judges out of fear keep saying 'no, go to jail, go to jail, go to jail' then that's the end of the Obama administration's legitimacy. On the other hand if they open the file and it's not there, then that's really the end of the administration's legitimacy."
Several court cases in the birth certificate controversy are waiting admission to the Supreme Court.
A gathering of judges will meet on Dec. 5 to decide whether or not to hear a case from New Jersey, and a decision is still pending on a case from a lawyer in Pennsylvania. Should four of the judges vote to hear the case in the Dec. 5 meeting, then it will be scheduled for hearings. Court cases from Connecticut and New York have also applied for hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court.
John P. Connolly can be reached at jconnolly@thebulletin.us
©The Bulletin 2008
FOR ALL CURRENT CASES IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM GO TO www.AmericaMustKnow.com "Legal Actions Across America"
Obama Fomenting A Constitutional Crisis: Constitutional Lawyer Discusses Ramifications Of Controversy
By John P. Connolly, The Bulletin
Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. [see note at end] A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation.
According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama's critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department of Health officials have access to Mr. Obama's original records.
Some of Mr. Obama's critics have said he was born in Kenya and have claimed he is a citizen of Kenya, Indonesia, or even a British subject.
Edwin Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who has practiced for 30 years and holds four degrees from Harvard, said if it were to be discovered Mr. Obama were not eligible for the presidency, it would cause many problems. They would be compounded if his ineligibility were discovered after he had been in office for a period of time.
"Let's assume he wasn't born in the U.S.," Mr. Vieira told The Bulletin. "What's the consequence? He will not be eligible. That means he cannot be elected validly. The people and the Electoral College cannot overcome this and the House of Representatives can't make him president. So what's the next step? He takes the oath of office, and assuming he's aware he's not a citizen, then it's a perjured oath."
Any appointments made by an ineligible president would have to be recalled, and their decisions would be invalidated.
"He may have nominated people to different positions; he may have nominated people to the judicial branch, who may have been confirmed, they may have gone out on xecutive duty and done various things," said Mr. Vieira. "The people that he's put into the judicial branch may have decided cases, and all of that needs to be unzipped."
Mr. Vieira said Obama supporters should be the ones concerned about the case, because Mr. Obama's platform would be discredited it he were forced to step down from the presidency later due to his ineligibility, were it to be discovered.
"Let's say we go a year into this process, and it all turns out to be a flim-flam," said Mr. Vieira. "What's the nation's reaction to that? What's going to be the reaction in the next U.S. election? God knows. It has almost revolutionary consequences, if you think about it."
Mr. Vieira said Mr. Obama's continued silence and avoidance in the release of his birth certificate is an ethical issue because of the dire consequences that could be caused by a possible constitutional crisis.
"If he were my client and this question came up in civil litigation, if there was some reason that his birth status was relevant and the other side wanted him to produce the thing and he said 'no,' I would tell him, 'you have about 15 minutes to produce it or sign the papers necessary to produce the document, or I'm resigning as your attorney," said Mr. Vieira. "I don't think any ethical attorney would go ahead on the basis that his client could produce an objective document in civil litigation [and refused to do so]."
Further, Mr. Vieira cited a fraud ruling in a 1977 case called U.S. v. Prudden, which he feels applies in this case.
"Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal and moral duty to speak or when an inquiry left unanswered would be intentionally misleading," the ruling reads. "We cannot condone this shocking conduct ... If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be corrected immediately."
Mr. Vieira said such an ethical question of representing a client who refused to produce such a basic document is important, even in a small civil case. The current question is concerning the man who potentially could have his finger next to the nuclear button.
"[The birth certificate], in theory, should be there," said Mr. Vieira. "What if it isn't? Who knows, aside from Mr. Obama? Does Russian intelligence know it isn't there? Does Chinese intelligence know it isn't there? Does the CIA know that it isn't there? Who is in a position to blackmail this fellow?"
Mr. Vieira explained all laws have to be submitted to the president. In the event that there is no valid president, then no laws passed by Congress in that administration would be legally null and void. Because of that, this case will probably not go away, even after Mr. Obama takes the oath of office.
"If you don't produce it, you think it's going to go away," he said. "There are all these cases challenging Mr. Obama, and some challenging secretaries of state, and they run into this doctrine called standing."
Mr. Vieira explained although legal standing is difficult to get around in Federal courts, the document could be produced in any criminal cases stemming from legislation passed in the Obama administration.
"Let's assume that an Obama administration passes some of these controversial pieces of legislation he has been promising to go for, like the FOCA (Freedom of Choice) Act," said Mr. Vieira. "I would assume that some of those surely will have some severe civil or criminal penalties attached to them for violation. You are now the criminal defendant under this statute, which was passed by an Obama Congress and signed by President Obama. Your defense is that is not a statute because Mr. Obama is not the president. You now have a right and I have never heard this challenged, to subpoena in a criminal case, anyone who has relevant evidence relating to your defenses. And you can subpoena them duces tecum, meaning 'you shall bring with you the documents.' "
Such a criminal defense would enable the defendant to subpoena any person to testify in court and any person to bring evidence in their possession to the court.
Further, records could be subpoenaed directly, in the case of a birth certificate. Once the record could be subpoenaed, the birth certificate could be examined by forensic experts, who would then be able to testify to the document's veracity as expert witnesses. Any movement by the judges to make a special exception to the president in a criminal case would hurt the legitimacy of that presidential administration.
"I can't believe I'm the only lawyer who would think of this," said Mr. Vieira. "I think any criminal lawyer defending against one of these politically charged statutes is going to come up with this. That means it will never go away until that document is laid down on the table and people say, 'yes, there it is.' And therefore they're caught. If people keep challenging this and the judges out of fear keep saying 'no, go to jail, go to jail, go to jail' then that's the end of the Obama administration's legitimacy. On the other hand if they open the file and it's not there, then that's really the end of the administration's legitimacy."
Several court cases in the birth certificate controversy are waiting admission to the Supreme Court.
A gathering of judges will meet on Dec. 5 to decide whether or not to hear a case from New Jersey, and a decision is still pending on a case from a lawyer in Pennsylvania. Should four of the judges vote to hear the case in the Dec. 5 meeting, then it will be scheduled for hearings. Court cases from Connecticut and New York have also applied for hearings at the U.S. Supreme Court.
John P. Connolly can be reached at jconnolly@thebulletin.us
©The Bulletin 2008
FOR ALL CURRENT CASES IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM GO TO www.AmericaMustKnow.com "Legal Actions Across America"
MUMBAI: The real truth about what happened!
Many put the blame for the attack on years of Indian-Pakistani hostility and tension. In fact, relations between the two countries have never been warmer...Read more
This is precisely what the terrorists don’t want, of course. It’s the fact that tensions over Kashmir are diminishing that prompted them to attack on the November 28 — just as al-Qaeda blew up Samarra’s Golden Mosque in Iraq back in 2006 in order to keep Shias and Sunnis hating and killing each other. The illusion that formal agreements between peoples and governments — whether between India and Pakistan or Israel and the Palestinian Authority — can somehow defuse the terrorist problem was the among the first casualties in Mumbai. Terrorists see it the other way around: the relaxation of tensions is a problem requiring bloodshed.
Islamic terrorists don’t want justice or respect for their beliefs, or restoration of some imaginary homeland. They want violence and death. The duty of every government is to make sure that terrorists get them before they can deal them out. Pakistanis will never know peace, or peace with their neighbors in Afghanistan and India, until they finally and ruthlessly root out the terrorists in their midst.
The same goes for India. That was the second illusion that died in Mumbai: that democratic nations can somehow opt out of the war on terror.