Obama Birth Certificate Challenge Turned Down By Supreme Court

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/08/obama-birth-certificate-c_n_149229.html

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.

The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth _ his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject _ he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit.

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[RideWitChrist]

No they were told to keep quiet duhh

[beginization]

@stgard5295

Obama was black/ white at the start of election but after his gran died he was now able to be totally black only

[Soberguysknowsbest]

Obama used to be friend with Osama back in the cold war days.Look up CIA Obama trial videos.

[triple6thug1]

True But he is Muslim get it right.

[clarity023]

@lamiac2411 Buchanan and Arthur had alien fathers: Irish. Agnew's father was Greek not naturalized. Wong Kim parents were CHINESE not naturalized. Elg, Lynch, they all had ALIEN parents. The Supreme Court declared them:

natural born citizen. Read about jus soli, born here =natural born, parent's citizenship is irrelevant. Obama was born in Hawaii and his mother was American. Period. BTW did you see his original birth certificate, it says BORN IN HONOLULU!

[lamiac2411]

He's not natural born plain and simple. His BC means fuck all his father was a British citicen. Meaning BO would be a dual citizen and not elegible to be president. Whether you think it's silly or not if we violate this small matter what happens when they keep pushing? Starts small and gets big. Just look at the violation of rights/

[onstageagain]

OMama U-r a nightmare, when your selling snake oil, it's hard to keep facts straight. Politics was never meant to be a profession, like diapers, should be changed often (and for the same reasons)."

Be on the lookout for snake oil salesmen & their cure all products, false claims with fake credentials, avoid their miracle cures which are actually get rich quick schemes targeted at those with chronic delusions

[fairalways]

@onstageagain To go further, the idea that: a) those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers; b) the country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and c) it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen-- is so antiquated that it can be burst with a single question. Namely, "What if the citizen is a girl?".

Your crap is not intellectual nor moral; it is academia masquerading as intellectual and moral. And I think you know this.

[fairalways]

@onstageagain Your whole thing, in other words, is a sideshow, and an outlet for rage from an obsessive personality. And I'm not even a fan of Obama, nor on the left. Jeez.

[fairalways]

@onstageagain "de Vattel's, "The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society can not exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers"-- is crap. The whole notion of "Natural Law" is crap. Based on a Nationalist, male-centric sense of how "the world works" 250 years old. Jewish "natural" law follows mother, is far older (and silly) - so what?

[fairalways]

@onstageagain Your insane premise rests on what "you say". de Vattel's book is passed around to pseudo-schmucks like you to press for the side-show of the Supreme Court wasting its time on the "natural-born" slippery semantic hole.