Judge rejects Montco lawyer's bid to have Obama removed from ballot

Source: Philadelphia Daily News

A federal judge in Philadelphia last night threw out a complaint by a Montgomery County lawyer who claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was not qualified to be president and that his name should be removed from the Nov. 4 ballot.

Philip J. Berg alleged in a complaint filed in federal district court on Aug. 21 against Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission, that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.

Berg claimed that the Democratic presidential standardbearer is not even an American citizen but a citizen of Indonesia and therefore ineligible to be president.

He alleged that if Obama was permitted to run for president and subsequently found to be ineligible, he and other voters would be disenfranchised.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick had denied Berg's request for a temporary restraining order on Aug. 22 but had not ruled on the merits of the suit until yesterday.

Obama and the Democratic National Committee had asked Surrick to dismiss Berg's complaint in a court filing on Sept. 24.

They said that Berg's claims were "ridiculous" and "patently false," that Berg had "no standing" to challenge the qualifications of a candidate for president because he had not shown the requisite harm to himself.

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Surrick ruled that Berg's attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim that Obama was not a natural-born citizen were "frivolous and not worthy of discussion."

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Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081025_Judge_rejects_Montco_lawyer_s_bid_to_have_Obama_removed_from_ballot.html

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Freeper heads exploding. What will Hannity have to talk about now? The "Whitey tape"?

A nice little fine for filing a frivolous law suit would be just peachy.

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the facts."

Thank you Judge for sticking to the facts.

They're going to cling to the 8 other lawsuits about this birth certificate, and the imaginary Michelle tapes.


They're going to hound Obama through out his Presidency, because they just can't accept the fact of a Democrat in the White House, much less a Black Democrat.

for having been the birth place of Obama. It's all so sad.

:rofl: They just make stuff up when thy don't get their way!

Stealing votes, one idiot at a time.

I go there several times a day and they really believe this one. Oh well. Good. lol

He's a loony-toon publicity whore who is one of the last remaining "PUMA"s.

He lives nearby, and used to come to our democratic committee meetings with his teenaged son and disrupt to the point where they almost started a fistfight once (his son thought someone was insulting his dad, and tried to take a swing at the guy).

He tried to put his 16-year-old son on the ballot for our local District Justice (he won the court case to have the kid on the ballot, but lost the election)

This guy is seriously loony - google him, and there's a whole host of bizarre cases he's filed. I'm surprised he hasn't been disbarred.

They must be scared and desperate and really feel that Obama is going to win this thing.

All above gives my a nice warm feeling inside:smoke:

And any of their few reasonable members, (and yeah I've read a couple) are immediately shouted down when they try to be a voice of reason.

Is he calling me UNAMERICAN? I was born there by American citizen parents and moved back to the states shortly after I was born. I guess with a-holes like this, I'd probably not even think about running for president if I ever wanted to entertain that idea.

And this jerk should be reminded that McCain himself was born outside the territorial confines of the U.S. too, when he was born in Panama! Should we be allowed to lump in with the likes of Noriega too? Does that mean that in his book only third party candidates this year are eligible to be president?

And even for me to have claimed citizenship in Indonesia, even though I was BORN there, which Obama wasn't, I had to make that claim before I became an adult, according to my parents who had looked at that issue of me being eligible for dual citizenship earlier.

citizenship as well? That is a determining factor no matter where these whackos think he was born.

How would he feel losing PA to the write in vote?

How would that make him a citizen of Indonesia?

My head hurts.

father isn't boogeyman enough--his stepfather took him to Indonesia, made him a Muslim, and rejected Obama's American citizenship. He made a sleeper agent....and then set him among us, all....

No, really. They have it all worked out...and if you just drink the Kool-Aid, ignore international law, federal law, and all common sense, you will understand this lawsuit............

If I make up some horrible story about John McCain, it's my obligation to prove my claim. John McCain isn't under any obligation to answer my lies until I have proof that I have reason to make a claim against him.

It's the accuser's burden of proof. It's Andy Martin's, it's Philip Berg's. Prove that you have some reason to believe Obama was born in Kenya, or shut the eff up. Obama has campaign obligations, family obligations and a dying grandmother. He doesn't have time to respond to every lie the wingers make up.

Put up or shut up, wingers.

and he was born in Panama. I thought you had to be a "natural born" American to run for President. My mother came back to the U.S. during her pregnancy to be sure that I was a "natural born" citizen.

there is a good overview of the issues here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born_citizen

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Almost from the inception of the Canal Zone, questions arose as to whether the Zone was considered part of the United States for constitutional purposes, or, in the phrase of the day, whether the Constitution followed the flag. On July 28, 1904, Controller of the Treasury Robert Tracewell stated, "While the general spirit and purpose of the Constitution is applicable to the zone, that domain is not a part of the United States within the full meaning of the Constitution and laws of the country.<4>

US Navy can give aid and comfort to the enemy(propaganda) and be qualified to run for prez?

Both of them.

:rofl: