🚀 go-pugleaf

bushlyed wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2:07 pm, Pops Mear <PopsM...@here.usa> wrote:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/barack-obama-citizenship-...
>>
>> Supreme Court to consider taking up lawsuit challenging Obama's
>> citizenship
>> Lawsuit just the tip of an iceberg of nationwide efforts seeking to
>> derail Obama's presidential election win
>>
>>     * McClatchy newspapers
>>     * guardian.co.uk, Thursday December 4 2008 17.16 GMT
>>     * Article history
>>
>> The US Supreme Court will consider whether to take up a lawsuit
>> challenging President-elect Barack Obama's US citizenship on Friday, a
>> continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of
>> Obama's election.
>>
>> The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer's
>> supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation's highest court.
>> The lawsuit originally sought to stay the election, and was filed on
>> behalf of Leo Donofrio against Nina Mitchell Wells, New Jersey's
>> secretary of state.
>>
>> Legal experts say the appeal has little chance of succeeding, despite
>> appearing on the court's schedule. Legal records show it is only the
>> tip of an iceberg of nationwide efforts seeking to derail Obama's
>> election over accusations that he either wasn't born a US citizen or
>> that he later renounced his citizenship in Indonesia.
>>
>> The Obama campaign has maintained that he was born in Hawaii, has an
>> authentic birth certificate, and is a natural-born US citizen.
>> Hawaiian officials agree.
>>
>> Among those filing lawsuits is Alan Keyes, who lost to Obama in the
>> 2004 Illinois Senate race. Keyes' lawsuit seeks to halt certification
>> of votes in California. Another lawsuit by a Kentucky man aims to have
>> a federal judge review Obama's original birth certificate, which
>> Hawaiian officials say is locked in a state vault.
>>
>> Other lawsuits have been filed by Andy Martin, whose case was
>> dismissed in Hawaii, and by an Ohio man whose case also was dismissed.
>>
>> The most famous case questioning Obama's citizenship was filed in
>> Pennsylvania in August on behalf of Philip J Berg and sought to enjoin
>> the Democratic National Committee from nominating Obama. The Supreme
>> Court declined to accept the case. Earlier, a federal judge rejected
>> it for "lack of standing", ruling that Berg had no legal right to sue.
>>
>> In cases like these, judges sometimes believe the matter is best left
>> to political institutions, such as the Electoral College or Congress,
>> said legal scholar Eugene Volokh of the University of California at
>> Los Angeles.
>>
>> The remaining case with the highest profile is Donofrio v Wells. Since
>> it was distributed by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to other
>> justices for conference, the case gained undue importance for people
>> unschooled in how the court works, Volokh said.
>>
>> Many petitioners seeking stays of pending events have their cases
>> distributed to the full court, he said. Of those, Volokh found that
>> 782 were denied in the last eight years while just 60 were heard, not
>> all of those ultimately were successful.
> 
> Keep it up, keep it up, keep it up
> 
> KEEP IT UP
> 
> Keep challenging Obama's legitimate election
> 
> Keep calling him a terrorist and a Muslim and a racist
> 
> His approval rating is only 80%; we want it higher and with your help
> it will be
> 
> See, unlike you cretins, the American people LIKE our new President
> and want him to succeed

After years of baseless insults, accusations and lies about Bush, you 
hardly have any grounds to complain when Obama gets treated the same way.