Topic: Time to move on
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Mon 12/08/08 11:45 AM
Enough is enough.

Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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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Mon 12/08/08 11:49 AM

Enough is enough.

Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.
laugh Berg is a wack joblaugh

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Mon 12/08/08 11:49 AM
What's next?huh

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Mon 12/08/08 11:55 AM
LET THE REV. WRIGHT DEAL WITH IT...............

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Mon 12/08/08 12:03 PM
where's kyle's mom???


blame canada!!!!!

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Mon 12/08/08 12:06 PM
Gosh, I guess my hopes of being president are dashed, too. I was born out of the USA!! sad sad sad sad
Ha ha ha~ I used to live in East Brunswick, NJ. Small freakin' world.

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Mon 12/08/08 12:13 PM
When my father applied for his passport he had an awful time because his birth certificate was hand written.

Born in Cook County IL in 1928 his birth records looked much like others at the time. Scratched out with a fountain pen it was quite difficult to read the information on it.

I sure am glad he never chose to run for president.