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Who is to blame for the Illinois Senate Seat mess? Barack Obama is to blame. Other than here, at this Pink website, few, if any, took notice when Barack Obama resigned his senate seat in early November. At the time we made several points regarding the Obama resignation: (1) Obama accomplished nothing in the U.S. Senate other than advance himself; . (2) Obama demonstrated once again that he will “flick off the burden of responsibility” when responsibility, as it usually does, counters self-advancement; . (3) Obama knew he was not qualified to run for president from the very beginning (see...

At approximately 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2008, I was in the Clerk of Court's office in the Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia doing part of my job as a legal writer and reading the civil cases which had been filed that day. (Snip) After the man left, the clerk told me that I should probably take a look at the complaint. (Snip) You filed a new lawsuit last week. Tell me about it. This lawsuit is an interpleader action, and the reason we went this way is because an interpleader action will shift the burden of proof to Barack...

(AP) Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is set to become the next chairman of the Democratic Party. Two Democratic officials said Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the governor to take over the Democratic National Committee. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on a condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been officially announced.

[...] For those on the chase, I’m recommending you look at a pro Obama site called What’s Your Evidence? This is the first site I’ve found that analyzes the Berg complaint, as well as, the collateral issues surrounding this epic journey into whether or not Barack Hussein Obama II is eligible to hold the office of POTUS under our Constitution from an opposing view of those of us who believe that Obama is not a natural born citizen or eligible to hold the office of POTUS. [...]Clearly, someone has taken a great deal of time to “debunk” the Berg claim....

Information on Obama's ongoing efforts to prevent the public from seeing his birth documentation: Obama The Fraud. The links on that page are updated as they become available. Check back regularly for new links.America's DNC-owned news media wants this story to go away or, like the Republicans, they are too cowardly to confront the issue. It's up to us to tell others about this.

Case of Berg vs. Obama, U.S.S.C. Case No. 08-570, in the U.S. Supreme Court has been scheduled for two [2] Conferences [January 9th and 16th, 2009].The Justices of the Supreme Court will read letters sent to them. Let them know how important it is for them to hear our case; how “standing” is important on the issue of Obama’s qualifications; how we are headed for a “Constitutional crisis” if Obama’s qualifications are not resolved; how important it is to follow “our Constitution;” and how Obama’s records: his original ‘vault’ birth certificate, immigration records when he as Barry Soetoro [adopted in...

Heidi Re: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.......... « Reply #3 on: January 03, 2009, 03:17:42 PM » Draft of what will go out on Monday Dear Chief Justice Roberts, I respectfully come before you today pleading with you, in your position of service to the people of this great Nation, to protect and defend the Constitution. I implore you to intercede on behalf of the common citizens of this country who wish only to know the individual voted by the people to become the next President of our Country is constitutionally eligible to do so. Please grant us standing as We the...

FR and others need to have a working group for Jan 8 when Congress meets in a Joint Session to count the votes from the Electoral College. Many conservatives are NOT interested. So THIS is the Thread for all the negative and silly comments. If I have time to post other threads, there is work to be done. For those who are interested in a FR Working Group for the Congress to "Say NO to Barack & Joe" on Jan. 8th, don't post here. If I don't get the threads posted tonight, start one yourself. I can imagine some of...

Local News | Memories of Obama's mother | Seattle Times Newspaper Memories of Obama's Mother   Nicole Brodeur  Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Box called her friend "Stannie," a nickname for Stanley. She was named for her father, who wanted a boy — and the girl knew it. As a result, their relationship was strained. "He was hard on her, in that he picked on her," Box said of Stanley Dunham, a furniture salesman in downtown Seattle. "He had a sarcastic humor," Box said, "and she could give it back." Dunham's mother, Madelyn, a bank employee,...

Provides the reasons why Obama refuses to either speak publicly about where he was born or to produce his original birth certificate

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't have many friends these days, particularly among the lawmakers who will decide whether to throw him out of office.

WASHINGTON (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract. Richardson's withdrawal was the first disruption of Obama's Cabinet process and the second "pay-to-play" investigation that has touched Obama's transition to the presidency. The president-elect has remained above the fray in both the case of arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the New Mexico case. A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson's...

First, Obama's fellow Daley machine hack, Rod Blagojevich, tried to sell Obama's Senate seat. Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, discussed the future of the Senate seat with Blagojevich. Obama has since "cleared himself" of any wrongdoing. Then, Obama's advisor, Caroline Kennedy, tried to steal a Senate seat in New York, citing royal prerogative. Now, Obama's Commerce Secretary nominee, Bill Richardson, has withdrawn his nomination, amid speculation that he will be indicted for corruption. All this, and Obama hasn't even been sworn in!

OBAMA-BUST: Bill Richardson will withdraw as Commerce secretary... Developing...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in early December to discuss the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, his spokesman said.

The most underreported story of 2008 has to be the continuing saga of a few brave souls who are working through the courts to force President-elect Barack Obama to prove his citizenship. In fact, a report from The Associated Press dismissed the whole thing as nothing but Internet conspiracy theories. This lack of coverage is just the latest example of why I have mostly lost hope for the mainstream media in the United States. Thanks to the lack of media coverage, many of you reading this may be unaware of the multitude of lawsuits challenging Obama's citizenship and his legal...

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. Frank Marshall Davis admitted in his private papers that he had...

'Thousands of phone calls' on feds' wiretaps MORE TARGETS | 'Multiple witnesses have come forward,' authorities say $$$ Prosecutors revealed Wednesday that they captured "thousands of phone calls" on secret wiretaps in their investigation into Gov. Blagojevich. The disclosure came in a government filing in which prosecutors asked for a 90-day extension to indict Blagojevich and his former chief of staff, John Harris. The filing also revealed that the government has additional targets in its ongoing probe and that the governor's Dec. 9 arrest spurred more witnesses to talk to prosecutors. "Multiple witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to...

01/03/2009: PRESS RELEASE - New Issue of GLOBE Magazine Highlights Berg vs. Obama U.S. Supreme Court Case and you can Vote if “natural born” or not. (Contact information and PDF at end) (Lafayette Hill, PA – 01/03/09) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States and his case, Berg vs. Obama, [is in the U.S. Supreme Court with two (2) Conferences scheduled on 1/09/09 & 1/16/09] announced today that the new issue of GLOBE Magazine [1/12/09 issue] highlights Berg vs....

Barack Hussein Obama - Usurper-elect January 2, 2009 · 6 Comments by -Jefferson Paine Lady Liberty Crumbling I’d like to take up our reader Ted’s challenge regarding the roiling controversy over Barack Hussein Obama’s (BHO) insouciant inability to provide sufficient evidence that he is duly eligible to be elected to the office of President of the United State of America (POTUS). Challenge, can anyone prove this wrong?:- 1. Constitution Article II requires USA President to be “natural born citizen”. 2. BHO’s website admits his dad was Kenyan/British, not American, citizen when BHO was born. 3. BHO is therefore not a...

Obama’s Failure To Prove His Alleged USA Birth Posted by papundits on 01/01/2009 http://papundits.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/obamas-failure-to-prove-his-alleged-usa-birth/ By Forseti Mr. Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. As his only evidence that he meets the Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a President be a natural born citizen, he produced a document called a “Certification of Live Birth,” which he posted on his website under the title: “Barack Obama’s Official Birth Certificate.” At first blush, it is case closed. A closer examination of the facts, however, reveals that Mr. Obama failed to...

Roland "Tombstone" Burris goes to Washington this week as part of the Illinois political freak show, and many of us back home will watch it and feel like cringing, at least at the beginning. Who among us could not wince at the prospect of Tombstone standing before news cameras, his head bobbing, smiling amiably, chattering nonsensically as is his way, insisting he feels no shame. All he wants is to become a United States senator, and he kissed a tainted hand to get there. His fellow Democrats may be ready to bar his entrance to the Senate chambers, and politicians...

In a meeting last month with the Barack Obama’s transition staff, representatives of the nation’s top prosecutors caught a glimpse of the president-elect’s thinking on the politically fraught issue of what to do with the the current 93 U.S. attorneys. “[The president-elect] is going to be smart and be cautious. My gut feeling is it won’t be like it was in 1993,” said U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton of Texas’ Western District, a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys. On Dec. 11, Sutton and 15 other members of the committee met with Obama’s DOJ transition chief, David...

The MSM - ever infatuated with Obama and a propagater of his cult of personality - seems to be obsessed with his abs, his workout regiment, and displaying pictures of him in the surf in newspapers in magazines and on the net. Yet, this same MSM doesn't seem to be too concerned with Obama's closet smoking habit. Good health can be done away with by smoking in no time. In 1 and 1/2 or 2 years, an on-going smoking habit can indeed wreck good health. Smoking increases the odds big time of cancer setting in. Just as the MSM said...

Discussion with a staffer I had an email exchange with Jon Yoshimura, who works for Senator Akaka of Hawaii. I sent him an email about Senate Resolution 511 and the AOL informal survey: In Senate Resolution 511 unanimously adopted earlier this year, the Senate affirmed that to be a natural born citizen, one must be the child of two American citizen parents. Are they going to ignore their own resolution? Senators must stand up and address the Obama Eligibility Controversy on January 8, 2009, or voters will respond by removing them using the power of the ballot box. After all,...

Numerous legal challenges have been filed in an effort to force president-elect Barack Obama to validate his constitutional eligibility for the office he seeks and while it is true that suit after suit has been denied in the courts, it is also true that all of them have been denied on a technicality rather than on the merits of the case against Obama. And although Obama could have ended the debate months ago by simply delivering a $10.00 certified copy of his official birth records to prove his constitutional edibility, he has instead chosen to spend nearly a million bucks...

In December, a Whitley County truck driver filed a demand that President-elect Obama prove he is a natural-born U.S. citizen — one of the requirements to become president. Daniel Essek filed a demand that Obama provide a copy of his birth certificate to a federal judge in London for verification. It was the first postelection court challenge to Obama’s qualifications to be president.

Kenya's Parliament Repeatedly Calls Obama a Kenyan http://art2sect1clause5.blogspot.com/ Quote from discussion. Dr. Khalwale: "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. You have heard none other than the Leader of Government Business acknowledge that because of Obama's win in the United States of America (USA), the House is crippled. Could we allow him to move a Motion for Adjournment so that we could also continue the celebrations of having a Kenyan ruling the USA? I humbly request!"

On the eve of the New Year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, charged with conspiring to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama, put the ball back squarely in the court of a Democratic Party that had disowned him. Blago named Roland Burris, former attorney general of Illinois and first African-American ever to win statewide office, to fill the vacated seat. National Democrats and their media auxiliaries went berserk. This governor, thundered The New York Times, "has taken his hubris to new heights and the misery of Illinois citizens to new lows." This appointment "will not stand," raged Majority Leader Harry Reid....

One of the confusing issues around the Obama "Natural Born" citizenship issue is that while many people feel that O is not eligible they do not agree, at all, on the reasons for this. Many of these differences are based on different interpretations of the term "Natural Born Citizen", the qualifier in the US Constitution that Obama must meet. To help clarify what we mean I have created a taxonomy of definitions based on the more than 50 articles I have read on this, as well as some basic logic. Many of these have strong supporters here on Free Republic,...

Oklahoma Representative Mike Ritze (R-Broken Arrow) has pre-filed a bill, requiring candidates for public office to submit a copy of their Birth Certificates. Ritze is a professor of Forensic Science and a physician, and was just elected to his first term in the legislature in November 2008. Ritze introduced his bill because he does not believe that President-Elect Barack Obama has demonstrated that he meets the constitutional qualifications. Ritze also says that he is trying to persuade U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe to object to counting electoral college votes for Obama, when Congress counts the electoral votes on January 8. The...

I just produced this video for http://restoretheconstitutionalrepublic.org, and it explains what a natural born citizen is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI

Most covered-up of 2008: Natural-born citizen WND editors join with readers to determine the year's top 10 December 31, 2008 8:30 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily Charges that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the U.S. and, therefore, constitutionally ineligible to serve as president top the list of the 10 most "spiked" or underreported stories of the last year, according to an annual WND survey. At the end of each year, news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories in the previous 12 months. WND's editors, however,...

An unscientific poll being conducted by America Online reveals more and more people are having second thoughts about Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. Those who raised questions about his vague history before the election largely drew scorn from the mainstream media, which cited an online image from Obama's campaign that purportedly proved his U.S. citizenship with a Hawaiian "Certification of Live Birth." But the latest results from the America Online poll reveal that nationwide only 41 percent of the participants now believe there is no issue to be investigated. Fifty-three percent nationwide, and majorities in 45...

On Friday, I guess we will see what the contents reveal ( the word is, it is stated within the language of the decree that the couple "have" one son of the union (Obama Jr), born in KENYA.) If true, this will be a blockbuster revelation, recored on a legal document. We will see. ------------------------------------------------------------- IP: 98.206.74.240 Dec 31st, 2008 - 4:27 PM Re: URGENT: PLEASE BROADCAST THIS EVERYWHERE Ed Hale has announced that the Divorce Decree of ObamaSr and Dunham will be posted on Friday, January 2nd. Tonight at 7:45 pm cst Ed will be on with Bobby and...

Updated nation wide poll on "Do you think there is any merit to the controversy surrounding Barack Obama's citizenship?"... this poll originally came out 12/5/08 and looked dramatically different than now!!!!

Ed Hale of Plains Radio has secured a copy of the Dunham/Obama divorce decree as promised. He has registered this at the courthouse and has turned the document over to lawyers who are reported to be happy and enthused over the contents. This is the first page. This is all that can be divulged at this time as those who have seen the decree are sworn to silence. You may hear information about it tonight on Ed's plainsradio show.

Pick up the morning newspaper or turn on the evening newscast and the story that you’re bound to see is that America is facing an economic recession of historic proportions. Consumer spending is down and unemployment is up, but there is one item that Americans are rushing to buy -- guns. Why? Well, as NRA-certified instructor Joel Rosenberg told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “It’s the Obama effect.” Gun sales have skyrocketed ever since it became clear that Barack Obama was going to win the White House and be able to govern with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. The...

The Barack Hussein Obama Sr. / Stanley Ann divorce papers are in the posstion of Ed Hale and PlainsRadio.com. I.O. will likely be making numerous updates in this posting, as the afternoon and evening proceed. 2:25pm CT - Ed Hale has his FedEx package and has made sure that among others, attorney, Stephen Pidgeon is getting a copy. PlainsRadio.com is to post it for public view at 8pm CT, tonight. Ed and others will be 'net audio-wise, too, as previously mentioned.

Please see link for the current list of states which have submitted their Certificates of Vote for the 2008 Presidential Election. To date, 24 states have reported: Alabama (9) McCain (R) Arizona (10) McCain (R) Colorado (9) Obama (D) Delaware (3) Obama (D) Georgia (15) McCain (R) Illinois (21) Obama (D) Indiana (11) Obama (D) Kentucky (8) McCain (R) Maine (4) Obama (D) Michigan (17) Obama (D) Mississippi (6) McCain (R) New Hampshire (4) Obama (D) New York (31) Obama (D) North Carolina (15) Obama (D) Ohio (20) Obama (D) Oklahoma (7) McCain (R) Pennsylvania (21) Obama (D) Rhode Island...

First off, the biggest *** - kissing media refers to Michelle Obama as a "distinguished attorney" despite the fact that Michelle Obama has been "inactive" since 1993. Click Here: ARDC/Lawyer Search ARDC - Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of ILlinois. Click to enlarge image. Everyday another Obama skeleton comes out of the closet. This ARDC is for disciplinary reasons...not for those volunteering to stop practicing. It is COURT ORDERED...not "Michelle Obama ordered." Their website is very clear about their function and why they step in. (See below)

Today, as I methodically break New Year's resolutions the way politicians break their promises of reform, readers get their writes. Because I am supposed to be on vacation this week, it's about time you readers did your fair share of the work around here, allowing me to recline on a couch, watch football and gulp down buckets of aspirin. OK, Kass, what are you paying Gov. Rod Blagojevich to give you material for your columns? Or is he the gift that keeps on giving? —Sue S. Dear Sue: As our esteemed governor has famously said, this thing is "bleeping golden."...

Illinois is the laughing stock of America and even the world, but you can’t say it just happened because of the scandal engulfing our governor, Rod Blagojevich. It’s been that way for a long time. The difference is that today, many in Illinois politics, Republicans and Democrats, are exploiting it for their own selfish agendas. The people declaring that Illinois is the nation’s laughing stock the most are in fact politicians, elected and government officials from Illinois, all seeking some personal advantage in the Blagojevich scandal. But the real challenge we face is not what the rest of America thinks...

Grab your wallets! Blago's guy Roland Burris has a history of advocating payments to black Americans as "reparations for slavery. Internet sleuth .... has unearthed (info) from the years 2000, 2004, and 2005 in which senator-designate Roland Burris argued for such payments. . (((NOTE: LINKED ARTICLE CANNOT BE POSTED HERE))) . I wonder if in his scheme Barack Obama qualifies for reparations? His ancestors were never slaves in the United States, though it is claimed they probably owned slaves in Kenya. Just wondering. Is this hope and change we can believe in?

let's start a Free Blago! Club!

Blagojevich disregards Obama’s list of candidates By Bob Cusack Posted: 01/01/09 03:10 PM [ET] Barack Obama believed that seven candidates were “highly qualified” to succeed him in the Senate, but the two people Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has asked to fill the vacant seat weren’t on the president-elect’s list. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) said he recently discussed filling Obama’s seat with Blagojevich’s staff, but turned down the embattled governor’s offer. He told the Chicago Sun-Times, “I just decided there was too much turmoil, too much disagreement. It was something I wanted to do, but I said I would not...

Most of us do not have the confidence in the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) to cleanly uphold the constitution and declare Obama ineligible. This isn't because of a conspiracy, it's because they fear race riots and political consequences. The fact that they subsume to this fear is a direct affront to their original JOB, which is to uphold the constitution without political calculus. That's why we give them lifetime employment. What we should explore here are the various ways that the SCOTUS might be Solomonic in their decision and split the baby by allowing zer0bama to keep his...

LifeNews.com Note: Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. His latest book is The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand (Ignatius Press, 2007).   The common mantra of pro-choice politicians is that they do not favor abortion. Quite the contrary, they want abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare.” Pro-choicers generally hold to this position; thus, as they are quick to note, they are not “pro-abortion” but “pro-choice.”I've personally tried to respect that formulation, and typically refrain from referring to pro-choicers as “pro-abortion.” That...

...he holds the rest of us, the average American, in contempt. He only cared about us in terms of gaining votes–he wanted to be president so badly, and only seeks the office because of the power he will wield. And what about his past? Barack Obama has not released his birth certificate, university records, or medical records. Why so much secrecy? I believe he is hiding something from us...