"Georgia on my mind"

You can almost get to love lawyers, er, so long as they are 'over there'!  In Georgia there is a delicious little legal squabble going on in which those stalwarts, who cling to their belief that Obama is not an American citizen because he has failed to produce convincing legal proof of it, are pressing a case in the Georgia courts to have him struck off the list of presidential candidates in Georgia unless he furnishes proof of his citizenship.  Faced with this naughtiness, Obama and his legal team tried haughtiness!  They simply ignored the court proceedings and the subpoena which had demanded their presence.  Instead they simply wrote asking the judge to quash the proceeding on the grounds that it was "baseless, costly and unproductive" and that no President of the United States should be forced to attend a State court.  The judge indicated that they might be right but unless they offered him some legal precedents to support their assertion the case would continue.  Obama's lawyers simply went over the head of the court by writing to the Georgia Secretary of State asking him to put a stop to matters.  He replied that under State law he had no power to intervene and warned Obama and his legal team that they would ignore the legal proceedings at their peril.  Meanwhile, the disrespectful Georgian hayseed who had the infernal nerve to challenge a POTUS has now gone further and filed a "motion for contempt of court" against one, Barack Hussein Obama.  Gotta love those Yanks - and their lawyers!

My thanks to The American Thinker.

 

Comments

[dearieme]

It's quite bonkers to have Constitutional requirements for Presidents but no procedure set up to test for them. Apparently they've already had one President who was possibly a Canadian.

There seem to be two different issues. (i) Is his belatedly published birth certificate a fake? If so there's essentially no evidence that he was born in the USA and therefore, given the other circumstances, he's not a natural born citizen. (ii) Some people argue a different case, namely that even if he was born in Hawaii, his father's nationality precludes his being a natural born citizen.

You'd have thought that there should be precedents enough to settle the second argument easily; the first one should surely turn on scientific evidence like many other forgery cases.

[dearieme]

Here you are.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_president_Chester_A_Arthur_born_in_Canada

[dearieme]

And there's more, but this'll do I think.

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/urgent-historical-breakthrough-proof-chester-arthur-concealed-he-was-a-british-subject-at-birth/

[JK]

Don't know whether you've read this DM - H/T Malcolm over on Waka:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/another_look_at_obamas_origins.html

[David Duff]

Thanks, chaps, and I fear this story 'will run and run'!