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.A similar claim by conspiracy nutter Philip Berg, a self-professed Democrat and 9/11 troofer, isn't going to succeed where this one failed.
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.
Of course, it too will be rolled into the conspiracy that Barack Obama is somehow not a US citizen. Just you watch.
UPDATE:
The Washington Post claims that right wing blogs were hot to these kinds of claims and that they were outraged when Donofrio's claims were rejected by Souter:
Right-wing blogs were outraged when Justice David H. Souter denied Donofrio's petition for an injunction, and left-wing blogs smelled trouble when Justice Clarence Thomas referred the matter to the full court for consideration.Care to name one? Most I've come across have denounced these claims as nothing more than baseless accusations, especially in light of the documents provided by the State of Hawaii and a contemporaneous birth announcement in Hawaii of Obama's birth.
Can you say media bias? I know you can, but that also goes to why the newspapers and media outlets are in deep trouble in the country.
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