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Just to stick a fork in the overdone bird that is the Donofrio v. Wells, Secretary of State of New Jersey case, which brought seemingly countless cuckoos out of the woodwork and into our comment threads, SCOTUSblog brings confirmation that the high court has indeed allowed the Obama citizenship case to die a quiet death.
In a brief order, the Court, as expected, turned aside a New Jersey voter’s plea for the Court to determine if President-elect Barack Obama was qualified to run for the White House — that is whether he was a “natural born citizen.” The stay application came in the case of Donofrio v. Wells, Secretary of State of New Jersey (08A407). This marked the second time in recent weeks for the Court to turn aside such a challenge; the first came on Nov. 3, in Berg v. Obama (08A391). The Court, in neither instance, gave reasons for turning down the applications. In neither case did the Court seek a reponse, thus indicating it had little interest in either or had found them to be completely without merit.Special thanks to all of our regular readers who greeted the glassy-eye hordes who visited our site last week with a wink and a smile.
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Thank goodness. Those cuckoos had some bizarre definitions of "natural born citizen" that never came up in my high school civics class.
Special thanks to all of our regular readers who greeted the glassy-eye hordes who visited our site last week with a wink and a smile.
Try "the finger" and "the gas face."
Chupacabra or not, he's my president.
This is the worst miscarriage of justice since I lost the 3rd Grade class treasurer election to a known member of the Bavarian Illuminati. And no sooner does that happen then my plan to replace fluoridated tap water with bottled gets axed. Coincidence? I think NOT.
anything to keep the galloping hordes away from our lucky charms, sommer.
This is what you critics who won't be satisfied with this are failing to grasp:
Obama HAS produced his birth certificate. He has to GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS in Hawaii (who are Republican) who have verified its authenticity. That's all he needs to do. End of story.
No court of law is asking him to produce it since HIGH-RANKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS have verified it. So who exactly is he hiding it from? You? A truck driver in Kentucky? Who the fuck are you to ask for his birth certificate? Did you ask for Bush's?
Furthermore, Obama's camp produced the ACTUAL birth certificate to a NON-partisan political group Factcheck.org which is highly respected across the board. You can go and see it for yourself. Or would that prove you're wrong and you can't handle it?
If I get hired for a job and someone outside of HR asks to see my documentation, that is an invasion of privacy. I don't have to show it to them. As long as government officials and the officials that hired me have seen it, it's not in your right to see it.
Anyone not satisfied with this need to just come and say it:
You can't handle the fact that he's different.
Time to grab some popcorn and sit back and enjoy the ensuing flame war.
Where's yer messiah now? Myar, see? Myar.
GOOFBALLS! HOPPED UP ON GOOFBALLS!
Every time I see "SCOTUS" I think I'm reading "SCROTUM". What would Freud say? Is this happening to anyone else?
MonkeyErotica, the Bavarian Illuminati are the poo. Take a big whiff. Fnord.
Wow, glad I missed that shitshow of a thread.
And yonas, I'm definitely with you there.
Any guesses as to what the SCROTUM acronym stands for?
No, I totally get SCOTUS/Scrotum mixed up too.
@majapa: I'm sure Monkey can come up with something.
As to yonas, no, I can't say that's the first thing that pops into my head.
Furthermore, Obama's camp produced the ACTUAL birth certificate to a NON-partisan political group Factcheck.org which is highly respected across the board.
Ah, but if you check the election results, Obama must have commandingly won the non-partisan electorate, so naturally factcheck.org would be biased in his favor. For a truly unbiased account, you need to go to the Michigan Militia or the Scientologists or Dr. Blizzard and the Avalanchoids or whatever group these nuts unscrewed themselves from.
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
@majapa: no way, that thread was so full of Win, I needed a cigarette when it was over. Damn smoking ban...
sadly, I think I used to have that same jacket that the center person in the photo is wearing. And it was probably from Wal Mart.
However, even in my pre-DC, Wal Mart-shopping days, I never would have attended such a silly protest.
If we're going to really take a hard look at this, I think we have to look at the meaning of the words, "natural born citizen." Nothing in those words requires birth in the US. It seems to me as long as he was not delivered via c-section, we're good.
Seriously, though, the job of determining eligibility for the office falls on the Electoral College. If they decide, for any reason, that any candidate is not qualified, they can elect someone else. Once they make that decision, though, it is not the place of the Supreme Court to second guess them. In the same way, qualifications of members of Congress are determined by each house, and there is no appeal to the Supreme Court.
So the nutcases have until their state's electors meet on Monday to convince them that there is a problem.
Of course, Dick Cheney is responsible for safeguarding the Electoral College votes until they are opened and counted on January 8. Who knows what could happen between Monday and then?
I can't wait until this finally goes away forever.
Funny, I used to remember a time when dissent was patriotic. I guess that was the "change" Obama was talking about: no dissent and no questions for the Holy One or his cultists will attack you.
I agree, dissent is patriotic. Funny it wasn't considered patriotic over the past 8 years by a large section of the country. I sure hope those people aren't fair-weather supporters of Commander-in-Chiefs.
Also, there's dissent and then there's moonbat conspiracy theories that have been repeatedly debunked. All you have to say is that Jerome Corsi believes this stuff, then you know exactly how whack it is.
Did they determine if Obama has a SCROTUM or not? I'm confused.
@Wizzyliz: Well done.
So I guess a "cultist" is now anyone who points out the faults in criticism of Obama, no matter how irrational or dubious that criticism may have been. And filing lawsuits that attempt to create bizarre new readings of the Constitution to disqualify a major party's presidential candidate counts as "dissent." Thanks for keeping us up to date on Our Changing Language, HCE.
How can he be a natural born citizen? Obama is too divine to even be from this world!
As soon as Obama takes office, he must be impeached so the shitpants Connecticut-bred son of a "Texan" can get back into the White House and keep fucking shit up on behalf of all us regular folk.
Wow you stop reading DCist for a couple weeks and the place gets invaded by tinfoil hat wearing nutters.
yonas - SCOTUS always has and always will equal SCROTUM in my mind.
Does SCOTUS exhibit Vast Deference to the Chief Justice?
jakers: welcome to dcist. make sure you're actually referring to commenters by their actual pen name, not a poor approximation.
thank you!
"Obama was talking about: no dissent and no questions for the Holy One or his cultists will attack you."
Poor lad, getting attacked by the cultists simply for voicing an unpopular argument.
Here, let me try: Barack Obama is not just a Muslim, but an extraterrestrial Muslim hellbent on conquering the Earth and claiming it for the caliphate of the planet Xoron.
Try and refute THAT one, cultists!
@14thandYou Yeah, but you forgot the most important part. That Obama is a chocolate dipped cinamonny chupacabra who, when he ascends the throne shall bring the key that will unlock the gate to his holy of holy, Gozer. Alas, if only Aykroyd could of been elected VP we would see the end of days covered in marshmallow goodness.
Marshmallows and chocolate... I'll bring the graham crackers! And, foil to make hats! This is going to be the most delicious Inauguration ever!
SCROTUM, schmotum; I kept reading "natural born citizen" as "natural born killers." Must be the Nyquil talking.
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whoops.
For a truly unbiased account, you need to go to the Michigan Militia or the Scientologists or Dr. Blizzard and the Avalanchoids or whatever group these nuts unscrewed themselves from.
But that group is still biased, just in the opposite direction, but I see what you're saying.
I wonder if the conspiracy theorists ever thought to find a primary source of information. Well, I guess they may be too far down the rabbit hole to be reasoned with at all.
But that group is still biased, just in the opposite direction, but I see what you're saying.
No, they're all unbiased sources, as opposed to those wildly pro-Obama partisans like the Republican Party of Hawaii or Antonin Scalia. That is, they're unbiased unless they conclude that there's no reason not to believe that Obama isn't eligible to be President, in which case they're clearly part of the Conspiracy.
I wonder if the conspiracy theorists ever thought to find a primary source of information.
Primary sources of information are also part of the Conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists are the kind of people who'd respond to cogito ergo sum with "that's just what they want you to think," and who make adherents of the omphalos hypothesis look like Kantian rationalists.