By all credible accounts, Obama was born in Hawaii, to a woman who was certainly a natural U.S. citizen. That no one seemed to doubt this until after the election result, is telling.

Thus the fact that Obama’s biological father was born in Kenya is, frankly, not really important for the accusation at hand. Likewise on his step-father; Lolo Soetoro.

A kid born in the United States is a natural born citizen of the United Stats. Their parents may not be citizens, heck their parents can be space aliens from the planet Vulcan.

http://drorly.blogspot.com/2008/12/5th-obamagate-case-reaches-supreme.html

Monday, December 1, 2008
5th Obamagate case reaches the Supreme Court

5Th Obama case has reached the Supreme Court:
1. Philip J berg PA
2. Leo C Donofrio NJ
3. Chris Strunck NY
4. Cort Wrotnowski CT
5. Darrel Hunter TX
Cases from 15 more states are moving towards the Supreme Court.
We the People foundation has placed a full page add in the Chicago Tribune, Obama home turf demanding disclosure of birth certificate and all other pertinent documents.
More sabotage by the Supreme Court: Mr. Wrotnowski was told that his case was delayed by 7 days, because his Emergency Petition for Stay of Elections was forwarded to the Anthrax lab. Numerous phone calls were placed to the Supreme Court demanding answers, why was that Petition sent to the Anthrax lab, Mr. Wrotnowski is a law abiding citizen, a business owner, was never in trouble with the law. Why was his petition delayed by a week via sending it to the Anthrax lab. No response was received, no name of the clerk was given. These clerks are sabotaging anti Obama cases to put a foreigner in the White House, this is bordering on aiding and abetting treason. Please write to all 9 judges, let them know what is going on, demand to join all 5 cases currently in the Supreme Court, you can send them a copy of our Keyes v Bowen petition for Writ of Mandate as a supporting document. Currently I am working on filing a second case, representing another group of candidates, party officials, Certified Electors and Registered voters and I am assisting other attorneys all around the country, that are preparing similar actions and trying to match voters and electors in different states with attorneys that can represent them. Heartfelt thanks to Mr. Bob Stevens and Mrs. Lisa Ostella that have been working day and night and conducting research. I thank some 1700 supporters that have sent me e-mails and warm wishes. I was informed by plains radio that my interview with Joe Thunder was downloaded 20,000 times within 1 week. With a usual chain of 10 e-mail forwards per download, it means that some 200,000 heard this one of 6 interviews.
Please remember to write, e-mail, fax and keep calling all advertisers, sponsors and all your friends and relatives, ask all of them to boycott all the media outlets that are lying to the public, hiding the truth and are not disclosing the fact that Obama is not legally eligible to be the president. This media needs to feel, where it really hurts them, in their pockets.
God Bless all of you, Orly Taitz
Posted by Orly? at 6:34 PM

Docketed:
Lower Ct: Supreme Court of New Jersey
Case Nos.: (AM-0153-08T2 at the New Jersey Appellate Division without a docket number)

~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nov 3 2008 Application (08A407) for stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Souter.
Nov 6 2008 Application (08A407) denied by Justice Souter.
Nov 14 2008 Application (08A407) refiled and submitted to Justice Thomas.
Nov 19 2008 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of December 5, 2008.
Nov 19 2008 Application (08A407) referred to the Court by Justice Thomas.
Nov 26 2008 Supplemental brief of applicant Leo C. Donofrio filed. (Distributed)

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~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~Address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~Phone~~~
Attorneys for Petitioner:
Leo C. Donofrio P.O. Box 93
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
Party name: Leo C. Donofrio

It’ll be interesting to see if this gains any media coverage today or in the coming weeks.

This was also an issue during the Nixon administration, and I believe the solution was to lower the salary back to its earlier level — although that may not have met the Constitutional requirement — one designed to limit the ability of the executive to hire members of Congress.

Cf

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/is_clinton_barred_from_state_j.php

December 1, 2008
Clinton to Be Introduced as Part of Obama Security Team
By PETER BAKER
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will seal their rapprochement when he announces her nomination as his secretary of state, Democrats close to the process said Sunday.

Mrs. Clinton, once considered the Democratic frontrunner for president, is flying to Chicago to appear together with the man who beat her for the nomination, a person close to Mrs. Clinton said. The sight of them together, as she joins his administration, would have been thought unlikely just weeks ago, but Mr. Obama concluded she would strengthen his team.

At a time when the country remains engaged in two wars and still faces the threat of international terrorism, Mrs. Clinton will anchor a national security team with more of a centrist character than some of Mr. Obama’s liberal supporters once hoped to see. In addition to her, Democrats said, Mr. Obama plans to announce that he is keeping Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who has run the Pentagon for the last two years, and will appoint Gen. James L. Jones, a retired Marine commandant, as national security adviser.

Rounding out his national security team, Mr. Obama will name former Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. as his choice for attorney general and Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona as secretary of homeland security, the Democrats said. Mr. Obama also will nominate Susan E. Rice, his foreign policy adviser and a former assistant secretary of state, as ambassador to the United Nations, a job that will be given cabinet rank, as it had under President Bill Clinton.

The Obama and Clinton teams have been preparing the ground for this announcement for days. Mr. Clinton, who has extensive business and philanthropic interests around the world, agreed to a nine-point plan covering disclosure, vetting and other areas to avoid potential conflicts of interest, including for the first time the release of more than 200,000 donors to his foundation by the end of the year. That goes beyond the requirements of existing law.

The Obama team has planned for a while to unveil the national security team after the Thanksgiving holiday, but the timing took on additional urgency after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The attacks, which killed at least 180, including six Americans, offered a stark reminder that for all of Mr. Obama’s focus on fixing the economy, national security can capture a president’s attention at any moment.

Reports of the selections drew praise from a retiring Republican elder. “The triumvirate of Gates, Clinton and Jones to lead Obama’s national security team instills great confidence at home and abroad,” said Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, a former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, “and further strengthens the growing respect for the president-elect’s courage and ability to exercise sound judgment in selecting the best and the brightest to implement our nation’s security policies.”.

While the choices have generated praise across the aisle, some critics have pointed out that the team represents experience rather than the change Mr. Obama promised on the campaign trail. All of his top choices served in either the Clinton or Bush administration.

At a news conference last week, Mr. Obama said he was trying to “combine experience with fresh thinking” an added that “the vision for change comes” from him.

See 14th Amdt, Sec. 1. first sentence — All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Was Obama’s father OR Obama *subject to the jurisdiction* of the United States when Obama was born — WHEREVER Obama was born ???

Natural born parents >>> natural born kids

Naturalized parents >>> natural born kids

ALL other parents (i.e. ALL foreign folks) >>> NOT natural born or naturalized kids (at best can become naturalized U.S.A. citizens — see Guv. S. in CA (born in Austria) and Guv. G. in MI (born in Canada).

See also Art. III, Sec. 2 — NO mention of any *dual* citizenship stuff.

NOT an infinite number of combinations.

The *natural born* stuff has to do with AT BIRTH ***ALLEGIANCE*** to a regime — from feudal times — i.e. the Dark Age after the fall of the Roman Empire in Europe.

Sorry — ONLY natural born folks are allowed to be Commander- in- Chief of the military forces of the U.S.A. — for very obvious historical reasons.

See the PBS Monarchy series — all sorts of murders, treason trials and civil wars in England for centuries about exactly who had the best claim to become a king or queen in England (after the incumbent died naturally or by murder/war) — who’s your daddy and mommy stuff.