US court probes Obama's birth certificate
A U.S. lawyer, of Lebanese origin, has filed a claim with the Supreme Court challenging President-elect Barack Obama's presidency, citing suspicions over his birth certificate, a Saudi newspaper reported on Friday.
Somehow I have my doubts anything is ever going to come of this, regardless of the merits of the case... |
The people pushing these cases are for the most part Troofers and wingnuts of various types. | Joseph Farah argued that Obama does not have a birth certificate to prove that he was born an American--as opposed to being naturalized--which might contradict the U.S. constitution, the London-based al-Hayat reported.
Farah alleges that Obama was not born in Hawaii but in Mombasa, Kenya and has gathered more than 45,000 signatures to petition constitutional authorities to force Obama to present his original birth certificate to make sure he is suitable for the presidency before Jan.20.
According to article 2, section 1 of the American constitution "No person except a natural born Citizen...shall be eligible to the Office of President" effectively excluding naturalized citizens.
The Lebanese Christian lawyer--who heads an anti-Arab and Islam website--has previously launched a campaign against former president Bill Clinton through a series of news features over the suicide of the White House lawyer Fence Foster in 1993.
Posted by: Fred 2008-12-07 |