Zach Jones is reporting that potential electors of the Electoral College are now filing action against Obama today.
Excerpt:
The recent Lawsuit in Washington State demanding their Secretary of State to vet the citizenship credentials of Barack Obama has spawned a slew of similar suits with new lawsuits filed and/or prepared in WA, FL, NC, CO, CA, OH, FL, CT, GA, TX, MI. Related lawsuits HI, US District.
In another unrelated action, though also aimed at forcing Obama to release proof or step down, 24 potential Electoral College electors are filing action Monday morning in court also demanding proof. A call is herein being issued to any elector in any state, especially democrat electors who would like to join that effort. Electors interested in adding their name to this lawsuit can contact Mr. Marquis who will put you in contact with the attorney handling that case.
I am curious to know which side of the political aisle the "24 potential electors" are on? Also, if nothing is done about the birth certificate situation, could some of the Democrat electors end up defecting to McCain?
Also see Peoples Passions.org
There are many people on the Dem side that think that the Obama birth certificate controversy is over. Apparently, it's not.
Citizen Wells blog led me to America's Right - which has a long and detailed post about Obama's grandmother in Kenya stating that she was present at his birth in Kenya. Another grandson (see transcript at link) tried to cover for her and claimed, "No, no, no - He was born in the United States."
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In that conversation, Mr. Shuhubia and one grandson of Ms. Sarah Obama acted as Swahili translators, and as I talked to and questioned Ms. Obama, they would translate what I said to her in Swahili, and then they would translate her Swahili responses to me in English. Ms. Obama can fluently speak Swahili in her native dialect, but cannot read or write. In the ensuing conversation, I asked Ms. Obama specifically, “Were you present when your grandson Barack Obama was born in Kenya?” This was asked to her in translation twice, and both times she specifically replied, “Yes”. Though, some few younger relatives, including her grandson doing the translating, have obviously been versed to counter such facts with the common purported information from the American news media that Obama was born in Hawaii, Ms. Sarah Hussein Obama was very adamant that her grandson, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, was born in Kenya, and that she was present and witnessed his birth in Kenya, not the United States. When Ms. Obama’s grandson attempted to counter his grandmother’s clear responses to the question, verifying the birth of Senator Obama in Kenya, I asked her grandson, how she could be present at Barack Obama’s birth if the Senator was born in Hawaii, but the grandson would not answer the question, instead he repeatedly tried to insert that, “No, No, No. He was born in the United States!” But during the conversation, Ms. Sarah Hussein Obama never changed her reply that she was in deed present when Senator Barack Obama was born in Kenya. A transcript [Note: see this at link] of this taped interview is attached as Exhibit “6”.
The author of that blog states that he does not like this ordeal one bit. However, he also feels that it is important not to suppress information. He ends his article with a "we report, you decide" attitude.
I have to admit that it bothers me that the Hawaiian health department official took action to seal Obama's birth records. If there was nothing wrong, why not just release them to the public so that all speculation could end?
One commenter at America's Right blog sums it up quite well:
Anonymous said...
Hawaiian officials admit withholding Obama’s original Birth Certificate
Posted by Israel Insider on November 1, 2008 at 11:30am
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Now it’s pretty apparent why Barack Obama made his sudden, last minute visit to Honolulu. It wasn’t Granny’s health problems that interested him but Hawaii’s Health Department.
The strategy may have backfired. A statement by Hawaiian officials Friday that they have seen but won’t release an “original” birth certificate that has never been released raises more questions than it answers. It undercuts the indignant claims of Obama spokesmen and supporters that the “birth certificate” has been published for months, and the ridicule and claims of “smear” that the Obama camp has made against anyone claiming otherwise.
Image: the “certification of live birth” claimed by Obama campaign as his “birth certificate”
According to an AP report, Hawaii Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday that she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.
But they won’t say one word about what’s on it.
Conspicuously, Hawaiian officials refuse to confirm that the information on the “original” certificate conforms to what has appeared on the “Certification of Live Birth” produced in 2007 that has so far been passed off as original by the Obama “Fight the Smears” site (here) and the Annenberg-backed site FactCheck.org (here). The latter dedicated a photoshoot to examining in pornographic detail a computer-generated facsimile that may bear no relation to the original document that the State of Hawaii now admits holding.
Can anyone smell “red herring”?
All of the obfuscation, which has been going on for more than four months, begs the question that the Obama campaign and its media supporters have steadfastly refused to answer: why won’t the original birth certificate be released?
Why can’t the Obama campaign do as the McCain campaign did, and release the original, typewritten document that the State of Hawaii, finally and in the last days before the election, admits exists in its “vaults”? What could be so damaging or contradictory that Obama has felt the need to keep hidden all these years and has created elaborate cover-ups to put forward computer-abstracted certification of live certificate instead of the original birth certificate?
Fukino says that no state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama’s birth certificate be handled differently. But state officials, including Lingle’s office, have consistently refused media requests for the release of the document, saying that only Obama himself, or a close family number, was authorized to have access to the “original” certificate. She says state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.
Apparently that does not include the American People.
And yet Obama claimed in his memoir Dreams from my Father that he had in his possession his birth certificate. Unless the document has been “lost,” he could publish the original without visiting grandma in Honolulu.
israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hawaiian-officials-admit
Something doesn't smell right. And, the fact that lawsuits are increasing and electors are questioning all of this just one day before the election should highly concern all Americans.
HT's:
ZachJonesIsHome
Citizen Wells
Americas Right
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Update: Also see Doubts persist about Obama birth certificate - Considerable evidence still points to candidate's birth in Kenya
Update: Video of Obama's Kenyan grandmother stating in her native language that Obama was "born (in) this village."
Update: Also see What is the Deal on this Birth Certificate - The constitution demands “natural born” so as to mitigate the possibility of “divided loyalties.”