Tiny crowd prays Supreme Court will invalidate Obama presidency

[Bucky]

Me? I'm just praying for a nice cold winter rain...

Tiny crowd prays Supreme Court will invalidate Obama presidency
by Nick Juliano
Friday December 5, 2008

A small but determined band of conservative protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court Friday morning to pray the justices would invalidate Barack Obama's election.

The court was deciding whether it would hear oral arguments in Donofrio v. Wells, which argues that Obama's placement on the New Jersey presidential election ballot was invalid because he is not a natural born citizen. The justices are expected to dismiss the case.

Discussions with several of the 18 demonstrators who gathered despite freezing temperatures revealed disjointed, confusing and increasingly conspiratorial reasons for their presence. Several alleged varying degrees of a coverup to hide the circumstances surrounding Obama's birth; none were willing to accept the much simpler explanation that Obama was in fact a natural-born citizen eligible to be president.

If, as everyone expects, the Supreme Court decides not to hear the case challenging Obama's citizenship, it's unlikely this crowd will be satisfied. The citizenship skeptics may become the 9/11-was-an-inside-job crowd of the Obama era.

The similarities between the skepticism movements should hardly be surprising. As conspiracy-theory chronicler David Weigle notes in Slate, the Philadelphia lawyer who filed the first lawsuit questioning Obama's citizenship previously went to court on behalf of 9/11 Truthers.

The essence of the case being appealed to the Supreme Court, Donofrio v. Wells, is that Obama does not meet the constitution's requirement that the president be a natural-born citizen because his Kenyan father was a British Citizen when Obama was born in 1961. Plaintiffs argue that Obama would have had dual US and British citizen when he was born, making him ineligible.

Roger Bredow, who traveled to Washington from Bethlehem, GA, helped organize the small protest. He said the case rests on an interpretation of Article II of the constitution and immigration laws written in 1790 and 1795.

He did acknowledge that citizenship laws had been substantially amended in the last two centuries. But, "The reason that you look at those is to determine the intent of the founding fathers," he said.

To be clear, the questions of Obama's birth have been roundly and convincingly debunked.

The citizenship questioners organized on fringe Web sites and through YouTube videos. Several questioned why the mainstream media wasn't covering their conspiracy-mongering.

Pete Anderson, a retiree from Springfield, VA, spun a theory involving "staged backpack nukes already in this country" that were somehow involved in preventing the media from reporting on Obama's citizenship.

"There is a theory -- as crazy as it may seem -- that we are now in a state of siege," Anderson said.

It was tough to follow Anderson's logic, and even fellow demonstrators thought it was too far out there.

"I didn't bring my tinfoil hat," Bredow ribbed, cutting into our interview.

The two demonstrators went on to bicker between themselves over the true reasons for the media's silence.

Have a great weekend, guys!

[muntrv]

1. Wow!! The morans gathered for something other than free beer!

[msanthrope]

2. Who is guarding the porta-potties???? n/t

[Seen the light]

3. .

[Historic NY]

4. Where did they find Uncle Tom?

no offense but do they really represent African-Americans.

[Bucky]

17. Ahem. A black man who disagrees with Obama (or common sense) isn't an "Uncle Tom"

The idea of equality includes the right to be politically wrong. It's called free will. There's an underlying racist assumption in you accusing a black man of being an Uncle Tom just because he has a conservative (or in this case "fucking insane") political philosophy.

[pecwae]

41. Can't he represent himself?

Believe it not the guy is an individual with his own thoughts and feelings. Why can't people of color be any political persuasion they feel is appropriate for them without being called names?

[zogtheobvious]

5. Yep, yer right, Pete!

Yep, yer right, Pete! Seems crazy all right, Pete! Are you off your meds, Pete?

Hey, let me introduce you to everyone! Pete, this is everyone. Everyone, this is Pete. Pete's a psycho douchebag, everyone! Only one thing you need to worry about... ammonia. Don't mention ammonia to Pete.

It makes him weird.

No, Pete... I wasn't talking to you... yes, I'm a citizen, Pete... yer freakin' me out, Pete...

(ok, friends don't let friends drink and post! )

[defendandprotect]

6. Clarence Thomas took this in and you can be sure ...

they're wondering if they can get away with another steal --

or what damage they can do to new administration ...

It's been 10 days and waiting for second shoe to drop --

Usually timebombs on weekends ...???

[jberryhill]

8. Timebombs on weekends?

Oh be for real.

Here's another pic of the protest:



The chemtrails alone will fix them.

[WeDidIt]

15. Dude, it was standard procedure

A writ of certiorari is presented to the appropriate justice for the district and is dismissed. The claimant then presents to another Justice. If that justice dismisses the claimant can go through the list of all the justices. Because of this, the second justice will generally take the writ to conference where it is reviewed by all justices at one time and is then denied. This effectively kills it.

Happens all the time. More than 800 writs of certiorari went to conference in the past eight years and just over 60 were accepted.

[defendandprotect]

22. OK ...encouraging ---

[WeDidIt]

24. Here's even more encouragement

There are numerous cases presented in conference. The vast majority are denied.

There are normally so few accepted that they release that list almost immediately on Fridays so the attorneys in the cases can immediately begin preparations.

The list of denied cases are so long that the court staff is given the weekend to compile the list for release on Mondays.

It's EXTREMELY rare for a case that is not listed in the accepted cases to not be listed in the denied cases the following Monday. That would mean the case was held over to the next conference. Usually this happens only because there were too many cases under consideration and the justices did not get tot eh case in question.

It is UNHEARD OF for a case that was nnot listed as accepted on Friday to be entered into the list the following Monday.

[muntrv]

7. Check out this post below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[snowbear]

Remember the assholes at Focus on the Family prayed for rain at our convention?

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And what happened?

The Democratic Convention had sunshine and perfect weather all four days....

...and the ugly thugs were hit with a category 4 hurricane during theirs!!

[Sophree]

37. lol

I had forgotten about that!

Oh, the irony. I'm a Christian myself- can't stand Dobson, Robertson, etc. They're complete hypocrites and frauds. Imagine- a person who professes to believe in God praying for catastrophe on one's POLITICAL opponents. It's so ridiculous and would be funny if they weren't such dangerous people.

As a believer, I took the whole thing as a good sign that we were going to win big on election day. And that God has a great sense of humor.

[JuniperLea]

9. I'm not sure why thunderbolts have gone out of favor with Gods...

I think the world is ready to see this time honored tradition come back into vogue. Cold rain? You're too kind.

[ACTION BASTARD]

10. Where is your god now? Kneel before Zod!

[regnaD kciN]

11. How would having "dual U.S and British" citizenships...

...mean Obama wasn't a "natural-born citizen" if a) one of his parents was a U.S. citizen and b) he was born in the U.S.?

[OswegoAtheist]

12. Duh!

Only liberul morans like us would even consider having sex with a furrinur! It's unnatural, like fluoride and diplomacy! Like that great hero of the Korean War, Maj. Frank Burns used to say, if she doesn't salute when you're done, turn her in!

Oswego "That's Major Ferret Face to you, Captain Pierce!" Atheist

[yardwork]

16. Scary foreign father - can't have that.

[axollot]

13. Doesn't that lot have a few 'roos' loose in the paddock! n/t

[WeDidIt]

14. I have a theory on why the media has ignored this issue...

[Bucky]

18. The facts have a well known left wing bias

[QueenOfCalifornia]

20. They, the unhinged,

can't accept the birth certificate you present...

Because it is a "copy"

Never mind that the U.S. State Department recognizes a "copy" as valid proof and will assign anyone who presents a "copy" of their birth certificate, a U.S. Passport.

[WeDidIt]

23. Yep, and when Obama requested a copy of his BC

The above is what they sent him.

Same holds true in most states. I know I have never seen, nor will I ever see, the "vault copy" of my BC. I have something similar to what Obama presneted and used it for my passport.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. Lord, as we are gathered here to bicker amongst ourselves...

May you hear our pleas and not chuckle audibly. Ramen.

[Occam Bandage]

21. "The two demonstrators went on to bicker between themselves."

[Two Sheds]

25. By far the most interesting thing in that article is...

the man Bredow's resort to the Constitution's original immigration and naturalization laws. Though he acknowledges that the laws have been amended, he thinks the important thing is "to determine the intent of the founding fathers."
We have got to do something about these "original intent" idiots.

[leftcoastlefty]

26. these goofballs have two choices. . .

1. Produce the Kenyan Birth Certificate

OR

2. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!

[scytherius]

28. lol Exactly. A variation on "you have to prove God exists. I don't have to prove he doesn't" n/t

nt

[grantcart]

27. And somewhere in America 18 Golf/Country Clubs are missing their night watchmen.

[pipi_k]

29. A nice cold winter rain...oh my, you're way nicer than I am...

I'll be praying for it to be raining blood and poisonous toads.

But only on them.

[and-justice-for-all]

30. Dear Freeptards...

GET A FUCKING LIFE.

[Window]

31. These people are certifiable.

[jberryhill]

33. You'd think that, but....

...each time they were certified crazy, they said the certificate was a forgery and filed a lawsuit.

[Window]

39. ROTFLMAO! Good one.

[Hokie]

32. Tiny being the operative word here

Tiny crowd, tiny brains, tiny grasp on reality.

[Jade Fox]

34. I'm glad that word was used.....

So often the media reports a few counter protesters with them same amount of attention they give the tens of thousands of protesters on the other side.

[mwb970]

38. How tiny can a crowd be and still be called a "crowd"?

If I stand around with a couple of friends on the street corner chatting, are we a "tiny crowd" too? I would think you need at least 50 people to be a "crowd", tiny or not.

[TrogL]

35. I've seen bigger crowds looking at a cute kitten

[lin_e65]

36. It's those Confederate Americans..again

Just stuck on the fact that it's the whites that rule and have title to the world. Never mind that they don't look around at the diversity. White is right. Get yer head outta yer (_!_)

[WinkyDink]

40. Oxymoron.

[racaulk]

42. Oxymoran.

[BeliQueen]

43. The real miracle would be if the freezing rain was localized...

...just to the area where they were praying, leaving the rest of the 93% of people in DC who voted for Barack Obama untouched.

[prostock69]

44. I'm glad all the praying worked out for ya! Good job!!

See, I've been praying really hard asking god to negate their prayers. And my prayers were answered!!! There is a god!!!
Another sad example of ignorance wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

[lelgt60]

45. Sometimes God says Fuck You!