1. If Obama has a duly certified birth certificate authenticating that he was indeed born to a US Citizen and is therefrore a US Citizen, and,
2. If a copy of the birth certificate is available and capable of proving to be completely authentic, then
3. Whey doesn't Obama, his lawyers, and the Democratic National Committee agree to produce the document by October 15th, 2008, as ordered by Judge Berg?
The answer, believe it or not, is one of the following:
1. The birth certificate attesting to Obama's status as a citizen of the US is not authentic.
2. If authentic, the certificate proves that Obama was born not in the US to a citizen of the US but to a citizen of another country therefore demonstrating that Obama is not a citizen of the US and not qualified to run for the highest office in the land,
3. Or both Obama and the DNC do not believe that they are required to prove anything about Obama other than the fact that he is the Democratic candidate for the Presidency whether properly vetted or not.
It will be interesting to see how this situation plays out. So far, the MSM'S of the world have not even hinted that a potential problem exists.
But that same MSM loudly, and falsely, proclaims in today's headlines that Sarah Palen is guilty of an abuse of power. Witness today's headlines in the Chicago Tribune
Probe finds governor violated ethics laws in trooper case
By Charles Piller and Kim Murphy | Tribune Newspapers
October 11, 200
ANCHORAGE — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee, violated ethics laws and abused her power as governor in pressing to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, an independent legislative investigation concluded Friday.
In a report whose release was the subject of a high-stakes political showdown that went all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court, investigator Stephen Branchflower concluded that Palin herself communicated her displeasure with the trooper, Mike Wooten, and also allowed her husband, Todd, to apply pressure to have Wooten fired.
The report also found that Palin's displeasure that Wooten had not been fired was "a likely contributing factor" in the firing of Walt Monegan, the former public safety commissioner, who testified he had received repeated communications from Palin and her husband over Wooten.
However, the Wooten issue was "not the sole reason" Monegan was fired, the report said. Palin, who has been fighting off allegations of wrongdoing in the so-called Troopergate case since her selection as John McCain's running mate, has insisted Monegan was fired because he ignored her demands to cut budgets in his department.
Todd Palin has admitted he advocated forcefully to have Wooten removed because of what have been described as inappropriate actions, including driving under the influence of alcohol, shooting a moose without a permit, threatening Palin's father and giving his son a slight jab with a Taser.
The report found, however, that this intervention was an inappropriate violation of state ethics laws.
"The evidence supports the conclusion that Gov. Palin, at the least, engaged in 'official action' by her inaction, if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired," the report said, adding also that "there is evidence of her active participation." The report found that Palin "knowingly, as that term is defined in the [ethics] statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the governor's office and the resources of the governor's office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."
This activity violated the state Ethics Act, the report said, which holds that public officials have a duty of public trust that prevents them from attempting to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action.
"In order to violate the ethics law, there has to be some personal gain, usually financial," said Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein. "Mr. Branchflower has failed to identify any financial gain."
Branchflower, a former Anchorage prosecutor, also dismissed the Palins' assertions that they feared Wooten because of threats they said he made. "Such claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palins' real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family related reasons," he wrote.
Twelve members of the legislature's 14-member Legislative Council, the interim body that meets when the Legislature is not in session, deliberated in closed session over the findings for most of the day before voting unanimously to release the 263-page document publicly. One member voted by telephone.
Branchflower investigated the charges for six weeks, interviewing 19 people, after he was hired by the Joint Legislative Council.
Several Republican legislators had launched a legal effort to halt the inquiry, which they said had become tainted by politics after Palin's nomination.
But even the eight Republicans on the council supported the report's release, though many emphasized they were voting to make it public, not in endorsement of its findings.
"I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at it with a very jaundiced eye, and to realize there's much more in it than just the one-page findings," said Sen. Gary Stevens, a Republican.
The McCain-Palin campaign has thrown its support behind a separate inquiry being carried out by the state personnel board, not yet completed. They agreed with the contention of the Republican legislators who filed the suit that the current report was bound to be politically biased.
"The Palins make no apologies for wanting to protect their family and wanting to bring attention to the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge and abusing the workers' compensation system," Palin's campaign said in a 21-page analysis of the inquiry distributed before the report's release.
Monegan said Friday that the report made him feel "relieved a little bit that my gut feeling of why I was fired was to some degree validated."
Los Angeles Times; Tribune news services contributed to this report. |
