Here's what will happen tomorrow at the SCOTUS RE Obama

[cali]

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"...the Justices will meet for a routine conference to deal with the cert petitions. This case almost certainly won't even be specifically mentioned, but simply added to the long list of "denials" that issue. There won't be four votes to grant cert, much less five votes to grant a stay. An order to that effect will issue Monday or Tuesday. There's no strangeness, no shennanigans--just standard court procedure. Stop freakin' out, folks."

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/4/10356/4736/960/669237

[Lerkfish]

1. in a normal world, yes.

unfortunately, with this current administration, we've been living in bizarro world.

[cali]

6. no, really. this is NOT something to worry about.

There's nothing remotely unusual about Thomas referring the cases to conference.

[Blarch]

23. Jeeeesh.

How often does the SC stop the counting of votes in an election and appoint a President ?

[SpiralHawk]

13. Oh noes - you's is riGhT aBouT rEpubiKon biZaRo woRlD

me, U, not trust nothing if it got greezy republiKon fingers on it.

[Lerkfish]

21. lol! me am laughing at U

me am happy to see the humor.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

2. It doesn't even matter. Obama has already given us his birth certificate.

It's beyond pathetic that the Freepers are pursuing this.


It is entertaining though because it makes them look like the idiots they are.

[nxylas]

3. I almost wish the Supremes *would* issue a writ of e coli or whatever it's called

That way, Obama would respond by producing the same state-certified document he posted on his website and the Supreme Court would have to publicly declare that it was legally valid. When they chuck the case out, as they almost inevitably will, it'll just add more fuel to the wingers' fire, with them whining for the next 4-8 years that he has never produced the certificate. Then again, delusional people can tie anything into their delusions, so it probably won't make much difference.

[Jim Lane]

7. OP is right (denial of cert); you're right (that may not be the best thing)

I agree with you that we will be hearing about this for four or eight years.

Someone on Free Republic suggested that it could be brought up as soon as anyone is adversely affected by a statute signed into law by President Obama. That person would argue in court that the law was invalid. I don't deny that some desperate defense lawyer will probably give it a try, but it has even less chance than the current crop of cases.

[nxylas]

8. Have you heard their rationale for why the media is "covering up" this HUGH story?

It's because when the Fairness Doctrine is brought back, all the media outlets that covered it would be clapped in irons or something :wtf:

[Jim Lane]

16. Some of them have an alternative theory.

The unnamed foreigners who made hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to Obama, thereby enabling him to buy the election, have also used their financial clout to silence the MSM.

[zbdent]

10. the writ of e coli was produced

12/12/2000 ...

[Window]

22. LOL! Exactly.

n/t

[Number23]

18. A response from the Supremes would be better than a "writ of e coli"

LOL @ "writ of e coli"

I think that you are absolute right. The Freeper fools who have wrapped their fading dreams of (what??) around Obama not being a citizen would be hard pressed to let this story go even if the ghost of Obama's mother rose from the grave and signed an affidavit that her son is a U.S. citizen before Jesus Christ himself.

I think it would be ideal if one of the Supremes after this idiotic case has been dismissed actually takes a minute or two and explains WHY it's been dismissed. A sentence that says something like "Obama has been declared eligible for president under the laws of this land. Case dismissed. Regarding the next matter..." would be perfect.

[nxylas]

24. ("what??") appears to be President Biden in the real world

However, I think the Freepers genuinely believe that if Obama is declared ineligible then that means that the Republicans really won the election. Since they have little use for the Constitution, apart from the 2nd Amendment (and possibly the 10th), they don't appear to have bothered their beautiful minds with finding out how it works.

[Betsy Ross]

4. It just amazes me how stupid some folks are.

I just never get over it. Need I state the obvious that President-Elect Barack Obama would never have reached this state if there was even the slightest shred of evidence that he was not a natural-born citizen? How can anybody not have better things to do with their time and money than pursue this? Unfreaking believable.

[TexasObserver]

5. Cert Denied. End of story.

indeed

[kegler14]

9. The biggest evidence against this crap?

Neither McCain nor Hillary ever raised the question --- at least not that we know of.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. McCain would have looked very hypocritical in doing so

Considering that he actually WAS born on foreign soil. Hillary would have merely looked silly if she had done it. Just like the Freeper asshats do.

[nxylas]

15. Yes, but IF there was any truth to it, there was no reason for her not to raise it in the primaries

According to the Freeps, Hillary had Vince Foster murdered for whatever reason, yet she was too timid to mention something that would have brought down her chief primary opponent? But I'm sure they have some bizarre, complicated explanation for this apparent anomaly, that requires a herculean leap of logic to actually believe, and which they accept without question.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. Her surrogates DID raise it.

This crap was all over the PUMA sites in the primaries, including the "No Quarter (of a brain)" blog operated by CIA thug Larry Johnson. I don't claim to know whether or not Hillary had any knowledge of this crap, but I'd be willing to be that the vile shitbags Penn & Wolfson did.

[Mike Daniels]

25. I don't get it either. If I believed my opponent was disqualified from running for POTUS

you better believe I'd bring up whatever I thought could support my case including charges that he wasn't a citizen of the USA.

That neither McCain or Clinton made this argument should be enough for most people but I guess the simplest piece of logic never enters a Freeper's mind.

[zbdent]

11. wasn't there something that was pushed a long time ago about the loser of the frivolous lawsuit

had to pay the court costs of the winner?

As I recall, Clinton never received the court costs from the impeachment proceedings ...

[Phx_Dem]

14. It boggles the mind that anyone could be freaking out over of this.

:crazy:

[Land Shark]

19. in my thread I also say that's the most likely result. But i don't pretend this Option is nothing...

Even if they take a pass, there will be more opportunities. Even if they pass them all up, it's still news that the Supreme court is even tendered such an opportunity.

By the way, who is freaking out? I've not seen that in my thread, at all.

[cali]

20. No. it's not news. It's the way the judicial system works

and the reason this has received so little attention in the main stream media. The only thing unusual about it is that it concerns the presidency.