Alan Keyes and Barack Obama apparently have an ongoing feud. The first time that I believe their paths crossed was in the 2004 Illinois Senate race. In that race Obama was elected as the Junior Senator for the state of Illinois, but not before Keyes really frustrated Obama with several charges that he brought against him.
Their paths crossed again in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. While neither candidate debated each other this time, Obama was the Democratic candidate and winner of the Presidential Election. Alan Keyes lost the Republican and Constitution Party nominations, but he did win the third largest amount of votes in the Presidential Election.
The real kicker from the 2008 Presidential Campaign is a lawsuit that was filed after the election. Several lawsuits were brought against Obama due to a lack of proof of “natural-born” citizenship status. This stems from his “citizenship” in Indonesia as a child (Indonesia did not allow dual-citizenship, so his parents would have had to have given up American citizenship), his travel to Pakistan in the 1980’s (which was closed to American citizens), and his lack of proof of a birth certificate in Hawaii (not a certificate of live birth, and the fact that his grandmother claims to have seen him born in Kenya). Most of the lawsuits were deemed to not have standing because the courts ruled that those people were not harmed from the lack of documentation concerning Obama. Alan Keyes also brought a lawsuit, and since he was a Presidential candidate, there is little doubt that he would have standing.
*** A separate lawsuit is going to have a conference after Justice John Roberts called one for January 23rd. ***
Now the next set of barbs are being traded as Obama has launched a new service plan. Alan Keyes has a website called RenewAmerica.us. What is the name of Obama’s new service plan? Renew America Together.
Tags: Alan Keyes, Barack Obama, Illinois, John Roberts, Kenya, Lawsuits, Presidency, Renew America, RenewAmerica
The nation owes more than thanks to three unlikely modern day patriots: professional poker player, musician, and retired attorney, Leo Donofrio; life long Democrat and former Pennsylvania assistant attorney general, Phil Berg; and Soviet emigree and attorney, Dr. Orly Taitz (she’s also a dentist).
While Mr. Donofrio painstakingly established the airtight case that BHO could not be an Article II “natural born citizen” (at BHO’s birth, dad was British/Kenyan, not American, citizen) Leo’s Stay of the 12/15/08 electoral college vote was denied by SCOTUS as procedurally unripe.
Nevertheless, since no congressman and senator objected on 1/8/09 to Congress’ count and certification of the electoral vote which would have turned resolution of Obama’s eligibility issue over to Congress — rendering moot the Berg and Taitz (Lightfoot) cases — Berg finally does achieve standing on the issue of actual harm, to be addressed at the Friday 1/9/09 SCOTUS Conference on Writ of Certiorari. Obama’s failure to submit evidence of his constitutional qualification for the 1/9/09 conference will mean he cannot thereafter challenge Berg’s request to enjoin the 1/8/09 Congressional electoral count and certification, albeit retroactive, scheduled for SCOTUS conference Friday 1/16/09. Moreover, Chief Justice Roberts has scheduled a full Court conference on the Lightfoot case Friday 1/23/09 in the event there needs to be a Constitutionally mandated action, the Inauguration itself, to enjoin retroactively.
Now that BHO is in checkmate and cannot be POTUS, he can be a patriot as well. He need not subject the nation to the expense and trauma of requiring SCOTUS to overrule his ‘Presidency’. BHO can and should voluntarily step down with Biden becoming Acting POTUS under the 20th Amendment, and under the agreement all potential claims by the Government for itself and on behalf of others against BHO are released.