Missives from the land of the birthers
I’m in the courtroom of Judge Michael Malihi, awaiting arguments in a case attempting to remove Barack Obama from the 2012 Georgia presidential ballot.
Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans. The conversations are thick with various birthed theories being bandied about.
Dressed tastefully in black and wearing a pearl choker, The redoubtable Orly Taitz swept in a few minutes ago, making a star’s entrance amid whispers of “look, there she is!”
A bailiff has summoned attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants into chambers for a pre-hearing conference. Since the Obama camp has decided to boycott the hearing, only the four plaintiffs’ attorneys, including Taitz, are in the session.
The plaintiffs have queued up a number of exhibits, including CBS and ABC videos reporting on Obama’s time in Indonesia. No sign of whether such exhibits will be allowed.
I’m in the courtroom of Judge Michael Malihi, awaiting arguments in a case attempting to remove Barack Obama from the 2012 Georgia presidential ballot.
Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans. The conversations are thick with various birthed theories being bandied about.
Dressed tastefully in black and wearing a pearl choker, The redoubtable Orly Taitz swept in a few minutes ago, making a star’s entrance amid whispers of “look, there she is!”
A bailiff has summoned attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants into chambers for a pre-hearing conference. Since the Obama camp has decided to boycott the hearing, only the four plaintiffs’ attorneys, including Taitz, are in the session.
The plaintiffs have queued up a number of exhibits, including CBS and ABC videos reporting on Obama’s time in Indonesia. No sign of whether such exhibits will be allowed.
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Quotemeister
January 26th, 2012
10:32 am
“HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is gonna be great.” Quotemeister
N-GA
January 26th, 2012
10:32 am
Georgians should be proud!
Jerome Horwitz
January 26th, 2012
10:33 am
Is my brother Moe there too? And Larry? If so I’m on my way. This court could use some real stooges!
Midori
January 26th, 2012
10:33 am
Oily, Oily, Oily
that woman truly needs a life
SOUTHERN ATL
January 26th, 2012
10:35 am
This is an embarrassing day for the state of Georgia!
Midori
January 26th, 2012
10:36 am
Southern ATL – At least we now know how Arizona feels
Normal
January 26th, 2012
10:37 am
I wonder if Georgia left the Union now, would anyone care…
jewcowboy
January 26th, 2012
10:37 am
GA: the laughingstock of the nation for various reasons.
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:37 am
most of them older white Americans.
RACIST! BOOKMAN U R A RACIST FOR NOTICING!!!!11!!
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
10:38 am
Jay, if any of these good folks have any insight on where this uppity black intruder came from and what his intentions are in seeking to lead the free world, let us know!
I just hope we don’t have to offer up any first born in sacrifice to get him to go back to where came from.
It’s just terrible. To live to see this day come.
ByteMe
January 26th, 2012
10:39 am
Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans.
So you checked their birth certificates?
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
10:40 am
jewcowboy: “GA: the laughingstock of the nation for various reasons.”
Yeah can you just imagine if we had a state government led by a flaming socialist like New Jersey or something. They’d show em! They’d quash this nonsense in the blink of an eye!
Granny Godzilla
January 26th, 2012
10:41 am
Golly I’d love to be there……
Paul Brounshirt
January 26th, 2012
10:42 am
ByteMe: “Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans.
So you checked their birth certificates”
Racial profiling alive and well at the AJC, a paper that has sent one of its minions to slur this honest example of democracy and freedom at work.
AmVet
January 26th, 2012
10:42 am
Welcome to Georgia. Laughingstock of the Republic!
And damn proud of it!
Mr. Snarky
January 26th, 2012
10:43 am
What a bunch of dummies!
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:44 am
Racial profiling alive and well at the AJC
Does your wee-wee hurt as well?
TaxPayer
January 26th, 2012
10:44 am
And there to the left is Scout and who’s the old white guy dressed up like Paul Revere next to him and aren’t those the North Georgia terrorists over there? Are they on trial today. — Scenes from ToonTown.
RB from Gwinnett
January 26th, 2012
10:44 am
I wasn’t aware Americans had the option of ignoring court subpoenas? I think I’ll try that approach too if ever needed since the precedent has been set.
AmVet
January 26th, 2012
10:44 am
Paul, obviously common sense is not one of your strengths!
What do you think they are?
Kenyans?
LOL…
Jay
January 26th, 2012
10:44 am
Ms. Taitz is now going through her witness list. She has alleged so far that Obama’s name is not Obama but Soetero, and thus cannot be listed as Obama on the ballot. Her evidence is a school log from Indonesia listing a Barack Soetero.
She further alleges that his SSI number is fraudulent, stolen from somebody in Connecticut.
Frankly, she’s easily the worst lawyer I have ever seen in a courtroom. The judge has had to repeatedly admonish her for failing the most basic of courtroom procedures. Early in her presentation, she turned her back on the judge to address the audience instead. The judge told her to speak to the bench, not her crowd of admirers.
We are now being treated to “expert” testimony and “evidence” that the Hawaii birth certificate is a fraud.
Surreal.
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:45 am
There are days (ok, nights, usually) when I pop in here and see Jay’s stuck baby-sitting some poor, misguided, likely early-onset Alzheimer’s cases who post here and I think I wouldn’t take that gig if you paid me triple his salary.
And then there are days like this when I think he’s probably got the coolest job inside the Perimeter and I might do it for free. So there ya go.
Anyhow, do they sell popcorn at this Oily Taintathon, Jay?
USinUK
January 26th, 2012
10:45 am
Jay – did you bring popcorn???
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:46 am
I wasn’t aware Americans had the option of ignoring court subpoenas?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19662270/ns/politics/t/lawyer-bush-told-ex-staff-ignore-subpoena/
jewcowboy
January 26th, 2012
10:46 am
“she’s easily the worst lawyer I have ever seen in a courtroom”
But how is she as a Dentist and Real Estate Agent?
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:47 am
did you bring popcorn???
what an undignified question to ask.
godless heathen
January 26th, 2012
10:47 am
Must be something to it since the AJC has dispatched their ace columnist to the proceedings. Nothing lends cred like newspaper coverage.
USinUK
January 26th, 2012
10:47 am
“She further alleges that his SSI number is fraudulent, stolen from somebody in Connecticut.”
don’t let him near a deck of cards!!!
he’s the Indo-manchurian-muslim-sociamalist Candidate!
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:48 am
RB, also:
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-10/politics/rove.subpoena_1_robert-d-luskin-subpoena-longtime-political-guru?_s=PM:POLITICS
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
10:48 am
Frankly, she’s easily the worst lawyer I have ever seen in a courtroom. The judge has had to repeatedly admonish her for failing the most basic of courtroom procedures
If it were night we could play a drinking game based on who can guess how many minutes before the thing gets thrown out.
Wait a minute, where’s Sinkwich? Where’s JKL2? Maybe we can play that drinking game yet.
Ivan Cohen
January 26th, 2012
10:49 am
Gomer Pyle said it best “shazam”! Someone cue up Vicki Lawrence’s song because obviously the “lights” are still out in Georgia. “100 points of light” in a courtroom.
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2012
10:49 am
And RB, to make it real easy-like…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_privilege
barking frog
January 26th, 2012
10:49 am
I think it is a mistake for Obama’s attorneys to boycott. My
experience is don’t mess with the judges.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 26th, 2012
10:50 am
Wow, Jay, if the zoolike atmosphere down here is any indication, it must be bedlam over by the courtroom. How does it look? Any bloody noses yet among all the cameramen?
Granny Godzilla
January 26th, 2012
10:51 am
RB
Well President Obama is certainly not the first…..see both Washington and Jefferson.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
10:53 am
Well Frog, this is an ALJ hearing not a state or superior court. The decision is completely reviewable de novo.
DBCOOPER
January 26th, 2012
10:53 am
More distractions from the left leaning media. LOOK at my right hand while in my left America sinks further into the Abyss.
Lets look at the numbers people. Does someone’s ideology come before the health of our nation? Is the color of Obama’s skin matter more than the fact black people are struggling more than almost anytime in modern history..Cities like Detriot and Jackson MS are withering away under unemployment, lack of anyway out etc.
It begs the question? If Obama was white and Republican or just white? And the country was sinking like it has in the past three years. Would all this support and Left vitrial and accusations of racism? I think not.
ByteMe
January 26th, 2012
10:53 am
So, wait… somehow the birth certificate and newspaper advertising from 1961 is a fake, but a school log from Indonesia in the latter ’60’s is legit?
ty webb
January 26th, 2012
10:53 am
Actually, Obama does have a fierce defense representative there…Jay Bookman.
carlosgvv
January 26th, 2012
10:53 am
It looks as though certain State of Georgia officials have a sworn duty to keep us the laughing stock of the Nation. Is it any wonder that so many Americans have nothing but contempt for us when this foolish racist behavior takes center stage?
getalife
January 26th, 2012
10:54 am
Where are your papers oily?
Halftrack
January 26th, 2012
10:54 am
We have a fundamental problem here. The President should not be allowed to abandon a court order. He could send his lawyer, or other representatives. To ignore this order is a slap in the face of justice and civility. He is not above the law. The Constitution says that the President is to be a natural born citizen. Either the Supreme Court or Congress: ie Senate should be responsible to certify all candidates for President as being legitimate. The lack of accountability is over the top.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 26th, 2012
10:56 am
Are there any real attorneys in that courtroom? They better have some “real” experts to challenge a birth certificate certified by the State of Hawaii. Have they never heard of the 10th Amendment? How about issue preclusion?
mm
January 26th, 2012
10:56 am
” wasn’t aware Americans had the option of ignoring court subpoenas?”
So you are giving Bush and his cronies a free pass on that one? What a surprise.
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
January 26th, 2012
10:57 am
Anybody recognize you yet Jay? If you someone jumps up, points at you and shouts “antic-christ” you better run for the door!
JOE Cool
January 26th, 2012
10:57 am
“Roughly 100 people are in the courtroom, most of them older white Americans. ”
JAY, Im Curious………How many other people in the courtroom that’s NOT staff/employees are minorities??
Any bets anyone?
USinUK
January 26th, 2012
10:57 am
dB – I believe this is your opportunity to post the Kenyan birth certificate link again …
jewcowboy
January 26th, 2012
10:57 am
DBCOOPER,
“More distractions from the left leaning media.”
It’s the media’s fault that some nutjobs are filing frivolous lawsuits? Way to shift the blame.
“Does someone’s ideology come before the health of our nation?”
Ask the nutjobs that file these frivolous suits.
I love how you blame the left for what the stupid crap the right is doing. What it must me like to live in your world.
Jay
January 26th, 2012
10:58 am
Attorneys for two previous plaintiffs argued the “natural citizenship” angle, introducing Obama’s books as evidence that his father was not a citizen. The theory is that you cannot be a natural-born citizen unless you were born here and BOTH parents were citizens.
One of the attorneys was state Rep. Mark Hatfield, Republican from Waycross. He asked the judge tobuild Obama and his attorneys in contempt for refusing to appear. Another attorney accused Obama of contempt “not just for this court but for the whole judicial branch.”
The judge cut short that rant.
Judging from his body language, Malihi is not happy to be here. But maybe that’s just me.
ByteMe
January 26th, 2012
10:58 am
We have a fundamental problem here. The President should not be allowed to abandon a court order.
Only “fundamental problem” I see is your understanding of how the Constitution made the three branches of government equals. The court has no standing to subpeona the President, because to force him to comply would imply that the court is greater than the executive… and it’s not.