Democrats to boycott effort to remove Barack Obama from Georgia ballot
Democrats, including the attorney representing President Barack Obama, have made a last-minute decision to boycott the Thursday hearing to consider a “birther” effort to remove Obama from the March 6 presidential primary ballot.
“They can tilt at windmills on their own,” said state Democratic spokesman Eric Gray on Wednesday night.
Last week, in a surprise ruling, a Georgia state administrative judge declined to quash a subpoena directing Obama to attend a hearing Thursday at the Fulton County courthouse on a challenge to strike him from the Georgia ballot this fall on claims he is not a natural born U.S. citizen. Read more background here from my AJC colleague Bill Rankin.
Among tomorrow’s no-shows will be Michael Jablonski, the Atlanta attorney serving as counsel to Obama. He’s written a letter to Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican, asking him to intervene and bring the circus to a halt.
Among those pressing the action is state Rep. Mark Hatfield, R-Waycross. But many ranking Republicans are doing their best to keep their distance.
Here’s the statement just released by Mike Berlon, chairman of the state Democratic party:
“Several lawsuits were recently filed against President Obama questioning whether he is an American citizen in an attempt to remove him from the Georgia primary ballot. Despite the fact that these issues have been thoroughly litigated, a hearing has been scheduled in these cases for Thursday, January 26, 2012. The Democratic Party of Georgia is not a party to any of these lawsuits.
“This afternoon we received a letter from counsel for the President directed to the Georgia Secretary of State asking him to intervene in these lawsuits and bring them to a halt, because it is well established that there is no issue here – a fact validated time and again by courts in this country.
“In the letter, counsel also indicated that they had no interest in continuing to appear or participate further in the litigation and have suspended their involvement.
“We respect the President’s position and urge the Secretary of State to bring this matter to a conclusion. We also believe that each political party has the absolute legal right to determine who should appear on their primary and general election ballots according to their own rules without interference from outside parties.
“In light of these developments the Democratic Party of Georgia has no plans to continue to be involved in these baseless cases. Furthermore the Democratic Party of Georgia will cooperate with the President and his campaign in any way requested to make sure that his name appears on the primary and general election ballots for 2012.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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GOP IDIOTS
January 25th, 2012
10:32 pm
The more the GOP pushes this stupid issue the more idiotic they look. It’s an embarrassment… He released his B.C., give it up!
GOP IDIOTS
January 25th, 2012
10:36 pm
@EL Actually it is Congress that determines whether a person can run for President not the courts. That is why this circus is being laughed at and such a surprise the stupid Judge even allowed it to continue….
Marco Polo
January 25th, 2012
10:37 pm
td the hatred is coming from Rep. Mark Hatfield and his ilk.
pillsbury
January 25th, 2012
10:38 pm
There are lawsuits like this all over the country, so please stop bashing the whole state based on a few morons. The lawyer who wrote brief is from New Jersey. Also, I read the brief. It is the worst brief I have read in my life.
RAMZAD
January 25th, 2012
10:38 pm
Mx:
Drives you crazy that this white woman decided to have this little black baby. I am sure that you are so fed up with the pollution of the white race. You have a right to your opinions- as obnoxious as you and they are.
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:38 pm
The more the liberal marxist hacks pushes this stupid issue on Newt’s past, the more idiotic they look. It’s an embarrassment. He released his bitter wife. Give it up!
Hawaii is a cesspool
January 25th, 2012
10:38 pm
None of the court hearings mentioned by Obama lawyer Jablonsky dealt with the basic issues; they were all dismissed on technicalities. Obviously Obama has something to fear and hide or he would simply come to the hearing tomorrow and present his true, original birth cirtificate and all other information like college transcripts, college loan applications, grades in courses, etc., and his true social securit;y number. Hawaii is corruptly aiding him in using force to hide his true birth records if they exist at all. Many of you are easily convinced or easily fooled. This is what Obama and is cronies want; fools.
What is obama afraid of? Could it be he is really a fraud? Perhaps he is not even a citizen let alone a natural born one. He could be an illegal immigrant since his Mother was not old enough to confer citizenship at the time if he was really born in the cesspool Hawaii.
You fools can laugh and mock all you want but the requirement of natural born citizen is in the U.S. Constitution that many have fought and died to defend. Many of the idiots posting here seem to approve of giving the middle finger to the precious constitution. Don’t pay any attention to these idiots.
By the way , the judge tomorrow graduated from the University of Alabama and law school at Boston University according to published records.
Why is Obama deliberately hiding so much information about his past? Likely because he is a fraud and liar and an expert con artist like Adolph Hitler from Nazi, Germany. That is why. Obama must not be placed on the Georgia Ballot or any other now or in the future unless he can prove he is a natural born citizen.
Quedawg12
January 25th, 2012
10:38 pm
I really feel like an arse for not only really reading this blog, but all the idiotic comments surrounding it. I really find it hard to believe that the only thing people can come up with on the President is this crap!! Do any of you think for one second that all of this was not checked when he ran??!?!?!? They can find women galore, illegitmate children, several affairs, but not his birth certificate. Maybe the person that was checking background info that day was on vacation……………………..yeah that’s it!
Georgia is not the problem, its the whackos that inhabit the space!!!
Mattie Patterson
January 25th, 2012
10:39 pm
And because the Constitution defines people of color as being 3/5 a person, he is still twice the man and those questioning his status. The primary impetus of All these actions is neither a citizen, a man or even a human being. Go back across the little pond Ms. Taitz. The southern haters here do not need your help.
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:39 pm
she was a white slut, you can have those ramzad lol
Mattie Patterson
January 25th, 2012
10:41 pm
The Hawaiian Islands were granted stathood status in 1959. When was Ms. Taitz granted citizenship?
Quedawg12
January 25th, 2012
10:41 pm
Hawaii……………………………..now it makes perfect sense. The judge is from Alabama!!!!!
RAMZAD
January 25th, 2012
10:42 pm
Ok, mx..
“White slut” sounds like something a Gestapo colonel would say.
td
January 25th, 2012
10:43 pm
Marco Polo
January 25th, 2012
10:37 pm
td the hatred is coming from Rep. Mark Hatfield and his ilk.
The only hate I have seen is on this blogs and it is being spewed by libs. Please tell us what is hateful about trying to make sure the Constitution is being upheld? Please point out the hateful words from Hatfield or his ilk?
Billy Davis
January 25th, 2012
10:43 pm
The only issue the birthers and the Southern racist si they still can’t stomach that a black man is POTUS. They believe the White House is reserved for white men only.
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:44 pm
hussein is keeping slavery alive and well in the u.s.
lc
January 25th, 2012
10:46 pm
The entire republican party is joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Racist a$$hole$
PRIMETIME
January 25th, 2012
10:46 pm
All RedNecks they TrailerParks await your return.
REPUBLIKLAN
January 25th, 2012
10:46 pm
I’m completely ashamed that I was born and raised in this state. We should all be embarrassed. Where has the common sense gone? Total lack of intelligence.
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:48 pm
ONE
BIG
A$$
MISTAKE
AMERICA
Jim
January 25th, 2012
10:48 pm
@cesspool: BWAHAHAHAHA…What does all that BS you’re asking for have to do with his eligibility? Not one thing!!! And without a lick of proof, you’re claiming Hawaii is doing a coverup for him. Shows how you have nothing but your hatred and no court should be used in that way. Let me sum up a quote from Judge Clay Land from the great state of Georgia:
“Thus,Plaintiff’s counsel, who champions herself as a defender of liberty and freedom, seeks to use the power of the judiciary to compel a citizen, albeit the President of the United States, to “prove his innocence” to “charges” that are based upon conjecture and speculation. Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which
our Country was founded in order to purportedly “protect and preserve” those very principles.”
I can see you flunked that.
Marco Polo
January 25th, 2012
10:50 pm
td
there is hate on both sides regarding this blog. Haffield and his ilk pursue this nonsense out of hate.
RAMZAD
January 25th, 2012
10:50 pm
MX:
You are a riot. It is either your ignorance or your depression talking. Whichever it is please close the latrine door.
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:51 pm
hate, racist, fairness…typical libtard terms lmao
bill
January 25th, 2012
10:54 pm
Well if the GOP gets their way we will have a moon colony by 2020 thanks to good ole Newt now thats something we need. Seriously where is the hidden cam?
Proud Georgia Native
January 25th, 2012
10:55 pm
I’ve read most of the volleys back and forth here this evening, and some of the reasoning is just pathetic. For the record, I’m a white native Georgian and proud to be a Southerner. Well, most of the time. We had what seemed to be a goofy rodeo clown from Texas in the White House for 8 years. He meant well, I’m sure, but was clearly in way over his head. His policies (which he didn’t write, only signed off on) very nearly destroyed the economic fabric of this nation. In 2008, I proudly voted for the black guy and will do it again in 10 months without hesitation. He was then- and remains- the best man for the job. Do I agree with him all the time? Of course, not. But he’s sharp, thoughtful, forward-thinking and articulate. He doesn’t speak with my Southern accent, but W did, and look where that got us. He has proven without a doubt that he was born in Hawaii, and like it or not, he is and always has been a citizen of the United States. He’s done a very solid job under horrendous circumstances, and the country gets better and grows stronger every day. Will he win? Don’t know, but he’ll get my vote, along with those of a whole lot of other folks I hang out with up here in North Georgia. I’m totally proud of the man, and I don’t care what color he is. And I’ll just have to live with his lack of a Southern accent….
td
January 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
Marco Polo
January 25th, 2012
10:50 pm
td
there is hate on both sides regarding this blog. Haffield and his ilk pursue this nonsense out of hate.
That is your opinion and you can not prove it.
Quedawg12
January 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
MX has gotta be Galloway’s secret name. I am assuming that they get paid based on posts and MX is the plant to get everyone stirred up. I hope that he is not that stupid.
Billy Davis
January 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
Real News: So that’s your proof it’s fake. In 2005 due to Katrina I my BC was destroyed I asked the State of Louisiana for a copy and it said African American. I was born in 1962. So I guess you have figured out my BC is a fake too and all as a conspiracy to help Obama become President. Idiot…
Quedawg12
January 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
Bill………………………LMAO!
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:57 pm
One dollar bill: George Washington
Five dollar bill: Abraham Lincoln
Ten dollar bill: Alexander Hamilton
Twenty dollar bill: Andrew Jackson
Fifty dollar bill: Ulysses S. Grant
One hundred dollar bill: Benjamin Franklin
Food Stamps: Barack Hussein Obama
mx
January 25th, 2012
10:58 pm
America once had Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs and Bob Hope. Now we have Barack Obama, no cash, no jobs and no hope
Quedawg12
January 25th, 2012
10:59 pm
Proud Georgia Native………………………..Well said. Thanks for bringing some sanity to the post. I can go to sleep and rest well now.
chris
January 25th, 2012
10:59 pm
@ Go Fish Georgia, The kkk was originated by democrates you moron!!!!…..hahahaha if ur brains were as big as ur lips u would have some inteligience…..You truly are a mental midget! Do some reading some time and get ur facts straight, dummy!
mx
January 25th, 2012
11:00 pm
Barack Hussein Obama is now claiming that Ireland is his ancestral home. Kenya believe anything that guy says?
chris
January 25th, 2012
11:01 pm
If obummer is a natural citizen then why all the worry?? typical liberal democrat thinking with emotion rather than facts. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder!
mx
January 25th, 2012
11:02 pm
Q. What do you call the most powerful Muslim in the world?
A. The President of the United States.
thwg
January 25th, 2012
11:02 pm
The state of GA is a cease pool of stupid rednecks. Just know the rest of the country finds GA a laughing stock of jokes – so please never change since we wouldn’t have anyone else to make fun off. I’ve been to Mississippi and it’s light years ahead of rural redneck Georgia. I’m not sure which is worse: the red on your necks, or the pathetic lack of education in your populace.
chris
January 25th, 2012
11:03 pm
Im glad at least one state is taking a stand against this spineless empty suite obummer
bill
January 25th, 2012
11:03 pm
@ chris if brains were big as your lips??!! Tell your women to stop the plastic surgery to make themselves look like what they are not naturally. Now how smart is that.
td
January 25th, 2012
11:05 pm
thwg
January 25th, 2012
11:02 pm
Then please my friend go and find another state to live in and let us smell our own stench.
mx
January 25th, 2012
11:06 pm
How will they ever get that stench out of the WHITE HOUSE next year?
thwg
January 25th, 2012
11:06 pm
I think the pecking order has shifted and the dumb georgia white male is now well below the educated black. Last time I was in Atlanta, I was impressed with the large, educated middle class of african americans which have clearly passed the poor uneducated caucasian. That’s what all this is about – the dumb, lazy, uneducated redneck white folks can’t stand having a black man as a president plus seeing the motivated african american community, and the gorowing educated hispanic community leave them in the dust. And don’t mention the asian community since they blew by you white folks decades ago.
chris
January 25th, 2012
11:08 pm
Good one Bill, you got me there!!…you mind if i use that material sometime…I have no doubt that u are one of the minions that obummer feeds off of. Im sure in ur eyes he can do no wrong,,,wake up bozo. Get ur head out of the mud!
mx
January 25th, 2012
11:10 pm
thwg LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Blacks make up 12% of the population but commit over 67% of crimes. WHY? Oh yes you’ve clearly passed white people. PMC
thwg
January 25th, 2012
11:11 pm
td – I used to live in that dump of a state and have since moved to Boston/MA where the state actually has it’s sh#$%^t together economically, politically and has a real focus on education. I just happened to be on the ajc.com looking for an article. Atlanta is a nothing city where the highlights are World of Coke and the Acquarium – seriously? Oh, I forgot the Cyclorama and Stone Mountain. What a joke of a city.. Folks use to visit and were shocked there was so little to do for such a large city.
another sane voice.
January 25th, 2012
11:11 pm
@ mx and the poster prior to him that actually made the suggestion that Obama’s mother should have exercised her choice option and the problem would be eliminated. You have just shown your ignorance big time. Abortion, which you are not so subtile in your post referring to was illegal in 1960 and 1961. Go look up Roe vs Wade. I also suspect you are one of these faux male bible thumping conservative pricks that think you can tell a women what they can do with their bodies. Now you have the never to suggest Mrs. Obama should have had an abortion in 1960 or 1961, when it was illegal. Why would have it been okay, for her? Because she was a white women carrying a black man’s baby.
How many of you native Georgian’s will find in your family tree black relatives like Thomas Jefferson’s Children. Or perhaps you will find the great, great, great, great, great Grandmother is Cherokee or Creek. As there were alot more men in Georgia, SC, and NC in the 1700’s and 1800’s many of them married young Indian women. Then when they died in child birth, they would marry the old widow or spinster to raise their 1/2 Indian children.
thwg
January 25th, 2012
11:13 pm
mx, it’s only a matter of time before you get left behind. Let me guess, you have a complex about your athletic inferiority, sexual organ inferiority. Every hear the phrase tall, dark and handsome. I don’t think I’ve every heard short, pale, and fat.
mx
January 25th, 2012
11:14 pm
another sane voice,
you don’t think abortions were done before roe v wade? wow you’re dumber than i thought
Kino
January 25th, 2012
11:15 pm
It’s laughable that this birther nonsense is still coming up. It’s embarrassing that a state judge is giving it credence.