I thought we were past this. How can this craziness continue?
Georgia Judge Denies Obama’s Motion To Quash Taitz Subpoena In Ballot Eligibility Case
that’s actually a name?
The judge didn’t order Obama to do anything, he simply denied Obama’s motion to quash the subpoena. By my reading of the decision quoted in the article, it sounds like Obama’s counsel kinda fucked up the motion.
Our tax dollars at work.
If all of Obama’s papers are in order, I think Mr. Taitz should have to pay for Obama’s travel expense.
Who keeps a copy of that? Can it be obtained from the SS administration?
I missed read that as 1/26th of Obama to appear in person.
It’s irrelevant. The only document that has any bearing on his eligibility for the presidency is his birth certificate.
I understand that. I was just pointing out that it seems like a stupid thing to ask for. Citizens who aren’t “natural born” can get an SS number, so it proves nothing.
I also don’t see the point in asking about aliases. Of course, I shouldn’t expect sense from miss Taitz.
Kinda confused … why would Obama be on the ballot at all? He’s already President. It’s a given he’s gonna be the Dem candidate. Is anyone going to run against him for the nomination?
ETA: ZOMG Orly Taitz’ name iz FULL of winz!!! Rly!!
He can’t be the Democratic candidate unless he’s nominated by the Democratic convention, and there can’t be a Democratic convention without delegates. And there is at least one person running against him (Randall Terry, an insane anti-abortion zealot), but I don’t know if he (or anybody else) made the Democratic ballot in Georgia.
“…produce original documents Taitz has asked the President to produce, including his birth certificate, social security application, aliases and school records.”
I don’t have original copies of ANY of those things.
I have a copy of my birth certificate stamped by the registrar of births, but I have no idea if it is long form or short form. I don’t even have unoriginal copies of the others.
I suppose the Social Security application could be useful because it does ask for place of birth. If he wrote down “Kenya” (before he knew he would be running for president), that would be a smoking gun.
There are always token challengers to the incumbent in the primaries. Sometimes they even win some.
I don’t think there’s any requirement in US law for the Democratic Party to have a convention. If the party were to amend its by-laws, I’m sure they could nominate a candidate by a vote of their ruling committee.
Yeah, but by-laws get amended during the convention. 
the California attorney must think she have Orly Taitz case against the President to be doing this.
I get that he must be there for the convention, but is there any reason he needs to be on the Georgia ballot? I don’t even think Terry is running in Georgia (as he has stated that his being a candidate is just a stunt to get an antiabortion ad run during the Superbowl). But, even if he is, then, oh noes, Georgia goes to him and they get a few delegates. Obama still wins the nomination. I mean, didn’t one of the pubbies not bother running in one of the states?
I don’t see why he didn’t argue that his eligibility to be president has already been decided as proved by his current status and that, even if it weren’t, it’s a federal issue, not a state one. Furthermore, since the only way this could be relevant is if he is ineligible, which would mean he defrauded the American public, I’m not sure they can’t also throw in that a sitting president cannot be tried while he is still president. They want a trial, get him impeached, first.
IANAL, obviously, but there seem to be a lot of reasons to assert the sitting president should not have to bound to a subpoena over this non-issue.
So if I understand it correctly, it’s not “the judge has ordered Obama to appear”, but “the judge has refused to accept a motion to quash the motion to order Obama to appear, which he will eventually refuse to grant for other reasons,” right?
Not that this won’t stop the birther crowd from hyping this as proof of “the Kenyan usurper’s” imminent comeuppance - for the next three or four days, at least.
Egads.
As a Georgian, I am embarrassed at this.
How can this have gone on so long?
If McCain had be elected would some weirdos be pursuing him with legal challenges about how he was born in the Canal Zone?
Why does it continue? In part because Obama wants/wanted it to rather than just provide everything from the minute Hillary first mentioned it.
When did Hillary mention this issue? my recollection was that none of the Democratic candidates in 2008 raised it as an issue.