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Prominent Democrat sues Obama to force him to prove his citizenshipBy Israel Insider staff August 24, 2008 Bookmark to del.icio.usdocument.write('img src="."/../Static/Images/digg.gif" alt="Digg!" width="10" height="10" hspace="5" vspace="0" border="0" align="baseline">Digg This Story'); Digg This Story Philip J. Berg, a former member of Pennsylvania's Democratic State Committee and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, filed the lawsuit this week in U.S District Court, asking the court to declare Obama ineligible for the presidency because he is not a natural born American citizen, and called on the court to prevent him from running for the position.

A separate motion was also filed seeking a temporary restraining order on Obama's presidential campaign until Obama's eligibility can be verified. The lawsuit claims that Obama's eligibility is doubtful on several grounds, including allegations by family members that he was born in Kenya, the inability of his parents unable to automatically grant him American citizenship, the questionable provenance and authenticity of his Hawaii birth certificate, and evidence that he was a citizen of Indonesia as a child and retained foreign citizenship into adulthood without recording an oath of allegiance to the United States, a requirement under such circumstance to retain one's American citizenship.

In brief, the suit claims:

1. Obama was not born an American citizen;
2. Lost any American citizenship he may have had
3. May not now be an American citizen or
4. Holds citizenships of one or more other countries

If any of these allegations are true, the suit claims, Obama cannot constitutionally serve as president according to Article Two of the Constitution.

Why is Berg filing the suit? For the love of Hillary, it would seem. "Eighteen million Democratic Primary voters donated money, volunteered their time and energy, worked very hard and then not only supported Senator Clinton, but voted for her," Berg stated in a press release about the suit. "All the efforts of supporters of legitimate citizens were for nothing because (Obama) lied and cheated his way into a fraudulent candidacy and cheated legitimately eligible natural born citizens from competing in a fair process."

Berg explained that his own research into Obama's claims to citizenship caused him to reach the conclusion the reports were more fact than rumor and that he needed to act quickly, before the convention had selected a candidate. "I filed this action at this time," said Berg in a press release, "to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated."

The suit alleges that while records exist of a "registry of birth" for Obama in Hawaii (filed four days after his claimed birthday), no records exist of his mother's stay in any Hawaii hospital, suggesting she may have given birth elsewhere and filed the registration after returning to Hawaii. "Obama's grandmother on his father's side, half brother and half sister claim Obama was born in Kenya," the suit states. "Reports reflect Obama's mother went to Kenya during her pregnancy; however, she was prevented from boarding a flight from Kenya to Hawaii at her late stage of pregnancy, which apparently was a normal restriction to avoid births during a flight. Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama) gave birth to Obama in Kenya, after which she flew to Hawaii and registered Obama's birth."

The lawsuit also claims that the Presidential candidate as an adult used foreign credential to visit Pakistan, at a time when a US passport was not welcome there. It claims that in 1981, "Obama traveled to Pakistan using his Indonesian passport. At the time of travels to Indonesia, Obama was 20 years old. He was well aware he maintained his Indonesia citizenship, and failed to regain his United States citizenship.... Even if Obama maintained his United States Citizenship, which he failed to do, he also carries citizenships in Kenya and Indonesia. Obama has divided loyalties with foreign countries. Thus, Obama carries multiple citizenships and is ineligible to run for President of the United States."

Berg claims his lawsuit is necessary, not only to protect the Constitution, but the integrity of the Democratic Party as well. "If the DNC officers and/or leaders had performed one ounce of due diligence, we would not find ourselves in this emergency predicament, one week away from making a person the nominee who has lost their citizenship," said Berg in his press release. "The injunctive relief must be granted because failing to do so, (the DNC's) inaction defrauds everyone who voted in the Democratic Primary."