Barack Obama -- February 13, 2009

February 13, 2009

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Barack Hussein Obama

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Why?	Bob Unruh reports that a high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be "monetary sanctions" against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn't qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution's demand for a "natural born" citizen in that post. The suggestion came in an exchange of e-mails and documents in a case brought by former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others in California. The case originally sought to have the state's electors ordered to withhold their votes for Obama until his eligibility was established. Since his inauguration, it has been amended to seek a future requirement for a vetting process, in addition to the still-sought unveiling of Obama's records. In the case, being handled largely by Gary Kreep of the U.S. Justice Foundation, he recently subpoenaed the records documenting the attendance by Obama, or possibly the student when he was known as Barry Soetero, from Occidental College. The lawyer for the college, Stuart W. Rudnick of Musick, Peeler & Garrett, urgently contacted Fredric D. Woocher of Strumwasser & Woocher. "This firm is counsel to Occidental College. The College is in receipt of the enclosed subpoena that seeks certain information concerning President-Elect Barack Obama," he wrote via fax. "Inasmuch as the subpoena appears to be valid on its face, the College will have no alternative but to comply with the subpoena absent a court order instructing otherwise." Within hours, Woocher contacted Kreep regarding the issue, telling him, "It will likely not surprise you to hear that Obama opposes the production of the requested records. "In order to avoid the needless expense of our bringing and litigating a Motion to Quash the subpoena, I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to agree voluntarily to cancel or withdraw the subpoena…" Woocher warned, "Please be advised, in particular, that in the event we are forced to file a motion to quash and we prevail in that motion, we will seek the full measure of monetary sanctions provided for in the Code of Civil Procedures." Why? Fredric Woocher was selected as a "Southern California Super Lawyer, 2009," and practices "political law" -- he charges $600 per hour?" There's at least 48 legal cases attempting to gain access to various documents from Obama's past. In this one case, Obama is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to hide his bona fides, and using a "Super Lawyer" to do it -- and Occidental is spending many thousands more. You do the math. Obama is spending millions to hide his past from the American People. Why? Watch this case. Occidental's lawyers say they have to comply with Gary Kreep's subpoena. Watch to see how Obama's lawyers attempt to manipulate the justice system to quash this subpoena. Why?
No Consensus	House Republicans called Obama's Census grab unconstitutional, a political power grab and threatened legal action against the White House for its decision to extend its jurisdiction to the Census Bureau and demanded that Obama respond positively to a letter they sent on Wednesday urging him to reverse the action. At a news conference headlined by Minority Leader John Boehner, House Oversight and Government Affairs ranking member Darrell Issa said that he believes the federal courts will agree that the White House's efforts to assert greater oversight of Census Bureau operations violate the law. In their letter, Boehner and 14 other Republicans warned that White House involvement or oversight of the census process would "result in the politicization of the census and open the door to massive waste and abuse in the expenditure of taxpayer funds, billions of which are distributed on the basis of census data." Having Census report to the White House -- previously never done -- would turn statistical science "into something where speculation and guesswork could introduce egregious and prejudicial errors." It is bad enough that the Constitutional Census clause does not distinguish between citizens and non-citizens. The founding fathers would undoubtedly have cast it differently had they envisioned a time when illegal aliens would distort the rights of citizens to fair representation. "Undocumented is synonymous with unauthorized and illegal," observes Connecticut Data Center manager Orlando J. Rodriguez at the University of Connecticut. Illegal aliens, if counted, will "distort the relative voting power of all citizens nationwide," thereby influencing "America's representative political system." Excluding non-voters from congressional reapportionment would provide a much broader geographical dispersement of House seats, and fairer citizen and voter representation, he found in 2007 and subsequent studies. The converse is to allow illegal alien settlement to generate Congressional seats for southern border states at the expense of citizens and voters in northern and mid-western states. Most disconcerting, however, is Democrats' "plain hope" to leverage illegal aliens via controversial sampling and computer modeling to "'adjust' the Census numbers in 2010," and further distort citizens' relative voting power. Surely, Americans should not tolerate a political party redistributing power and funds away from citizens by riding roughshod over the Constitutional requirement for actual numeration. By commandeering the Census Bureau, Obama may hope to orchestrate a silent political coup. If so, however, key House Democrats insist this amounts to "nothing."
Reparations By Another Name	Obama is close to creating an Office of Urban Policy to allocate funds to urban areas for a range of initiatives, including job training and the creation of new jobs. Obama's urban renewal plan -- from neighborhoods to downtown corridors -- calls for creating more opportunities for minority businesses, establishing more affordable public transportation, raising the minimum wage, ending tax breaks for businesses that send jobs overseas, providing additional funding for community policing and ending racial profiling.
Dirt-Digger Joins White House	Amid the furor over controversies regarding Cabinet-nominee tax problems and the seismic battle over a nearly trillion-dollar economic rescue bill, Obama made a little-noticed appointment that is now generating intrigue. Shauna Daly, a 29-year-old Democratic operative, was named last month to the new job of White House counsel research director. Though she is inside one of the most powerful legal offices in the land, Miss Daly holds no law degree and doesn't list any legal training on her resume. Her sole experience has been as an opposition researcher for Democratic political campaigns. She helped dig up dirt on rivals, or on her own nominee to prepare for attacks. The addition to White House counsel Greg Craig's staff has alarmed some Republicans, who consider it a politicization of the office, and has irritated others who say that Democratic lawmakers who railed against Republican opposition researchers in legal positions in the past are now silent. "Daly does not have the qualifications to be holding a significant position in the White House counsel's office," said Mark Levin, a conservative lawyer and radio-show host who worked in the Reagan White House and as chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. "Her only qualification is that she knows how to dig up dirt on other people," he said. The White House insists Miss Daly's work will be limited to legal research, like that of a paralegal, and won't stray into political muckraking. "Shauna will be performing legal research in support of a team of lawyers doing traditional legal work at the White House," said White House spokesman Ben LaBolt. But even some Democrats said there is reason to be cautious about the presence of a political-opposition researcher inside a White House legal office that is supposed to be free of partisan influence.