Has Barack Obama (legalistically) admitted his COLB is a forgery and he's not a U.S. citizen?

I tend to be very doubtful of this, but I'm linking it here anyway just in case it turns out that Obama has fled the U.S. tomorrow. According to Philip Berg - he of the lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to run for president - the defendents (BHO and the DNC) only had 30 days to respond to Berg's laundry list of admissions, which includes various things that would make BHO ineligible to run for president.

However, the BHO campaign has apparently not responded within the 30 days required by Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (link). That rule says it must be done "within 30 days after being served", and thus the question becomes when they were served. It was definitely before October 6, since that's when they acknowledged that they'd been served, however, it might have been as early as September 15 and thus more than 30 days ago.

On the 21st, Berg is going to take further action to press this forward. Whether the BHO campaign will respond with a loophole, a reasonable objection, or by fleeing the country isn't known.

In the case of the latter, consider this post an endorsement of emergency replacement presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

10/21/08 UPDATE: Darn, nothing happened. But, anyway, maybe this will work out later. However, today the FEC filed a Motion to Dismiss, claiming that Berg doesn't have standing and asking not to be a party to the suit. Berg claims he's already established standing. Once again: instead of engaging in technical battles, why doesn't the Obama campaign simply release his records? Most of the demands are completely reasonable. What is he trying to hide?

Politics · Mon, 10/20/2008 - 21:06 · · Importance: 1