So, Why are We Angry?


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For us rock-ribbed conservative GOPers, we’re really not that angry – we knew precisely what was coming down the pike with the election of Obama. There are a lot of angry people out there, however – and who are they? Victor Davis Hanson provides the best explanation I’ve seen:

Bait-and-Switch

There is a growing sense of a “we’ve been had”, bait-and-switch. Millions of moderate Republicans, independents, and conservative Democrats—apparently angry at Bush for Iraq and big deficits, unimpressed by the McCain campaign, intrigued by the revolutionary idea of electing an African-American president—voted for Obama on the assumption that he was sincere about ending red state/blue state animosity. They took him at his word that he was going to end out of control federal spending. They trusted that he had real plans to get us out of the economic doldrums, and that he was not a radical tax-and-spend liberal of the old sort.

Instead, within days Obama set out plans that would triple the annual deficit, and intends to borrow at a record pace that will double the aggregate debt in just eight years.

He not only took over much of the auto- and financial industries, but also did so in a way that privileged unions, politically-correct creditors, and those insider cronies who favor administration initiatives. On matters racial, his administration is shrill and retrograde, not forward-looking. It insists on emphasizing the tired old identify politics that favor a particular sort of racial elite that claims advantage by citing past collective victimization or piggy-backs for advantage on the plight of the minority underclass.

In other words, the Obama swing voter thought he was getting a 21st-century version of pragmatic, triangulating Bill Clinton—and instead got something to the left of 1970s Jimmy Carter.

You see, we knew Obama was putting up a false front all along – liberals learned the lesson all the way back in 1988 that you can’t win nationally as a liberal. Since then, they’ve tried various expedients to dodge the liberal tag – successfully with Clinton and now with Obama. But in policy, there is no actual difference between George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama. Any one of them would do what any other would do with hardly a shade of difference. This is not so much because of what is inside the men, themselves, but what is inside the people they will appoint – especially appointments lower down the scale, where actual policy is implemented. Unless Obama decided to appoint his people out of the Heritage Foundation, it was dead certainty that the Obama policies would be straight down the line liberal – and rather extreme liberal, in to the bargain.

In practical terms what this means is that no matter what shading there is in the Democrat, he must not be voted in to office because the people who will trail after him will be in direct opposition to the American people. Even someone as worthy as Joe Lieberman could not be trusted with the White House because he would have in his administration the same sort of people Obama has – and while Lieberman might be able to force through pro-Israel security policy, the rest would be right out of the ultra-liberal play book…one, as President, can’t get too bogged down in the details…but the Devil is there in. Our only safety is to ensure that, on balance, a conservative is running the show because only such will give a chance for non-liberals to run the day to day machinery of government.

As it relates to Obama, the waves of anger are just going to rise higher unless Obama “pulls a Clinton” and at least starts talking right and throwing a few sops to conservatism (tax cuts, welfare reform, dropping ObamaCare, eg). This, alone, would defuse the surging anger out there – anger of a people who really thought that Obama was different. We’ll see what course Obama adopts.

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Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.


43 Responses to “So, Why are We Angry?”

  1. jeremiah06 says:

    I’ll tell you why I’m angry, for a number of reasons.

    One of course, because America allowed our government to give the judiciary branch of our government too much power.

    Another reason because we allowed atheists to take over our schools for over 50 years.

    Another being the fact that we have people in our country who shouldn’t be citizens of this country that defend Obama and his cronies and their ideologies.

    Let me tell you, we can’t just make noise, we’ve got to rise up like a beast out of the belly of the the earth crushing everything in its path!!!

  2. thealientruth says:

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  3. js02 says:

    was that another liberal with its head in the sand?

  4. jeremiah06 says:

    You see, Mark, there is no debating liberals. Take bagni there, he is fool’s fool.

    The only reason these liberal senators are going around to make Town Hall speeches is Obama’s doings….he wants to lure people into this death trap.

    People shouldn’t be moving in Town Hall meetings. They should be moving on Washington D.C.!!! to make it extra and perfectly clear that we WILL NOT allow such a mockery of our representation! PERIOD!!!

  5. The Arctic Fox says:

    You see, we knew Obama was putting up a false front all along – liberals learned the lesson all the way back in 1988 that you can’t win nationally as a liberal. Since then, they’ve tried various expedients to dodge the liberal tag – successfully with Clinton and now with Obama.

    Wow, that’s a huge bit of history rewriting. I don’t recall Clinton running on an “I’m not a liberal” ticket. I don’t recall Obama running on an “I’m not liberal” ticket either, though he was a little more reluctant to classify himself as “liberal”

    But in policy, there is no actual difference between George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama.

    And that’s part of the reason Obama was elected. Historically, every time a Republican president has made a mess, a Democrat president was needed to clean it up. When Reagan ran up huge deficits, when HW Bush ran up huge deficits and now after W Bush ran up huge deficits. Though this last one has been a real doozy, neither Reagan or HW Bush had an active war that lasted so long (the cold war was much more passive, no actual direct army fighting).

    As it relates to Obama, the waves of anger are just going to rise higher unless Obama “pulls a Clinton” and at least starts talking right and throwing a few sops to conservatism (tax cuts, welfare reform, dropping ObamaCare, eg). This, alone, would defuse the surging anger out there – anger of a people who really thought that Obama was different. We’ll see what course Obama adopts.

    Obama already tried that. He let Republicans load the stimulus bill with pork to get their votes. What happened? They stabbed him in the back and all voted against it.

    The larger portion of the American people are angry, all right – but they’re angry that the conned minority who are doing the health industries campaigning for them are not letting the majority be heard at meetings these days. And that anger will indeed manifest itself – in heavier defeats for the Republicans next election cycle.

    ED NOTE: TROLL ALERT! FEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!

  6. js02 says:

    why defend a liar…who has everything to hide?

    you ox’s are fools fools too….

    Original, vault copy birth certificate — Not released — Lawyers fees — greater than $1,000,000 — birth certificate — $15.
    Certification of Live Birth — Released – Counterfeit — Case and Affidavits
    Admitted British citizenship at birth — Confirmed via FactCheck.org/FightTheSmears.com
    Birth Announcement — Alleged to be a forgery
    Hospital of birth — Kapi’olani Medical Center won’t confirm Obama’s birth assertion; sister claims a different hospital
    Obama/Dunham marriage license — Not released
    Obama/Dunham divorce – Released (by independent investigators)
    Kindergarten records – Records lost (this is a big one — see here — read two frames)
    Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
    Soetoro adoption records — Not released
    Fransiskus Assisi School School application — Released (by independent investigators)
    Punahou School records — Not released
    Soetoro/Dunham divorce – Released (by independent investigators)
    Selective Service Registration — Released – Counterfeit — Document Locator Number update — another FOIA request
    Occidental College records — Not released
    Passport — Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama’s terrorism and intelligence adviser
    Columbia College records — Not released
    Columbia thesis — “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” – Not released
    Harvard College records — Not released
    Harvard Law Review articles — None
    Illinois Bar Records — Not released.
    Baptism certificate — None
    Medical records — Not released
    Illinois State Senate records — None
    Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost
    Law practice client list — Not released
    University of Chicago scholarly articles — None

    you dont know squat about oblunder except for the lies he has told you…he told you about change…thats it…so vague…”change”…to marxist communism…is what ya got…

  7. jeremiah06 says:

    THANK YOU, JS, FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO EXPOSING OBAMA’S NEFARIOUS CREW WHO PERVERT AND HIDE THE TRUTH FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. OUR SENATORS HAVE NO CLUE. ONLY TO DO AS PELOSI GOAD THEM TO DO. I FEAR THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE LOSING CONTROL. AS THE MAJORITY/MOST OF AMERICANS AGES 1 – 55 HAVE/ARE BEING BROUGHT UP IN THE ATHEIST PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
    SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUALITIES AS A LEADER EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE ILLEGALLY-INSTALLED, COKE-HEADED USURPER-IN-CHIEF THAT CURRENTLY OCCUPIES THE WHITE HOUSE. PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY, AS WE ARE AT THE DOOR TO SOME TERRIFYING TIMES. GOD BLESS YOU!

  8. uffy says:

    I am not an angry person by nature. But as a senior citizen and now a “mobster” ( like I got the energy to be in a mob), I see something I have never seen in my lifetime………..the disappearance of the great USA.

    I watched this past campaign with real dred. I saw a Marxist espousing socialism and promising to end what the USA was all about…….freedom and liberty. And I knew that many of the last 2 generations and the kook hippies from the 60s would buy into it. Of course those kook hippies are the Ayres and Fondas and Pelosis and Reids and Murthas etc.

    It was bad enough when Obama rushed thru the stimulus, but now the public health bill that is nothing but a power and control one party dictatorship. And to make that even clearer, we have “fishy emails” and spying on your neighbor. Talk about UNCONSTITUTIONAL !
    Talk about Hitlerism! And to call those who are dissenting “mobs” is something you would hear from Lenin or Hitler.

    It is my opinion that Obama and his band of thugs be impeached and tried for treason. The sooner we get rid of these Nazis the better.

  9. The Arctic Fox says:

    @JS02: If you apply for a birth certificate in Hawaii for $15, you get a “certified copy of life birth record”. Which is exactly what Obama provided, and what has been examined by numerous people on both sides and declared authentic. What’s the best you birthers can manage? Orly Taitz and her fake Australian birth certificate.

    @Uffy: So are you at all upset by the fact that Bush warrantlessly wiretapped you? Or is that OKIYAR. Because mass warrantless wiretapping, mining for massive amounts of personal information without actually targetting the bad guys – that’s far worse than what Obama’s proposing, yet everyone on the Right here lined up to defend it.

  10. luvRu5hh8l1b5 says:

    was that another liberal with its head in the sand?

    No, that liberal had its head up the same place all liberals have theirs. It’s dark up there, but it’s not sand.

    DA Earbama has his head there too, but don’t tell him I said so. I may be one of those “angry mob” people he wants his brownshirts to report…

  11. js02 says:

    ox, you are about as wrong about the truth as it gets…you zoom in on irrelevance and ignore a forest full of tree’s….

    go stuff yourself…you would be better off that way puppet…

  12. js02 says:

    ill tell ya why they are mad….

    because these DNC sponsored moves that effectively destroy america are being passed…by congressmen and senators sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States….

    “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the
    ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia
    and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own
    excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander,
    could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
    Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the
    approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it
    must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction
    be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation
    of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

    Abraham Lincoln

  13. ohioorrin says:

    Hanson wrote – “…moderate Republicans, independents, and conservative Democrats—apparently angry at Bush for Iraq and big deficits, unimpressed by the McCain campaign…”

    yes for iraq & the deficits, but also angry, not unimpressed, that 72 yr old mccain selected palin to fill-in after his coronary.

    I wanted a reason to vote mccain as a ck n balance for a dem congress, and he offered palin.

  14. uffy says:

    Arctic Fox:
    What the hell are you smoking? Don’t you ever put words into my posts again!

    And for those of you who are still whining about Palin……We should be so lucky to have her as Pres………at least she wouldn’t be asking for fishy emails or asking you to goosestep over to your neighbors.

    Nanny staters aka govt tit suckers, sigh.

  15. canadianobserver says:

    And for those of you who are still whining about Palin……We should be so lucky to have her as Pres…uffy

    ———————————————————
    Why would you deliberately want to return to being a global laughing stock, uffy?

    Now that you have a President who gives y’all a bit of credibility wouldn’t you want to hold on to that, at least for the next 8 years?

  16. js02 says:

    its amusing to see such libtards go on and on about the One…totally ignorant of the lies that they espouse as the truth coming out of the white house…

    the most impressive response from a libtard?

    “Birthers, sigh”

    the drivel of a mental midget….

  17. js02 says:

    Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It

    If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP.

    From the White House website:

    There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
    […]
    The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy opposition they hope to receive from citizen informers.

  18. js02 says:

    frickin chicago mob tactics…these idiots are in charge of the United States of America?

    GO FIGURE!!

  19. uffy says:

    CO;

    It was people like you who made Sarah Palin a GODDESS. Have I thanked you?

  20. pain says:

    Deleted – unsubstantiated allegations.

  21. js02 says:

    some moron said”Why would you deliberately want to return to being a global laughing stock”

    RETURN?

    standing up for freedom makes us a laughing stock of the world? only a stooge could come up with such rhetoric (if indeed its a unique statement…probably more copy and paste trickery)…

    lets look at what makes america a laughing stock around the globe…eh?

    start with the ONE…oblunder…adopted in INDONESIA at 6…holding INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP….called barry soetoro…effectively GIVING UP ANY CLAIM TO US CITIZENSHIP TO BECOME AN INDONESIAN CITIZEN….

    yup…its all true…and the world wants to know…EXACTLY WHEN HE RENOUNCED HIS INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP?

    ya cant just say…im an american….you have to go through the courts…yet the one oblunder never got there….HE IS LEGALLY STILL AN INDONESIAN CITIZEN IN THE EYES OF US IMIGRATION LAW….and ILLEGAL ALIEN is POTUS…

    eww..you say…proof?

    dang…proof is in the court system….PROOF IS BEING STIFFLED BY LAWYERS WORKING FOR THE ONE….you really dont think the dozens of cases in courts over this are there with NO PROOF? ya probably do…thats because you are ignorant stooges and libtards…

    then again….according to the constitution…the ONE has to be a “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” of the united states to be qualified for POTUS…the constitution explicitly states that NO PERSON SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES…unless…they are a citizen of the Unites States at the Time the constitution was passed…or….a “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” thereafter…

    despite popular belief… Oblunder”s father was NOT an American Citizen…he was a kenyan (with full british citizenship) citizen in the US on a student visa…his son….OBLUNDER was born with both Kenyan (British) and American citizenship…this is what the US constitution guards against by putting the natural born citizen requirement in place…it makes no difference that he lost his Kenyan citizenship at the age of 21…the Constitution is only concerned with citizenship at the time of birth…and the FACT THAT OBLUNDER IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is being whitewashed by chicago mob tactics, spreading lies about the truth….and paying huge sums of money to lawyers to INSURE THIS CASE NEVER COMES TO TRIAL IN ANY COURT OF LAW WITH PROPER JURISDICTION….

    wake up libtards…your puppet strings are showing…you are being USED BY IDIOTS THAT WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA AND TURN IT INTO A FAILED NATION SO THEY CAN JUSTIFY THE COMMUNIST SOCIALISM THAT WE SEE THEM PUSHING IN CONGRESS TODAY….

  22. js02 says:

    is that the size of your mind pain? two microns of wasted grey stuff? dont you have anything intelligent to say besides desparaging remarks about Sarah Palin? are you that simple minded to think that the stupidity contained in your wasted gene pool will make ANY DIFFERENCE in the truth whatsoever….

    go back to bloch…at least your satans ho’ will agree with your stupid banter…

    oh…by the way…didnt you say you was not coming back?

    once a liar…always a liar it seems…

  23. uffy says:

    pain:

    More predictions from a lesbian gone wild? Your conspiracy theories regarding Palin are hysterical.

  24. js02 says:

    gee…all i see is lip service…not facts…nothing but lip service…from pain…

    he doesnt have a clue what gold is…let alone what it weights…

    he is a libtard stooge….a mental midget….sinking beyond irrevelance irrelevance…

  25. freedomfromchange says:

    Idiot pain gives us yet another lefty lie about Palin. 100+ and counting that have been debunked. Don’t you liberals ever get tired of looking like complete fools? Sheesh.

    And in comes the two-cents of Obama-loving foreigner CO. How’s that government-run healthcare going for you, ay?

  26. heyhey says:

    Which case js02? I know Berg’s lawsuit regarding the birth certificate was thrown out of court last year.

    “U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick had denied Berg’s request for a temporary restraining order on Aug. 22 but had not ruled on the merits of the suit until yesterday. Obama and the Democratic National Committee had asked Surrick to dismiss Berg’s complaint in a court filing on Sept. 24.

    They said that Berg’s claims were “ridiculous” and “patently false,” that Berg had “no standing” to challenge the qualifications of a candidate for president because he had not shown the requisite harm to himself.

    Surrick agreed.

    In a 34-page memorandum and opinion, the judge said Berg’s allegations of harm were “too vague and too attenuated” to confer standing on him or any other voters. Surrick ruled that Berg’s attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim that Obama was not a natural-born citizen were “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.”

    When the judge writes that a lawsuit is “frivolous and not worthy of discussion,” I think it’s time to move on. But, of course, they won’t.

    My favorite claim by conservative bloggers and pundits was that the birth certificate was “photoshopped.” Well, I am happy to say that while I might not be an expert on very many things in this world, Adobe Photoshop happens to be one of them. I’ve even got the credentials to prove it. And I’ll put myself on the line by saying, “horse hockey.” The certificate number on the certificate shown on Obama’s website was redacted. That’s it.”

    Unless your talking about another case. Do you get all your news from chain emails?

  27. tiredoflibbs says:

    Why are we angry?

    According to Krugman and others, if you are against Obamacare, you are racist.

    The liberals can’t win with their ideas so no they have regressed back into their old tactics.

  28. Amazona says:

    Fox, you have covered a lot of ground in your scurrying to deny, attack, and obfuscate. Much of your blather is just average hate-based Lefty delusion—-that Dem presidents have always had to rush in to fix what the Republicans have screwed up, for example. Without spending too much time on this insanity, I can, without even trying, think of Viet Nam, Carter’s economic disaster, the Iranian hostage situation, and the incredible mess generated by Billy’s dithereing over actually taking custody of Bin Laden when it was repeatedly offered to him on a silver platter.

    And none of you has run as a liberal, much less a Liberal. Clinton ran right down the middle—I know of hard-core conservatives who thought he would not be a bad president because he came across as so MODERATE. And Barry, why, Barry never UTTERED the word Liberal, while the main debate about John McCain was “is he conservative enough?” Quote me one single concern from any legitimate source bragging about Obama’s Liberal credentials. Hell, all you guys could do was send your compliant media out to defuse every single reference to the radical Liberalism of Obama, usually with the same tactics you are trying to use to defuse the mounting backlash against the stealth socialism that you worked so hard to slip into the White House under the guise of “unity, hope, and change”.

  29. Amazona says:

    heyheyHEY, there, is your post on “birthers” based on a real understanding of what you wrote, or simply a not-very clever attempt to spin facts so you can claim they mean the opposite of what they really are?

    First you quote Obama and the DNC as claiming Berg’s CLAIMS

  30. Amazona says:

    I really hate this keyboard…there is Key of Death that sometimes sends my post to the blog without me wanting to……….

    First you quote Obama and the DNC as claiming Berg’s CLAIMS as
    ““ridiculous” and “patently false…” . Oh yeah, THAT is compelling—a defense team saying the accusation is unfounded. How novel!

    Without, of course, addressing the fact that Obama and the DNC were so determined not to produce what Berg asked for that they actually HAD a defense team in the first place. Every time anyone asks why any defense was ever needed, ever, to block production of corraborative documents, the response is a lot of squealing about “birthers” and the fallback position of ridicule instead of response.

    OK, then you purposely shift the quotes from the judge around and actually end up claiming that the judge EVER ruled on the merits of the case: “…..had not ruled on the merits of the suit until yesterday…” when in fact he never DID rule on the merits of the case. Why would, HOW COULD, a judge ever “rule on the merits” of a case which was never heard? Duh.

    And you completely misstate the actual words of the judge. Oh, you quote them, but you assert that the words were in refernence to the facts Berg presented to support his claims against Obama, when in fact the words were in reference to the evidencen presented by Berg TO ESTABLISH STANDING in the case.

    How do I know this? Gee, I guess I actually READ the words. You yourself actually cut and pasted the words that prove you to either be a liar or an idiot: “…the judge said Berg’s allegations of harm were “too vague and too attenuated” to confer standing on him or any other voters..” Get someone to explain standing to you—we’ve gone over it too many times here to waste more on such as you.

    “Surrick ruled that Berg’s attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim that Obama was not a natural-born citizen were “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.”

    Of course this entire statement means that the only thing found “..“frivolous and not worthy of discussion..” were BERG’S ATTEMPTS TO USE CERTAIN LAWS TO GAIN STANDING.

    You are either as dumb as a box of hair or you think we are, when you then assert that the ruling on STANDING means the judge wrote that the LAWSUIT is “frivolous and not worthy of discussion..” Of course, he didn’t say that, but why let a little truth get in the way of a defensive attack on someone?

    OF COURSE you “.. think it’s time to move on. ” The last thing you want is for any truth to be revealed about your idol.

  31. Amazona says:

    And it is always interesting to see a judge refer to the arguments of a case as “not worthy of discussion”. Guess it is easier to dismiss something if you don’t have to defend your decision by addressing the evidence.

    And let my point out here, before orlando gets his Ranty Machine geared up for more “birther” attacks, that I am merely pointing out the inherent dishonesty in heyhey’s post, not arguing that Obama was born in another country. I just love the way the most ardently rabid of the ardently radical Left just love to ignore facts when they might get in the way of a mindless attackfest.

  32. Amazona says:

    Mark, now that the troll has been spanked, let me address the actual post. You say “Any one of them would do what any other would do with hardly a shade of difference.” I respectfully disagree.

    I think Hillary Clinton would have done pretty much what Obama is trying to do, but with more effective leadership, more panache, and more sublety. Hillary learned the hard way, by being at the sharp end of the stick when public opinion turned against the Billary team, that you can’t just blunder in and arrogantly start to reorder everything. But she also sat at the feet of Alinksy, even writing her masters thesis on him (publication of which was subseqently blocked in an effort to hide the breadth and depth of her socialist leanings) and probably would have been as ardently socialist as Obama is.

    I think the other guys were not nearly as radical as Obama and Hillary, and what’s more the cadre of associates from which they would have picked their cabinets and advisors was nowhere near as radical as Obama’s. I do not see a President Leiberman picking Eric Holder as AG, for example…….

  33. js02 says:

    if you would get heyhey to get his headhead out of his bee beehind he might actually figure out that its better for him to keep his mouth shut instead of to open it an prove that he is a total fool…oh…too late for that though….

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    Spencer Connerat: Connerat v. Obama (07/05/09)
    Case Refiled
    Hawaii:
    Birth Certificate Brief File in HI Appellate Court
    Andy Martin: Martin v. Lingle (05/27/09)
    New York:
    State Department, DHS Respond
    Christopher Strunk: Chris Strunk FOIA (05/01/09)
    North Carolina:
    New case to be submitted
    Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan: Sullivan v. Marshall (03/20/09)
    AmericaMustKnow history
    Other Reports: (02/09/09)

    The following presumably does not include all above action:

    Various Other Cases Against Obama
    Per Stephen Pidgeon:
    London Solicitor working on UK connection
    Operatives looking for POE (Port Of Entry) info
    Leads in Seattle
    Leads in DC
    Phil Berg mentioned another Berg v. Obama case under seal at this time
    Georiga: Filed December 2008
    Alabama: Filed December 2008
    Illinois: Filed December 2008
    Michigan: Filed December 2008
    Virginia: Challenge
    Ohio: Challenge
    California: Legal action
    North Carolina: Legal action
    Massachusetts: Challenge
    Maryland: Commitment from numerous individuals to file a challenge
    Virgin Islands: Commitment to file a challenge
    After Inauguration: (01/12/09)

    If all other actions fall through, Philip Berg plans on filing a Petition for Writ of Quo Warranto (be sure to read the linked wikipedia article], challenging the President-Elect’s qualifications for President
    Seeking an Attorney (02/17/09)

    Ms. Cris Ericson: Ericson v. Obama (12/24/08)
    Challenging Obama’s birth certificate
    Lawsuit with Military and ex-Military Plaintiffs

    Per Dr. Orly Taitz’ recent commentary (now said to have approximately 50 Plaintiffs, one of whom is a blood relative of Obama)

    [I]n re. to military case. We were planning to file today [01/08/09] in GA. A local attorney that was supposed to co-sign the papers has some personal problems. We need a local attorney in GA. Please contact me if you know of a GA attorney that can co-sign simply for the purpose of receipt of the documents from the court.

    For an archive of defunct cases, see the page Eligibility Case Archive.

    Popularity: 30% [?]

  34. js02 says:

    Journalists and politicians complain that we must avoid a Constitutional crisis, but there already is a Constitutional crisis. It has been caused by Obama’s refusal to take the simple step to clear the matter up. The power of the Executive branch has been compromised. Its right to collect taxes and sign Congressional enactments into law, in fact all of its powers, have become problematic. Since their validity under Section I is now doubtful, they depend on the illegal exercise of force. Since officers of the American military take their oath on commissioning to the Constitution and not the President, their obedience to the Commander-in-Chief has lapsed and, if they challenge or resist his authority, any courts-martial will also be an illegal exercise of force. The only way out of the present Constitutional crisis is for Obama to do as McCain did when he was confronted by far less pressing doubts about the circumstances of his birth. He must disclose his vault birth certificate. Since the document has been so suspiciously withheld for so long, it should be subjected to rigorous forensic tests. Then whatever is on it should be judicially assessed together with the claims that have been made that Barack Obama was born on foreign soil.

    It should be added that “Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July.

    “The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies.

    “During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.

    “Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to ‘cauterize’ the records of potentially embarrassing information.

  35. js02 says:

    orlando says: “A birther ranting…”on August 7th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    funny…you cant tell the difference between a rant and a fact…and its no wonder….you have your head stuffed up bama’s beehind so far….the only thing real to you is full of shxx to begin with….

  36. js02 says:

    so what did they do to obama’s passport file…its really the right of every american citizen to know…but as usual…they wont tell…even if its criminal

  37. ohioorrin says:

    orlando says: August 7th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    extremists have no shame (or ethics) orlando so, of course js (a seminal birther…ha!) foams about “inherent dishonesty”…& believes it !

    I mean he probably actually believes it just like those videos showing emotional seniors at townhall meets crying about being put down or some other such wingnut nonsense.

  38. ranafuerte says:

    Deleted – questions blogger decision; get your own dratted blog if you don’t like the way we run this one.

  39. jeremiah06 says:

    js is a spoof

    No, he is not a spoof. His writing resembles keefer’s too much. He may be a brother to him, and it may just be him.

    I hope he is not a Democrat.

    Are you, js?

    If it ain’t true js, i’d like to bust orlando right in the mouth.

  40. ohioorrin says:

    ranafuerte says: August 7th, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    medicare = socialized medicine.

    NO gop reps voted to repeal medicare (or social security).

    NO eligible seniors will refuse medicare (or social security).

    those astrotufers are fools, tools, or paid actors.

  41. uffy says:

    ohioorrin;

    Since I get Medicare maybe I can explain it to you. I paid into the Social Security for a little over 44 years. My employer also paid into SS. I didn’t have a choice NOT to pay into SS. Medicare is not free. I pay 98 dollars a month for it. TriCare(military) changes over to Medicare when you are eligible. I also have a supplemental that I pay for.
    Many people do not sign up for SS. You can donate your SS to charity. I pay 25% of my SS back to the IRS in taxes.
    Seniors have every right to demand answers on Obama’s health care bill. It states it will take billions from Medicare. That is money they paid into the system.
    SS, VA, and Medicaid are govt programs. The citizen did NOT have the right to vote on them. Every taxpayer pays for the programs.
    You are just angry b/c Seniors are dissenting and not Cindy Shehan and her followers.
    And only terrorists would say that the dissenters are like Tim McVeigh. Only Nazis would stifle dissent. Dictator Obama has certainly brain washed you. And now you see the SEIU thugs assaulting dissenters.
    Liberals are just plain stupid! They violate the Constitution and whine about Seniors. Every day citizens exercising their rights and liberals hate it. Liberals are traitors, they are unAmerican, they are Ugly Americans. Shame on them.

  42. js02 says:

    is see your ineffective one liners orlando…ive figure out that the single celled brain behind them isnt worth engaging…

    it belongs to a mental midget…a lemming…a stooge…its a waste of time pitty pattying around and trying to engage…stuipidity…

  43. Amazona says:

    With your permission, js02. I’d like to address part of one of your posts. You say:

    “It should be added that “Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July.

    “The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies.

    “During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.

    “Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to ‘cauterize’ the records of potentially embarrassing information.”

    Do you know if any investigation took place, regarding this intrusion? Was any effort made to determine what, if any, action was taken regarding those passport files once they were illegally accessed? Were any charges filed?

    Any idea why or how a person can illegally get into secret government files, have this illegal access well known and acknowledged, and then face no legal action?

    Maybe the contractor was a member of the New Black Panthers…