Ellis is a law professer. He's a black man, maybe
those out there who call me a racist for writing about the Obama birth
certificate crisis will finally understand this isn't about race, it's about
the law.
Obama and our coming
constitutional crisis
"As President-elect Barack Obama
ascends to the presidency of the United States, there still remains a looming
cloud above his head like the sword of Damocles. If and when that sword will
fall plunging America into a constitutional crisis depends on a number of
desperate and remarkable variables.
"The inevitable constitutional
crisis regarding Obama, of course, revolves around his inability (or
unwillingness) to produce an authentic Hawaiian birth certificate with the
raised certificate stamp that the Federal Elections Commission can
independently verify.
"I know there are those who say
Obama has produced an authentic birth certificate and posted it on his
website, but experts and amateurs alike quickly found numerous errors in that
document and deemed it a forgery (and a bad one at
that).....
Continues:
"Constitutionally speaking,
Judge Surrick's reasoning is completely illogical and a total dereliction of
his duty as a judge to substantively address this most vital constitutional
controversy. Instead, in a gutless manner, Surrick dismissed Berg's complaint
10 days before the elections on a technicality of standing, which to any
rational person begs the question: If Philip J. Berg as an American citizen, a
respected Democratic operative and former attorney general of Pennsylvania
doesn't have the "standing" to bring this type of lawsuit against Obama, then
who in America does have standing? The good judge in all 34 pages of legal
mumbo jumbo didn't bother to answer this pivotal
question.
Full column at link
Ellis Washington,
currently a professor of law and political science at Savannah State
University, former editor at the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The
Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer
and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political
philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review
articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality:
The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002). See his law review
article "Reply
to Judge Richard Posner." Washington's latest book is "The
Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust." From: "Devvy Kidd"
<devvyk@earthlink.net>
Subject: Here are the third party presidential
race totals (rounded off) compared to 2004:
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:37:12
-0600
The alleged count:
1. Reform Party (Ralph Nader) 650,000 (2008)
compared to 466,000 (2004-Ralph Nader)
2. Libertarian Party (Bob Barr) 485,000 (2008)
compared to 397,000 (2004- Michael Badnarik)
3. Constitution Party (Chuck Baldwin) 175,000
(2008) compared to 144,000 (2004-Michael Paroutka)
4. Green Party (Cynthia McKinney) 142,000 (2008)
compared to 120,000 (2004-David Cobb)
Significant write-in candidate totals were: Black
conservative candidate Alan Keyes (35,000) and Ron Paul
(20,000).