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Originally posted by paronomasia
reply to post by Libertygal
EXACTLY!! people try to apply labels to trivialize this issue. Some people are so disillusioned they can only see things as left or right, white or black. This type of thinking is part of the problem with this country!
Not the same, Bush was hated for what he had done, Obama was hated the day he got into office.
The questions will never be anwered to the satisfaction of some people, even though proof has been clearly given they refuse to believe it and the question that has to be asked is why.
1) Main Stream Media is doing all the can to BLACK THIS OUT!
(expected seeing they are owned by the same banks that own Obama)
2) Manning has found a Court to hear the case. (To be announced in order to protect the judges).
3) Manning’s attorneys subpoenaed many high profile politicians! Active & Retired
4) Many facts are kept secret until the hearings and are said to be EXPLOSIVE!
5) Other Key Witnesses are to be explosive as well!
6) Those that show up, are going to testify based on previous statements they have made!
7) Partial Witness List: George Stephanopoulos, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Condolezza Rice; Michael Sovern (the past President of Columbia University); Rod Blagojevich; Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, book writer James Cone, more. He also subpoenaed all of the faculty that were a part of the Political Science program during the years that Obama would have been a student at Columbia University.
Originally posted by jibeho
Too funny! This info is straight from his own site and I am not the one trying to discredit the man. He has his masters of divinity which makes him a reverend. The PhD. ehh big deal. There are a lot of phd's floating around that carry very little weight. They just look neato on paper.
Am I interested in the truth? You're damn right I am. I'll start with this statement from Michelle Obama regarding Barack''s Mother.
His mother and his grandmother. [applause] Barack saw his mother, who was very young and very single when she had him, and he saw her work hard to complete her education and try to raise he and his sister.
blog.showmeprogress.com...
This quote is taken from a transcript of a speech that Michelle gave at the University of Missouri during the 2008 campaign and is posted on a progressive website. This statement was made before the birther movement started to gain any traction. I don't doubt his citizenship I doubt the alleged facts behind the story of his mothers pregnancy and her marriage to Barack Sr. I would be willing to make a small wager on the fact that Obama was born a month or two earlier than Aug. 4.
I have posted this in several forums on several threads and no one will touch it in an effort to rationalize her statement. No slip of the tongue here from Michelle.
How should one interpret this statement when it contradicts the Obama story that we are expected to believe? My rational mind says something stinks or that someone has not been forthright with the whole truth. The truth is what I seek. This is the same notion that drives people of science to seek further and deeper and to look beyond simple face value.
Originally posted by ImaginaryReality1984
reply to post by Libertygal
Not the same, Bush was hated for what he had done, Obama was hated the day he got into office.
The questions will never be anwered to the satisfaction of some people, even though proof has been clearly given they refuse to believe it and the question that has to be asked is why.
Originally posted by Libertygal
reply to post by Delphiki
Treason would be a criminal case, no?
Originally posted by jibeho
reply to post by piddles
I had a roommate once that actually used crystal deodorant.
Originally posted by K J Gunderson
Originally posted by jibeho
Too funny! This info is straight from his own site and I am not the one trying to discredit the man. He has his masters of divinity which makes him a reverend. The PhD. ehh big deal. There are a lot of phd's floating around that carry very little weight. They just look neato on paper.
Straight from HIS site!!!!! What do you not get about that? Do you know what a "Masters of Divinity" actually is? Do you know anything about the school he got it from? Did you look into any of that? Apparently not since you are here bragging about having read and believed it to be worth something.
As far as him not being a real doctor, why would you promote is as part of his credibility and at the same time blow it off as not a big deal that he is really a fraud - thus your basis for him being credible is all but blown to pieces.
Am I interested in the truth? You're damn right I am. I'll start with this statement from Michelle Obama regarding Barack''s Mother.
His mother and his grandmother. [applause] Barack saw his mother, who was very young and very single when she had him, and he saw her work hard to complete her education and try to raise he and his sister.
blog.showmeprogress.com...
This quote is taken from a transcript of a speech that Michelle gave at the University of Missouri during the 2008 campaign and is posted on a progressive website. This statement was made before the birther movement started to gain any traction. I don't doubt his citizenship I doubt the alleged facts behind the story of his mothers pregnancy and her marriage to Barack Sr. I would be willing to make a small wager on the fact that Obama was born a month or two earlier than Aug. 4.
I have posted this in several forums on several threads and no one will touch it in an effort to rationalize her statement. No slip of the tongue here from Michelle.
How should one interpret this statement when it contradicts the Obama story that we are expected to believe? My rational mind says something stinks or that someone has not been forthright with the whole truth. The truth is what I seek. This is the same notion that drives people of science to seek further and deeper and to look beyond simple face value.
So...you do not know his degrees are worthless fakes pieces of crap. You know nothing about the schools he got them from. You think he is credible because he is a doctor and you do not care that he is really a fake doctor so you go off on this quote about Michelle? I see nothing in there that lends credibility to Manning and I see even less demonstrating you have any understanding of who this man actually is and what his education is actually worth.
If you are really interested in the truth, stop promoting this man based on what he earned and do some research into what he actually did earn, how he earned it, and from where. Get back to me when you have that info. Then maybe start a thread about this off topic quote above and address that there.
Some institutions (for example, some Bible colleges and seminaries) choose not to participate in the accreditation process because they view it as an infringement of their religious, academic, or political freedom.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Originally posted by jibeho
Your constant condescending demeanor is getting very old.
As for his PHD. he earned from his own unaccredited school. He is not trying to defraud anyone. He laid it out rather plain and clear. Like I said before there are a lot of bloated PhD's floating around. It doesn't make him a fraud. I liken his degree to an honorary degree.
Manning graduated from The College of New Rochelle with a Bachelor of Arts degree and continued on to Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York where he was awarded a Master of Divinity. Manning also holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the ATLAH Theological Seminary, an unaccredited educational institution.
You really need to stop applying your own meaning to peoples statements.
As for his seminary school that you question but clearly didn't research, here it is. Founded in 1836. www.utsnyc.edu...
In your eyes its probably just a fake school.
Again your condescending attitude further harms your stance. Just to appease you, Yes, I know what a Masters of Divinity is. My younger brother is currently pursuing his BTW. Pretty neato eh?
As for my statement regarding Michelle's gaff, it's just part of the whole case against Obama's credibility and is relevant to this thread and the efforts of Rev. Manning. Care to comment on her statement?
That's what I thought.
Edit to add:
There are plenty of unaccredited colleges out there. It does not mean that these are fraudulent or bogus schools. Perhaps it is you who doesn't get it.
en.wikipedia.org...
[edit on 14-5-2010 by jibeho]
Originally posted by OldDragger
reply to post by six67seven
Fer cryin out loud!
Citing WND for anything is like citing Mad Magazine.
WND is run by Joseph Farrah, a complete nutcase exreme right winger.
WND has run how many BS birther stories? It a pure propaganda site, nothing more.
I eagerly await the pretend results of this latest pretend trial.
[edit on 14-5-2010 by OldDragger]
Originally posted by Libertygal
reply to post by Delphiki
I understand all the points you made, I am not saying I don't. They just claim to have the right to bypass the prosecuter because no one would be willing to touch it for fear of retribution. That's kind of the whole idea behind this Grand Jusry thing.
You can go to the Grand Jury website and read their history and claims regarding the Constitution and all.
americangrandjury.org...
I think they presentments are meant to replace the prosecutor or something? I don't quite follow it all.
Here is the presentments page:
americangrandjury.org...
I think it would take someone well versed Constitutional Law as well as criminal law to delve into all that mess.
Philip Berg, a lawyer acting pro se, filed this action
challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to run for and serve as
President of the United States. The District Court dismissed
Berg’s action on the grounds that he lacks standing and failed to
state a cognizable claim.
In sum, we agree with the District Court that Berg lacks
standing to bring this suit because he has suffered no injury
particularized to him. A prerequisite of standing is that the
litigant has suffered or will suffer an injury in fact that is caused
by the complained-of conduct by a defendant and that can be
redressed by the court. Taliaferro, 458 F.3d at 188. An “injury
in fact” is “an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a)
concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not
conjectural or hypothetical.” Lujan, 504 U.S. at 560 (internal
citations and quotations omitted). “[W]hen the asserted harm is
a ‘generalized grievance’ shared in substantially equal measure
by all or a large class of citizens, that harm alone normally does
not warrant exercise of jurisdiction.” Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S.
490, 499 (1975) (citation omitted).
As a practical matter, Berg was not directly
injured because he could always support a candidate he believed
was eligible. See Becker v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 230 F.3d
381, 390 (1st Cir. 2000) (no cognizable injury to voters when
they can still cast for preferred candidate),
Even if we assume that the placement of an ineligible
candidate on the presidential ballot harmed Berg, that injury,
including any frustration Berg felt because others refused to act
on his view of the law, was too general for the purposes of
Article III: Berg shared both his “interest in proper application
of the Constitution and laws,” and the objective uncertainty of
Obama’s possible removal, pari passu with all voters; and the
relief he sought would have “no more directly and tangibly
benefit[ed] him than . . . the public at large.”
The essence of Berg’s complaint is that the defendants,
the states, presidential candidates other than Obama, political
parties, a majority of American voters, and Congress – a list that
includes some who could have challenged, or could still
challenge, Obama’s eligibility through various means – have not
been persuaded by his claim. That grievance, too, is not one
“appropriately resolved through the judicial process.” Whitmore
v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149, 155 (1990).
Berg asserts that the District Court erred in denying him
standing under 18 U.S.C. § 1983 because of a lack of state
action. State action is not one of the three elements of standing.
See Taliaferro, 458 F.3d at 188. In any event, the District Court
did not rely on a lack of state action to dismiss his case. See
App. at 23-24 n.14.
Among the litany of Berg’s claims is his argument that he
was injured when the “President of the Senate failed to call for
objections during the counting of the electoral votes from each
state . . . .” Appellant’s Br. at 28. Berg supplies no factual basis
for that assertion and we have no idea if it is true, but, assuming
it is, Berg has been no more injured by that omission than any
other United States citizen. Berg alternatively argues that he has
standing because his First Amendment rights were somehow
violated when his political representatives failed to object to the
electoral votes cast in Obama’s favor, as he wished them to.
That argument is frivolous. Berg’s final claim that the District
Court violated his due process rights by dismissing his case is
equally frivolous.