Barack Obama

The US Supreme Court dismissed the case without comment in December 2008, and denied certiorari to other cases in 2009 and 2010. The Court appears to consider these cases frivolousand not worth their time and attention.

Ever since then-senator Obama began his run for the White House, a group of people, later known as "Birthers," expressed doubt that Mr. Obama was really an American. They insisted he was born in Kenya and somehow spirited into the United States. They offered no credible proof other than a multitude of conspiracy theories, but about 19% of the population, including more than 30% of Republicans, continued to believe Barack Obama was not eligible to be president. Even when Mr. Obama released his birth certificate, verified by the then-Republican governor of Hawaii, the conspiracy theories did not stop.

In December 2008, the US Supreme Court dismissed without comment a New Jersey lawsuit challenging the validity of Obama's birth certificate and his citizenship status. In January 2009 the US Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari that included such terms as "top secret briefing" and "[t]his case involves national security, extraordinary public significance and requires action urgently...", "placing all American citizens and the United States of America in grave danger..." and "it clearly states Obama's name as "Barry Soetoro," and lists his citizenship as Indonesian..." in the report of a very complex and unsubstantiated rationalization as to why Obama should be disqualified from the Presidency.

Regarding such false assertions, it should be noted that Mr. Obama was never legally adopted by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. He was born as Barack Obama, and lived under that name all his life. Second, his mother was an American citizen (born in Kansas) and there is no evidence she gave birth to Barack anywhere but in Hawaii. Further:

• The archives of both of Honolulu's major newspapers, the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin, contain birth announcements printed in their papers in 1961:

  Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4

• Obama's mother was enrolled in a Hawaiian college in 1961.
• The State of Hawaii Health Department Director and the Registrar of Vital Statistics personally verified that the Health Department holds Obama's original birth certificate.

In Hollister v. Barry Soetoro (the conspiracy theorists' name for Obama), a civil action brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in March 2009, Judges James Robertson (past President of the District of Columbia Bar) opened his memorandum with the following words that criticize the lack of factual accuracy in the legal challenges against Obama's citizenship:

"This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do. Even in its relatively short life the case has excited the blogosphere and the conspiracy theorists. The right thing to do is to bring it to an early end."

Pride and Prejudice.

Mr. Bennet says this to Elizabeth when she refuses Mr. Collins.

The direct quote is: Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.''

Unfortunately having children in the USA does not keep your friend from being deported. Even if the children are American born. If you would like to discuss this further I can be reached at candlefactoryco@candlefactoryco.com There are some things that can be done about it.

All foreign nationals whether they are legal or illegal, married to a U.S. citizen and/or have citizen children who have committed a felony crime will be deported. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, http://www.uscis.gov

it depends also on how much hardship it would create on the family if your friend is deported. the more hardship, the better chance of not being deported, so if he/she has dependants that would need assistance if they were gone, that would help their case.

>>>Yes they can be deported. But there are ways around it, such as applying for asylum and stating at your deportation hearing that if you are deported, that would result in severe hardships on your family, e.g. having young children who need you to support them financially, children who might end up being the wards of the state(and become a burden to tax payers). Basically, find a sharp immigr. attorney!!!!

"The Audacity of Hope" is the title you are looking for. Here is a quote from the book:

When we get in a tussle, we appeal to the Founding Fathers and the Constitution's ratifiers to give direction. Some, like Justice Scalia, conclude that the original understanding must be followed and if we obey this rule, democracy is respected.

Others, like Justice Breyers, insist that sometimes the original understanding can take you only so far--that on the truly big arguments, we have to take context, history, and the practical outcomes of a decision into account.

I have to side with Justice Breyer's view of the Constitution--that it is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.

I see democracy as a conversation to be had. According to this conception, the genius of Madison's design is not that it provides a fixed blueprint for action. It provides us with a framework and rules, but all its machinery are designed to force us into a conversation.

Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten.

Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. Eventually he ran as a Democrat for the state senate seat from his district, which included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side, and won.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for president as a democrat and won. He is set to become the 44th president of the Unites States and the first African-American ever elected to that position. IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous and DarthBotto

Spouse Michelle Obama (3 October 1992 - present) 2 children

Trivia His first name comes from the word that means "blessed by God" in Arabic. In the Kenyan town where his father was born, the long-brewed "Senator" brand of beer has been nicknamed "Obama." U.S. Senator from Illinois since 3 January 2005. Won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word for the CD version of his autobiography "Dreams From My Father" (2006). Lives in Hyde Park (Chicago). On "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993), he revealed that President George W. Bush nicknamed him "Bama" and "Rock". The movie he saw on his first date with Michelle Obama was Do the Right Thing (1989). Related to Park Overall. Has two daughters, Malia Obama (born in 1998) and Sasha Obama (born in 2001). Candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 US presidential election. Several celebrities including; Halle Berry, George Clooney, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Topher Grace, Macy Gray, Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Eddie Murphy and John Cleese support his 2008 presidential campaign. Robert De Niro gave his endorsement at the same rally where Barack was endorsed by Caroline and Ted Kennedy. Enjoys playing basketball and poker. At his wife's suggestion, he quit smoking before his campaign to win the Democratic nomination began. His paternal relatives still live in Kenya. Confessed teenage drug experiences in his memoirs "Dreams from My Father". One of his ancestors was Mareen Duvall, also an ancestor of actor Robert Duvall. Shares his surname with a small city in western Japan, which means "small shore" in Japanese. Plays basketball. Born to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) and Ann Dunham (1942-1995), married from 1960 to 1965. Named one of Time magazine's "100 most influential people in the world" list in 2005 and 2007. Chosen as one of "10 people would change the world" by New Statesman magazine (2005). Won his second Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "The Audacity of Hope" (2008). On June 3, 2008 he won the Montana primary election giving him enough delegates to become the first Black American presidential candidate to win a major political party's presumptive nomination for the office of President of the United States. Is a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan. More than 215,000 people attended his speech in Berlin on 24 July 2008. Has one half-sister, Maya, born to his mother and stepfather in 1970. Has his look-alike puppet in the French show "Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988). Is very distantly related to Lon Chaney. Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham died Sunday November 2, 2008 in the early evening in Honolulu from cancer. She was 86. Is the first African-American man to be elected President of the United States (November 2008). When elected President, he won the battleground states of Florida, Virginia and Colorado - all of which had voted Republican in 2004. Is the first American president to be born in Hawaii. Was the 27th lawyer to be elected American president. Was elected to be the 44th president of the Unites States of America on 4 November, 2008. As a child growing up in Hawaii, his classmates knew him as Barry. Presidential campaign slogan: "Yes we can".

Personal Quotes (from DNC keynote speech) "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America. There's the United States of America. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states, and have gay friends in the red states. There are patriots who opposed the war, and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending the United States of America." And it lives on in those Americans -- young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American, gay and straight -- who are tired of a politics that divides us and want to recapture the sense of common purpose that we had when John Kennedy was President of the United States of America. Sometimes I don't know who I'm running against. (about Bill Clinton's support for Hillary Clinton) [When asked whether he would call on the Clintons to release their tax returns, after Hilary loaned $5 million of her own money to her campaign] I'll just say that I've released my tax returns. That's been a policy I've maintained consistently. I think the American people deserve to know where you get your income from. But I'll leave it up to you guys to chase it down... I think we set the bar in terms of transparency and disclosure that has been a consistent theme of my campaign and my career in politics. In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. When I am this party's nominee, my opponent will not be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq; or that I gave George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran; or that I supported Bush-Cheney policies of not talking to leaders that we don't like. And he will not be able to say that I wavered on something as fundamental as whether or not it is ok for America to torture - because it is never ok. That's why I am in it. As President, I will end the war in Iraq. We will have our troops home in sixteen months. I will close Guantanamo. I will restore habeas corpus. I will finish the fight against Al Qaeda. And I will lead the world to combat the common threats of the 21st century - nuclear weapons and terrorism; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease. And I will send once more a message to those yearning faces beyond our shores that says, "You matter to us. Your future is our future. And our moment is now." This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. Not this time.