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As you all know, I have the honor of being one of Vermont’s three Electors, and since Obama won the state, I get to cast one of those three votes on December 15 in Montpelier.
I just received via certified mail a small packet of information purportedly sent by one “Terri Storm” of Bessemer, Alabama. It was addressed to me by name as an Elector. The gist of the message is that some group plans to mount an Electoral College “challenge” to Barack Obama’s qualification for President based on their suggestion that he is not a “natural born citizen” of the United States.
This group charges that
Despite much public demand, Mr. Obama has not provided access to a classic Birth Certificate that proves the actual place of birth (Web site “short form” version simply does not address this question — He [sic] must deliver the certified long form …
More after the jump.
There’s a graphic of the comparison of the “Obama Certification” as shown on the President-elect’s campaign web site and a “Normal Certificate.” In some of the accompanying text, the group claims that on Obama’s website, “He displayed the kind of document Hawaiian residents can get for their foreign born children.”
There’s more like that, including a close reading of the alleged law regarding foreign-born children of mixed-nationality parents and why, “if Barack Hussein Obama II was born outside the U.S. or its Outlying Possessions on August 4, 1961, then Ms. Dunham could not have transmitted her citizenship to her son …”
The guy behind this malarky is one Douglas W. Schell, who says in his introduction on meetup.com (all typos his):
My name is Dr. Douglas W. Schell. I recently retired as a Univesrity Business Professor from The Univesrity of North Carolina at Pembroke. In 2000, I ran for NC Governor on the Reform Parrty ticket. I have helped manage several state-wide camapign
He’s a Ron Paul partisan. He’s behind a website called Democratic-Disaster.com. A paragraph from his so-called evidence expresses outrage that non-citizens can appear as candidates on the ballot, citing Socialist Workers’ Party VP candidate Roger Calaro as a Nicaraguan citizen with a US green card.
So I’ve been “invited” to sign on to the challenge by promising to refuse to cast my Electoral vote until Obama delivers “the good stuff, the real Birth Certificate …”
This “invitation” is part of a plan to apply to the Supreme Court for a Stay of Election, while awaiting the results of “forensic tests”
on the original, vault copy [of Barack Obama’s birth certificate] residing in the State of Hawaii … to determine if the BC was actually produced on or around 1961 when Obama was born. This test should not take more than 72 hours and then a report produced by these forensic scientists giving their INFORMED opinion of the validity of the BC. … The report must be done by Dec 1, 2008 [from this weird website
But, of course, here’s the real agenda:
THIS CAN WORK AND WILL BE OUR LAST CHANCE TO STOP OBAMA. PLEASE BECOME A PART OF HISTORY AND IN DEFENSE OF OUR BELOVED CONSTITUTION.
GOD GRANT US HIS HELP IN THE BATTLE FOR HIS CONSTITUTION. I SEEK THE PRAYERS FOR THIS ACTION TO SUCCEED IF YOU ARE A PERSON OF FAITH.
It’s all hogwash, out there in lala conspiracy land. I just haven’t personally come into contact with this sort of junk since I can’t remember when.
Never fear, Obamanians, my Electoral Vote is a lock. Just wanted you all to know what kind of [heavy sigh, glyph of hand to forehead] pressure we Electors are subject to. And, besides, it’s Friday, so why not …