Supreme Court Rejects Obama Case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.

The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president.

Today's story has received widespread media coverage. Previously, the few detailed stories appeared on blogs, with conservatives using the story, liberals criticizing the conservatives for publicizing it. In Oklahoma, for example, the liberal Alternative Tulsa has posted three stories, outdistancing any conservative blog in the number of stories on the issue.

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Questions Dog Obama's Birth Certificate

Is President-elect Barack Obama's birth certificate authentic? It's a question that's circulated for months now, and even as Obama prepares to become the nation's 44th president, the blogosphere is ablaze with stories about it, pro and con.

Today, "Obama birth certificate" on Google produces 179,000 returns, a number that is growing by the day.

And the stories are being read. Tulsa Today's David Arnett posted a lengthy piece on the controversy yesterday and had so many hits his site went down; service is being restored.

Bunny Chambers of Oklahoma City, a Republican elector this year, is out with an email today in which she writes, "There must be something to hide if BHO won’t release proof, if he has it, that he is a natural born US citizen. He isn’t officially elected until the Electoral College meets on December 15th. I am a member of the 2008 Electoral College. I can’t believe that this is actually happening right before our eyes. We must do something! I’ve worked over 30 years to protect our US Constitution and now it seems that it will have been all for naught."

World Net Daily has an entire page of Obama birth certificate stories.

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