Berg's law suit dismissed as "Frivolous"

Should Sen. Obama be elected president, the right is going to make the conspiracy theories about Bill Clinton seem like quaint bedtime stories.

A federal judge in Philadelphia last night threw out a complaint by a Montgomery County lawyer who claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was not qualified to be president and that his name should be removed from the Nov. 4 ballot.

Philip J. Berg alleged in a complaint filed in federal district court on Aug. 21 against Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission, that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.

Berg claimed that the Democratic presidential standardbearer is not even an American citizen but a citizen of Indonesia and therefore ineligible to be president.

He alleged that if Obama was permitted to run for president and subsequently found to be ineligible, he and other voters would be disenfranchised.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick had denied Berg’s request for a temporary restraining order on Aug. 22 but had not ruled on the merits of the suit until yesterday.

…In a 34-page memorandum and opinion, the judge said Berg’s allegations of harm were “too vague and too attenuated” to confer standing on him or any other voters.

Surrick ruled that Berg’s attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim that Obama was not a natural-born citizen were “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.”

The judge also said the harm Berg alleged did “not constitute an injury in fact” and Berg’s arguments to the contrary “ventured into the unreasonable.”

This sorry ass attorney Philip J. Berg should be disbarred for filing such a frivolous lawsuit. Berg had no reason other than jealousy to file such a law suit! Berg had tried to run for President 2 times and both times failed... So his brash attempt at fame allowed him to receive over 40 million hits to his web site and made him a overnight celebrity when he began appearing on every conservative talk show accross America. His claim lost steam when he began quoting talk show host facts... The great thing about Obama is he never once looked back...