Supreme Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve
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.
Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.
At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and Hawaii officials have confirmed.
Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit. Federal courts in Ohio and Washington state have rejected similar lawsuits.
Allegations raised on the Internet say the birth certificate, showing that Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, is a fake.
But Hawaii Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome ***ino and the state's registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, say they checked health department records and have determined there's no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii.
The nonpartisan website Factcheck.org examined the original document and said it does have a raised seal and the usual evidence of a genuine document.
In addition, Factcheck.org reproduced an announcement of Obama's birth, including his parents' address in Honolulu, that was published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961.
But I honestly do drive over there often. My daughter and new grandson live about six blocks from the Tacoma Mall. Thank you so much for offering, though. I love this thread, everyone is just so sweet (for a bunch of evil conservative haters 
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The only thing I have to find somewhere is the gelt (chocolate coverd coins). My kids will have a COW if they are not in the stockings. Sometimes backing yourself into a corner with a tradition is not such a good thing. I've ended up driving all over three counties (I live on the edge of three counties though...) searching for something that could NOT BE FORGOTTEN!!!
I only partially remember something about this at Halloween.
I'm behind. What are we hating now??
I love it!! But I can only drink it in small amounts of I'll get nauseous.
