Oh, For Goodness Sake

In Other Words: Where Is The Birth Certificate?

I promised to post this video when I had it. It’s an interview by Neil Cavuto with car dealer Jim Anderer of Long Island, New York, who is bringing a half-Birther lawsuit, represented by Leo Donofrio and Stephen Pidgeon.

Oh, well, this video is from May 2009. I will change it when the most recent one comes available.

From World Nut Daily:

Donofrio told WND the core issue is the disbursement of TARP funds to the auto maker that were intended to help banks and financial institutions. …

So, along with a bankruptcy court challenge, a “quo warranto” case is being filed in Washington, D.C., demanding to know by what authority administration officials set up the financial arrangements with Chrysler and handed out taxpayer money.

As part of the demand for information about the authority used, Donofrio confirmed, there will be questions about Obama’s eligibility to be president. Donofrio contends that since by Obama’s own admission his father never was a U.S. citizen, Obama was born a dual citizen. The framers of the Constitution, he argues, did not consider a dual citizen to be a “natural born citizen” as required for the presidency.

In other words: Where is the birth certificate?

After all, the sixty-some million Americans who voted for President Obama had no way in hell of knowing his father was Kenyan. Didn’t he tell everyone over and over again his Dad was a native of Newark, New Jersey? He didn’t? Why, that fraud! That usurpin’ mofo in the White House, he told the truth, misled the public with that truth, somehow or other, and was elected anyway—which gave him the authority.

Could it be that most people don’t care who a president’s father was, anyway? Especially a father involved for a couple of months or even years in a son’s whole life. And what about the “sins of the father” being visited on the son? The “sin” of being Kenyan or Italian or Irish or whatever; a sin of which the ancestors of every single American who is not purely descended from the Indians was guilty—Feh. Let me not get started on this one.

In the present context, if Obama was not eligible to be elected president, the bail-out and restructuring of the auto manufacturers, which led to the withdrawal of some dealer franchises, was illegal. So the argument goes. Of course, had the auto-makers gone kaput, there would be no car dealerships to worry about, but never mind. It was the decision of the auto executives to drop certain car dealers they deemed unproductive, not the President’s, but never mind that, too.

Mind you, in the argument, by extension, everything Obama’s administration has accomplished was done illegally; therefore, must be undone. First and foremost, the goal of all Birtherism is to overthrow the Obama presidency, which has led to a progression of Birther theories, all of which are certain (until the court decisions roll in) to result in the usurpin’ mofo being dragged out of the White House.

I thought Jim Anderer was a pretty good spokesman for the car dealers in the Cavuto interview. Though critical of President Obama, he seemed more pissed off at Chrysler. I didn’t notice any overt Birther tendencies. But the choice of legal representation has to make you wonder. Leo Donofrio, while a very smart guy (and not a stark raving wingnut like his new law partner), hasn’t much practiced law in years. Stephen Pidgeon’s last endeavor I am aware of was to defend straight marriage against Referendum 71 in Washington State, at which he failed. I mean, don’t you pick a lawyer whose expertise is related to business? A corporate lawyer of some kind. A bankruptcy lawyer, maybe?

According to Stephen Pidgeon:

Pidgeon told WND the clients in the case are former Chrysler dealers who lost their businesses as part of the “restructuring” of the automobile company. They have been damaged with the loss of their businesses, and the case alleges the Obama administration, through its use of TARP money, influenced Chrysler’s outcome.

No papers have been filed yet, so it can’t be known who these clients are, but Donofrio told Phil at RSoL that Anderer is the lead plaintiff. Anderer may have lost some money on Chryslers, though he is not strictly a Chrysler dealer. His business is still rolling along, it appears.

Finally, the same day as this interview, the Wall Street Journal reported Chrysler planned to submit to a review of its discontinued dealerships, and there is legislation underway in Congress calling for third-party arbitration, so this lawsuit at this time seems off the mark—if the car dealerships is the mark.

The car dealers may be able to show injury in relation to Chrysler and the Bankruptcy Court’s decisions or the the Second Circuit’s rejection of an appeal, which could give them standing to pursue a case. It would be difficult, though, since a parent company has the right to pull a franchise not performing up to its standards at will, absent a specific local law controlling. I’m no expert in business law, to say the least, so I don’t have an opinion on this part. We’ll have to see how it turns out.

But what these Birther lawyers are going to have to prove in the quo warranto portion, even if they manage to convince a court that Obama is not the lawful President of the United States, is that: If not for Obama’s father’s citizenship, the car dealers who were dropped by Chrysler would still have their franchises; if the auto industry had been allowed to collapse, the car dealers who were dropped by Chrysler would still have their franchises; if Obama was never elected, or never even born, anywhere at all on this earth, the car dealers who were dropped by Chrysler would still have their franchises.

No way, Birthers, no way.

But even if, for the sake of argument, we say way, what comes of it? An illegitimate Obama administration’s actions are, therefore, illegal and reversed, GM and Chrysler return the TARP funds and go under, after all, and there are no car dealerships left to argue over.

I guess I’m still not getting the end game here—for the car dealers.