PJ: I don't believe that I have ever witnessed such unfounded and unapologetic hatred thrown towards anyone since the early Clinton days. The GOP threw everything at the President and Mrs. Clinton including implying that they were somehow implicated in murder after a tragic suicide in the administration. But I was wrong. The lengths to which the extremes have attacked President Obama and the First Lady are amazing. And the extent to which the party elders support such attacks or at least turn a blind eye is disgusting. The ugly level of crazy has certainly gone beyond what could be considered normal when Tea Party supporters believe anything heinous about the President and First Lady. Of course, Orly Taitz takes the cake in her never ending battle to disqualify the President by constantly challenging his birthplace. I can accept the fact that she is barking mad but when mainstream republicans jump on her band wagon (are you listening Mr. Trump?) and help foster this lie you've got to wonder how far today's GOP will go down the path to total and destructive insanity.
AJC
Judge: Obama eligible to be Georgia candidate
By Bill Rankin
President Barack Obama’s name will remain on the Georgia primary ballot after a state law judge flatly rejected legal challenges that contend he can not be a candidate.
In a 10-page order, Judge Michael Malihi dismissed one challenge that contended Obama has a computer-generated Hawaiian birth certificate, a fraudulent Social Security number and invalid U.S. identification papers. He also turned back another that claimed the president is ineligible to be a candidate because his father was not a U.S. citizen at the time of Obama's birth.
The findings by Malihi, a judge for the State Office of Administrative Hearings, go to Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who will make the final determination. Last month, at a hearing boycotted by Obama's lawyer, Malihi considered complaints brought by members of the so-called "birther" movement.
With regard to the challenge that Obama does not have legitimate birth and identification papers, Malihi said he found the evidence "unsatisfactory" and "insufficient to support plaintiffs' allegations."
A number of the witnesses who testified about the alleged fraud were never qualified as experts in birth records, forged documents and document manipulation and "none ... provided persuasive testimony," Malihi wrote.
Addressing the other claim that contends Obama cannot be a candidate because his father was never a U.S. citizen, Malihi said he was persuaded by a 2009 ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals decision that struck down a similar challenge. In that ruling, the Indiana court found that children born within the U.S. are natural-born citizens, regardless of the citizenry of their parents.
Obama "became a citizen at birth and is a natural-born citizen," Malihi wrote. Accordingly, Obama is eligible as a candidate for the upcoming presidential primary in March, the judge said.
Even though Malihi ruled in Obama's favor, he expressed displeasure that the president's lawyer, Michael Jablonski of Atlanta, refused to attend the recent hearing.
"By deciding this matter on the merits, the court in no way condones the conduct or legal scholarship of defendant's attorney, Mr. Jablonski," Malihi wrote. "This decision is entirely based on the law, as well as the evidence and legal arguments presented at the hearing."
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/judge-obama-eligible-to-1330300.html
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