The Epitome of Crazy

It is utterly astonishing to me that, despite the fact President Obama is already more than six months into his term, the conservative nutjobs continue to openly doubt the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate and, in turn, his citizenship. I guess these right wing idiots think that, if they keep discussing this topic, then President Obama's election victory will be magically overturned. This is especially ironic considering the questions (whether they are valid or not) surrounding the citizenship of his opponent during the presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). With that being said, I want to make sure that the other side of the argument is kept out there so the following links (http://theharrowdownhill.blogspot.com/2008/12/sore-losers-of-week.html and http://theharrowdownhill.blogspot.com/2008/12/they-finally-got-big-one-right.html) for two of the postings that I previously published on this topic. At the same time, it is nice to see that the editors of the National Review Online (with which I rarely agree) published an editorial (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTRjMTFhMzQxYmEzNjA2YWIwOTU4YWVjNzRmODE2NTI) against the dimwitted individuals who continue the debate on President Obama's citizenship.

One of the leaders of this group of tin foil hat wearing rocket scientists is Orly Taitz. Aside from being a birther (as the people who believe President Obama is ineligible to hold that office are now called), Taitz is also an attorney, a dentist and a real estate agent. (Yes, you read that correctly.) However, before we start listening to the ramblings of a lunatic, let's take a closer look at Ms. Taitz's various actions, background and "credentials".

• Taitz claims that, in order to be classified as a natural born citizen, both parents must be U.S. citizens. But the fact that his father was a British citizen has no effect on President Obama's status as a natural born citizen of the United States. Section 1401 of Title 8 of the U.S. Code states that an individual born either inside or outside of this country is considered to be a national and a citizen of the United States at birth if one of the parents is a U.S. citizen (his mother).
• Ironically, there is no evidence of Taitz's immigration to or arrival in the United States or documentation of her naturalization although records for those events are publicly available for the years from her birth in 1960 through the present day. There is also no evidence of her name being on the list of registered voters in California, a state in which Taitz has lived since 1987.
• Although she is a member of the State Bar of California, Taitz is not listed as a member of the American Bar Association (ABA). By the way, the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel of the State Bar of California is currently conducting an investigation after an official complaint was filed regarding Taitz and her actions.
• The law school from which she graduated, William Howard Taft University, is not accredited by the ABA. The school also does not require applicants to complete the LSAT, which is an examination administered by the Law School Admission Council for prospective law school candidates.
• Since William Howard Taft University is a distance learning institution only, Taitz’s degree entitles her, at most, to practice law in California.
• Taitz describes herself as an expert in constitutional law. However, before her interest in Obama's citizenship began, her only cases involved defending herself against medical malpractice and breach of contract suits. And if that's not enough, her husband Yosef has appeared in court on multiple occasions for various charges (including fraud and assault and battery) but never utilized his wife as his attorney. (That's a shocker.)
• The address listed for her law practice is the same as for one of her dental offices.
• Taitz claims to have earned her Master's degree in dentistry from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem but the institution does not have her listed as an alumnus.
• Her real estate license from the Department of Real Estate in California expired in February of last year.
• Along with President Obama, Taitz has accused the following individuals of treason: (1) all of the Supreme Court justices, (2) every member of the United States Congress, (3) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, (4) U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and (5) other officials from the federal government.
• Taitz is encouraging her supporters and fellow wackos nationwide to organize themselves as wholly unlawful "citizen's grand juries" and presenting their "indictments" of President Obama to government officials.
• Taitz claimed that Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Carroll Childers was listed as a plaintiff that she and Maj. Stefan Cook filed against President Obama. However, in an e-mail to the "Ledger-Enquirer", Maj. Gen. Childers stated "You have bad information. I have not joined the lawsuit brought by Maj. Cook. Please retract that information and do not print it again...I have notified Dr. Taitz that I am no longer a plaintiff in any motion she might process." Taitz's response? "Probably it’s some kind of mistake. I don’t know what happened." Well, there's nothing like playing around with the reputation of a career military man.
• Philip Berg, another infamous birther, filed a lawsuit against Taitz which accuses her, among other things, of harassing Berg and other plaintiffs in the case and plagiarizing the briefs Berg used in his birth certificate related actions for her own filings.
• Earlier this year, Taitz contacted local law enforcement, the FBI and the Supreme Court and claimed that her two previous web sites were being hacked and sabotaged. As a result, the PayPal accounts she used to collect donations would not receive any further contributions. However, her New Jersey based webmaster, Lisa Ostella, disagreed with Taitz's claims. Why? If Taitz’s web sites were actually hacked, then the security of all of Ostella’s clients would have been compromised. Ostella has challenged Taitz to provide her PayPal records but refuses to do so. Maybe the size of her and her husband's house has something to do with it: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/birds-eye-view-map/25575662_zpid/#birds-eye-view.