Orly Taitz, Birther Queen, rejected again

October 30, 12:07 PMPortland Progressive ExaminerMichael Stone

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President Barack Obama
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Orly Taitz, Birther Queen, has been rejected again. US District Judge David O. Carter threw out a lawsuit questioning Barack Obama’s eligibility to hold the office based on his “natural born” citizenship status Thursday, saying the courtroom is not the proper arena to “challenge a president’s election.”

Judge Carter dismissed Barnett et al v. Obama et al. This had been Taitz's most successful lawsuit to date, which is not saying much. However, it is the one that got the furthest through the legal system.

Taitz's star has been falling for some time. Ever since beginning her wing nut campaign demanding proof of the President Obama's citizenship Taitz has been the butt of many jokes. Her and her equally nutty fellow birthers epitomize the ignorant, fearful conservative.

The case Carter dismissed received considerable publicity, but similar efforts by Taitz have been thrown out by a variety of judges. Just recently a similar case in New Jersey was dismissed. In fact, Taitz is facing $20,000 in sanctions for her unprofessional court room antics in a case in Georgia.

No doubt there will always be birthers with us, just as there are those who reject the fact that men walked on the moon. Indeed, the birther movement has morphed, and now rather than claiming Obama was born on foreign soil, they claim Obama is illegitimate because his father was a British subject.

The desire by some to delegitimize President Obama is here to stay. Some are simply incapable of accepting Obama as president. It is a curious fact, and has been the subject of much speculation.