Asshole of the Week

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Unless you were living under a rock this week, you knew that the Democratic National Convention was being held in Denver. And all the hurrah built up to Barack Obama's acceptance of the party's nomination for Savior President of the United States. And while many Hillary Clinton supporters hadn't drunk the Obama Kool Aid before the convention, and there are still a fair number who are unconvinced, almost all have accepted, and come to terms with, the fact that Obama is the Democratic nominee for President. And then there's Montgomery County lawyer Philip J. Berg.

Berg filed a lawsuit arguing that Obama is not a citizen of the United States and therefore not constitutionally permitted to be President. Berg's complaint, which happens to be pretty horribly written, basically alleges that Obama [a/k/a Barry Soetero a/k/a Barry Obama a/k/a Barack Dunham a/k/a Barry Dunham, I shit you not] may not have been born in the United States, and that even if he was, he lost his citizenship when his mother married and relocated the family to Indonesia for a time. (This is where those a/k/a names come from—"Dunham" was Obama's mother's surname, and "Soetero" his stepfather's.) The lawsuit might be more interesting, though less hilarious, if it wasn't (1) so terribly written, and (2) filed by the same crackjob who alleged that the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 attacks. Uhhh, yeah, we're gonna pick this lawsuit as a loser, although "electional astrology" indicates that it's going to go Berg's way. Right.

This ridiculous lawsuit earned Berg "Lawyer of the Day" honors over on Above the Law earlier this week, and now it gets him an Asshole of the Week trophy to add to his mantle. Congratulations, Philip!

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