re: #67 KernelPanic

Before this birther nonsense gets shut done for good I really hope we get an answer to the “Obama has spent millions defending this legal claim” meme — in every single birther sight and thread you’ll always find someone stating definitively that something must be real because

“… he has spent X million dollars in court trying to block our super sane and sensible request that he merely show his long firm birth certificate …”

At the beginning of the year, “X” was 1 million dollars, now you hear even bigger amounts.

Every time I see that claim I ask for a link or proof and it never comes back, all links seem to go back to a circular echo chamber of birther logs and websites.

Over the last many months, I’ve seen in a number of articles, it mentioned that this or that lawyer is working pro bono. I don’t know if that’s true for all of the lawyers involved, but it definitely is the case for some. Doing a quick Google search here is a Politco article where one such lawayer is mentioned:

politico.com

“[Obama] is spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to keep this information from getting out,” said Gary Kreep, the lawyer representing former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who sued Obama in California to prevent the state from certifying its election results.
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Kreep has been battling Obama’s California lawyer, Fredric Woocher, to release the president’s records from Occidental College on the theory that they might provide information about his citizenship.
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“This suit, like all of the others that have been filed challenging Obama’s qualifications for the Presidency, is frivolous,” he said in an email to POLITICO, adding that he is, in fact, working pro bono. “There is absolutely no truth to the stories about the untold millions supposedly being paid to us,” he said.