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Judge Determining if Obama Will Be on Georgia Ballot

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If you thought the questions about President Obama's citizenship had been put to rest, think again.

Georgia has taken center stage in the latest legal battle, and it's now in the hands of a judge.

An Atlanta courtroom was packed Thursday as arguments were heard on Obama's citizenship and the legality of his candidacy.

The president released his long-form birth certificate last year proving he was born in Hawaii.

But the so called "Birthers" are still not convinced he's a natural born american.

They say he is using a forged birth certificate and stolen social security number, and is making a "joke" of the country.

Savannah Tea Party chairman Marolyn Overton says she won't call the president a "liar" but she does still have questions.

"I think Obama should not be able to just kind of force his way through this, not produce any answers" explained Overton. "He's stonewalling us. He has partially contributed to the controversy because he has not produced any papers that would prove or disprove anything to end the controversy. I would like to see the controversy end for our country, for President Obama so we can get on with what is important to this country, bring it back to its consitutional roots."

The president of Georgia's Democratic Party has no questions about the President's citizenship

In fact, he believes this entire case is more about politics than birthplaces.

"In 2008 the president got about 47% of the vote and this is after the campaign pulled out 6 weeks early to focus on North Carolina," explained Michael Berlon, Georgia Democratic Party Chairman. "With the changes we've had in demographics it's a pretty sound political strategy. They are doing their best to keep him off the ballot because there's a pretty good chance we could win Georgia for the President in 2012

"There's always a chance this judge could remove him from the ballot then the Secretary of State has to make tough decision about wether he wants to do that. If he does then we are ready. Our rebuttal as a party would be to go to federal Court and have him restored to the ballot we're pretty confident that would happen."

The President was subpoenaed for the hearing, but he didn't show.

President Obama's attorney wrote a letter to the state attorney general asking him to suspend the "baseless, costly and unproductive" hearing.

A judge still has to make a final decision on this case.

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