[Spaulding]

When Chester Arthur use running he was assisted, much as Obama has been assisted by the distraction of a “Where's The Birth Certificate” campaign, by a deluge of news stories, including a book by a reporter named Hinman, suggesting that he, Arthur, was really born in Ireland. That became the dominating suspicion. Whether Hinman was secretly abetting Arthur's subterfuge remains to be discovered.

Arther helped the intrigue by offering different birth dates for himself and a variety of stories about his mother, who was actually a natural born U.S. citizen. So Arthur's mother and Arthur's birth became the issue, diverting attention from the real eligibility violation. When Arthur was born his father was a minster in the U.S. and his naturalization when Chester was 14 was conveniently buried in the patently false rumor that Arthur was born in Ireland. That could have been the blueprint for Obama’s campaign wherein he has deliberately concealed all sorts of documents to redirect suspicion toward a more easily understood, but false, rumor of his having been born someplace else.

The Alinsky-trained apparatchiks are smart and sophisticated. Their adult lives are spent learning deception and hiding their ultimate goal of overthrowing free enterprise. John Holdren’s colleagues at U.C. Berkeley, those not committed Marxist activism, had no idea that he was spending so much time, or any time, with International Communist groups, or writing for Ramparts (David Horowitz’ and Peter Collier's Marxist monthly). They understand the weaknesses and the strengths of free speech. Rather than study medicine or semiconductor design they become experts in political manipulation, just as Holdren, with a degree in physics from Stanford, never actually did science, but spent decades on 'science policy', leading to a probably more lucrative career funded by Theresa Heinz (Kerry) money, and the faux 'science advisor' position, supporting global warming and green energy to weaken the U.S. for socialist revolution.

Chester Arthur was an earlier example of such manipulation, more in the McCain mold, not driven to overthrow the Constituion, but simply feeling entitled by his class, experience, and education, but with the little problem of having, like Obama, been born of a British subject. At least Arthur's father always intended to become a citizen, and did eventually. Arther found a way to hide his ineligibility - hiding and burning his documents and diverting attention from the real issue, the date of the his minister father's naturalization.

[curiosity]

Arther helped the intrigue by offering different birth dates for himself and a variety of stories about his mother, who was actually a natural born U.S. citizen. So Arthur's mother and Arthur's birth became the issue, diverting attention from the real eligibility violation.

Riiiight. And his opponents were such idiots, that they couldn't be bothered to look up the date of Arthur's father's natuarlization, even though it was commonly accepted in those days that a person's parents had to be citizens in order to be considered a NBC. Is that your story?