IMO the meaning was not lost. It frosts me that Obama is a Constitutional Scholar, he KNEW that what he was doing was wrong. Perhaps it was an intellectual exercise that went too far, or perhaps it was fraud. Only he knows that answer, but to the law, its fraud, and to others that participated, its treason.
Of course he knew. He proved he knew when he signed off on SR511 declaring McCain a NBC due to two US citizens. Yet, he laughs and sneers at us every time he references his Kenyan background. It's all a joke. What I don't get is why no Congress member or state official stepped up to the plate to stop it before it got this far.