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Retired Army General: Lt. Col. Lakin has 'valid point' (MG Paul Vallely, ret.
WorldNetDaily ^ | April 24, 2010 | Chelsea Schilling

Posted on 04/24/2010 9:22:19 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior

A retired Army general and national-security-policy expert says Lt. Col. Terry Lakin has "a valid point" and should use his "right to discovery" to force the Obama administration to produce proof of his natural-born-citizenship status.

In an interview with Evil Conservative Radio, Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely said, "I think many in the military – and many out of the military – question the natural-birth status of Barack Obama. … I'm not convinced that he is [a natural-born citizen]."

Vallely, CEO of Stand Up America U.S., graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961, serving 32 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; article2section1; birthcertificate; certifigate; eligibility; generalpaulevallely; generalpaulvallely; hememway; ineligible; lakin; ltclakin; naturalborncitizen; obama; paulevallely; paulvallely; terrylakin
Although MG Paul Vallely was not a JAG officer, he has been the Convening Authority (authorized courts-martial) in a number of instances....he is familiar with military law. Interesting read....and quite different from the usual MSM spin given on the LTC Lakin court-martial
1 posted on 04/24/2010 9:22:19 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Vallely said America hasn't seen military officers stepping forward in droves to challenge Obama's eligibility because they know doing so might endanger their careers.

Though they aren't stepping forward, you can be sure this matter is affecting morale!

Shame on Obama and the Democrats for evading this issue all-the-while expecting our men and women in uniform to shed blood under their leadership.

It's a travesty of the greatest possible magnitude!

2 posted on 04/24/2010 9:56:55 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Is there a standing birthplace home of obama anywhere in the country?? You know...like all past Presidents whose homes are restored so that the American public can go and see where their leaders grew up and pass on that history to their children? Where is obama’s home?


3 posted on 04/24/2010 11:02:00 AM PDT by cubreporter (Rush is an American Patriot. He has been blessed with exceptional wisdom. Thank God for Rush!!!)
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To: cubreporter

Obama’s home? I’m sure the fancy address in the supposed birth announcement in the questionable shopper’s guide shown on his phony B.C. is in the plans to be revered as “his home”. In actuality, Stanley Ann lived with her parents in their apartment. Obamas’ spinmasters probably had intended to eventually buy the “mc mansion” and tout it forever more as his birthplace.


4 posted on 04/24/2010 12:52:13 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

“It’s a travesty of the greatest possible magnitude!”

I agree.....however, I’m sad to report that the officers I interact with (2LTs to COLs) don’t seem to really care about the issue. They are more concerned with President Obama’s changing policy on Nuclear use and the even more restrictive rules of engagement in combat areas. Things like the restrictive ROEs had started under President Bush when SECDEF Gates took over and GEN Petraeus instituted his “kindler and gentler” army views. Plus, black service members are a significant group in the military (including the officer ranks), much greater than in the general population, and they are proud to see a black president.

Race relations in the U.S. Army are much better than in the general population....and no one wants to appear as being against having a “black” president which would disrupt the harmony being experienced. It really is a “catch 22” situation.


5 posted on 04/24/2010 7:47:36 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: kiltie65

Ludicrous. Just ludicrous.


6 posted on 04/25/2010 7:53:22 AM PDT by cubreporter (Rush is an American Patriot. He has been blessed with exceptional wisdom. Thank God for Rush!!!)
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To: Beckwith; bgill; butterdezillion; bvw; conservativegramma; Danae; dennisw; El Gato; exit82; ...

NBC Ping


7 posted on 05/04/2010 1:30:24 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: cubreporter

Is there a standing birthplace home of obama anywhere in the country?? You know...like all past Presidents whose homes are restored so that the American public can go and see where their leaders grew up and pass on that history to their children? Where is obama’s home?


“Obama’s Hawaii Boyhood Homes Drawing Gawkers”:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081109/NEWS01/811090361/Obama-s-Hawaii-boyhood-homes-drawing-gawkers

“Obama Tours in Hawaii”:
http://www.hawaiilogue.com/obama-tours-in-hawaii.html


8 posted on 05/04/2010 2:53:30 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Let’s hope the court sees things the way Vallely does.


9 posted on 05/04/2010 3:02:44 PM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Is Obama’s birth place museum in Kenya?


10 posted on 05/04/2010 3:06:18 PM PDT by real_patriotic_american
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To: Sola Veritas

That is not what I hear. It might be on the surface, but there are rocks below the surf. Obama needs to clear this up or resign.


11 posted on 05/04/2010 3:10:46 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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“Obama needs to clear this up or resign.”

Don’t expect honorable behavior, only self serving. Thus, it ain’t gonna happen.


12 posted on 05/04/2010 3:43:25 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: jamese777

that might be where he grew up and spent some time. The question is: “Where is his home COUNTRY????>”


13 posted on 05/04/2010 4:14:11 PM PDT by cubreporter (Rush is an American Patriot. He has been blessed with exceptional wisdom. Thank God for Rush!!!)
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To: Sola Veritas
no one wants to appear as being against having a “black” president

He's half white too and we are holding his white half accountable to the Constitution. If the blacks want to give his black half a pass, that's their prerogative and their shame, but we have Article II standards that the white half has to meet.

14 posted on 05/04/2010 4:55:04 PM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: jamese777

He’s very unlikely to have lived at that “Boyhood Home” for more than a year when he would have been 2 and 3. As the article says, the grandparetns moved from there in ‘63, he and his mother were in Seattle from September ‘61 until at least June of ‘62. He might have been there for a week or three before they left for Seattle, assuming they were ever there. No one remembers a mixed couple or a white girl with a black baby, living there.


15 posted on 05/04/2010 5:14:23 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: cubreporter

that might be where he grew up and spent some time. The question is: “Where is his home COUNTRY????>”


Well, the state of Hawaii, with a Republican Governor, a Republican Attorney General with subpoena power over birth certificates and Hawaii Department of Health officials appointed by the Republican Governor says that he was born in the City of Honolulu, in the County of Honolulu, on the Island of Oahu, in the state of Hawaii, in the United States of America at 7:24 p.m. on August 4, 1961.

Two birth announcements for him appeared in both Honolulu major newspapers on August 13, 1961 and August 14, 1961. Both newspapers have confirmed that they have always received their birth announcements from the Health Department and not from family or friends.

“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”

Anyone attempting to show that Obama was born somewhere else is going to have to present proof. Thus far, no one has presented that proof to the satisfaction of any legal authority.


16 posted on 05/04/2010 8:12:24 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: jamese777

I know.


17 posted on 05/04/2010 8:22:13 PM PDT by cubreporter (Rush is an American Patriot. He has been blessed with exceptional wisdom. Thank God for Rush!!!)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

obumpa


18 posted on 05/04/2010 9:26:53 PM PDT by Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

*****Recently 2 Kenyan Ministers declare “Mr Obama was born in Kenya”...

When will the Senators & Congressmen realize that Mr. Obama is a Usurper??

........He needs to be removed

New Ad - Washington Times Natl Wkly - 3 May 2010 Issue on Pg 5 -

The Minister of Lands in Kenya Declares Obama “was born here in Kenya” - Thanks Charles

Posted on May 4th, 2010 by David-Crockett

New Ad - Washington Times National Weekly Edition - 03 May 2010 - Page 5

The Minister of Lands in Kenya, James Orengo, on 25 March 2010 during

Kenyan National Assembly debate on their new Constitution, declares on the

record that Obama “was born here in Kenya” and is not a “native American”!

Another Kenyan Minister, Dr. Bonny Khalwale, stated on the record on 14

April 2010 in the Kenyan National Assembly that Obama should repatriate

himself to Kenya.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30855663/Minister-in-Kenyan-National-Assembly-on-25Mar2010-states-Obama-born-in-Kenya-not-native-American

*****6 African Newspapers also declared Obama born in Kenya

Click on Links below to read articles:

Kenya Sunday Standard headline — “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate”

The Nigerian Observer — “Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next President with Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win. The Kenyan-born Senator will…”

USAfrica — “Kenyan-born OBAMA makes history…wins presidential nomination of U. S. Democratic party; eyes on White House…”

AllAfrica.com — ” Little wonder then why Kenyan-born Barack Obama, America’s first Black President…”

GraphicGhana.com — “For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.” The same article, with the same quote, appeared in ModernGhana.com.

The Ghana Times — “So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois state. A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rivel, John McCain.”


19 posted on 05/05/2010 8:22:25 AM PDT by ebysan (ebysan)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

*****Recently 2 Kenyan Ministers declare “Mr Obama was born in Kenya”...

When will the Senators & Congressmen realize that Mr. Obama is a Usurper??

........He needs to be removed

New Ad - Washington Times Natl Wkly - 3 May 2010 Issue on Pg 5 -

The Minister of Lands in Kenya Declares Obama “was born here in Kenya” - Thanks Charles

Posted on May 4th, 2010 by David-Crockett

New Ad - Washington Times National Weekly Edition - 03 May 2010 - Page 5

The Minister of Lands in Kenya, James Orengo, on 25 March 2010 during Kenyan National Assembly debate on their new Constitution, declares on the record that Obama “was born here in Kenya” and is not a “native American”!

Another Kenyan Minister, Dr. Bonny Khalwale, stated on the record on 14 April 2010 in the Kenyan National Assembly that Obama should repatriate himself to Kenya.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30855663/Minister-in-Kenyan-National-Assembly-on-25Mar2010-states-Obama-born-in-Kenya-not-native-American

***** 6 African Newspapers also declared Obama born in Kenya

Kenya Sunday Standard headline — “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate”

The Nigerian Observer — “Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next President with Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win. The Kenyan-born Senator will…”

USAfrica — “Kenyan-born OBAMA makes history…wins presidential nomination of U. S. Democratic party; eyes on White House…”

AllAfrica.com — ” Little wonder then why Kenyan-born Barack Obama, America’s first Black President…”

GraphicGhana.com — “For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.” The same article, with the same quote, appeared in ModernGhana.com.

The Ghana Times — “So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois state. A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rivel, John McCain.”


20 posted on 05/05/2010 8:27:40 AM PDT by ebysan (ebysan)
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