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No harder than you finding a quote stating - WHICH YOU INITIALLY STATED - that Lakin DOESN'T want the birth certificate.
My understanding is that he DOES want to see the long form birth certificate, or some other proof (that's important), to verify that the POTUS actually is a natural born citizen and is qualified to be CIC, not that he was born in Hawaii. His long form BC would merely confirm that he actually was born in Hawaii.

Press Release April 7, 2010
“Unless it is established (by this sufficient proof that should be easily within your power to provide) that you are Constitutionally eligible to serve as President and my Commander-in-Chief, I, and all other military officers may be following illegal orders. Therefore, sir, until an original birth certificate is brought forward that validates your eligibility and puts to rest the other reasonable questions surrounding your unproven eligibility; I cannot in good conscience obey ANY military orders.”

An original birth certificate is but one way to prove his eligibility.
His father's British citizenship is one way to prove he isn't.

"My understanding is that he DOES want to see the long form birth certificate, or some other proof (that's important), to verify that the POTUS actually is a natural born citizen and is qualified to be CIC, not that he was born in Hawaii."

Seriously, are you obtuse. I'm REALLY trying to be kind, but either you're being intentionally argumentative, or you're dense. There can be no in-between.

Obama was either born in HI, or he wasn't. But, if Lakin is going to argue that Obama isn't eligible even if he WAS born in HI, then why ask for the HI birth certificate at all?

An original birth certificate is but one way to prove his eligibility.
His father's British citizenship is one way to prove he isn't.

Legally, it might take both. The one to prove who his father was, the second to prove he was not a US citizen.