Yes Danae, but Dr. Lakin, while we'll presume he wasn't a plant, only provided more misdirection for those who depend upon the “Ruling Class,” “The smart people,” to explain the truth. Dr. Lakin only ever stressed the hidden birth certificate. He did talk about ineligibility, but like Berg and World Net Daily, he helped the apparatchik distribute disinformation by never explaining that Chief Justice Morrison Waite, and Chief Justice John Marshall, and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and 14th Amendment originator, judge and congressman John Bingham, all told told us, using CJ Waite's words:
At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens...
All this energy about Lakin has sapped the growing clarity about who are natural born citizens and why our founder and framers required that our President and CinC be chosen from that majority of citizens. Obama, with a non-citizen father, is simply not a constitutional president. Politics has prevailed over law, all the way to the Supreme Court. The two Obama appointees have failed to recuse themselves. The court is corrupt. It is that simple.
Roberts is the likely holdout for reasons we probably will never know. Do powers in the Executive, Obama’s former CIA director, Brennan, certainly has files on everyone, know something about him? It doesn't matter. Our framers intended that the Constitution be understandable. It is. We know the history of the construction of the Constitution, of Jefferson's selection of Vattel’s Law of Nations for our first legal text book at our first law school. We know Hamilton and Washington regarded it as our most important source for legal philosopy (Hamilton's letter to Washington, Sept 15 1790).
Free Republic has a number of people who have studied the framers and their sources, but there are a remarkable number of agents keeping the conversation stupid. The idea is remarkably similar to the ploy used by Chester Arthur, who was also illegitimate because his father was a British subject when he was born - hide your birth certificate to keep the focus on the wrong crime.
Dr. Lakin may be an agent provocateur, or he may be a naive patriot. But he has not helped the public or the military to understand that his commander in chief and our President is illegitimate regardless of where he was born. And Lakin has probably succeeded in dissuading any other patriot from fulfilling his or her sworn oath to defend and protect the Constitution. You may recall that former Georgia Congressman Nathan Deal had the courage - the hidden letter from the Congressional Research Service shows that all Congressmen knew Obama had legitimacy problems, and the Senator, in particular, had all signed a resolution, SR 511, in which two citizen parents were deemed a requirement for natural born citizenship. Deal wrote a letter asking about Obama's legitimacy. His answer came as ethics charges for an old tax issue. He resigned and is now Governor of Georgia. Let's hope Georgia is one of those states which requires verification of eligibility before the next election. Want to bet?
We are close to becoming Venezuela, but the left didn't have the control of the voting process necessary to pass the Pelosi style of government to the red states - "vote for it so you can find out whats in it," knowing full well that in the blue states, and some of the red states, the SEIU controlled the ballot "count." Voting still matters in some states. Enough good citizens remain to chose different people to represent us in "The peoples house." Regardless, Obama is a fraudulent president, but was to have been our Chavez. His illegitimacy may have been part of the plan.
I don’t disagree with anything you have said.
The only truth I know other than Obama being an illegitimate pResident is that we don’t know everything going on. Maybe Lakin is a plant, but I doubt it.
I think he had a legitimate question and didn’t get it answered. It was also NOT the right question, but it is just about the same one we were asking in the spring of 2008.
We didn’t know then all the historical documents that would be found... shoot even Donofrio got hammered for taking the position he did, which was the same you listed in your post.
Obama is not illegitimate because of where he was born. Its because of who his FATHER is. Maybe Lakin knows that now, but could not put it into the record, because it wasn’t what he based his original decisions on. It was the basis he made his decisions on that he had to support and defend. I don’t think he had much of a choice once he decided not to follow his commander’s orders to appear, he had to stay on the course and back up his reasoning throughout.
A real dogs dinner that.