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Keep reminding people Michael. While I too believe the birth issue is an intentional distraction, a red herring, just as Chester Arthur hid his birth certificate to distract from questions about his, Arthur's father, who was a British subject, Baraka is playing games to distract from the real issue. This is a particularly slick con job because Baraka told everyone he was not a natural born citizen. He said “I am a native born citizen of the U.S.” Who in 2008 knew the precise legal language of the 14th Amendment? Who other than legal scholars understood that the 14th Amendment only created naturalized citizens?

That is why Obama troops are trying to conflate native born with natural born. They are separate classes, clearly delineated by 14th Amendment author John Binghim, who is careful never to include the phrase ‘natural born citizen’ in the wording of the amendment.

Baraka (the first name he chose to use for the poster advertising the Alinsky play and panel discussion) told us the he was a naturalized citizen on Fightthesmears.com. He is letting the press redirect attention to digital representations of certificates of live birth and whatever other nonsense they come up with. Their techniques are right out of Rules for Radicals, disparaging questions about foreign birth, calling people names, disparaging their intelligence. Again, Baraka has never claimed to be a natural born citizen. Nancy Pelosi may have signed a form claiming natural born citizenship, but even that was lawyer-ed up; there appear to have been two forms provided to the State of Hawaii, one with NBC, one without.