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Daily News has an online poll about Lakin.

Poll shows 50 percent believe this is settled.

34 percent believe it is not settled, and Obama should show his Kenyan BC.

Hmmm ... 34 percent ... one-third. And ironically, Benjamin Franklin was called crazy by his critics, too.

Although an online poll, it reflects our nation's Politics from the very beginning.

At the outset of the Revolutionary War:

- one-third of the public were Patriots, proclaiming the Declaration of Independence on
July 4, 1776 and jabbing their collective finger in the very eyes of Tyranny

- one-third of the public were Tories, loyal to the King and the yoke of Government control (Patriot Nathan Hale's own Tory cousin Samuel Hale exposed him, leading to Hale's capture and hanging by the British in NY on September 22, 1776)

- one-third were along for the ride! (today's independents, who drift from Left to Right)

The reason we DON'T say “God save the Queen” today is that the TRUE leaders — the Patriots during the Revolutionary War — were the LOUDEST and were willing to SACRIFICE more than the Tories.

There IS a lesson learned there, and I think Patriot Samuel Adams perhaps said it best:

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.”