Lt. Col. Lakin racked up medals as flight surgeon

Barack Obama was born in Kenya! Just not the same one that is the President. It was Barack Obama Sr who was born in Kenya and was also a Muslim until he lost faith and became an atheist. But all of this was easy for some to twist around so that it became in their mind the history of the son.

Most of Americans laugh at these "birthers" wondering what it will take to convince them that after all these years of battling political opponents the chances of being able to pull off a massive fraud forming 49 years ago are just about zero. When he ran for the senate, they would have caught him. When he ran for the presidency, there surly would have caught him if any of this were true, especially since politics in this country are all about finding something wrong with a person's personal life if they can't find any dirt on their political life.

Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.[4][5] His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English, but also some German, descent.[6][7][8] His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Yet when some people talk about him, the forget he did have a Mom and a Dad and his Dad had the same name.

They also said that he was "just" a community organizer and leave out the fact he is a lawyer and was a constitutional law professor plus wrote some books. He was State Senator and the US Senator, then he ran for President.


We may laugh and try to pass them off as a bunch of nuts but some of them are like Lakin. This man has been so convinced that Obama was not born in Hawaii that he is ready to throw it all away.

Before birther row, Lt. Col. Lakin racked up medals as flight surgeon
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
August 6, 2010 2:51 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin accused of missing a plane, refusing to deploy to Afghanistan
Foundation: Certification, birth announcements not the same as birth certificate
Honolulu newspapers, Hawaii's Republican governor have said Obama was born there
Military law expert: It's unlikely court will address Obama's birthplace during court-martial

CNN) -- Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is a poster soldier for the so-called birther movement, but for 17 years prior to his court-martial proceedings, the flight surgeon served around the globe, racking up a chest full of medals.

Military prosecutors allege that the Colorado native intentionally missed a plane in April after disobeying four lawful orders from superiors. Lakin has said he refused to deploy to Afghanistan until he sees proof that President Obama was born in the U.S.

In a YouTube explanation posted before he was charged, Lakin said he had no choice but the "distasteful one of inviting my own court-martial."

"If [Obama] is ineligible, then indeed, all orders are illegal because all orders have the origin with the commander in chief," he said.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice says the maximum punishment for both offenses -- missing his plane and disobeying lawful orders -- is a dishonorable discharge and up to two years in confinement. A guilty verdict could also result in forfeiture of his pay, which totals $7,959 a month, according to a charge sheet provided by a group sponsoring his defense.
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Lt. Col. Lakin racked up medals as flight surgeon

An honorable man by all accounts, distinguished service to this country, but somehow, someway, somebody lied to him and he believed it. Some in the blog world seem to think he is just trying to get out of deploying but considering what he is willing to lose, that doesn't seem to be a factor. We have to look more deeply into why the "birthers" refuse to accept facts or use common sense. Is it because he's half black? Is it because he's a Democrat? If this was the only rumor out there about him, then it wouldn't be so troublesome.

There is a rumor out there that he is a Muslim even though the same tongues wagged when his pastor Rev. Wright had some fired up sermons and they complained about that.

Obama is a Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household". He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents (whom Obama has specified elsewhere as "non-practicing Methodists and Baptists") to be detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known".

He describes his father as "raised a Muslim", but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful". Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand "the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change".[258] He was baptized at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades.[259] Obama resigned from Trinity during the Presidential campaign after controversial statements made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright became public.[260] After a prolonged effort to find a church to attend regularly in Washington, Obama announced in June 2009 that his primary place of worship would be the Evergreen Chapel at Camp David.[261]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Maybe the "birthers" can't understand a son being named after a father any more than they can understand what a father does is not what a son does?

Friday, August 6, 2010

Hearing set for soldier in Obama birth certificate case