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Diana West: Obama's paltry paper trail raises serious
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By: Diana West 11/21/10 9:05
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here to read the banned wikipedia article.

Wikipedia, the widely read, online, multiauthored encyclopedia, features an
entry on the term "memory hole," which originated with the prescient if not also
clairvoyant George Orwell. The Wikipedia definition begins: "A memory hole is
any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or
embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records ...
particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never
happened."

Wikipedia itself may have just offered a good example of how the mechanism
works when unknown, unknowable site authorities "took down" a new entry on Lt.
Col. Terrence "Terry" Lakin's challenge to President Obama's eligibility to hold
office almost as soon it went up.

I read a screen shot of the entry and it is factual and non-inflammatory. Did
Lakin's page go down the memory hole?

Wikipedia readers who seek information about Lakin are redirected to a
synopsis of his case within a composite entry on the larger Obama citizenship
controversy. Not all but much of the same information is available there, only
now, instead of appearing under a biographical entry titled "Terrence L. Lakin,"
it is included within "Barack Obama Citizenship Conspiracy Theories."

I linger over this incident not only because Lakin supporters have dubbed
this week Terry Lakin Action Week, urging American citizens to take the occasion
to call their congressional representatives about the case, or even because
Lakin, a decorated, 18-year Army officer and physician, faces an upcoming
court-martial at Fort Meade, Md., on Dec. 14 for refusing to follow orders to
redeploy to Afghanistan because of his conviction that the president hasn't
proven his eligibility to hold office.

Those are both timely reasons to think about Lakin. But there is a larger
question here that his sensational case should point us to consider.

Essentially, Wikipedia's editing decision reflects one point of view
regarding the Obama "natural-born" citizenship matter -- the point of view, as
polled by CNN in July, of the four in 10 American voters who believe Obama was
"definitely born" in the United States. That relatively low percentage of
convinced Americans surprised me given the near-100 percent figure that would
surely apply to mainstream (read: liberal) and conservative media, with
"alternate" exceptions.

Rounding out the poll, 29 percent believe the president was "probably born"
in the United States; 16 percent think he was "probably born" in another
country; 11 percent think he was "definitely born" in another country and only 2
percent had "no opinion." This demonstrates that the topic resonates with
practically every American, with a fairly whopping six in 10 Americans at least
a little uncertain whether Obama was born where he says he was born.

Of course, Obama's failure to release his original 1961 birth certificate
(which, contrary to mantralike misperception, has never been released) is just
the beginning. There remains a startling dearth of documentation pertaining to
Obama's progress through his 49 years of life that only begins with his birth
certificate.

A gaping hole -- dare I say "memory hole"? -- seems to have consumed all
possible Obama records from his education, health, family records, even his
pre-presidential political career. But this subject is never taken seriously by
the media or the political establishment, including, most glaringly, erstwhile
GOP opponent John McCain, who, on being challenged on the eligibility question
himself, should have called on candidate Obama to join him in releasing their
bona fides together.

But even to suggest such a thing is to indulge in "conspiracy theories." Not
surprisingly, Wikipedia defines this term for us as well, noting that it's
"often used dismissively in an attempt to characterize a belief as outlandishly
false and held by a person judged to be a crank or a group confined to the
lunatic fringe."

In this definition may lie the key to understanding the singularity of the
Lakin case. As a senior military officer with an unblemished career, service in
war zones, decorations, Pentagon responsibilities including those of flight
surgeon for the crew of Army chief of staff, and recommendation for promotion to
full colonel, Lakin is neither a "crank" nor a "lunatic."

But he has a simple request for the president that drove him to what amounts
to a historic act of civil disobedience for which he may well serve time in
prison: Release your original 1961 birth certificate so this poisonous issue no
longer divides the American people.

Source URL:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/columnists/2010/11/diana-west-obamas-paltry-paper-trail-raises-serious-questions

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