Of course birther martyr Terry Lakin — who willingly destroyed his military career by refusing his deployment orders because he insisted he didn’t know whether President Obama was eligible to be commander in chief — wrote a book explaining said birther martyrdom. In fact, WorldNetDaily columnist (and birther) Jack Cashill wrote it, and WND is selling it. And, of course, WND is promoting said book in a July 14 article that inadvertently demonstrates what a sad, deluded man Lakin is:
Lakin notes that Obama claimed to have “had every official in Hawaii … confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii.”
“‘Every official in Hawaii’? I guess the president did not consult with Tim Adams. During the 2008 election cycle Adams served as senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu,” Lakin wrote.
Adams had stated, “There is no hospital record of his birth in Honolulu … and the Hawaii Department of Health told us in the Elections Office that there was no birth certificate.”
“If you don’t know about Adams, there is a reason why. Within a week of his one radio interview on the subject [he was] put under a gag order,” Lakin wrote. “As of this writing, no official in Hawaii has made a serious effort to look into Obama’s birth certificate, and those who said they did have not been able to keep their stories straight.”
As we’ve documented, Adams admitted in a (WND-proffered) affidavit that he has no firsthand knowledge of any birther-related claims.
As we’ve also documented, Adams has overstated the job he did as an election clerk in 2008. Glen Takahashi, the administrator of the Honolulu City Clerk’s office, told David Weigel that Adams never actually had access to information about Barack Obama — after all, he was not registered to vote in Hawaii, and searching for birth records was beyond the scope of Adams’ job.
Lakin (and Cashill) citing Adams as some kind of authority on birth records in Hawaii is laughable. It shows that Lakin and Cashill remain deluded birthers, and they aren’t interested in the truth. It’s doubly sad that Lakin decided that believing delusions was worth ruining his military career for.
But, hey, WND has a martyr it can further exploit.