[browardchad]

If Obama produced the long form for you tomorrow that says he was born in Hawaii, the CBC would call its authenticity into question "because Obama's had two plus years to create a perfect forgery."

Perhaps, but I think you might be discounting the whole raison d'etre for the de Vattel/two parents as citizens argument.

The NBC argument arose precisely because of the realization that wrenching an authentic Hawaii'an BC -- short or long form -- from Obama, would kill the eligibility issue, because the document would be authentic, according to the State of Hawaii, and lacking any Federal law standardizing birth certificates across the states, a Federal court would have to accept the certificate as authenticated by the state.

So the battle plan altered: if a court case produced an authenticated chain-of-custody certificate, the eligibility issue would fallback to the two-parent de Vattel fantasy, which, being an issue unlikely to be accepted for argument by the courts, would perpetuate the conspiracy argument ad infinitum.

[BuckeyeTexan]

You’re probaly right about that. I’ll concede that point.