A very good speculation. We now know, after the fact, that the Michelle "whitey" claim seems to have been of that nature. Bob Beckel, the liberal Dem smearmonger, brings it up, and so does smoe Hillary supporter (No Quarter blog), and then within a week the Obamaniacs are blaming Rush and conservative talkers for the 'smear' that conservatives were discounting and disputing!
I am here to say that this will add up to a big heap of nothing. Maybe I'm worng but facts have not been in dispute: Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 and that makes him a natural born citizen. No U.S. birth certificate lists religion. And his full name, Barack Hussein Obama II, is already 'out there'. His Mom wasnt married? BFD, he's alreqady acting like he was raised by a single-Mom (not true though). The only worse scandal would be if he was named Barack Nixon Obama, after Richard Nixon.
I think a big difference with the speculation that this is a setup by Obama people to make the Right look foolish and inoculate Obama from further damaging revelations, is that there was no phony "whitey" tape, and there was a phony certificate.
I can't recall a presidential campaign that ever released a forged document as an attempt to tempt their opposition into wasting time on a red-herring. The release of the forged document in the first place is a criminal act.
A candidate that did that would have to be almost Nixonian in his fear of enemies.
-PJ