Most likely it wasn't because he's a bastard. A goodly fraction of the electorate has never met the guy who knocked up their mom. Mostly no one else cares either. We do care what kind of bastard a guy is, but not so much the marital status of his parents.
That makes the most likely explanation that his real Certificate of Live Birth would unquestionably show he cannot hold the office of president.
So I don't know why they did this dumb and ham handed thing.
The same reason those guys put g-strings on their heads to rob that store last week. They figured that with just a little cover they could get away with it.
As far as ham handed? I'm pretty sure that using the left's best available DHS trained forger didn't look ham handed going in...
Ping to thread.
I'm beginning to think that may be it since other explanations are just not persuasive.