Thanks for spelling it out so clearly. It sounds open and shut to me, and as you said, surprising more for its sloppiness than for its probative value.
If anybody had doubts, though, Abercrombie helpfully laid them to rest. He said he would resolve the issue once and for all, went looking for Obama’s BC, and emerged clearly shaken. He could have said, ‘I saw it. It’s in perfect order, and I’m willing to repeat that under oath to put this matter to rest once and for all. I can’t release it due to legal issues, but take my word for it: it’s there’.
Instead he blathered inanely about something being ‘written down’ and then retreated into silence. Anybody who watched his performance and didn’t come away with the sense that Obama’s BC is BIG trouble for 2012 is either stupid or a leftist partisan hack.
I also wanted to add to my comments re: Rathergate. I originally made it sound as if a Freeper had proved, in a matter of hours, the TX Air National Guards docs were forgeries, and the MSM capitulated, threw Rather under the bus, and moved on.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The MSM circled the wagons, defended Rather, attacked bloggers, derided them as nonprofessionals who sit in front of their keyboard wearing “pajamas”, and groused, grumbled and haughtily pontificated about the Net’s lack of “fact-checkers”. The more the evidence accumulated against Rather’s forgeries, the more rabidly the MSM attacked the messengers and defended the docs. It culminated in the desperate, ludicrous, grave-yard-spiral idiocy of “fake but accurate”. Only after months of defending the indefensible did the MSM gracelessly abandon the field, and grudgingly allow the charge of ‘forgery’ to stand.
Anyone who thinks they won’t fight ten or a hundred times harder for Obama and his forged documents is either stupid or a liberal hack. Their investment in Obama dwarfs even their BDS. They’ll have to be hauled off in straight jackets before they willingly question anything to do with their Post-American, Postmodern, anti-colonial America-hating hero.