What puzzles me about it is why he waited until this past Monday to have a copy pulled from the records in HI. That just seems weird, you’d think he would have had it on hand already.
Two possibilities, both cynical:
1) (maximally cynical) It took them this long to manage a sufficiently fool-proof forgery. I think this can be discounted, as I’m sure it could have been done back in 2008. There are all sorts of folks both in government(s) and organized crime who could pull off a solid forgery of a 1961 document.
2) (minimally cynical) They have polling data that shows the issue is cutting against them now: instead of marginalizing GOP figures who embrace “birtherism”, folks are starting to question Obama’s past, and they decided they’d better put out that brush-fire before it grew into widespread demands for Obama’s college and health records (and records of the Annenberg-funded project he and Ayers collaborated on, and of records relating to his dealings with Tony Rezko and. . .). I’m not sure they’ll succeed in this.
“What puzzles me about it is why he waited until this past Monday to have a copy pulled from the records in HI. That just seems weird, you’d think he would have had it on hand already”
I love the way that just days after the HI Records Dept announces it will no longer issue a long form BC to anybody even the President Barry suddenly produces it.