Or perhaps someone does understand this case but also wants to avoid putting it in black and white for all the military personnel reading the Stars and Stripes.
The question of eligibility for Obama is often "simplified" to the question "Is he a citizen?" which becomes a slam dunk win for Obama and makes Leftists think that the "birthers" must be cracked in the head.
Similarly, the recent effort to raise tax rates for middle class and "rich" folks was handled in a biased manner by the press. No one was proposing lowering any tax rates. Yet the media constantly talked about tax cuts for the wealthy. Sorry. No. That wasn't on the table. The question was "keep the rates the same, or let them go up". But you didn't hear that in the media too often.