“but he’s not going to do that anyway.”
I think that is wishful thinking.
There are enough powerful people behind the scenes to fix this little problem for BO long before the 2012 campaign.
It won't be "fixed" if the American people aren't buying it. Obama can produce anything he wants, but he's going to have to somehow sell the people on the idea that he really hasn't been hiding anything all this time. That's going to be one tough sell, and most on our side probably won't believe him.
If Obama runs again, it's going to open up a bloody debate across the country about the meaning of the Natural Born Citizen clause of the Constitution. It won't matter whether he produces a bullet-proof long form bc, or not.
If the document is consistent with the lie he's been telling for the last twenty years or more, our side is going to still argue that you can't be president unless you've got TWO American citizen parents, and that he should never have been allowed to assume the office of president from the get-go.
There are two people whose entry into the 2012 primary will light the country on fire (albeit for very different reasons). One is Sarah Palin, and the other is Barack Obama.