With the real potential for Obama's goonsquad fomenting riots should he be found ineligible, there has to be a way to defuse the tensions by giving the voters a plausible out for making the mistake of electing this affirmative action poseur.
It will distract from his presidency, but that's a good thing. He'll be remembered as the street hustler, without a birth certificate, who became president.
Don't we just love an outlaw?