You make an excellent point. If the COLB is a forgery, that alone is a felony, checkmating the whole matter.
Has Barack Obama personally certified that the released COLB is legitimate? If not, forget your checkmate.
The long form certificate is much more important than the COLB. I don't mind the forgery issue being used to force release of the long form, but since Obama might have a perfectly legitimate Hawaiian COLB even if he was born in Kenya, it is a mistake to make forgery the entire issue.
Much of the factcheck.org piece addresses the issue of forgery. The apparent point of the piece is to convince people that if the COLB is not a forgery, there is no reason to demand release of the long form. Wrong.
Remember, with Nixon it wasn't the break in, It was the Coverup. The fake COLB is Obama's Coverup. When do the hearings begin? Maybe Hillary could help again!? Deja' Vu all over again?