Take another look, Chris.
First, enough people believed it perfectly possible that Obama was born in Kenya nad the document might be genuine, that it has raised a bit of a fracas across the internet.
If that isn't the evidence of reasonable doubt of Obama's Natural Born Citizenship, what is?
If the document is indeed a credible enough forgery, with the apparent absence of similar documents of the time to compare it to from the Coast Province of Kenya, then it makes it apparent that creating a forgery isn't that hard to do with images, at least one which is difficult to debunk, which in turn casts further doubt on the Obama-provided images posted of the alleged Hawaiian COLB.
Awareness, if all else fails, is a good thing.
We did not openly accept this document as evidence, instead the atmosphere of the thread was one of "let's use our time and resources and research to prove or disprove the document's authenticity as best we can with an image of a document and not the original.
Immediately, FReepers were poring over the images, seeking inconsistencies and verifiable and/or refutable points of fact, document layout, kerning, font, print type, etc, and seeking documents for comparison, as well as contesting points of historical validity.
No loss, there, either. We all learned some stuff.
The bottom line, though, is that more people have had their suspension of disbelief revoked.
In conccert with administration policies from health care proposals to stimulus packages to cap and trade to cash for 'clunkers', people are beginning to wonder just who this guy is, and realize we have diddley-squat for documentation of any sort on him.
The doubt keeps growing--in Obama, his policies, and the direction he is taking the country, and his poll numbers are dropping steadliy.
This is just one small aspect of the fight, and no one said it would be easy.
But if you look at the big picture, this aspect is beginning to get people to wonder, more every day, why he doesn't just produce the documents and get it over with.
Against an adversary who ran on a platform of 'hope and change', doubt is a potent weapon.
You said everything I think about this issuee much better than I ever could have.
Kudos to you