Good question. The argument is that this is part of a pattern with Obama. We really know nothing about the guy. Why doesn't he release the birth certificate and put this behind him once and for all? Why doesn't he release his college and law school transcripts and put any of those doubts behind him? Why doesn't he release his childhood records, such as where he went to school in Indonesia (of great value to Presidential historians)? Why didn't he just release Jeremiah Wright's tapes? Why are his own “autobiographies” inconsistent with each other? Why does he never tell the same story twice of how he met Lady M? What was he doing in Pakistan in the early 1980s (hardly a tourist destination, but a huge narcotics source — I was a college student at the time, and we all knew why other students went to Pakistan)? What was his role in Rod Blagovich’s campaigns for Governor? How did other Senate candidates get disqualified in 2004?
In each instance when the source document was revealed, there was something there. It's logical to think that the other source documents also contain information contradicting the personal life story he came up with. We received an $800 million corporate brochure during the campaign, and anyone who looked into his background was dealt with ruthlessly. Why? My guess on the long form birth certificate: it may show his parents identified him as Muslim. But who knows? What we do know is that we do not know the first thing about the President.