I don't think the Obama team is behind this as that would be a suicide move unless they are confident of what is in the HI vital records, possibly because of what they have placed in the record, now that Abercrombie is Gov.
Some possibilities...
1. A cabal of progressives have found out that Obama is about to be embroiled in a scandal (Ulserman, true or not) and want him out now to get their candidate (Hillary?) ready for 2012. Obama has been “advised” to resign but he has refused, so now a DSA party elder and friend of his father Abercrombie is giving Obama a shove by threatening to release HI vital records file which will they all know will undermine Obama’s NBC eligibility in some way.
2. After the Dem slaughter of 2010 and with 23 Democrat senators facing running with Obama at the top of the ticket and with gridlock guaranteeing no further progressive agenda progress, the big money NY and globalist Dem elite have decided that Obama must not be the candidate in 2012. They can't “primary” him because the blacks would never understand and never forgive the Dems, so he must be forced to resign one way or the other, starting with the HI vital records.
3. The socialist wealth transfer, anti-war DSA left of Nancy Pelosi and Abercrombie and the rest of the progressive caucus are livid over the Bush Tax Cut deal and the 30,000 extra troops in Afghanistan through 2014. Abercrombie could be blackmailing Obama to end the Afghanistan War, “or else.”
4. Abercrombie may have ginned this up by himself and is simply blackmailing Obama with the threat that if Obama doesn't bail out Hawaii's socialist utopia (the HI deficit crisis is mentioned in the NY Times story), Abercrombie will reveal the HI BC files.
Is it a coincidence these stories are coming up just as Obama is on his ‘Christmas’ vacation in Hawaii?? Obama is probably planning to run for re-election, but thanks to a law in his own state, he’s going to have a hard time unless he comes up with better documentation. A law allows citizens to challenge a finding of eligibility of presidential candidates to be included on the ballot in Hawaii. The elections office is supposed to hold a public hearing if you file a challenge within the right time frame. Gov. Abs may be trying to pre-empt such a challenge.