U.S. Army Major Stefan Frederick Cook -with update

I do not care to dive too deeply into the Birth Certificate mess. There is too much marginalizing on that front for me. Plus, I suspect that none of it will ever matter. My interest is not in "proving" one way or another if Obama was actually born in Hawaii. I can't. No one I know can.

However, the lack of a real long form BHO birth certificate ever being produced is fascinating. Why hasn't one? One night not long ago I found both an "abstract" (like the one the Obama campaign put out.) produced by the hospital where I was born when I needed a CA drivers license (or something of that sort) and my actual long form birth certificate which my mother had stuffed in my "baby book". This took about 2 hours of hunting through boxes of personal paraphernalia.

The abstract and the long form birth certificate are NOT the same document. Why can't Obama - as annoying as it may seem - put this "fringe" complaint to rest? Did he lose it? That seems possible. But isn't there a copy? Gibbs: At some point the original was misplaced. But here's a notarized copy from the hospital." Case closed.

The issue came back Tuesday:

U.S. Army Major Stefan Frederick Cook, who volunteered for duty in May, says he would be committing a crime to serve under Barack Obama because he believes Obama was born outside of the United States, making him ineligible to become president... has been granted his request not to deploy to Afghanistan.

This, too, is fascinating.

Think whatever you like - Major Cook won a round. My "normal" theory on this is that the long form contains some embarrassing information. Barack Obama Sr. was not named on it...for example. Embarrassing but that's about it. My "conspiracy" bent thinks that he was born elsewhere and this is the final control mechanism lorded over him by those who astroturfed his election.

Who the hell knows?

Is this even a fair pursuit? I do not remember anyone asking for Reagan's or Clinton's birth certificate. Still, Obama's narrative has a few holes that warrant curiosity. WE did not cause the holes. He did.

If anyone can produce the long form I would welcome it. As I said - most of me thinks this is nothing more than an interesting side show.

(That might have a racial component. I think few attacks on Obama have been based in racism- regardless of what the Obama Pod People yelp - but this one might. Rebelling against the "other" might be a detectable subtext - but I've seen no proof of this yet. Sadly, I think if the economy continues to tank grumbled attacks on his race will become more prevalent - and we ought to watch out for it and reject it out of hand.)

Or the "birthers" might be be on to something. A long form birth certificate from Mr. Obama would make it all go away. Frankly, if one doesn't exist I can't believe it hasn't been forged. How hard can it be?

It's weird.

Update from USA Today: Two more officers join suit challenging Obama's citizenship