(That's assuming that anyone had any meaningful notion of what an "original" was supposed to be, let alone an explanation why an "original" would have any more probative value than a certified copy.

In fact, that's the thing here, right? The birthers hallucinate that Obama must be engaged in all sorts of forgerating, because they believe he knows -- as they do -- that his "true" papers either don't exist or contain some damning secret. They don't realize that they are alone in this reality. Nobody else shares it.

Obama knows his 2007 COLB is correct, accurate, sufficient, and true. Why would he then go about forgering?

This is one of the angles from which I deplore the release of the LFBC -- that event, not the BC itself (although it too), was destined to be misconstrued as a defensive move by Obama. Of course it was nothing of the kind, and he could care less about the Corsi/Arpaio/wingnut-expert analyses. They simply don't matter -- not only because they're stupid and wrong, but because the LFBC wasn't even presented for their approval. It was presented for the single, simple expedient of getting the national press corps back to asking questions about policy.)

Edit: ETA: Apparently Corsi will be on at 5 pm.

Paterson spent the first few minutes bashing the news outlets, including WND, for printing that he thought Obama was not born in the US and "got away with it." He played a portion of what he actually said, which, of course, was the opposite of what the WND moron wrote in the unsigned story.