I'm an old liberal Democrat, and I can tell you that when someone acts as if he has something to hide, people become suspicious. Particularly in this contentious political atmosphere.
On its face, if the document is legitimate, the only reason I can see for Obama fighting to prevent the compelling of this document would be for purely political reasons, not for legal purposes. Of those, political reasons, I could see several possibilities for Obama's refusal to cooperate, and only one of the reasons is semi-'innocent'; the others fit with Obama's MO of manipulation (media, opponents, the American people) for political gain.
The semi-innocent explanation is that both documents reveal something that doesn't square with Obama's narrative of his biography (the address given for Obama's mother at the time of Obama's birth is her parents' home and not his father's address). When it was just the certificate of live birth, the accuracy of that line on the certificate could be held in abeyance. And it still can be as far as I and probably most others are concerned. But there are many who still have problems with what that biography for a US president implies, and it has much more to do with class and not r@ce (although for some, it's indeed interchangeable). In Washington, however, in the particular circles in which Obama has to operate, it does influence relationships and business.
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