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Kleon: "There is obviously other legal work the firm is doing for Obama. It makes no sense that $2 billion would be spent on a handful of cases that never went anywhere."

Not only is that true, but Red Steel's own visual aids prove this. To wit:

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2008 post-general election report (covers Oct 16, 2008, to Nov. 24, 2008)

FEC record for payment to Perkins Coie, 2008 year-end report (covers Nov. 25, 2008, to Dec. 31, 2008)

Now that's a total of over $378,000 spent before December 31, 2008. And not only were there very few Birther cases brought before December 31, 2008, only ONE had involvement from Perkins Coie attorneys.

That case was Berg v. Obama. And although its filings all signed by a Philadelphia attorney and not a Perkins Coie attorney, we'll go ahead and treat this as a Perkins Coie expense. Just for the heck of it. And thanks to PACER, we can see every document that Obama's attorneys filed in the case.

To be specific, they filed only three documents. A total of 30 pages, including Certificates of Service.

So 30 pages of filings, and $378,000 paid to Perkins Coie. In pretending that the Perkins Coie expenses are all Birther-related, Red Steel is proposing that Obama spent $12,600 PER PAGE of filings. To defend a case against a Plaintiff's attorney so incompetent that he cited a fake document signed by 'Dudley Doright' as evidence of a conspiracy.

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You miss the big picture ... Obama shouldn’t be spending any money to defend against these cases when he could easily authorize the state of Hawaii to release an official long-form certificate.