I vote #1 and it will be ignored.
I agree. Applying Occam's Razor, I've always believed Obama was born in Hawaii. The Kenyan birth conspiracy, while possible is convoluted and simply defies common sense and reason. But I now believe that as a younger adult, Obama was telling people he was born in Kenya. The question that needs to be explored is why? Was he simply trying to earn "street cred" from liberal academia while writing his unpublished racial identity book? Was he trying to defraud scholarships? There's a serious fire burning here if birthers would get out of the way.
I wonder if there exists a manuscript of Journeys in Black and White. I'd be very curious to read it. And where else did Obama sell himself as Kenyan-born? This is what investigators need to be looking for, not a stupid birth certificate.
And, yes, this will be buried. The publishing house has already fallen on their sword, telling us this was a simple typo of their fault.
The birth issue will only become relevant when and if something like school records are released that clearly lists Obama as a foreign student receiving financial aid.
However, I am sure the Chicago mafia has cleaned up all these loose ends, just like they did with the biography in 2007.