Was Obama's "Birth Certificate" Photoshopped?

The Patriot Room ^ | June 19, 2008 | Bill Dupray

[Bill Dupray]

Daily Kos posted a copy of Obama's "Birth Certificate." A blogger with experience in graphics and printing shows that the document was clearly produced using a graphics program.

Why doesn't Obama tell Hawaii to give one directly to Fox News and put this issue to bed? It would take 5 minutes.

[Dante3]

This thought also occurred to me. It will distract from a great many more important concerns. He promised change, yet he picks Eric Holder with his baggage and the silly Albright, both part of the old Clinton crowd. Stupid to have picked Holder and Albright. Will he appoint Sandy Berger as AG? Mark Rich as ambassador?

[kenavi]

They are barking up the wrong tree. They need to investigate his mother's citizenship!

[kenavi]

They are barking up the wrong tree. They need to investigate his mother's citizenship!

[Wicket]

Easy way to figure this one out - do we have any freepers who were born in Hawaii in that era?

[NathanR]

Actually anyone born in Hawaii would do. Just request a CERTIFICATION (not Certificate) of Live Birth, and compare with Obama’s. Obama’s was apparently printed out this month.

[AmericaUnited]

Here's a link provided in the other thread of a recent HI birth certificate. NOTICE THE EMBOSSED SEAL IS VERY VISIBLE. YOU CAN'T SEE ONE ON THE OBAMA DOC!

[NathanR]

It may have been photoshopped (or edited by Paint or some other program) to redact the document number.

[AmericaUnited]

No Seal, NO DEAL!!!

[NathanR]

I noticed that, but other than that it seems to be the correct form. The fonts seem different also. (That may be caused by different printers)

[highball]

If Kos posted a phony birth certificate, why didn’t Obama disavow it? huh?

1. There is no evidence that it is a phony document. The pixelation could be from a poorly compressed JPEG. The form appears correct for a reprinted Hawaii document.
2. Why should he? This is making the Right look like desperate and dishonest loons, so devoid of actual ideas as to buy into all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories.

This is exactly what Obama wants. We abandon the issues and latch on to an endless series of foolish nonsense. Plays right into his hands.

[kidd]

An excellent point.

He sat in an anti-American, racist church for 20 years. How did he implement “change” there?

Was he too afraid to implement change?
Did he believe he lacked authority to implement change?
Did he fail to recognize that change was needed?
Was it his judgement that change wasn’t needed?

Or does he consider abandoning the problem, by leaving the church, as a method of implementing change?

The truth is, he’s really not all that good at “change”.

[RoseofTexas]

The spawn aka the false black messiah of satan needs NO STINKIN birth certificate!

[Spunky]

“.....and it’s different than the ones my parents have.”

The one your parents have is probably the one that the hospital issued when you were born. Those are not valid for legal use.

[y6162]

“Why should he? This is making the Right look like desperate and dishonest loons, so devoid of actual ideas as to buy into all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories.”

Nonsense. If folks have questions about the authenticity of Obama’s birth, they’re free to explore it. A phony birth certificate wouldn’t be the first document a leftie forged.

Any issue that serves to undermine Obama’s credibility is fair game.

Don’t be so defensive. Who cares what the left thinks. In a street fight, think about what you’re going to do to them instead of being afraid of what they’re going to do to you. Buck up.
No one is abandoning the issues: national security is ours and Obambi is ceding the economy and energy to us. W is about to announce victory in Iraq. Things are looking up,

[Bubba_Leroy]

The Obama campaign is purposely setting up strawmen to distract from his significant shortcomings.

I am convinced that Sinclair is a democrat financed dupe. Hire some drug addict that will swear to anything for a buck, make sure he gets lots of publicity, then have the MSM arm of the democrat party publicly repudiate him as a kook.

Then, whenever someone credible comes forward with allegations about B.O., the MSM can dismiss him out of hand as just another kook.

[Spunky]

"They are barking up the wrong tree. They need to investigate his mother's citizenship!"

Are you being serious?

[highball]

Any issue that serves to undermine Obama’s credibility is fair game.

Silly things like this don't undermine his credibility, they undermine ours. Which, paradoxically, end up making him look better by comparison.

[y6162]

Nonsense. Did you wander over here from Huff Po? Is so tell baby Alex’s mother she looks like a ho.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Thanks for posting that photocopy. If you compare it to the Obama copy, you will notice that the border allows more room from both the top and bottom to either edge of the paper. That’s because most desktop lasers have border areas that they cannot print on. Since the version in your image and Obama’s are the same revision, I expect they are both imaged similarly and should have similar margins. They don’t.

[highball]

Never been there, thanks. Not a place for conservatives to hang out.

Lacking any substance at all, or do you just like insulting me?

This birth certificate nonsense is just a Republican version of the Bush Air Guard papers in reverse - some are so afraid of a candidate that they desperately want to believe the papers are forged, no matter how silly the notion is.