Could this be Obama's Kenyan birthcertificate? (someone is smoking catnip)

Probably some kid's photoshop program ^ | KOS troll

[DoctorJimbo27]

I wasn't sure if i wanted to post this, but here goes. I've been holding onto this for a bit now, cause if it's real I don't know if I could get in trouble.

I voted for McCain last year (by default, I wanted huckabee) because I knew Nobama would be a disaster, but i wasn't sold on the citizenship thing. on a whim, I asked a firend in the UK to see if she could find any old records from back when Kenya was a british colony. Well a few days later she emailed me this.

it looks real to me, but I'm not sure. And I havent been able to get a hold of my friend since she sent it to me. If this is legitimate, should i be worried?

Here's the link, I don't have a website to upload it to. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=281blzk&s=3

[John Valentine]

Yep. That cans it. But it’s cute.

[bondjamesbond]

I would note that this document has a real good-looking true type font. Not that that would be a deal-breaker, because the form is typeset, not typed.

I would also question the use of the term “Native-Born” in this document. Quite a coinkydink that that exact term would appear on a Kenyan birth certificate and the US Constitution...

[andy58-in-nh]

Thanks for the update. It definitely did not pass the “smell test” - especially when you further notice the proportionally-spaced font type that appeared no more valid on a 1961 document than CBS’s George Bush/ANG forgery was.

[bvw]

Thanks for the image post!

That writing is ballpoint and not a type that would have been around in Africa in 1961. That’s precision ball point. No older than twenty years or less. IMO!

[LucyT]

Ping to yet Another birth certificate.

[john in springfield]

Busted!

The full background text, which is in Dutch, reads:

DIT IS GEEN GELDIG DOCUMENT VAN DE OVERHEID. DIT IS POLITIEKE COMMENTAAR. HIJ IS VOORZITTER VOOR MINSTENS DRIE EN EEN HALF VAN MEER JAREN. KEUR HET GOED. DIT ZAL NIET VERANDEREN.

Rough translation:

"This is not a valid government document. This is political commentary. He is President for at least three and a half more years. Get used to it, it's not going to change."

[mnehring]

It all looked too convenient , like someone was trying to play a game and make something we expect we would find. Probably the KOS kiddos playing a game. What they don’t realize is that the Birthers are that way (I’m not one but that’s another story) because they are skeptics, not because they are suckers who buy into anything for hope’s sake.

[john in springfield]

Ping to 86.

This actually brings up a very serious question.

If and when Obama DOES produce a "long form birth certificate," how is anyone going to know that whatever he produces is not a forgery?

To the naked eye, this particular faked "document" looks pretty convincing.

[redhead]

"I filched it."

Heh. Partners in crime...

[mnehring]

lol, I guess the troll didn’t get the response he wanted. I bet he expected a bunch of suckers who would buy anything out of hope instead of a bunch of skeptics.

[john in springfield]

Oh, it was obviously a game. I think he partly wanted to see how long it would take us to bust the code.

Kinda fun, actually. :-)

[jellybean]

Thanks. I don’t read Dutch - glad you do!

[andy58-in-nh]

I always liked the Dutch. They are sticklers for detail but often possess a winning sense of humor...

[freekitty]

His entire administration will be removed and given to McCain.

[50mm]

We have a bogey at post 1.

[john in springfield]

Just thinking out loud here.

Here's the potential key evidence, as far as I'm concerned.

Point 1: The COLB posted on Obama's web site may or may not be phony (I haven't decided on that point yet.)

Point 2: Obama's failure to come up with a real, long form birth certificate in a timely manner, and his expenditure of a vast amount of money in legal fees is, in my opinion, a 100% indication that something is rotten in Denmark. I don't know what that something is, but something is fishy.

Point 3: Government officials and the media have stalled, obfuscated, gone to court, ridiculed those who've asked for reasonable proof (even giving them their own insulting label: "birthers"), and changed their story.

If you're in a police investigation, the suspect declining to prove his innocence when it should be very easy to do so, and changing his or her story under further questioning, is a sure sign that something is not innocent.

So the key evidence for me, at this point, is the history of the thing to this point.

I guess that about sums it up.

[LucyT]

This actually brings up a very serious question.

If and when Obama DOES produce a "long form birth certificate," how is anyone going to know that whatever he produces is not a forgery?

To the naked eye, this particular faked "document" looks pretty convincing.

Pinging Marmolade.

[john in springfield]

Oh, I had help from Babelfish. :-)

[Frantzie]

Looks too real. ;-) Looks a lot more legit than the fake HI COLB.

[usmcobra]

After close examination of the document in question I must assume we are looking for a Muslim with only a left hand as the creator of this document.

It is of course a forgery, since Stanley Ann Dunham was known as “Anna Toot” by Obama’s Kenyan relatives, and that name should be on this fake birth certificate.