1. The more I look/study Obama's mother's signature on the long form birth certificate---especially when I look at an enlarged or zoomed in signature---the more I believe that the way it sits in that narrow space is just not normal.
2. For instance, the signature does not sit or touch the line.
3. Not only does it not sit on the line, but the very tiny space between the letters and the bottom line is unnaturally the same all along the line except for the "A" in "Ann."
4. NOTE: Look at the first “n” in “Ann” and then look at the “m” in “Obama”.
5. To me, the two letters are the same distance from the line even though the two letters are several letters apart: One is at the beginning of the signature, while the other one is at the end of the signature.
6. In my opinion, it would be humanly impossible for Obama’s mother---or anyone else for that matter----to write her name “Ann Dunham Obama” in that space and magically keep the pen from touching the line and also keep the space between the bottom of the letters and the line uniform throughout the length of the signature “Ann Dunham Obama.”
7. To accomplish the above---not touching the line and keeping the same distance between the letters and the line throughout the length of the signature---she would have had to possess one of the steadiest hands known to man in order for her to keep her pen steady as she wrote “Ann Dunham Obama” in that narrow space and, at the same time, avoid touching the line.
8. Other Documents: Compare Stanley's signature to her signatures on other documents, and you will see that she does what many of us do: She writes on the line and uses the line as a guide to write her name.
9. In fact, in a few instances in the other signatures, Stanley's signature goes below the line, which, in my opinion, is a natural thing to do when one writes his/her name in a narrow space on an application form of any kind.
10. Social Security application signature: In this signature, Stanley writes her name well in the center of the space, and she does not touch the bottom or top line in the space where an applicant writes his/her name; however, there is a lot of visible space between the bottom of the letters and the bottom line, a lot more space than the very tiny space between the bottom of the letters and the bottom line on the long form birth certificate that one can barely see with the naked eye until the signature is enlarged.
11. I tried this little experiment: I took writing paper with lines on it and carefully wrote "Stanley Ann Dunham" and my own name.
12. I purposely tried to avoid the bottom line on the space on the paper, and I succeeded, but, again, I was trying to avoid the line on purpose. On the other hand, I don’t think that Obama’s mother would have worried about not touching the line like I did if she truly signed the long form birth certificate.
13. However, in my experiment, the space between the line and the bottom of my letters was much greater than the very tiny space between the bottom of the letters and bottom line that we find on the long form birth certificate.
14. Also, the space between the letters and bottom line in my experiment was not as uniform as the space between the letters and the line of Obama’s mother’s signature.
15. Again, look at Stanley's other signatures that can be found on the internet: As far as I can tell, Stanley wrote on the lines and used the lines as a guide to write her name in the space, something that many of us normally do.
16 . Nordyke twins' mother's signature: Look at the mother's signature on the Nordyke twins birth certificate: You will see how the twins' mother wrote her name on the line, which is something that many of us would do.
17. Also look at the two signatures just below Obama's mother’s signature: I think they are “Dr. Sinclair” and the registrar.
18. Both of these signatures hug or sit on the line, because the persons did what many of us do: They used the line as a guide to help them write their names in the small space.
19. As I said earlier, I don't believe that it would have been humanly possible for Stanley---or anyone else---to write her name so close to the line without touching the line in several places, because in other samples of her signature on the internet, she touched the line when she signed her name, which is something many of us do when we sign documents.
20. Is the signature a fake? I say yes.
And so far as I can tell the birth certificate signature does touch the line in at least one place -- or even in two places, if not more.
Most people have to sign their names hundreds or thousands of times in their lifetimes.
It's not hard to find a signature where you may not have used the line among the many signatures where you did.
That's especially the case with official forms, where you aren't given a line so much as a box.
Trying to fit in (Stanley) along with Ann Dunham Obama meant that she was already altering her usual mode of signing in order to fit extra information into the box.
Once you try to write smaller you commit yourself to taking up less space.
Much ado about nothing.