Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)

Israel Insider ^ | 3 July 2008 | Reuven Koret

[SE Mom]

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

[Fred Nerks]

for the record:

Alan Keyes Files Suit in California Superior Court 11/13/08
Superior Court of California - County of Sacremento ^

Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:29:37 AM by atlbelle44

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132245/posts

[Fred Nerks]

for the record:

Did Next Commander-in-Chief Falsify Selective Service Registration?
DebbieSchlussel.com ^ | November 13, 2008 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 1:49:03 AM by ml/nj

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2131428/posts

[Fred Nerks]

For the record:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend' New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

“We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign,” he writes. But right-wing commentators tried to use those connections to smear Obama, he says.

[Kevmo]

For the record:

Many freepers are just now coming to recognize the BC as a “real” issue. They’ll be looking for a synopsis thread or a place to start reading so they can get caught up.

Here’s two approaches. One is the keyword “Certifigate” which I started and have been maintaining (apparently, so have others been helping to maintain it).
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles

A second non-partisan approach is to follow the thread I started on Intrade. Note that Intraders are now coming around to wanting a contract to trade on this issue.
Will the controversy about Obama’s Birth Certificate affect the Intrade Price?
http://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/255/2279.page

[Iowan]

For the long thread: Infant Barack photo

Barack baby photo courtesy of Maya Soetoro-Ng at
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-081028-obama-all-pg,0,6564040.photogallery

Photo #2 infant Barack
Photo # 8 School picture..Elem.?

[Iowan]

Heres the infant Barack photo This was submitted by Maya Soetoro-Ng... Obama's sister. Thanks Fred Nerks for getting it formatted for me. It seems new photos are being added. Sourcehttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-081028-obama-all-pg,0,6564040.photogallery

[linn37]

That is one ugly baby.

[Iowan]

Found this at the Chicago Tribune source.

This was photo #2 at the source

Photo # 8 looks like a new Elem. school photo..maybe 3rd or 4th grade? It was not dated.

[Iowan]

Ping to #6246 on long thread.

Will send you a freepmail in just a bit

[Fred Nerks]

do you mean this one?

it shows up as #16

Caption:

Barack Obama 1972 (Punahou School yearbook photo) This 1972 photo provided by Na Opio, the yearbook of Punahou School, shows Barack Obama, in the back row, third from left, posing with his 5th grade class at the Punahou Elementary School a prestigious private school in Honolulu that attracts the island's wealthiest, and most accomplished students.

[Iowan]

No, it is a black and white photo.

He is wearing a white polo shirt.

[Calpernia]

I'm still curious about this whitish looking baby name Malcom

(notice the black panther logo between the couple)

[Iowan]

This is the correct photo that I also had not seen before. It is photo#9

[Calpernia]

RB, do you have the link to your thread handy that you made a few months ago that had this picture plus the one of Barack in Indonesian school?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2040486/posts?page=6430#6430

[Iowan]

Thanks for the Ping, Calpernia.

Also, thanks for getting the earlier link from RaceBannon regarding this photo.

[Fred Nerks]

Google: obama Indonesia School:

[browardchad]

There's some interesting pictures in this YouTube video:

A&E Biography - Barack Obama 2 of 9 (5:21)

There's the same baby pic posted at #6425 (the professional type) at 00:21 -- Parents not included.

There's also an interesting sequence of photos starting at 2:34, including the "Soetoro family in Indonesia" bench photo we've seen a thousand times, followed by a different pose of Barry, Ann and Maya only; then an outdoor shot of Barry holding Maya, in which he's wearing the same shirt and pendant as the bench photo; and finally another outdoor shot at 3:08, of Barry alone, holding some sort of sticks, in the same outfit.

At 4:24 there's Barry in a "Mixed Races" shot at Ponnahu, with the Afro that David Mendell (one of the narrators) wrote about in "From Promise to Power."

The most interesting shot is at 4:41 -- Lolo, Ann and Maya. Ann is wearing the same dress and is in the same location as this shot in that Chicago Trib photo album, labeled "Stanley Dunham, Stanley Ann, Maya and Barack Obama in Hawaii in the early 1970s." (The same shot is used at 4:45 in the video, but Stanley Dunham, who should be on the left, is cropped out.)

Finally, there's a shot of Ann and probably Maya at a zoo somewhere, with possibly Lolo cropped out except for his arm, at 5:04.

Most of the photos have little relation to the narrative and they're all over the place chronologically, but it's obvious that most of them have been strategically cropped.

I haven't looked at all 9 parts (my stomach can't handle it all at once), but there's a picture of Ann, a young (five or six-year old?) Barry and Madelyn in Hawaii at 00:30 in Part 1 that's interesting. Ann has a lei on, and a white dress. Barry has a tie on, and Madelyn's also dressed up. Wedding day to Lolo? Airport arrival/departure? That's followed with a "Barry dresses as a Luo" shot with Michelle(?).

They all go by ultra-fast, so be sure to keep your mouse over the stop button.

[RubyR]

I tried to grab a couple of those pics you referenced - here:

I'm thinking this 2nd one could be her college graduation (?).

[browardchad]

Trying to post to this thread is -— aargh!

Thanks for the screen captures!

Regarding college graduation, perhaps, but this email was posted at AtlasShrugs blog:

“The University of Hawaii at Manoa is only able to provide the following information for Stanley Ann Dunham:

Dates of attendance:
Fall 1960 (First day of instruction 9/26/1960)
Spring 1963 - Summer 1966
Fall 1972 - Fall 1974
Summer 1976
Spring 1978
Fall 1984 - Summer 1992

Degrees awarded:
BA - Mathematics, Summer 1967 (August 6, 1967)
MA - Anthropology, Fall 1983 (December 18, 1983)
PhD - Anthropology, Summer 1992 (August 9, 1992)

Sincerely,
Stuart Lau”

****************************************
Stuart Lau
University Registrar
Office of Admissions and Records
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph: (808) 956-8010
****************************************

If her degree wasn’t awarded until almost a year after her last semester of undergrad class registration, would there be a celebration?

[hoosiermama]

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