[PhatHead]

His mother would have had an up to date passport on which the son, probably known as Barry Dunham, and later adopted as Soetoro, would have been included. Minor children don't require their own passports, do they?

I guess I don't know what the law was in 1961, but when I flew overseas in 1987, my newborn son needed a passport. If the law was the same in 1961, and BHO was born in Kenya, as some here suggest as a reason to forge a US birth certificate, then how did he even manage to enter the country?

This forged birth certificate matters, I think, but the story of birth in Kenya just carries less and less credibility the more I try to learn where that rumor started. And if he was born in Hawaii, then the forged online certificate proves nothing, that will have any significant political impact.

I still think, if indeed the certificate on Obama's official site is derived from the forged one (as it appears to be) the campaign needs to respond in some way - such as producing his actual certificate, on paper, for a legitimate news organization to examine.

[kimmie7]

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[supercat]

This forged birth certificate matters, I think, but the story of birth in Kenya just carries less and less credibility the more I try to learn where that rumor started. And if he was born in Hawaii, then the forged online certificate proves nothing, that will have any significant political impact.

It proves that Barack Obama's campaign was willing to put up a forged certificate, for whatever reason. That in and of itself should be a sound basis to question his character, regardless of what information is concealed on the forged cert.