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The birth certificate on the campaign site is demonstratively fake on its face. If for no other reason because the blackout of the number is digital, not a paste over. Thus we know that the depiction is a digitally modified document.
It appears to me also pretty clear that the white spaces around the letters on the crucial blanks (name, race, etc.) demonstrate that those letters were inserted by a digital process.
For those reasons, I don't have much trouble saying that the only birth certificate furnished for general circulation by Obama and his campaign is fraudulent and fake.
As to the speculation about Indonesian citizenship and other issues, I look at that from the lawyer's perspective. If Obama was really born in Hawaii, I would be very comfortable rolling the dice with the Supreme Court or anyone else on the "natural born" issue--Mr. Benjamin's articles are very nice theoretical analysis; but all they really do is demonstrate the foundation of the "natural born" clause in the first place. That isn't how the Court would decide the case.
And as little respect as I have for Obama's sophistication and experience as a lawyer, and he also has access to some very capable help who are sophisticated and experienced, I believe that is how they would resolve that kind of issue. So I remain on the proposition that the only substantive issue that merits concealing with the birth certificate is his place of birth.
And I further expect to find when the Hawaii records ultimately appear that there is some kind of paper record filed by the mother or one of the grandparents evincing birth in Honolulu--and further to find that record is defective is some respect that casts doubt on the crucial fact. Wrong hospital or place of birth; or time of birth; or whatever.
There is simply too much ancillary evidence out there that implies a birth outside the US--probably in Kenya.
The story about the missionaries who got on the airplane when Stanley Ann could not because she was too pregnant; the newspaper interviews with Sarah and the two half-siblings to the effect that they were present when he was born in Kenya; the Wayne Madsen report that birth records had been located in Kenya.
And the phony explanation about why she was on Mercer Island so soon after the birth she hadn't figured out how to change diapers in August of 1961--Susan Blake's testimony that she was on her way to Boston to see Obama Sr. who was at Harvard when the record is clear that he wasn't at Harvard in Boston until a year later.
The story that really fits is the connections in the published BOA (British Overseas Airlines) connection schedules--she flew out of Nairobi through Glaskow to Vancouver BC; then took ground transportation to Mercer Island in Seattle; there is live testimony somewhere that she was coming from Vancouver when she came to Mercer Island.
Great post as usual, sir!
Excellent post. I really admire your thought process.
David, thanks for your level headed and excellent legal discussions re the fake COLB the past weeks.
THANKS
putting in my Word OBUMMA file for distribution to my email list.
Gold star post, David! Thanks for the ping.
There is another thing that has been bothering me from the beginning when comparing McCain’s Certification of Live Birth (CoLF) to that of Obama’s phony certificate of whatever. (Sorry to bring McCain’s problems into this thread, but I am doing it as a comparison.) McCain’s CoLB was registered in the Canal Zone about two weeks plus after he was born across the boarder in the Rep of Panama. Obama’s phony certificate of whatever was registered in just a few days…in many days less time then that of McCain’s. It must have been falsely registered (in time) at some point. (There was no DHL, etc., then.)
There is something funny here on Obama’s part.
Respectfully,
David, your theory and explanation is the most plausible I have read thus far.
And the phony explanation about why she was on Mercer Island so soon after the birth she hadn't figured out how to change diapers in August of 1961--Susan Blake's testimony that she was on her way to Boston to see Obama Sr. who was at Harvard when the record is clear that he wasn't at Harvard in Boston until a year later.
NOTE: A high-school acquaintance of Stanley Ann Dunham told me that Stanley Ann and baby Barry came through town alone in August 1961 on their way to see Barack Sr. at Harvard in Boston, and that Barack Sr. was not present at his son’s birth. This explanation surprised me because supposedly Barack Sr. did not go to Boston until 1963, two years later. If the account is true, however, it would indicate that time lines provided by Obama about his family history are inaccurate. On this note, I was told by a reporter who investigated Stanley Ann Dunham that she enrolled briefly at the Univ. of Washington in Spring, 1962, and lived in Seattle alone with baby Barack. Perhaps they never lived together as a family.
Barack Hussein Obama Snr lived at the YMCA -IIRC. There's no reason to assume they ever lived at the same address in Hawaii.