[palmer]

Comparing your real COLB to the photos at fact check (e.g. http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg there is no difference in the borders. All the stuff in your blog about artifacts of scanning and digital altering are irrelevant if you can't explain how the fact check photos depict a document with two real stamps (rubber stamp from the notary and an embossing stamps).

The only possible scenario is the forger prints out his complete forgery (color laser including the background), then obtains and uses the stamps before folding the documents and displaying them to Fact check for photographing. How does he obtain the rubber stamp and the embossing tool?

[Polarik]

Comparing your real COLB to the photos at fact check (e.g. http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_5.jpg there is no difference in the borders. All the stuff in your blog about artifacts of scanning and digital altering are irrelevant if you can't explain how the fact check photos depict a document with two real stamps (rubber stamp from the notary and an embossing stamps).

First of all, I will answer all of yours and anyone else's questions. I am in the midst of completing Part Two, which talks about the Factcheck photos rather exclusively. The reason why it is taking so long to finish, is because I promised someone that I would not be doing this anymore. So, basically, I'm going back on my promise to finish what I started.

Next, I need to know by what you mean, "no difference in the borders." Which borders, or which part of the borders look exactly alike?

Keep in mind that Factcheck's photos, when brought out to their original size, are 3 1/2 times bigger than the image of the 2007 COLB I used for display. The actual image size of the 2007 COLB is 2550 x 3300 pixels, and that might provide a better comparison.

Keep in mind that you are comparing a photo to a scan.

Now, I can explain all of what you ask, but in order to do so, I need to know what you believe about the COLB images that were produced by a digital scanner, and the COLB photos that were produced by a digital camera.

Please answer the following questions:

Do you believe that:


1. Obama's COLB image posted on the Daily Kos is a forgery?
2. Obama's COLB image posted on Fight The Smears is a forgery?
3. Obama's COLB image posted on Factcheck.org is a forgery?
4. Obama's COLB image posted on Politifact is a forgery?
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5. All of the images listed above were scanned from Obama's real, paper 2007 COLB?
6. All of the photos posted on Factcheck were made from Obama's real, paper 2007 COLB?
7. All of the photos posted on Factcheck look exactly like Obama's real, paper 2007 COLB?
8. All of the info in these images and photos match the info in Obama's original birth certificate?
   
   

[LucyT]

Ping to #52 and #53.

Good post, Polarik. We appreciate your hard work, and time spent away from your family. We all remember that only you had the expertise, and cared enough, to compare those COLBs.

[Brown Deer]

The only possible scenario is the forger prints out his complete forgery (color laser including the background), then obtains and uses the stamps before folding the documents and displaying them to Fact check for photographing.

Really?