I have said all along that I suspected the reason for Obama's unwillingness to release the original is that it would reveal him to be an illegitimate child. I just found this:

The U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth in 1961 included a field labeled "Legitimate" (since replaced with the less pejorative "Mother married"). If this field were indeed the troublesome one (i.e. if his parents were never married and Obama knew it), it wouldn't be a particularly big deal in its own right, but it would suggest that Obama has lied about this element of his family history throughout his public life. Understandable, perhaps, but still a deliberate and repeated deceit to ask the American public to overlook, particularly for a candidate who has fashioned his unique biographical and genealogical background into a central theme of his public persona and thus his candidacy, ever since the publication of his first book.

I still think this is the most likely explanation, but knowing these RATS, it could be something worse.

“This isn’t the birth certificate that I knew.”

Kos probably created it. Even on Kos there was speculation it was a fake.

The Daily Kos is jumping on it? Hillary at work via minions?

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Wrong. All 1961 birth certificates would NOT have used the word “black” in that situation. They would have said Negro. Having studied more than a few census and other government records, I can assure you that are not always consistent. It often depends on what term that the attending doctor or nurse who filled it out wants to use. The folks who keep pushing this should either drop this silly crusade or, at the very least, get their facts right.

FWIW, I read somewhere that Kos claims to have received it from the Bambi campaign.

Kos might be a little more honest than Bambi, but that ain’t sayin’ much.

“This isn’t the birth certificate that I knew.”

"But I can no more dismiss this birth certificate than my Congressional record."

Why is the certificate number blacked out?

“I was born in Hawaii before I was born elsewhere.”

Oh well. If there is a problem with the birth certificate, will simply CHANGE it.

I POINTED THAT OUT ON A CERTIFICATE THREAD!

HA!

African is not a race, it is a nationality.

How did they obtain the file from Hawaii unfolded?

Comic gold, that.

He is reporting what the Hawaii registrar told him. That person said the terminology for the father’s race would have been black or negro—but not African.

I don’t get how that is inconsistent with your position.

The folks who keep pushing this should either drop this silly crusade or, at the very least, get their facts right.

I vote for dropping it.

How did they obtain the file from Hawaii unfolded?

Beats me. Blogger Texas Darlin' called them and was told that the cert is NEVER transmitted electronically. Only mailed.

Wrong. All 1961 birth certificates would NOT have used the word “black” in that situation. They would have said Negro.

Absolutely. And in Obama's case they certainly would also have included the term "magic".

This is believable.

On my birth certificate it shows Mother: Caucasian, Father: European./s