Vanity: "Where's the Birth Certificate" book refunds now?

Me | 4/28/2011 | Me

[mewykwistmas]

MSNBC is reporting that 150,000 copies of the "Where's the Birth Certificate" book have been pre-sold and Farah was counting on 500,000 to 1,000,000 copies being sold. Now that we know where the birth certificate is (and the book obviously offers no claim that it's false) what happens, refunds? What would the ethical thing to do?

[munin]

You may not be looking any longer, but anyone with a ounce of intellect knows you have not seen an authentic Obama birth certificate

Actually, I have been waiting for this for a long time,
surely the Obamas and the WH have had access to competance to make whatever kind of document they wanted and that could withstand any kind of scrutiny. even to place such documents in archives both in the hospingtital and state house archives in Hi. after all Panata is running the CIA and he has proven he don’t care about the meaning of “IS” or any other value, including the Constitution

[Jeff Winston]

No, my “defense” is that we have a personal, signed letter from no less an authority than the Director of the Department of Health for the entire State of Hawaii essentially swearing that the certificates delivered by their office to Obama’s representative are authentic records of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.

As far as it being a clear X, I’ve personally blown it up graphically (using the image posted on the White House web site) to as large a size as could possibly be useful. From what I see, the resolution of the image is not sufficient to determine whether it’s an actual X, or whether some combination of deformed and pitted material and ink globbing makes it look that way.

[_Jim]

No, my “defense” is that we have a personal, signed letter from no less an authority than the Director of the Department of Health for the entire State of Hawaii essentially swearing that ...

Have you opened that pdf file from the WH.gov site yet using Adobe Illustrator?

I thought not ... but someone else did:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJfdKClbH4

[RummyChick]

I have blown it up and I call BS on your claim.

The only explanation is then that their office is incompetent and using a misspelled stamp

Or the White House jiggered with it.

[SatinDoll]

Jeff, I read your post.

All I have to say is this: it costs $12 for the Obama administration to get a certified, stamped certificate of live birth from Hawaii’s Department of Health.

Lots of people here have done exactly that.

Obama could even request a photocopy of the original, and I’m sure the willing public servants at DOH would do it.

Let the press and the Congress handle it and look it over.

But he hasn’t done so, and there is only one reason for that: it doesn’t exist.

[_Jim]

Someone else gas looked at the pdf file with Adobe Illustrator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2L5a_KS6iw

The question is, did their (Hawaii’s records office) page scanner software copy the image and identified certain elements as unique, and Adobe Illustrator then was able to reassemble them in properly spatially?

The way it is now, the COLB long form appears to be assembled from component parts ...

[grey_whiskers]

Photoshop the Obama "O" onto the O in "COKE" and you've got a KEEPER.

Better yet, photoshop the Obama O onto the front grill of and Edsel.

Or a cartoon of a "Pet Rock" where the person has just taken it out of the box and set it on the table. The Pet Rock is either

a) Obama's smiling head (as in a bust, not decapitation) or

b) the Obama "O".

Cheers!

[machogirl]

I do. My grandparents went from Catholic/Protestant/Quaker to Unitarian. It’s almost like the hippie movement from the 60’s. Anything goes. I’m trying to think back to some of the “sermons”. I think that I heard more about other beliefs than Christian.

[neverbluffer]

I thin k if you look at the sources of Obama Sr. “scholarships” as listed in those files, you will be enlightened.

Dr. Frank Laubach? Is that why Obama Sr also went to the phillipines?

Dr. Frank Laubach was closely tied to the Nation of Islam... His literacy group was one og Obama Sr.’s scholarship sources. He was also involved with the Unitarian Church

Now we are getting somewhere.. it is all starting to make sense

[Gene Eric]

You’re probably way ahead on this, but check it out anyway. Post #18 references post #10 with images.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2712232/posts?page=18#18

[Servant of the Cross]

It's settled ! Obama's ineligible

With clever use of stickers, Jerome Corsi revises [book] title and cover

I am surprised you're still here with vanities like this. Btw, your screenname is odious.

[Just A Reader]

I haven’t had time to read too many of the threads on the issue this week but knew others must be thinking what I am.

Did Corsi get swift boated?

[x1stcav]

I actually placed my order for it yesterday. This story isn’t over by a long shot.

[netmilsmom]

Thanks for the info!
Personally, I believe that having the best special effects people in Hollywood on Obama’s side, finding the clue that absolutely proves this a fake is nearly impossible. You have the best one.

[netmilsmom]

I don’t know, but I do know from reading the review on Amazon, there is more to this book than the Lack of BC.

We’ll see what comes of it.

[OneWingedShark]

That means the document was not JUST scanned, but digitally altered.

[OneWingedShark]

>Why, after all this time, would Zero release such an amateurish and obvious fake ?

For one thing, look at how many people have accepted it, unquestioningly, as a Bona Fied / genuine document.

[EternalVigilance]

I've followed your posts since yesterday, and think you've done a pretty good job of debunking stuff that needs debunking.

One thing, though, that I haven't seen you address is the strange difference in the last digit of the file number from all the other numbers:

Comments?

[Gene Eric]

Without having a definite opinion regarding the document’s authenticity, I find that last digit strange, and not because it didn’t get picked up by OCR. I commented about that here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2712232/posts?page=18#18

I’m wondering about high contrast sampling of that last digit, 1, and whether or not it could end up with a downward hooking serif like the other OCR’d 1 digits. Rerunning the final digit through the OCR at different angles and contrast/quality levels might answer the question. You’d need to use the same exact technology to prove or disprove an OCR match. Using something like Photoshop to reproduce the effect isn’t accurate enough.

It’s indeed a coincidence that last digit didn’t scan, but not an impossibility. It wouldn’t surprise me if the document was manipulated for the purpose of cleaning up, but not to change the data. A simple image scan should have been posted to help avoid the confusion and suspicion.

[EternalVigilance]

Thanks. I’m passing your comments along to friends who are asking questions about this.