With all due respect, for me, the only issue that matters is the one that I alone raised, which is that key pieces of text on the Obama document were deliberately REPLACED for some as yet unknown purpose.
The altered text IS the issue, for it says right on the “modern document” that any alteration invalidates the document.
We cannot know if Hawaii used AFRICAN as a race, but IT DOES NOT MATTER, since we have not determined what they could or could not list.
What does matter is that the text was altered, and perhaps the reason why this document has no seal or signatures is intentional.
Why?
Did the Kos or Smears ever state that this is the OFFICIAL birth certificate of Obama?
I don’t think so.
They have committed fraud, but have they broken any state or federal laws by posting these and calling them Obama’s birth certificate?
Sadly, NO!
That’s the rub.
Like another freeper mentioned: if McCain’s eligibility were questioned and in response he sent a forged birth certificate to Rush to disseminate, imagine the outrage.
The only way we’re going to get this covered is if somebody blows up the forgery to 4’x5’ and gets filmed in the crowd of GMA, or some such, and then sends the footage to a rival morning show.
They may not have broken any laws, since it is obviously not an ‘official’ document. But they are presenting it as legitimate on Obama’s very own website. If not a legal problem, then it is certainly an enormous political problem for him. And I will say the fact that the border alignment is NOT the same for the Kos and Obama version - is absolute proof that this was an electronically shared document rather than a scanned hardcopy.