“Red Herring.”
Still, interesting.
I believe the certificate is real.
I bet if you looked at certificates printed in 2007 they would would have similar imperfections, such as the overlapping framing bars (whatever they are called). I believe some of the other imperfections derive from graphic compression.
But,
the key is the date stamping. The date stamping on the back side of the certificate is viewable in both examples, Obama’s and the Decosta’s. The stamping is done near the same location, and looks like the same machine.
And,
on Decosta’s the signature block is also stamped on the back of the certificate and is visible too, like the date stamping.
But, on Obama’s no signature block is visible from the back side, unlike Decosta’s. It is non-existent, as the impressed seal is non-existent.
If this document were fake the forger would not have bothered to only forge the date stamping.
Conclusion:
The document is real. It was created by someone at the appropriate agency. But it never got appropriately signed and certified. The document was created by an “insider” at the agency and bypassed by the registrar to the Obama camp.
Just my guess.
That would have to be a firing offense, if not a criminal offense, to steal a blank government form and generate a document with no intent to authenticate it through government channels.
-PJ