Posted on 06/24/2008 1:01:41 PM PDT by pissant
t is now a virtual certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake.
The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks.
It has become even more suspect with the revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image aggregation website -- including one listing the location of Obama's birth as Antarctica, one with the certificate supposedly issued by the government of North Korea, and another including a purported photo of baby Barack -- one of which has a "photo taken" time-stamp just two minutes before the article and accompanying image was posted on the left-wing Daily Kos blog.
That strongly suggests that Daily Kos obtained the image from Photobucket, not the State of Hawaii, the Obama family, or the Obama campaign. Photobucket is not known as a credible supplier of official vital records for any of the fifty states, and the liberties that other Photoshoppers took with the certificates confirms this.
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Very nice.
So me and another guy got our US passports that way. We just wanted to have something to brag about with stamped passports from the Isle of Skye, Scotland to Spain. We took a month of leave. THAT was FUN.
Because if anyone had the certificate #, they could request a Letter of Verification from HI, on any or all of the information being shown. Someone does not want that to happen.
And considering that the blackout was computer generated, there is absolutely no doubt that this is a fraudulent document.
The passport file caper makes me suspicious that maybe some records were altered, ala Sandy Berger.
I'm sure he could, but why should he? There is nothing to be gained from his standpoint, to do so would just appear to give credence to what his campaign would prefer to dismiss as classify as crazy charges. Far better that his campaign laugh off talk about his not being a natural bown U.S. citizen as goofy conspiracy theories. And unless people can come up with some hard evidence, or any evidence at all casting doubts on his citizenship status then that response will seem entirely appropriate.
When I have to get a job I have to follow certain procedures but Lord Obama has special channels.
If I hand in a Birth Certificate like this my employer wouldn’t except it.
It clearly states “Any Alterations Invalidate This Certificate”
The certificate number is blacked out.
Its not a Social Security Number!
Its the date you were born and a tally count how many babies were born that year.
It is a fake document posted on his website as legit. What more proof do you want. If Drudge picks this up, he will be up shiite creek.
Besides the testimony of three of his close relatives, there is the fact that none of the hospitals on the island have a hospital birth certificate for him on file. This is the document from which the original official birth certificate would have been prepared. I would contain the attending physician's signature, and the foot print, along with the other pertinant data shown on the federally required tamper proof certificate shown on these threads.
Also, in 1961, his father's race would have been noted as "negro."
If there was anything to it Drudge would be all over it.
Go back and read all the previous threads; you’re lacking much that has been established.
As if Drudge is an expert on forgeries? He’ll come around when enough folks contact him.
Here is another expert to go along with the many who have already declared it to be a forgery.
By the way, the flap over the original birth certificate is likely that Barack Obama is named Barry Dunham on the form using his single mother's last name with no mention of his father.
Like his mother or grandparents?
...there is the fact that none of the hospitals on the island have a hospital birth certificate for him on file.
His place of birth is given as the Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu. If that is a lie then it would be easy for that organization to disprove it. And I'd expect that they would not want to have themselves associated with a lie. Have they denied that he was born there or shown any evidence that he wasn't?
Also, in 1961, his father's race would have been noted as "negro."
You don't suppose the fact that his father wasn't a U.S. citizen and was, in fact, African might explain that?
Not like you, huh?
The quality of the lettering is decidedly fishy, but I see little reason a computer blackout would be more suspicious than a mechanically-produced one. If only trusted people would have access to the original, it would be easier to have them scan the document and then black out the unwanted info than to have them obliterate the info and then scan. There would also be less danger of the info not being completely obliterated.
That the document number was obliterated is suspicious, but the method of obliteration seems entirely reasonable.
If Drudge picks this up, I send you 12 cases of fine Texas Pinot Noir.
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