This article is arguing in favor of the birth certificate validity:
Obama’s birth certificate: Final chapter.
By Amy Hollyfield
Published on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 05:21 p.m.
“SUMMARY: Since we published Obama’s birth certificate, questions about its authenticity have been frequent and fierce. After reviewing the evidence, we’re confident in our rulings.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
I wrote the author an email in response copied below:
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my e-mail and to respond to the lingering questions with your updated article.
However, I must say I was dismayed to see you made the same mistake that the Hawaii Heath Dept. official Janice Okubo made. I’m referring to this passage:
“When the official documents were questioned, we went looking for more answers. We circled back to the Department of Health, had a newsroom colleague bring in her own Hawaii birth certificate to see if it looks the same (it’s identical).”
The overwhelming key question is why does the state seal and registrar’s signature not show through from the back, when in a known genuine one they do? Okubo offers the suggestion that maybe the stamps weren’t pressed hard enough in Obama’s case, but that becomes dubious if in every known genuine one they do show through. So the VERY key question Okubo did not address and you did not address with your colleagues birth certification was: does the state seal and registrar’s signature show through in theirs?
That’s obviously an important question! And it wasn’t answered in either case! As Sherlock Holmes might say, I may be able to make certain logical deductions from the fact that it wasn’t addressed in either case.
One may surmise that both you and Ms. Okubo are supporting the idea that Obama’s is genuine. Then if it were the case that for the genuine ones the two of you looked at, the certifying seal and signature were NOT visible from the front, that fact would have been loudly trumpeted as supporting Obama’s case. The fact that there was no mention of it either way strongly leads us to conclude that also in your cases the state seal and signature DO show through!
Furthermore yet another genuine one has been posted on the net and it also shows the state seal and registrars signature do show through to the front. It’s posted here:
Analysis: Faked birth certificate suggests Obama may not be US citizen
Israeli Insider | 6/24/08 | Reuben Korvet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035810/posts?q=1&;page=251
Now, since you say your colleague’s birth certification supports Obama’s case, it is incumbent on you to to show it really is identical in having the same borders and in having the certifying seal and signature not being visible from the front. Your colleague can obviously blank out all last names and the certificate number for privacy reasons if they want.
If you do not make available this claimed certificate that is supposed to support Obama’s case, that would only lead those us with questions to believe that again evidence that cast doubt on the validity of his is being suppressed.