Problems with Strata-Sphere's Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Myth Busting?

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5626 ^

[chaosagent]

I just read the Strata-Sphere's supposed debunking of the Obama birth certificate forgery situation.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5626

And I've got two (maybe more) problems/questions.

1. Where are the folds in the paper?

It was posted in a previous article on FR that someone had talked to the department that sends out BC's in Hawaii and the lady confirmed that they never send out a electronic version. It is ALWAYS folded and mailed.

Why would anyone go to the trouble to remove the folds to post it online? It would only call into question the authenticity of the document.

The Decosta BC has folds. Where are Obama's?

2. Strata-Sphere seems to think that Hawaii BC's are printed all at once, green background, black border, state seal, personal info, everything in one fell swoop.

I would be willing to bet that this is not true for several reasons.

First, it would require a color laser printer, not just a B&W one. More expensive in intial cost, toner, and maintenance, etc.

Second, it would be much cheaper to have the basic forms preprinted and just load them into a cheap B&W laser. College transcripts at several universities I am familar with all do it this way.

My wife and I recently had to obtain BC's for passports, hers from Kentucky, mine from Alabama. In the last two years I've to obtain copies of my parents birth certificates, marriage certificates and death certificates.

It was obvious they all were done this way. You can hold them up to the light at an angle and see the toner from the data setting on top of the form itself. Take a look at yours and see for yourself.

Questions about why the certificate number is blacked out, why the fonts seem to look different from the Decosta BC, why Obama's father's race is referred to as 'African', why on the Decosta BC the father's race is referred to as 'White' but Obama's mother is referred as 'Caucasian', I will leave to others.

[devere]

“They could not put in a fake number because it could then be checked for accuracy.”

You are quite correct, but I’ve decided it is also in accord with human nature for a staff member to cover the number on a legitimate certificate of a well known person, “just to be safe”. What the actual case is here is still uncertain.

[adamjefferson]

Citation needed for “relatives saying he was born in Kenya”

That would be interesting!

[AmericaUnited]

The certificate number is 151 1961 NNNNNN.

151, YYYY, NNNNNN where NNNNNN is the birth count at that point in the year. It’s not top secret.

[dickmc]

Folks.. it may or may not be a fake, but there is an easy explanation for the lack of folds or embossing. No doubt there is some worker at whatever agency produces this thing who is an Obama fan, and knows someone involved with the Obama campaign. That person pulled up his record, clicked “print”, and scanned and emailed it.

The security paper undoubtedly has the green 'bars'. It could not have been Emailed by anyone unless it of course was scanned.

See also: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html for all the reasons it's a fake. Particularly the font kerning. The true originals are printed on a black and white laser printer at the Hawaiian agency and the type kerning (spacing) is different on the photoshopeed version published at the OBama site!