Replies

Not ture. The COLB posted on his website is just as good as any other document when it comes proving birth in the US. The State department accepts it, as does any court in the US.

Not true.

What is posted on his website is a web facsimile of one side of a purported document. What was posted was also altered (certificate number blacked out), which according to the posted document invalidates that document for all legal purposes.

Obama would have to make available the actual physical copy of the document so that both sides could be inspected by people.

Can you imagine what would happen if you were driving and were pulled over by a cop, and instead of showing your drivers license you pulled out your blackberry and showed an image of the front of your drivers license that you stored on your website? Could you get on a plane by showing that blackberry image to an airline ticket agent, TSA, or others?

Then why should we accept one side of a web facsimile as the real thing?

-PJ

What is posted on his website is a web facsimile of one side of a purported document.

Photographs from multiple angles were also posted later, and they clearly indicated the document meets all the legal requirements.

What was posted was also altered (certificate number blacked out), which according to the posted document invalidates that document for all legal purposes.

The image was altered, not the document itself. Furthermore, the photographs posted later did not black out the number but showed it clearly.

Obama would have to make available the actual physical copy of the document so that both sides could be inspected by people.

He did make it available at his campaign headquarters. The only people who bothered going there to inspect it were the factcheck people.