CNN via BREAKING on Drudge: White House releases Obama birth certificate

CNN ^ | 27 APR 11 | DCBryan1

[DCBryan1]

(CNN) The White House released President Obama’s original birth certificate Wednesday.

The surprise release follows recent and sustained remarks by businessman Donald Trump, among others, that raised doubts as to whether the president was born in the United States.

[Adammon]

Friend, truthfully, they are the same font. What you’re seeing zoomed in so far is the difference in how the scanner interpreted the text on the page.

[presently no screen name]

Of course, this means that no matter where on earth Obama may have been born, he is not a natural born citizen and they all know this too.

Exactly. But the DU implants here don't know it because the mimic parrots are being played and too clueless to know it!

[Carling]

Then why are you distracting yourself with your own repeated attacks?

[butterdezillion]

This paper has no border or seal on it. This is a photocopy, not a certified copy of a birth certificate.

Somebody posted a link to a photo of the document and there weren’t any cross-hatches on it at all, so those were apparently added in electronically to make it appear that this was an official birth certificate. It’s not. It’s a photocopy that could have been made in any city in the world from any piece of paper that had this particular image on it.

[TexasCajun]

Mike provides this for us: -Thanks Mike-

"Try the following: Save off a copy of the exact PDF file the White House has released as Obama's birth certificate this morning. Find yourself a copy of Adobe Illustrator (not Photoshop), and load up the PDF file in Illustrator. Then click on the center of the image of the birth certificate, then right-click on the center of the image, and click Release Clipping Mask. Have fun...

Maybe some freeper can tell us what this means?"

Certainly.

When you open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator and release the clipping mask, several items are separate from the rest of the form, almost like a layer on top of the document. The items are:

1. Date Accepted by Local Reg.
2. Date Accepted by Reg. General
3. The date "APR 25 2011"
4. A "placeholder" for a square graphic above "Apr. 25, 2011"
5> The entire statement of certification and signature in the bottom right hand corner.

In fact, I can isolate those elements and move them anywhere on the document.

PDF conversion of a scanned document usually does not do this...or at least this with specific blocks of important items on a document

[Bankroller]

Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children From Wikipedia, (before this gets scrubbed) ___________________________________________________________________________ The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Kapiʻolani Medical Center A new mother holds her baby who was born 10 weeks premature at Kapiʻolani Medical CenterKapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health’s network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner city district of Makiki. Kapiʻolani Medical Center is Hawaii’s only children’s hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology trained specifically to care for children, from infants to young adults. It is the state’s only 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent unit. The facility was originally founded by Queen Kapiʻolani as the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862–1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844–1919).[1] In 1978, it merged with Kapiʻolani Maternity Home to become Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children.[2][3][4] ______________________________________________________________________________ So it should have still said Kapi’olani Maternity Home in 1961? Not “Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital” as is on form as presented today.

[cyberaxe]

...click me...

[smalltownslick]

“Weren’t we told that the Lucas Smith document was a forgery because it said “Kenya” and there was no such place as Kenya in 1961?”

That’s what I was vaguely remembering. Couldn’t remember the exact details, but I knew there had been discussion of it here.

[NoGrayZone]

No, they are not. And why is Stanley S blurry and Student S not?

[rxsid]

"The bc doesn’t establish ‘natural born’ so long as “Kenya, East Africa” is on that doc as father’s birthplace, absent documentation of his having become a US citizen prior to 8/4/61. The bc has never been anything but a red herring.

Now, if this is let to stand, any anchor baby can walk into the Oval Office.

But, let’s see the academic transcripts and medical records."

Exactly! Just like Chestur Arthur. History does repeat itself.

Now to the actual Constitutional question.

How can someone born with foreign citizenship, inherited by birthright from their foreign father, possibly be considered a "natural born Citizen?"

[Ironfocus]

There is most definitely something really fishy about the date stamp in blocks 20 and 22. The “1” in 1961 is perfect, and looks like it has been inserted over what was there before.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I don’t think that a military doctor who refuses deployment to a combat zone is a “hero”. The heroes are the guys who went.

[NJ_Tom]

I just took the JPEG image of the long form released in March of 2011 from WND's page. I pasted the image into Word, then used Word's "save as PDF" function to convert it to a PDF file. When I open it from Adobe Acrobat, copy and the paste into a new Word document, it looks just like the original image!

I think what you're seeing is a sign of an image that has been pasted together from multiple "levels."

[Fantasywriter]

Huh?

[Yaelle]

Whoa, butter!! Where can we find more about this poor little baby girl and her date and time of birth?

[mandaladon]

Explain this: These twins were born on Aug 5 1961 a day before Obama, but look at the file number on the upper right corner it's 61-10637 and 61-10638 it goes in ascending order according to the time of birth, however in Obama's case you notice he was born on Aug 4 1961 a day before the twins, yet his file number is 61-10641. It seems he should've had a LOWER file number than the twins. It could be a clerical error,but it's a discrepancy nevertheless .

[ClearCase_guy]

I clicked on the document, but I don’t know what it is telling me. Why is (for an example) a single “R” not redacted in the version you posted?

[KarlInOhio]

Fine. Now why is that old typewriter being used on the modern security paper with the green basketweave? Do they make transparencies and then print it on modern paper? If so, why is it in a bound volume? Do they do that with every bc?

1. Birth certificate typed by bored hospital worker with a weak pinky as shown by the sloppy shift key usage. :-)

2. Birth certificate accepted by city/county/island/state registrar (locally it is by the county, but Hawaii is a small state so I don't know who does the actual work) who stamp and sign it.

3. After a pile are received they are bound into an official book for storage.

4. Either at time of binding or later they are microfilmed for easier access. Microfilms are both smaller and can be easily duplicated rather than having to go back to the book and make another copy. (My current birth certificate came from a microfilm.)

5. Sometime later old records are pulled out and computerized for the short form records.

6. After much political pressure old microfilm is pulled from storage, printed on modern security paper and sent to Obama.

7. White House staff scan birth certificate (adding unsharp masking to create haloing around type and pixelation), create PDF file and distribute it.

I don't know if the paper copy still exists or if the microfilm becomes the official copy. I also don't know if they even have the film or if that has been digitized for even easier backup and storage.

[cyberaxe]

...dunno...

...odd huh?...;^)

[NJ_Tom]

Anyone with a Bronze Star qualifies IMO. He had previously accepted combat zone assignments.

He stood up for his oath, knowing that he risked losing all rank, pension, etc.