I have said nothing about believing it or not - just that I have seen no credible source that says it is false.
Maybe to you “credible” means “NPR” or TV news, or perhaps talking heads on the radio, but if you actually want to learn something, try reading it, and if you find something inaccurate, you can post your comment. Saying that “the source isn’t credible” won’t do. Lots of useful and interesting comments on the thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2716165/posts
(Video)Graphic Artist Questions Obama Birth Cert. Says The Doc Has Been ‘Edited In Its Entirety’
KJCT 8 ^ | UPDATED: 1:54 am MDT May 5, 2011 | Don Coleman
Posted on Friday, May 06, 2011 10:39:58 AM by Red Steel
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Even after the White House offered up President Obama’s birth certificate, there are still those who are questioning it’s legitimacy.
One Grand Junction man who works as a graphic artist says he has discovered something strange about the certificate. “There’s no doubt that it has been edited and quite significantly,” James Colby said.
He’s been involved in graphic arts since 2004 and has never had a reason to doubt our president’s birthplace. In fact, he says he is politically independent. Yet, Colby says he can’t ignore the obvious.
After downloading the birth certificate straight off of the White House’s website, he started noticing the apparent flaws in a computer program called Adobe Illustrator.
“Legitimate digitized, scanned documents will always have [a] faded appearance... There are too many jagged features, here.” he said as the scoured the certificate. “So, it’s not a single document, it’s actually ‘compositive’ layers.”
Colby says scanned images should only have one digitized layer. He says President Obama’s birth certificate has almost 50 layers. “You can see the layers flash yourself just by rapidly zooming in and out in your web browser. That means that the browser is rendering different layers.”
Colby concedes that there are some instances where scanned images produce multiple layers. “It’s a program called OCR that converts text in the images into computer readable text,” he said. “But, it would never work on signatures. So, the fact that the signatures have been edited discounts the possibility of it being OCR.”
Colby continued pointing out the apparent problems. “You’ll notice the white background behind these letters, which is also super-imposed, actually covers up a little bit of the ‘D’ in this word,” he explained. “Even his name has been edited, all except for the ‘R’ in ‘Barack.’”
But, Colby can not figure out why the White House would release something so obvious. “The question is why is it so obvious,” he said. “Maybe the original certificate was damaged, maybe it was faded, maybe someone was just trying to clean it up. [But,] you’d think if that was the case, they would supply the original certificate just so there would be no suspicions.”
Colby says as strange as the edits are, they don’t prove a thing. But, he believes that they do point in one direction. “It’s definitely been edited in its entirety, so the indication would point to the probability of it being fake,” he said. “But, nobody can really make that claim.”
Colby isn’t alone in believing the birth certificate has been altered. Other graphic artists and various conservative groups from across the country are saying the same thing.
Thank you for posting that. Everyone I know of who looked at it noticed it’s a fake. I’m sure there are people who are fooled by it, but I haven’t met them.
If you thought any release was going to be a fraud - and yet when it came it and WAS a fraud (according to some) it STILL blew up IN YOUR FACE? Killing off half the movement?
You think Trump couldn't get to the bottom of an actual fraudulent document after making it his pet issue for his candidacy?
Are birthers going to now insist that all conservative commentators and candidates sign on to the idea that they are fake or they are to be discounted disparaged and discredited?
I warn you now that if you do: and there is a “need” - 0bama will release the video of his lawyer going to the Hawaii DOH and picking it up and putting it in front of the camera.
Are you counting on him not having it?
I mean if he didn't have it he could just fake it.
Right?