I would be very interested in hearing them.
My father told me many years ago that simple stupidity rules the world. The most likely explanation for the most powerful man in the world releasing such an easily exposed forgery is simple stupidity.
My theory incorporates stupidity. I am virtually certain that had Obama or his Lawyer, or any member of his staff been aware that a PDF contains the information used to construct it, they would certainly have not posted it in it's existent form.
Obama being elected to the presidency is the pinnacle achievement of approximately 80 years of subversive communist activity in this country. This simply stupid forgery is threatening to wash this giant turd back down the toilet that he came from along with a whole lot of the other crap that pushed him to the top of the pile.
Consider what you say for a moment. What kind of forger would know how to paste this document together, yet be so foolish as to leave the evidence of it's creation in the same document?
Par for the course for a government bureaucrat.
There are numerous theories that have been proposed on these forums repeatedly... some are more believable than others. All one needs to do is review the threads if they want a sampling. I do not think your theory is plausible mostly because if a bureaucrat created this forgery “legally” why wouldn't the person(s) responsible just step forward and say so? In addition the official narrative on this was that a courier was sent on a commercial airliner to pick up two official copies of the document, and that what was published on the Internet was a simple scanned pdf of one of these documents.
My theory incorporates stupidity. I am virtually certain that had Obama or his Lawyer, or any member of his staff been aware that a PDF contains the information used to construct it, they would certainly have not posted it in it's existent form.
We seem to be in agreement on this... I have dabbled for many years with photoshop and illustrator; the first copy of Photoshop I purchased was 2.5x that was bundled with my first scanner 20+ years ago. Soon afterwards I upgraded to 3.x and Adobe has managed to get a lot more money from me over the years. I am very familiar with layers, but I would guess that 99% of the people I work with, even those who dabble with the software have a poor understanding of the mechanics of the program and could easily forget to flatten their image.
The funny thing is if they had saved it as a jpg instead of a pdf the software would have told them that they needed to flatten the image. When I refinanced recently the Mortgage company insisted that all of my documents needed to be either in pdf format or faxed to them. Apparently pdf files are considered more acceptable than jpgs.
Consider what you say for a moment. What kind of forger would know how to paste this document together, yet be so foolish as to leave the evidence of it's creation in the same document?
I know many people who feel that they are very capable of working with both Photoshop and Illustrator who have a poor understanding of the mechanics of the programs. People tend to learn only the features that they feel they need. Before this learning experience I would guess that a high percentage of people who felt that they were capable of producing this kind of forgery were not aware of the proper way to work with layers. This kinde of mediocrity is certainly not reserved for government bureaucrats.
I do not believe that there will ever be a “legal” way to produce a forgery such as this. It sort of boggles my mind that you think that it could ever be considered legal to use scanned copies of stamps and signatures on a document manufactured after the fact.