[sketchboy]

I don’t know where Obama was born, but that birth certificate he posted was a rotten fake. I downloaded it and examined it in Illustrator where I could see the layers of how it was constructed and it was bizarre. No way that was a real birth certificate from 1961.

Whoever faked it may have been intentionally trolling, or just incompetent but I can’t believe the press swallowed it with no analysis whatsoever.

[rlmorel]

It was so fraudulent, it seemed to be more of an "in your face" document, as if to say:

"Here. Here is your "birth certificate" you demand. It is a complete fake, and we made it such an apparent fake that anyone can see it. But you won't be able to do anything about it and Obama is going to be elected no matter what. What does that tell you about your precious Constitution and your so-called "Republic"? We will enjoy seeing you stew in that for a while."

[palmer]

I downloaded it and examined it in Illustrator where I could see the layers of how it was constructed and it was bizarre. No way that was a real birth certificate from 1961.

There was a real document sent from HI, not cooked up anywhere else. It was contemporary based on data on file. That real document was shown to some people in the press (all happened to be dumbasses). They saw the embossing, etc and there are pictures of them holding it and it is real.

Next they scanned the document, did partial OCR creating a couple layers and then flattened it. Then wrote out the file. That's what you saw, not the original JPEG from the scan. Nobody has that.