Many FReepers, myself included, thought that there was a possibility that this document was legitimate.
But that it needed to be scrutinized and verified very carefully.
And it turns out that it was forged from a 1960s era Australian birth certificate.
Nonetheless, the forgery was not readily obvious on its face (unlike Rathergate).
And the truth is that doubts about the document surfaced almost immediately (the “Republic of Kenya” question, etc.), and the Austrialian original showed up within some 36 hours.
And the topper: 0bama still has not released his long-form birth certificate. Until that happens, doubts will linger.
Is there some independent verification, such as a different South Australian "Copy of Registration of Birth"? Someone had posted that the one everyone has copies of was only posted after the "Orly" Kenya version was put up, and then was promptly removed supposedly because the site was getting overloaded.