[null and void]

What may be on his BC that you dont know about? Maybe his dad is not on it? That’s not right?

We know a very few things:

The CoLB that his campaign released is a forgery.

Someone risked jail time to forge this document.

It takes all of half an hour on the 'net, and about $25-$40 to have a legitimate certified copy of your own BC delivered within a week.

Therefore, I conclude that there must be some compelling reason to falsify his BC.

The compelling reason that comes to mind is that the real document would kick him out of the running for being the most powerful man on earth.

From this I conclude that his true documentation shows one or more of the following truths:

• He was not born in the United States, and is therefore constitutionally unqualified for the job. This is a show stopper. There is no way to "fix" this or inoculate himself against this, or win over voters on this issue. It is the premier campaign killer issue.

Therefore, I regard this as the most probable explanation for the deceit.

All the other possible reasons are much lower grade:

• His BC shows that he's a bastard. Although this might be personally embarrassing, nobody cares, a goodly fraction of the electorate is in the same boat, or closely related to someone who is.
• His birth name isn't Barak Hussein Obama. So what? We already know his his name changed when he was adopted in Indonesia. People can and do change their names, it isn't a crime, or even particularly shady.
The only question it really raises is why did he chose a muslim name? That's rather easy to explain away - he took his genetic father's name. Who can argue with that? Especially when muslim names had some popularity among blacks who didn't know just how deeply involved muslims were in the slave trade.
• His real birth certificate lists his race as something other than "African". This would be more of a problem. His whole campaign is founded on his being "the first black president" come January. Still not lethal to the campaign, but it would be awkward to 'splain away.

• There is something else embarrassing on his official BC.

Like what?
There could be nothing conceivably embarrassing about:

His time of birth
His birthday
His city of birth
His county of birth
His island of birth
His religion (Religion is not even listed!)
His mother's race
The date it was filed

A few things could be a slightly embarrassing:

The serial number? Maybe? Suppose it's really 151-1961-000666? Nope. It turned out to be 151-1961-010641

His father's name wasn't listed. Not terribly unlikely if he and Stanley Ann split up before he was born. No one cares.

His mother's maiden name. Suppose she really did use her Anna Toot drinkin' ID to get married? Would that really suffice as a reason for someone to risk jail time by falsifying his documents? More to the point, would it disqualify Barak? I don't think so. If anything it could be played for the sympathy vote, young naïve Stanley Ann trying to do her best in covering up the mistakes of her youth. Mother's maiden name listed as Anna Toot? Yawn.

That leaves the big enchilada:
His birth name. Was it really the noble and exotic Barak Hussein Obama II?

Or was it Mortimer Snerdly Toot, hmmmm?

Live that one down!

One other possibility, but it's so odd I hesitate to mention it:

Approximately 1% of live births are hermaphroditic to a noticeable degree. Perhaps his birth certificate lists him as a girl. (That would explain his pitching, and if Larry Sinclair is to be believed, his catching style)...

[Spunky]

"Approximately 1% of live births are hermaphroditic to a noticeable degree. Perhaps his birth certificate lists him as a girl. (That would explain his pitching, and if Larry Sinclair is to be believed, his catching style)..."

I remember reading some time back when the Governor of Hawaii sealed his BC it was stated that it would be VERY EMBARRASING if it got out.

Your statement above is the only thing that I can think of that would be very embarrassing.

[autumnraine]

Yes, there could be something HUGELY wrong with his birthdate. Like being born two years earlier, before Hawaii was a state...

[sickoflibs]

Asuming you had his so called ‘real BC’, which you dont, and assuming you had it prior to election day 2008, you may or may not have been able to make use of any of the items you speculate about. But here are your show stoppers:

1) You dont have the so called ‘real BC’
2) He is president, elected almost a year ago by the voters
3) You cant show HE forged anything himself. Is it his handwriting on the so called forgery?? who forges their own birth certificate?
4) He's the first AA president, so digging and digging for mud, but not finding any is poison.?
5) No one wants to talk about this but MSNBC, ever wonder why?

[El Gato]

It takes all of half an hour on the 'net, and about $25-$40 to have a legitimate certified copy of your own BC delivered within a week.

Actually $11.50 and 10-15 minutes. (+0.25 for each additional copy)

[LucyT]

Approximately 1% of live births are hermaphroditic to a noticeable degree. Perhaps his birth certificate lists him as a girl

I've received FRmail from several different people who have mentioned this possiblility.