Obama's Birth Certificate Is A Photoshopped Fake?

O.M.G.

 

UPDATE: National Review's Nathan Golding says it's not a fake, and has scanned documents with similair results.  Evidently the OCR (optical character recognition) feature of Adobe picks out all the letters it recognizes and puts them into groups, then creates other layers for various squiggles and such.

Comments

[David]

There is just so very, very much that's hinky about this whole document--more than shown here, of course--its manner of release and the absolute amateurish nature of the whole event that I keep wondering just what this whole thing is meant to misdirect our attention from... Thanks for this one. I had seen a couple of different presentations from differing perspectives, examining different aspects of the evidence of the document's manufacture, but had not yet watched this one.

And to top it all off, the document is ultimately of no importance whatsoever, except (if even mostly accurate) to state clearly that Obama was a British subject at birth... although he's already, personally and publicly, claimed Kenyan citizenship up through his 21st birthday anniversary. That alone is enough to disqualify him from service, unless the Constitution really is dead already.

[David]

Natan Goldberg's "analysis" is very superficial and is apparently refuted _in the very video you posted here_ when the guy who made the video did what Goldberg did and showed a document he had scanned for purposes of comparison. He just made a more sagacious comparison than Goldberg's superficial observation.

IF this were scanned from an original (which would likely have been a negative) and then printed out, _then_ scanned again, it still wouldn't have produced the issues that lead me to see this as more of a confirmation of a _lack_ of transparency than authenticity.

And that's the only real value of a discussion of the document's authenticity: its confirmation or refutation of the characteristic, quotidian obfuscation, misdirection, disingenuity and outrighe lies that have been the sizzle and flash ('cos there's been no meat and potatoes) of this administration.

If ANYTHING about this document is accurate, one could hope that it is that the parental information that is in agreement with the (also questionable) COLB short-form previously posted, because, according to Obama himself (as demonstrated in his co-sponsorship of a Senate resolution concerning John McCain's "natural born citizenship" status) he does not quality... (And he claims to have passed the bar. Can we see those records, too? *heh*)

[Woody]

The difference between the scan done by the video's creator and the scan done by Goldberg is that Goldberg had OCR enabled and that's what causes ADobe to place anything text-like into a seperate layer. This is what enables you to search for text within PDF files.

As for the rest, well you have the right of it, as usual, though I see no point in pursuing any of this further. I say we should focus on winning the next election, instead of fantasizing about revoking Obama's authority.

[Mock]

For Obama and company to use a photoshoped fake would be the height of ignorance. With the resources of the President in three years I could make a fake that would pass every test in the book and it wouldn’t even be that hard, a blank Honolulu birth certificate from that period would be the trickiest thing to get, period ink and typewriter, easy, the rest would just be a matter of using the right names (a doctor who is preferably dead), a little forging, then the proper placement. Legit or not he has gone to lengths to make himself look guilty. For a good fake given the proper materials two weeks tops, for a real legit existing document 10 minutes of Obama time (delay golf game, basketball game, date night, bowling, didn’t have time to bother….What ever), 1 hour real time (make phone call, get aid to obtain and fill-out paperwork, and sign paperwork) get fax. He wants to look guilty.