Was Obama’s “Birth Certificate” Photoshopped?

Posted by Bill Dupray on Jun 19 2008 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

UPDATE (07/07/08): The State of Hawaii confirms that it issued Obama a copy of his Birth Certificate on the date indicated on the internet copy. From Strata-Sphere.

But more than that, numerous people have called the state of Hawaii who initially claimed the document was legit, and that they did provide a new copy to Obama on the date noted on the back. Now they cannot claim 100% confidence of the images which, as Opendna quite easily demonstrated, can be manipulated. But if the state says they issued a new copy last summer, and the Kos and BHO images bear that out, where is the forgery?

Case closed.

UPDATE (06/26/08): from Ace. It’s looking more and more like a phony.

An example of a real birth certificate plainly shows the embossed seal of the state on the back, poking through so that it is visible on the front. The Kos “certificate” of course includes no such seal. Also visible on the real one is a stamp bearing the registrar’s signature, which is of course missing from Obama’s “birth certificate.”

Finally, Israeli Insider bothered to ask someone in a position to know:

Janice Okubo, Director of Communications of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, told Israel Insider: “At this time there are no circumstances in which the State of Hawaii Department of Health would issue a birth certification or certification of live birth only electronically.” And, she added, “In the State of Hawaii all certified copies of certificates of live birth have the embossed seal and registrar signature on the back of the document.”

Again, to the Obama camp. Get a real one issued to the press by the State of Hawaii and the issue vanishes. Don’t get one, it will never go away.

ORIGINAL POST:

There was a recent clamor about Obama’s birth certificate, which no one had yet seen, the major one being proof of whether Obama is a “natural born citizen,” as required by the Constitution. The Campaign has not produced it and the internet bubbled with intrigue on the subject until Daily Kos posted what appeared to be a copy of the birth certificate issued by the State of Hawaii.

Here it is. A larger version is at the Kos link.

This satisfied most people who even knew about the issue.

Back in 2004, the proof of Dan Rather’s phony documents concerning President Bush’s service in Texas National Guard came from a blogger with a talent for spotting forgeries. He knew that the font on the documents had not been used until after the dates the documents were allegedly typed.

So what about Obama’s “Birth Certificate?” I have no idea if it is a fake or not. Though Kos says he got it from the Obama Campaign, to my knowledge the Campaign has not allowed Hawaii to release a copy directly to the press, which sounds pretty easy to do, and would resolve the matter.

A blogger named Polarik over at Townhall says

I’ve been working with computers, printers, and typewriters for over 20 years, and given a set of printed letters, I can discern what kind of device made them. Printer output is quite different from the text created by a graphics program, and even if a document looks “official,” it may not be.

He goes on to say that the Daily Kos “Birth Certificate” was quite clearly produced with a computer graphics program and was not simply text printed out on a pre-printed certificate form.

As one example, comparing the Obama certificate (top) to the author’s own real Birth Certificate (bottom), you can see that Obama’s has distorted pixels around the letters and the background image between the letters disappears. On the real one, there is no halo of distorted pixels around the letters and you can see the background pattern between the letters. I have left in the author’s explanation between the two images but you have to click the image to make it easier to read.

The author goes on to show how the borders of the document were created using overlapping rectangles instead of actual lines.

It may be the case that Hawaii uses a graphics program to create its Birth Certificates, in which case, the author just proved it as a fact. All Obama has to do to make this go away is tell Hawaii to release an authentic copy. Failing to do so will only make people continue to wonder what he is hiding.

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