Somethings Rotten In The State of Hawaii

Hat tip to Stop the ACLU

Just when Obama thought the debate over his birth certificate and Hawaiian birth was over, a new wrinkle has erupted in the debate.

This birth certificate looks good. Too good. If you clink on it, you will see a more detailed picture of it.



The Obama campaign published this on-line for the world to see. But there are many flaws with it. These flaws are pointed out here. This analysis was done by an expert of 20 years with computers, printers and typewriters.

The "Certificate of Birth," which I will call "COB," is posted on the Kos website as a color JPG. The reason for making it a color JPG, IMHO, is to induce the viewer to believe that this is a genuine copy of an original document -- something that a black & white, or even greyscale, reproduction would not convey as well.

Basically, anyone could have produced this document on his or her own computer, and I'll tell you why.

This expert used his own birth certificate and tried to replicate the results on his computer. Being from the same state as the writer, I used my own birth certificate as a reference. The is a marked difference not only in color, but in the background of the scanned certificate opposed to the original. The State of NY must use a security pattern to prevent fraud. Doesn't Hawaii do the same? I checked my daughters birth certificates they each were born in different states, one in Tennessee and one in Kentucky. Each had watermarks centered on the certificate. As you can see Obama's doesn't have one. I don't know if it is true of Hawaii, but most states use a watermark or other device, normally centered on the certificate as a way of preventing fraud.

And as you can see on the New York certificate (this isn't mine, but it is a valid one) and on other certificates from other states the signature of the Registrar is on it, but missing from Obama's. Nor is the Registrar's name on it.

This expert then goes on to explain an anomaly in the way the lettering and border is presented in Obama's birth certificate.

Any text made by a typewriter, laser printer, or even inkjet printer, would NOT have the smeared, black & white pixels underneath it -- there would be several pixels bearing the same color as the paper, nor would the left side of the letters be clear and free of any artifacts or shadows. Scalable type produced by a graphics program will look about the same regardless of the magnification with a minimal or uneven staircase pattern of pixels on its sides, whereas printed text -- even laser text -- will show a clear, uniform staircase pattern of pixels on both sides of each letter that proportionately increase in size with magnification.

All of the letters that appear on Barack's Certificate of Birth were made, at the same time, and by the same method -- which was the use of a graphics program and not the use of any printer.

You can also tell that this is an obvious Photochop by looking at the border patterns.

Looking at the corners of the darker green border, you can see that the border is discontinuous. In other words, the vertical border bars were made by drawing a long rectangle, copying that rectangle, and then overlaying each of them on either side.

If this is a forgery, why the cover-up? It seems that either the Obama campaign has to make another forgery or better, the State of Hawaii actually produce a copy of his birth certificate.