You need to take your won advice, instead of telling myself and allof the other people in the room here to get their eyes checked. WE are all in agreement here that the letter is without doubt the letter “a” with the solid top stroke and the stroke describing teh bowl of the letter “a”, whereas the letter “u” cannot have the solid line on top which is unambiguously present in the image. We’re all in agreement hee, so your inability or refusal to to acknowledge your mistake and your attack upon our motives is simply destroying your credibility.
The rest of your comments are dismissed as nonsense. You obviously ignored the invitation to compare the same typewritten flaws found in other historical documents. for example:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Safe Files.
Safe Files - Box 1
America, Britain, China, and Dutch East Indies (ABCD Powers) II Index
Memo. for the President Land—>FDR-2/17/42
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box1/a02c01.html
The word “Russia” is mispositioned vertically by the manual shift key and horizontally by misposition of the platen escapement. Monospacing typewriters are alleged to be incapable of causing letters to overlap their character box as it occurs when a typesetter kerns together letter pairs, yet this typewriter has clearly moved the capital “R” and the lowercase “u” together far enough for the last stroke of the “R” to slightly underlie and overlap with the lowercase letter “u” and its overhanging stroke. In the word “proposal” the typeface striking the lowercase letter “s” resulted in a misshapen letterform giving the appearance of a misshappen numeral “5” having a flat top stroke rather than the curved top stroke of the letter ‘s”. On the same line as each other the word “except” has a “pt” letter pair which touch and therefore have letter boxes which overlap, while farther down the same line the word “not” has a letter pair “ot” which have very wide separation from each other and no oveerlapping of their character boxes that you would see in computerized kerning of letter pairs. The salutation, “Dear Jerry” has the overlapping letter pair “ry”, which some people could also attempt to claim had to be kerned to gether by typesetting instead of by the inexact escapement positioning of a typewriter.
This example comes from a typewriter with fairly good performance. Other typewriters with much worse adjustments and ink ribbons produce more and more glaring anomolies in shape and positioning of the characters.
OK, You are 1000% right. You have explained fully, everything wrong with Obama’s Birth Certificate can be attributed to a worn typewriter ribbon. So, I guess it’s genuine after all. Now why in the world did the prior director of the State of Hawaii’s Health Department claim on national TV, that it was half typed and half hand written? I guess she should get in touch with you, so you can set her straight. Matter of fact, perhaps FR could hire you to prescreen all submissions before they’re posted-that way nothing you disagree with will ever see the light of day.