Could this be Obama's Kenyan birthcertificate? (someone is smoking catnip)

Probably some kid's photoshop program ^ | KOS troll

[DoctorJimbo27]

I wasn't sure if i wanted to post this, but here goes. I've been holding onto this for a bit now, cause if it's real I don't know if I could get in trouble.

I voted for McCain last year (by default, I wanted huckabee) because I knew Nobama would be a disaster, but i wasn't sold on the citizenship thing. on a whim, I asked a firend in the UK to see if she could find any old records from back when Kenya was a british colony. Well a few days later she emailed me this.

it looks real to me, but I'm not sure. And I havent been able to get a hold of my friend since she sent it to me. If this is legitimate, should i be worried?

Here's the link, I don't have a website to upload it to. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=281blzk&s=3

[Atom Smasher]

IBTZ!

[DCBryan1]

ZOT 101

[ctdonath2]

It was plainly typeset, commonly done when printing something that would be copied in large quantities (like newspapers) where time spent setting up proportional fonts was acceptable.

[balls]

Good job!

[x]

Smells like fecal matter. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

If you were a clerk in the British Empire chances are you'd take pride in your penmanship and education.

For an African in 1961, to be a clerk wasn't a nothing job, but a high status one.

You wouldn't have gotten that kind of job if your penmanship was that awful.

[Enterprise]

But it’s on the internet! It HAS to be true!

[Allegra]

I buried a piece of coal in my backyard when I was a kid in hopes that it would become a diamond when I was a grown-up.

I wonder what I'd find if I went back there and dug it up?

Can you do that for me?

[ctdonath2]

Thank you. At worst it will be an entertaining practical joke, at best it’s real and will depose BHO as needed.

[Condor51]

5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..

Zot!!

ta-ta Troll

[ctdonath2]

Proportional fonts were unreasonable for single-copy typed memos.
They were normal for mass-produced typeset documents & forms.

What’s not passing the smell test is the people he11-bent on dissing absolutely anything they come across on the subject, and doing so they look grossly ignorant in the process.

[jellybean]

When I was a kid I buried an acorn in my back yard. Years later I went back to check on it, but a tree had grown up in the spot, so I couldn’t dig it up. :(

[Churchillspirit]

One odd thing about the document...the date is given as "Aug. 4th. 1961" In Britain it is usual to put the day before the month - i.e. 4th. Aug.1961.

Could be different in Kenya, though.

[Condor51]

Thanks for the (((( ping ))).

Got him :-)

[ctdonath2]

Thank you for the entertaining practical joke. Nicely, if briefly, played - esp. the background text.

[Darksheare]

Simple solution: Link Nancy Pelosi to the image.
If she and the Obamabots freak out, we have something interesting here.

[Barb4Bush]

“Just how did you come across this link?”

Dan Rather sent it to him.

[Monkey Face]

*whispers*

(So did I, even before I saw your post, redhead.)
*snotr*

[LucyT]

Busted!

The full background text, which is in Dutch, reads:

DIT IS GEEN GELDIG DOCUMENT VAN DE OVERHEID. DIT IS POLITIEKE COMMENTAAR. HIJ IS VOORZITTER VOOR MINSTENS DRIE EN EEN HALF VAN MEER JAREN. KEUR HET GOED. DIT ZAL NIET VERANDEREN.

Rough translation:

"This is not a valid government document. This is political commentary. He is President for at least three and a half more years. Get used to it, it's not going to change."

[toldyou]

Welcome to Free Republic! Very interesting thread. Thanks!

[vox_freedom]

hey if you can show me how it’s a photoshop that would be a load off MY mind. I’m not any good with these things.

Oh, OK. Here's a load off YOUR mind.
Now, go back to DU or wherever else you cast a shadow.

IATZ, sadly...

[BP2]

We know a real KENYAN birth certificate (that is, after Dec. 12, 1963), but issued in 2009, looks like this:

And a UK birth certificate issued in 2005 looks like this:

[ExTexasRedhead]

He is the Fuhrer; not my President; never.

[LucyT]

DoctorJimbo27

2009-07-27

[Blado]

hex dump:
......Ø....NOTICE: This image is a work of parody and political commentary. It is not a genuine government document. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A certified copy of his birth record is freely available online. If you thought this was Obama’s real birth certificate, a “smoking gun” proving he’s not a natural-born citizen, then congratulations. You are an idiot. I made this from scratch. It is completely fake, and no document from Kenya or the United Kingdom resembles it. ..Obama’s president, and will be for the next 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years. Get used to it....ƒ~..’...ƒ~..’.Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows.2009:07:28 11:32:57.... ........... ..........@ ..........+...............................R...........Z.(.....................b...................H.......H....ÿØÿà..JFIF.....H.H..ÿí..Adobe_CM..ÿî..Adobe.d€..

[vox_freedom]

lolol. Batteries not included? That’s a shame.

[SunkenCiv]

Save it to your hard drives, copy it to your online storage sites, burn it onto your CDs and DVDs, carry it with you on flash drives.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=281blzk&s=3

[BP2]

Side-by-side Comparison:

[Vendome]

NOTICE: This image is a work of parody and political commentary. It is not a genuine government document. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A certified copy of his birth record is freely available online. If you thought this was Obama's real birth certificate, a "smoking gun" proving he's not a natural-born citizen, then congratulations. You are an idiot. I made this from scratch. It is completely fake, and no document from Kenya or the United Kingdom resembles it.

 

Obama's president, and will be for the next 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years. Get used to it.

[autumnraine]

There are plenty of lined boxes on papers from a print shop. Especially since a typewriter wasn’t even being used on this certificate, it is handwriting. You think someone put all that stuff on it and then wrote on it? Or more than likely had a box of blank certificates and wrote on it?

Were you around in the era where you ordered blank “forms” from printshops and filled them in? This wasn’t 1861, this was 1961. We did have SOME technology that was around before computers.

[autumnraine]

“How did they print crossword puzzles in 1961?”

Don’t you know they took each individual paper, typed a line across, then took the paper out turning it sideways and typing another straight line.

Now that symbol at the top of the page would have been a doozy and taken all day!

(this was sarcasm because I expressed a similiar sentiment to the poster)

[Vendome]

You should add a disclaimer to that. lol

[oldfart]

I realize it doesn’t prove (or disprove) anything but the Coast Provincial General Hospital exists. I found it on Google Earth at 4°05’20.28” S and 39°39’38.35”E.

[autumnraine]

Yeah, except it’s apples and oranges. Unless you think the people who registered the births actually sat and typed this document, then wrote in the boxes?

Or possibly it came that way, from a printer?

[2111USMC]

Looks close enough for me.

I say we run with it!

[autumnraine]

Yeah, except it’s apples and oranges. Unless you think the people who registered the births actually sat and typed this document, then wrote in the boxes?

Or possibly it came that way, from a printer?

By ‘printer’, I mean printshop, not computer printer.

[rabscuttle385]

IATZ

[cynwoody]

From your image's EXIF IFD0 record:

Image Description = NOTICE: This image is a work of parody and political commentary. It is not a genuine government document. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A certified copy of his birth record is freely available online. If you thought this was Obama's real birth certificate, a "smoking gun" proving he's not a natural-born citizen, then congratulations. You are an idiot. I made this from scratch. It is completely fake, and no document from Kenya or the United Kingdom resembles it. {{LF}}{{LF}}Obama's president, and will be for the next 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years. Get used to it.

Very funny.

[Vendome]

Just go into the attributes and the following is what comes up(this pic is for desparate and non-discerning people):

 

NOTICE: This image is a work of parody and political commentary. It is not a genuine government document. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A certified copy of his birth record is freely available online. If you thought this was Obama's real birth certificate, a "smoking gun" proving he's not a natural-born citizen, then congratulations. You are an idiot. I made this from scratch. It is completely fake, and no document from Kenya or the United Kingdom resembles it.

 

Obama's president, and will be for the next 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 years. Get used to it.

[Vendome]

That’s weird.

[autumnraine]

If that is true, and someone made something that looks this authentic, then no one should laugh at birthers for thinking that fake to the untrained COLB on Obama’s website is fake.

[Danae]

Well I can say at least I haven’t seen this one before.
IATZ

[andy58-in-nh]

That’s true; as I was reminded here, proportional fonts were common in typeset documents back then, but I sensed the whole “look and feel” of the form just didn’t belong to the era.

[DuncanWaring]

Now that symbol at the top of the page would have been a doozy and taken all day!

An early example of "ASCII art"!

[Malesherbes]

C minus for penmanship.

[Vendome]

Yeah and it was easy to figure out.

[TheOldLady]

Do not iron clothing while wearing.

[mnehring]

If you thought this was Obama's real birth certificate, a "smoking gun" proving he's not a natural-born citizen, then congratulations. You are an idiot.

Considering that no one here fell for this, what does that make the person who posted it?

[COBOL2Java]

Can anyone read the text of the background?

It's in code. It says "BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"

[Slings and Arrows]

There’s no seal.

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[Allegra]

If this is legitimate, should i be worried?

You should just worry yourself into quite a little tizzy.

You should be VERY WORRIED!!

We're all DOOMED!