Posted on 06/17/2008 6:00:53 PM PDT by freespirited
Where is the original, the one printed in 1961 and don’t tell me it is been lost, I was born in 1961 and I still have my original birth certificate!
In 1961 you could get almost anything since it was up to the local authorities to decide what race you were, and what a race actually was.
The federal government had not yet imposed their nonsense system on everyone.
That's what jumped out at me. I would expect that the font for (ex) Mother's Name and the the actual name of the mother would be diferent but they're not. It's all the exact same font. I thought it was a fake when I went to Daily Kos but then I went there expecting to see a fake.
I don't think so. This is a Photoshop job using bit-mapped pieces of text and layering them onto a crudely faked certificate background. This is not something a bureaucrat secretary does routinely.
Where does the document under discussion say “African American”. I looked several times and it says “African”. The man was, in fact, an “African”. If he’d bought a house in this country he would have been described as of “the African race”. This is 1961 information - not something out of today’s PC milieu. It was a simpler time. Officially even Jews were still referred to as “Hebrew”.
I bed somebody got ahold of a copy of Obama’s birth certificate. Maybe Hillary or McCain.
Remember a few months ago when some contractors were fired at the passport office for looking into passport application files? You have to know they looked into Obama’s file and pulled a Sandy Berger.
I don’t know that something like that would even matter now- I just mentioned it because it is interesting what used to be put on BCs. I was pretty serious about genealogy for a few years and it is amazing the way things were done “back in the day” on different documents.
Yeah, I misunderstood the intent of the article. I now find this turn of events to be highly interesting.
Why? I’ve seen plenty of documents from the 1960s that use the term “African”. Are you suggesting they were all fakes?
They worked for an Obama Adviser and it was a Watergate moment that the press gleefully ignored because Obama was crying foul the loudest and pointing fingers at Condelezza Rice.
Hawaii was NOT a foreign country. It had been annexed to the US in Mark Twain’s time. SEE: Mark Twain.
As I said in another post, it is not simply "produced on a computer". This is a laborious patchwork job using layers of text and graphics in a graphics program to produce a fake certificate. In my opinion this is not routine work for a secretary tasked with providing copies of birth certificates.
He wasn’t “raised” with his brother. To use the vernacular his brother don’t know sh*t about it.
http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg
Actually, if you look closely at this enlarged version at dailykos, you can see a fold near the top through the seal. However, I’m not sure I believe this is a real birth certificate. My jury is still out. I would love to see another copy of a birth certificate from Hawaii.
I have looked closely at the rest of the document at kos and cannot find another fold. Why would this just befolded once and why so near the top and not near the center?
Just weird I guess.
Yeah, I know, I’ve been called on my uniformed statement on an earlier justified post by Beckwith.
My doctor said I’d have days like that if I didn’t stay on my meds.
I still believe that the document is fake...I think.
To fit in a standard envelope.
My birth certificate has a II on it. My son is III.
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