[JLS]

cahome: I agree with both of your posts. There are some on FR who want Obama to win it seems. And as with any Dim presidential nominee, Obama is unvetted. He needs to be fully vetted as all GOP nominee are including looking at his past and looking at his present views.

LS51: Thanks for the information. That certainly makes it sound like the author of this thread is correct about that .JPEG not being real. Of course possibly Obama was born at a hospital using non-standard forms, but that remains to be seen.

To both of you: Doesn't it just seem odd the Obama campaign has not released an official copy of his birth certificate. It is such a simple thing and it would end any speculation about what it says. I don't see that it could contain anything important enough to be worth hiding?

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, if his mother lost the original, it may not be a simple thing to get a copy of the original. Indeed doing so may be a violation of Hawaiian law.

As I have pointed out, some juridisctions, New York City being one, do not release copies of the documents generated at the time of a birth, but only respond to requests for birth certificates by issuing a new document reflecting the facts of the birth as maintained in the relevant county’s or municipality’s records. (In the case of New York, the document is called a ‘Certification of Birth’, and contrary to some posters erroneous ideas is considered adequate proof of U.S. citizenship by the State Department for the issuance of passports.)