Obama’s Birth Certificate, Dissected

http://bryankeithnixon.com/?p=103 ^

[RED SOUTH]

I AM NOT A BIRTHER! But this one is too interesting to ignore. Upon hearing all the fuss about the newly released Certificate of Live Birth, I decided to open it up in Adobe Illustrator and see just what we were given by the White House. Judge for yourself but looks to be composed by multiple elements.

[Vicki]

I looked at the certificate. I thought both parents had to be born in America. Says Obama’s father was born in Kenya. Am I missing something here?

[stockpirate]

the date 1961 has been altered, the 1 is not the same inking device as the rest of the number. It appears to have been hand written

[cartan]

Hmmm, I am not familiar with Adobe Illustrator, but normally, the ordinary Adobe Reader will also display layers if there are any in your PDF. I checked but didn't find any…

[D-fendr]

If this is a real photocopy, why would there be any layers at all? Wouldn’t a straightforward copy of a document be all in one layer?

If it were a jpeg or tiff in a photo editing program, it would not have layers. However this is a PDF. Adobe does lots of stuff when scanning to PDF, like try to separate out type, separate out pieces, group, place on layers, etc.

I've spent a lot of time working with scanned images, cleaning up, taking off sigs, etc. This image looks like what I've seen a lot.

[GSWarrior]

You can’t “open” a birth certficate in Illustrator or Photoshop or any other over-the counter-software and be able to root around in layers. So what is this nonsense?

[RobRoy]

>>This looks like a scan of a book page.<<

I think that is the effect the background is going for on purpose. Kinda like how when I put images of documents in Word I like to give them the soft shadow edge to make them look like a sheet of paper in the document.

I don’t think it is relevant.

[stockpirate]

the two dates have the 1 added, all you have to do is enlarge in image.

[RobRoy]

>>IMHO, this is not worth pursuing.<<

I think it depends on what was cut and pasted. If specific fields within what should be a single scan of the document entered into the software are then added as a separate layer, that is peculiar, is it not?

[hoosiermama]

Now that he has released “a Birth certificate” to the public, does this open his birth records to the public? They can no longer be claimed as private information.

[woofie]

what is an abstract?

this is certified to be a copy or an abstract

[Mr. Wright]

Not so long ago another RAT President told the American Public, “I did not have sex with that woman; Ms. Lewinsky”.

[hoosiermama]

Asked dad the same question.

An Abstract is a document that has been edited. Not all information is included. It is condensed....abridged.

[IamConservative]

I don’t think this is from a DB because of the edge curl. A DB would likely print from a layout - clean, flat. This looks like a scan of a book page.

What I am suggesting is that they have scanned their paper records into image files and those image files are stored in a database. When they need to produce an official document, they assemble it from previously archived electronic images.

I would be somewhat surprised if the actual paper copy that was created in 1961 even exists today, only it's digital image remains. I don't know that for certain, but that is often how old records are archived.

[Reagan69]

Or... “I am not a criminal.”

[mommya]

Thanks for your input.

What do you make of the image in this other thread?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2711302/posts

Please comment there.

[ilovesarah2012]

Everyone has always known his father was born in Kenya. No one that matters seems to care.

[kevkrom]

I thought both parents had to be born in America.

Not "born in America" but "American citizens at the time of the child's birth". Not that it's ever been claimed that Barack Obama ("dad") was ever a citizen at all.

[FrankR]

I took the newly released COLB and reversed it, so it would look like the other examples of birth certificates issued during that time, on the reversal of obama's you can plainly see the vertical and horizontal marks of the Safety Paper...which is not visible on any other examples.

Reversing it also plainly shows that there is no embossed seal or the authenticity verbage:

"THIS CERTIFIES THAT THE ABOVE IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL RECORD ON FILE IN THE RESEARCH, PLANNING, AND STATISTICS OFFICE, HAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH."

Also, the Certs are only one day apart, yet they show a completely different signature as Registrar, and obama's shows no signature for a Director of Health.

The COLB is as phony as the first one...add one more count of fraud to the kenyan's file...

[USMCPOP]

I noticed the altered 1961 on the short form doc I saw awhile back.

[Persevero]

I am theorizing that the reason Obama kept his long form BC hidden for so long is because it shows his father was born in Kenya.

Which raises serious questions as to whether he is a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution.

That’s the idea I am going with right now. There is a reason, or reasons, why he stonewalled for so long. I am guessing his father’s non-citizenship is why.