Obama Birth Certificate A Fake?
June 26, 2008 
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by Jack Kinsella
According to a report by the Israel Insider, “it is now a certainty that the birth certificate claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a Photoshopped fake.”
The Insider claims that a ’senior spokesman’ for the Hawaii Department of Health examined the purported birth certificate and says that there are a number of features embedded in a genuine birth certificate that Obama’s posted version clearly lacked.
The image became increasingly suspect with Israel Insider’s revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image aggregation website — including one listing the location of Obama’s birth as Antarctica, one with the certificate supposedly issued by the government of North Korea, and another including a purported photo of baby Barack — one of which has a “photo taken” time-stamp just two minutes before the article and accompanying image was posted on the left-wing Daily Kos blog.
Some of these oddities surfaced in Israel Insider’s previous article on the subject, but new comparative documentary evidence presented below, and official verification obtained by Israel Insider from a senior Hawaiian official, provides the strongest confirmation yet.
An authentic Hawaiian birth certificate for another Hawaiian individual has since surfaced which, using the same official form as the presumptive Obama certificate, includes an embossed official seal and an authoritative signature, coming through from the back. Obama’s alleged certificate lacks those features, and the certificate number referencing the birth year has been blacked out, making it untraceable.
Janice Okubo, Director of Communications of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, told Israel Insider: “At this time there are no circumstances in which the State of Hawaii Department of Health would issue a birth certification or certification of live birth only electronically.” And, she added, “In the State of Hawaii all certified copies of certificates of live birth have the embossed seal and registrar signature on the back of the document.”
Compare the top image presented by his campaign as evidence of Obama’s 1961 birth and the other certifying the birth of one Patricia Decosta.
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So if he were registered as being born in Hawaii, Barack Obama — because only he or another member of his immediate family could by law request a “Certification of Live Birth” — must have a certified paper copy, with embossed stamp and seal, or he could request one. But what his campaign has put forward as genuine, according to the senior spokesman in the relevant department of the State of Hawaii, is not in fact a certified copy. It is not valid.
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Whereas the uncertified Obama document provides the date “filed by registrar”, the certified DeCosta document provides the date “accepted by the registrar.” The difference between filing an application for a Certification of Live Birth and having it accepted may be key here.
The Obama campaign, however, continues to flaunt the unstamped, unsealed, uncertified document — notably in very low resolution — on its “Fight the Smears” website.
Now, to the seminal question. If the birth certificate actually is fake, then it means that Barack Obama is Constitutionally disqualified as a presidential candidate. So it is a big deal. If it were true, it would blow the Democratic presidential race right out of the water.
But we don’t actually know if it is true, and, tantalizing as the prospect might be, I am disinclined to believe it. It seems logically unlikely. In the first place, Obama is a fairly smart man. He has to know that he couldn’t get away with it.
If he was born in Kenya, as some suspect, then either there is some record of his entry into the United States, or he is not merely disqualified for the office of president, but he is probably an illegal alien, as well.
The requirement for automatic citizenship is that one parent must have resided in the US for at least six years after reaching age sixteen. Obama’s mama wasn’t old enough at the time of his birth to meet that requirement.
I agree that Barack Obama has exhibited a breath-taking degree of personal arrogance, but this is even too much for him. For it to be true, Obama would have had to have lied about his birthplace for his entire life. More than that, every member of his family would have to be in on the conspiracy.
I don’t necessarily believe that Obama has refused to release a certified original because one doesn’t exist. What is more likely is that he doesn’t want to reveal what else it might say. There are all kinds of other things that could prove embarrassing;
1.) Obama’s parents weren’t married — and, if they were, Obama’s father was a bigamist. In either instance, Obama is better served keeping it out of the public discussion.
2) His father’s race: Is he listed as African? Or Arab? Or even ‘Muslim’?
3) His birth name. Is it Barack Hussein Obama? Or Barry Dunham (his mother’s maiden name?)
Obama could clear up the mystery in a matter of moments by authorizing the State of Hawaii to release his official birth records to the public.
Or he could simply apply for a certified copy of the original and release the paper copy to the public for examination. Either option would put the issue to rest once and for all.
A digital copy isn’t going to cut it.
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