Authenticity of Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate Disputed (Yawn)

Various graphic experts are now making YouTube videos explaining why Obama's recently-released long-form birth certificate is "a fake." (See this, this, this, and this, for instance [hat tip Thomas Lifton at American Thinker for these links].) Thomas Lifton, at the above link, believes the BC has been digitally manipulated on purpose, to stoke even more speculation on the right.

I don't think these videos prove the document is a fake, only that it has been digitally manipulated, perhaps as a way of streamlining the reproduction process.

In any case, speculation will continue from now until doomsday.  I think, however, that such speculation is likely to do more harm than good.  It will be used by Obama to paint his opponents as conspiracy-theorists, and to distract voters from other issues -- rising food and energy prices, inflation and continuing joblessness, to mention a few.

It is possible that the long-form BC is a fake?  Sure, anything is possible; however, it is unlikely that it is fake.  Personally, I am satisfied with its authenticity and relieved that Obama finally released it.  It is a relief to know that he is not getting away with fraud.  However, that does not make him one whit more acceptable as a president:  he continues to be a far-left, dogma-driven ideologue who is bankrupting the country.

Others have pointed out that, birth certificate or not, Obama is still ineligible to be president based on this law or that.  At this point the public may be tired of this controversy and unwilling to hear more arguments.  Further ruminations on the birth certificate are unlikely to yield fruit.  Let's drop it and move on.

Obama Finally Releases the Birth Certificate!

Bowing to the pressure put upon him by Donald Trump, Barack Obama has released, finally, a certified copy of his long-form birth certificate.  There is nothing immediately visible in the document that would explain the long delay.  It clearly shows that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in August of 1961, to Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham Obama.  The hospital and the attending physician are both identified.

Case closed.  Obama was born in the United States.

The only question is:  why did he wait so long to release the document?  Apparently, getting a copy was fast and easy, once he finally decided to release it to the public.

What kind of game was he playing?  And Why?

Hat tip:  Legal Insurrection

Abercrombie: There is No Obama Birth Certificate in the State of Hawaii

The news out this morning is that Governor Neil Abercrombie has scoured the birth records of Hawaii and can find no trace of a birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama.  It simply does not exist in the State of Hawaii.

This confirms what former Hawaii state elections employee Tim Adams said.   When he was interviewed back in June of 2010, Adams stated:

"There is no birth certificate," said Tim Adams, a graduate assistant who teaches English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky. "It's like an open secret. There isn't one. Everyone in the government there knows this."

Adams also claims he tried to verify Obama's birth with two Hawaiian hospitals that had been identified as his probable birth site.  Both hospitals said they had no record of Obama having been born there.

Now we know why Obama has never released the long form of his Hawaiian birth certificate.  It does not exist.

Meanwhile, various states like Arizona and Texas are planning laws that require a presidential candidate to prove his eligibility to run before he can appear on the ballots in those states.

Barack Obama's Birth Certificate - the Saga Continues

Donald Douglas has an interesting post about the re-emergence of the birth certificate controversy.

Apparenty, World Net Daily has interviewed a former Hawaii elections clerk, who claims that Obama was not born in Hawaii, and that this fact is known among Hawaii officials.  The clerk, Tim Adams, says:

"There is no birth certificate," said Tim Adams, a graduate assistant who teaches English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky. "It's like an open secret. There isn't one. Everyone in the government there knows this."

Adams also claims he tried to verify Obama's birth with two Hawaiian hospitals that had been identified as his probable birth site.  Both hospitals said they had no record of Obama having been born there.

World Net Daily has been passionately attempting to disprove Obama's U.S. birth since before the 2009 elections.  They have periodically produced evidence to that effect, only to have the evidence later proven fraudulent or forged.

My personal feeling is that I am suspicious. I include myself among those who want to see the long form of Obama's original birth certificate.  If it turns out he is not U.S. born, perhaps he could be removed from office on that basis.  Any legal reason to remove this walking disaster is okay by me.

I Am A Birther

I am a "Birther."

Here's why.

Pamela Geller Joins Newsmax, Discusses Obama Birth Certificate Controversy

Pamela Geller has announced that she has joined Newsmax, a topnotch conservative news magazine. Her first article is about the Obama birth certificate controversy and it contains some excellent background on how and why the controversy grew.

Those readers who disparage the "birthers" as "kooks" and "nuts" would do well to read it. However, Geller is right in asserting that, though the birthers have a point, we on the right should not allow the desciples of Alinsky to use it to divide and distract us.

Read it here.

Barack Obama: Another Birth Certificate Surfaces...From Kenya?

World Net Daily has obtained a copy of a Kenyan birth certificate purporting to record the Kenyan birth of Barack Obama. The document looks real in a photograph and WND says it contains no tell tale signs of being fraudulent.

The birth certificate is being used as evidence by an attorney who has filed multiple lawsuits in an effort to obtain certification of Obama's birthplace.

Read it all here.

Via Memeorandum

Update: Joseph Fara of World Net Daily discusses WND's decision to publish the purported birth certificate. He makes a lot of sense. Read it here.

Update: Not surprisingly, this birth certificate also turned out to be a fake and was a joke by a liberal.