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Why the Obama Birth Certificate is a Bust
4/27/11 | HMV
Posted on Wed Apr 27 2011 23:55:45 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by Hillary'sMoralVoid

The Obama Birth Certificate presents far more questions than answers:

First of all, it is not a source document or even a direct copy of a source document. It is an electronic document (PDF) seemingly derived from an OCR process that treats some portions of the document as images and some as characters. At best, it is a second generation document that emulates the original but is not an exact copy. Because of this, one cannot ascertain whether the variations between the original and the OCR-derived document distort the data, either intentionally or unintentionally. At worst, it is a forgery.

Secondly, it is incomprehensible why anyone would take a source document and convert it into an electronic document through a process that creates a hybrid of characters and images, unless there was a desire to tamper with those images and characters. To allow such a document to be published in this manner just begs for deeper scrutiny.

Third, to publish the document with the layers of the images and characters still intact further compromises the credibility of the document. This publishing job has been described as "amateurish", not a term anyone would want to use to describe what should be incontrovertable proof of one's birth. In the format it was presented, it offers present-day sleuths to peel back the layers and perform forensic analysis.

Finally, to present this image of an original 1961 document over a present-day computer-generated background is perplexing, and certainly detracts from the fidelity with the original that the document should possess.

A simple image file can certainly be photo-shopped, but a certified image would present a more accurate and professional means of communicating the content of what is supposedly in the files in Honolulu.

This document reminds me of an old Buick in Cuba that still sorta looks like a Buick, but doesn't have many original parts, but is loaded down with excessive paraphenalia that only detracts from it's original appearance.

The question that lingers in the case of the Obama Birth Certificate is "Why?".