Obama's Birth Certificate Dissected: The AfterbirthApril 27, 2011 - By Bryan Keith Nixon
When I saw that President Obama's Certificate of Live Birth was released by the WH this morning, I was eager to check it out for myself. Maybe I'd be able to put to rest that 23.5% doubt I had regarding our president's country of origin? As anyone can tell from looking at my blog, I don?t regularly play in the political arena. But when I saw the document wasn't exactly pristine, I decided to submit what I found to thesmokinggun.com and let others tear it apart. Funny thing is, I wasn't trying to debunk the thing, rather just stir things up a bit. Childish? Perhaps. Fun? Totally.
Next thing I know, my blog is on Drudge for like five minutes before it mysteriously went down. Now it's getting juicy! Making Drudge as a news source is a pretty big deal after all, and my fifteen minutes of fame was reduced to five. Could it be the feds shut me down? Did Barack himself press the internet kill button on my site? Did I pay my web hosting bill? When I called Juan at tech support, he knew right away why I was calling, and told me I should be expecting an email from the admin at any moment. The note mentioned that my site was under attack and they had to shut it down till things calmed a bit. I called back a few minutes later asking them to put the site back up. When pressed, Juan did say that perhaps the site was not actually under attack, and that really just the barrage of hits coming from Drudge was disrupting business for the other clients they host. That didn't sound sexy.
My original post really doesn't prove that it's a fake. Perhaps it was an honest mistake that went something like this: The registrar found the birth certificate in a binder, then scanned it. From there it was printed on security paper, date-stamped April 25, then re-scanned and saved as a pdf before emailing it to the WH. Scanning software and Adobe Acrobat could be responsible for all of the object separation for a variety of reasons, including an attempt at OCR, or Optical Character Recognition.
So there it is. I don't have a strong feeling either way yet. I think the only thing that will quell the debate is for someone to hold in their little hands what we all got when we were born. That is, a single, physical certificate with footprints, birth weight, and all that. Seems reasonable to me!
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