Birth certificate, or photoshop.

Embossed seal of the State of Hawaii absent from the purported "birth certificate" of Barack Obama

The old birth certificate thing has been doing the rounds for a while and I have been avoiding it on the basis that it would be fairly unlikely that anyone would be stupid enough to try to pull such a stunt. Now I am finding a fair bit of stuff that seems to indicate that something is not right in regard to it.

The "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign is not certified as authentic and appears to be a photoshopped fake.

The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document -- features that Obama's purported "birth certificate" clearly lack. http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12939.htm
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“That strongly suggests that Daily Kos obtained the image from Photobucket, not the State of Hawaii, the Obama family, or the Obama campaign. Photobucket is not generally known as a credible supplier of official vital records for any of the fifty states, and the liberties that other Photoshoppers took with the certificates confirms this.

“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. [...]

The article is a good indication that Obama should come clean, check it out at the link. Here is more: -