I’ve not paid a whole lot of attention to the claims of the birther movement. Some of the early claims were intriguing, but the discovery of the Hawaiian newspaper birth announcements pretty much ended my interest. I’m willing to entertain a lot of ideas about leftists working to subvert the Constitution for nefarious ends (see: any gun control bill ever), but some decades long conspiracy to train some nobody baby of nobody parents to someday slime his way into the White House is way beyond believability.
That said, the recent release of Obamas birth certificate does have some oddities to it. The first, of course, is the timing: if it’s worth doing now, it was worth doing a few years ago, when the idea that Obama wasn’t born in the US first cropped up. And if he didn’t want to release it (for reasons that are murky at best), why release it at all? And why now, as opposed to, say, just before the 2012 election when it could be used to smack down a potential Trump run for President?
And then there’s this:
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I don’t know squat about Adobe Illustrator. Is what this guy talking about accurate? If so, there sure do seem to be some weirdnesses with the birth certificate that would seem to indicate that it’s a digital forgery.
And if it is… why? Seems to me if the White House went to the effort to fake up a birth certificate, they’d take an extra five minute to print out a high quality paper version of it, then scan that. Releasing a birth certificate that has easily discovered digital “fingerprints” is beyond lazy. So, what possible explanations would there be for this?
UPDATE: Check the comments for a plausible, indeed probable, explanation for why the text is on a separate layer from the background.
