Guide to What is Wrong (So Far) with the Obama Long-Form Birth Certificate

ANALYSIS OF IMAGE POSTED ON THE WEB ON APRIL 27, 2011

by John F. Sweeney, ©2011

Editor's Note: Used with permission of The Post & Email.http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/04/30/guide-to-what-is-wrong-so-far-with-the-obama-long-form-birth-certificate/

On April 27, 2011, the White House and Obama proclaimed this a "certified copy" of his original long-form birth certificate from Hawaii. Many examiners are coming forward declaring it a blatant forgery.

(Apr. 30, 2011) — In March 2010, The Post & Email published Mr. Sweeney’s analysis of the Certification of Live Birth image posted on the internet in June 2008 purported to be Obama’s “birth certificate.” The form taken from the White House blog is shown in black and white rather than the green background with black letters originally released at The Daily KOS, followed by other websites such as Politifact and Factcheck.org.

Here Mr. Sweeney shares his findings regarding the image published by the White House on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 “long-form birth certificate” containing more detail than the first document. However, no paper document has been made available to the public, despite the appearance of a letter from Hawaii Department of Health Director Loretta J. Fuddy stating that two “certified” paper copies were provided to Obama’s attorney, Judith Corley, on Tuesday, April 26.

The White House blog echoed the talking points which Obama had mentioned in his press conference on Wednesday, insisting that the short-form document issued in 2008 “is the birth certificate.” Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer described Obama’s failure to release his long-form birth certificate as a “fake issue.”

The alleged long-form birth certificate can be found at the White House blog here.

Mr. Sweeney’s work follows.
Layers

The released document contains multiple images within the PDF file. Using various Adobe products these layers are simple to detect. Using Adobe Standard Version 9 the layers can be broken out by going to a) Advanced b) Document Processing c) Export All Images. When this is done 3 jpg images will be created. It appears the creators did not ‘flatten’ the image before posting it. The ‘flattened’ image would have no layers.

A true scan creates a single image and single ‘layer’. There would be no reason that the process would automatically break apart the image into chucks. Especially into the elements that are present. There are claims of this being from an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process at the time of the scan. These are beyond ridicules. First – why would it be processed via OCR? There was no need or reason to? Second, OCR would not ‘break apart’ the images like this. OCR looks through an image looking for possible characters that map to ASCII characters and they attempts to convert them. But it does this one character at a time for the overall document.
Image problems

At least three major elements show up that are obvious red flags:

1) The bend in the certificate image on the left side. Any certified copy of a Hawaii LFBC created recently does not have this ‘left side bend’. This phenomena seems to from when certified copies where made from actual photos of an actual document. Modern creations show this image as very flat oriented. Likely because they are stored in a digital document library and were scanned on flatbed scanner individually. The Nordyke Twins (born the day after Obama) certified copies are well known. These certified copies are well known. These DO have the left side bend in them. Certified copies made in the 2000s – do not.

2) The X’s in the boxes on 2 of the lines in the Obama LFBC are completely misaligned from the rest of the type on the same line. No other LFBC certified copies show these phenomena. None. The known authentic LFBCs show the X lined up with the text on the same line – as you expect when someone uses a manual typewriter.

3) The centered vs. left tab alignment. The Obama LFBC has text centered in the form fields. But comparison to known real images of LFBCs from that period clearly show that mechanical typewriter was used and aligned the text via mechanical tabs. The Obama form is the only one known to show centered text – an all but impossible feat to do with mechanical typewriters in 1961.

There are other signs of forgery but these are the ones that are easy explain to people who are not graphics designers and do not deal with digital images every day.
1) The Layers



Registrar Alvin T. Onaka's Stamp
2) The Left Bend

The Out-of-Alignment X’s

The Centered Fields vs. Typewriter Tabs













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