We May Get Hillary After All

[Robroy]

I've been following the story about Obama's "forged birth certificate" for a few weeks now. I didn't take it very seriously though. However, the story seems to be getting legs, and evidence.

This link links to the original story at Isreali Insider, but I start here because it has "interesting" comments, especially the ones about Hillary: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-new ... 2/posts#14

[rose-colored-coolaid]

Wow! If it's on freepublic it must be fact.

Both McCain and Obama are American Citizens from birth. They each have 1+ parents who are American Citizens, which is all you need. So, even though McCain was born outside of the states, he can run. And even if Obama were born at the south pole he could run.

This is just - I guess - wishful thinking by hard-core republicans who believe they stand a better chance running against Clinton than Obama (I tend to agree that they would BTW).

[deejayoh]

but, but, it has an american flag on the site!

[jon]

It would be delicious if Obama got disqualified because of a technicality, seeing as how he used those same tactics to remove opponents from the ballot in Chicago. However, the bitterness left by the process would be severely damaging to the country. If the document is a forgery, then that might help, but I'm there would still be a huge amount of lingering resentment.

[perfectfire]

I already saw those pictures and I even think it was posted on freerepublic. Wasn't the "forgery" just some compression artifacts? And didn't dozens of commentors on freerepublic quickly point it out?

[Charles Dean]

Ah, conspiracy theorists.

[rose-colored-coolaid]

[Robroy]

[Robroy]

[lamont]

Some guy called "Techdude" claiming he has done analysis on a scanned copy of the birth certificate is evidence?

Wake me up when you've got an independent expert working on an original copy...

And if its true that means that his sister who was born in indonesia now has a hawaiian birth certificate, so it means that the discovery of the forgery has now discovered another document which shouldn't exist. That should make it less likely that this forgery ever occurred, but instead to conspiracy theorists this just corroborates the forgery...

[Robroy]

[lamont]

the birth certificate has a watermark behind it and has been scanned and compressed. with that garbage as input you can probably read the tea leaves to claim it originally said anything that you want to.

with the dan rather letter you didn't have to try to digitally enhance it.

[Robroy]