Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate Debunked

Not only is it a fake, it’s a poorly constructed fake. The following inconsistencies can all be viewed in
Adobe Acrobat Reader v9 by using the “Loupe Tool” from the Tools/Select & Zoom menu.

The use of anti-aliasing. When computer-generating a font or image, Windows programs use a
graphics algorithm called “anti-aliasing” that makes an image smoother and look better to the eye
when displayed to the screen or to print. Take a look at the stamped dept of health number at the
top right corner, greatly magnified:

Notice the pixelation of the last number “1”. Look how uniform and smooth the pixel blocks are.
Look at how level it is. Look at the different shade of color. What you are seeing in the last number
“1” is known as “anti-aliasing.” This image was computer-generated on to this space with a graphics
program. It was not printed with ink on paper, and then copied. This occurs many times in this
document. Here are more examples:

The “R” in the word “BARACK” in line 1a:

The “K” in the word “Kenya” in line 10:

The “S” in the word “STANLEY” in line 13:

Also, block text was not the only thing computer-generated in this document. Anti-aliasing in
freehand cursive text is harder to spot. But, look at the “D” in the word “Dunham” in line 18a:

Now that you know what anti-aliasing looks like in free graphics, take a look at the entire signature of
the attendant in line 19a:

By all accounts, this man died in 2003.

The use of kerning. Kerning is a process used in generating certain proportional type fonts.
In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between
characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. In a well kerned font,
the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have similar area. The related
term kern denotes a part of a type letter that overhangs the edge of the type block. As I will explain
later, kerning is not something that can be produced on a standard electric typewriter. Although this
document was created in August 1961, it has many random pairs of kerned font letters interspaced
with fixed pitch block font letters.
Look at the letters “ap” in line 6c in the word “Kapiolani.” This is a kerned pair of letters. See how the
“a” is kerned into the “p”. The lower right leg of the “a” is kerned underneath and above the left
extending legs of the “p”. If it were fixed pitch like the typewriters of that day, they would look the
example to the right:

ap
Interestingly enough, in that same word “Kapiolani” the “iol” are not kerned, but are block spaced
letters that do not kern into themselves, or the adjoining letters:

So, now we have a magic typewriter that changes from kerned proportional fonts to block fonts in
the same word on the fly? I don’t think so.

More on kerning. Kerning not only requires proportionally spaced fonts, but it also requires a
specially constructed alphabet of several hundred kerned pairs of characters. Modern day kerned
font typesets can have as many as a thousand kerned pairs sets of characters. If they weren’t, certain
combinations of letters would crash into each other as they were printed. And, as a side note, the
first IBM Selectric typewriters that were introduced in July 31, 1961, were fixed pitch font
typewriters. Proportionately spaced print typewriters didn’t hit the market until much later with a
special machine from IBM in 1966, and then the IBM Selectric III in 1980. And, even then, they were
not capable of kerned printing.

But, for a moment, let’s entertain the idea that this document was created on a modern day IBM
Selectric typewriter that was capable of proportional fonts. Remember though, that proportional
fonts fall far short of kerning. These typewriters used a rotating ball with raised characters that
struck the ribbon/paper. Simply put, whenever you printed an uppercase character, a solenoid
activated and forced the ball into a fixed position on an uppercase character set. They were
extremely accurate typewriters. Now, knowing this, look at the “O” in the word “Oahu” in both lines
6b and 7b respectively:
This anomaly cannot physically occur on electric ball-type typewriters. This could only occur on an
old manually-operated typewriter when the operator didn’t push the SHIFT key down hard enough
before typing the “O”. Old manually operated typewriters did not do proportional fonts – PERIOD.
You can’t have it both ways! But wait - not only are they vertically out of position, they are vertically
out of position at different heights compared to each other. But, what’s even more suspicious, is look
how far away from the rest of the lower case letters they are. And, they are each different distances
in each word. And, look at how the front lobe of the letter “a” is chopped off in the second word, as
compared to the first word where the letter “O” is farther away. This is evidence that the letter “O”
in each of these words was not typed. It was copied and pasted onto this image from another
source.

They did not have computer document image storage in August 1961. They had something called
microfilm and microfiche. And, you can tell by the curved left side of the image, that it came off of a
roll of microfilm, and another document precedes it on the roll:

However, a microfilm/microfiche image does not have a green background. It should be a negative
image and look like this image of a REAL Hawaii birth certificate of someone born the day after
Obama:

Or, it can be a reversed image with white background and black text. You will also notice the “O” in
the word “Oahu” on line 6b in this document is not out of position, and is where it should be – unlike
in the Obama document where it is out of position.
But, where did all this green background come from in Obama’s birth certificate? Let’s take a trip
back in time and revisit the first short form “certificate of live birth” that was posted by the white
house some time ago. Let’s look at a section of background from each one, and compare them:

The first image is from the short form birth certificate that was posted by the white house some time
ago. The second image is from Obama’s microfilm image of his long form birth certificate just
released. Compare the green background patterns. Boy! Now, if that doesn’t set off some alarm
bells!

In summation, this document was cobbed together from parts of several documents, and utilizes
different graphic layers. Although I don’t have a copy, you could probably use Adobe Illustrator and
break each layer apart. However, Adobe Reader displays a layered PDF file by drawing each layer at a
time when it displays the file. So, you can see some of the individual layers by using this trick:

Go to your Windows “Personalize” menu and click to define the appearance of the windows.
Click the “advanced” button and check the box that tells Windows to show windows contents
while dragging or resizing.

Now, load up Adobe reader (I use v9) and look at Obama’s recently released long form birth
certificate.

Put the program window in windowed mode (not full screen.) Grab the lower or upper corner of
the window and very slowly resize it. It won’t work everytime, but occasionally, you can see
Adobe Reader reload and individually display the graphic layers as you resize the window. I can
see a plain white layer, the green background layer with cutout fields, and then it will drop the
modified text layer in last. You would not be able to see this if it were an authentic single-
scanned flat image.

This document is a fabrication in so many ways, it cannot possibly be accepted as authentic.

- EasTexSteve