Reader: Barack Obama birth certificate is an obvious phony, and here's how you can tell

• Good to hear from the "got their panties in a bunch conservative crowd that hates all things accomplished by American President NOT completely white, uttering "heh, heh, heh, and spouting "bring 'em on". Do I think you're a racist? I don't know? Do I know you're a fucking moron? Hell yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• wow! eric really likes sucking off the pres huh? we'll probably have to wait for him to spit that load of jizz out of his mouth before he tells me I'm a racist.

• Fair enough. Thanks Sean

• First...This is the first almost respectful response towards anyone on here yet...Not saying some of the others didn't deserve a douchebaggery response. Anyways...I'll lay it out, and you might say I'm rare, but whatever. Am I a so-called "birther"? By some standards, yes, because I had reasonable suspicion. Do I admit I was wrong? Sure. Ok. I thought he was born in Kenya, a long form birth certificate was released, it was authenticated by actual experts, let's move on. Do I still wonder about the Indonesia part of his life? Yep, but it's not worth worrying about, I'd rather move on to more important things. And though I'm not a graphical whiz by any means, even I know that you could create 12 layers just for my response in Word, let alone a more powerful tool like Illustrator. Besides, why does everyone care about the scanned copy? Isn't it the paper copy that counts?

• Thank you for the most succinct breakdown of this entire fabricated non story. Of course you know that facts don't ever get in the way of a good smear. But this puts to rest for rational people, those not predisposed to delegitimize the President. Thanks, FedupCitizen.

• Really? Of course it's not an original, there's only one of those and it's in Hawaii. This is a copy printed onto security paper, given to Obama's people, and scanned as a PDF to post online. Scanning and PDF'ing create layers. No conspiracy, that's how it works, especially when Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is thrown into the mix. Let's move on now.

• How could you not care if its a fake or not?

• ri8877..................... Damn, boy, did you pass out again? Classical musician my ass.

• This is in reply to ri8877. Thanks for the verb tip on "cue". Now down to business. Please present the necessary documentation proving uncle awol wasn't a deserter from the Texas Air Guard. Git 'er done skeezix.

• Breaking news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The United States has killed Bin Laden. Or so it seems! We'd better get stratads on this and quick. Stratads needs to check the death certificate, espescially if it's in PDF form, to make sure it's not a forgery. After all, stratads is a legend (at least in his own mind) in the world of document authentication. Get 'er done stratads. Let us know yer offical teabag findings so we can proceed.

• Nope, But keep on digging yourself that hole. Think it through,

• @Eric, the word you're grasping for is "cue," not "que." As in "cue the music." Dumbass. PS, what's wrong with the banjo? I play classical and hard-rock and blues guitar myself, but I happen to love the banjo. Filthy liberal bigot.

• Obviously that conversation is over your head. Grow up.

• You need help. The next time you post, know what you're talking about. What a fucking tool.

• Does your mom buy your groceries?

• You all are missing the big picture. They released this scam in order to keep it in the news while they do their side business of crushing the economy. It is so much a fake that it is not worth talking about anymore, he pulled the old "okie doke" on us, and is grinning all the way to Goldman Sachs. No one needs to convince the unconvincable in this blog. I guess we need to call them the "over-truthers," Did anyone see the GDP reports for the first quarter? That is where the scam is. The government is running the economy with stimulus, trillions in deficit spending and raising the debt limit to spend more and the GDP is taking nose dive. What more proof do you need? Tell me the truth about that?

• If you're reading this, you must have woke up from last night's bender. Maybe you can "masque" yer hangover with a little hair from the dog that bit ya. Now, time to focus and get yer head out of yer ass. Got it? Ok, toughguy, exactly what about draft dodger do you fail to understand? Which part of the swiftboat drunks as I related isn't true? Did you just pass out again? WTF?

• I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Keep hanging on birthers! You are fuel to the raging internal fires of the morally and fiscally bankrupt GOP! Trump is the best you got, a two-time loser at marriage and a bankrupt corporate shell. What, you couldn't convince Charlie Sheen to run? What a joke! You stood the slightest chance of winning last time with Romney but you chose the cranky brain-addled pops and ditzy quitter for your candidates. You'll do it again. Shoot yourself in the foot with this birther, and now transcripter crap. The next two campaign cycles can't be scripted better: Republicans don't care about the economy or you, they care about reality t.v. Now instead of the Party of No, and the Party of No and Show! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

• I don’t care if it is fake or not, at least the story is out that Obama has finally given his long form BC. which makes it hard for someone that is not eligible, to become president, you know like a terrorist, (Funny little EXAMPLE for ya)(Mitt Romney is runny but no one in congress checks if he eligible, and if he won how does any one know he is not from Afghanistan to infiltrate the Whitehouse just to ruin the USA.) Congress would be going by his word like politicians don’t lie & can't get something faked, we all know that’s not true. but Congress has proven without a doubt that they do not check if anyone is eligible, they haven’t for year’ssssss, So now there needs to be a law put in place that no candidate can be on a ballot unless they have verified long form BC and a legitimate SS & valid ID if this is done there will never be any more allegations on if a president is eligible or not.

• Well, ya get some points for your passion, anyway, goober.. If only it made sense. Have another beer and try again. Que the banjo music

• Eric, why not just say "mask"? Why "masque"? What a pretentious, hamfisted, ostensibly prosaic dipsh!t you are.

• @Eric -- yeah, that's real nice coming from a sh!t-eating pants-sh!tting liberal troll of an Obama apologist, of the type whose mantra for the past two years has been to try and justify Obama's horrible recklessness, mis-prioritizing, lies, self-fixated hackery, unceasing politicking and speechifying, glaring ineptitude and outright botching in the handling of virtually every dire issue that's come up, and anti-constitutional "agenda" -- you justify that by pointing to the shortcomings (real or imagined) of the last president. The stink of liberal hypocrisy is nauseating.

• Of course, it is a great American tradition to question the President's origins. It's been going on for decades! No President is exempt from the public scrutiny of their ethnicity.... right?? http://goddessblue.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/the-grand-american-tradition-of-racism/

• 1.5/10 - too obvious. Points only for the don’t tread reference. Needs more misspellings and derp.

• Offlynice, it's a mighty fine comment, all right. Thanks for posting.

• Jerrag, thanks for sharing your point of view.

• Right wrong or indefferent, I can tell you straight off, I could give a crap if the document is fake or not, I hate Obama and everything he stands for. Used to be a Democrat till my eyes were opened back when Carter ruined the military. I know that is a fact because I was in the Army when Carter entered office and got out as soon as my hitch was up with 8 years in service because of what he did to the military. The democrats have been on a mission to bring down our Republic ever since, this is why I support the Tea Party, and yes because there is no other party with strength to fight the idiocy of the Democrats, the Republican Party. I have taken down my flag of the Stars and Stripes and raised the Don't Tread On Me Flag of the Tea Party. I shall fly that standard till our nation is out of the dangerous hands of the Democratic party and once again under the control of those who love our freedom, the Republican party, strengthened by the Tea Party!

• Welcome to the wonderful world of Illustrator. Is this Comment Of The Day shit going to go on forever? For Real? Make that a comment of the day.

• Obama created the issue himself so that he could keep all his would be detractors distracted w/ a moot issue for 4 years. LOL.

• True enough, In your world, it ain't right or wrong, it's "but they started it". Truly a shitbag republican value you espouse. The Rather thing imploded because a dolt with an agenda perpetrated a fraud on 60 minutes, and they screwed up big time by running the story before vetting it. They paid dearly for it and they should have. Here's the difference, genius. With the swiftboat drunks, it was a systematic, 18 month long scam, run by the GOP, diminishing a legitimate brown water Navy combat veteran Officer, questioning the validity of Purple Hearts and a Silver Star. Medals ISSUED by the United States Navy after they were vetted and never questioned untill the swiftboat drunks formed a pac, took money and, under O'Neil, made a nice little wad of money lying about an officer they never served with. Typical republican strategy is to diminish the opponent to your candidate's level Woked in that case. The actual combat veteran was reduced to ridicule, while the draft dodger avoided scrutiny and won the election. Shame on the swiftboat drunks, shame on the republican party. Shame on anyone that believed it. trevordouglass22, this leaves 2 possible explanations for your post. If you're unaware of the actual facts, and you think the swiftboat scam was legitimate, you're a sap, a fool and a mark. (Typical conservative that's not in the top 1%). If you know the truth about the swiftboat drunks and the con they ran, you're intellectully dishonest. (Typical conservative IN the top 1%). 2 bad options for trevordouglass22. .

• Yeah that darn swifboat scam. Kinda like the Dan Rather/National Guard Memo fiasco, huh? Hypocrite.

• Questions though, Who's going to step up and astroturfically fund the birthers? Which big money repub pac's will emerge, as they did in '04, when the swiftboat drunks were financed by the likes of Icahn? This is a bullshit issue, tailor made for reality show sycophants, racists, and birther junkies, true, but should the heavy hitters from the GOP get involved, we could have the same "rallies" as we did with glenn beck"s "9/12'ers". Considering the human flotsam that masques their hatred for this President through a feigned "concern over his citizenship", the repubs have a 1 issue voter block that they can manipulate. Just like the swiftboat scam. But even sleazier. Yuck!

• I just read about the "Illustrator" theory of President Obama's birth certificate being a fake and investigated it myself. I opened a PDF of my own college transcripts and guess what?! Every line and word was separated into layers! Illustrator helps designers work by dissecting the image into layers.

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