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An opinion shared by myself and many, many esteemed historians and Constitutional scholars.— July 16, 2011 11:31 a.m.
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HistorianDude - I actually think that the layers might be caused by PDF optimization, however stupaod is completely correct in asserting that OCR was never run on this document. Personally, I think the layers are intentionally created to distract from other, more subtle, evidence of forgery...namely kerning and letters that are identical down to the pixel...both highly unlikely. And for you to assert that the document is ABSOLUTELY authentic based on your perceived potential debunking of ONE of the complaints against it is highly illogical. The only way ANY of us with ever know ABSOLUTELY is for the original to be submitted to forensic examination...but I'm not holding my breath.— July 16, 2011 11:29 a.m.
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That all sounds nice katahdin...even reasonable and logical. The problem is that the HDOH has never verified that the BC which Obama released is the same one they sent him....and they have been asked that question specifically...no response. Furthermore, the belief among many of the 'birthers' is that the forgery has been inserted into the HDOH logbooks. If that is the case, any validation that what we see is the 'real' document is meaningless. We need to forensically examine the orginal to put this issue to bed.— July 16, 2011 11:25 a.m.
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@HistorianDude - you start with facts then begin making assumptions which make your final conclusion patently false. The final PDF was indeed created using Quartz PDFContext executed within Mac Preview via the 'Print to PDF' option. However, to say that rules out any previous editing in an Adobe product is false and based on an assumption that you haven't bothered checking. I can state for 100% fact that this document could still have been edited by any number of applications in any number of ways before it was finally converted to PDF in the manner mentioned above. In fact, I have created a layered Adobe Illustrator file to test this very idea. I saved it as a native .AI file and then simply opened it in Preview and converted to PDF via Quartz PDFContext. All references to the application that built it, Adobe Illustrator, are removed and the code format is identical to that of the PDF released by the WH. The final code does not prove either way whether this document was forged. In fact, it proves that it still could have been.— July 16, 2011 11:22 a.m.
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Lol...this story is obviously parody, but not so far from the truth. I wouldn't start calling people names and throwing insults unless you are VERY sure what you are saying.— July 16, 2011 11:17 a.m.
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Roberto - it's only funny because the writer actually thinks he's committing parody when in reality he's closer to the truth than he knows...lol. Funny indeed!— July 16, 2011 11:15 a.m.
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@sweetdaddy - Sorry, but you are very wrong here. In order to be President of the US one MUST be born in US. Being a citizen is NOT sufficient to qualify for the Presidency. In fact, many Constitutional scholars believe you need to be BOTH born in the US AND have TWO citizen parents. The US Supreme Court needs to clarify this. The case of Minor v. Happersett sets a binding legal precedent that a 'natural born citizen' must be born in the US to TWO citizen parents.— July 16, 2011 11:14 a.m.
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@refriedgringo - the problem is that this satire assumes that the facts at hand are false. In 15 years, this might be an attempted satire, that in reality, was completely true in terms of it's technical claims. I know of what I speak.— July 16, 2011 11:11 a.m.