04-28-2011, 03:03 PM
Okay, that's f-ing weird.
I just played with it, myself. The PDF from the Whitehouse web site.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/2...ertificate
It's got layers of text that are clearly not original to the document.
It's possible that the text was originally illegible and they cleaned it up, but yeah, this raises some legit questions even if you aren't a nutso birther.
This is what it looks like with all of the linked images disabled except the background:
They replaced a whole lot of text.
It's almost as if the intention was to keep the conspiracy theories going even stronger.
...
Actually, another option just occurred to me.
It's possible that this was the actual document that was provided to Obama from the officials in Hawaii. If they scanned their old archives to preserve them then this might make sense. This may be an artifact from an OCR process.
I just played with it, myself. The PDF from the Whitehouse web site.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/2...ertificate
It's got layers of text that are clearly not original to the document.
It's possible that the text was originally illegible and they cleaned it up, but yeah, this raises some legit questions even if you aren't a nutso birther.
This is what it looks like with all of the linked images disabled except the background:
They replaced a whole lot of text.
It's almost as if the intention was to keep the conspiracy theories going even stronger.
...
Actually, another option just occurred to me.
It's possible that this was the actual document that was provided to Obama from the officials in Hawaii. If they scanned their old archives to preserve them then this might make sense. This may be an artifact from an OCR process.