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Skip to comments.Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)
Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom
Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.
The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.
The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.
Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.
McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.
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So a person can be issued a Hawaii Birth Certificate even if he wasn't born in Hawaii?
Oh really? Can you prove that?
Many of us here have been involved with this for weeks now. I think with each week more comes out. This article tells me that forging a birth certificate is relatively easy to do..
AS I have said here many many times. Obama needs to produce THE BIRTH RECORDS FROM THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS BORN IN ADDITION TO THE ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THE BC POSTED ON HIS WEBSITE. ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE..
I and others have researched using Ancestry.com and other pay search sites for listings of Obama's birth and his parent's marriage, and nothing has come up.
This in itself proves nothing, but on the other hand, why would his birth not be listed when practically everyone's is listed?
(If you don't believe me go to www.ancestry.com and use their free two week membership and look up your relatives to your heart's content.
That's another reason that I didn't buy the whole official looking faked birth certificate. I seriously doubt that Hawaii was more sophisticated than Massachusetts in granting birth certificates.
I suspect Obama's birth was recorded by hand in a log of births. Certificates were most likely hand written.
Sis was born in December 1962, Boston. Her birth certificate is hand written and only acknowledges our parents by name.
They never caption the image as being his birth certificate, nor do they even refer to it as such.
One wonders if McKinnon didn't just do this up, send it out, and the underlings grabbed it.
Mugabe Obamination and his thugs continue to live in a 9/10 world instead of today's world where lies and fraud are detected and exposed at the speed of light.
Notice on Obama's official site, his birth certificate says OHBM 1.1 in the lower left corner.
The original document displayed on the Daily KOS website says OHSM 1.1 in the lower left corner.
The million dollar question is: If the Daily KOS document was supplied by a Obama campaign staffer, as was reported, then how on earth can these two documents differ?
There may be a Hawaiian state agency or department with the initials 'OHBM', but I'm not aware of any.
The agency that you request a copy of a birth certificate from is the 'Office of Health Status Monitoring', OHSM.
The genie is out of the bottle now and it's impossible to "take back" the images. They are immortalized all over the web on different sites. Anyone can see this hard proof of skullduggery for themselves.
Why is the certificate # blacked out?
African is not a race! In 1961, wouldn't Negro or Negroid have been used to describe his Father's race instead of African?
Where is the indentation of the official seal and the folded marks, the rest of us have on our valid birth certificate copies?
Last but not least: What are the reverse purple lettering past the last entry line on the lower middle right? What do they mean, and why are they there?
Did Dan Blather's liar/chief forger, Mary Mapes create this bs?
Is this phoney birth certificate just another example of the Real but Fake Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas, the Islamofacist Manchurian Candidate for Changing America?
Compare this doctored and phoney BC with a real one shown below:
Hey Obami, man of undocumented place of birth. You can settle this very quickly. Just authorize the officials in Hawaii to send official copies of your birth certificate to Jim Robinson and other conservative sites. Then, they can post the real authorized copies for everyone to see. We will take up a collection to pay for the authorized copy and Fed Ex overnight delivery to Jim Robinson/Free Republic so you will not have to worry about the cost.
Reality break: We probably have as much chance of seeing a real copy of Obami's birth certificate as seeing John Kerrys full military record. Kerry refused to release his military records, and Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas, the Islamofacist Manchurian Candidate will probably not show his BC. We will be labeled as racists for daring to question his birth place. The lying spinning MSM will continue to cover for Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas.
Pissant, thanks for sending this. It's getting very interesting. Something is amiss here.
I am disputing your contention that there's any meaning whatsoever in the fact that you have two different terms that apply to the same phenomenon. We found out in earlier discussions that some states don't even use the term "birth" on their "certificates" or "statements" or "certifications" or "documents" or ------------ whatever. And any given state may well use different stuff even in the same month, or simultaneously!
I am disputing your contention that there's any meaning whatsoever in the fact that you have two different terms that apply to the same phenomenon. We found out in earlier discussions that some states don't even use the term "birth" on their "certificates" or "statements" or "certifications" or "documents" or ------------ whatever. And any given state may well use different stuff even in the same month, or simultaneously!
Also see post #290.
Notice that both have the exact same time and location of birth, but different names!
That's just flat out wrong! On the main page they have this language:
"Barack Obama has made his birth certificate public and it can be seen here."
So please, give it up on this one.
[I stnad by that statement]
Let me correct that for ya'...I, stunad, stand by that statement.
Granted that was before ID Fraud became the menace that it is today, in the past it was no big deal.
I'm very willing to be wrong on this one. Somebody in Hawai'i? Go get a copy of BHO's BC and post if for us, please.
If he was born in Kenya, does that give him Slave Blood?
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Seems like this whole mess is a good way of imposing misdirection to keep the eyes off the ball.
Meanwhile, in the real world, this election has Obama courting the religious right with expansion of Bush's faith based programs with caveats that will get no press. Sure we will have more programs but with strings attached that perpetuate the liberalism of religious entities and foundations by not allowing them to operate under religious doctrine. Follow the money, which many will be fighting for, but those funds are jeopardized by any type of discrimination as dictated. In essence, they want to control the religious outreach under liberal doctrine.
While this probably means nothing to anyone, those clamoring for the money will sell their souls and their religion potentially and further puts religion under the control of government. The press won't pound this home because they see religion as something else already and those religious conservatives will be spoon fed how great Obama is towards religion.
Bush won in 2004 with 60% of the religious vote, or something near that level or higher. If Obama can pull off the faithbased initiatives with MSM help, McCain might lose some of that base because he hasn't been real strong in that regard to start with.
Be careful what you wish for.
It wouldn't be as cut-and-dried as that. Should Obama be disqualified because of something like this and Hillary gain the nomination, the Democrat party would be riven by furious Obama supporters. Hillary herself would not be held blameless after the primary contest she ran.
Something like that would be the last thing the DNC needs this election season.
Just great, I talk religion and I get post 666.
It's your lucky day. Now you got post #669.
Now the bad news. Helen Thomas has noticed your post. LOL
Re post 666:
(how appropriate)
Is Obama's, "faith based initiative" about the religious right? The media seems to be focusing on that aspect.
Perhaps it's important to ask this question loud and often:
Or, is it about Islamic charities?...
If his BC is forged, how do you know he was born in Hawai'i?
You keep saying he was, yet all you can cite to prove it is an altered document.
Color me skeptical.
Color you credulous.
Something tells me I oughta go to church on Sunday. No skipping this week.
I probably know this answer but, did you use soetoro or dunham as last name searches on ancestry.com?
See where this has the potential of going? Meanwhile, the disengaged are going to believe he supports the SC decision on gun rights, he is against abortion in some respects, and wants to expand the role of faith based initiatives. They won't hear the caveats and restrictions he puts as requirements for federal funding. Want federal funding for your programs, better hire some gays and lesbians I guess and strip all those bases of right and wrong from doctrine.
Nevertheless, we will spin around and around and around claiming he got this far being an illegal alien. Next thing we know he is president and we will be scratching our heads going what the heck just happened.
Except for statements from relatives who claim to have been at his birth in Kenya. Not proof either. But personal recollections of people who were there, plus a clearly altered document that says otherwise, plus the original claim that he was born in a hospital that hadn't yet been built, minus anyone who remembers his being born in Hawai'i, gives me pause.
Maybe you believe everyone is exactly who their altered or possibly forged papers say they are. I don't.
Read the links. The McKinnon files (including the fill-in-the-blanks document template) are higher resolution than the fightthesmears.com and daily kos files.
Your only proof of that statement is a questionable document.
That's sorta the whole point of this entire discussion.
I can loan you a couple bucks, if you'd like to buy a clue...
I see your point, and respect (and agree with) your concerns.
However, frankly I'm glad to see people getting just a bit hysterical about Obama. He seems to be something of a "Manchurian Candidate".
Concerns about his possibly fake BC, focus on that very concerning aspect of Obama. The small but troubling possibility, he's some sort of sleeper agent.
For what? Communism? Islam? Both??
I sort of look at it this way: Any time FReepers spend posting about Obama's sleaziness, is time not spent ... whining about John McCain. :)
"$oreA$$ probably should have just bribed some Hawaii officials to get a real deal birth certificate for his boy, Oblahma."
Maybe $oreA$$ did the best that he could do since he couldn't change the recorded data, he bought a blank certificate to be forged by Mugabe Obamination's thugs and placed on Obamination's web site.
We're asking Obama to prove a positive, what he is.
You are asking taraytarah to prove a negative, what she ain't.
Can't say I'm surprised that the subtle difference is lost on you...
"...it will only establish the precedent that that particular law and constitutional clause is no longer operant."
McCain/Schwarzenegger '08!
Geeee that happens to be exactly the time of day and island that are on the possibly forged Obama BC.
What a coinky-dink!
Well put hollister23.
Thanks L.
Indeed it is. I know holders of valid US passports who were born in India, Germany, Russia, and China.
US Citizens all.
None of them constitutionally qualified to be Commander-in-Chief...
Nice summary of the confusion....lots of that.
Actually, the largest concern for me isn't necessarily the Muslim stuff. It is the election in general, and the damage that may happen to religious institutions and conservative values in doctrine disseminated. While gearing up for the vote, the guy is crafty in his abilities, with MSM support, to pull wool over many eyes. He speaks of increasing the faith based initiatives with liberal caveats, but the restrictions get little press - only the increase. See, there are many that aren't engaged like folks here, other conservative sites, or in liberal sites for that matter. Most of the population couldn't tell you Obama or McCain are senators, what they really believe, and God forbid if they knew how they voted and what legislation they advanced. They will hear that Obama supports the SC decision on guns, and that he wants to grow faith based initiatives.
Meanwhile, we are spinning around saying he is an illegal alien from Kenya or something. Just seems like a good misdirection, so I can see why Obama hasn't really responded. Why should he, when he has folks looking the other way while he is quietly moving in on the religious segments that got Bush elected twice. Even a mere 5 percent bump with that contingent would do him wonders. Forget what he might do to the institutions if elected, but think about the effort to fool the religious right into accepting him and how it might allow him to get elected God forbid. McCain is too much of a dodo bird to fight this fight, in my opinion frankly.
"It is hard for me to phantom why there are so many posters who dont see what is so obvious...forgery and fraud. I only thing that would sense to me is they dont want to see the clinton trash back in the White House and I would be able sympathize with that but this whole controversy is about something more important than a forged document.
It is about the first time in the history of this country, it is possible for a candidate could be elected president from an UNKNOWN ORIGIN."
I think many of the complainers are the same ones who complained about the Swiftboat Vets and refused to believe the SBV's story which meant they believed Kerry's lies.
After being close to 70 years on this planet, a pattern often emerges in situations like this.
Sometimes when people try to defend what is obvious wrong, illegal and sometimes worse, they are covertly defending their own fraud or worse. Which might have been the reason so many so called conservatives called the Swiftboat Vets liars and allowed Kerry a free pass with his lies and treason.
Some Freepers felt that Blather and Mapes did nothing wrong because of their own BDS syndrome. They mouthed the same bs at the time that Blather/Mapers were exposed, that we should stick to the real issues.
Last but not least, sometimes this site has more trolls than freepers, sometimes, complaining about some liberal reality being exposed on Free Republic.
Good point.
Living in a pre-Berlin Wall collapse world. Decades away from 9/11.
Pretty sad, really...
"Only two data fields are filled in: the ISLAND OF BIRTH (Oahu) and the HOUR OF BIRTH (7:24 PM).
Geeee that happens to be exactly the time of day and island that are on the possibly forged Obama BC.
What a coinky-dink!"
OK that goes beyond coincidence.
That's darn near, proof.
Let's see. 24 hours in a day. 60 minutes in each hour ... that's (carry the 2, move to the denominator)
Even without including the chances of listing the same island ... The odds of that happening, are 7 one hundredths, of one percent.
McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos... He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter."This is not the McKinnon I knew." -- Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama
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Posted on 03/01/2008 7:15:57 AM PST by Richard Poe
There is a faint yellow stitch line just above I'm-a-dim-nut-job's collar.
Thank you for finally pointing that out. I appreciate the correction of my error!
This is going to be hard for the Obama truth squad to answer. Besides the factual problems, there is a natural human tendency to crave wicked conspiracy theories that explain or solve much with only one or a few explanations.
That is to good to be true.
At one point last night, I told you and want to restate that some else has a detailed paper up on this subject. I may have a copy in my data but haven't had time to search for it. But it is clear that there are a number of places on both the form and the fake Birth Certificate itself where the hash marks have been dragged in and do not lineup. I have about ten issues from last night that are addressed by material in my file to look at and if I find it before you do, I will send you a link.
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The whole set of tiles is used to make a square. This has a green and blue border. There are no green or blue tiles anywhere in the square except on this border. How many tiles are there in the set?
A cube is made from smaller cubes, 5 by 5 by 5, then some of those
cubes are removed. Can you make the specified shapes, and what is
the most and least number of cubes required ?
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of
Warwick intriguing - do they really need four clocks and what times
would be ambiguous with only two or three of them?
Imagine you have six different colours of paint. You paint a cube
using a different colour for each of the six faces. How many
different cubes can be painted using the same set of six colours?
A bicycle passes along a path and leaves some tracks. Is it
possible to say which track was made by the front wheel and which
by the back wheel?
How many different ways can I lay 10 paving slabs, each 2 foot by 1
foot, to make a path 2 foot wide and 10 foot long from my back door
into my garden, without cutting any of the paving slabs?
We're excited about this new program for drawing beautiful mathematical designs. Can you work out how we made our first few pictures and, even better, share your most elegant solutions with us?
Glarsynost lives on a planet whose shape is that of a perfect
regular dodecahedron. Can you describe the shortest journey she can
make to ensure that she will see every part of the planet?
Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces
of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had
no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use?
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100?
A rectangular field has two posts with a ring on top of each post.
There are two quarrelsome goats and plenty of ropes which you can
tie to their collars. How can you secure them so they can't. . . .
Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex (corner) and
allowing it to hang freely. Now imagine you are lowering it into
water until it is exactly half submerged. What shape does the
surface. . . .
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
A spider is sitting in the middle of one of the smallest walls in a
room and a fly is resting beside the window. What is the shortest
distance the spider would have to crawl to catch the fly?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right
hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of
A game for 2 players
This article for teachers discusses examples of problems in which
there is no obvious method but in which children can be encouraged
to think deeply about the context and extend their ability to. . . .
Here are four tiles. They can be arranged in a 2 by 2 square so that this large square has a green edge. If the tiles are moved around, we can make a 2 by 2 square with a blue edge... Now try to. . . .
There are 27 small cubes in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, 54 faces being
visible at any one time. Is it possible to reorganise these cubes
so that by dipping the large cube into a pot of paint three times
you. . . .
An irregular tetrahedron has two opposite sides the same length a
and the line joining their midpoints is perpendicular to these two
edges and is of length b. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
A ribbon runs around a box so that it makes a complete loop with two parallel pieces of ribbon on the top. How long will the ribbon be?
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is
covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom
right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Mike and Monisha meet at the race track, which is 400m round. Just to make a point, Mike runs anticlockwise whilst Monisha runs clockwise. Where will they meet on their way around and will they ever. . . .
A Hamiltonian circuit is a continuous path in a graph that passes through each of the vertices exactly once and returns to the start.
How many Hamiltonian circuits can you find in these graphs?
Two motorboats travelling up and down a lake at constant speeds
leave opposite ends A and B at the same instant, passing each
other, for the first time 600 metres from A, and on their return,
400. . . .
The diagram shows a very heavy kitchen cabinet. It cannot be lifted but it can be pivoted around a corner. The task is to move it, without sliding, in a series of turns about the corners so that it. . . .
Draw a pentagon with all the diagonals. This is called a pentagram.
How many diagonals are there? How many diagonals are there in a
hexagram, heptagram, ... Does any pattern occur when looking at. . . .
The triangle ABC is equilateral. The arc AB has centre C, the arc
BC has centre A and the arc CA has centre B. Explain how and why
this shape can roll along between two parallel tracks.
In a right angled triangular field, three animals are tethered to posts at the midpoint of each side. Each rope is just long enough to allow the animal to reach two adjacent vertices. Only one animal. . . .
Four rods, two of length a and two of length b, are linked to form
a kite. The linkage is moveable so that the angles change. What is
the maximum area of the kite?
ABCD is a regular tetrahedron and the points P, Q, R and S are the midpoints of the edges AB, BD, CD and CA. Prove that PQRS is a square.
Seven small rectangular pictures have one inch wide frames. The
frames are removed and the pictures are fitted together like a
jigsaw to make a rectangle of length 12 inches. Find the dimensions
of. . . .
ABCDEFGH is a 3 by 3 by 3 cube. Point P is 1/3 along AB (that is AP
: PB = 1 : 2), point Q is 1/3 along GH and point R is 1/3 along ED.
What is the area of the triangle PQR?
A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
Can you maximise the area available to a grazing goat?


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After a year that by his own admission has had "some rocky moments", Rob Ford is vowing not to back down as he tries for a second term as mayor of Toronto.
Hundreds of members of Ford Nation lined up well before doors opened Thursday night on an event billed as Ford's campaign launch. Ford officially signed up for re-election January 2.
Party-goers were handed blue and red Ford flags and a free drink ticket as they entered Etobicoke's Toronto Congress Centre. The cavernous room was about half full when the mayor took the stage at 8 pm.
Many strode directly toward a line to buy bobbleheads of the mayor's likeness. The figurines went for $30 and $100, a fundraising effort for the campaign. The bobblehead line reached nearly to the back of the event space for most of the night. There was other memorabilia to buy too—T-shirts, foam fingers, thundersticks, buttons and travel mugs.
The space was decorated with video boards, red and blue Ford Nation signs and a de-commissioned Ford Motors firetruck, festooned with messages like "Saving the taxpayers from getting burned".
Rob Ford made his entrance into the hall in grand style—led in by bagpipers, a moving three-person pyramid, and sign-waving supporters.
During his nearly half-hour speech, Rob Ford told the crowd over and over he is standing firm on what he's been offering up as mayor since 2010.
"When it comes to standing up for the great people of this city, fighting for the average, hard-working person, I won't back down."
Ford's also used the opportunity to showcase "every guy" image while admonishing "caviar Calvins and special interest Sallys".
"The people of Toronto know that I am just like them," he said.
Ford said he has learned "how much it matters to people that their mayor has lived through life's ups and downs."
He did not specifically mention the crack scandal, being caught impaired on video or being investigated by Toronto Police, but early in his speech, Ford acknowledged that the last year has had some "rocky moments."
Ford's unidentified mistakes have taught him about "humility, the kindness of people and the spirit of second chances."
Ford said he has been approached many times while buying groceries or grabbing a coffee by people offering their support, encouragement and expressed hope that he's learned from his mistakes and will move on.
"I want to say to you, loud and clear, I have listened to every single one you", said Ford "I have learned loud and clear."
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