Someone who, according to California attorney Orly Taity, demands anonymity because "he's afraid for his life" found Obama's birth certificate, and boy, they're hooting and howling, having fun over on some of the right-wing blogs. Won't they be embarrassed when it's shown not only to be fraudulent, but a bad forgery at that? (Note: click on the image of the certificate to see a larger image.)

Orly Taitz

Attorney Taitz filed a suit Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, trying to authenticate the certificate. It lists Obama's parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.

As with the Hawaiian birth certificate, no doctor is listed. What has surfaced is a certified copy of the original, issued in February 1964 by Joshua Simon Oduya, Office of Principal Registrar, Coast Province, Republic of Kenya

Nobody has come up with an explanation as to why the certificate would be issued in 1964 for a child that wasn't living in Kenya at the time, but that's only a mild curiosity.

Republic of Kenya

However, the document says it was issued February 17, 1964, on a form which reads Republic of Kenya. At that point, the country was called the Dominion of Kenya. It didn't change its name to the Republic of Kenya until December 12, 1964.

Now, I grew up in a small county, and I've seen plenty of forms still used after they became obsolete. Counter checks, for instance, giving the year as 195_ continued to be used in the 1960s; one simply crossed out the 5 and wrote "61" or "62" instead of a single digit. I have seen forms used which had the name of an official who no longer held office; they used up the forms anyhow, and sometimes they bothered to mark out the name of the old official and sometimes they didn't.

But I've never seen someone use a form that was preprinted with the name of an entity that wouldn't exist for a year to come.

Hospital Records

The hospital in Hawaii cannot reveal whether they have records of Obama's being born there; it's a violation of the federal HIPPA statute. The hospital in Kenya, however, has no such encumbrance. They have, they say, been deluged with requests for that information, and they report that they've checked their records, not just for the day in question, but for the entire year of 1961, searching the records physically, by hand, and they have no record of a baby born with the name Barack Obama.

The hospital has no records, and yet there is a document supposedly created 3 years after he was born, by an official of a country that wouldn't exist until 10 months after the document was issued.

I think they're looking in the wrong place. They need to check the immigration records of aliens arriving from outer space. Obama is simply too good at swatting flies to be a human.

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