In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President’s campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The state sent the campaign the President’s birth certificate, the same legal documentation provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state, and the campaign immediately posted it on the internet. That birth certificate can be seen here (PDF):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate.pdfObserve that I have annotated the image to point out three defects.
1. The Certificate # has been obliterated. Why would Obama obliterate it? It discloses nothing, it serves only as confirmation. A forgery could be discovered by revelation of a real certificate bearing the same number. Also, if the real certification of Obama's birth was revealed, and the numbers did not match, the forgery would be exposed.
2. The embossed seal of the State Health Department is not present. Only a few indecipherable characters, which appear to be inverted numbers, appear where it should be.
3. The document declares that it is invalidated by any alteration. That includes obliterating the serial number.
The White House blog hosts another image of the purported short form, without the watermark.
While this version lacks the embossed seal, there are some pixels showing through the redaction. Lets take a closer look.
If those last two digits are 12, and the form was real, then the recently released long form can't be, the numbers should match.
Do real birth certificates bear embossed seals? Lets examine an example.
http://islamexposed.blogspot.com/2011/05/obamination-birth-certificate-that-ain.html