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Unnamed person says anonymous source says Obama born in Kenya

By on July 21, 2011 in Birth Certificate, Inspector Smith, The Blogs

The Post & Email website continues to assume what I have know for some time: birthers will believe anything bad about Obama. It is still counterintuitive that an anonymous person would be “interviewed” about what he “knows” about Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and that anyone should believe it. It’s a birther rule: sources that have a reason to know something are never named, and sources who are named have no reason to know anything. Birther credulity continues to amaze me, even after all this time.

The P&E story is something like: someone with business contacts in Kenya talked to someone else whose uncle’s gardener also gardens for someone who is a government official and who casually mentioned they had overheard at their golf club that Obama’s birth certificate was secretly being kept in the office of the Prime Minister of Kenya. That’s an approximate version of the story; the original is a little fuzzier.

Of course if the birth certificate were actually under the control of Prime Minister Odinga, how could our intrepid inspector Lucas Smith have obtained a copy from a hospital? This question is raised at the P&E, and Mr. Smith’s document is roundly dissed. The objection: English units instead of metric.

Lucas Smith has responded on his blog that English units are fine. I didn’t bother to check his argument. However, as to government standards, English units seem to be in use in 1961.

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Doctors would probably have used whatever they were trained to use. The “correct” answer is really unimportant because Obama was born in Hawaii, so they’re all lying at some point.

Date formats in Kenya

By on July 14, 2011 in Birth Certificate, Debunking, Fakes and frauds, Inspector Smith

Lucas Smith, still trying to recover from the fatal mistake of using the wrong date format on his fake Kenyan birth certificate for Barack Obama, the POSFKBC, wrote a new article where he claims to prove that Kenya uses both MM/DD/YYYY (US date format) and DD/MM/YYYY (most everybody else’s date format).

So I watched a couple seconds of his video, and recognized where he was going. It was a Kenyan Government website, something I had looked at in detail some time back (and I guess never wrote up). Rather than wading through the video, this little screen shot (click to enlarge) should explain Smith’s argument, and mine.

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It clearly shows a date in Kenyan format (16/2/2009) and one in US format (8/29/2008) and one in which the reader has no idea at all what the format is (4/2/2009). That last date is the problem. No one would mix date formats on a page intentionally because it is impossible to know which is which.

Indeed, this is why a country wouldn’t mix date formats because people reading them couldn’t be sure what the date means. That would be utter chaos.1

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Unrepentant Smith doubles down on fake birth certificate

By on July 11, 2011 in Inspector Smith

Lucas Smith

Our erstwhile contributor and guest of the state Lucas Smith has a new web site, Was Obama Born in Kenya. A cursory review suggests that one major theme of the site is support for the fake Kenyan birth certificate Smith has been promoting. I call it a fake because there is solid evidence that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

Two of the most obvious errors on the POSFKBC include the US instead of British date formatting, and the misspelling of the hospital administrator’s name (actually the wrong administrator for the time period) on a stamp. In two articles, Smith argues that some other countries have inconsistencies in their dates and that some legitimate stamps have errors on them.

The site is rather attractive, I must admit. I will offer some advice though. Mixing a personal blog with an Obama conspiracy blog dilutes both topics. Been there, done that.

Looking closer at the POSFKBC

By on May 9, 2011 in Birth Certificate, Fakes and frauds, Inspector Smith, Videos

Lucas Smith has a new (May 6) YouTube video with a sweeping panoramic view of his alleged Barack Obama Kenyan birth certificate, and maps of Kenya. I didn’t note anything new in the video, but the music was interesting. A fleeting edge-on view of the POSFKBC suggests strongly that the original paper document does have a raised seal (as opposed to a Photoshopped seal) for what that’s worth.

Smith also has web site, Was Obama Born in Kenya, with a poster containing a higher-resolution copy of the birth certificate (the POSFKBC). All of you belonging to the “zoom in” faction, take a gander.

When was Obama’s daddy born?

By on May 1, 2011 in Birth Certificate, FOIA, Inspector Smith, Obama Family, Research Notes

Barack Obama Sr. born 193?

Recently, a set of documents from Barack Obama’s father’s immigration file was released under the Freedom of Information Act. The first document, the alien registration card for Barack Obama, Sr., contained a surprise. While the exact date of Obama’s birth has not been reliably sourced in the past, the year has always been taken to be 1936, and indeed that is what is inscribed on his tombstone in Kenya. His alien registration form tells a different story, that Obama Sr. was born June 18, 1934. If this is true then he was 27 years old when President Obama was born, not 25 like it says on the birth certificate. Obama Sr. signed a document in the same month that Barack Obama was born stating that he was born in 1934 (FOIA document page 35-36).

A later document in the FOIA set, titled “Report of Investigation,” shows the date of birth as June 18, 1936, which supports the age of 25 on the birth certificate. Following is a tabulation of all the dates of birth in the FOIA including documents from the University of Hawaii and Barack Obama Sr., the date they were written and whether Barack Obama Sr. signed them. I appears that prior to 8/10/62 all dates of birth point to 1934 and every document Obama actually signed after 6/6/63 used the 1936 date.

Reported dates of birth for Barack Obama Sr. in report order. Click for Excel spreadsheet.

The important fact, I think, is that all documents point to Barack Obama being born on June 18, and this leads us to wonder why the POSFKBC (a purported Kenyan birth certificate of Barack Obama) does not give this for his father’s date of birth.

An alternate title for this story was : OBAMA REGISTERED AS FOREIGN STUDENT: SHOCKING NEW PROOF IN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS!

Smith sells POSFKBC

By on April 15, 2011 in Inspector Smith, Lounge, Orly Taitz

In a communication received by Obama Conspiracy Theories last evening, Lucas D. Smith reports the sale of his art work, Orly Taitz and her exhibits, for $350. Maybe I was asleep on this one, but apparently the art auction lot also contained at least one of the physical exhibits Orly Taitz submitted in her California lawsuit, the Kenyan birth certificate [or not] popularly referred to as the POSFKBC. Mr. Smith published details of the transaction.

Following our policy on personal information, we will not publish the name, address, age, social-security number, kindergarten records, passport, selective service registration, religious preference, pet names and birth certificate of the purchaser.

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