How to Get Your Own Barack Obama Identity Documents

The recent torrent of Kenyan Barack Obama birth certificates calls attention to the relative ease with which one can acquire forged identity documents nowadays. Say, for whatever reason, you want your own Kenyan Barack Obama birth certificate. All you will need is: (1) about $200; (2) the ability to use the internet or a telephone to place an order.

I'll take the leap that you know to use the internet: Go to superiorfakedegrees.com. Customer service manager Jamie Ross gave me a quote of $220 for a "100% authentic looking" Kenyan birth certificate.

"Our offset printers are able to replicate that older generation look," he says. "For new certificates, depending upon the jurisdiction we replicate raised ink seals, and utilize identical paper stock."

According to Ross, Superior Faked Degrees, which is based in Thailand (it's illegal in the United States to possess, produce or distribute falsified government documents), has earned about $2 million in its five years in business.

An official at another fake ID powerhouse, China's b-id.info, takes us through the steps that will yield a Birther-movement-caliber Kenyan certificate:

1. Old typewriter: Do a Google search for models made that year (if you wanted to be real exact) and then find on eBay or other online sources selling old typewriters.

2. Search online for Kenyan birth certificates (many found on Google image search) and save the image when a good one is found. If you have a real one in hand it is much more simple, but either way just Photoshop out old type, print blank, type in with old typewriter. You more than likely will have to clean the scan or image, since it will not be crisp, like a newly printed document.

3. Signature with a little practice makes perfect.

4. Only step that would set you back a few days is the embossed seal. Many websites will make you any seal you want, just send them the template file.

5. Aging the paper (techniques found online).

6. Done.

The forgers' resourcefulness is staggering. Take drivers' licenses: They have the exact same grade PVC or Teslin on which real licenses are printed. Moreover, the licenses have bar codes and magnetic strips that will not only pass muster at scanners but display the information of your choice on the scanner's readout. Where applicable for security, the forgers ultraviolet ink. They even clone in-laminate holograms. Cost: $85.

Passports -- in sum, "designed to fool anyone," according to Superior -- go for $500, which includes a free visa stamp.

The forgers have limitations, however, like birth notices for Mr. Obama that appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1961, with the birth itself thoroughly documented and additionally substantiated by Hawaii's Department of Health.

The consensus: "Can't be done without a time machine."

If you still want a Barack Obama document, though, operators are standing by. Have your credit card ready. And if you don't have a credit card, Superior sells Visas and Mastercards too.

sample courtesy of Superior Fake Degrees
Another forgery, in all likelihood (Newton Leroy McPherson became as Newt Gingrich)

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Comments

[csepwede]

Make fake birth certificates for all right wing media pundits. Post online so they will come up in searches.

http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/

[Careysub]

I recommend starting a website where Kenyan birth certificates for all prominent birthers and birther-enablers (Lou Dobbs, I'm looking at you) are posted.

[csepwede]

http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/

[Paulo1]

My word you must have money to burn! Willing to spend all that for a fake?

Go for the real thing. Make a call to Kenya, have a nice polite conversation with an official, Warning: with the hype the price probably will go up a bit but I can't imagine spending more than a hundred.

[lucyring]

In the time it takes to get a records bureau official to do anything, you could earn the $220 working at McDonald's. It would probably be easier

[SEQUOIABISON]

Thanks Keith for your excellent research, now I have a better understanding of how these conspirators are operating, the question now remains, can these folks be charged with a criminal offense for Forgery?

[scurryscurryandyshere]

The Constitution does not allow for a person who does not exist to be President. Obama can not conclusively prove that reality is not merely a perception of my own mind, and therefore Barack Obama, along with everything else in the universe beyond and up to the reach of my sensory organs, which have a tendency to deceive, does not exist. Therefore, Barack Obama is not legitimately the President of the United States.

[vippy]

That had to be proven long before he became president. Enough of this nonsense!

[pandion298]

This argument is easily countered with, "Obama thinks, therefore he is."

[scurryscurryandyshere]

Somebody stayed awake in Philosophy 101... Elitist!!! :)

[M thew]

By the same reasoning, the United States do not exist as well. So how could Barack Obama be president of something that doesn't exist?

As your statement and my reply are also figments of my imagination, I now have to go away and create some universes in my mind. Please do not disturb.

[dsws]

Your sense organs don't have a tendency to deceive, or any other tendencies, because they don't exist. Your mind doesn't exist either, because you don't exist. The universe is entirely in the imagination of a friend of mine named Kati. So at least I sort of exist, because the solipsist knows me personally.

[sassafra]

$200? i don't think so. i already own photoshop. heck, the way these birthers gobble up anything placed in front of them my kid's crayons will do just fine.

[lucyring]

But can you prove it's YOUR kid???

[sassafra]

oh drat i'm not sure. since the kids were the product of my abduction by gray skin aliens back in the '90's i suppose their anal probes wouldn't be accepted in leu of passports or birth certificates huh? i guess that nixes the crayons then. oh well, back to photoshop. thanx.

[ConcernedHoosier]

bahahaha. no doubt. my favorite about this fake is the ID # being 44O47. Seems like whoever made the forgery would be smart enough to just type some random sequence of numbers and letters. But then again, these are people that would commit forgery to try to mess with the leader of the free world, so not too bright in the first place.

Methinks Orly Taitz will be in jail by this time next year.

[MimiGardner]

In the sample above, Charles Vest has not been president of MIT for some years now. It's hard to get all the details correct in these forgeries. Just ask Orly Taitz.

[ThermoChemist]

Dr. Palin...Rocket Scientist...???

[JKoos]

Not to be impolite, but why doesn't Obama just release his birth certificate and put these birthers out of business? This thing is gaining way too much attention and momentum.

[kcam44]

jkoos:
impolite is not the word!! lack of knowledge is (ignorance)...where have you been?..he released his birth certicificate during the campaign...he was vetted by Hillary's team and a lot of other folks..the problem is: those that didn't want him in office, came up with this bs..Hawaiian authorities have validated his bc many times...the crazy "birthers" don't believe that the bc is authentic (that's their problem)..why should Pres Obama answer to these people..he's already answered to the proper authorities regarding his birth certificate. I bet hope he sits in the Oval office everyday and laughs his arse off at these crazy people.

[cobobs]

Since you are so interested, please read credible non-birther sources.

[vippy]

Why don't you go to FACTCHECK.ORG and see it for yourself?

[LebronJeremy]

My own Barack Obama identity documents?! I'll take four.

[Merrill Kazanjian]

I wonder how much money goes in to prevention of counterfeiting (watermarking, printing, record keeping, etc). Probably enough to pay for a lot of the things we are lacking (Whole other can O worms). You all might get a kick out of this. Photoshop, the infamous computer program, can really create fraudulent images that are believable but it can also do some amazing stuff. This is a video of an artist merging Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, George W and George HW Bush with a little of Richard Nixon.

Heres the link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4NbiZn3nrs

[Jennifer Ster]

Why pay for anything? here is blank Birth certificate and it will be just as official looking as the one in the news. of course it has no seal so it can't pass as legit. Hmm come to think of it, neither does the other.

Helvetica font comes to mind like the one in the news.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/391/bobcg.jpg

[TheReasonableMan]

Here's a thought -- maybe the seal is on the back. I wish there were some way to check that. Oh yeah, FactCheck.Org already did that: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

The thing I can't get my arms around is why the Republican governor of Hawaii would allow the following press release to go out if there was any doubt whatsoever that Obama was in fact born in Hawaii: http://m.factcheck.org/2009/07/the-last-word-we-wish/

Man, this conspiracy runs deep -- they've even got the Republicans in on it.

[Jennifer Ster]

Personally, I believe Obama is US born, Not because of the printed-on-the-fly birth certificate, but because the other anecdotal evidence that would be hard to fake(newspaper clippings of the time) in conjunction with The state of Hawaii willing to vouch for him.

If this was merely for establishing residency, getting a driver's license, government benefits/taxes, alright by me. If sombody get's US goodies who doesn't deserve it, so what? it's only ONE person.

However we are talking about it the Presidency of the United States and consequently the most powerful person in the world! His legitimacy shouldn't have to rely on documentation that could easily be reproduced.

You want the conspiracy theorists to go away? Produce the long form. It would have more than enough data(docto­r,hospital­,time, witnesses,doctor's bad handwriting) that could be verified externally.

I don't think it exists anymore and was lost except for computer records. Why else wouldn't they produce it?

Just wish they would admit it.

[lucyring]

Might the above diploma do for Ms. Palin what the Wizard of Oz's sheepskin did for the scarecrow?

[pup sydney]

I found Chuck Norris birth certificate in the dumpster.

[Romeover]

That looks vaguely like my diploma, though mine is B.S.

[rektruax]

"Romeover" - Awesome handle!