While looking at some old stories from the golden age of birtherism, I was intrigued to find this one from World Net Daily by Jerome Corsi, no less.
It's from 2009, and it shows a long-form birth certificiate from the same hospital that President Obama was born in, just a day after the president was born.
Here's the interesting thing: The birth certificate shown there seems to undercut several of the main charges that birthers lodged in the wake of the president's release of his long-form certificate. Namely:
* Some have said the hospital listed on Obama's certificate did not go by that name at that time. Well, guess what: that hospital also is listed on the WND certificates.
* Some complained that a "certificate of live birth" is not a birth certificate. A strange and silly argument, but nonetheless, the certificates hyped by Corsi as valid Hawaii birth certificates are label "certificate of live birth."
* Some raised the issue of the mother's mailing address not being listed on Obama's B.C. Her residence address is, but not her mailing address. I assume, only assume, that the practice was to put in a mailing address only if it was different than the residential address. But no matter, because the certificate that Corsi says in his story is valid also contains no mailing address for the mother.
* Someone commenting on thehill.com the day Obama released his birth certificate tried to make hay out of the fact that the capital K seemed to be "flying" in some cases (that is, riding a little bit higher than the rest of the line of type), but was not doing so in, for example, the listing of Obama's name. Not sure what that was supposed to prove, but guess what, there is flying H in the Corsi document (in Honolulu) while the H in the name of the child is perfectly aligned. (Anyone who has used an old manual typewriter can tell you that this is the result of the process of having to hold the shift key down while typing a capital letter at the beginning of a word. Sometimes, if you release the shift key too early, the capital letter is misaligned. I'm sure you can find millions of typed documents before the advent of electric typewriters that show thousands of flying capital letters.)
* Someone complained that Barack Obama's name was in all capital letters, while the rest of the document wasn't. That was supposed to be proof that Obama's name was somehow grafted onto another document. Look at the Corsi document. The name of the child is in all caps.
Thanks, Jerome Corsi, for providing us with the evidence to show that you and your birther friends are just plain nuts.
