http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

Note the certificate shown.

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTgxZmIwNTg0OWVhMWJkODNmZjI4ZjY4Mjg2OWRmNzI=

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/06/obamas-birth-ce.html

So now that I have proved that 3 different main papers/news-services have picked it up, time to talk about the claims against the birth certificate.

Barack Obama has claimed in writing to have a valid printed document: In the first chapter of his book Dreams From My Father, describing his origins, he wrote about finding a local Hawaiian newspaper article about his Kenyan father: "I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school."

So this says he has the original.

A senior official in the State of Hawaii's Department of Health, Director of Communications Janice Okubo, confirms that the image published and circulated by the Obama campaign as his "birth certificate" lacks the necessary embossed seal and signature. Backing away from a quote attributed to her that the image on the campaign site was "valid," she told the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times in an article published yesterday: "I don't know that it's possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the image on the site represents."

Israel Insider contacted Okubo several days. She could not refer to Obama's specific case, she said, because no one but an authorized family member can do so. But she did confirm that a valid "certification of live birth" would need to have an embossed seal and signature and that it can only be printed and mailed. There is no such thing as an electronic only certification.

yes mailed.

This is important.

There are three things missing from the birth certificate.... bends from the envelope, the embossing, and the registars signature.

Note this image: http://www.valeehill.net/genealogy/documents/doc_decosta_pat_birth.jpg

This image clearly shows all three.

Now to show a site which claims to have utterly debunked the birth certificate

http://polarik.blogtownhall.com/2008/06/20/was_obamas_certificate_of_birth_manufactured.thtml

http://www.barackobama.com/images/fts/BO_birthcert.jpg

Note Barack Obamas own website showing this image is consistant with the one he is showing.

So at this moment the legitimacy of his 'American Born' is in grave doubt.