Well, it turns out the birthers are right-Obama’s birth certificate is a fake.  They were just obsessing over the wrong one.

World Net Daily and various birthers* are very excited because finally, some brave soul has stepped up and anonymously-because he’s afraid for his life-sent in a photograph of Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate.  Or not.

Despite World Net Daily’s assertion that, “The new document… shows none of the obvious traits of a hoax,” many have found a couple hints.  Like the fact that the registration record is from 1964- three years after Obama was born.  Or the fact that Kenya was not officially the Republic of Kenya until nearly a year after this certificate was allegedly issued.  Or the fact that it is coincidentally record number “47,044″, and Obama became the 44th president at age 47.   Or the fact that Obama’s village is listed as being in the wrong district-and the district listed was not part of Kenya at that time.  Or the fact that his father’s age is wrong-unless all that about when and where his father was born is a lie, too.
Unmentioned is the most obvious reason this is a hoax, which is that Obama was born in Hawaii and is an American citizen.  I’m not sure where the birthers got the idea that Hawaii is in the habit of making copies of “short-form” birth certificates saying someone was born there for anyone who asks and reserves the “long-form for the real-deal, but his birth certificate was put out there.  I’m also not sure what they mean when they say they want his birth certificate “released.”  Is he supposed to personally mail a copy to every household in America?  Would that make them happy?  Somehow, I’m thinking not.

(h/t Shakes.)

*I was also going to link to Orly Taitz’ site here, but when I tried to go to it I got a “harmful site” warning.  And I’m apparently not the only one.  Don’t know what that means, but consider yourself also warned if you try to go to the source.