The Birth Certificate
Originally, presidential candidate and then-Sen. Barack Obama offered a Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth as proof of his country of origin. Opponents claim: a Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) is not a birth certificate. It was further argued that Obama’s father’s race is listed as “African”, and not “Negro”, the word used in 1961. (The obvious meaning: the COLB was created recently.) Opponents hired experts, who said the COLB contained abnormalities indicating forgery. It is fairly easy to create with Photoshop. Advocates claimed that a Certificate of Live Birth was enough to identify Barack Obama and any argument to the contrary is based on racism.