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Old 05-21-2011, 12:19 PM   #15 (permalink)
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There's are so many possibilities here, but after pulling the version posted on the White House site, I can clearly see this was typed on a manual typewriter. The only instances of "space invasion" occur at a couple of points for the letter "o" and number "0". Why just those instances?

Correction tape, carbon paper and other lo-tech means were used to correct errors and typos back then. Manually feeding the certificate back into the roller could have thrown it off kilter that little bit, or the original may not have been perfectly matched with the carbon copy.

Sounds a lot more feasible than a conspiracy theory.

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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru View Post

He is the first as far as I know, but that makes it no less important. Citizenship is a requirement for the position, if asked to produce evidence of citizenship, it should be produce immediately.
The birth certificate that you and I have to produce had been provided and in his file for years. It works for us but wasn't good enough for some others.
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