I don’t necessarily believe that Barack Obama wasn’t Click to see my photoshopped Obama birth certificateborn in the United States, but when there’s any question to the fact, he has an obligation as a presidential candidate to come forth and prove that he was indeed born here. Presidential politics, or any public elected official politics, is an interesting game when compared to the private sector. It’s extremely difficult for a citizen or news organization to be charged with libel or slander when referring to an elected official. It’s something which holds elected officials to a higher standard. So that being said, it’s up to Obama, even if it’s totally ridiculous, to prove that he’s a natural born citizen.

So Obama’s campaign purportedly released his “official” birth certificate to the extremist website Daily Kos and ever since, people have questioned the birth certificates authenticity. There’s a lot going around that Obama’s camp photoshopped a birth certificate, and hell, even I photoshopped it.

Well, there’s more dissent, this time coming all the way from Israel.

It is now a certainty that the “birth certificate” claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake.

The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document — features that Obama’s purported “birth certificate” clearly lack.

Again, I’m not saying he’s inelligable to be our president based on his citizenship, but because of what he’s trying to prove, the burden of proof is on him and he’s miserably failing with this birth certificate debacle.