This guy not only theorizes it's a forgery, but he goes on to say, it's a bad forgery and he thinks that is intentional. They WANT to raise controversy over the legitimacy of the document. When I first started watching this video, I was very skeptical, and I still am... but for a moment, I thought to myself... what better way to keep this in the stew for 2012? Several things here.. They know there is no way to PROVE this is a fake, beyond any shadow of doubt, and they can maintain it's the real deal, while the 'experts' go crazy showing us all how it IS a forgery... keeping this perpetuated hurts Republicans (they think)... It could also be the actual real BC, and they just gave it characteristics to look like a forgery, if you look closely. Anything is possible with this crew! Okay, the other thing... My first reaction to the document is... it's too perfect. Yeah, I know, sounds kinda crazy to say... but think about it now.. for 4 years, this has been a controversy, a distraction (Obama's words)... We've been told the long form didn't exist... we've been told they couldn't release it... they tried to sell us on the short form BC... and finally, we get a peek at the real deal, and there is absolutely NOTHING there... it is a pristine and normal looking BC. Something is odd there... why did this take 4 years to pry out into the public? If I saw something there which might be questionable or embarrassing, it would make more sense to me, I could say... well, okay, I see why he didn't want this released, but it's no big deal... but there is NOTHING? It doesn't logically fit... why wouldn't he have released this 4 years ago? The final thing, is the stamp at the bottom, declaring this is a certified copy or "abstract" of what is on record... well, an "abstract" is NOT the original document... it's an abstract, a rough idea of what the original contains.
All of that said, I am a photoshop expert, and I work with PDFs all day long as part of my job, I also work with Illustrator... The newer versions of AI will rasterize the text, and it can be selected as they guy does in the video, there is nothing unusual about that. It might not rasterize signatures, and that's why it doesn't pick them up in the video. The white 'ghosting' is also common on copies, especially on 'safety paper' as is being used in an official document. So, for all the questions conspiracy theorists can raise about the legitimacy, there are answers which legitimately explain everything. And as was often stated over the past 4 years, there will always be people who don't believe it is real. But.... that is what makes me wonder... could the Obama camp be punking us all? Maybe it's real, an abstract (without embarrassing info), but intentionally made to look like a fake... knowing the nuts will run with it, and they can say... see? we told you they wouldn't accept the real deal!