Re: Your certificate has nothing to do with Obama's

Your "birth certificate" would not be accepted by my employer - Boeing.  I've seen many of them rejected.  You have to get a "certified copy" of your birth certificate to satisfy my employer's/FBI requirements.  The certified copy would have to have the seal and signature of your county clerk - as does Obama's "certificate of live birth."  (States have different names for them.  My state just calls them a certified copy.)  Most birth certificates that I've seen - in fact all of them that I've seen, do not have that seal/signature.  That's why they're great for framing and hanging on the wall but they don't mean anything otherwise.

Here is the State of Washington's requirement for an "enhanced" driver's license which is currently accepted at the Canadian border in lieu of a passport:

What you’ll need.......

• Original, certified Washington State birth certificate or birth certificate from the state where you were born. The birth certificate must have been issued by a city, county, or state and must have all of the following:
  • a registrar’s raised, embossed, impressed, or multicolored seal.
  • a control number that can be validated with the issuing authority.
  • a registrar’s signature.
  • the date the certificate was filed with the registrar’s office. The date must be within 1 year of your birth.

No original birth certificate that I've ever meet the requirements.  They have to go to the county auditor's office to be recorded by verifying the doctor's/midwife's identity and then the county  can issue a different "certificate of birth" that does.