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I found this at a discount store.  It looks close to signatures on the PSA/DNA website but I'm newish to Presidential autographs.  

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Looks real to me but please post the entire thing it's on. 

Let's see what others say, too. 

Thanks Steve.  Here's the entire poster.

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Can you tell for sure that it's live ink, not printed? It looks live to me and I couldn't find preprinted ones at first glance.

If it's real like I think it is, and live ink, you can probably make some money on it—if you bought it at a thrift store.

I'm not 100% sure if it's like ink (still learning the be my own authenticator).  However, it looks to me like the areas where the lines criss cross (such as the lines through the O) you have one layer of ink overlapping the other.  Plus at first glance, the areas of signature lightness have a pattern similar to what happens when a sharpie is running out of ink or when you move the sharpie quickly across paper.

Yeah, I’d be surprised if it’s not live ink, and it looks like one of Obama’s on-the-fly autographs. I think you did good. 
I mean public autographs, nice but without some of the details. He has a great autograph. 

No question live ink to me now. I was on my phone before. I checked the signature out on my computer and I can't see how that could be preprinted.

Steve, just to close the loop, I decided to take the risk and buy this.  No one else on this forum commented but a bunch of people on the Autographs 101 FB group commented, vast majority thought it looked good, a couple were thumbs down, although I generally trust the opinions of folks on Autograph Magazine more.  

Glad you bought it! When you get it let's study the signature at angles to make sure it's not a transfer. I think it's highly unlikely but we've been seeing some of them these days and it can be very hard to tell.

What kind of discount store, BTW? I thought you meant like Goodwill but I'm not sure.

Will send some additional photos.  I bought it at one of those used and discount book stores.  So it wasn't a pure treasure find.  They knew what they had.  But it was still probably less than half of what it would have cost me at an auction, and probably even more of a discount than what a dealer would have cost.

As long as you didn’t buy it from a discount autograph dealer!

If you paid by credit card, even if there’s an issue you should be fine. I take it you didn’t pay by PayPal since it sounds like you were there in person.

It’s an exciting buy. 

I wasn't exactly sure what you meant studying the signature at angles, but here's a few additional photos.  Are these what you meant?

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There's one of these on eBay, Beckett authenticated, for $2,500. It likely won't bring that but your signature is bolder and bigger.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/President-Barack-Obama-2008-CAMPAIGN-SIGN-...

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