The original e-mail:

If the picture doesn’t come through, it is of Peter Falk (as in
Colombo) trying to figure out something.

Phyllis

  The Missing Documents ????

  This reminds me of the Rose Law Firm records,that to this day have
not been released,or Kerry’s medical record,then again why should we
worry, when many have their skivvies all in a bunch, because McCain is
unable to remember how many houses he owns.
  Oh well,just another day in Democrat utopia.

        Ah . . . Sorry to bother you Mr. Obama, Sir.

            Excuse me Mr. Obama, I mean Senator Obama, sir. Um . . ..
know you are busy and important and stuff. I mean running for
president is very important and . . . ah . . . I hate to bother you. I
will only take a minute ok, sir?
            See, I have these missing pieces that are holding me up,
and I was wondering sir, if you could take time out of your busy
schedule and help me out. You know, no big deal, just some loose ends
and things.
            Hey, you have a nice place here! The wife sees houses like
this on TV all the time and says boy she wishes she had digs like this
you know? Is that painting real? Really? Wow. I saw something like
that in a museum once!
            Oh, sorry sir. I didn’t mean to get off the track. So if
you could just help me out a minute and give me some details, I will
get right out of your way. I want to close this case and maybe take
the wife to Coney Island or something. Ever been to Coney Island ? No,
I didn’t think so. . .
            Well, listen, anyways, I can’t seem to get some
information I need to wrap this up. These things seem to either be
“locked” or “not available’. I’m sure it’s just some oversight or
glitch or something, so if you could you tell me where these things
are .  I . . . have them written down here somewhere . . . oh wait.
Sorry about the smears. It was raining out. I’ll just read it to you.
            Could you help me please find these things, sir?

            •    Your Occidental College records
            •    Your Columbia College records
            •    Your Columbia Thesis paper
            •   Your Harvard College records
            •   Your Selective Service Registration
            •   Your medical records
            •   Your Illinois State Senate records
            •   Your Illinois State Senate schedule
            •   Your Law practice client list
            •  A Certified Copy of your original Birth certificate
            •  Your embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth
            • Your Harvard Law Review articles that were published
            • Your University of Chicago scholarly articles
            • Your Record of baptism
            Oh hey . . . listen! I know you are busy! Is this too much
for you now? Tell you what. I will come back tomorrow. Give you some
time to get these things together, you know?  I know you are busy, so
I will just let myself out. I will be back tomorrow. And the day
after. . .

            ——–think BEFORE you vote!!———-

My reply:

Well I’m glad we’ve gotten down to the root of the issues. I’m really glad that we’re all spending our time doing research on the candidates as opposed to forwarding on fear and doubt in unfounded claims.

I’d like to address these claims 1 by 1. If you’re not busy (just as Colombo thinks Obama is) read them all. Feel free to respond if you’re up for intelligent, factual debate. Educate yourself before you vote, just like you say you educate yourself, or go to the polls an ignorant hypocrite.

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>             •    Your Occidental College records
http://www.oxy.edu/x2526.xml
Follow the links on that page. You can find plenty of items on his education if you make an effort.

But now that education is an issue we’re talking about, I’m sure everyone that read this message knows about John McCain and how he finished 5th from last in his class at Anapolis. He had over 100 demerits a year. He was known as the party animal. He wrecked five aircraft before he was captured to be a POW. I’m sure we’ve all reviewed his records too, right?

If they really matter as presented in this quest for records, McCain loses.

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>             •    Your Columbia College records

http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php

From the page:
“Not many skeletons have been exhumed from Obama’s closet. Salon.com’s “Muckraker” columnist went on a mission to harvest some dirt on Obama’s environmental record, but ended up declaring, “This guy is a bona fide, card-carrying, bleeding-heart greenie.” Despite openly fretting about his family’s financial stress, Obama apparently hasn’t accepted any side payments from special interests. “He’s absolutely clean,” Bouman says. “Nobody can pay for as much as a Coke for him, and that’s not the culture in Springfield, Illinois. It’s pretty much no holds barred.””

*Sigh* ….If you have proof of something radical, something worth debating, something that would change your mind about voting, feel free to forwarding it to all your friends. Otherwise, realize John McCain was 5th from the bottom in his class at Anapolis.

Barack Obama’s record you ask?

From Wikipedia
“Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and at the end of his first year was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his grades and a writing competition.[17] In his second year he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review’s staff of 80 editors.[18] Obama’s election in February 1990 as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long, detailed profiles.[18] He graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 and returned to Chicago where he had worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[17][19]“

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>             •    Your Columbia Thesis paper
He says he lost it. Does it really matter? Does everyone that received this e-mail really have all the documents McCain wrote when at Anapolis? In the end is this going to change policy making? Do you honestly think that Obama is some sort of secret weapon trying to take over the US? Can anyone explain to me why a college thesis matters in a presidential election? Obviously he got into Harvard Law School after Columbia so they accepted his thesis and other records. I’m sure Harvard is a part of this Obama conspiracy, right?

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>             •   Your Harvard College records

Fully documented. How can someone claim this is even missing? They’ve even shown video of him in the law review sessions which he was the first black president of The Harvard Law Review.

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>             •   Your Selective Service Registration

Guys born after 31 December 1959 who were at least eighteen years old at the time registration was reinstated (in mid-1980) were required to register. That group would have included Barack Obama.

Surely he must just hate America and not want to serve the country. That’s why he walked away from the high six figure jobs offered to him at Harvard Law School. So he could focus his efforts on hating America… Give me a break!

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>             •   Your medical records

He’s an alien from Mars. That’s why we shouldn’t vote for him. Once again, distraction from the real issues.

He doesn’t have the full 1200 pages of eight years of medical history like McCain does. But McCain is a full quarter century older than Obama. If we’re worried about someone’s health, lets worry about McCain. He has had four cases of melanoma. Now, imagine an Alaskan governor with 20 months of experience being a heart-beat from the most powerful person in the world. I know I know, she did serve on the PTA in Alaska. Sorry I don’t want to insult her political experience.

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>             •   Your Illinois State Senate records
&
>             •   Your Illinois State Senate schedule

http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/14/fact_check_obamas_state_senate.php

It took me all of 15 seconds to debunk that pile of dung. Think before you vote is printed at the bottom of this e-mail. How about think before you read and believe unverified e-mails forwarded to you? If this country is important to you, do yourself a favor and spend some time doing real research.

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>             •  A Certified Copy of your original Birth certificate

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

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>             •  Your embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth

Is the Republican party (of which I’m a member) that bad off that we try to make Obama look like he’s not legally able to be President? Does anyone take this seriously? Would anyone like to call the hospital in Hawaii where he was born and ask if they embossed the certificate of live birth? Do you not realize how insane this makes you sound/look?

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>             • Your Harvard Law Review articles that were published

Politico does a nice job summing up his career on the law review board.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11257.html

I’m sure that’s just another one of his tactics to trick us into voting for him though.

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>             • Your University of Chicago scholarly articles

Obama never made it beyond lecturer at Chicago, where he wrote no scholarly articles. He wrote one book, then stopped writing for over a decade.

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>             • Your Record of baptism

Head backwards into water, return to feet. Tada! Oh that was after he left the secret muslim school where he learned how to trick the population of the United States into voting for him. It’s all part of his jihad against the Christian America!

He was crucified (no pun intended) for attending a Baptist Church for 20 years with a crazy minister… Now he’s not Baptized officially? Give me a break.

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By the way, this list of “really important issues” used to be 17 items long. It went like this:

1.Certified Copy of original Birth certificate
2.Columbia College records
3.Columbia Thesis paper
4.Certification of Live Birth showing where born
5.Harvard College records
6.Illinois State Senate records
7.Illinois State Senate schedule
8.Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9.Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mothers
10. Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11.Occidental College records
12.Parent’s Marriage Certificate
13.Record of baptism
14.Selective Service Registration
15.Trips schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16.Scholarly articles
17.Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups

It seems the smears didn’t work when they found the items that were “hidden” by Obama.

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For some background on me, I’m a registered Republican who voted for a Republican in the primaries.

I refuse to vote for McCain because he’s been caught lying, he’s for a bankrupting war, he’s politics as usual when it comes to changing his mind about issues for political gain (if you don’t believe me, read his record in Congress versus what he’s using as a platform during this election).

Personally I’d like to see neither of the two in the White House but the reality behind the Republican Party this year was a bunch of talking heads promoting the same agenda we’ve had for the last eight years under George W Bush (six of which were with a Republican Congress, this is the best situation to get stuff done, what has been done?).

The only Republican candidate that was worth a damn this year was Ron Paul. If you’ve heard him speak about his platform, you know why I say this. Now if you know Ron Paul’s platform and wonder why a Libertarian registered as a Republican spent his Saturday night (on his birthday, no less) writing an e-mail to people who are probably too lazy to read or so stubborn they won’t accept the truth because it doesn’t fit their agenda. Well it is because I realize we need to stop what we’ve been doing under Bush and McCain has a record that matches Bush at 90%. We all know the gap between the upper class and middle class is growing and McCain has proposed a tax cut for the top 5% of America (including those poor, poor oil companies).

Here’s a Q&A about Obama’s proposed tax plan
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Tax_Reform.htm

Now there are a ton of other issues that we can debate. But please, please keep it to the issues. If you really don’t agree with Obama’s platform, don’t vote for him. But this petty fear mongering chain mail garbage makes you part of the problem. Keep it to the issues and get your head out of the sand.

And remember, think before you vote!

First of all, it is humongous! I forget what it’s like to sit in front of a full length piano. I had to completely rearrange my desk to get the MIDI cable to reach the computer’s MIDI input. After all was setup, I launched my software of choice and created a blank song to work from. Once my “studio” was setup with the right amount of reverb and delay, I picked up the grand piano sample for my synth and started to relearn piano. It is amazing how six years of piano lessons can fade. I can’t remember the name of scales but I do remember the order in which keys are flat or minor or whatever it is. B A E… etc. etc.

My fingers were like disobedient children running around the aisles of Wal-Mart while I chased them around in a wife beater and flip flops. Still wondering how I used to play in front of a hundred people, I start practice going up and down scales. 1-2-3-1-2-3-4-5.

At the end of the night I had a nice riff, a pad, a slow beat, and a small sense of accomplishment. Now I’m working to create a genre for my own liking. So far the focus is a down-tempo fusion of electronic, strings, and piano. Now I just wish I could sing or had some source for vocals.