Republican Treason and Steve Schmidt

To: Steve Schmidt

From: The Framers of the Constitution

If you will forgive Senator Obama for living a life of service filled with good, clean hard work and family values we will try to forgive your campaign for:

1. A presidential candidate that cannot TRULY / ABSOLUTELY prove he was born in the US or on a US army base.

1. A VP candidate who, as recently as this year filmed a “Welcome Video” for the Alaskan Independence Party.  A party which advocates secession from the Union.

There is a precedent sir, written in blood, for classifying secessionists as traitors.

Your ticket has, at its top, a person who cannot prove he meets the meager requirements to run for president, and at the bottom a candidate who clearly meets the requirement for impeachment due to treason.

We would never be so crass as to imply that you are aiding and/or abetting treason.  Such statements do not befit gentlemen.  Especially as they might further imply that, as a traitor to your nation, you should be hung by the neck until dead.

Such talk is knavery and has no place in a free republic, thus we will not speak of it here.

The offer stands.  Simply forgive us for our actual defense of the constitution and we will forgive you and your party’s contemptible, vile, greedy and violent charades which blaspheme everything for which our forefathers fought and died.

With due respect,

America

Might Giuliani Replace Palin?

Let me begin by saying that John McCain probably will not dump Sarah Palin from the ticket. On the other hand given so much uncertainty about Ms. Palin, his campaign likely has a backup candidate in mind “just in case”. They would be foolish to say so, but they would be even more foolish to have not planned for that contingency.

Now then, take just a moment to not plan for that contingency. Now, look at the picture shown above. This photo was taken on the day of the first Presidential debate. If you could not distinctly make out the faces would you be inclined to think that the couple to the left were running for office?

It’s not that it would be terribly unusual for Rudy Giuliani to board a plane with McCain, but to do so with his spouse in tow, waving to the crowd alongside the candidate is more than the normal exposure generally afforded an “adviser”.

Yesterday, the very day Sarah Palin bought herself a modicum of redemption through her debate performance, she was also hit with the one thing most likely to poison her campaign. The Alaskan courts refused to quash Troopergate-related subpoenas and also ruled that the State Legislature’s investigation is totally appropriate.

When prosecutor Stephen Branchflower releases his report late next week it is certain to condemn Governor Palin for abuse of power. The denial of Mike Wooten’s Workman’s Compensation claim is now proven beyond any reasonable doubt. All witnesses came clean under oath.

Given the nature of politics that probably means that a resolution to impeach the Governor will be introduced in the State Legislature the following week. If that scenario plays out the case for getting Governor Palin off the Republican ticket will be much easier to make.

Back to Rudy Giuliani.

Should she be replaced then Rudy Giuliani is not the most likely person to replace her. Or is he?

Giuliani has the perfect political / mugwump stand on abortion. He says he abhors it, but supports it as long as it is the law of the land. He is a catholic and can easily take the John F. Kennedy position of, “Yes, I’m catholic, I hate abortion, but I believe in the separation of church and state.” He has defended abortion rights thoroughly, but has also routinely spoken about his abhorrence of the practice.

Further, who else would McCain call upon? Evidently the powers of the Republican party have told McCain that Lieberman is a no-go. Lieberman, like Romney, has a soft record on abortion. Although Romney is strong on economic matters he would only make things worse in the red states of the South due to being a Mormon. Ouch! But true.

Tom Ridge has pretty much disappeared.

Now look again at picture above which shows Mr. and Mrs. Giuliani boarding a plane with the McCain’s, bound for the first Presidential debate. Couple that with the fact that Giuliani has become the McCain campaign’s go-to surrogate chairing state-wide election conference calls, being referred to as McCain’s “Economics Adviser” and, as of Thursday, running a “Task Force” through his high-powered law firm to advise corporate clients on how to get a piece of the Wall Street bailout money currently awaiting House approval and maybe the scenario begins to look more likely.

Why would McCain take a chance on alienating his base by choosing Giuliani?

Who knows. Why did he take a chance on alienating independents with someone like Sarah Palin?

Just In: Bill Clinton Spotted Masquerading as Democrat

He has been called the greatest politician of our generation.  For those of us too young to remember Franklin Roosevelt the statement rings true.  That’s why former President Bill Clinton has been such an valuable asset on the campaign trail stumping for Barak Obama.

Don’t worry.  I’ll wait until you finish laughing before I proceed.

There now.  That’s better.  President Clinton is a great politician.  He really is a great asset to anyone he truly supports.  That brings us back to the Obama campaign.  This week Clinton praised John McCain as a “great man” and defended “Foreclosure Phil” Gramm to the Wall Street Journal. You may remember that it was Gramm who recently said that the United States was not only “in a mental recession” but also a “nation of whiners”. 

The previous week Clinton had chided the press for attacking Sarah Palin and referred to her as “appealing” (yeah, I know). His non-support of Barak Obama has become the subject of late night humor. Chris Rock spent an entire interview with David Letterman parodying the former president’s non-support. Saturday Night Live got in the act as well with a full segment in which Darrel Hammond imitated Clinton steadfastly clinging to non-statements regarding the Senator. And that’s all within the last week.

It may be understandable that Clinton did not refer to Obama as a “great man”.  Greatness is achieved over one’s lifetime and Senator Obama is still young.  On the other hand, why would the “greatest politician of our time” have brought up the subject of greatness when the comparison to Obama would be the logical next step in the interview?

In a nutshell it’s compliments for McCain and silence for Obama.

Some have suggested that “The Bill” is bitter about his wife’s loss in the Democratic primary, however that does little to explain why he did the same thing to her. He threw temper tantrums on the campaign trail, strongly implied that any black man could win South Carolina and resurfaced the “pinned down by gunfire” story after the press had dropped it.

Some of Clinton’s aides privately say that Bill’s personality has changed since his quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery in 2004. That theory is generally put forward when those close to him are forced to confront some of the 42nd President’s less savory habits. I have been told, but cannot confirm, that heart surgeries, like births, can have long lasting impacts on one’s personality. However that factor does not seem relevant to Clinton’s sabotage of Al Gore’s presidential bid in 2000.

Having brought Gore on board as “Mr. Squeaky Clean” to offset his own roguish image, Clinton began to tarnish everything around him. Ultimately, knowing that Gore had Presidential ambitions, Clinton sent Al to the steps of Congress to behave like a fool on the day of his [Clinton's] impeachment. The stench of such a public display in defense of a sex addict and pathological liar left Gore three merit badges short of an Eagle Scout.

The Clinton’s attended Gore fundraisers and solicited donations for Hillary’s Senatorial bid (once right in front of Tipper Gore according to Vanity Fair).

While it apparently is true that Gore asked Clinton to not campaign for him in the swing states, Clinton’s popularity could have meant a bonanza in terms of campaign contributions. Instead, George W. Bush’s campaign was able to outspend Gore by more than a 2 to 1 margin.

Bill Clinton has no problem helping his wife rise to the level of Senator. He probably would do the same for Gore or Obama. After all, Bill has already been the Governor of Arkansas and the President of the United States.

So why won’t he help another Democrat into the White House? Perhaps the answer lies in the long, thundering ovation he received when he took the stage at this year’s Democratic Convention. Certainly it must be much more rewarding to receive those accolades than to watch someone else receive them.

Or, as the consummate politician, perhaps Bill has a dream for 2012. In that dream he receives the same raucous and adoring ovation, but this time at both conventions. And what will be the name of the unfortunate Democratic Presidential hopeful in 2012?

“Not The Bill”.

McCain Camp Decries Pre-School “Gotcha’s”

The John McCain for President Campaign today loudly protested the use of “Gotcha Journalism” during a visit by Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) to a pre-kindergarten class in Indianapolis, IN.  McCain insiders report that all seemed well after an initial “flash-card sweep” of the educational facility which eradicated references to the anti-Republican word “potato” and the strictly anti-Palin “5+5″.

Informally entitled the “Least Common Denominator Tour”, the morning saw Palin, McCain operatives and members of the Secret Service entering the school confidently, a fresh copy of “Pooky, the Abstinent Reindeer” handcuffed to the wrist of Senior Security Officer Talin P. Caldwell.

A routine inspection of the predominately 4 year old audience turned up nothing worse than unfounded allegations that one “Billy” had “eaten a booger”.  For safety’s sake Billy, his accuser(s) and all potentially complicit “boogers” were removed to the Indianapolis Correctional Facility for Juveniles.

Mere moments later, as Governor Palin was relaxing into the environment and beginning her “My Half-Brother Looks Like a Rapist” talk, a “guerrilla shock-plant” answering to the name of “Anna Marie” abruptly fired what is being called the “What’s your favorite color” question.

With cameras rolling, the Governor was obviously shaken by the questioners disrespect for her boundaries.  Forced to quickly deal with both her personal violation and the potential political quagmire of answering such a polarizing question given the “red” and “blue” implications of current partisan politics, the Governor wheeled on her persecutor and boldly declared, “Paisley!”

It was only in the loud, ensuing debate which targeted “paisley as a color” that the McCain camp purportedly realized that they had “been had”.

A later press release from the McCain campaign reported that, “Governor Palin is continuing to do  a magnificent job of growing into her national role.  Not only is she mastering the nuances of the American economy and Foreign Relations, she is also internalizing the understanding that her ‘favorite color’ may have international repercussions.  We congratulate Governor Palin for her restraint in what was obviously an upsetting and partisan ambush during a mission of good will”.

UPDATE:  Within the last 6 hours it has been determined that “paisley” is in fact a color as defined by “Fractal Paint 8.0″ in 1999.

Side Note:  Anna Marie’s parents have informed this journalist that she is responding well to daily treatments of “Happy Meals” and reassurances that her older sister really is a “turd”.

[yes, it's snark]

Guess Who Filed Suit to Halt Troopergate….

On September 16th ABC News reported, “A group of Alaska Republican lawmakers, with the support of a Texas-based conservative legal group, has filed suit to stop the Alaska Legislature’s “Troopergate” probe into Gov. Sarah Palin.” The ABC coverage was not untypical of mainstream media coverage generally and is not being singled out for scrutiny.

This “Texas-based conservative legal group” is generally referred to as LLI (Liberty Legal Institute).  Their website, which is very open and honest, may be found here.

To describe the LLI as a “conservative legal group” is like describing O. J. Simpson as a “well-dressed African-American”.  Both are true, as far as they go.

LLI describes themselves as, “a 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 1997 to protect religious freedoms and First Amendment rights for individuals, groups and churches.” This self-description is from the front page of their website.  The site also quickly makes clear that the First Amendment Rights they defend are those of the religious right.  The banner of one page proudly displays this quote, “Group is the flip side to ACLU. [sic]” – Dallas Morning News

A quick click on the “Cases” tab reveals 14 cases under the headline of “Recent Cases”.  Briefly looking through the summaries, 11 are plainly related to religion.  In the other three cases a connection to religion is unclear.  One has to do with a high school student’s political tee shirt, one has to do with a political contribution and one has to do with the wording on a town monument.  All case were based in Texas.

The question the list raises is what interest does this firm have in the firing of a Police Commissioner in Alaska?  Nothing in their past or in their charter shows an interest in such cases.  They have no offices outside the state of Texas and work only pro bono cases related to civil liberties.

Enter the Arlington Group.

LLI is a member of the 75-member “Arlington Group”, a Washington-based, religious-right consortium which seeks to influence government policy on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.  The Arlington group was founded in 2002 through the joint effort of powerful members of the religious right including Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Chuck Colson, D. James Kennedy, Gary Bauer and Rod Parsley.

The groups first director was James Dobson.  Although very influential then and now, the Arlington Group famously stubbed it’s toe when they threatened, in 2005, to oppose President George W. Bush’s Social Security Reforms if he did not come out strongly against same-sex marriage.  The media was angered and the compliance of the Bush administration failed to stem the tide of same-sex marriage legislation.

The Arlington Group effectively limits its self to what its members agree on.  Pooled resources go toward the election and appointment of judges with anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage records.  The group does discuss the possibility of getting behind a particular candidate, but it is not necessary that they agree.  They are very effectively tied into a couple of very narrowly defined issues with which all members totally agree.  The election of politicians is basically a means to the end of those politicians appointing judges who share their agenda.

So why is the LLI in Anchorage using words like “McCarthyism” to halt a bipartisan investigation of the Alaskan State Legislature into the Governor of that State?  Here are a few possibilities:

1. It really is McCarthyism.  The Alaskan Legislature wants to prove that Governor Palin is a communist plant for the now defunct Soviet Union.

2. The LLI believes that for a State Legislature to investigate the firing of a Commissioner by a Governor impinges upon the Governor’s right to the religious expression required in such a firing.

3. The LLI believes there are no competent attorneys in Alaska, the RNC or any of the considerable number of states separating Texas and Alaska to help the embattled Governor.

4. The LLI believes that fired commissioner Walt Monegan and the State Senator heading the investigation, Hollis French are betrothed.

5. The LLI wants to pervert justice to perpetuate the strongest anti-abortion candidate ever.  A candidate bold enough to strike rape kits from her city’s budget because they contain emergency contraception (the equivalent to a “morning after pill”).

Wouldn’t it be a shame to find out that they are doing all of this based on number four, only to find out later that Monegan and French were divorced a year ago?

Turning the Political Spin Cycle to Tumble

Putting lipstick on a pig, pork barrel spending, ham-fisted politics, ham-handed actions on issues not to mention the omnipresent cloven hooves of presidential politics; all things porcine have returned to us in the 2008 election cycle as the Democrats and Republicans battle over who will make Americans “squeal like a pig” for the next four years.

I became politically aware, unfortunately, at an early age.  It was primarily due to Watergate.  I have seen politicians shoveling their pig poop under dirt with their hind hooves turn into the Clinton-variety, “roll that pork dung into a cigar, lean back, light it with a Chinese bank note and smoke it like a French cigarette”.

That said, this political season has set the pig on it’s ear.  The cowardly media runs nothing but soft-soap articles about Sarah Palin being a “Mom Turned Governor”.  Hockey Mom?  Pig hockey.  Perhaps it was this very environment that led Charlie Gibson to try, in vain, to get Governor Palin to answer one question about any one subject.  Instead all we heard was the shrieking nonsense of a confused yet supremely confident Valkyrie, potentially one cancer-faced Arizona raisin away from sending “military advisers” to Armageddon.

Palin would not give a direct response regarding her position on global warming or the so called “bridge to nowhere”.  Her bizarre WORDS which filled the air were not truly even the answer to some other question.  Gibson, as obviously put out as he was, finally let it go in the way one despairs of chasing a fly.

The next day in the press, even the mainstream press, Gibson was said to have dogged her.  He had beaten her unmercifully, mind you!  From my standpoint it was Gibson who deserved our pity.  It was as if he had gone out on a computer date based solely on the photo then found to his dismay that there was no window in the men’s room from which to flee.

Why was the media so outraged at Gibson’s questions?  Obviously the one about the “Bush Doctrine” seemed obscure, but I’m not applying for the job.  The questions about the “bridge to nowhere” and global warming seemed like fair game.  So why was the press teetering between neutral and defensive?  It’s not like he took her to task on having been the only mayor in Alaska to ever make rape victims pay for their own rape kits…  That would have been sexist.

The press does not take her to task because they are cowards.  They are afraid of the “gender card”.  I read a post earlier today entitled “Is It Sexist to Want the Person Flying Your Plane to Be a Pilot?”  WELL?  IS IT?

Where is the press on Sara Palin?  Where are they on her extreme religious and environmental stances that spill FAR FAR FAR into governmental policy?

Governor Palin has so many connections to so many things that are so anathema to so many that should she fall from favor for even a moment the American media will make sure she is buried at sea.

We can smack our lips all day long about the first amendment, but now that the fifth estate has turned Hollywood the subject seems less relevant.  The Republican Party has noted rightly that Governor Palin is “strong on the Second Amendment”.  That is partly due to the energy she saved by not pausing to read the First.  Once again, if the media is not going to utilize that precious liberty then why should Governor Palin bother reading it.

Sarah Palin believes the world will end in her lifetime.

Is it possible that this belief could inform her decision making?  She says her experience with Russia is better than most peoples because you can “see it from Alaska”.  She thinks Georgia should be allowed into NATO and that we should go to war with Russia to protect Georgia if they are in NATO.

And she can’t even see Georgia from her house…

Maybe the world really will end in her lifetime.

TrooperGate, Sarah Palin and the Law

Over the last seven years or so an idea has floated around America that our civil liberties will best be protected by giving them away immediately.  It is important to remember that goals are reached by moving toward them and not away.

The most high profile of Sarah Palin’s known scandals is referred to as TrooperGate.  That is shorthand for an ongoing ethics investigation into allegations that Governor Palin has abused her power to have her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, removed from his position as an Alaska State Trooper.

The governor’s initial claims that no one in her administration had tried to influence the Trooper’s status quickly morphed into an admission that there were at least 24 contacts between members of her administration and Trooper Wooten’s superiors, especially Walt Monegan, the Public Safety Commissioner who was fired by Palin on July 11, 2008.  Monegan alleged that he was fired from his position because he would not fire Wooten. 

Monegan has turned over to investigators 3 emails he received from Governor Palin referencing Trooper Wooten.  He has declined to turn them over to the press, but he allowed reporters at the Washington Post to view them.

From the Washington Post:

The second e-mail Monegan produced came from Palin’s Yahoo address on July 17, 2007, after the local newspaper publicized a legislative proposal that would keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

Her first thought about the bill, the e-mail said, “went to my ex-brother-in-law, the trooper, who threatened to kill my dad yet was not even reprimanded by his bosses and still to this day carries a gun, of course.”

“We can’t have double standards. Remember when the death threat was reported, and follow-on threats from Mike that he was going to ‘bring Sarah and her family down’ — instead of any reprimand WE were told by trooper union personnel that we’d be sued if we talked about those threats. Amazing.

“So consistency is needed here,” the e-mail said. “No one’s above the law (emphasis added). If the law needs to be changed to not allow access to guns for people threatening to kill someone, it must apply to everyone.”

A recently released recorded phone call from Palin staffer Frank Bailey to one of Wooten’s superirors revealed that Bailey was privy to information regarding Wooten’s background check and a Workman’s Compensation claim.  While Senator McCain and Governor Palin defend having that information due to Wooten’s signing of a waiver releasing his work records during his divorce, Wooten had no rights to records of the background check therefore did not have the legal right to release them to anyone.

Sadly one of the defenses communications of this type used by the Governor and her supporters is that Trooper Wooten is “a bad person”.  One of his fellow troopers, who asked to remain anonymous, said that he would never want to work with Trooper Wooten.

I went through a contentious divorce 17 years ago and I was glad that my in-laws did not hold the strings of my employer.  I am also glad that any co-worker who doesn’t like me does not have their anonymous statements printed in the national media.

Trooper Wooten is an employee of the state.  He is subject to investigation and termination just like any other state employee.  If he is thought worthy of dismissal there is a process to follow for anyone wishing to achieve that end.  Those processes were followed and Trooper Wooten has been given, during his entire employment as a trooper, one suspension of five days.

The saga began on April 11, 2005 when Sarah Palin’s sister filed for a divorce from Trooper Wooten and sought a protecive order restraining him from contact with her or their children.  The protective order was granted while Wooten was out of town.  After it was granted Sarah Palin reported to the State Trooper’s office that Trooper Wooten had just  been ordered to stay away from his family due to domestic violence against her sister.

Within three weeks of his return Wooten was granted a hearing.  At the hearing his parental rights were restored.  The judge said there was no evidence of domestic violence and scolded the trooper’s wife for making false allegations.  Palin’s sister then stated in court that she had taken out a protective order against Wooten due to “pressure from my family”.

While there seems to be a lot of local opinion that Mike Wooten is a jerk who drinks too much, has been divorced 4 times at the age of 35 and is a bully with poor judgment, his work record does not appear to warrant a year-long investigation.  Investigations that extensive are usually reserved for cases where a Trooper has applied deadly force.

Wooten has been a State Trooper for 7 years and is a 10-year veteran of the U. S. Air Force.  Losing his career should be based on objective criteria.  Perhaps Wooten is a poor husband and / or father, but he has been investigated exhaustively, campaigned against by the governor herself and he still has a job… 

That is the difference between a state-wide autocracy and the rule of law.  We cannot deprive Trooper Wooten of his civil rights without endangering our own.

The Stork Visits Alaska

While the Polar Bear may be an endangered species in Alaska, the stork is alive and well at the Governor’s mansion.

While Democrats may consider Governor Palin’s family to be forbidden ground we must all agree that the family is fertile ground.  Indeed, fields so fruitful must surely have been plowed faithfully.

It should be pointed out to the Governor et al that “Abstinence Only” birth control almost always requires “abstinence”.

Very quickly let’s look at Governor Palin’s implementation of the revolutionary concept I’ll call “Semen-Allowed Abstinence”:

1. Sarah and Todd Palin were married on August 29, 1988.  They eloped (ostensibly to save money).

2.  Sarah Palin’s first son, Track Palin, was born on April 20, 1989.

3. 38 weeks is the typical human pregnancy.

4. The time between Palin’s marriage and the birth of her first child was 234 days or 33 weeks (plus three days).

5. Track Palin would have had to have been conceived on the night of the Palin’s wedding just to be born 4 1/2 weeks prematurely….

While that is possible there are even more admirable facets to Governor Palin’s “wonder womb”.  Especially impressive is what I’ll refer to as “Just In Time Bulging”.

There is a lot of current rhetoric out there claiming that “BabyGate” has been debunked.  I would like to present the briefest of all possible “rebunks”.  Here is a video of Sarah Palin, supposedly 7 1/2 months pregnant with her legs crossed, leaning forward, moving her body in a manner that should be seen.  The video alone should convince any skeptic that, no matter who is the mother of Trig Palin, it is NOT Governor Sarah Palin.  You will also notice that given the nature and exposure of the event, the date is not in question.

Link to Video: Sarah Palin at Newsweek forum March, 2008

Obama v. McCain: Where’s the Military Service?

I have seen a number of comments on the internet which cast dispersions upon Barak Obama because he did not spend time in the armed forces. These same postings tend to paint John McCain as a war hero. Let’s examine both viewpoints:

Obama is two years younger than me. When we were young men there was no war and no draft. Obama, much better than myself, stayed busy with the social problems in his own back yard.

If you will read McCain’s autobiography “Faith of My Fathers” you will see that, by his own account, he was one of the most miserable collaborators in North Viet Nam. The rest of the story is easily summed up in DOD intercepts of things such as McCain’s Radio Hanoi broadcasts to American troops which were heard by his own father and his voice verified by the DOD.

Although he soft-sells it in his book he also admits to it since the truth has already been obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. It would be all over the press if people were not so “war hero” defensive.

Barak Obama and any other person who responds to the immediate problems of their generation is a hero, especially if they are willing to start in their own back yard.

On the other hand anyone who finished at the bottom of his class at Annapolis, then got a position as Navy Pilot due to his father and grandfather both being four star admirals, then ditching at least two jets for no reason along with two more jets for good reason cannot use those particular events to claim the title of hero.

McCain was a drunken, layabout, adulterer who lived off his Dad’s reputation. He was coddled as a POW and actually says in his autobiography that, “at my request I was transferred to another camp”. That is his full explanation for why he was immediately (after medical treatment) moved from the “Hanoi Hilton” to the show camp called “The Plantation”. I wonder if the other POWs knew that one could simply request to leave the Hanoi Hilton….

The objective in war is not to be captured and treated like “The Prince” as the Viet Cong called him. The objective is to win. John McCain was an incompetent who folded like a cheap umbrella when captured. His revelation of the Navy’s package routes led to the end of Hanoi bombing because of the sharply increased pilot deaths.

Barak Obama entered public service at the right place and right time. He never became a “war hero”, but neither did Senator McCain. Obama’s claim to fame in the military sense is that he, unlike McCain, did not betray secret military reporting structures, did not willingly give military secrets to the Cubans and the French Communists.

So, if anyone thinks Obama should have found a way to spend 5 1/2 years as a POW during peacetime it is only right that that person vote for McCain. McCain could become a POW in any situation.

I don’t know if it’s true that the other nickname the Viet Cong gave to McCain was “Songbird”, but I do know that he went a lot further in collaborating with the enemy than 95% of his peers.

Obama’s “Not Exactly’s”

Several months back I received an email from a family member. The email was entitled “Obama’s “Not Exactly’s”". This family member was asking me and all other recipients of her email if we knew what, if anything, in the email was true. I did a good deal of research and would like to share these replies since they strike at the core of unfounded accusations against Senator Obama.In each case the text shown in bold type is the “Obama statement” the writer is about to attack. All text shown below that and in italics is the writer’s attack upon that purported statement. Below that, in plain text is my response:

I Never Practiced Islam . . .
NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.

Facts: Obama married married his wife Michelle on October 3, 1991. They had known each other for less than two years. The press has made it very clear that he attended a Christian church for the last 20 years. Obama only met his wife in 1989. Whether it was a good or bad Christian church is not relevant when considering the question of whether he practiced the Muslim faith until he was thirty-one years old. He is only forty-six years old now. He clearly was a member of a Christian church when he was twenty six if not before. He was also clearly a member for over a year before he met Michelle.

I Was A Professor Of Law . . .
NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

Fact: This is patently untrue. Here is the statement regarding Barak Obama from the University of Chicago Law School regarding Obama (the statement is shown here in its entirety and is publicly available at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html):

“Statement Regarding Barack Obama The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.” From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.”

I Was A Constitutional Lawyer . . .
NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

Fact: Ditto. See above.

My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian . . .
NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5 AM according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.

Fact: Like most of us Obama has two grandmothers. His maternal grandmother, 84-year old Madlyn Dunham was a devout Methodist from Missouri. This is key since it was this grandmother who raised Obama from the time he was ten.

Obama’s parents divorced when he was two years old. He has only seen his father a few times since then. His mother rejected organized religion. On a side note, Obama’s real paternal grandmother died a number of years ago. The lady who is being portrayed so often in the press, and in the above statement is simply the second wife of his grandfather.

I Was Fluent In Indonesian . . .
NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

Observation: This is inconsistent with other statements in the same email. To say he went to Muslim school and also insist that he did not speak Indonesian seems shaky. There is another statement below indicating that Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer with a perfect accent. I am not sure who went around and talked to all of his teachers, especially the ones in Jakarta, but given that his parents were fluent speakers of English he may have easily been, like many children, bilingual.

I Want Americans To Decide . . .
NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

Fact: The word “prefer” is out of place here. Obama wins caucuses. I imagine he also likes to win primaries. He did not invent the system he simply made plans to work within it, even after Super Tuesday.

No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA . . .
NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.

Fact: The above referenced memo was written by Joseph DeMora, who works at the Canadian consulate in Chicago. All members of the Canadian Government involved have said that the details in the memo are not factual. The Canadian Embassy in Washington has issued statements refuting the “ham-handed” (their words) writing and irresponsibility of the writer, their own appointed official.

My Economics Bill Will Help America . .
NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.

Fact: The key word here is “combined”. Obama did not vote against his own bill willful. He voted against the entire bill. What else was in the bill? Maybe the bill had been padded with more pork than a pig farm. It’s very possible that Senator McCain had added funding for a bridge in the Arizona desert…

I Have Released My State Records . . .
NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

Fact: These things are, obviously, a matter of public record for all to see. How else could people know about all of the “Present” votes? The idea that the votes of elected government officials are kept hidden takes the cake for STUPID, even in THIS email…

I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year . . .
NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

Fact: If Obama introduced the bills then they are his. If a fellow Senator wrote 26 bills then took none of the credit he or she must be a remarkable person, especially in the highly competitive world of politics.