A Thoroughly Incurious Press

An email has been circulated recently to the effect that the following list of things from Barack Hussein Obama's background are missing, unreleased, or unavailable. I have not personally researched these things, but am given to believe that this list is generally accurate:

1. Occidental College records.............................unreleased
2. Columbia College records..............................unreleased
3. Columbia Thesis paper..................................unavailable
4. Harvard College records.................................unreleased
5. Selective Service Registration........................unreleased
6. Medical records..............................................unreleased
7. Illinois State Senate schedule........................unavailable
8. Illinois State Senate records..........................unavailable
9. Law practice client list...................................unreleased
10. Record of baptism.........................................unavailable
11. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate....unreleased
12. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth...............................................................unreleased
13. Anything published as editor of the Harvard Law Review..........................................................unavailable
14. Anything written as a Professor at the University of Chicago.........................................................unavailable

I will correct this list if it is brought to my attention that any of this is incorrect, but if this list is even remotely correct, setting aside for the moment any consideration of Mr. Obama's right to privacy versus the public's right to certain public records, the more interesting questions to me are:

1. How can it be that in a nation with a "free" and "independent" press, these things could not have been investigated, and if truly missing or unavailable, could have been almost completely ignored by all of the leading news media?
2. What does it say about the American voters that someone with such a well-hidden past could be elected to the most powerful position in the nation, in light of such apparent media complicity to cover up for him?

Having read recently a book titled "The Debates on the Constitution," and other works about the vigorous debate just prior to the drafting of our "Declaration of Independence," I cannot help but conclude that the posterity of the men and women who sacrificed so much to give birth to this great nation, has not been well served by their descendants of late. They would surely be shocked at our incuriosity and intellectual laziness.

I am nearly left as thoroughly at a loss for words, as Mr. Obama seems to be completely at a loss for any record of his prior existence.

Is this some "Matrix"-like life-imitating-art? In which case, just exactly whose imagination is he a figment of?

ps: The essay I wrote 10/16/08, just before the election, about Mr. Obama being a cultural chameleon, still seems rather appropriate: http://bit.ly/gsOo4