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Obama’s unreleased documents not nearly as shiny as Romney’s*

July 18, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt

Just as the Obama campaign so helpfully reminded their friends in the legacy media that Mitt Romney has not released more tax returns that they deem appropriate, Joel Pollak of Breitbart offers a “top ten list of things that Obama has refused to release“.

Now that Pollak has spared these journalists the efforts of finding out just what Mr. Obama is keeping under wraps, we can expect a whole raft of stories speculating about what the Democrat is keeping secret — and editorials imploring Mr. Obama to be more open.

The missing items include:

10. State senate papers. In the 2008 primary, Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for not releasing papers from her eight years as First Lady–but failed to produce any papers from his eight years in Springfield. “They could have been thrown out,” he said.

9. Academic transcripts. His supposed academic brilliance was a major selling point, but Obama (by his own admission) was a mediocre student. His GPA at Occidental was aB-plus at best, and his entering class at Columbia was weak. Can he prove his merit?

8. Book proposal. Obama’s literary agent claimed he was “born in Kenya”–for sixteen years. His original book proposal exists–biographer David Maraniss refers to it–and seems to have embellished other key details of his life. Yet it has never been released.

7. Medical records. In 2000, and again (briefly) in 2008, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain released thousands of pages of his medical records. Obama, who had abused drugs and continued smoking, merely provided a one-page doctor’s note.

*to the legacy media

Filed Under: 2012 Presidential Election, Democrats & Double Standards, Liberal Hypocrisy, Media Bias

Comments

  1. Serenity says

    July 18, 2012 at 5:54 pm - July 18, 2012

    Can’t believe the Republicans seem to be letting the Democrats outmanoeuvre them on what’s usually their forte: The Soundbite War.

    The Democrats chant “Show us the tax returns Mitt!” and “What’s he hiding?”. You’re like “Where’s your state senate papers, academic transcripts, original book proposal, medical records, and six other miscellaneous documents Obama?”.

    Less is more. Usually it’s the Republicans who get this and the Democrats struggling to counter with overly verbose responses. Seeing it be the other way around this time is surely not a good omen.

  2. Bastiat Fan says

    July 18, 2012 at 6:06 pm - July 18, 2012

    And the winner of this episodes prize for BEST CONCERN TROLL is:

    ….Senility.

  3. Rattlesnake says

    July 18, 2012 at 7:03 pm - July 18, 2012

    I hate politics. If there was a way to ensure the only people who could vote are people who relied on more than “soundbites” to decide who to vote for, I would support it.

  4. SoCalRobert says

    July 18, 2012 at 7:49 pm - July 18, 2012

    Rattlesnake – don’t get your hopes up. Washington state is ramping up to let people register to vote using Facebook.

    No chance for fraud there. Nope. And no need to get up off one’s ass to print a PDF form and mail it in or wonder down to the tag office to fill out the form.

  5. V the K says

    July 18, 2012 at 7:55 pm - July 18, 2012

    Any chance Mitt Romney’s tax returns will reveal he sold guns to Mexican drug lords?

  6. Bastiat Fan says

    July 19, 2012 at 12:19 am - July 19, 2012

    V the K:

    I’m pretty sure we’d know about that by now if it happened. Debbie Blabbermouth Schmutz would be on the dinosaur media 24/7 making sure of it.

  7. North Dallas Thirty says

    July 19, 2012 at 1:05 am - July 19, 2012

    The Democrats chant “Show us the tax returns Mitt!” and “What’s he hiding?”.

    Comment by Serenity — July 18, 2012 @ 5:54 pm – July 18, 2012

    No worries; that meme is in the process of going bye-bye.

    Rep. Nancy Pelosi was emphatic. Mitt Romney’s refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, she said, makes him unfit to win confirmation as a member of the president’s Cabinet, let alone to hold the high office himself.

    Sen. Harry Reid went farther: Romney’s refusal to make public more of his tax records makes him unfit to be a dogcatcher.

    They do not, however, think that standard of transparency should apply to them. The two Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both parties who refused to release their tax records. Just 17 out of the 535 members of Congress released their most recent tax forms or provided some similar documentation of their tax liabilities in response to requests from McClatchy over the last three months. Another 19 replied that they wouldn’t release the information, and the remainder never responded to the query.

    So here’s the new one: Pelosi and Reid’s actions prove they are tax cheats.

    And when you start screaming and bawling, hypocrite Pomposity, you will only demonstrate what lying, hypocritical bigots you, your Pelosi, your Reid, and your Barack Obama are.

    You are so easily trapped in this fashion because you have never before been held accountable for your lies. However, the media’s instinct for self-preservation is kicking in, and they realize that their covering up for your lies only destroys their own credibility, their own earning potential, and their own futures.

  8. Rattlesnake says

    July 19, 2012 at 1:46 am - July 19, 2012

    Rattlesnake – don’t get your hopes up. Washington state is ramping up to let people register to vote using Facebook.

    Ugh. WTF could that possibly accomplish? Oh yeah, Washington state is controlled by Democrats.

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