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Obama’s fingerprints all over Gloria Allred’s latest stunt

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Gloria Allred may well be the lawyer, as per TMZ, attempting to unseal the divorce records of “Staples co-founder Tom Stemberg and his first wife Maureen”, but the move has Barack Obama’s fingerprints all over it.  As Sarah Hoyt, blogging at Instapundit, reminds us unsealing private records is the Democrat’s signature move.

He did it twice in his 2004 race for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois, first against his strongest primary opponent, Blair Hull, then against Republican nominee Jack Ryan.  Now, to be sure, it was the Chicago Tribune, not Mr. Obama (or his team) who filed suit to unseal the records, but it does seem interesting that, in both cases, the paper was looking into sealed information about that Democrat’s opponent.

Indeed, about the Hull matter, the New York Times did report that, “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.”   Do hope some people ask Miss Allred today whether or not David Axelrod had asked her to purse this matter.  And why she waited until just two weeks before the general election to do so.

Ace, who has looked at the details of the case in question, a divorce settlement from 1986, doesn’t “really see the Romney angle, except in extremely contrived fashion.”  (Read the whole to see why.)  Trying to figure out what Mr. Romney’s testimony in a 26-year-old divorce case have to do with his ability to govern the United States of America.

And since we’re talking about sealed records from the 1980s. . . .

UPDATE:  Yup, his fingerprints are on it:

UP-UPDATE: Looks like Mitt’s testimony may have been from 1991.

Comments

  1. Lovely lady, Maureen Stemberg:

    “He is beyond disgusting and vulgar! Is that a Mormon thing or a man without any morals??? Oh in Mitts case it’s both…”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Maureen_Stemberg/mitt-romney-ted-kenney-gop-debate-new-hampshire_n_1192326_127866271.html

    he went on a MISSION in France, trying to convince innocent people to become Mormans.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Maureen_Stemberg/mitt-romney-compares-pres_n_1175230_126262590.html

  4. 1 just how does a divorce from the 1980’s have any bearing on whether Romney can be president?

    2. Unsealing divorce records of uninvolved parties is crass and offensive (by uninvolved I mean at least the unsealed divorce papers involved the divorces of the actual candidates-here Romney seems to play the role of witness).

    3. I don’t really see people being impressed by Obama or his surrogates on this one. Dragging two people into this who are uninvolved really makes Obama look desperate and ruthless.

    Also if this is all they have for an October surprise Obama’s campaign is likely sunk.

  5. “Now, to be sure, it was the Chicago Tribune, not Mr. Obama (or his team) who filed suit to unseal the records…”

    It tells you everything you need to know about the Tribune that it would be willing to do the dirty work of a dirty politician. May its financial collapse be a painful one.

  7. And since we’re talking about sealed records from the 1980s. . . .

    I think the massive double standard involved in Obama having SO MANY sealed records, while attempting to unseal others’, speaks again to His basic narcissism.

  8. if this is all they have for an October surprise Obama’s campaign is likely sunk

    Agreed. I thought yesterday that their October surprise was going to be the revelation that Obama has some sort of positive agenda for a second term.

  9. Romney is ancillary to the Staples CEO’s divorce from his wife; this is nothing. It’s a desperation ploy from the imploding Obama campaign. The bottom has fallen out & Team Obama is panicking. #FAIL

  10. What’s the point of having “sealed” records if any clown off the street to sue to unseal them? Seems like there has to be a legitimate interest to a wounded party. Any lawyers know the answer?

  11. #7 Agreed, completely laughable that Obama has spent millions concealing his personal record and history and the media (while combing through every personal email of Sarah Palin when she was no longer a candidate) has not tried to access any of Obama’s sealed records. Really? And now they are trying to unseal divorce records of the owners of a company that Romney helped grow? Where is the curiousity about Obama, the man with the NUCLEAR football? I will never ever trust the media again about anything. Every story has a bias and now we see they cannot be trusted to cover one side of the aisle. Remember the nightly death toll that ran while Bush was president? Has anyone seen a story about the fact that over 60% of the deaths in Afghanistan have come since Obama was president and tightened the ROE??? Of course not.

  12. Obama’s 1st executive order was to seal all of his records; all President Romney has to do is cancel all of Obama’s executive orders with a stroke of a pen. Obama’s past would be exposed. People want to what Obama is hiding.

  14. This is patently stupid and ridiculous. Gloria needs to go back to chasing ambulances or whatever it is she does. You can’t compare a decades old divorce case to Benghazi, especially with the revelation of the emails and such…. Even Reuters had something to say about that.

  17. Scumbags
    The pos that is destroying the white house from within really deserves his legion of retarded fanboys. They are made for each other. Both completely deprived of human dignity

  20. TMZ has full coverage. Many details have already been revealed. Did Romney help to impoverish his friend’s exwife? It doesn’t look good, but it also isn’t his responsibility. Romney needs to stay ahead of the story to win it.