Friday, October 24, 2008

Obama: Most Secretive Democratic Candidate Ever

This stuff is really scary.
Are we really going to elect someone we know absolutely nothing about...
He only talks when reading a TelePrompter, he has not taken any questions from the media since the beginning of September, they are going to lock Biden up and not let him talk
Because they can not let it slip who they really are...it is infuriating.
Show who you really are and see if you can get elected...

I think Obama has A LOT to hide, if the American people knew everything about him they would be scared out of their minds. The little we have found out about the real Obama is enough to get many to wake up. Can we find out just a little more about the real Obama before it is too late?

Obama has released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hands, released what he said was his complete medical file totaling more than 1500 pages. After criticism on the matter, last week the Obama campaign also released some routine lab-test results and electrocardiograms for Obama. All test results appeared normal, but many details about his health remain a mystery.

Obama has refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois, and has been unable to produce correspondence, such as letters from lobbyists and other correspondence from his days in the Illinois state senate. There are also no appointment calendars available of his official activities. “It could have been thrown out,” Obama said while on the campaign trail during the Democratic primary. “I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite some time.”

Obama has not released his client list as an attorney or his billing records. Obama has maintained that he only performed a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June. But he has not released billing records that would prove this assertion.

Obama won’t release his college records from Occidental College where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia.

Obama’s campaign refuses to give Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Such transcripts would list the courses Obama took, and his grades. President George W. Bush, and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry, all released their college transcripts. (McCain has refused to release his Naval Academy transcript.)

Obama’s college dissertation has simply disappeared from Columbia Universities archives. In July, in response to a flurry of requests to review Obama’s senior thesis at the Ivy League school, reportedly titled “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told NBC News “We do not have a copy of the course paper you requested and neither does Columbia University.”

The senator has not agreed to the release of his application to the Illinois state bar, which would clear up intermittent allegations that his application to the bar may have been inaccurate.
Jim Geraghty of the National Review has written extensively about Obama’s unwillingness to release records related to clients he represented while he was an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill, and Gallard. Obama was required to list his clients during his years in the Illinois senate. “Obama listed every client of the firm,” Geraghty reported, making it impossible to discern which clients he represented.

Obama has never released records from his time at Harvard Law School.

Obama also has not disclosed the names of small donors giving $200 or less to his campaign. An exception to the finance-reporting laws exempts the campaign from reporting those who donate less than $200, but that law never envisioned the more than $300 million that has been raised by Obama in small amounts. The Republican National Committee has released its small donors, as well as McCain’s, on a public database.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"He only talks when reading a TelePrompter, he has not taken any questions from the media since the beginning of September, they are going to lock Biden up and not let him talk
Because they can not let it slip who they really are...it is infuriating.
Show who you really are and see if you can get elected..."

You could just as easily be referencing Bush/Cheney. You don't seem to have a problem with their secretive ways.

Anonymous said...

Most secretive? Yes, didn't you know that he was a terrorist planning to destroy America? Oh man!!

So much for debate on policies. Even McCain supporter like me find this disgusting.

jhbowden said...

"Are we really going to elect someone we know absolutely nothing about..."

We know a lot about Obama. Obama has a juicy voting record down in Springfield, and has laid out an agenda with clarity and conviction. Instead of challenging Obama's ideas and record directly, we challenge his patriotism. D'oh!

This is why the Ayers and Wright attacks haven't worked-- we have not established a narrative about Obama being a typical hack Chicago politician. The Dems control EVERYTHING here in Illinois; where is the workers' utopia? Where is the change? People like Obama are a dime-a-dozen here in Crook County. /rant

Anonymous said...

"This is why the Ayers and Wright attacks haven't worked--"

who says?

it's not as though americans have been made to feel it's wise to discuss their transgressions in the public square, without fear of reprisal

that doesn't mean folks don't go home, talk amongst themselves privately during quiet moments

not every rumination has to be publicly validated to have validity

"we have not established a narrative about Obama being a typical hack Chicago politician"

because effete pseudo-intellectual
elitists, who pervade so-called "conservative" circles as perniciously as they do the left, are incapable of contributing to any sort of pragmatic dialogue

it's about the scholars, the tomes, all the same tired seances with the muse, which those of us "defectors" who were forced out of our own party had no use for, particularly when we'd had four decades of it on our own side

therefore, we stepped into the void, successfully painting the chicago dem machine as a seething amalgam of every conceivable bad stereotype of Tammany-style patronage, Detroit-style "we-be-thuggin'" tactics, Oakland's blinding ethnic hatreds, with nods to everyone from Sacco and Vanzetti and Erich Honecker, but you weren't listening

"conservatives" on the line at that point were thoroughly embroiled with fetuses in wombs and how tragic it was that mccain was really just a rino, after all

we realized instantly that the "chicago machine" and the "chicago school" were two sides of the same counterfeit coin, because we were open to neocon pleas regarding ayers, dohrn, frank marshall davis, wright, pfleger, farrakhan, all legitimate game-changers that could be yoked together, and successfully exploited

this is real life, no one wants to be lectured to about ponderous theories, they want the benefits and dangers spelled out clearly, without your vaseline on the lens

were it not for democratic support of mccain, and the clarity, directness, and substance of sarah palin, barky would have a thirty-five point lead now

i am the "kingmaker" now

jhbowden said...

"and the clarity, directness, and substance of sarah palin"

Unfortunately, the words 'Palin' and 'substance' do not belong in the same sentence.

I've never been a fan of primitivsm. On the right, we see the blind enthusiasm of the evangelical McReligions with their supersized congregrations-- they think since they really, really love Jesus, they are the real Muricans and everyone else is a Terra-iss. The left, of course, finds authority in the tribe (multiculturalism) and nature worship (environmentalist mysticism.)

Sarah Palin is a typical example of rightwing primitivism. She's an ignorant Pentacostal that believes in witchcraft, and gosh darn'it, thinks Alaska is going to be a refuge state at the end of times. The linked footage to Palin proves it. This stuff makes the claims about Palin's creationism and book banning seem trivial.

Obama, to his credit, has ideas-- the orthodox dogma of the New Left for the last fifty years. Sure, even though Obama doesn't know how many states are in the Union, I can imagine him sipping wine with Bill Ayers in Hyde Park having a routine conversation about Marcuse and alienation as they eat their overpriced vegetables purchased at Whole Foods.

Anonymous said...

"Sarah Palin is a typical example of rightwing primitivism. She's an ignorant Pentacostal that believes in witchcraft, and gosh darn'it, thinks Alaska is going to be a refuge state at the end of times..."

imho, a quick review of the theological views of chicago clergymen wright, pfleger, moss, farrakhan, etc. and the good burghers of hyde park tell me everything i need to know about where true "witchcraft" and "refuge states" are located, nationally