Why Won't Obama Release Any Documents?

I have no idea about the residency issue, what bothers me is that Obama won't release medical records, college transcripts, etc. Any other candidate would be hounded on that by the media. But not Obama. I wonder about the medical records, especially.

Did he ever use IV drugs? Has he ever had treatment for addiction, including methadone maintenance? h/t American Thinker

Comments

[BobinStamford]

You're a sad, angry man.

You need a black president.

[b.h. blamalamma]

ah don' reeleese no dockaments because i ain't GOT none, cracka! leavin' a paper trail is RACIST and only fo' WHITE peeples, know what ah'm sayin'??

like the sockpuppet says what he's paid to say: you muthas needs a black predizent, and ah'm gonna give it to you good and hod.

y'all might wanna short the market some mo'. word is they think i'd be bad news.

[The Other Ed]

This Philip Berg is an idiot. Hawaii already certified that the Live Birth Certificate is accurate and that Obama is a citizen and any first year law student knows that Obama's father could not waive Obama's U.S. citizenship. Only the person involved can renounce their own citizenship and even then, not until after they were an adult. The reason the DNC and Obama aren't responding to this guy is because he's a crank. Is there anyone here who will bet me their own money that this isn't thrown out?

[Tregonsee]

And to think we used to believe that Bill Clinton was secretive. He is the only president in modern times to use a private physician rather than the normal Navy doctor. That way, his medical history could be kept confidential. All the conjectures about Obama were made in that case, though of course we will probably not know until after Clinton's death, if then. Perhaps should we be afflicted with a President Obama, he can get the name of a good, discrete physician from Bill.

[Nikolay]

Hahaha, that's really desperate. You believe you will be saved from Obama by the conspiracy theorist that believes that Bush was responsible for 9/11?
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2007/01/philip-j-berg-nutbar-supreme.html
Illuminati freakin' TV, for God's sake!

Now what does David Icke say about Obama??

[joeb]

So when the One becomes Prez will any criticism of him be called racist?
Stock market decline mirrors decline in McCain's polls. No Republican can win in a bad economy. Bush Sr. lost in 1992 because of a bad economy,the con job of Slick Willie and the 19 per cent that went to Ross Perot. But it was the stagnant bad economy that gave us William Jefferson Clinton. We
got 8 years of that liar so we got 8 years of Bush#2. Now the people are hurting economically again and they want some change and some hope. And they are betting the farm on The One. Happy Days Are Here Again. Or so they think it will be. Remember Boob Support Our Troops. They keep you and Mrs. Bob safe in Stamford. I suspect we will all be glad when this election is over. It has gone on way too long. Seems like 2 years or more.
It will be fun to watch the Press and MSM turn on The One about 6 months after he is elected.

[mary]

Don't worry, he'll immediately pass laws which will allow him to jail any journalist who dares to criticize him. And, if he can't get the law passed he will just write an executive order. They will be shaking their heads the MSM, here they thought they would curry favor in the new banana republic and now this. Can no one be trusted.

[URBuddy]

So, the BHO campaign and the DNC are spending money fighting a court case that would "go away" as soon as BHO produced the documents in question. But he/they don't. Why? All that wasted money could be used on campaign expenses, such as another 1/2 hour on the tee vee.

For all you non-legal types, a birth certificate is a wholly different document than the certificate of live birth that BHO has put on his website.

[MarkJ]

BoobinStamford,

"You're a sad, angry man.

You need a black president."

What the hell makes you an expert on what anybody needs? Hey, maybe YOU need a swift kick up your poop-chute. Ever think of that, Super Genius?

[mary]

I hate to point this out but the guy is as much white as he is black. For some reason I just don't understand why he didn't embrace his white side. Thinking about is giving me a complex. I mean why doesn't he want to be considered white, what's wrong in his mind with being white?

[tjproudamerican]

All Conservatives need to drop everything else and put their faith in this law suit. Once America sees how vigilant McCain's Supporter's are, how engrossed in the important matters that concern Americans, we will see real movement in McCain's numbers.

And once the Panamanian vote comes in, when people learn that McCain was born in Panama, we will see a Landslide.

P.S. Is it possible that "Obama" is a Space Traveler, who wants to deliver us up to Martians? We just don't know.

keep asking the questions and keep shouting at Rallies!

We MUST not be silenced!!!!!!

[skeptical]

I don't now which is more stupid, Obama releasing a doctor's summary, or McCain giving a limited number of reporters three hours with a thousand pages, and no doctor among them.

I'd still put my money (if I had any left) on the younger guy who's a smoker outlasting the older guy whose a cancer survivor.

Andrew Sullivan is still yelling about the lack of birth certificate for Palin's infant. He's convinced this is important, like maybe it's an alien or the Devil's spawn or something.

I'd love to see Obama's school records next to both McCain/Palin. And whoever's grades Joe provides.

[ron]

Mccain has not allowed a meaningful release of medical records. To proovide 1200 pages to reporters and giving them only 3 hours for review, with no photocopying allowed, certainly implies he is hiding something. The pages were not even numbered, making it harded to determine if pages may have been left out. In addition, Mccain has sealed his POW debriefing records and those of other POWs whowere with him-why would he do that?

[Dennis D]

McCains POW records are unimportant. We know where he was and why he was there. His fellow POWs like Col Bud Day support John McCain.

[blackandwhitemixed]

"I hate to point this out but the guy is as much white as he is black. For some reason I just don't understand why he didn't embrace his white side. Thinking about is giving me a complex. I mean why doesn't he want to be considered white, what's wrong in his mind with being white?"

Mary, I hate to have to point this out to you, but the way this thing works is that as long as his skin shows color, he will be considered black, even if BOTH parents were white. It happens 100% of the time and that is just how it (this country in particular) goes. He IS white and his whiteness shows. That is why he enjoys so much white support, and its really a good thing. However, if he were plain ole American black as is the case with Michelle, he would not be where he is today and would have the same venom and hatred spewed toward him as Michelle endures daily. If you were black, you would understand this as one of those simple facts of life and learn to enjoy life and pray for those whose tolerance is so restricted. BTW, I truly appreciate your voicing that thought.

[Lala]

Here's what a NY cop has to say about Ayers -

"Sorry, not buying any soft-selling of Ayers terrorist history. He AND his wife were responsible for injuries and deaths. When that townhouse blew up there was an unexploded bomb the size of a basketbal and it had about 12-15 lbs. of TNT. Also there were roofing nails covering the outside to act as schrapnel when it went off. An anti-personnel device that was to be placed in the NCO club at Fort Dix. they were also responsible for 3 firebombs that went off at the judge in a black panther case. His wife and 3 young children were home and luckily no one was hurt. He got off on a technicality and his comment was "guilty as hell and free as a bird, gotta love this country!"

[ireckun]

IF it's no big deal then why not just release it to the court, end of case if it's legit.
There is so much that Obama doesn't want the public to know about his past that the guy is just creepy.
I want to know more about his grayed out past before the election. He's hiding something important.
Color me suspicious.

[mary]

Can someone please tell me where I may read the letter of certification from Hawaii? TIA

"Hawaii already certified that the Live Birth Certificate is accurate"

[Lala]

Mary,
You can't because it's not true - they are talking about a Certification of Live Birth which is different

http://suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2008/06/kos-tries-to-pa.html

excerpt

In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL.

[Magic Dog]

McCain has never released his birth certificate, or his full medical records, or his college transcripts, "etc."

[mary]

Magic Dog, I don't understand, so Michael Steele was absolutely on point when he said that Barack could not qualify for any government job, yet he is running for the most important government job of them all. This is totally bizarre.

I have a friend who says his background feels like he is the witness protection program. He keeps saying this and I wondered why, now I know, since you can't find out anything about the guy, guess my friend drew this conclusion.

[JEB]

I’m curious, how come someone working as a government contractor is required to go through a security background check to make sure they’re not a security risk, but someone, who if elected, will have access to all our government secrets doesn’t? Does being elected to the Senate or Congress make a person more trustworthy then the average person? The direction our country is going I would like to know before November 4th rather the after January 20th that the person we’re electing to the highest position in our country wasn’t being groomed for this position for other reasons than to make our country a better place to live.

[Lala]

McCain's birth certificate is here -

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/mccains-citizen.html

Reporters got to see his medical records

We know his rank in his class

Now, Obama is fighting the release of his birth certificate, his medical record is one page and is equivalent to a "note from the doctor". He graduated Harvard magna cum laude which doesn't tell us much as where he stood in the class ranking.

[mary]

Fox just said that they are repeating the Chris Wallace program with both campaign managers at 6 pm eastern time.

[North Dallas Thirty]

"I don't now which is more stupid, Obama releasing a doctor's summary, or McCain giving a limited number of reporters three hours with a thousand pages, and no doctor among them."

That wasn't the case.

"About 20 reporters-- including CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta and NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman -- were allowed to enter a room at the resort in the back of the Alchemy restaurant."

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/mccains_health_records.php

[BobinStamford]

Hahaha!!! The questions enquiring mouth-breathers as are funny!!! Why not wonder why the decrepit old man is down 7-11 points. I'd start there. And be sure to enjoy the next 100 days. It's going to be all downhill for you patriots from there!!

Semper Fi!!

Surge on!!

[Son of a Pig and a Monkey]

BobinShitford:

Obama's LSAT scores, please. Anywhere close to the rest of his entering class at HLS? I don't know. Why doesn't the sainted one tell us, you dipshit?

[Spartan112]

"He graduated Harvard magna cum laude which doesn't tell us much as where he stood in the class ranking.

Posted by: Lala | "

Actually if you knew any Latin you'd know this tells us quite a bit about his class standing. It may not lay out his grades specifically but according to Harvard to achieve Magna distinction one must be in the top 20% of his/her class and not have been recommended for Summa distinction. How is this hard to understand?

[Lala]

Well, Sparky, you are wrong. Look up Harvard's grading system and you will see.

[tjproudamerican]

This is the winning issue.

Keep pushing it.

This is what Americans care about, not the "stock market" or "the credit collapse".

McCain was born in Panama, which makes him a real American. Who knows where Obama was born? Perhaps Baghdad, or North Korea.

Good issue and very intelligent conversation.

[Spartan112]

Well, Sparky, you are wrong. Look up Harvard's grading system and you will see.

Posted by: Lala |

Actually I did...and it's you who is wrong.

http://www.college.harvard.edu/academics/resources/honors_faqs.html

And actually the law school puts the number at 10%.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/ocs/employers/HLS_Grading_System.htm

[Lala]

Sparko you said Magna was 20 percent, that's wrong.
So, Magna is 10 percent of the class, first deducting Summa, the A students. How many in the class?
Was Obama the bottom of the Magna or the top? Did Harvard grade on a curve? So many questions.

[chris]

Let's see:

Harvard Law+Magna Cum Laude > Angry old man at the bottom of his class+Crashed 5 planes

All this thinking and questions. Why not just go to the mall?

[Spartan112]

Sparko you said Magna was 20 percent, that's wrong.
So, Magna is 10 percent of the class, first deducting Summa, the A students. How many in the class?
Was Obama the bottom of the Magna or the top? Did Harvard grade on a curve? So many questions.

Posted by: Lala | Monday, October 13, 2008 at 08:14 AM

Actually it's likely that those graduating "Magna" are A students as well...as for being wrong...ok you're right, its even harder to graduate Magna from HSL then I first stated. I'll gladly be wrong in that case.

[seekeronos]

So Obama's an egghead.

We have a certain penchant for electing eggheads who then by virtue of their self-indulged "brightness", wind up getting us into deeper hock than before.

Other noteworthy egghead presidents include Woodrow Wilson, who got us mired in WW1 - which had the downrange effect of Hitler and Stalin rising to power...

... and JFK and LBJ, whose wisdom (and party) lead to our eventual defeat in Vietnam.

Don't get me wrong: I want a president to be as smart, if not smarter than the average American. And in most cases, they usually are.

The difference between the eggheads and the non-eggheads is that the eggheads are generally so convinced of their usefulness to society, that they think they know what is best - often indulging in paternalistic excesses to a tragic fault.

And the worst kind of egghead is a Lefty egghead... I'd much sooner have a VDH (Victor Davis Hanson) than a BHO (Barack Hussein Obama) being the egghead in chief, if we simply must have eggheads running/ruining (... <- ah, the difference of a letter!!) this nation.

[Diane]

'Sounds like lame haters to me. Barack is brilliant, well-educated and articulate, yet down to earth and compassionate. Well prepared, well-educated blacks historically have met with resentment and hatred. Obama-Biden '08!

[Terry]

Amazing reading how ingnorant a lot of Obama supporters are. Remember, when you call people racists, it normally means your are not smart enough to have an intelectual conversation. Obama clearly has something to hide as by revealing this information it will make all of this go away. Why aren't you Obama supporters asking the same thing?? Most Obama supporters simply won't take the time to investigate their own candidate. Could it be that racism is making sharp 180?? You are like sheep being led to the slaughter. BAH>>> BAH>>> BAH>>> or OBAAAAAAAAAAAAAHMA Good luck with your choice, you thought Bush was bad....just wait and see what is in store for you.