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Obama's Signiture Move: Unsealing Private Records

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Obama's principle campaign strategy, used in 100% of his previous campaigns, is to pry into and exploit the private records of his opponents.

He became a US Senator by ripping open the sealed divorce records of his 2 opponents, first in the primary and then in the general election, with the help of the Chicago Tribune, former employer of David Axelrod.

He did the same thing with the Presidential election, exploiting private records of both McCain and Palin.

But now Obama is in a pickle with Romney, a Dudley Do Right, non drinking, non smoking, happily married man. He's got nothing to work with.

Obama has to get hold of Romney's tax records so that they can be distorted and lied about. Any feature of the records that's the least bit unusual is ripe for claims of malfeasance, and some people are likely to eat it up whether it actually makes sense or not.

OBAMA'S SIGNATURE MOVE: UNSEALING PRIVATE RECORDS
 
The next thing we'll probably see is Romney's horse coming under attack.
 
ann coulter??? :lamo :lamo
 
yup. after the "outsourcing" lies, is anyone really astonished that Romney has no intention of giving Obama more fodder?


note to Democrats: Republicans are not obligated to do your opposition research for you. I realize that the media has always filled this function in the past, and their failure this election explains the bumbling idiocy as you attempt to do it yourself, but ya'll are really going to need to learn to act like grown-ups.
 
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Chicago gangster on the campaign trail.
 
but hey, in the meantime, how does it feel to watch the guy you supported in 2008 because he was Hope and Change and a New Kind of Politician who was going to Change Washington run in 2012 solely on the politics of personal destruction?
 
The next thing we'll probably see is Romney's horse coming under attack.

I think Americans would like to know how many families could be fed for what it cost to maintain that horse.

Even conservative commentators were saying they should not be in the Dressage competition -- looks bad.
 
Wait, the source is Ann Coulter.


Seriously?


This is the 2012 US Presidential Election forum - under IN THE NEWS.
 
I think Americans would like to know how many families could be fed for what it cost to maintain that horse.

Even conservative commentators were saying they should not be in the Dressage competition -- looks bad.

Really? What American even thinks this? The class envious?

Slaughter all the horses and feed them to the public. We passed a bill allowing it.
 
Wait, the source is Ann Coulter.


Seriously?


This is the 2012 US Presidential Election forum - under IN THE NEWS.

The problem with dismissing is that Obama did exactly what she described. He unsealed the records of his opponents numerous times. It is something he does. The question should be, is it something that should be done and is it ethical to do it to your opponent. Flip side---should it then be done to you? Obama's personal transparency seems to be a pretty low threshold compared to what he expects and DOES to his opponents.
 
The problem with dismissing is that Obama did exactly what she described. He unsealed the records of his opponents numerous times. It is something he does. The question should be, is it something that should be done and is it ethical to do it to your opponent. Flip side---should it then be done to you? Obama's personal transparency seems to be a pretty low threshold compared to what he expects and DOES to his opponents.

NOTHING in the Coulter piece backs up her claim.

She offers no evidence that Obama "unsealed" records.

NOTHING.

Unless Obama runs the Chicago Sun Times??

NOTHING in Coulter's piece backs up the title of the thread or the OP.

Ryan would have walloped Obama in the Senate race. But at the request of -- again -- the Chicago Tribune, California Judge Robert Schnider unsealed the custody papers in Ryan's divorce five years earlier from Hollywood starlet Jeri Lynn Ryan, the bombshell Borg on "Star Trek: Voyager.

Does Obama have Jedi powers? Can he make a judge do something?

NO FACTS TO BACK UP THE ALLEGATION.

This is why Ann is joke, not to mention a former man.
 
I think Americans would like to know how many families could be fed for what it cost to maintain that horse.

I would bet less than half of the families that could have been fed for Michele's trip with 50 of her best friends to the French Riviera on the taxpayer dime. :)
 
but hey, in the meantime, how does it feel to watch the guy you supported in 2008 because he was Hope and Change and a New Kind of Politician who was going to Change Washington run in 2012 solely on the politics of personal destruction?

I don't know. Can you tell us what it's like in this alternate universe you live in where Ann Coulter's word is remotely trustworthy?

I would bet less than half of the families that could have been fed for Michele's trip with 50 of her best friends to the French Riviera on the taxpayer dime. :)

Class warfare.
 
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I don't know. Can you tell us what it's like in this alternate universe you live in where Ann Coulter's word is remotely trustworthy?

What she has pointed out here is common knowledge. Obama did indeed get the divorce records of his opponents unsealed in order to attain victory. That was part of what Conservatives were yelling about in 2008- that Obama wasn't the HopeNChange candidate, he was a dirty-fighting Chicago pol.

Class warfare.

Not at all - just a response in kind to hazlnut.
 
I think Americans would like to know how many families could be fed for what it cost to maintain that horse.

Even conservative commentators were saying they should not be in the Dressage competition -- looks bad.

Do you think that only rich people have horses? I was driving through rural Louisiana last week. People living in trailers have horses in their yards, people living in small farm houses have horses on their property.

this horse thing is just another left wing attempt to divert the discussion away from obama's massive failure as president and to keep the talk away from his radical marxist beliefs.
 
Why would anyone be surprised that Obama is the same sort of dirty fighting politician we've come to expect from Washington?

Just be cause he said he was the "hope and change" president?
 
Why would anyone be surprised that Obama is the same sort of dirty fighting politician we've come to expect from Washington?

Just be cause he said he was the "hope and change" president?

The problem is that the media is complicit with obama in the mud slinging. Our country is being destroyed by a biased media that is in bed with the leftist agenda.
 
The next thing we'll probably see is Romney's horse coming under attack.

I think there was just such an attack on CNN. Erin (did she break up Jim Cramer's marriage) Burnett was laughing about it the other night.
 
The problem is that the media is complicit with obama in the mud slinging. Our country is being destroyed by a biased media that is in bed with the leftist agenda.

The media is complicit with the left.
 
but hey, in the meantime, how does it feel to watch the guy you supported in 2008 because he was Hope and Change and a New Kind of Politician who was going to Change Washington run in 2012 solely on the politics of personal destruction?

The only thing that has EVER mattered to the Washington left is POWER.
 
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I think Americans would like to know how many families could be fed for what it cost to maintain that horse.

1) I think no Americans other than shrill ultra-partisans could possibly care in the least.

2) I think a significant number of Americans already know. Horses aren't exactly uncommon.
 
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The media is out for ratings in order to sell advertising space.

since CNN became a left wing mouthpiece its ratings have dropped like a rock. you are wrong, they have a liberal agenda and are staying with it at the expense of losing revenue.
 
since CNN became a left wing mouthpiece its ratings have dropped like a rock. you are wrong, they have a liberal agenda and are staying with it at the expense of losing revenue.

If you think CNN is a "left wing mouthpiece", then I'm not the one who is wrong. It is MSNBC that is the left wing mouthpiece, Fox that is the right wing mouthpiece, and CNN occupies the middle ground. Perhaps the lesson is that it is left wing and right wing agendas that produce ratings.

Or, it could be another factor: Ever tune in to CNN and count how often they go to commercial? Who wants to listen to a program that is more than half commercials?
 
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