For a Guy Who Seems to Want EVERY LAST Frickin’ Thing Out of His Opponents
…this report from a few years ago sure gives them cause to tell him to suck a stone, wouldn’t you say?
Obama Says He Has No Illinois Records
RALEIGH, N.C. — Barack Obama, who’s been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he can’t step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois state Senate.
He says he hasn’t got any.
“I don’t have _ I don’t maintain _ a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn’t have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records,” he said at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. He said he wasn’t sure where any cache of records might have gone, adding, “It could have been thrown out. I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite some time.”
Obama’s statement that he has no papers from his time in the Illinois statehouse _ he left in 2004 _ stands in stark contrast to the massive Clinton file stored at the National Archives: an estimated 78 million pages of documents, plus 20 million e-mail messages, packed into 36,000 boxes. While any file from Obama’s time in the state Senate would be far smaller, the idea that no papers exist at all is questioned by one historian.
“Most of those guys do keep this stuff, especially the favorable stuff. They’ve all got egos,” said Taylor Pensoneau, a historian who has written about Illinois legislators and governors and worked with them as a lobbyist for the coal industry. “It goes in scrapbooks or maybe boxes. I don’t think it’s normal practice to say it’s all discarded.”
No resources to “keep” things? I have crap in my back room from when I was three years old ~ Hell, from when my GRANDFATHER was three years old!
I think we’re all in agreement this guy’s far from “normal”, but an “ego” he’s got in truckloads, so…what gives? No state records, no college records, his birth thingee’s nothing but problems…and now ratfaced Axelrod’s claiming Romney’s hiding his Olympic records (note to Obama: NO Olympic committee will EVER tell another “how it’s done”) and yet, you can’t get a paper napkin with a phone number scribble on it out of Obama?
GOOD GRIEF! PISS OFF, pal!
Homey ain’t fallin’ for it anymore. I don’t get the feeling the country’s going to either.
H/T Joe Pounder
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July 23, 2012 6:45 pm
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How hard can it be to catalogue many years worth of voting “present”?
“He said he wasn’t sure where any cache of records might have gone, adding, “It could have been thrown out. I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite some time.””
Guaranteed that anything involving the names “Rezko” and “Blagoyevich” were at least shredded and incinerated.
This is the same guy who’s first executive order was to seal all his records. You were expecting anything else?