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Obama's Signature Move: Unsealing Private Records
Town Hall ^ | 8/1/12 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 08/01/2012 6:37:58 PM PDT by Nachum

Mitt Romney presents one enormous problem for Barack Obama's campaign: No divorce records. That's why the media are so hot to get their hands on Romney's tax records for the past 25 years. They need something to "pick through, distort and lie about" -- as the Republican candidate says.

Obama's usual campaign method, used in 100 percent of his races, has been to pry into the private records of his opponents.

Democrats aren't going to find any personal dirt on the clean-cut Mormon, so they need complicated tax filings going back decades in order to create the illusion of scandal out of boring financial records.

Romney has already released his 2010 tax return and is about to release his 2011 return. After all the huffing and puffing by the media demanding those returns, the follow-up story vanished remarkably quickly when the only thing the return showed was that Romney pays millions of dollars in taxes and gives a lot of money to charity.

Let's take a romp down memory lane and review the typical Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by virtue of David Axelrod's former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obama's two principal opponents.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2012; chicagoway; cultureofcorruption; dncstrategy; obamas; private; records; romney; thechicagoway; thugocracy; unsealing
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To: ansel12

“Christians do worry about people formally leaving Christ.”

Understood, but at the moment I’m personally more worried about having an unfettered second-term President who actively supports groups that murder Christians.


21 posted on 08/01/2012 7:46:55 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: ansel12

“All legal of course, but it will be unsettling to Christians.”

Why, we supposedly have religious freedom in this country, Don’t we?


22 posted on 08/01/2012 7:49:04 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Nachum

Hairy Read and some other prominent RATs have come out and said that they had inside (un-sourced) information that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years. Now if we can only Obama to say it or approve a message that alleges that.

What these idiots forget is that Romney gave decades worth of financial information to the 2008 McCain campaign which would have personal knowledge of the facts.


23 posted on 08/01/2012 8:14:06 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obamaid has to go.)
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To: Free in Texas

Ann covers that in the full article at the source link.


24 posted on 08/01/2012 8:18:55 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: Magic Fingers

I think renouncing Christ for a cult founded as an anti-Christian cult is worse, to work to deceive people into doing that is truly evil.


25 posted on 08/01/2012 8:34:14 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

What’s your screen name over at DU?


26 posted on 08/01/2012 8:40:15 PM PDT by datura (Democrat = Socialist, Progressive Democrat = Communist)
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To: datura

This is the pro-life God fearing site, not DU.


27 posted on 08/01/2012 8:52:27 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

It’s still not good enough considering that congresscritters keep on ignoring the message.


28 posted on 08/01/2012 8:54:08 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Mike Darancette

“Hairy Read and some other prominent...”

Another very interesting story is how Reid’s children, being all lawyers, and all representing Indian tribes have made their Papa so rich. Perhaps he had a hand in approving appropriations that they originated? Is that honest?


29 posted on 08/01/2012 8:59:34 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Add narcissist.


30 posted on 08/01/2012 9:05:02 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: ansel12

Oh please. People exercise their judgment, good or bad, about renouncing Christ. No one makes them. Choice isn’t an option when they’re being murdered for their beliefs. I really don’t see us reaching any common ground on this issue.


31 posted on 08/01/2012 10:15:02 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: ansel12

Why would you use terms like “transfer...of dollars.” A normal human being calls that “giving to charity.” Am I getting a whiff of troll?


32 posted on 08/02/2012 4:47:19 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Yardstick
We got Al Gore's, we got W's, we got Rick Perry's. Perhaps others too. If they were leaked, no one was held accountable. It's intriguing Obama is immune to efforts to pry open records, public and private.

None of them ran on the strength of their "college resume" like the "professorial" Obama did.

33 posted on 08/02/2012 11:23:48 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: ansel12; All
You contend his faith is not Christianity all while he professes Christ to be his Lord and Savior.

Mormon's contend their book of faith if an additional chapter in the life of Christ.

So what church do you belong to? It's a fair question. We should know what you believe is the One True Christianity™ from which the rest of us stray or have been misled by our own wicked hearts.

34 posted on 08/02/2012 11:32:05 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Pontius Pilate 'voters' are arrogant, delusional, lilly-livered collaborators.)
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To: Magic Fingers
Oh please. People exercise their judgment, good or bad, about renouncing Christ. No one makes them. Choice isn’t an option when they’re being murdered for their beliefs.

Part of being a cult is to not let people know where you are taking them, Mormons do that, as they call it "Milk before Meat" is to draw in the potential and lead him through the stages, they know that if they reveal themselves, no one will come.

35 posted on 08/06/2012 12:40:00 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: newzjunkey

What church do you belong to?

If it is a Christian church that you belong to, then they state that Mormonism is not a Christian religion.

Are You Catholic? Baptist? Lutheran? Greek Orthodox, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc? Then you know that Mormonism is not a Christian religion because all Christian churches agree on that question.


36 posted on 08/06/2012 12:48:14 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: subterfuge
Why would you use terms like “transfer...of dollars.” A normal human being calls that “giving to charity.” Am I getting a whiff of troll?

Normal human beings know that as transferring 10s of millions of dollars into a cult created by Joseph Smith.

Tom Cruise is no match for Bishop Mitt Romney and 170 years of Romney devotion to Mormonism (yet no military service for America).

Mitt even asked for permission from the Holy Mormon Prophet to run for President.

37 posted on 08/06/2012 12:53:29 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

“Part of being a cult is to not let people know where you are taking them, Mormons do that, as they call it “Milk before Meat” is to draw in the potential and lead him through the stages, they know that if they reveal themselves, no one will come.”

Part of the cult of Islam is to chop the heads off Christians. I’d rather take my chances that I won’t get fooled by crafty Mormons. I think I can handle it.


38 posted on 08/06/2012 10:13:36 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

I would like to know if Obama put “Kenya’ on his college application as place of birth. I want to know if he got special consideration for being a foreign student...

Sadly, Democrat PR firms - the kind that ‘feed’ stories to the lazy MSM won’t ‘feed’ them this question. And the elite true believers at the New York Times won’t look into it even if they did - ‘being happy on the liberal plantation’ and all...

So your concerns Wings - and mine - are NOT going to be looked at. The MSM is waiting to be fed ‘dirt’ on Republican so they can become breathless... disgusting little twirps...


39 posted on 08/06/2012 10:23:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (...you can't reason somebody out of a position reason didn't get them in to... Freeper Uriah_lost)
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To: Magic Fingers

I wasn’t even aware that you were personally under threat from Islam or Mormonism. I hope you come out OK.


40 posted on 08/06/2012 4:19:50 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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