Evidently they were important to Obama when he was running for lower offices. IIRC he "won" his first office by getting signatures disqualified from his opponent's nominating petition. He won the Senate contest in large measure by getting a crooked court to unseal the previously-sealed divorce records of his opponent. Obama is nothing if not a master of the dirty Chicago-style politics. Of all the players in this tawdry tragicomedy of a presidency, Obama is the one most deserving of payback of a kind close to what he has dished out to others.
Yes, I’ve heard of those, but I’m not sure if it was 0bama himself who openly attacked his opponent based on those issue. He let his minions do it for him. That’s exactly how it is supposed to be.