Obama and his cronies, Chicago scum politics at its finest.
Obamas Signature Move: Unsealing Private Records | FrontPage Magazine
Mitt Romney presents one enormous problem for Barack Obamas campaign: No divorce records. Thats why the media are so hot to get their hands on Romneys tax records for the past 25 years. They need something to pick through, distort and lie about as the Republican candidate says.
Obamas usual campaign method, used in 100 percent of his races, has been to pry into the private records of his opponents.
Democrats arent 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.
Lets take a romp down memory lane and review the typical Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by virtue of David Axelrods former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obamas 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 Hulls second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.
Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had worked aggressively behind the scenes to push the story. Many people said Axelrod had an even more significant role that he leaked the initial story.
Obamas Signature Move: Unsealing Private Records | FrontPage Magazine
