Comments on: Barack Obama’s Secretive Nature

By: OldGaDawg

OldGaDawg — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:35:26 +0000

For JOEE ….. If you don’t like it here …. LEAVE…..
Too many servicemen and women have sacrificed there lives for keeping this document and others in tact so we “including yourself” free and able to enjoy the freedoms that Americans have that other countries do not have.
I would like to ask you to please walk up to any of our servicemen or women and express you comments above and let us know as to what is said or done to you there-aft.
This Old Ga. Dawg

By: JoeE

JoeE — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:21:11 +0000

For so many people who are patently ripe for a dose of fascism, it seems that The One can do no wrong, needs no vetting, need have no specifics about anything, and need not even concern himself with the Rule of Law. The only thing that we have in this country, that has been admired by the rest of the world, is some paper that is known as The Constitution of the United States. Without the Rule of Law, that paper is as worthless as any piece of trash you see in the street.

By: OldGaDawg

OldGaDawg — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:01:37 +0000

These documents are to satisfy the U.S. Constitution. If these documents will not be released then the candidate Obama must be denied the nomination of his party’s to run for the office of President. We can not afford an illegitimate candidate to hold this position if won. For it will place this country’s security at a vulnerable state. This truly needs resolving now before election.

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:56:25 +0000

No he didn't actually Michael. He released a different document. Watch the documentary.

And i agree he problably is an American born citizen, but the secretive attitude, that's the real problem.

By: Michael Merritt

Michael Merritt — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:51:14 +0000

The citizenship thing again? Even after it’s been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, they’re still going after it? I think Obama should have been quicker to release his birth certificate, too, but he did. Case closed.

McCain and Obama were both born here, and the naysayers on each side just have to deal with it.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:17:02 +0000

A couple more points, JA-

Verbal gaffes indicate McCain’s senility, in your opinion? Then what is Obama’s excuse for saying there are 57 states, or getting their relative location mixed up, or talking about being in "New Pennsylvania" (presumably that’s one of the lost states.) Or how about introducing Biden as the next president of the United States!

And finally, I’m just so tired of hearing how McCain’s attacks on Obama distract from the issues. If that’s the case, then why are Obama, Biden and his supporters talking about nothing except McCain attacking him, instead of talking about the um, issues?
McCain hasn’t talked enough about his positive message- I totally agree with that. He needs to articulate ideas about the economy, but at least I give him credit for actually talking about it at all. For instance, he announced that one of the VERY first things we should do is to suspend the rules on IRA’s so that senior citizens aren’t forced to draw out of their accounts at the very time when their holdings have taken such a hit. Doesn’t that sound logical?? Obama responded by saying he’d support this too, but it was McCain who realized this obvious step that needs to be taken immediately to prevent massive losses for retirees. So who is it again that has his eye off the main issues of the campaign?

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:09:29 +0000

J. Anne, don’t you think it’s rather easy for Obama to keep his hands clean of mudslinging when the press does the dirty work for him? Why do you act as though people probably haven’t heard about Cindy McCain’s past drug addiction problem when major publications like the Washington Post and Newsweek have done full length stories about this?

And I don’t think we’ve seen Obama’s medical records, nor Biden’s. Do you think we should, as you apparently believe for McCain? Biden has a history of a potentially fatal condition, brain aneurysm- for which he once had to undergo emergency surgery. Is that a valid issue? Should we know how often he’s screened, or have doctor’s poring over his medical records?

By: J. Anne Baker

J. Anne Baker — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:46:05 +0000

I appreciate your statements, but ask if you have read Sen. Obama’s books? How can he be ‘called secretive’ when he clearly has pointed out that he did drugs, and explained other problems he overcame? He has been frank enough. Did you know that Cindy McCain became a drug addict and was convicted of stealing addictive drugs when she was a nurse? That was the end of her nursing career. There’s much, much more about the McCains that Sen. Obama’s people could bring up, but they have chosen a somewhat higher road, such as not bringing up theembarrassing lapses of memory and speech Sen. McCain has shown us (e.g. addressing a crowd as ‘my fellow prisoners.’ — the kind of verbal slip that’s becoming terrible common to McCain, which must embarrass him. Sen. Obama has avoided mocking the foibles of old age. Nor has he brought up Mccain’s gambling, which I know, as I lived in Arizona — and Mccain hasn;t reported his winningson his tax returns, which is unlawful (it would show what a big spender he is!) There are security risks for Sen. Obama’s family in war-torn Kenya that are unique – one reason some of his records are being kept private, but no candidate comes this far without such records having been inspected carefully. Constant misreporting of his Kenyan relative, Mr. Dinga (sp?), as some kind of terrorist, by gossipers, belie the photos of Dinga with Secy. Rice and other Bush Adminstration officials supporting his political activities. en. Mccain did not a,low doctors, only reporters, to look at his massive pile of medical reports (though CNN’s Gupta is both doctor and reporter — and Gupta said he didn’t see anything about Mccain’s mental health). Mccain allowed no photographing of those records, and reporters in general didn;t have much of an idea what they were looking at. So much for transparency on Mcain’s part. Indeed, we need to focus on issues. Both men have earned the right to compete. This is the first race I’ve ever written to people about, please forgive any typos, I’m a retired white female, age 65 English teacher with failing eyesight. Tanks.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:38:30 +0000

Even if Berg were right or credible, I don’t think McCain or his supporters should go anywhere near this story.

I do agree about the overall pattern of secrecy and deflection from questions. The rabbithole phenomenon of webpages disappearing is the most troubling aspect of that IMO. I mean, I know that Obama’s supporters worry that eventually he can’t keep up the pattern of dismissing criticism, then denying associations, then denying that he knew bad things about his associates, and then finally having to throw them under the bus when he can’t keep denying- but preempting that by removing embarrassing paper trails before his opponents catch up to them is really over the top.