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The Records They Have Yet to Release
October 05, 2008 1:56 PM
American voters: there is one month to go until Election Day and here are the records the candidates and their running mates have yet to release:
*Sen. Barack Obama's state senate records;*
*Obama's medical records (beyond just a letter from his doctor);
*Sen. John Mccain's medical records (beyond just letting a select group reporters see some of them for a short period of time, but not copy anything);
*Mccain's military records;
*Cindy McCain's complete tax returns (beyond just a summary page);
*Sen. Joe Biden's medical records;
*Biden's complete list of earmark requests since starting at the Senate;
*Gov. Sarah Palin's emails from her private email account(s) sent about public matters; and
*Palin's medical records.
Also we would be remiss if we didn't mention Palin has yet to hold a full press conference as a vice presidential candidate.
-- jpt
* UPDATE - The Obama campaign says that Sen. Obama has no state senate records to release, and the Illinois Capitol Fax Blog seems to agree. This first became an issue a year ago, when Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign asked where his state legislative records were and Obama told reporters "we did not keep those records." The Chicago Sun-Times has more on this HERE.
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McCain, the "below par" pilot, eventually lost 5 military aircraft, the first during a training flight in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while trying to land. The Navy ignored the crash and graduated McCain in 1960.
Posted by: touche | Oct 5, 2008 5:18:13 PM
Shauna,
Jim Kouri, is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police , the mere fact that a high ranking police associate would choose to write for a conservatives weblog has got to give more credence to the sorty not less... to whose side is telling the truth,,, hmmm lets see we have Ayers an unrepentant cop killer on Obama's side, or we have Jim Kouri, is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police hmm who do we believe???
Posted by: stacey | Oct 5, 2008 5:17:12 PM
It is incumbent upon McCain to prove to the American people that the 5 1/2 years he spent at the mercy of communist interrogators did not leave him with mental health issues that could hinder him in making snap decisions "if the White House phone rang at 3 a.m."
Is McCain taking any kind of pain or "nerve" medicines? If so, do the medicines cause emotional and physical reactions?
McCain was once treated for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is said to get worse over time for former POWs, what is the status of his treatment?
Does McCain still harbor stress triggered suicidal tendencies?
Where was McCain and what was happening to him during the months he was missing from the POW camp?
McCain implies that he made only one propaganda broadcast for the communists, but Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers say he made over 30. How many did he make and what did he get in return?
Why does McCain still deny that the Soviets were involved in the interrogation of U.S. POWs in Vietnam?
Does McCain's former interrogators, the communist Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese and Cubans have anything in their secret intelligence files about his behavior as a prisoner with which they could blackmail a President John McCain?
Posted by: touche | Oct 5, 2008 5:14:39 PM
McCain has never been publicly vetted about what and how much medications he is taking. Aside from his anger and arthritic pain issues, McCain has had reoccurring bouts of malignant melanoma, a deadly form of cancer that can spread quickly throughout the body.
Posted by: touche | Oct 5, 2008 5:13:18 PM
McCain was subjected to 5 ½ years of Soviet driven "brain perversion techniques."
Is he fit to be President and Commander in Chief of the military?
Posted by: touche | Oct 5, 2008 5:11:55 PM
liberati wrote:
>It's not just the crime, it is the cover >up. What is Obama trying to hide?
Sounds to me a lot like Troopergate. What is Sarah trying to hide?
Posted by: Shauna | Oct 5, 2008 5:10:36 PM
When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The accident "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight." Despite her injures, she had refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fearing that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisoner.
But, just a couple years later, McCain, while pondering a future in politics, met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a very wealthy politically-connected Arizona family. While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship with Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 -- just a month after dumping his crippled wife and securing a divorce.
Posted by: touche | Oct 5, 2008 5:07:16 PM
stacey and HP Boston -
Please spend the same amount time researching McCain and Palin. You'll find plenty of questionable acquaintances and and activities in their lives as well.
Let's face it - absolutely no one in this campaign has clean hands, so instead of trying to fear and smear, they need to focus on the issues.
Posted by: Shauna | Oct 5, 2008 5:07:12 PM
Who are these loons who continue to insist that Obama's birth certificate is fake? He was born in Hawaii in 1961. Hawaii is not a foreign country. My mother-in-law is a retired pediatric nurse, and from birth until age six, the young Barack Obama was a patient of the doctor she worked for on King St. in Honolulu.
Posted by: Donald from Hawaii | Oct 5, 2008 5:07:04 PM
Obama has been fighting desperately to block all access to his college records. Even his public "thesis" at Columbia mysteriously disappeared.
If Obama's college records fail to meet the requirements for legitimate academic degrees and honors then Obama will be declared an academic fraud. Like he is a political fraud, Hillery for example received more votes, but because how the Democrats created the electoral votes giving more weight to minority districts, Obama was SELECTED not ELECTED, Obama is a fraud, selected by diversity, and possibly his college career is a fraud the same way, why else would he not release college his records?
Perhaps he doesnt want to know who funded him?
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.
Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel.
A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board.
His writings and books are packed with anti-American rhetoric reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s disgraced former pastor.
Al-Mansour is "the principle adviser to one of the world's richest men." He also implied that al-Mansour had raised money for Obama.
Where are these records?
Posted by: stacey | Oct 5, 2008 5:05:58 PM
Readers will learn that despite repeated plane crashes the Navy assigned McCain to a flight instructor position to teach aspiring young men and women how to fly aircraft worth millions of U.S. dollars.
They will learn how McCain's volatile temper became legendary in Congress and how he uses expletive-laced words in an attempt to demean and destroy his critics.
They will learn about McCain's cooperation with his captors and realize why many veterans wonder why McCain was not punished for making treasonous statements to the communists.
Sampley, a long-time POW/MIA activist delves into McCain's puzzling relationship with his former captors and his apparent abandonment of other Americans left behind in Vietnam as missing or prisoners of war.
Leaders of the POW/MIA movement describe how they fought to have McCain and the U.S. government investigate reported sightings of missing and imprisoned military members, and describe their contemptuous treatment by McCain and his staff.
Vetting John McCain uncovers how the senator's impressive family background protected him as the Navy ignored incidents that should have caused the young aviator to be drummed out of the Navy. The book compares McCain's behavior with a similar incident that cost a female Navy aviator her career.
'Vetting John McCain' compares McCain's actions with those of other captives who, injured and ill, spat in the faces of their captors and attempted escapes through treacherous jungle territory. It explores his intimate connection to the infamous Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal, his backing by a fraudulent newspaper editor-publisher, and his speedy abandonment of his friend when the fire of public scrutiny grew too hot.
Posted by: touche | Oct 5, 2008 5:02:27 PM
We've already seen her press conference, each weekend on SNL.
Posted by: JR | Oct 5, 2008 5:00:23 PM
Obama's birth certificate has been verified by FactCheck org
FACT CHECK IS AN OBUMA FUNDED SITE!!!
NO FACTS JUST BS!!!
FactCheck has debunked the Rezko false statements.
Posted by: HP Boston | Oct 5, 2008 4:55:09 PM
klondike- should the remaining three candidates have to produce their "baptismal certificates" as well? Why should Obama be held to a different standard?
west coast messenger - Doesn't McCain or Palin have any associations that make you go hmmmmmm....? Of course they do. How can you say McCain is for America when he chose as his running mate someone totally unqualified to assume the presidency in a worst case scenario? Can you imagine a 9/11 scenario with a President Palin? I honestly might have been able to live with a McCain presidency but his choice of Palin really made me question him.
Posted by: Shauna | Oct 5, 2008 4:54:38 PM
"No use for America or her damned institutions." Joe Vogler. Founder of the Alaskan Independent Party. Todd Palin was a member until 2002. Sarah Palin sent them a tape, recently, encouraging them to keep up the good work.
What does the AIP want? Secession. I doubt Palin has read the 14th Amendment. She might want to do that.
The AIP is also connected to white secessionist groups in the south. Any non-whites in the AIP?
According to Palin, I might be going to hell, but, at least I'm not talking treason.
Posted by: Jan | Oct 5, 2008 4:53:57 PM
Jake, I hope you are ashamed of yourself asking again for those state senate records! We were already told last year that they didn't exist. That means, don't ever ask again. Just let it all slide on by, because BO says so.
Posted by: cappamore | Oct 5, 2008 4:50:47 PM
HP Boston said:
"After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York."
In "Dreams from My Father," Obama explained sending many resumes and never getting any response.
HP Boston said:
"During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. "
Obama made his first trip to Kenya after five years organizing communities in the projects of South Chicago and right before starting at Harvard. It is detailed in "Dreams from My Father" p. 276.
The book does not mention a trip to the other places.
FactCheck has debunked the Rezko false statements.
Obama has talked about paying college loans for many years.
McCain got free college because his father had military power. McCain was at the bottom of his class and only got into the military program because of dad's strings, where he crashed 5 airplanes.
Posted by: Jim | Oct 5, 2008 4:48:41 PM
Nice try, West. No matter how you want something to be there, there isn't anything, so you have to resort to FUD.
Posted by: Mike | Oct 5, 2008 4:48:33 PM
who are we supposed to believe you Mike or Jim Kouri, currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police who has stated that Quite simply, Ayers’ group of killers left five children without fathers as a result of the brutal and vicious armored car robbery.
Quite simply, Ayers’ group of killers left five children without fathers as a result of the brutal and vicious armored car robbery.
Its not a matter of degrees of separation, it is a pattern of behavior, As in any jury trial a pattern of behavior is admissible evidence.
Lets put up Ayers, the black liberation Reverend MoveOn.org, Rezko. even Obama's own wife who have said state meant to the effect that demonstrate their hatred twords the folks of the USA,. and in Ayers case he said he wish he could do more damage after being acquitted of murder, saying this when Obama was 40 years old, not 8.
What do you have for McCain or Palin that they indicates they agreed with any of the radicals they may be connected too by a separation of acquaintances?
Obama sat in a church for 20 years with Write, and he worked with Ayers and unrepentant tourists, and murder for over 10 years...
The people rest their case...
Posted by: stacey | Oct 5, 2008 4:48:25 PM
XYZ,
The Obama relationship with William Ayers is established fact. The degree of closeness is what is at dispute. Obama would have you believe that it is extremely distant at best. The right would have you believe that Obama can't be trusted if he has recent associations with someone previously involved in domestic terrorism. When it comes to the role of the President of the United States I think we need to examine this closely, it is fair game. Obama says its a smear, but that sounds like coverup language to me. The louder he cries the closer the press will look. Some semblance of the truth will emerge, hopefully before election day. No matter what, I'm sticking with McCain because he clearly sticks with America. I'm not sure about Obama, he just doesn't seem trustworthy, too many ifs and buts. I'd rather be voting for Hillary, though.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | Oct 5, 2008 4:37:22 PM
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