During a campaign stop last fall, Obama at first claimed he did not have any records of his eight years in the Illinois state legislature. “I don't have — I don't maintain — a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records.”(snip)
However, according to a February 25th letter from the Illinois Office of the Secretary of State in response to Judicial Watch’s open records request, “The ISA does not maintain Senator Obama’s personal records or papers. [Nor] does the ISA maintain records generated by his office. In addition, the ISA has received no requests from Senator Obama to archive any records formerly in his possession.”
Clearly the implication here is that he had records. He would have had to in order to do anything at all. All politicians do. Whether he archived his records or shredded them is beside the point. Whether he will or can produce them is beside the point. The point is he has not made any available and, like the rest of his history, his time in the IL senate is a blank due to his own actions.
"Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could."
Obviously you don't care.
During a campaign stop last fall, Obama at first claimed he did not have any records of his eight years in the Illinois state legislature. “I don't have — I don't maintain — a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records.”
(snip)
However, according to a February 25th letter from the Illinois Office of the Secretary of State in response to Judicial Watch’s open records request, “The ISA does not maintain Senator Obama’s personal records or papers. [Nor] does the ISA maintain records generated by his office. In addition, the ISA has received no requests from Senator Obama to archive any records formerly in his possession.”
Clearly the implication here is that he had records. He would have had to in order to do anything at all. All politicians do. Whether he archived his records or shredded them is beside the point. Whether he will or can produce them is beside the point. The point is he has not made any available and, like the rest of his history, his time in the IL senate is a blank due to his own actions.
“Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.”
Obviously you don't care.”
This makes my point. Again, reading comprehension. “The ISA does not maintain Senator Obama’s personal records or papers. [Nor] does the ISA maintain records generated by his office. In addition, the ISA has received no requests from Senator Obama to archive any records formerly in his possession.” This is the standard response they would give anyone about any State Senator's papers. All it says is that whatever records the Senator may or may not have are his business; the state doesn't keep them. And that would be because neither it nor the Senator are obligated to keep such records. If the Senator were legally obligated by the state to keep such records, the state would provide a repository.