[ArchAngel1983]

Tired_Old_Conservative

How in the world do you explain how we know everything about President Bush from conception to present day, yet know nothing more about Obama then we did 2 1/2 years ago.

I think Obama is using this law and other legal (or maybe not so legal) tactics to conceal his private life pre and post election. Except for his stupid autobiography what do we actually know about this man?

Thanks for the history lesson, but Obama is a man not to be trusted. Got That?

[FreeperDoll]

I’m confused, but I got it..thanks

[Kleon]

I think Obama is using this law and other legal (or maybe not so legal) tactics to conceal his private life pre and post election.

He hasn't "concealed" anything that isn't already protected by existing privacy laws. Try requesting Bush's birth certificate and kindergarten records and see how far you get.

[tired_old_conservative]

I simply find that this is one of the great weaknesses of the whole birther movement, namely its inability to draw clear lines between its distrust of Obama and factual reality. Whether Obama is or is not a man to be trusted has nothing to do with the Executive Order pertaining to Presidential records that he signed upon taking office. That is completely explicable as a mundane housekeeping chore returning the Executive Branch's interpretation of its legal obligations to those understood by the Reagan, Bush I and Clinton administrations. To the extent it is portrayed as anything else, that strips credibility from any associated argument. The assertion that Obama sealed his personal records with an Executive Order simply isn't true. Nothing else you say will matter to the rest of the world if you say something that demonstrably wrong.

Obama is certainly using the law to withhold the records you want. But there's nothing mysterious about it. For the most part it's simply basic privacy laws that apply to any of us.