For starters, Obama has made it a big hulabaloo, touted by the press worldwide, to respond to rumors and smears. He has an official "Fight the Smears" website.
His campaign has also touted their quick response team that is tasked with 'correcting the record'.
Here is a prime example of such. The Wash Post and American Thinker discovered that he got reduced loan rate on his (Rezko tainted) home purchase. The very next day, his campaign puts out a release saying it was not untoward in any way, AND he authorizes the bank manager to discuss it with the media to put an end to the speculation.
Now why is that important? BECAUSE he could just as easily tell the Dept of Health/Records in Hawaii that they can release and discuss his BIRTH RECORDS to clear up the suspected fraudulence surrounding the Certificate of Live Birth he and KOS posted on their websites.
AND he could just as easily tell the phone company to release his cell phone records from November 6 and 7, 1999 to dispel the Larry Sinclair accusations.
IOTW, by dragging his feet and obfuscating on BirthGate and LarryGate, he is looking mighty guilty as charged.
I just can’t interested in this unless it gains traction, which is sooooo unlikely.
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Let’s assume that BO is utterly corrupt on this issue.
What are the chances it affects the race? Next to zero?
In February of 2005, everyone expected Obama to be extremely successful-- a lock to be the Dem nominee in 2012 when they expected him to run. He'd already been the star of the DNC in 2004, had his first book republished and become a best seller again, and likely already had a deal for The Audacity of Hope to be published in 2006. People who have fat wallets or are viewed to be getting fat wallets get all kinds of benefits from banks. Hell, Jed Clampett did, too. That was a major subplot of that show, which is decades old. This has always been the case-- banks love rich people. Surprise!
The idea that the Obama family, with a listed net worth of less than half a million in ‘05 had above average assets for those taking out super super jumbo loans at the time is just ridiculous.
At least it’s got some coverage in the press. Having him really get nailed for it by an effective commentator or whomever would at least help to dispel the nonsense that he is somehow above the taint of normal politics.
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Precisely so. I don’t know about Larry Sinclair, although that is developing a bit of a stench too, because you could just about make a case for “not dignifying it with a response”. However, there’s no excuse in the world, after all the speculation, for not clearing up the issue of his birth certificate.
I am becoming more convinced every day that he was not born in the U.S.A.
Once again the question must be asked, who is actually paying the loan?
There is a serious question about Chris Dodd and loan payment and the same should be directed to an Obama loan. I believe that Eliot Spitzer claimed he was repaying loans to his campaign when the payments were actually being made by someone else.