"This firm is counsel to Occidental College. The College is in receipt of the enclosed subpoena that seeks certain information concerning President-Elect Barack Obama," he wrote via fax. "Inasmuch as the subpoena appears to be valid on its face, the College will have no alternative but to comply with the subpoena absent a court order instructing otherwise."
I find this statement quite revealing. Why did Occidental College not immediately comply with a legal order? Obviously Obama has "trip wires" set all along his historical past. Each time someone attempts to get some critical piece of information regarding Obama's past, he obviously has someone in place to sound the alarm. It makes you wonder who he has in Hawaii, at Harvard, in Indonesia, etc. It also makes you wonder how much he might be "paying off" these stoolies (either financially or with favors).
Maybe mlo, curiosity, or Michael Michael can tell us how much can be made??
First of all, the source is WorldNutDaily, so I don't trust their account. I would not be very surprised if they were making this stuff up, as they have been known to do in the past.
Second of all, there are certain privacy laws colleges have to follow. I'm not a lawyer, but I seriously doubt they can just release student records to any plaintiff who asks for them. I'm pretty sure a judge has to order it, and I seriously doubt that's happened here.
Finally, even if Obama were trying to prevent the release of his college records, I would not find it particularly revealing. It's no secret that Obama was on drugs at the time (he admited it). There's probably a lot of stuff in those records he's embarassed about. His grades were likely bad, and it's pretty likely he had some disciplinary troubels as well. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out he was put on probation for a semester or two. If he had a poor record at Occidental, it would raise questions as to how he got into Columbia. It's usually the good students who transfer to better schools, not the bad ones. It's very possible that Columbia admitted him for reasons unrelated to his merits as a student, and he doesn't want that to come out.
For all the above reasons, I would agree that his failure to release college records is a valid piece of the case against voting for him.
However, that horse has left the barn. Furthermore, nothing in those records could possibly make him ineligible from the presidency, since nothing in those records has anything to do with whether he is a natural born citizen or not.
And no, he was never an Indonesian citizen. That has been decisively ruled out, so the allegation that he was a registered as a foreign student is so absurd that it does not merit much comment.
The simplest, most plausible explanation for why he doesn't want to release his college records is they will show him to have been a slacker druggie during his Occidental years and he doesn't want that to come out.
Maybe mlo, curiosity, or Michael Michael can tell us how much can be made??
drew88, non-sequitor might know