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“Never Again,” Obama Style
PJMedia ^ | 4/27/09

Posted on 04/28/2009 6:36:37 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun

No president in modern times has managed to conceal so much of his biography as this one. The journalists assigned to the Obama beat seem to have lost their traditional avidity for digging out the missing details. We do not have a medical report, or a college transcript from Columbia, or a notion of how well he did in Harvard Law School.

These things are not automatically significant, but they can be. Nobody thinks the president has some basic medical problem. He shows every sign of being in excellent physical condition. But so did John F. Kennedy, who turned out to have had Addison’s Disease, and was taking steroids and pain killers, which had an effect on his performance. We didn’t know it at the time. We should have.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bluelips; foralltoread; formom; ledeen; media; obama; secrets
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To: anniegetyourgun
The journalists assigned to the Obama beat seem to have lost their traditional avidity for digging out the missing details.

The "journalists" missed on Clinton and Carter too - and Kerry when he was running for office... could there be a pattern?

21 posted on 04/28/2009 8:01:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (We sleep safe..because rough men stand ready..to visit violence on those who would do us harm-Orwell)
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To: anniegetyourgun
Obama occasionally says things that are uncharacteristic of cultured persons, as when he flubs the number of states in the U.S.

Guess he was lucky he didn't get the Quayle(R) potato"e" treatment. God forbid - it would have been as awful as President Ford (R) being mocked endlessly for tripping. Or President Bush Sr. for the store scanner -- or President Bush for "misunderstatment". Odd how dems don't get the pile on gotcha stuff... Is the New York Times not interested in piling on? Or do they 'suck more' when it comes to bigoted bias?

22 posted on 04/28/2009 8:11:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (We sleep safe..because rough men stand ready..to visit violence on those who would do us harm-Orwell)
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To: anniegetyourgun
This article should be read by every Freeper....every one.

And by every non-Freeper too.

Some may have noticed a strange keyword associated with this and a few other threads here. It is formom, which is a marker I thought of for articles I want to bring to the attention of my mother who is a committed Democrat, but not completely closed to reason. (I'll be seeing her for Mothers' Day, and I am hoping to get a chance to ask her how often FDR badmouthed the United States.)

ML/NJ

23 posted on 04/28/2009 8:25:47 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: anniegetyourgun

bump


24 posted on 04/28/2009 8:26:49 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: anniegetyourgun

In good physical condition yes mental codition no.


25 posted on 04/28/2009 9:23:59 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: anniegetyourgun

Ledeen scares me whenever I read his stuff.


26 posted on 04/28/2009 10:15:11 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I know what you mean....but, I prefer to live reality than to hide my head.

Hey, now that I've got your attention: Doesn't McCain have an R challenger too? Perhaps he'll do us a favor and move to the D party as well?

27 posted on 04/28/2009 10:42:43 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

Chris Simcox is challenging McPain. Chris is a founder of The Minutemen. The press will be shoveling a lot of dirt because he probably pulled shenanigans with Minutemen money that was supposed to build a border fence. I think McPain is safe in the seat until he croaks.

:^(


28 posted on 04/28/2009 10:45:34 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Sad day. Party needs a housecleaning.


29 posted on 04/28/2009 10:50:09 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: freespirited
No one hides his medical history without a reason. My best guess is some kind of psychiatric history a la Thomas Eagleton.

It's about control. If there's something in his past Obama doesn't want people to know, one way to maintain control is to withold everything he possibly can. Or even if there isn't, like any politician he wants control.

If Obama's not required to divulge things, he won't. If he can get away with presenting a carefully crafted image of himself and revealing nothing else about his life, he will.

It's a politician's dream, isn't it? But most pols can't get away with it.

30 posted on 04/28/2009 10:57:03 AM PDT by x
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To: freespirited

I saw one bio that said “summa,” but you may be right. I think the point is still valid. There are not that many Blacks graduating from the most prestigious law school in America with an honors degree and President of the HLR on the resume. He should have gotten all sorts of judicial clerkship offers, and I have never read that he got any. This is the sort of nagging inconsistency that makes my BS Meter twitch.


31 posted on 04/28/2009 12:50:49 PM PDT by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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IIRC his explanation is that he didnt seek any clerkships because he knew he wasnt interested in a typical legal career.

I agree with the BS meter twitch.

(Maybe he didnt want to clerk because he knows he cant write.)


32 posted on 04/28/2009 1:13:19 PM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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If that was his reason for not seeking a clerkship, he was massively uninformed or short sighted. A clerkship with a good judge can be the springboard into lots of interesting things, and a “traditional legal career” is only one of them. Look, for example, at the backgrounds of a lot of top staffers at the Department of Justice or any other federal agency. Or, maybe he could have grown up to be Ann Coulter?


33 posted on 04/28/2009 2:26:32 PM PDT by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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