Posted on 12/27/2011 9:06:53 AM PST by Smokeyblue
To this day, Barack Hussein Obama remains a man of mystery. Copious amounts of documentation from his early life and academic career have never been released. It took years of pressure, plus Donald Trump as the ringmaster of a media circus, just to see his birth certificate.
When the L.A. Times obtained a potentially embarrassing videotape of Obama laughing it up at a party for Arafat minion Rashid Khalidi, the paper pursed its lips and fastidiously hid the tape from public view. Their newspaper account of the part didn’t even mention that domestic terrorist Friends of Obama Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn attended the event. Another important connection from Obama’s past, his long attendance at Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church of racial hatred, was carefully buried by the media until conservative radio hosts and bloggers dragged it into the open.
The rules for “vetting” are very different for Republican candidates. We’ve already seen murky allegations from Herman Cain’s past assigned a level of instant credibility that would never have been granted if he were a black Democrat. Even after a much more serious accusation of a long-running consensual affair caused Cain to suspend his campaign, we still don’t know exactly what the initial “sexual harassment” accusers complained about.
Now CNN has magically obtained the sealed records of Newt Gingrich’s first divorce. Here’s the wonderful story of how this Yuletide journalistic miracle came to pass:
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
It's called the prior restraints doctrine. While the state can enjoin parties over whom it has jurisdiction against disclosure of documents (and punish them with contempt if they violate that injunction), the state cannot establish restraints on the free speech of third parties. The most famous example of this was the Pentagon Papers case in which a white paper on Vietnam was published by the usual liberal suspects after being stolen by, IIRC, a defense department contractor who was under a confidentiality agreement.
“Yet not telling your wife that you are helping someone out does? Dude, the man is a serial adulterer. If you were at all consistant, you’d be far more concerned about Newt.”
You may be the perfect example of why the country is where it is right now. You didn’t get one word of what I said. The point was Cain destroyed Cain. We don’t owe Cain a thing for self-destructing.if there had been no ammunition, there would have been no shots fired. Secondly, I’m not “concerned about Newt” because Newt is irrelevant to me. My candidate is Perry. I’ll do everything I can to help him because I believe in him. I will vote for the nominee. Hanging on to Cain’s ankles and sobbing does you no good. If Gingrich isn’t okay with you, support another candidate. Cain’s gone.
No, I just misread your comment.
I wonder how many women they have lined up to take Santorum out?
Good. ;>)
Happy New Year...
This heavy handed Axelrod operation just may backfire, since it is ancient history belabored by the Left.
Yawn. Who cares. Someone files, and the responder’s lawyer denies. Standard operating procedure.
I've been thinking about this for a while. The only way to put an end to these political crows ravaging the crops of the electorate is not to put up a scarecrow, but to leave a few dead crows lying around.
It's time for some real prosecutions, enough to discourage a generation or two of mafeasants to think 5 times before getting anywhere near a political office.
Well the only part of that statement that is true is later part, yes Newt has been married 3 times. The first part is not true particularly as you state it and has been explained several times both by Newt during the debates and by others. And I remember the Heritage Foundation's position on this; which is what this was in reference to. Now I did find it to be a stupid counter-argument to HillaryCare, but it was one of the main stream conservative counter arguments way back 1992-1993. Given then the constant drumbeat by the media and the
“beautiful people” that we had a “health care” crisis, which we don't (And never have had if you actually look at the numbers!) my attitude was “whatever argument it takes to stop HillaryCare! Just Stop it!!”. That was then this is now!
As far as Cain backing out goes, I think “we” were there to support him if he would have launched a counter-offensive. It looked like he was when he hired that Atlanta lawyer who has expertise in defamation of character & liable law. However he inexplicably gave up, as Palin did when she got accused by that trashy author that she had sex as a single women with a black pro basketball player.(Single women having sex..whodathunk?) You are going to say well Palin wasn't running, well she was doing a good imitation of it! In both cases they showed they didn't have the “kill the enemy, scatter their flocks and enjoy the lamentations of their women (in this case the lamentations of the gay crowd!)” attitude that is needed.
If you read Newt's supposed praise of RomneyCare in a 2006-ish article its faint praise at best, its basically kudos for thinking about a “solution”. He points out all the already existing Massachusetts healthcare laws that are potentially trouble for its success. I actually disagree with Newt on this issue I am very skeptical of the whole notion of a healthcare crisis. Just like I am huge skeptic on anything environmental. Newt has a soft spot for environmental issues and in some cases a soft head regarding it. As far as Newt's marriages go, I have already acknowledged he had the Bill Clinton immaturity problem. That's why Clinton rolled him. That is all past now, and anyway Reagan was divorced, one marriage, two marriages, three, etc. What difference does it make; the non-divorced paradigm was broken by Reagan and it is not coming back. (And yes the “public” circumstances of the Reagan divorce is different from Newt's,or so we are told ! But I wasn't there. Heck I wasn't even born, so to me it is what it is. Anyway as Christians we are supposed to forgive past transgression if the person has truly reformed. I am willing to do that and adopt a let's see if he has! As far as the other candidates go, I liked Perry initially as I did Bachman. However they moved themselves downward in my calculus by their debate performances, campaign behavior, etc. and Newt moved up. This is "political war" and I want political ruthlessness my candidate and I see that in Newt. I don't see that in anybody else. If we don't win this round the next political round will be bad bad, Third World bad!
A possible good reason: Timing. Reveal killer Obama documents only after it is too late for Hillary to be substituted as the 2012 candidate...say in October 2012.
A bad reason: GOP was implicated in covering for Obama in a deal to protect McCain in 2008.
Another bad reason: GOP doesn't want ineligibility precedent to eliminate “too precious” ineligible candidates for VP in 2012 (IMO), such as Marko Rubio, Jindal or Haley, whose parents were not citizens when they were born.
Back to the thread, Newt appears to have used his daughter to make claims regarding his divorce from his cradle-robbing first wife that are not supported by the facts. For this, if true, he has only himself to blame. It is not the crime, but the cover-up that can get you!
Yet, it is still not too late for Newt to rehabilitate himself (again) and emerge as the Non-Mitt after several contenders drop out in the next two weeks.
I might add that a large portion of the electorate is so pissed right now, you might hear a collective cheer shake the nation at the first perpwalk video..
I don’t know about where you live but around these parts divorce records are a matter of public record.
Yeah irreconconcilible differences or adultery.
Dear CNN:
Guess what? I don’t care how much dirt you Obamabots throw on ANY Republican candidate!
If you want me to give a crap, then produce all the Obama paperwork you have been sitting on for the past 10 years or so.
Then, I might give a crap. Until then, don’t bother me with your petty attacks. Oh, and give your Chicago bosses my best (not).
And a Happy New Year to you.
And where might “around these parts” be, dummie underground?
Kaneljayhawk since 2011-12-27
The relevant comparison would be the divorce records of Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. And I agree that something is fishy there. I’m not even sure Obama himself knows the actual truth. Like Gingrich’s daughter, he only knows what he’s been told by the adults.
Obama’s birth records are complicated by the fact that he was evidently adopted by his mother’s second husband, had his name changed to Barry Soetoro, and became a citizen of Indonesia. Birth records in such cases are more easily sealed than in the case of divorce.
‘Weird the way those guys can at everyone’s sealed records but no one can at Barry’s past.’
Weird because the GOP E and candidates are too stupid or chicken to demand the media get soetoro/barry/soebarkah/obama’s records unsealed!
Gingrich should/can ask publicly:
‘Now you mighty media has managed to unseal my record, you must go and unseal obama’s records as well. You will be amazed how much you will unseal if you just try!’
Indeed! The release of his sealed records by the king of sealed records started this whole nightmare.
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