[X-spurt]

What else could be the point of locking down college records?

I have a question, how could someone completely close all access to what is at some degree public records? Is this something only a POTUS could do? You would think that someone at Occidential, Columbia or Harvard would leak something by now. Maybe its waiting to be our October Surprise.

One thing a full GOP majority should do posthaste once elected, is pass a law making such records lock-down by any elected or government official open. Of course there are many many similar bits of legislation needed to prevent another “nobama” situation, but Sunlight is always a good deterrent for the likes of nobama and such could head off a lot.

[MrB]

And not 2% of libs would care one bit if he did apply as a foreign student or if it were proven beyond a shadow of doubt that he was not Constitutionally qualified.

[TexasCajun]

Barry was a hustler, gaming the system & anyone he could to get ahead with the least amount of effort and money.

US Citizen, Foreign Student, whatever worked best.

[Reily]

There has been a slow but steady increase in privacy laws (Both state and federal)that restrict all access unless there is specific permission by the adult owner. Anyone noticed how grades are no longer sent home from college? Try getting your child's college transcripts without their permission. (With my kid I set a rule early on no access to college records no funding! Mine kid has no issue with the rule, seemed perfectly reasonable to her!) Zero for the most part is hiding been those privacy rules. Now you say well Bush's grades etc were released, yes they were but it was done illegally and there was no effort to prosecute. Guess probably which political party controlled the local government in those cases?

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Didn’t 0bama issue an Executive Order requiring that certain records of his be sealed?? I can’t recall the specifics.

[x]

I have a question, how could someone completely close all access to what is at some degree public records? Is this something only a POTUS could do?

So you're okay with somebody getting access to your own school records without your permission?

You would think that someone at Occidential, Columbia or Harvard would leak something by now. Maybe its waiting to be our October Surprise.

Bush's records were leaked to the New Yorker by someone at Yale. Gore's transcripts were leaked to David Maraniss of The Washington Post. Kerry's grades were in his Navy records, which he released to counter rumors about his war record.

One of Romney's report cards from school was likewise leaked by somebody to the press. McCain's actual grades were not made public, but class standing at Annapolis is public knowledge.

A lot of what happens is people do guess work. If Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar who got into Yale Law without affirmative action, or his wife was valedictorian or Romney was a JD/MBA at Harvard, people assume they got good grades.

Yes, I think Obama should release his academic records (and his health records), but his grades (or yours) aren't "public records," and it looks like nobody at Occidental, or Columbia, or Harvard is going to leak them.

By this point they're probably locked away from prying eyes. I doubt that Maraniss really wanted to see them either. He would have been afraid of what he might find.