My guess is for the same reason no other president, vice-president, presidential or vice-presidential candidates have released their college records - there is little political upside.
Personally I think every presidential candidates should release their college records and at least ten years of tax returns.
That might though require a Constitutional amendment to make it mandatory.
We agree that all candidates for POTUS should release their college records. But with political corruption endemic in both parties, no one should hold their breath.
Speaking of upsides, or Obama there would definitely have been a one IF he hadn’t been a lousy student, or if he hadn’t done anything shady to get into the various schools. This is because Obama uniquely, of all major party nominees, had no resume. He is the least accomplished person ever to win the Democrat or Republican nomination.
Obama’s lack of accomplishments is not just an opinion; it’s a fact. What had he done? He went to college. He worked briefly at a low level job that he and Ayers lied like Hillary about. [Practically the only accurate detail they included in Dreams was the name of the co.] He was a community organizer. He attained public office via dirty, illegal means and held each one only long enough to set himself up for his next campaign. He voted ‘present,’ relentlessly, and had no legislative accomplishments.
Take his stint at community organizing. What did he accomplish in that capacity?
Nothing. The donut. I’ve seen the photos. Obama and his cronies pocketed the $ and left the community worse than they found it.
How about the Annenberg Foundation? What did Obama accomplish there?
He actually had a negative accomplishment with the Annenberg Challenge. He spent an S-load of $, failed to raise the students’ scores a single point, BUT, he succeeded in radicalizing them. You can observe the bloodbath-hellhole Chicago has become, and know that Obama contributed to it.
One more thing about the community organizing. In all the time of Obama’s campaigning and holding office, think about the one thing you never saw. Namely, you never saw anyone from the community Obama ‘organized,’ standing up to give a testimony about it. No one ever spoke out on Obama’s behalf, and described the positive impact his organizing had either on the community at large or on them personally. It’s really quite remarkable. You’d think with a community teeming with Democrats of color, someone would have wanted to testify to Obama’s benefit. But no one ever did.
With his life’s achievement a big zero, the least the voters deserved was to know what kind of a student Obama was. Intelligent voters would have demanded that information, anyway.
But the Democrats rely on a constituency too dumbed down to know how to assess a candidate. If the guy can read, ‘Hope and change,’ off a teleprompter, that’s good enough.
The Democrats once had integrity. But as time went by, they decided that power at any price trumped all else. (Bill Clinton was the game-changer toward this outlook.) It’s very sad. [Though hardly sadder than the GOP. They too threw integrity under the bus, but for them it was a mere expedient toward the goal of becoming the craven Uniparty. At least the Democrats understand and value power. The GOP is just as content to be a doormat, as long as the big donors are happy and the gravy train keeps rolling.]