Is it not strange that Obama has not one piece of paper from his State Senate career?

I know he missed a lot of votes and voted present a lot of the time but not one piece of paper? And yet he has the audacity to go after Hillary. I have called Obana a lot of things in the past, I guess I can add something else to that list now.

it - have I missed something? Thanks.

Wouldn't that mean not one piece of paper?

know what you were referring to. Thanks for clearing it up. :hi:

have any? This is coming out of left field, so I'm just wondering if you could add some more substance to whatever it is is bothering you, besides the fact that 'he's' not 'she'.

on anything that he did.

a state senator's records to the wife of a president's 'papers'. He also said in the article to specify what papers they might be looking for and he'd see what he could do, so that's not exactly saying 'no' to finding any papers.

Typical.

But I understand the real world constraints of that.

From the article at the OP:

Obama hasn't always claimed there were no papers left from his time in the state Senate. Earlier this year, campaign spokesman LaBolt asked The Associated Press to narrow a request for records on whether Obama had ever urged clemency for a convicted criminal.

"You're asking us to do an extremely exhaustive search into every record we have from the U.S. Senate and state Senate offices," LaBolt said at the time. At the news conference in Iowa last week, Obama said he didn't "have a whole bunch of records from those years," but told reporters to "let us know" if there are "particular documents that you are interested in."


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First they claim they would have to do an "extremely exhaustive search" -- then they claim they don't "have a whole bunch of records." Which is it?

And to answer your question, ask them. I don't have a clue.

This is the first time I've heard of this issue, too. And I have to say, I'm disappointed. It's just hard to believe that he didn't dump whatever he had on purpose. . . . which is his right, I suppose. But then why go after HRC the way he did?

Again, just a rhetorical question. I know you're not a mind reader.

He hit her for her K/L vote, but didn't vote himself. It's a weird tactic.

Sorry if I snapped; people are always asking questions, and I always say to myself (because they're not talking!), how do I know? Look it up! Call them! ;-) :hi:

Have a nice day!

:hi:

i'm all for the release of her papers, but your argument doesn't hold.

wouldn't he have had even more of an obligation to keep his papers?

I'm saying that Obama is hypocritical if he's criticizing HRC for not releasing her papers, although he threw his own papers away. What argument did you think I was making?

wrong spot

they're easy to flush out aren't they Sis?

Different Hillary supporters going after all of the candidates, or just the two who are gaining on her? I see attack after attack here, and I have only been her for less than a day. Seems that there is one supporter going after Edwards and now this one going after Obama.

Seems like they are doing a great job of attacking Obama and Edwards to keep the heat of Hillary! Seems like somebody has to "protect" her all the time! Of course I guess that's better than trying to explain her stand on the issues! :rofl:

:rofl:

Clearly he is unsuitable for the Presidency because he is

1. too disorganized to keep track of his old papers

or

2. too anal about throwing things away to keep control of the clutter.


BTW - I heard he doesn't have his lab reports from his high school chemistry class any more either!

:P

Your desperation is showing. :rofl:

Seems to me no one wants to answer the question. Isn't that odd?

and then maybe we'll have something to say about it

And I am the one called being desperate? :rofl:

were pissing off the right-to-lifers and the NRA. :patriot:

In the big leagues they keep records for, you know, the autobiography. And because what they do is so important people might want to know about it.

Guess it's not the same in the minors.

is this all they can come up with? Come on.

Oh - that's right - he didn't support this so-called war and quite possibly the next one. So let's get him on his Illinois papers.

Can you say "Scratching for Straws"?

Anything negative about Obama HAS to be!!!

:sarcasm:

It may be true, despite all odds, but it's not trivial and might not be innocent.

BTW, I don't support Obama or Clinton, so I have no dog in this fight.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3066181

(edited to correct bookmarked link)

2004.

Three years, not three decades, Senator :)

I served in the Iowa legislature. I have two small files to show for it.

Cheap shot by the Hillary manure spreading organization.

>>While any file from Obama's time in the state Senate would be far smaller, the idea that no papers exist at all is questioned by one historian.

"Most of those guys do keep this stuff, especially the favorable stuff. They've all got egos," said Taylor Pensoneau, a historian who has written about Illinois legislators and governors and worked with them as a lobbyist for the coal industry. "It goes in scrapbooks or maybe boxes. I don't think it's normal practice to say it's all discarded."<<

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEMOCRATS_RECORDS?SITE=WDUN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Illinois state senators don't have personal archivists. Should they?

You can go here:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html

with something that he hopes would be believable. He does that quite a bit and it appears that he can not think quickly on his feet...something like * does...

K&R

Hillary supporter?

Besides, aren't his voting record and legislative successes a matter of public record? It would be interesting to
see how many Senators who've come directly from long careers in state legislatures have the funds to keep
archives of their past tenure.

...and I have records going back farther than THAT.

(And no, I am not a Hillary Supporter)

I was supporting Obama. Then came the pandering. Tax cuts for the middle class in a time of large deficits. Paid family leave - it's a program that goes too far. I can't back it. Not canning that performer who thinks gays can change. Surely he would not have allowed a performer who had misconceptions about race to go on.

Don't be fooled by Obama.

:shrug:

Again, welcome to DU. Enjoy your stay.

Sorry, i will try to restrain myself. I would actually like it if someone could convince me that I was wrong. I would love to hop back on to that bandwagon, if I could buy into where it was going. Right now I cant