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Walking the rows of media outlets at the Denver convention, I had no trouble finding reporters who complained the campaign was secretive and evasive. Ben Smith of Politico.com has written about Team Obama's "pattern of rarely volunteering information or documents, even when relatively innocuous." Politico asked months ago if Mr. Obama had ever written anything for the Harvard Law Review as a student. The Obama campaign responded narrowly, with a Clintonesque statement that "as the president of the Law Review, Obama didn't write articles, he edited and reviewed them." This month it turned out Mr. Obama had written an article -- but it was published a month before he became president.
Chasing the rest of Mr. Obama's paper trail is often an exercise in frustration. Mr. Obama says his state senate records "could have been thrown out" and he didn't keep a schedule in office. No one appears to have kept a copy of his application for the Illinois Bar. He has released only a single page of medical records, versus 1,000 pages for John McCain.
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"They're terrified of people poking around Obama's life," one reporter told Gabriel Sherman at the New Republic. "The whole Obama narrative is built around the narrative that Obama and [campaign strategist] David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it's not entirely true." The stakes are high. If the full story of Mr. Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright had been revealed before the Iowa caucus, he wouldn't have won.
Yes, isn't it about time the media called obama out about his lack of forthcoming? You know when you get the run-around, somebody is usually hiding something.
I guess the press will NOT be able to avoid the issues when the Mccain campaign brings them up.
Obama can ignore one or two reporters asking for clarification I guess, but will he be able to ignore the whole pack when they demand answers?
Boy you'll just post anything to keep the focus off what the GOP has done to this Country over their last eight years in power.
You want the focus off the issues. Because when the focus is on what matters, the GOP get's the crap knocked out of them.
Like healthcare, social security, getting out of Iraq, not starting another war with Iran, public education, wiretapping US citizens without a warrant, corporate give aways to polluters - oil companies. Food safety, water safety, air safety.
The GOP sucks at governing. All they can do is throw up a smoke screen and pray like hell dumb Americans fall for it.
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