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ELECTION 2012
OBAMA'S SIGNATURE MOVE: UNSEALING PRIVATE RECORDS
Ann Coulter explains how BHO destroys opponents by exploiting embarrassments
Published: 53 mins ago
Mitt Romney presents one enormous problem for Barack Obamas campaign: No divorce records. Thats why the media are so hot
to get their hands on Romneys tax records for the past 25 years. They need something to pick through, distort and lie about as
the Republican candidate says.
Obamas usual campaign method, used in 100 percent of his races, has been to pry into the private records of his opponents.
Democrats arent going to find any personal dirt on the clean-cut Mormon, so they need complicated tax filings going back decades
in order to create the illusion of scandal out of boring financial records.
Romney has already released his 2010 tax return and is about to release his 2011 return. After all the huffing and puffing by the
media demanding those returns, the follow-up story vanished remarkably quickly when the only thing the return showed was that
Romney pays millions of dollars in taxes and gives a lot of money to charity.
Lets take a romp down memory lane and review the typical Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by
virtue of David Axelrods former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obamas two principal
opponents.
One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a
multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hulls second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had
sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.
Those records were under seal, but as the New York Times noted: The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later
acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had worked aggressively behind the scenes to push the story. Many people said
Axelrod had an even more significant role that he leaked the initial story.
Both Hull and his ex-wife opposed releasing their sealed divorce records, but they finally relented in response to the medias
hysteria 18 days before the primary. Hull was forced to spend four minutes of a debate detailing the abuse allegation in his
divorce papers, explaining that his ex-wife kicked me in the leg and I hit her shin to try to get her to not continue to kick me.
After having held a substantial lead just a month before the primary, Hulls campaign collapsed with the chatter about his divorce.
Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.
As luck would have it, Obamas opponent in the general election had also been divorced! Jack Ryan was tall, handsome, Catholic
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and shared a name with one of Harrison Fords most popular onscreen characters! He went to Dartmouth, Harvard Law and
Harvard Business School, made hundreds of millions of dollars as a partner at Goldman Sachs, and then, in his early 40s, left
investment banking to teach at an inner city school on the South Side of Chicago.
Ryan would have walloped Obama in the Senate race. But at the request of again the Chicago Tribune, California Judge Robert
Schnider unsealed the custody papers in Ryans divorce five years earlier from Hollywood starlet Jeri Lynn Ryan, the bombshell
Borg on Star Trek: Voyager.
Jack Ryan had released his tax records. He had released his divorce records. But both he and his ex-wife sought to keep the custody
records under seal to protect their son.
Amid the 400 pages of filings from the custody case, Jack Ryan claimed that his wife had had an affair, and she counterclaimed
with the allegation that he had taken her to sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans, which drove her to fall in love with
another man.
(Republicans: If you plan a career in public office, please avoid marrying a wacko.)
Ryan had vehemently denied her allegations at the time, but it didnt matter. The sex club allegations aired on Entertainment
Tonight, NBC Nightly News, ABCs Good Morning America, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and NBCs Today show.
CNN covered the story like it was the first moon landing.
(Interestingly, international papers also were ablaze with the story the same newspapers that were supposed to be so bored with
American sexual mores during Bill Clintons sex scandal.)
Four days after Judge Schnider unsealed the custody records, Ryan dropped out of the race for the horror of (allegedly)
propositioning his own wife and then taking no for an answer.
Alan Keyes stepped in as a last-minute Republican candidate.
And thats how Obama became a U.S. senator. He destroyed both his Democratic primary opponent and his Republican general
election opponent with salacious allegations about their personal lives taken from sealed court records.
Obamas team delved into Sarah Palins marriage and spread rumors of John McCains alleged affair in 2008, and they smeared
Herman Cain in 2011 with hazy sexual harassment allegations all emanating from David Axelrods pals in Chicago.
Its almost like a serial killers signature. Unsealed personal records have been released to the press. Obama must be running for
office!
So you can see what a pickle the Obama campaign is in having to run against a Dudley Do-Right, non-drinking, non-smoking,
God-fearing, happily married Mormon.
Theyve got to get their hands on thousands of pages of Romneys tax filings so that the media can as Romney says lie about
them. It will be interesting to see if Obama can pick the lock of the famously guarded IRS.
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