{"id":29880,"date":"2012-08-17T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/obamas-sealed-records-arent.html"},"modified":"2012-08-17T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:34:12","slug":"obamas-sealed-records-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/obamas-sealed-records-arent.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#39;s &quot;Sealed&quot; records &#8230; aren&#39;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent brouhaha over Romney&#39;s &quot;I keep the locked in a secret vault in my underground lair&quot; tax returns, I&#39;ve seen any number of folks reply in comment threads asking why Obama hasn&#39;t &quot;unsealed&quot; various personal records (besides, of course, tax returns), as if that&#39;s countering the issue.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s not, but it&#39;s a great way to paint Obama as this shadowy, secretive &quot;Other&quot; who has so much to hide (and, y&#39;know, probably wasn&#39;t even \u00a0_born_ here). \u00a0FactCheck has a good review here of the mysterious &quot;sealed&quot; records, and why they really aren&#39;t.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffactcheck.org%2FUploadedFiles%2F2012%2F07%2FObama_Sealed.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/factcheck.org\/2012\/07\/obamas-sealed-records\/'>FactCheck.org : Obama\u2019s \u2018Sealed\u2019 Records<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFULL ANSWER. This is an example of mostly old baloney in a new casing. It mainly recycles years-old falsehoods and insinuations, most of which we covered long ago, in connection with an earlier viral &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/P5rVLMqFpUu' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent brouhaha over Romney&#39;s &quot;I keep the locked in a secret vault in my underground lair&quot; tax returns, I&#39;ve seen any number of folks reply in comment threads asking why Obama hasn&#39;t &quot;unsealed&quot; various personal records (besides, of course, tax returns), as if that&#39;s countering the issue. It&#39;s not, but it&#39;s a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/obamas-sealed-records-arent.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama&#39;s &quot;Sealed&quot; records &#8230; aren&#39;t&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28628,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/caesars-wife-must-be-beyond-reproach.html","url_meta":{"origin":29880,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Caesar&#39;s Wife Must Be Beyond Reproach&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jul-12 5:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Is there some horrible smoking gun in Romney's tax records -- ownership in a Chinese melamine factory, or contributions to NAMBLA, or sub-par donations to the Mormon church, or writing off his wife's Cadillacs as second and third homes because she let the\u00a0gardener\u00a0sleep in them? \u00a0Probably not. 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Which, for the record, doesn't forbid the release of tax records.Donald Trump, Jr., has a new explanation: Trump's tax returns are so YUUGLELY complicated that it would just be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131560,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/17\/should-obama-release-trumps-tax-returns.html","url_meta":{"origin":29880,"position":2},"title":"Should Obama release Trump&#039;s tax returns?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Sep-16 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently it would be legal, but I suspect the blowback would be worse than the potential advantage in doing so. 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