Mr. Obama, show us your records.

 

Perhaps this blog should be called the Audacity of Hypocrisy.  As it now seems more and more likely that Mitt Romney will be the nominee, the Obama campaign has demanded Mitt Romney release 23 years of tax returns. 

 

Can we say this is the ultimate in hypocrisy?

 

Mitt Romney should release those records.  Just not yet. 

 

What he should do every day is stand up and say, in his best Reagan voice, “Mr. Obama show us your records.”

 

Indeed, a conservative (which Romney is not) standing up demanding, “Mr. Obama show us your records,” is much like Reagan standing up against the evil empire in 1987, saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

 

If Obama wants Romney’s records, he needs to release his records first.    Romney’s blue blood would probably freeze before he dared embarrass himself by asking these questions, but he should.

 

Romney’s first demand should the birth certificate.  The real birth certificate.  That is the one that is in Hawaii or Kenya or in Fargo, North Dakota.  Whereever it is, give it to us.  Not that photoshopped fraud, show the real thing.

 

Next, let’s see Obama’s school records.  Let’s start with Obama’s records at Occidental College.  We can put to rest the rumor that Obama went to school as a foreign student on a scholarship reserved for foreign students.  Perhaps more interesting would be Obama’s grades. 

 

Next Obama needs to release his school records from Columbia and Harvard, including all of the admissions records.  Obama was by his own admission not a good student.  How the hell does someone who is not a good student get into two of the most prestigious Universities in America?

 

Those records that Obama has never released would be very interesting.

 

The next records Obama should release are his attorney discipline records.   Not only should we see his attorney disciplinary records but we should see them for Michelle Obama’s as well. Both of them went to Harvard and passed their bar exams.  Yet after four year, Michelle Obama’s license was “surrendered.”  Why?  Lawyers who work hard to go through law school and pass the bar do not simply surrender their licenses.

 

Obama promised that his regime would be the most transparent in history.  It has been just the opposite. 

 

Now his campaign is making demands of Romney that Romney release his records.

 

If Romney were a real leader not a dilettante, he would take this and shove it down Obama’s throat.   This is the kind of issue that Romney could take and even force the drive-by media to pick it up and run a negative story about Obama.

 

The media has mocked everyone who has asked questions about Obama.  Unfortunately Romney still believes the media will still be nice to him, so he won’t want to do anything to offend the media.  Therefore Romney will not ask the questions he needs to.  He will not ask the questions that a lot of Americans want to have answered.

 

Perhaps Romney should spend a few minutes talking to John McCain.  Ask him what the media did to him as soon as the Republican Convention was over.

 

Romney is a terrible choice for President.  Unfortunately if it is a choice between him and Obama there is no choice.

 

Perhaps the Romney campaign and the Republicans will grow up and play hardball. 

 

The Obama campaign certainly will.