Mount Trashmore

More Presidential Trash

LBJ, JEC, WJC, BHO

Obama really, I mean really is Clinton II.  Obama's  birth certificate brouhaha reminded me of similar contretemps in 1992.  New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth brought up the issue of  the Clinton's Whitewater problem, and it became a huge distraction.  The Clintons finally commissioned  an ostensibly independent report by a “forensic accounting firm” and Denver lawyer James Lyons, which report cleared the Clintons.  End of debate.  Turns out Lyons was a longtime Clinton friend, and the report was false. Lyons was nominated by Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit    Recent media reporting - after the SCOTUS predictably declined to pursue Obama's birth certificate - cited the State of Hawaii' supposed validation of a document nobody has ever seen.   The real question all along has been, why didn't Obama just allow the media, or the Senate, or me,  to see the vaulted, original  document, and be done with it?  At least we'd know what hospital he was born in.  And who delivered him.  Segue to Blago-gate, and these  magic words. “ ... communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps. ” "I didn't do it" Those wiretaps prove that Rahm Emmanuel presented Gov. Blagojevich with names of four people Obama would accept to fill his Senate seat.  The question now becomes, why did Obama lie about it, when he could easily have said, "yes, of course I gave my recommendations to the Gov."?  Is he, like the Clintons. a pathological liar?  Or is he, like the Clintons, hiding something more?   He's not even sworn in yet, but Obama is, if anything, running ahead of the Clinton Scandal timeline.  Kenneth Starr, in the person of Patrick Fitzgerald, already has a bead on him.