Obama Medical Records: MSM’s Don’t Ask, Obama’s Don’t Tell Policy
Barack Obama Medical Records:
The Unreleased Medical Records and
The Mainstream Media Double Standard
“No presidential candidate should get to the point that he has locked up his party’s nomination without public vetting of his health.”
–New York Times, on John McCain in May 4 2008 “Missing Records”
Many were the words written about John McCain and his medical records. That he delayed in releasing them, that his health records were crucial to the public’s right to know.
After McCain released nearly 1200 pages of medical records–the Arizona Senator not only had war-related injuries, but also bouts with skin cancer–the Mainstream Media complained that reporters were not given enough time to go through McCain’s records: they were given three hours to look through them.
Three hours is far less time than it would take those same reporters to go through Barack Obama’s medical records that have been released.
Because there are none.
The Obama campaign has stated that no medical records will be released. Instead, a one-page undated letter from a doctor will have to satisfy reporters on that issue.
The Mainstream Media’s curiosity has been satisfied: there have been no calls for Barack Obama to release medical records.
The New York Times on Barack Obama in May:
The letter is the first publicly released information about Mr. Obama’s medical history or current condition. The six-paragraph, one-page statement summarized the senator’s health for the last 21 years and was signed by Dr. David L. Scheiner, who said he has been Mr. Obama’s primary care physician since March 23, 1987. The undated letter was released less than a week after Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, released his medical records.
A spokesman for Mr. Obama said his campaign would not make Dr. Scheiner available for a telephone interview.”
–New York Times, May 8 2008, “Obama’s Doctor, Praising His Health, Sees No Obstacles to Service”
Legion were the stories written assuring readers that “Barack Obama is in excellent health”. That’s great, then why not release the records?
Other presidential candidates have assured the MSM that they were in “excellent health”, too.
It depends where your starting point is. I would say, yes, if you’re looking at the history of say, presidential candidates or candidates for high office. In the past, White House physicians have been known to lie; candidates for president or nominees have been known to evade the truth, distort the facts, or lie. You’ve got Woodrow Wilson with a stroke and his wife allegedly running the affairs of the country; you’ve got Franklin Roosevelt who may or may not have been told how deathly ill he was in his last term, and certainly nothing was told to the country about it; you’ve got Kennedy every which way not acknowledging that he had Addison’s disease; you had [Thomas] Eagleton who had to leave the [Democratic] ticket in ‘72 because he didn’t tell [George] McGovern about his past history of electric-shock therapy and depression; and there was [Paul] Tsongas in the mid-1990s and the fact that he had a recurrence after they had maintained that he was cured of cancer.
–Lawrence Altman, Covering Candidates’ Medical Records
Barack Obama stands alone in the last three elections as the only candidate to not release medical records to the public.
Gore did it in 1999: Gore’s Health ‘Outstanding,’ Doctors Say
Bush released medical and service records in 2000 and again in 2004: Bush releases his Vietnam-era military files
Though there were some questions, Kerry released records in 2004: Kerry allows Navy release of military, medical records
The MSM interest in George Bush’s records was so intense in 2004, it lead CBS News and Dan Rather to report on forged records–though they weren’t identified as such until the blogosphere pointed out the forgery.
What is in those medical records?
DBKP does not pretend to know–most likely nothing of interest. But we can’t report that: we don’t know. No one but the Obama campaign knows and they’re not saying.
The medical records join Obama’s college and university records as parts of the candidate’s past that is off-limits.
We won’t address the senator’s birth records: that’s another subject.
The refusal to release the medical records–as well as other information that Joe Sixpack has to provide–only leads to suspicions that only the Obama campaign can quiet.
The refusal of the Obama campaign to release records any American has to provide to secure employment is a puzzler: Obama promises “change” and “hope” and transparency.
The Obama campaign can demonstrate its commitment to transparency by releasing those records most American have to pony up every time they are interviewed for a job.
by Mondo Frazier
image: dbkp file
Not surprised. Also (I’m not a medic, I have to admit), you may want to check for the description of the medical condition called “acromegalia” which has as one of its characteristics an irregular development of the patient’s chin. Now, AnnDunham indeed had a chin size of a shoe, and this feature clearly moved further, genetically, yet junior’s chin is getting bigger and bigger – I am serious, compare Obama’s older photos with more recent ones.
“Acromegalia”, in case you are not familiar with this condition, doesn’t cause just facial hyper-developments, like chin or eyebrows, etc., it has also psychological components – considering that there is a serious body of literature dealing with the correlation between Hitler’s undeveloped/undescended testicle and his career, it might be worth pondering over Obama’s clearly “acromegalic” features and his future’s potentialities….
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misanthropicus,
Thanks for a most excellent comment.
Interesting…and it’s enough to have me doing some research!
Thanks for taking the time to stop by, read and comment.
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The MSM, aka Ministry of Propaganda, is more concerned with Joe The Plumber’s license status than Obama’s citizenship status, medical records, and affiliations with domestic terrorists and voter fraud groups.
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“The refusal of the Obama campaign to release records any American has to provide to secure employment is a puzzler”
In what universe do Americans have to provide medical records to secure employment? No company can force an employee to release medical records and it is illegal to fire someone based on medical information.
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But the MOP demanded it from McCain and Bush.
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A significant number of lawyers suffer from manic-depressive disorder (called “bipolar disorder” in PC-speak) and require regular medication.
Give-away: these people are often strictly teetotal because alcohol interferes with the psycho-pharmaceuticals that keep them functioning.
Does Obama’s sanity come out of a bottle?
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KV,
Perhaps I’m behind the times: I’ve authorized the release of medical records to my place of employment before. Perhaps, I am the only person who’s ever done that.
In a nationalized health care system, the government will have complete access to all of my medical records. Why does not the public need to know Senator Obama’s?
Perhaps I’m the only one wondering about that, also.
Thanks for stopping by, reading and commenting.
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Your not the only one.My company requires the you to release your medical record or you don’t get hired!
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There is always something someone is trying to hide if they refuse medical info. Especially older records. I can see not disclosing DNA but other things may be important to some. Questions I have heard asked are : Has Obama ever suffered a drug overdose? Has he ever suffered a life endagering head injury? Has he received phsyciatric care? Has he ever been committed to a mental institution? Has he ever been medically treated for child abuse? What immuninzations against disease has he had?
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