Obama Now Claims He Has No Records From Illinois

AP:

Barack Obama, who's been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois state Senate.

He says he hasn't got any.

"I don't have _ I don't maintain _ a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records," he said at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. He said he wasn't sure where any cache of records might have gone, adding, "It could have been thrown out. I haven't been in the state Senate now for quite some time."

Obama's statement that he has no papers from his time in the Illinois statehouse _ he left in 2004 _ stands in stark contrast to the massive Clinton file stored at the National Archives: an estimated 78 million pages of documents, plus 20 million e-mail messages, packed into 36,000 boxes. While any file from Obama's time in the state Senate would be far smaller, the idea that no papers exist at all is questioned by one historian.

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Comments

[mrman]

The truth is he had said this a long time ago. Most state senators do not keep records from their terms. They can't afford it and they don't need them for something such as a PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY. This is just another ploy to change the subject as to why she has so much "experience" as First Lady...but dosen't want to take the heat for the screw ups during the Clinton years.

[vamonticello]

That headline is MISLEADING. He personally did not keep them, that does not mean he does not have any records from Illinois. Of course he has records every politician has records. His votes have been recorded and his speeches have been recorded. Didnt you see his 2002 anti-Iraq speech?

[Average]

I guess he has now graduated to BIG TIME POLITICS--He can lie with the best of them.

[bessie1]

He said this same baloney on Meeet ther Press and of course wasn't pressed about it.

[Mrrar]

I think it's funny how the tactic of the HRC machine is basically to take anything good people say about Obama (He is inspiring) and bombard the media with messages that Hillary is [Place whatever obama is here].

And on the other hand, their tactic is to take anything that people criticize Hillary for, and then throw it at Obama..

And the funniest part is? In _both_ cases, it's complete crap. ;)

Come on, Why isn't Huffington Post breaking the news about Lawrence Lessig's endorsement of Barack Obama? I tell you what, the man's more influential and important than half the contributers on this blog.

Break the news! The Candidate of Change and Ethics!