Judson Phillips of Tea Party Nation never fails to miss an opportunity to stick his foot deep into his mouth. And yesterday was no exception. In response to demands across the spectrum for Mitt Romney to release his tax returns, Phillips sent an email to his followers demanding that Obama release his college and medical records.
In demanding the release of Obama's collegiate records, Phillips revives a tired, and borderline racist, smear against the president.
There are a lot of records that Americans should want to see from Barack Obama. To start with, there are his records from Occidental College so that the allegation that Obama attended that school on a scholarship reserved for foreign students can be resolved. Another record that Americans should be demanding Obama release are his records from Columbia and Harvard.
How does someone who is a self-admitted poor student, get into two of the most prestigious schools in America? Obama was admitted to Harvard law. Generally you need to have almost a perfect 4.0 to even have a shot at Harvard. Anyone want to bet Obama’s GPA was nowhere near that?
There they go again, feeding the "he's not one of us" meme. But believe it or not, that's not the craziest part of that post. Phillips also wants to see Obama's medical records to deflect rumors he's not only a closet gay, but a cokehead.
Obama by his own admission was a very heavy marijuana user in his youth. He has also admitted to using cocaine, though he denies using drugs such as heroin. He also says he was a significant drinker.
Why is this important?
Because these are all symptoms of addiction.
A man named Larry Sinclair claims that in 1999 he and Barack Obama had sex and then smoked crack cocaine. This is 1999, nine years before Obama would run for President.
Crack cocaine is very addictive. It is very destructive. Addiction specialist will tell you that a crack addiction is very tough to break.
Phillips is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Larry Sinclair briefly crawled out of the woodwork back in 2008--and was exposed back then as
a liar and a con man. So Phillips is relying on the word of a career criminal and charlatan.
I scoured the comments for even ONE critical comment about Phillips' latest screed. So far, I haven't found any. Even by the standards of a site that suggested businesses deliberately stop hiring in order to hurt Obama, this is simply breathtaking.