The Secretive President: What Does He Have To Hide?

Newsmax, a conservative news magazine, today called for Obama to release his birth certificate and not just his Certification of Live Birth. They applaud CNN's Lou Dobbs who has stayed on the issue. There is little doubt that Obama was born in Hawaii, but his secretiveness is a mystery and makes him uniquely opaque which is odd coming from someone who has made a point of criticizing others for being secretive.

The Newsmax story lists the following items that others have released but that Obama has refused to release:
Health records
Official papers as a state legislator in Illinois
Client list as an attorney or his billing records
School Records from Occidental College, Columbia, and Harvard Law School
His application to the Illinois State Bar
Donor Lists (1/3 of 750 Million is unaccounted for)

These are troubling, especially since many of the requests have been tied to ambiguities and likely falsehoods in Obama's description of his activities. He's got a host of lawyers protecting his privacy or perhaps his record of being fast and loose with the truth.