After hammering Hillary for not speeding the release of her records from her time as First Lady, Barack Obama now offers this startling admission.

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."

I'm sorry, but his scrubbing of the documents strikes me as pretty questionable. It reeks of incompetence, and a lack of openness.

But then again, maybe what he meant to say was that he has no record. After all, his appeal seems to be that he is young, hip, and black -- and he doesn't need official records to document that.

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