I have the same problem. Any time I use a dynamically typed language, whatever time I save not specifying the type, I’ll lose immediately when I have to hunt down what sort of data this function expects or chase down some error that a compiler would have caught in a statically typed language.
This is such a weird controversy, because even if it was true, the only people it would upset are people who already don’t like Obama. It would be like if someone “leaked” that Trump owned a lot of confederate flag memorabilia.