Clinton pressing Obama to disclose tax returns for all of public life, not just the Senate years.

Clinton Campaign letter to Any and All Interested Parties:

For all of Sen. Obama's rhetoric about the need for tax return transparency, you'd think he'd have released all of his tax records. Guess again.

For weeks, Sen. Obama and his campaign relentlessly demanded that Hillary release all of her tax returns even though 20-years of them were already publicly available. His campaign held an endless string of conference calls, issued press releases and flooded the airwaves with surrogates attacking Hillary for not immediately releasing the returns for the last few years she has been in public life.

Sen. Obama said the American people "deserve to know where you get your income from," stressing the need for "full transparency" and bragging that his campaign has "set the bar." ...whats the hold-up of Obama's Tax Returns and his State Senate records?

Well, Hillary released tax returns earlier this month and is now the only candidate in this race who has made thirty years worth of tax returns public.

But despite his rhetoric, Sen. Obama doesn't abide by the standards he sets for others.

Sen. Obama has refused to release his tax returns for 1997, 1998 and 1999, even though he was in public life as a state senator during those years. During this period of time, Sen. Obama was accepting contributions from special interest lobbyists, PACs and even directly from corporations.

In fact, Sen. Obama has a habit of demanding higher standards of transparency for others than for himself. The National Archives has released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from Hillary's years as first lady, including her entire schedule. Throughout the campaign, Sen. Obama has demanded Hillary release more documents, even though they are not under her control. Meanwhile, Sen. Obama refuses to release any documents that are more than three years old. At first, Sen. Obama and his campaign told the press that he had records from his state senate years. Later, he said he threw them all out.

Whether it's tax returns or legislative records or his relationship with indicted political fixer Tony Rezko, Senator Obama seems to take "the dog ate my homework" approach to disclosure.

When it comes to transparency, the only thing transparent about Senator Obama is his claim to be transparent.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/04/clinton_pressing_obama_to_disc.html#more

oh and also, he needs to track down those Senate records from Illinois or have they "mysteriously" disappeared into thin air.

That to me says quite frankly, gotten rid off so as not to cause significant trouble.

...he just can't do because he happened to "destroy" all his records. How can you get rid of yours and then demand others to disclose theirs?

There are so many to choose from and you pick this?
What about the one that said he does not eat collard greens?

That's terrible.

But where are his taxes?

What is he hiding?

then that would be good enough for me.

He concluded that it was bad, and stopped doing it. It is called intelligence.

G-Bye!

simple yes or no.

and she only released the tax records because of the constant requests. She had no choice. Obama voluntarily released his records. That's transparency. What do the Clintons have to hide?

Obama and his followers think it's because they Luuurve him!

:shrug:

:thumbsup:

Fair is fair

You just have to find 'em. We Obama supporters know where ti is, it's just that the Clinton folks aren't too smart to know where it is.

Hawkeye-X

notice the prognosticators down thread.

Hillary hasn't seen the Tax Returns but they have...

all loud and ugly.

What is Obama trying to hide? hmm.. perhaps Rezko money...good stuff, the GOP will uncover with relish !

Thanks for the hard work from Y'all. Anytime we need another election failure..leave your contact numbers on this thread!

Obama as walking on the backs of Americans, who think he walks on water. Read the T-Shirt captions.

cartoon bigoted.

talk about a condescending generalization

Since you are a fan of reactionary cartoons, perhaps you will enjoy Mike Lester's depiction of your candidate as well?

Enjoy!



Fostergate??!!!

It's you people who can't take any criticism whatsoever.. we're used to the daily grind here.. nothing new!

Since you seem to be a fan of his work, I just thought you might enjoy his take on HDC.

:puke:

...because some uppity black man is "stealing" the presidency from her highness.

sad...

in case you need someone to spell it out for you!

Is he running for president... did I miss something?

We won't talk about the fact that it took 200 posts (and god knows how many alerts) before it was locked, but at least it was finally locked for being racist trash.

cause it's still going strong!

I'm so sick of the racism coming from Hillary supporters. They should be ashamed. ALL of them.

Just because her's were released during her time as first lady...doesn't mean he asked for her 90's tax returns. Would he even still have his tax returns from the 90's.

After all the foot-dragging from the Clinton campaign to release her recent tax returns... it's absurd that she is suddenly so outraged that he hasn't released decade old tax reterns.

You must really be blind if you can't see Hillary's hypocracy on this issue.

Where are his?

I am pretty sure he didn't. So, I call you out on this. Link-up or shutup.

Why is he trying to hide them?

You must provide proof that they keep track of their "records"(whatever that entails) in order to make some absurd demand for them.

Almost the bottom of the barrel in terms of Fauxrage.

I'm sure there'll be one or two more tantrums thrown.

I think I know what it might be about:

(BARAAAWKK!!!rezko rezko rezko BRAAWWWAK!!! rezko rezko rezko BRAWWWWAAWK!!!!!rezko rezko rezko BARAK!!!! rezko rezko)

You'd think modern high schools would make it easier for students to do better research, demand more varied approaches to character assassination. Oh, yeah.

No: Child Left Behind.

Nevermind.

LOL


manufactoversy!!!


:rofl: :rofl:

Thanks for providing me the opportunity..

What's he hiding?!?!??!?!?!

Funny how they always look for an escape to never address the topic title. I've seen some stoop to typo ridicule when nothing else is available to complain about. <sigh>

:shrug:

'Clinton pressing Obama to disclose tax returns for all of public life, '

yet she wouldn't disclosed ANY of hers until April 4th , 2008?


Records show she and Bill have amassed quite a bit of wealth.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-taxes5apr05,1,7971647.story

Cmon Senator Obama, release yours for the same years Senator Clinton's are public for. And if you won't then explain why not.

show us your tax returns.

Great post.

Please remove it.

instead of when they are in office. Anyone with a brain will avoid shady deals, contribute more to charity, etc. when they know it is being scrutinized. However, a better sign of their convictions is how they behaved when they did not think they were being watched.

exciting, although now that I think of it, it could benefit him greatly if he released them. It would show, once and for all, he's a man from humble roots and not an elitist. Unlikely he made millions of dollars as a neighborhood organizer.

after waiting so long to release her own. Doesn't she have any sense of shame?

Obama tax returns dating to 1997...


When Obama posted his 2000 to 2006 tax returns on his site, the information was already released, just not posted.

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