Hillary's hidden tax returns harm Barry and the Dems in November
'T is a great time to have a straight-talking national hero topping the ticket.
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Let's hear it for John McCain! Check it out:
"In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns, Hillary Clinton has made the false case in this campaign that she is more electable because she has been fully vetted," the memo stated. "When it comes to her personal finances, Senator Clinton’s refusal to release her taxes returns denies the media and the American people the opportunity to even begin that process."
And the memo is right. And the memo comes from Camp Barry.
David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's chief strategist, also said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday that Clinton has a history of non-disclosure and is the least-vetted candidate in the presidential race.
(Hillary's peeps, Howard Wolfson really, has said that she'd release them on April 15. This was on ABC's This Week, Sunday.)
But after this is over, as I've posited, the new-inevitable will be so: McCain will face Barry anyway. So why does this matter?
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The Democrats are doing the internecine warfare thaang. They're spending money, bringing up issues, and all for every charge there will be a countercharge. (A tit for a tat, rat-a-tat-a-tat.)
No tax returns from Hillary, and no Rezco answers from Barry. This is going to drag into Pennsylvania on April 22nd, where Fast Eddie Rendell is going to be the energetic, out-of-control bundle of slime and smear that he's been since he controlled the wards in Philadelphia.
And this petty image from to top of the Dem Party will trickle-down, ('T is one of my favorite expressions.) Soon, Nancy and her Dem Congress will be perceived as negative purveyors of petty politics. (There's nothing Nancy and friends can do to refute the image, of course, as it fits. It just needs a better national projector, and this Dem nominating contest might just do it.
This should be interesting. 'T is a good time to have a straight-talking national hero on the top of the ticket.
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Time's up Hillary: please provide the following to the American people, ASAP:
a. 2007 tax returns
b. Your meeting logs from the WH.
c. Your telephone logs with redactions (what are you hiding?)
d. Your WH papers - all of them.
e. Clinton library donor list, including all of your Middle East benefactors.
g. Details of all fees and honorariums received by your husband for the past four years. Not relevant? I think not.
h. Last, but indeed not the least, list of any and all corporate jet activity by your or your husband.
Are we concerned about Tony Rezko? You bet; but what's good for BHO, is good for you and we can start with Norman Hsu.
Yes.
This should go viral.
This pretense, that Hillary is somehow tested or has passed some sort of test is more stale than BHO's bleat about change. She is an uber-priveleged woman who has, except for 6 years in the Senate, been involved in either private industry, private law or behind-the-scenes unaccountable work for most of her life. To not even do what every candidate does, and then to claim some sort of passing grade on her vetting, is a con worthy of PT Barnum.
Your list should be on every blog. Every newspaper editor should get this list. Every news head of every broadcast outlet should get this.
We need the 2006 tax returns even more than the 2007. The reason Hillary is waiting until April 15 is so they can release the 2007 returns. Knowing she was going to be running for President I am sure the 2007 returns are clean, clean, clean.
The Clinton's need to disclose the 2006 returns when Bill got paid big bucks for his international business dealings.
Barack should post his complete tax returns on his website, then hold a presser, asking why doesn't she do the same thing..
Hopefully, the fatal wound has been inflicted in this primary battle and Nennius thinks short term he (or she as it may be) is the winner. Caeser will triumph and live to fight another day.
One should hope this conflict leaves them exhausted. However, conversely I would worry the constant media attention may leave the potential victor a mere historical footnote and still with empty sheath come the final battle.
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That would be my counter about that whole "lying to and cheating" thing. Especially about a wife that waited and hoped throughout his painful, prolonged captivity.
But that's just me.
1. My understanding is that he is on amicable terms with his ex-wife, and if anyone should judge or condemn him it would be her.
2. The separation and hardship put unusually severe stress on their marriage; ideally their marriage would have survived this test but I don't want to condemn the man for it. If I went through such separation and hardship would my marriage survive? I certainly hope it would, but I do think that is a very severe test for a marriage. Having not gone through the trials that Senator McCain has I don't feel it is right to condemn him for his divorce.
3. Senator McCain's divorce happened many years ago and I suspect he has matured since then.
The point is others will. Even if he were on amicable terms with his ex-wife, her appearance to confirm this in contrast to the much younger Cindy would not play well.
As far as separation and stress as a hardship; hundreds of thousands marriages are currently under the same circumstances.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see how this plays well to the man's character.
& I certainly will not cast stones toward McCain. Our marriage has had its share of stress & hardship - however, I don't think I can compare to being a prisoner of war. That he is on amicable terms with his first wife does speak well for his character. Many of us have had marriages that ended, again for reasons not related to something as horrific as seperation caused by being a POW. A focus on this will get nowhere for the dems or those who are just anti-McCain.
first failed marriage. I am going to claim some moral authority here being that I am married to a military man and have lived this life for 34 of my 40 years.
Military marriages are extremely difficult, given the best of circumstances. Add in a war and the stress level goes up exponentially. Factor in a 5+ year stint in a POW camp and a tragic auto accident and the level of stress goes up even more.
I would never presume to condone the way McCain behaved in his first marriage, however, I am willing to cut the man some slack given the tremendous amount of physical, emotional, and cultural stress the both of them were undoubtedly under.
A quick anecdotal example here. Hubby and I spent 3 years at the AMC school house for heavies in 98-01. We had a wonderful group commander and 5 stellar squadron commanders. They had been married anywhere from 18-25 years to their current wives. All great Christian, family men that were at the pinnacle of their careers. Retirement came for some of them and they were destined to go on to the airlines and have that coveted family time they all had worked to so hard to finally get. The other two were moving on to bigger and better things within the AF with future promotions all but guaranteed. Then 9-11 happened. The two that had retired the summer before found their airline jobs with Delta and American gone within a week. One that had moved on to headquarters found his marriage in tatters. The senior commander had moved on to the headquarters and now found his 10- 12 hour workday suddenly extended to 12- 16 hours and since he was now a deputy, he got the night shift. By the summer of 2004, 4 of the 6 men were divorced from their wives. It was tragic for their families and devastating for those of us that been under their watch and care. My heart still aches when I think of what once was, what could have been and what is reality now. In every case, it was the husband that wandered or decided he was done with his marriage. None of us will ever understand it, nor will we ever quite look at those men in the same way, but we have come to love them again for the men they still are and the contributions they gave to our country.
Unless you have walked a mile in McCain's shoes, I doubt you can really judge him or his failures. His ex-wife has come to terms with their failed marriage. I suggest you do the same.
will only get more lively as we approach April 22. With the closeness of the democrat race & 2 people who crave the power, we will see some rough & tumble politics the next few weeks...
every day with gibberish about how "mean" America is for giving her a Princeton education.
She's looking more like Omarosa every day. The seething Marxist resentments just oozing out of her affirmative-action pores! So sad about her $2 million house and nice job not meeting her expectations.
She makes Hillary look sympathetic---Obama better put her in the same kennel HRC put Bubba in for the duration of the campaign!
And that is all I have to say about that.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
The come down is going to be brutal.
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