Longtime GOP Texas Gov. Perry wins another term

waco 1954 wrote:

<quoted text> Jimmy Carter is a good person.As well as a good man.

OregonSUX wrote:

"When attempting to engage in baseless speculation over what it is that's in Mitt Romney's tax statements that's so embarassing he'd rather take the heat for non-disclosure, I think it's important to remember that he was actively running for president in 2007 and 2008.
That means it's relatively unlike he was doing anything during those years that he thought couldn't withstand scrutiny. So why not release a nice even five years of tax data? Perhaps because of something that happened in 2009.
Something like this:
Wealthy U.S. taxpayers, concerned about an Internal Revenue Service crackdown on the use of secret overseas bank accounts as tax havens, are rushing to meet a Thursday deadline to disclose those accounts or face possible criminal prosecution. The concern was triggered this summer when Switzerland's largest bank, caught up in an international tax evasion dispute, said it would disclose the names of more than 4,000 of its U.S. account holders."
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So, what in the hell is so unacceptable in Tricky Mitt Romney's tax returns that he would rather have GOPOXers yell at him to reveal them?
Would they show that Tricky Mitt Romney committed felonies? Would they show that Tricky Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years?
What would they show?
What in the world could be so UNACCEPTABLE about Tricky Mitt Romney's financial history?

bet ya wrote:

Nrh That is exactly what Romneys answer should be!
Produce the tax returns the very minute Obama releases all documents relating to his education, from Jr. high on.
What you will find is high school poor grades. And an entire post high school education of a poor to middle class black man. Lacking the GPA to get into law school or the funds. Enrolled of some affirmative action program and paid for on grants.
And every step of the way claiming to be a foreign exchange student to help get the grants and other special treatments. He knows he has used his lack of citizenship to his advantage...and even if he lied to get the grants, its enough to cost him the election.

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Floyd wrote:

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What does one have to do with the other? We're talking tax returns, not school records. Romney hasn't released his school records from "Jr high on" either. Name a president or presidential candidate that has released his school records.
But Obama as the norm for presidential candidates HAS released his tax returns.
You obviously don't operate on a factual basis as you claim Obama's records are hidden yet you pretend to be reading from them.
Your bigotry is what's eating you up inside.

bet ya wrote:

And every step of the way claiming to be a foreign exchange student to help get the grants and other special treatments. He knows he has used his lack of citizenship to his advantage...and even if he lied to get the grants, its enough to cost him the election.

NRH Man wrote:

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And I believe every president has released their school records. Do you remember Bush getting hammered for being a C student at Yale?
I think obama is hiding something.

WEP wrote:

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This particular lie has is roots in a chain E-mail that was purported to be an AP news story. The fact that it was written on Aril 1st should have been your first clue that it was a hoax. The fact that it was never run in any newspaper should have been your second.
You are bearing false witness against your president. Very un-Christian and unpatriotic if you ask me.
This lie has been repeated so many times that it has become "truth" in the minds of many. Why are so many people so willing to accept a lie just because they think it is good for their team?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZVpp3K5Z2_k/RsCmuTv...

WEP wrote:

"Bush didn't release his. They were leaked to the New Yorker in 1999."
See:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/11/08/1...

NRH Man wrote:

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If its all a lie, then why not release the records and be done with it? Put it all to rest in one easy move.

NRH Man wrote:

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They may not have released them officially, but none of those candidates had an army of lawyers spending millions of dollars protecting them either. What's so important about those records that so much effort has to spent keeping them secret?

WEP wrote:

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Well now you are repeating lies. This is another oft-repeated but unverifiable smear that has no basis in reality.
It used to be 'hundreds of thousands'...then it was 'a million'...then 'two million'. Now trump is claiming it is up to 4 million that he has spent. What's next? Eleventy gazillion?
There is no army of lawyers being paid to seal his records. They is no need to seal them. They aren't public records.
Please show me a reliable source for your claim that he has spent "millions of dollars" hiding his records. I call BS.

WEP wrote:

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Well now you are repeating lies. This is another oft-repeated but unverifiable smear that has no basis in reality.
It used to be 'hundreds of thousands'...then it was 'a million'...then 'two million'. Now trump is claiming it is up to 4 million that he has spent. What's next? Eleventy gazillion?
There is no army of lawyers being paid to seal his records. They is no need to seal them. They aren't public records.
Please show me a reliable source for your claim that he has spent "millions of dollars" hiding his records. I call BS.

NRH Man wrote:

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So are tax returns public record?
Why is it ok to pressure Romney to release one set of non public records but not ok to ask that Obama do the same with another set of records?

NRH Man wrote:

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It might be in the millions by now. he's been keeping them hidden for his entire term. Lawyers ain't cheap.