Obama says Romney should be an ‘open book’ on personal finances

Yahoo News The Ticket ^ | 09July2112 | olivier knox

[qaz123]

President Barack Obama said Monday that Mitt Romney should disclose more of his personal financial information. Obama's appeal, delivered in an interview with New Hampshire's WMUR, came after weeks of Democratic attacks on the Republican standard-bearer for parking money overseas, including in a Swiss bank account.

"What's important, if you are running for president, is that the American people know who you are what you've done and that you're an open book," Obama said. "And that's been true of every presidential candidate dating back to Mr. Romney's father."

[philman_36]

I didn't know why I couldn't sleep. Now I know.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss getting in early on this.

[philman_36]

I had to check the thread at least twice to convince me that it wasn't John who was behind this "statement".
I did too! I've been burned before.
I even went to the web site just to make sure!

[Bshaw]

See, now that’s the kind of hate speech Obama has been talking about.

People disrespecting the office of President Elect and President!

Preezy don’t play, so shush!

[hosepipe]

“Open Book”..... from Obama?...

Obamas book is hidden by the Justice Department... the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and the Secret Service.. AND NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and most Newspapers and Magazines and Cable Channels..

With a lot support from The Supreme Court.. and the Senate..

And literally everyone is afraid to say it.. Cowards.. even Craven cowards..

[pallis]

Romney should open the books on all of his life, and invite Obama to do the same. Obama can’t do it.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Thanks for the Ping, BD.

Thanks for preview of the upcoming satire piece, John.
/s

[98ZJ USMC]

Yeah, this is semi-news/semi-satire isn’t it?

[Brown Deer]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/09/obama_important_to_let_people_know_who_you_are_what_youve_done.html

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Awesome comments below the video.

"Obama's best biographers will be psychiatrists."

Like the respondent, I'll be stealing/filing that one away also.

[Brown Deer]

and he said it with a straight face. This moron calls himself a reporter?

[Rocky]

I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.

[ScaniaBoy]

I also noted that comment by Vindex: “I’ve often said that Obama is the greatest opportunity for armchair shrinks since Richard Nixon. Obama’s best biographers will be psychiatrists.”

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Looks a little like this guy:

[ScaniaBoy]

This guy definitely lives in a parallel universe.

From Michelle Malkin: Gigglesnort: Obama claims to have been outspent in 2008

Don't miss the graph in the link.

[SatinDoll]

What’s interesting about this interview is that two years ago a young woman, supposedly an intern working in the White House, gossiped that the Obamas had off shore bank accounts in the Middle East. I think it was Bahrain.

[wayoverontheright]

Romney: “Barack, I’ll open my books now if you’ll prove you opened yours when you were in college”.

[Diogenesis]

If Mr. RomneyCARE was a REAL CONSERVATIVE, this is
SUCH AN OPENING THAT OBAMA could be impugned greatly.

But, Mr. RomneyCARE actually supports Obama, Soros
and DNC, so watch Mr. RomneyCARE be relatively quiet
and hide, and go to a foreign country, instead.

[philman_36]

If you pinged me for the comments, as Flotsam_Jetsome’s post tends to indicate, I can’t get them. I’m not a member/registered and I don’t intend to become one just to read them.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

I saw the graph. The brown (spent) bar is longer/higher than the green (received) bar For the "Obama" campaign ratio, though the figures shown reflect that $15M less was spent than taken in. That visual part of the representation should be corrected. The overall figures of course show that "Obama" wildly outspent the milquetoast candidate McLame.

I liked this comment:

"I’ve decided I will no longer call myself a conservative, rather I’m a Constitutionalist. Many here (and all over “the right”) claim to be conservatives but they do NOT desire to follow the Constitution. Rather they just desire a different color shirt on the bus driver.

Many (of all political stripes) seem to think they are in some way dependent upon the federal government. The Constitution in no way supported such a notion.

And for all those supposed Constitutional Scholars – you HAVE to take the meaning/intent of the original writers – otherwise words have no meaning.

I'll take undivided loyalties in the Executive for $15 Trillion, Alex.

[Northern Yankee]

Bingo!

Romney better understand he's dealing with a thug, and the soul of this country.

It ain't about Romney anymore but about beating the hell out of Barry and restoring fiscal sanity and honor back to this country.