Posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 18, 2012
The Obama campaign is asking supporters to sign a letter to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney release “just five years of tax returns.”
In an email to the BarackObama.com list, campaign manager Jim Messina noted the letter he sent Friday morning to Romney’s campaign manager, vowing to get off Romney’s back about the returns if the documents were produced. The Romney camp brushed off Messina’s move.
Now Messina has converted his letter into an online petition of sorts.
“According to the one full year of returns he has released, Romney paid 13.9% in taxes on his income. Thursday, he said he went back and looked, and has never paid less than 13% over the last ten years. Now we’re asking him to put his money where his mouth is,” Messina wrote.
“It is absolutely relevant for us to ask how much a presidential candidate paid in taxes, if he sheltered his money or tried to get out of paying taxes at all, why he started — and continues to own — a corporation offshore in Bermuda, why he keeps his finances offshore in the Cayman Islands, and why he opened a Swiss bank account,” he continued.
In addition to being invited to sign the petition, supporters were reminded in a P.S. to open their wallets: “Election Day is closer than you think — make a donation to fund this campaign in the time we have left.”
We need a petition to get Obozo to release his college transcripts and ALL his college records. I have a strong suspicion they indicate he was admitted as a foreign student from Indonesia and was listed as Muslim.
His ranting racist “minister” Jeremiah Wright even admitted Obozo is a Muslim.
Ever wonder how the Obama campaign views the American voters?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxYYPziLdR4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Squirrel!
Romney should tell the media that he will release returns when dem’s in the Senate pass a budget.
That and he is also so painfully honest he makes Abe Lincoln look like a playboy. He pays his taxes, he tithes to his church, I'd bet he's never walked against a 'don't walk' sign ever! Even on an empty street in the rain! He has had only one wife who he obviously loves and a storybook family. He is the quintessential successful white guy capitalist and you wonder why an amoral, half breed, street hustling doper, who's only real job was 'community organizer', might be uncomfortable in his presence?
I can't wait for the debates, pass the popcorn...
Regards,
GtG
PS Obama lies every time his lips move. Romney may obfuscate the truth but only by omission.
The Kenyan is such a punk!
Bumper sticker: “Let’s talk about jobs and not government jobs.”
Zer0 wants those tax records so he can dribble out unsavory tidbits from Mitt’s taxes and make them the issue. That takes the focus off the Obama Regime’s hand in killing the private sector.
Hopefully Romney is quick enough to set up a petition of job seekers to do that. That would be funny. : )
Could we add a DRUG TEST to the list?
Really.......um...what grade are these people in?
Petition? LOL
Petition? LOLI think there is a better word than stupid, but it escapes me right now.
I really don’t care how much Romney paid or didn’t pay in taxes for the past 10 years. It seems that he earned his money honestly, and from what I can tell - he isn’t a selfish man. He gives millions to charity - unlike the obamas who give a pittance, and take from us to give to others.
Romney doesn’t need this job - at least not for the pay. He could live quite well in the WH without taking a pay check. I have to believe that he is truly concerned about America. At least that’s what I want to believe. Maybe he has another motive, such as avenging his dad’s failure to become president. So what? George W. Bush may have had the same aspiration - to avenge his dad’s one-term presidency.
Who knows? But, whatever, I just don’t care how much money he has, or what he did or didn’t pay in taxes. We have bigger fish to fry than this.
When zero releases his college transcripts, passport and other pertinent information, then maybe Romney will oblige, but probably won’t. I seriously doubt that he does his own taxes anyway, and just pays someone to take care of it for him.
The obamas are multi-millionaires. Did they ever release the past 10 years of their income to the public? Inquiring minds want to know.
Maybe Romney shouldn't be taking advice from ‘Obama supporters’. Just common sense.
Stupid Fundraising letter...
This whole thing might well be a rope-a-dope on Romney’s part.
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