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Obama Called Cayman Island Investments 'The Biggest Tax Scam on Record' (2008 video)
The Weekly Standard ^ | 2/11/13 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 02/11/2013 5:31:26 PM PST by Nachum

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama called Cayman Island investments "the biggest tax scam on record." Now, in 2013, President Obama has nominated Jack Lew, who had $56,000 in Cayman Island investments, to be the next secretary of Treasury.

Here's Obama making the claim in 2008:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cayman; investments; island; obama
Liar cheater Obama should know.

Vid at link.

1 posted on 02/11/2013 5:31:36 PM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 02/11/2013 5:33:38 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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3 posted on 02/11/2013 5:34:44 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Brian Williams will be all over this story until Lew bows out.

Not.


4 posted on 02/11/2013 5:39:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Nachum

Zero can say anything he wants and knows he can get away with it. He can say one thing today, and the exact opposite tomorrow and be confident the sheeple will never know. Why? Because the “media” will cover for him, they just plain won’t report it. It’s the “media” that needs to be called on this.


5 posted on 02/11/2013 6:07:35 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Obama could nominate a Mafia don and the mainstream media would react like teenage girls around Justin Bieber.


6 posted on 02/11/2013 6:27:38 PM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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7 posted on 02/11/2013 6:33:03 PM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic)
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To: Nachum

Yet both Obama and Lew have Cayman investments.......HYPOCRITES!!!


8 posted on 02/11/2013 6:48:59 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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To: Nachum

well Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner is a tax cheat so there is no standard for Sec of Treasury. All you have to do is keep the Federal Reserve printing money and send out the entitlement checks.


9 posted on 02/11/2013 8:18:40 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Nachum

He should know.


10 posted on 02/11/2013 8:19:39 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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