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Political Hay
Mitt Is Right: No More Tax Returns
Romney battles the “Fat Jap Syndrome.”
(Page 4 of 5)
Why?
Because Obama and company have no intention of discussing Obama’s record — staying on the rock in the pond.
Why?
Because, politically speaking, they simply can’t survive if they do. If they stick with a discussion of the Obama record — a decidedly non-Fat Jap issue — they will be politically eaten alive.
So — Obama’s campaign and their media allies will try and “Fat Jap” the entire campaign. Running as fast as they can, stepping on the backs of the Fat Jap alligators — all in an effort to make it to the shore that is re-election. It momentarily riles the alligator underfoot — but if you can keep stepping on the back of the next alligator while the last is still trying to figure out what the hell just happened — you can make good your escape.
Re-election.
Mitt Romney understands this. And he refuses to play. He’s right.
But there’s more to it than this.
Team Romney is right to call attention to the game. They should refuse to play Fat Jap Syndrome. Why? Not unlike the nerve hit over the years when candidates from Spiro Agnew (who began the call’em-out strategy with his famous 1970 Des Moines speech attacking the media as “a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government”), to Ross Perot and more recently, Newt Gingrich, there are millions of Americans who have an extremely negative image of the liberal media. They will recognize Fat Jap Syndrome when they see it — not to mention when Romney surrogates call their attention to the game.
But there is always constant need to remind that the reason Obama’s campaign is playing the game of Fat Jap Syndrome in the first place is Obama’s record. Both on the economy and with other issues such as Obamacare, Fast and Furious, the Stimulus, and so on.
Governor Sununu is turning out to be outstanding on this score — he should pound away relentlessly at this, as should other Romney surrogates.
The disturbing thing is that there are some conservatives who are all too willing to give a pass to the latest round of the game that is “Fat Jap Syndrome.” Worse — some are playing this latest round themselves.
George Will says: “The cost of not releasing the (tax) returns are clear. Therefore, he must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them.”
What Romney has correctly calculated, in fact, is that Obama and his media allies are trying to play “Fat Jap” with him. For whatever reason, George Will is playing too.
Our friend Bill Kristol plays the “Fat Jap” game as well, when he insists Romney should release the returns “tomorrow.”
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.19.12 @ 6:31AM
I agree with you 100%.
The way to win any game is to play within the rules but when it comes to politics all is fair in love and war.
I sense the non tax scandal baked up by the liberal media has just about run it's course.
Twenty five million Americans are unemployed. It isn't a question of where are Mitt's tax returns. It's a question of where are Obama's jobs or those unemployed citizens can't file tax returns.
AmericanCynic| 7.19.12 @ 2:15PM
Okay, so you're admitting that President Obama and government have the responsibility to create jobs.
Did it ever occur to you that the people you have been calling "Job Creators" might have some responsibility for CREATING JOBS!?
GOP Rhetoric = Wanting your cake, eating it and then avoiding paying taxes on it too !
LOL!
TrueBlue | 7.19.12 @ 2:59PM
Hard to do that when they keep increasing the cost of creating those jobs. You know, like the fact Obamacare requires any part-time employee that works more than 30 hours to be counted as full time for the purposes of healthcare coverage. Or the fact that the Medicare tax alone is going up by nearly an entire % point, which may not seem like much, but for the average American equates to 2 months of grocery bills. How about Obama pushing to increase taxes on those earning more than $250k/yr? You know, those evil small businessmen who file their taxes as Subchapter S Corps as personal income and just about every small business is going to be making $250k/yr if they want to stay in business.
Here's a better idea, stop looking at tax cuts as debt INCREASES and start reducing spending instead, the area where our problem actually lies.
The President and government only have a responsibility regarding the creation of jobs insofar as they should GTFO of the way!
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 1:59PM
"stop looking at tax cuts as debt INCREASES and start reducing spending instead, the area where our problem actually lies."
where have you been, cuts are happening all over the place. cities are filing for bankruptcy all over the country because of lack of revenue (maybe if Romney would bring back some of his money into the country, things would improve.).
Bottom line:
If government surpluses justify tax cuts (as in 2001), then government deficits should justify increases...at the very least, allowing cuts to expire (which is how they were passed in the first place).
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 2:19PM
BTW, TrueBlue, do you know what the end result of government spending cuts means?
Job losses.
Now try to prove me wrong, TrueBlew.
Americanpatriot| 7.26.12 @ 9:33PM
The states like California that have refused to do anything about their public sector deficits or their sanctuary cities or illegals will expect Obama to bail them out. The states that are trying to reduce their deficits get no credit for it from this adminstration. The more in debt we are the better it is in Obamas eyes.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.19.12 @ 6:42PM
To: American Cynic
That's Obama's claim not mine. You must be a light reader to have missed that.
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 1:54PM
"where are Obama's jobs?"
I'll tell you where, buried somewhere in the House of Representatives. After the 2010 elections, Republicans gained control of the "purse strings" of this government.
AmericanCynic| 7.24.12 @ 12:53PM
Where's the REPLACE of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or a successful REPEAL, for that matter)?
Or was that not a major campaign promise in 2010?
LOL!
Brookschwarzenegro | 7.19.12 @ 3:37PM
When you institute a "defense" (offense) tax, then I'll pay attention.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 6:51AM
You are so wrong. Mittens is a special case since it was HIS father who set the bar of releasing 12 years of his tax returns.
Not only does RomBot seem secretive and bull-headed, but he can't even match his own father's openness about his finances.
What's he hiding? He doesn't think the American people deserve the information that modern Presidential candidates have offered?
In the incompetence category - how could Romney let this happen? Didn't he know he'd be running for President? He's been trying for 6 years for Pete's sake. And he wants us to believe he knows how to run things? Knows how to handle a crisis?
He looks weak, childish and temperamental when he refuses to release his taxes.
This isn't going away, but even if he never releases his taxes, the American people see weakness in running financial affairs and in his character, and THAT does not bode well for the people that support him or those that could.
I just wonder how many billionaires are having second thoughts giving their hard earned money to Romney the Wimp?
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 7:45AM
This Idiot's comment is Exhibit A of President Liar's Base.
His Boy has ALL OF HIS SH*T locked up in a Vault, and he's spent MILLIONS, on Attornies, to keep it that way.
But, he's not hiding anything.
Everybody else is.
What about President No Jobs' Medical Records?
That used to be The Gold Standard. This guy makes 2 Dems in a row, that kept their Med Recs under their Mattress. Bill Clinton, obviously due to the many STDs we all know he contracted, and all of the Cocaine Snorting Ailments that go along with "Having a Nose like a Vacuum Cleaner". (Hat Tip - Roger Clinton)
And, what of Barry? What possible reason would he have to keep his Med Recs Sealed in a Vault?
I don't know anyone who locks away such "normally" innocuous pieces of papers, such as College Scholarship Papers. Do you?
College Transcripts and Their College Thesis?
Who Locks up their College Entrance Papers, or their Passport?
WTF IS HE HIDING, Puke?
And, HOW does he have a Ct. Soc Sec Number, since he was "Born in Hawaii"?
We await your sack of Sh*t Non Explanation.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 8:19AM
He's already President, moron. You had your chance in 2008 to vet him. Now it's RomBot's turn... sorry, but that's politics.
benny havens| 7.19.12 @ 8:33AM
The issue is not his tax returns.
Education:
B.A. from Brigham Young University,
J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
Working Background:
After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.
After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam.
He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign.
He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's office for eight years.
He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.
He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.
He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.
He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney has given more back to citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.
And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income....
He never took drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US.
If the tax returns were the problem, the IRS would have addressed the issue long ago.
RCV| 7.19.12 @ 10:14AM
Then why not release them?
JD| 7.19.12 @ 10:39AM
Because of exactly what the article says. There will be no real wrongdoing in them, but there will be something the Obama campaign and liberal media can distort, and it will not be relevant to any real issues. Romney shouldn't play into their hands.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:42PM
JD - Not distort, no need for that. IRS may not even know, unless they audited him every year - and the chances of that are pretty slim.
What you mean is he won't be able to explain to the American people what dealings, shady or otherwise, to avoid or reduce taxes that he had. If that isn't the case, what's he worried about?
If you aren't committing voter fraud or some other voting issue, why worry about having to show an ID? It's the same thing.
If he won't release, he's hiding something.
And, worse, he's shown himself incompetent in handling this minor campaign crisis - so exactly how would this Bozo handle a real world crisis, if he can't handle his own tax issue? Let's seem him prove he has done nothing wrong. Stonewalling is not how you handle a crisis. Everyone knows it's crisis management 101 - get it out, deal with it, face the issues, resolve them and move on. Short of that, you aren't even competent.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 2:27PM
Romney should have no reason to fear the truth, but for Democrats, it's never about truth. It's about finding something to distort, and distorting it. People who make a living on half-truths should not be fed half-truths. Starve them.
It's amazing that supporters of a man who took THREE YEARS to show a simple birth certificate and STILL hasn't shown any academic records, nor explained the decades-old literature that claims he was born in Kenya could possibly complain about Romney now. It takes hypocrisy that only the American Left can deploy.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 6:26PM
Why can't you stick to the topic - Romney's taxes? Are you too afraid of what it's in them? Is it better to find out in October?
Rich guy who's family is polygamous, illegally immigrated to the United States and you're bringing up the President's background? And you say the left is hypocritical?
You have a weak, wounded candidate that can't get along with anyone and can only dictate when he's the boss, who ships American jobs overseas to reap millions for himself - yep, there's a winner.
Americanpatriot| 7.26.12 @ 9:52PM
The American left have become devoid of character, morals and scruples. How they can justify this president and what he has done in the last three and half years is beyond the pale. And, the sad thing is he will discard them when he does not need them anymore.
C'mon Man!| 7.19.12 @ 5:49PM
Purp, because morons like you only believe what the media tells you, Mitt should in no way release his tr's. And this isn't for you, it's for your dimwitted fellow dorks who might be saved, as you will not through your stubborness.
Keep thinking how samrt you are, my devotional reading this morning spoke of your type, now I know why.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 6:29PM
C'mon yourself - put me down - but it doesn't change the fact that your candidate is stonewalling-he's weak, defenseless, plastic smiling parasite who feeds on the economic misery of others. His afraid of his own past, and not 20 years ago either.
But it's going to be fun watching the flames consume him and his ill-gotten money.
John Navratil| 7.19.12 @ 6:51PM
Purp,
When you can say the same thing about Obama then, perhaps, you will have something to say. Until then, you remain a troll whose only contribution is ad hominem attack and innuendo. And a hypocrite who will demand of others what he will not demand of himself.
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 7:21PM
Obamaboy
You keep dodging the questions about Obama giving the Chicago hospital a one million dollar earmark to raise Michele's phony job from $100,000 per year to $300,000 per year.
And you keep dodging Obama getting Rezko to pay for his property.
What's the problem, your boss has no answer? You are only a lowly paid troll that has to clear his answers?
loulou| 7.19.12 @ 10:41AM
Did you not read the article, genius?
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 1:48PM
He read it, he thinks it's a childish point.
But, hey, using a plea for more racism to make a plea for less transparency, it's a brilliant move.
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 10:45PM
I know you can't help yourself. You were born to be a troll. People with low IQs need a life too.
Skippy| 7.20.12 @ 6:30PM
Nobody except O'Sambo cares about Mitt's returns.
Oh, except perp.
Anthony| 7.19.12 @ 11:54AM
Really moron? I seem to recall the whores in the MSM refused to "vet" Obozo in 08, despite their responsibility to do so. In fact, they covered up for Obozo, cuz they were in love with Mr. Transformational president. The media were in Obozo's backpocket.
And in 08, trolls like you were bitching that all calls for disclosure about Obozo's records were "racist".
And since when is there a statute of limitation on vetting presidential candidates, even elected presidents?
Everybody is fair game stooge, and yes, we get a second chance to expose Obozo for the fraud that he is. There' s never an end to Ds harassing Rs for records, even old ones, does the name Sarah Paliln ring a bell?
That's politics!!!
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 1:54PM
Romney must be hiding something BIG if he doesn't release them! Probably HUGE bank accounts in Switzerland, not having paid any taxes for ages.
ha ha ha, you HAD your chance to vet him and you didn't, YOU LOSE!
You lost on the ACA health care issue, not ONCE but you got your butt kicked TWICE!
too sweet
If there was anything to all this birtherism (but please keep that up) Bush and McCain would have found that.
BTW, medical records ARE private, but Obama DID release them. (20 pages, while geriatric McCain released just one page, after years of torture at that)
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 4:41PM
He did not release his Medical Records.
He released a SUMMARY.
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 2:02PM
What, are you demanding to know his sperm count!?
How about respecting the office of the POTUS (even when it's not your guy).
Sheesh!
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 3:57PM
Obamaboy purpie
1. When will Obama release the records under subpoena for the Fast and Furious fiasco that killed Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexicans?
2. When will Obama explain how Michele got a raise from $100,000 to $300.000 per year as a "community relations lawyer" for a Chicago hospital that got a million dollar earmark courtesy of Senator Obama? A quid pro quo, kickback?
3. When will Obama release the records of his land deal and explain how the Chicago crook Tony Rezko paid for his land?
While you are doing this, Purpie, how did Hillary turn $1,000 into $100,000 in the cattle futures deal? And why did Denise Rich give Bubba's library a million dollars when Bubba gave a pardon to Denise's husband, Mac Rich, a convicted fugitive?
Looking forward to your reply to these troubling questions.
C'mon Man!| 7.19.12 @ 4:51PM
You idiot, this isn't politics, it's our lives. Sorry it's just a game to you, it isn't to us. Go play in the street you moron!
Edith R.| 7.19.12 @ 9:44AM
The use of profanities on this site is repulsive. If posters cannot comment without lacing their thoughts with vulgarities, then the moderator should block them from posting.
I read the crude comments on here, and it makes me ashamed to be associated with conservatives of this ilk.
Many of you posters sound like rednecks. Reread your posts, and I think you'll agree.
Edith R.| 7.19.12 @ 9:45AM
My remarks should have fallen under TLP's vulgar rant.
MK48| 7.19.12 @ 3:42PM
Edith...........just like the TV if you don't like the content......find another station.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 4:42PM
Screw You, ya old bag.
I served my Country, and I've EARNED THE RIGHT to vent my spleen.
Again.
SCREW YOU.
Goldwater Girl| 7.19.12 @ 10:02AM
grow a pair, Edith, or go back to HuffPo or Daily KOS, where the comments are all rainbows and unicorns. You are not required to read the comments, so if you can't take the language, don't come back now, ya hear?
Pecos Pete| 7.19.12 @ 10:08AM
To hit a nail on the head you have to use the blunt force of a hammer.
loulou| 7.19.12 @ 10:42AM
You're not from Emory University, are you?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.19.12 @ 2:26PM
The second summer session is in full swing there. Look for the dogpile if an article or thread mentions homosexuality.
Anthony| 7.19.12 @ 11:57AM
"Rednecks", did you say? Don't look now Edith R., but you just exposed yourself for who and what you really are!!
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 1:56PM
Yes Edith, rednecks have occupied your party. Now, what are you gonna do about it? Have fun teaching them manners.
Apparently you need these thugs' votes, because otherwise you'd be decimated.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 2:48PM
Madame,
Are you implying that ALL rednecks (as you succently put it) use vulgarities and are replusive?
This is a rather insulting thought aimed at to our lighter skinned brothers and sisters who are easily burned by the sun.
If you feel the need to chastise others for their crudeness, then do so but leading by example. Your last line could have read: "Many of you posters sound uneducated..." See how that would have been less damaging to your own character.
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:51PM
Priceless
RCV| 7.19.12 @ 10:12AM
A lot more cities will do so, for the sole purpose of jettisoning public employee pension obligations, something that should warm your heart, TLP.
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 12:38PM
One more pyramid scheme or a bullet train will probably fix everything. This is what bankruptcy is all about. It is coming to a City near you soon and eventually to your pathetic state. Nobody is coming to bail you out. You are unsustainable. If you elect non-corrupt leadership you can avoid the catastrophic pain that is headed your way if you follow your stubborn instincts.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 4:57PM
You got that right.
The Democrat Politician/Public Service Union PONZI SCHEME, has reached its end.
Or, haven't you noticed all of the DEMOCRAT CITIES, and STATES, that are either IN Bankruptcy, or Staring At It.
Democrat Liberalism's CHICKENS, are coming home to ROOST.
Are you really this Stupid?
Apparently.
RCV| 7.20.12 @ 12:40PM
The two largest governmental bankruptcies to date , TLP, are Orange County, California -- the traditional Republican stronghold -- and Jefferson County, Alabama, which hadn't voted for a Democrat in decades before Obama. Nice try. Stockton is in the middle of California's red farm belt.
Skippy| 7.20.12 @ 6:32PM
They are the only communities honest enough to admit Big Govt is a failure at all levels.
AmericanCynic| 7.19.12 @ 2:19PM
"I don't know anyone who locks away such 'normally' innocuous pieces of papers, such as College Scholarship Papers. Do you?"
Um, just about every president has their record sealed. Try finding President GWBush's transcripts or medical records.
No previous president, however, has ever openly and arrogantly hidden their money from the IRS the way Gov. Romney has.
Just sayin'
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 4:42PM
Took about 5 seconds to find GWB's transcripts for Yale. At least he had the balls to realease his.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 4:58PM
He's a Fcking Loser.
He doesn't care what happens to the Country.
He's a Liberal.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 6:30PM
He didn't release his DUI, now did he?
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 7:23PM
What about Obama's marijuana and cocaine use that he bragged about in his memoirs?
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 7:38PM
Matter of public record, asshole.
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 10:25AM
Purp, you are dithering idiot. The only thing Romney is hiding from Obamarx is more straw-men to use to distract from his absolutely disastrous, incompetent, and altogether failed, tenure as Stalin wannabe. Are you really as stupid as you sound or is this just an act?
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:43PM
How do you know, or are YOU that stupid?
AmericanCynic| 7.19.12 @ 2:21PM
His use of "Stalin wannabe" makes it clear who the "stupid" one is.
LOL!
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 5:09PM
Your head is so far up your ass you need a glass navel to see where you're going. This commie bastard would use the Constitution to wipe his ass if he could get away with.
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 2:06PM
Nice to have "Florida Rep Allen West" join our conversation!
LOL!
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 1:59PM
KennesawJack, you are-a-BLithering idiot.
Dude, we managed to slip a Kenyan by you, how dumb is you? You really think you have a chance to win?
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 5:10PM
Fool me once, etc. etc. etc. Your boy's ass is grass and the electorate is the lawn mower. How do you say "Adios, Commie" in Swahili?
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 10:48PM
Romney winning is a done deal. The incompetence of the Democratic Party will be even more clear in the Fall.
George S| 7.19.12 @ 11:29AM
And what bar did Obama's father set?
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 11:33AM
Right on. Explains a lot, doesn't it?
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:45PM
He's already President, it doesn't matter now. Romney is untried luggage. He has to prove more to win the presidency. Sorry, that's how the American system works. Are you foreign?
elephant4life| 7.19.12 @ 1:54PM
Cuckold. There is zero resemblance between Barry and his putative daddy. Compare to Frank Marshall Davis. Yes, I would say Stanley Ann put one over on old Barry Sr.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.19.12 @ 2:28PM
To be fair, I have heard that Mr. Davis did not bat from that side of the plate, so perhaps he is not the one for The One.
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:52PM
Ahhh, the touchy feely uncle role perhaps.
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 4:11PM
Maybe the old professor got confused when he saw the name "Stanley."
irish19| 7.19.12 @ 11:20PM
LOL!!
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 2:00PM
Obama's father has never run for public office, so he doesn't count.
Romney sr. has, but FAILED
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 5:12PM
Obama's daddy was too busy dying drunk in a gutter. Romney, Sr. was Governor of Michigan, asshole. Last time I checked, that was a public office.
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 5:11PM
If he doesn't release them, people will assume he is hiding something, if he does than they will know for sure...Checkmate President Obama
JD| 7.19.12 @ 5:55PM
Obama hid his birth certificate for three years so doubt could grow and he could lambast the doubters as racists. He still hides his college records. Who are you to talk?
RCV| 7.19.12 @ 7:18AM
The longer Romney delays releasing his returns, the greater the damage will be. People will wonder what it is he's trying to conceal. In the end, he will be forced to disclose them by pressure from his own party, so whatever he's hiding will come out in the end anyway.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 7:24AM
Compton Kalifornia is seeking Bankruptcy Protection. That makes, what? 5 Democrat Dominated Cities that are Officially Belly Up, with a couple more already looking at The Bulldozer's Blade?
How many Democrat Run States are sitting in a room, staring at all of the Red Ink on a Spread Sheet, and Red Arrows - Pointing South - on a Graph?
All of them?
The Post Office has just Defaulted on its Debt.
This President, and his Party, have Stopped Collecting Money for Social Security (FICA) and have Cut Medicare ($6 Trillion in the Red. Or is it $12 Trillion) by $1 Trillion.
Meanwhile, Collecting Disability Payments from a soon to be Extinct SSI Program, seems to be the Fail Safe Plan for Millions of Americans who have given up HOPE of ever finding Work under President Apocalypse.
President Food Stamp.
President Unemployment Check.
The REAL Unemployment Number is around 21% if you actually COUNT the people who are UNEMPLOYED.
And, now, the very same people behind every one of these Debacles, is in charge of everybody's Health Care, from the day that they're Born, to the Day they Drop Dead because they are Too Old, or Not Usefull Enough to THE STATE, to receive any Medical Procedure or Medication with a Price Tag greater than that of The Pain Pill.
I know. Let's blame Romney's Old Tax Returns. Let's link him with a Comic Book Villain. Let's show everyone how what a MONSTER he is for having worked hard and making something of himself.
That BASTARD!
I'm thinking Landslide.
DTOM| 7.19.12 @ 8:43AM
Releasing more tax returns is the same as giving in to a two year old temper tantrum and negotiating with terrorists. Give the brat the ice cream cone she's screaming for and ten minutes later she wants another ice cream cone, the tantrum re-starts. As it should, it worked last time, didn't it?
Trump's answer was far, far better -
'I'll give you another year's worth of tax returns for every year's worth of Ivy League grade transcripts you give us, Mr. Obama...
A. C. Santore| 7.19.12 @ 10:22AM
Sadly, DTOM, the Dictator's grades are only the top of the tip of the iceberg. The courses he took and professors he studied under are far more important.
All application forms to show whether he declared himself a "foreign student," or stated his citizenship [or nationality] as other than U.S.
Financial aid forms for the same information.
Papers he wrote, to show his fundamental Marxism [or whatever he would call it].
What have I missed?
loulou| 7.19.12 @ 10:43AM
Obama continues to be an Indonesian citizen. Our POTUS is a dual citizen! Is that allowed?
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:45PM
No, and that is right-wing Bozo Magic ... you need to get out more.
elephant4life| 7.19.12 @ 1:58PM
That is among his many admissions, "purp". And among his many concealments are whatever papers indicate how he chose as an adult to handle it. If he claimed foreign citizenship EVEN ONCE, he surrendered forever his "natural-born" status, and could only regain his US citizenship through naturalization. Take the blinders off. Or do you like being ruled by an Indonesian citizen?
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 5:03PM
He was ADOPTED by his Indonesian Step Fther, in Indonesia, and he has a Connecticut Social Security Number.
Hello
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 2:01PM
wasn't he a Kenyan? Make up your mind ... boring ... yawn.
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:53PM
Depends on when you ask him apparently.
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 5:16PM
Yeah because ONLY dummies go to Harvard and Columbia to name a few, and the REAL dummies get picked to be editor of that rag they call, The Harvard Law Review. Now if the President went to a REAL college , like Liberty University, well that would be a different story.
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 6:31PM
He was not an editor. Editors get selected based on their grades. O was president, and elected position, most likely an affirmative action vote to have the first black president of the Harvard law review.
If he had good grades at Harvard or Columbia they would have been plastered on his website.
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 7:25PM
Another famous Harvard Law Review editor was Alger Hiss, the Commie spy.
And another famous HLV editor was Elliot Spitzer, also known as Client #9.
No Liberty U grads spied for the Soviets or are known as client no.____
irish19| 7.19.12 @ 11:24PM
He was also the very first President of the Harvard Law Review EVER who never submitted an article to that publication.
MK48| 7.19.12 @ 3:50PM
DTOM..........10-4
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 9:00AM
Don't get RCV started or he will start chattering about taking his pretend wife and kids on beautiful drives through Compton. Nothing like a sunset in Compton.
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 2:03PM
What is Romney hiding? He's sooooooooooooo scared to release them, he's like an 8 year old girl!
Wait, make that a 6 year old, my niece has got MORE guts than romney
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.19.12 @ 2:30PM
If you add a few more o's, it will make your comment seem that much more valid.
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 10:28AM
You are right there with Purp. Pissing into the wind. Not going to work with Romney. By the way, RCV, what are your thoughts about Obamarx's college transcripts?
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:46PM
You have more to prove to be elected President the first time. RomBot has not passed muster even with his own party.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 3:49PM
Yes, you’re correct that to be elected President, a person should prove oneself worthy to the American people. His record of achievement as an elected official should be weighed carefully against his character and background.
I am still biased against Mr. Romney solely due to his religious affiliation (my apologies to Mormons as I mean no offense), but I am willing to overlook the religion he was born into and continues to practice, only due to my knowledge of the man himself, and the current President one has done a poor job.
President Obama, whom I still know nothing about other than his oddly penned books right around the time he was elected, is an enigma still to this day. Like the missing years of Christ in the Christian bible, we know very little about a great deal of his life. His birth, cloaked in mystery, and his few days as Senator somehow qualified him to be President. Unless, I am missing a record of amazing contribution to society, why do you feel he was made President? It is up there with the question: What noble achievement did he do to earn a Noble Peace Prize?
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 6:37PM
Ask the Nobel Committee, they awarded it to him, but I assume it was for his work in the Senate on nuclear disarmament with Sen Dick Lugar - R.
On the contrary, President Obama has done a remarkable job keeping us safe, avoiding a sure Great Depression II, killing Bin Laden, ending the Iraq War, keeping Iran in a box and nuclear weapons free, given us Affordable Health Care Reforms, reined in the financial jungle, appointed 2 outstanding Supremes to the Court, and even has Chief Justice John Roberts supporting him.
On the other hand, what has Mittens done for the last 3 1/2 years? Paid ridiculously low income tax and couldn't even prepare for his candidacy by cleaning up his finances. Mitt RobMe is a LOSER, weak, stubborn and incompetent in the face of adversity. Great candidate you got in that Bozo.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 7:10PM
I suggest you read Dreams from my Father - it's widely regarded as one of the best autobiographies of any politician and puts the lie to this 'enigma' - it is a book that deals candidly with his loss and search for identity, as well as his personal history in his earlier years.
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 10:51PM
Books about composite characters and filled with falsehoods are very entertaining. I like the audio version. He makes dog sound so delicious.
irish19| 7.19.12 @ 11:26PM
"it's widely regarded as one of the best autobiographies of any politician"
Since when is Bill Ayres a politician?
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 11:27AM
"People will wonder what it is he's trying to conceal"
Did you think this way about Obama's birth certificate or his grades? Hell, it took 2 1/2 years to just see a birth record. Still waiting on the grades of this intellectual genius we keep hearing about.
Last I checked Romney is only required to realease two years worth and has stated he will. The Dems just want numbers so they can continue the class warfare. That's all they have left. And according to the polls that isn't working so well either.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:49PM
He's not required to release anything - nor to have any debates - but it's typical for modern presidents to do so.
So why is Mr. Entitled the only one that doesn't think he needs to show us little people how the rich guys make or keep their money?
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:02PM
If it's not a requirement why does the left act as if it is?
Who no fuss when John McCain only released two years?
Why should any canidate reveal how he made his money?
Why no fuss about Obama's grades. Wouldn't that have shown us if he was smart enough to tackle the recession? Guess we are just supposed to take the Liberals word on that one.
Did Obama take a course in Economics? What was his grade? Did he take a Business course? Grades?
All we know is he was a constitutional lawyer and spin in 08 had it as a combination of the second coming, politacl genuis and the answer to all our prayers.
Yet, most Americans say they are worse off now then 4 years ago. First time unemployment claims have been adjusted up 70 out of the last 72 weeks. Gas is a dollar higher per gallon than when everyone was blaming Bush for it. He hasn't cut the deficit in half as promised. Hasn't closed Gitmo as promised. Hasn't brought unemployment down below 8% despite a huge stimulus bill and then we were told we didn't spend enough.
And all you people can scream about it Romeny's tax returns? At least he has filed them and paid them. How many Dems forgot and still owe?
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 7:18PM
McCain didn't run on his record of creating jobs, knowing business and tax law. RomBot is.
How do you know he paid them, or even filed them ? The "Blind Trust" did it - RomBot doesn't have a clue about his own finances. And, you think he can run a country. Puh-lease. Deadweight on the Republican Ticket - but that's cool with me. RobMe is a LOSER
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 5:26PM
The SOLE Purpose of a Swiss Bank Account is Tax Evasion, there is no other reason to have it otherwise.
"Blind Trust"- What you need to support Willard without Financial Disclosure
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 6:16PM
Tax evasion likle having Tony Rezko pay for your property?
Or, a kickback, like giving a one million dollar earmark to the Chicago hospital to bump Michele's pay from $100,000 to $300,000 per year for a political no-work job as a "community relations attorney?"
Appleby| 7.19.12 @ 7:25AM
There is no law requiring anybody to disclose his or her entire life to the Media, as the Media would tell you if we were talking about OBAMA's life. Romney should, for once in his life, Stand Firm. He should say that the day after Obama releases his transcripts, his passport(s), his multiple social security cards, and why he has more than one -- including the ones with names that belong to other people, one of whom died in the 1800s -- and all details of his sweetheart deal for his house with a convicted felon, and his wife's sweetheart job for which she was not qualified.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 7:52AM
My goodness.
It would seem that Thou hast had an Epiphany on the Road to the Maple Tree.
Don't forget. You "Officially" took me out of your "loop" (whatever that is) so, Legally, I don't think you can write anything in return.
Welcome to the world of Sanity.
Welcome to the World of Common Sense.
What took you so long?
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 7:51AM
Yeah – Romney was such a great prospect that McCain picked Palin instead.
Surely there's nothing wrong with sheltering all your income in Swiss bank accounts. I think any average American would be happy for all leaders to set such an example, as there's zero pressure to address the deficit. Go Romney!
Gary B| 7.19.12 @ 9:47AM
"I think any average American would be happy for all leaders to set such an example, as there's zero pressure to address the deficit."
I'm curious... what does the second part of this sentence have to do with the first?
Another question: Are you sure money in a Swiss bank account hasn't already been taxed?
As for your final comment - "Go Romney!" - I agree.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 10:12AM
What we aren't sure of is anything Gary because he won't release his records. As people are pointing out, it looks like he knows it will do more damage to release them than not to. Either way he's not in a good place
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 10:32AM
Wrong. He is in a VERY good place. It's Obamarx who's between a rock and a hard place.
George S| 7.19.12 @ 11:49AM
It's the summer of 2008 and we know nothing about Obama's school or medical history. Can Obama can address the deficit? We're not sure because he has not shown us any educational records. Did he fail economics? Math? So how can we trust him to act accordingly with the worst economy since Herber Hoover (what a joke that was)? But that is not an issue, he is different than all other candidates before.
Can we trust him with our nuclear arsenal? Well, we have never seen his medical records yet -- yet! -- he admitted to breaking the law by using drugs. Lots of drugs. How do we know his brain is not fried from all that drug use? How do we know if he is still taking drugs? Do we want a crackhead with his twitchy finger on THE button? Take comfort, says Jack London, because he released his tax returns.
Oh, those were all distractions put forth by racists who failed to see what a transformational figure Obama was. Yet today we see the result and he blames everyone but himself. Maybe we should see his psychiatric records also.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 3:06PM
George - you're clutching at straws. Obama is a very fit man - there wasn't much to say. (McCain of course had had cancer and war injuries). Obama is one of our most well educated presidents - ex Harvard and working as a lecturer. The drugs thing is just silly - if you have proof he's on crack then let's have it.
You're only a tiny bit better than a birther - and that's not saying much. Grow up.
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 5:15PM
How do you know about the educated part when the rest of us don't. Has he shown you, and only you, his transcripts?
George S| 7.19.12 @ 5:29PM
You're right, it was over the top. I should have said coke head plus pot head...
He snorted cocaine and was a heavy choomer by his own admission (read his books). How do we know he stopped; what's he hiding by not releasing his medical records. Instead he shows a one page letter from a doctor saying he is in "good health".
Why can't Romney's accountant write a one page letter saying all is well?
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 11:32AM
If the ability for a person to put their money in Swiss bank accounts bother you why do you liberals not push for tax reform to change that rule?
I don't hear you complaining about the Swiss Bank Accounts of the DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
MK48| 7.19.12 @ 3:55PM
That's Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz
George S| 7.19.12 @ 11:35AM
First of all, any pressure to reduce the deficit comes from votes, not how much money you have in the bank. Second, income is not sheltered after it has been taxed -- it's yours (unless you're a Marxist, it's everyone's) so what difference does it make where it resides? Third, the fact that we have to even discuss this shows why it is an issue. It distracts from Obama's record. If Obama truly had a record to run on he wouldn't try to change the subject.
Gary B| 7.19.12 @ 8:35AM
Here's what I would do if I were Romney...
Create a website called something like NastyAttacks.com. I would posts written responses to each attack from Obama's people. Each response would also contain legitimate counter accusations. Then, when leftist reporters try to ambush Romney, he can say something like, "Our response to that is on our website at NastyAttacks.com. Now, let's talk about the economy and how we're going to get out of this mess."
This would cut off reporters seeking fame as leftist heroes. It would deflate the Obama Fat Jap game with a quick canned response. And, finally, it would immediately return the conversation to the major campaign issues.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 8:41AM
And as for Lord's latest mad article about 'fat Jap' - how his brain is wired to associate this with Romney's tax returns only an experimental psychiatrist with a fine probe could possibly determine.
But note that he had to go back to the 1940s to find other 'Jap' references, whereas Agnew rightly was taken to task in 1968 – times they do change, Jeffrey and it wasn't the 'media' - society changes and thankfully for the better in this case.
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 9:08AM
I guess it is about how standards change for the benefit of a political party. When quite a few Black politicians blurt out racist remarks there is utter silence on the part of their fellow progressives. John Kerry and John Edwards were some pretty rich dudes and not a peep about tax records. Jack London is a total phony. There is nothing genuine about him. He can say anything given the right circumstances. Typical troll!
Gary B| 7.19.12 @ 9:41AM
Jack just says stuff. It's of little consequence. Almost every post of his cancels itself out with old, worn out leftist babble. He's our museum piece. Kinda' cute.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 10:13AM
I believe Kerry released five years' of records.
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 10:34AM
Two years. And most of that was listed under "Earned as jigolo par exellance courtesy of Teresaaaah."
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 10:47AM
Actually I've just seen that when Kerry ran in 2004 he had already released 18 years previous to the immediate two years, as he regularly submitted all records as a senator.
Anthony| 7.19.12 @ 12:08PM
I think you're confused Jack. Kerry release 5 videos of Mr. Warrior traipsing around in the jungles of Viet Nam pretending to be a jungle fighter, or was it Cambodia? It's no longer seared in my brain.
Them he threw some other guys medals over the White House wall, while he kept his dubious "purple hearts" locked up for his run for president.
Yep, Mr. war hero full disclosure. I remember now!! Swiftboat Vets for Truth. Yes!!!!
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:51PM
Kerry release 20 years ...
Mimi | 7.19.12 @ 9:25AM
You should be embarrassed and ashamed.....Look at all that OBAMA concealed in 2008...It was then and now MIND BOGGLING....He continues to PAY a million $ to keep his un-acceptable and historical 'DIRTY LAUNDRY"...not swaying in the breeze but HIDDEN far from the publics eyes!
He's running against a man of such decency, and character...the contrast is stark. How can you defend this ROBBER OF LIBERTY that has harmed this nation so badly it will take years of hard work on the backs of our children , to repair!
Anthony| 7.19.12 @ 9:59AM
You're right on the money again Jack, per your usual lefty miasma. Of course you lefties think Agnew should have been taken to task for his comment, yet you Ds built a memorial to FDR, the great Interner-in-Chief of 125,000 Japanese-Americans.
The guys who need the probing are you lefty morons.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 10:16AM
White people used to keep black people as slaves. That changed. You do understand that things change, Anthony?
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 10:36AM
As in Socialism has never been successful anywhere.
loulou| 7.19.12 @ 10:46AM
Black people and Arabs still keep black people as slaves. Where's the outrage, troll?
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 10:48AM
What, in America?
JD| 7.19.12 @ 12:14PM
Liberals have a strange obsession with America's borders. They claim to care strongly about anyone within our borders, regardless of race, gender, religion, language, or place of origin (unless they're white male Christians). Most of all, regardless of whether they're here legally. However, a person who's exactly like the person in America illegally, except that he's still in his native country (legally), is to be completely ignored. If he gets a job, it's "our" job that he stole. If he makes money, it's "our" money. If he commits an atrocity, or is a victim of one, it's not our concern.
What magic is contained in our national borders, to effect such a change in treatment?
They can't claim to base their behavior on the fact that America's government is responsible for only Americans. Not when they support these very same foreigners strongly once they perpetrate the crime of entering our country illegally. And not when their rationale for many of their positions is a supposed respect for human rights and dignity, which transcends borders.
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 2:11PM
Are you trying to claim that conservatives DON'T have an obsession with America's borders!?
Dude, you're all over the place.
It's conservatives who tend to complain about illegals taking their jobs.
Anthony| 7.19.12 @ 12:01PM
Well Jack, I know morons like you certainly don't change. Nothing appears to penetrate the thick skulls of you zombie lefties.
Robert| 7.19.12 @ 1:03PM
Jack, things did change...slaves were freed by a Republican president. You Dem racists were kicking and screaming Jim Crow all the way into the 21st century. Or, have you forgotten your Conscience of the Senate, the Honorable (?) Robert KKK Byrd?)!
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 5:08PM
White people still keep Blacks as Slaves.
Or haven't you ever seen a GHETTO, in every Liberal Controlled City?
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 5:17PM
TLP. Thank you.
RCV| 7.19.12 @ 10:10AM
Mr Lord can't see the difference between disparaging references to a country that just launched an unprovoked attack on the US, and Agnew's racist comment a quarter century later.
Humphrey Dumfries | 7.19.12 @ 11:59AM
Hear hear!
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 12:46PM
Go into Compton and give lectures about racial disparagement. You have a ton of problems in the Democratic Party right now. How about a bullet train between Compton and Watts? That type of program would probably solve all their problems. While you are at it, get over to San Bernardino and take out the trash. You progressives are amazing. Lots of exotic promises followed by a total breakdown in governance.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 5:23PM
If the RCVs of this world, don't live there?
They don't give a sh*t about it.
And, Liberals couldn't Care Less, about Blacks.
Outta sight, outta mind.
That's why, one of the first things The Muslim did, was to strip the Poor Black Kids, in D.C. of their Private School Vouchers, on the Orders of the White Teachers Union's Cash.
Condemning them to the D.C. public Schools, that he said: "Do not meet my Daughters' Standards."
Scumbag.
Louis Jenkins| 7.19.12 @ 9:16AM
And at least two people in (or formerly) in Obama's cabinet showed their tax returns. In fact, they owed back taxes. Have they paid yet? Romney shouldn't even pretend to be interested in the "Fat Jap" syndrome. Let the news media scream all they want to. Great article Mr. Lord.
Gary B| 7.19.12 @ 9:36AM
Mr. Lord,
In addition to your topic, which you covered so well, you took a slap at political correctness by labeling this diversionary political tactic the Fat "Jap" Syndrome. As important as it was, I believe your anti-PC tone may have as much impact as your topic. It certainly did with me. Good for you.
Anthony| 7.19.12 @ 9:52AM
With the left, it's always give us more until we have what we need to destroy you, to which the R beltway braniacs are always willing to comply.
Here's a retort for the Romney folks to stick up the Kenyan Muslim Marxist's butt,"We'll trade Obozo 3 more years of Romney tax returns for the realease of his actual birth certificate, and, the release of all his college records, transcripts, and applications, including how he paid for Columbia and Harvard.
Fat Jap, that, Jack!!!
rlranger907| 7.19.12 @ 10:15AM
Mr. Lord misses the back story on former Vice President Agnew. Turns out that the sort of man who could continue to use a dime store racial epithet after American society had moved on was the same sort of man who could not resist using political office for personal enrichment. The character flaws were of a piece for Mr. Agnew. So, in at least that sense, George Will's wonderment as to what Mr. Romney may be hiding is at least a legitimate question. And the longer he refuses to tell us, the more the question will grow. His call.
Tom Kyba| 7.19.12 @ 10:29AM
Surprise of the day no.1-Purp is still obsessed with Romney's taxes.
Surprise no.2-Lord pens 5 pages describing the syndrome, and the usual suspects post comments which instantly provide examples for everyone-thanks guys.
Surprise no.3-Purp tries the old "it's Romney's turn" whereas if things were reversed he would say "Romney still needs to release his info to level the playing field".
Surprise no.4- Jack London tries the self-serving time changes attitudes argument although if Agnew's comment came 1 week after Roosevelt's he would simply say " Roosevelt's comment was an unintended but important comment which raised our awareness and Agnew should have known better-after all it's only been a week"!
Don't you guys get it? When you scrape the bottom of the barrel to demonize someone, when you grab at straws like this in desperation, your arguments(and you by association) are going to come across as sophomoric and laughable. You are trying to lecture an audience who have been through 8 years of the psychotic Bush Derangement Syndrome and 3+ years of creepy over the top brown nosing of Obama. Get a grip. I guess the Romney the boring cutout figure has become Romney the secret agent.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 11:02AM
Tom - if Obama refused to release his tax records would you be OK with that?
And would you be OK about say Romney - or anyone for that matter - calling someone a nigger because that's what people used to do?
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 11:35AM
If he met the requirement of two years then sure. You expect us to be ok with all of his sealed grades, etc. etc.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 2:28PM
Mr. London,
I'm sorry to post this, but the word you mentioned is still in use, mostly by the very people that don't like it directed at them. If Romney were a black man, he'd probably get away with using that word when around other black people. It is sad and disturbing, but it is the ugly truth.
And no, it is not ok for anyone to refuse to release anything for the job of our countries highest honor, if required to do so. I'm just not sure why 12years worth of returns is suddenly warranted when I'm sure our current president did not produce the same. This coupled with our current Presidents willful refusal to not release many his documents is exactly why it is now an issue for the otherside. I am sure, as an intelligent man, you can see the hypocrisy in both of your arguments.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 3:11PM
Words mean different things in different settings, – you know what I meant.
And Obama really hasn't got any anything to release - he's a very fit man with a well-documented level of high educational achievement. All you want to do keep on recycling the birther meme - you keep looking for boogiemen who just aren't there.
Quick - look behind you - there's one now!
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 3:35PM
"well-documented level of high educational achievement"
And how would we know?
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 4:22PM
Are you crazy? Are you saying his degrees from Columbia and Harvard have been faked? That he didn't edit the Harvard law Review, or work as a lecturer at Chicago Law School?
Are you smoking something - or rather just more drunk than usual?
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 4:41PM
No, I'm saying what where is grades you idiot. The left screamed for years that Bush was a idiot and he went to Yale. At least he had the balls to post his grades. Which by the way were higher than Al Gores.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 4:50PM
His degree classifications like anyone's are public records. What exactly do you want to know? Whether he flunked a chemistry test?
What's disgusting about people like you is that you know he's been subjected to the most far reaching scrutiny because he's black and a Democrat. But you'll still be gasping on your deathbed: "But I never knew Obama's fifth grade SAT score."
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 5:20PM
No, Jackie boy, the scrutiny comes because he's a Marxist who displays a visceral hatred of the capitalist system.
cuban pete| 7.19.12 @ 9:21PM
And John Kerry's.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 4:47PM
You can't have it both ways, Jack. The rationales for releasing Obama's academic records and Romney's tax records are identical. In both cases, we know certain things that are public, but people are hunting for warts in the details.
In Obama's case, we see things like this:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=60d_1337282968
There is a LOT of circumstantial evidence that Obama has, in the past, represented himself as Kenya-born. There are two possibilities here. One is that he was actually born in Kenya. The other is that he benefited by claiming to be born in Kenya, much as Elizabeth Warren benefited from a lie about her origin.
Either possibility is damaging to Obama, which is why there are calls for his school records. Any claim of a scholarship designated for foreign-born person would be scandalous.
The offer of a trade - academic records for tax records - is fair.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 4:59PM
Oh dear - nearly four years on and you're still clinging to the skirts of the birthers and Internet hoaxers. You know though you're right to do this though - if you keep on going back you'll find genetic material that links him to Neanderthals and chimpanzees in Africa. Then - boy oh boy - you can really get that imposter.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 5:52PM
Your deliberate misreading of my post is a black mark on your integrity (I use the term "black" here out of morbid curiosity, to see if the man who minutes ago proclaimed that words are or aren't racist depending on context will decide that it is racist here).
I cannot say for sure where Obama was born, as the tremendous delay in releasing his birth certificate was suspicious. I find it more likely that he was born in Hawaii, but has spent his life taking advantage of lies (as he has on other issues). As a student, he proclaimed himself Kenya-born, as we see in writings like the one I linked to. He benefited from this in scholarships and opportunities which people were eager to shower on the articulate boy of disadvantaged birth. Liberals are oh-so-fond of being the benefactors of such feel-good stories.
But the moment being Kenyan became a disadvantage to him, he shed the label, and his supporters worked to whitewash the history of his claims. The delay in producing his Hawaiian birth certificate was a clear political play. There was no reason to hide it (assuming it existed all along) unless he was trying to take political advantage of the accusations of racism he could render against the crowd that grew legitimately suspicious of the certificate's absence.
Obama fed the birther controversy so he could benefit from it. There is no other sensible explanation, save that he truly is Kenya-born and needed time to create a good fake.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 6:06PM
Well that confirms it - you are a conspiracy fantasist (or a a racist but I'll give you a pass on that as it looks more to me like a mental health issue). It's no wonder people in other countries scratch their heads about the large number of ludicrous wingnuts we have.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 6:36PM
Well, that confirms it - you do not confront arguments you aren't prepared to deal with. Often you run, as you have from some of my better points in recent days. But other times you yell "racist".
You have no answer to what I wrote. You've so got your head in the sand that you're going to continue pretending that I've written that I believe Obama was born in Kenya, just to make yourself feel better about your refusal to engage in debate.
Will you also pretend to have never heard of the Elizabeth Warren story, which I referenced earlier? That she used false claims of Indian descent to advance her academic career? THAT'S what I'm accusing Obama of doing. But you call me a conspiracy theorist and a racist, as if such a reality were not possible, let alone had not JUST HAPPENED WITH ANOTHER PERSON.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 6:50PM
OK JD - let's say you're right, and that Obama once told someone 30 years he was born in Kenya when he was actually born in Hawaii. Now what?
JD| 7.19.12 @ 7:30PM
You tell me. What would the response be if Romney was revealed to have benefited from a lie in his past?
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 7:30PM
Oh and I'm off to dinner now but as I said to someone else here:
"I suggest you read Dreams from my Father - it's widely regarded as one of the best autobiographies of any politician and puts the lie to this 'enigma' - it is a book that deals candidly with his loss and search for identity, as well as his personal history in his earlier years."
You'll find the information you seem to want but more important is the account of a young American with a complex and sad background making his way in the world (and it was written way before he was anywhere near entering high politics). And yes, Kenya figures because his father was Kenyan - but he hardly saw him.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 7:34PM
I would find the whole concept revolting, because it'd be clear with every page that there's NO WAY a conservative could write that way without being crucified in the media. But your guy does it, and he's a sympathetic figure.
cuban pete| 7.19.12 @ 9:23PM
He was the president not the editor.
I would enjoy reading an article he wrote.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 4:24PM
Well there you people, according to Mr. London: 'words mean different things in different settings...'
This about sums it all up. Do as I say you should, as not as I do, for you will be a rascist scum bag, and I'm just being friendly to people who have evolved a different skin color due to evolution and the sun.
Sorry Mr. London, but if the words offend and a public outcry that demands that certain words should be banned and made shameful if uttered for one man, then the same applies to all men. If not, then it is nothing more than guilt placed on the backs of one race of men by another race of men.
This is ignorance at it's finest hour.
Mr. M.L. King would be ashamed at the state of our current nation. This is not the America he wanted for any man. All men are created equal, so therefore all men should earn respect from each other by actions and not by hate.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 5:03PM
You obviously aren't black or been in a crowd of black people. You'll soon find, if you did, that words that are racist in other contexts are not always so.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 5:24PM
Sorry Mr. London, but you'd be wrong to make any such assumptions about whom I call friends or relatives.
A word, if it offends a large population of our society, is inappropriate in any setting, and it rests upon the shoulders of our parents to educate our youths. Respect, sir, must be taught, or our society will continue to crumble. Teach your children well, and the rest will follow.
Houdini| 7.19.12 @ 10:37AM
Lord is spot on. Giving the lefty media more to spin is a losing proposition. Better to tell them to pound sand rather than answer the old gotcha question "are you still beating your wife?". The MSM has shown itself to the greater public as nothing but Obozo's cheering section. Why help them?
KennesawJack| 7.19.12 @ 10:44AM
Mr. Lord, Love you like a brother and enjoy your writing. I would, however, in regard to the latter, refer you to Act 2, Scene 2, Line 46 of "The Trajedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark" by you know who.
PolishKnight| 7.19.12 @ 10:49AM
The author used the term "Polack" as an example of an offensive term. As an American of Polish ancestry, I still don't fully understand why it came to be an offensive term. I'm reminded of the Pennsylvania Dutch story (where the group came to be called a term that was a mispronunciation of "Deutsche".) What I found rather strange about the strong anti-Polish sentiments in the states and even in Britain is that it's so largely undeserved and unwarranted. Poles are generally hard working, honest, religious people. They were committed to assimilating in the states as quickly as possible. And perhaps that's the reason why: A lack of national pride and "identity" politics perhaps made them a target similar to the way that white males, who often are more self-hating and guilt riddled, are a target of the Democrat party today. We can learn a lesson from history in that just as most people of Polish ancestry today largely could care less about their background (most don't seem to know or care about the Polish language or going to Poland for a visit), whites and white males today are now a target for ethnic cleaning in the Democrat class warfare moreso than the rich.
Who Knows?| 7.19.12 @ 11:20AM
It’s so dismaying that Will, Kristol and National Review want Mitt to play the gotcha media game.
However, clarity is always desired. So, now, for me, Kristol and National Review have joined Will as only putative conservatives. Happily! I no longer bother to read Will, and from now on, I don’t have to bother with Kristol or NR.
I’ll keep on moving up the noospheric “food” chain, and rely on the well paid experts, who I’ve vetted over the years---Victor Davis Hanson, Michael Ledeen, Jennifer Rubin, Bob Tyrell, Don Luskin, the Powerline guys, Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter, Commentarymagazine.com, the WSJ editorial pages, John Podhoretz, David Horowitz---who’d I leave out?
Anyway, winning politicians long ago learned NOT to answer certain questions, and to use their media time to advance THEIR OWN agenda.
Just so, Romney should ignore calls for releasing his tax returns.
There are rights, AND responsibilities.
The MSM has the right to ask, but NO right to get answers.
Besides, the MSM is irresponsibility on steroids.
Andrew Keirns| 7.19.12 @ 11:33AM
The press wants me to care how much money a private citizen made, where he invested it, and how much in taxes he paid? I'm more interested in the press disclosing how much money has been spent on Obama's watch, where it was spent it and how much my taxes will have to go up to pay for it.
And if we're going to dig up stuff from the past, how does a dope-smoking, cocaine snorting (felon) end up in a University that is not very easy to get in to; and how did he pay for it; and how come the community he organized has such a high murder rate; and ...
hdhouse | 7.19.12 @ 12:39PM
felon? He doesn't work at Fox News that I know of .....
Humphrey Dumfries | 7.19.12 @ 11:57AM
Was there not a difference between referring to the Japanese army -- our sworn and mortal enemy at the time -- as "Japs" and referring to an American colleague (of Japanese descent) as a "Jap"?
Who Knows?| 7.19.12 @ 12:08PM
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
There is a link at powerlineblog.com to someone who has listed 1,001 reasons to vote against Obama (http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/06/1001-reasons-to-vote-against-barack-obama-complete-edition/)
Seize the day!
Obama has had over 1,000 days to muck up, and here’s a true patriot who’s worked hard to lay the worst of his raking out.
I’ve long marveled at Victor Davis Hanson’s long blogs, which invariably list so many of Obama’s depredations. Maybe he keeps an accounting log, daily, of specific un –American acts by our prez, to look at so he can keep it all together.
Meanwhile, normal people, and even abnormal political junkies, are like slaves, chained to their oars, busy staying alive, and unable to see all the crap going on---or, at least, more than what the MSM deigns to brainwash them with.
The problem with so many serial outrages by BHO is that there isn’t time to process them.
We can only attend to ONE thing at a TIME! So, by overwhelming us with daily “cuts”, a la Gulliver, BHO and his suicidal gang guarantee that it’ll be impossible to do other than---give up?
It’s as if Obama has sent thousands of his minions across America, into each forest, to set wild fires---simultaneously.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 12:08PM
What Romney needs to do is stop letting Obama define the conversation, and start driving himself.
He needs to issue ads that respond to Obama's "Bain Capital" ads that say "Here's Obama's ad with the person complaining that Bain fired him. And here's what actually happened: his company was already toast due to Democratic policies X, Y, and Z, and every employee was going to lose everything, but Bain bought the company and save SOME of it. Romney wishes they could have saved more, but the Democrats made it impossible; but to say that Romney 'profited by gutting companies' is ludicrous because nobody fire-sales a company for pennies on the dollar (all you ever get in a fire sale) unless there's no hope of sustaining it as a viable company, where it would certainly be worth more money to the owner."
It's painful to see such obvious truths escape so many Americans.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 1:59PM
RomBot can't - he's incompetent as a negotiator and apparently as a crisis manager - he's weak and hesitant. And, he's 65 - he's not changing, improving or inspiring anyone.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 3:05PM
So now you're age discriminating?
Each of those criticisms applies well to Obama.
I'm reminded of a HuffPo article I saw recently that complained that Romney did not have experience relevant to presiding over the economy. Hilarious! Obama had a made-up job (community-organizer) and NO executive experience at any level, and we're going to say ROMNEY lacks relative experience? Can this get more absurd?
Even after Obama's term, Romney will still have more and better experience than Obama does.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 7:20PM
Experience as President? Not really - more like Loafer-in-Chief living off his "Investments".
JD| 7.19.12 @ 7:32PM
You're amazing. You're just going to keep on pretending there's no massive hypocrisy in condemning Romney's experience, aren't you?
Do you believe yourself?
hdhouse | 7.19.12 @ 12:38PM
Bullroar. When Bain/Bane invested or even considered investing in a company they demanded audited financials from the day the company opened its doors.
Now we are supposed to vote for this dodger for President of the United States and he is saying no? He gave McCain 8 years of tax returns and after viewing them, McCain selected Palin.
That should tell you there is a mess in the package that awaits unwrapping.
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 12:52PM
Gee could that be so they could understand the financial battle they had to unravel, seeing as that was their business model?
McCain did not give the VP ticket to Palin based on Romney's tax records. What a pathetic theory. McCain and Huckabee teamed up to eliminate Romeny, perhaps that is why he didn't give Romney the ticket. That or the fact he needed to fire up the base. Either way, stick to the facts and bash on Obama, not Romney. It's a little late for that.
George S| 7.19.12 @ 1:11PM
Premise A: McCain looked at Romney's returns.
Premise B: McCain selected Palin.
Conclusion: McCain selected Palin because of the tax returns.
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc. That "logic" is the product of a weak mind.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 2:00PM
McCain preferred the Bimbo from Alaska over RomBot - you need to know more?
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:06PM
And your boy Obama picked Joe "foot in mouth" Biden as the best qualified? Wow, some choices he must have had.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 7:22PM
Joe Biden is light years above Sarah "I can see Russia from my House" Palin, the wailin' Bimbo.
He's a great VP - you can have her and Darth Cheney.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 7:46PM
HA! I figured you were one of those idiot liberals who thought that Sarah Palin actually made a statement that was actually made by Tina Fey.
Liberals are truly despicable people. They WANT the public to be misled, and they have no qualms about doing it in any way possible.
The actual Palin interview is far less egregious:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....AicPrSZ3To
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 2:17PM
She wasn't preferred due to tax issues, it was due to her being a female with what her party felt were qualifications to run as Vice President. If anyone liked her or not was the gamble. Politics sir, is a shell game, and anyone educated knows this. The negative aspects of this womans life taken out of context and shoved down our throats until a person we know not personally became toxic and we vomitted pure hate out for her. It was a disgusting lesson in the nasty game we allow to be played. Ask Mr. Herman Cain how the other side lied and destroyed a man who actually had a plan.
Btw, the term Bimbo is unnecessary when referring to any woman, even one you dislike.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 3:15PM
Where were you when all your fellows here were calling Sandra Fluke a slut?
JD| 7.19.12 @ 3:41PM
Ah, the old "find the biggest idiot you can who is willing to associate with a side, and tar the entire side with his indiscretions" bit. How overdone...
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 5:07PM
Well, obviously not on this site. I wish I would have been though, as calling a woman a slut is equally disgusting and indicates a lack of home training from the name caller.
Of course, I could be incorrect, and I would gladly eat my words if the very same person that types nasty insults could say the same thing in front of their mothers, only to be slapped across their faces for being disrespectful.
True arguments, like qualifications, merits, and achievements should be the real issues, not skin color, gender, or income.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 5:21PM
Good, we agree on something. The misogyny against Sandra Fluke was disturbing and threatening to women – among the worse things that these AmSpec posters have said, along with some naked racism.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 5:45PM
I saw an N-word here yesterday, but a known local liberal wrote it. Otherwise, the only racism I see is in the false accusations of such, or trolls.
Fluke was wrong, and as with all people, I find pointing out their wrongness to be sufficient condemnation.
George S| 7.19.12 @ 5:50PM
No, Jack, you are not agreeing in full... what your travelers have said about Sarah Palin, her daughter, and her son was beyond disturbing and threatening yet you remained silent.
As far as Fluke is concerned, any woman who goes public and demands the public pay for her enormous birth control expenditure so she will not have to cut back on meat cannot expect the appellation to be held from takeoff.
You want racism? Check out those cartoons about Condoleeza Rice then get back to me.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 6:36PM
There were some unpleasant things about the Palins I agree - some from the right by the way –but by and large I think her stupidity and hypocrisy were impossible to ignore, and rightly so. As for Rice, the cartoons that were borderline racist were not by liberal cartoonists.
And for the record, Sandra Fluke was arguing for contraception and allied services as part of a plan that she and other students pay for, not 'other people'. As I took great satisfaction in exposing here a while ago, there are posters on AmSpec whose partners have exactly that provision as part of their health plans, which therefore makes them sluts in your eyes.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 7:50PM
Mandating that all insurance plans cover something that many don't want robs us of the choice to buy or not buy such a plan, and forces those who don't want to be part of a cost-sharing plan for those services to participate anyway, despite their non-use of said services.
Choosing to be part of such a plan yourself while not mandating it for everyone is not hypocrisy.
Oh, and I highly doubt your claims about the Rice cartoons. As for Palin, "Purp" just posted proof in this very thread that he's one of the idiots who can't distinguish what Palin has said from what Tina Fey said. What you hate is your caricature of Palin, not Palin herself.
Native American| 7.20.12 @ 6:22PM
Thank you JD, you pretty much took the words from my fingers.
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 10:59PM
We will correct our folks and you can go correct yours. I am sure they wait for your advice. You have a lot of work to do. You can start with demanding that Obama return that raving misogynist Bill Maher's money back.
TLP| 7.19.12 @ 5:30PM
She IS a SLUT.
And, Tamara Holder IS a WHORE.
And Anderson Cooper IS a TEA BAGGING HOMO.
And Obama IS a Lying piece of White Hating, Jew Hating, America Hating, Sh*t.
What is it, that you don't understand, exactly?
CforUS| 7.20.12 @ 3:38PM
Who you calling you people?
If you check you will find that one person with a public voice did it, and he man'd up and apologized PERSONALLY to her.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 7:24PM
And, yet the Bimbo doesn't disappear and continues to shove it in everyone's face. She's not only stupid, vain and clueless, she has a tin-political ear. But she does have boobs.
Truth to Power| 7.19.12 @ 11:04PM
Watch out purp, Jack London doesn't approve of that kind of misogynist language. I mean if your looking for stupid, vain and clueless with a tin political ear, Joe Biden has to be the first Vice President to come to mind. He actually is the Vice President and yet you went right to the woman. Purp is just another lib misogynist on display.
soldiermom11| 7.19.12 @ 12:52PM
Romney needs to say out loud that all his records are available in at his attorney's office and will be revealed the same day that Obama releases his exact same records. That includes high school records, college records, graduate school records, including grades, how it was paid for, time missed in class, a list of what classes they took, passports, names of college advisors, etc. The he should give some of Obama's books away. They tell an ever better story with his made up girlfriends and socialist advisors.
JimH| 7.19.12 @ 12:59PM
I saw somewhere that the tax returns released by Romney ran into hundreds of pages. Admittedly his returns are going to be more complicated than average, but this just shows what is wrong with the current tax law.
TheSteelGeneral| 7.19.12 @ 1:44PM
This is SUPER funny!!!
The author uses a racist story to make an completely untrue point:
And he uses the racist story to push yet another point: it's A-OK to call the different ethnic groups by their racist slurs. With exception of Jewish Americans of course, because THEY are all the rage now.
The bigger point this author wants to make and is, I must say, VERY TYPICAL REPUBLICAN, one could almost use the word "boilerplate" Republican, bordering on fascist, but not fascist yet, which is that:
Transparency is SINFUL!!!
We should just accept all sorts of illegal tampering with official SEC documents.
Because THAT is the country conservatives wanna live in: the world where the rich can do what they want, under the guise of 'Freedom'
They are essentially pleading for a return to feudalism: two sets of rules, one for the rich (let's call them 'nobility'), one for the poor (let's call them 'rabble')
Well, I've seen the future of feudalism and it's name is Saudi-Arabia. Or was it Somalia? I alway confuse the two. That's probably me.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 2:03PM
The strange thing is that so many rabble vote Republican - why? They get no freedom from Corporations and the Wealthy running everything. Just the opposite - they become corporate slaves and they don't even know it.
soljerblue| 7.19.12 @ 2:19PM
I'll take corporate slavery over the government variety any day! At least the former pays me. The latter steals my money and gives it to fools, dead beats and politicians. But then, I repeate myself.
Purp| 7.19.12 @ 7:27PM
No you wouldn't - you can replace Obama - but not Rupert Murdoch. He just hasn't shoved his fist up your a** yet.
Try replacing your CEO - then get back to me. And, he does make money off of your labor. You're an idiot if you don't know that.
As far as your money - I'm sure your taxes wouldn't buy A FOOD STAMP for an ant. You are clueless.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.19.12 @ 2:41PM
Purp, when you and TSG comment to each other, you reveal yourselves, Tovarich. I believe your words are best summarized with "Workers of the World Unite. you have nothing to lose but your chains".
JimH| 7.19.12 @ 2:49PM
Referring to middle America as rabble give the game away.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 3:45PM
I understand why liberals vote left. They are wrong, but I understand how and why they are wrong.
Purp does not understand why people vote Republican, but he haughtily assumes that he is superior to these people. What foolishness - never assume you know better than something you don't understand!
Only because he is dishonest and/or ignorant can Purp claim his superiority. Even in his short post above, he makes straw man arguments. Name a Republican policy that leads to "corporate slavery", oh wise one. I can guarantee in advance that your example will be an act of opposing a liberal policy which, while nominally intended to free us, actually contributes to said slavery!
Scotty| 7.19.12 @ 2:00PM
The issue is that Romney very likely had no income tax liability in 2008 due to the financial collapse, most very wealthy took big investment hits....and even though perfectly legal, would be political suicide to have paid no taxes.
Jack London| 7.19.12 @ 3:19PM
And as we know even though the wealthy took a hit they've still managed to accelerate the gap between them and the rest of us as of 2012. It may not be long to predict that Romney will be having a lot more time to spend counting his dollars.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 4:51PM
And you're content to use that fact as rationale for class warfare without any investigation into how and why it happened. "Greed and evil, no need to look any further", right?
If you looked into the mechanics of the economy, you'd find what you don't want to see - evidence of your party's policies working in bad ways.
JD| 7.19.12 @ 4:50PM
There are any number of legal and legitimate things that could be in Romney's records that the Left could spin to great effect. We know that liberal media is terribly unscrupulous; they will print lies, and they will not print Romney's answers to their lies.
The irony is that the loopholes that benefited Romney were engineered by Democrats. He is to be tarred and feathered for doing what everyone else does - taking advantage of the opportunities available to him.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 2:05PM
A president that is up for re-election need only to stand on his achievements to take him into another 4 years. His merits would be all the campaiging he'd require, making his re-election prospect rather simple & cheap, but this is not the case, in fact the Democratic party is spending millions on their campaign agaist any threat of losing. They know the soap box our president stands on is cracking with the weight of disfunctionalism, dishonesty & unnecessary division among our citizens. Those involved should be ashamed & apologize for the disservice they have brought to the American people. I speak of the hate against the wealthy, gross political division, and hate between states.
If a president is good, he wouldn't require campaiging. All he/she would have to say is, 'Hey folks, I'd be greatly honored to represent our great country by being your civil servant for 4 more years. I will not be playing games, as there is still work to be done, I will not be wasting further money campaigning, if you believe that together we can take this nation into greatness, then cast your vote for me, if not I will humbly step aside.' Instead, since 2008 he hasn't stopped campaigning & has wasted an incredible amount of effort pandering his re-election. He has been basically, in the words of my Apache father, 'farting around'.
If he was good enough, he would not need to bother telling us how bad the other guy might be. If he was good enough, we wouldn't even be considering the other guy.
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:09PM
And that folks sums up the whole ball game.
Nice Job!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.19.12 @ 2:44PM
"disfunctionalism"
Well stated. My only critique: dysfunctionalism.
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 3:01PM
My apologies Mr. Constantine, I failed to copy and past it into word for a spell check.
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 5:32PM
I felt the same way in 2004, what the HELL were people thinking? I guess G.W. and Co. weren't yet finished in ruining the economy, that took till 2008.
AmericanCynic| 7.19.12 @ 2:08PM
Demanding a sitting president provide his birth certificate is okay, but asking to see a candidate's tax returns is beyond the pale!
Demanding that voter's provide verifiable identification before voting is okay, but asking multi-million dollar donors to simply provide their name is going too far!
LOL@ObviousGOPHypocrites!
Drunken Sailor| 7.19.12 @ 2:59PM
Taking election funds from anonymous donors and pre-paid credit cards is ok, but super Pacs is not.
Or better yet
Claiming that proving eligibility to vote by providing a ID card is Racist but requiring them to show ID to attend a Democrat Fund raiser is required.
Priceless!!
JD| 7.19.12 @ 4:53PM
Being a natural-born citizen is a requirement for the presidency. Showing tax returns is not.
Being a citizen is a requirement for voting. Revealing identity is not a requirement for free speech.
These things are all clearly codified in law. Why do you pretend not to understand?
George S| 7.19.12 @ 5:58PM
Demanding that SSDI recipients provide verifiable identification before cashing their check is okay, but asking them to simply show the same ID when voting is going too far!
JD| 7.19.12 @ 6:39PM
You're right - we'd best stop asking them to show ID to claim their checks!
Liberals will soldier on, with ever more absurd disparity in expectations from the competent vs the incompetent, pretending to never see the double-standard.
soljerblue| 7.19.12 @ 2:17PM
Good piece, Mr. Lord...and a detailed look at how the left plays its slimy game. As each nasty little gambit fails, they will become more shrill, more nasty, more aggressive. What I like about Mittens, that I didn't expect to see, is his ability to fight back with some class...the NAACP speech, the righteous anger over Obama's stupid remarks about small business, and now his refusal to take the "Fat Jap" bait from the Big Fat Failure in the White House.
You go, Mittens!
Butch| 7.19.12 @ 2:19PM
You smoked 'em out, Mr. Lord, great article! I got here a little late and I have to go for a while, but, clearly, the move will leave the left only with "what's he hiding?" Answer: nothing in the last two years, where are your college admission records? It will get quite tiresome and ineffective by November. Glad to see this reinforcement.
AmericanCynic| 7.19.12 @ 2:23PM
Butch,
How do you know Mitt was even born in the U.S.? Is it okay if we ask (demand) to see his birth certificate?
LOL!
Native American| 7.19.12 @ 2:39PM
Both Romeny's parents were United States citizens sir. Mitt Romney was born in the United States, his father was born in Mexico, but his parents were American citizens making George a citizen by default. Basically, the rule was that BOTH parents of a presidential candidate need to be American citizen, so a better question is how President Obama beat the system as his father was not an American. I suppose if one parent is a citizen, and Democrates are ok with this, then Romney is well in the clear. Unless, Democrates would like to open up this can of worms once more?
Pooch Perfect| 7.19.12 @ 2:26PM
All I want to know is this:
In Jeffrey Lord's photo, what on earth is he looking at? Is he pleased or appalled? Dumbstruck?
Jeff| 7.19.12 @ 3:59PM
Pooch Perfect....
Jeffrey lord can tell you.
I was on the set of Lou Dobb's CNN show...and moments before he had just announced that he was resigning from CNN after 30 years and this was his last show. I was astonished.....and it shows! There are better pictures of me....like this one.... LOL!http://wbpitt.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brad-pitt-27072_getty_20080730182131.jpg
Pooch Perfect| 7.19.12 @ 5:30PM
I clicked on the link, but it will not open for me.
You say that there are better pictures of you, so I will have to take your word for it.
About that shock of white hair--what shampoo do you use to give it that blinding, polished lustre?
I'd like to get me a bottle.
Conservative Bob| 7.19.12 @ 2:47PM
How about those first time jobless claims... just 380,000 (which will be adjusted upwards next week) Ain't this recovery grand....
Oh yea right... let’s see those um tax returns.....
Employment participation rate drops again...
Mitt what are you hiding......
Last week’s number was adjusted upward as has happened every week for how long... created or saved???? What was that unemployment rate again....
Where the hell are those tax returns....
Laughable.....
One thing for sure is not in those tax returns, hard evidence that the top people at DOJ were involved in sending assault weapons to Mexican Drug Lords.... I wonder what team O is hiding there... it is a certainty that Mitt is not hiding the fact that he was complicit in the death of a border agent and numerous Mexican nationals.....
Show us the Tax returns now...
drake1456| 7.19.12 @ 3:11PM
Exactly right.Mitts' surogates should continue to bring up Obamas' past, his spending personally(and that of My Michelle).These are "downtown" Chiagoans who have moved "uptown" and act as if they earned it, rather than exercising the rare privilege of actually being our president.
R Mandraccia MD
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 5:08PM
You REALLY want to attach your REAL name and Professional Credentials to that Racist post?
valleyforge| 7.23.12 @ 1:04AM
While you have chosen not to use your real name as you cry "Racist!"
Downtown/uptown historically signifies the hoi polloi and the elites. That is, Obama has acquired great power and responsibility without accomplishing anything.
Abu Nudnik| 7.19.12 @ 3:36PM
A quibble: The Roosevelt remarks were made in 43 while the Japanese and Americans were still at war. When that war was won, Admiral Nimitz gave the order that no racial epithet spoken by an officer of the US Navy against the defeated enemy who, having surrendered are no longer the enemy, would be tolerated.
Bob S| 7.19.12 @ 9:13PM
Of course, because it's only ok for them to use racial epithets and to put Americans in freakin' detention camps.
DRed| 7.19.12 @ 4:01PM
Lady Romney has declared that none of you people will get to see Mittens tax returns anyhow, so we should stop talking about it.
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 4:34PM
Sorry Willard and Ann, I need to see more, not that I don't trust you, I just can't help it....I'm an Atheist
CJW| 7.19.12 @ 7:19PM
But you trust Obama getting Rezko to pay for his property, and Obama giving an earmark of one million dollars to a Chicago hospital to raise Michele's phony job from $100,000 per year to $300,000 per year.
I bet you believe that Hillary made $100,000 from her $1000 investment in cattle futures by reading the Wall Street Journal?
George S| 7.19.12 @ 6:09PM
Mitt, take my advice: if you are stupid enough to release your tax returns the very next words you will hear from Obama and the Media is:
"This raises more questions than it answers."
You will then spend the rest of the campaign season being audited by the media while fellow Republicans insist you come clean and explain all the "questions" to the never satisfied media. A much better gig for the media than promoting Obama and his record.
Bob S| 7.19.12 @ 9:11PM
Tit for tat, Obama. You want Mitt Romney's tax returns? Give us something we want. Give us your college records, or the name of the dealer who sold you drugs, the records of your real estate dealing with a convicted felon, the records that show your administration knew full well what it was doing with Fast and Furious and covered it up, the records of where all the stimulus money went, give us something. No deal? Then NO FRICKIN' DEAL. Deal with it, Obama. Put up, shut up, and run a decent campaign.
Kingofthenet| 7.19.12 @ 11:46PM
You just KNOW Willard didn't pay ANY taxes for certian years, and ran an Abortion Body Disposal Service.
Finzi Holst| 7.20.12 @ 1:29AM
Barky, where?
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate -- Not the one proven to be a fake.
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary eleased so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records (Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham's divorce decree.
24 Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
26.- Michelle Obama disbarring documents.
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 2:16PM
27. What Obama ate for lunch in 3rd grade.
28. What his results were on last weeks puzzle/jumble.
29. His sperm count.
30. Proof that he's NOT a secret Muslim with designs on destroying America.
31. The 1st Lady's bra size.
and other questions that we decide must be answered to our individual liking.
LOL@ConservTards!
CforUS| 7.20.12 @ 3:47PM
I assume by the content of your post you have nothing to come back with. No argument. No thoughtful insight. Just, blah, blah, blah, "I know I just toss out some chocolate covered turds and they'll go for it". We get turds everytime BO speaks and we don't go for those either. If you can't keep up, don't join in.
jmulcahy1| 7.21.12 @ 9:37PM
The Romneys file their income taxes every year with the IRS which reports into Tim Turbo Tax Geithner. If there were any issues with their filings, do you really think that Tim the Lap Dog would not have leaked the information to his Lord and Master in the White House? What are you 12?
By the way, answer any of the questions correctly from Finzi Holst and I will send you $100.oo
Americanpatriot| 7.26.12 @ 9:16PM
The same thoughts are on the minds of alot of people. Truth be known Obama already has Romneys tax returns but is afraid of letting the public know he has the info. It would give away how his adminstration operates. If they can go into closed divorce records of an opponent he ran against in Illinois. What can they not do.l
Finzi Holst| 7.22.12 @ 3:38PM
AmerikanCynic ponders:
27. What Obama ate for lunch in 3rd grade.
A: Whatever the Madrassa was serving.
28. What his results were on last weeks puzzle/jumble.
A: Unavailable, as he was playing golf that day.
29. His sperm count.
A: Two.
30. Proof that he's NOT a secret Muslim with designs on destroying America.
A: None.
31. The 1st Lady's bra size.
A: Mr. Obama wears a 40C, if his topless photo is anything to go by.
I have answered your questions, now please answer mine above.
Thanks CforUS and jmulcahy1.
ReaganConservative4ever| 7.20.12 @ 2:52AM
Of course, everyone and anyone who knows the liberal media, will always try to goat the conservative Republican into playing their game of gotcha politics, to divert attention, to distract from the real issues, and if possible find some morsel of ammunition to use against the conservative right politician.
But in so stating, the best way to deal with them, and their tactics is to do what is right, what you should do, which is whats in your best interest as a candidate, and never placate and appease them whatsoever, period.. Not even so much as a minute ounce.
This shows them you are not susceptible to their liberal tactics and strategy, thus you have smarts, and principles, which is what they disdain as they cannot get to you if you posses these traits of strength of character.
The best example of this personal character strength or principle is Ronald Reagan.
Romney is no Ronald Reagan, but he can act and respond properly, as he should, in true Ronald Reagan manner and form, that is if he has the intelligence to do so, and to know that he should do so.
Dmnatr| 7.20.12 @ 3:04AM
This is a typical democrat attack strategy, basically the old 'Do you still beat your wife?' thing. Revealing the taxes would open up new avenues of attack, so would not revealing them.
I'd start by exposing the play and heckling it as childish and desperate, which it is.
I'd follow that up by reminding people that obama wants to make an issue of this, and yet he has packed his cabinet with tax cheats and people that had to suddenly pay a lot of $$ in taxes owed to get their position, you know, like his treasury secretary. It is just laughable and should be destroyed.
As far as the pitiful excuse that people already had a chance to vet obama, and it isn't on the table anymore, can't you say the same for Romney? He has been a public figure longer than obama. Romney ran against kennedy in 94, obama didn't run for congress until 97. Romney ran in the 08 primaries just like obama.
Saying that he has already been vetted is a pitiful excuse for a deflection of the real issues, and a criminal team like obama's asking for Romney's tax returns is laughable.
Enchanted| 7.20.12 @ 7:51AM
IF barry had something on Romney in regard to his tax returns, it would already be out in the open. count on it. barry is only using this as a diversion from his bismal record. It is like flashing a shiny object in front of someone or a squirrel, their attention is drawn elsewhere.
AmericanCynic| 7.20.12 @ 2:11PM
I'm sorry, are you talking about the president of America?
CforUS| 7.20.12 @ 3:53PM
Mitt should show up at the first debate with an envelope with 3 tax returns in it to trade for copies of BO's university records. If (and that's a BIG if) BO has the balls to come clean on his records, all this would be put to bed. Regardless of the outcome of the election do they think they will be in office forever? Eventually this stuff is going to come out and will damage is non-existant legacy.
RCV| 7.22.12 @ 5:16PM
This issue will follow Romney the whole campaign, and will prove his Achilles Heel, whether he releases the returns or not.
valleyforge| 7.23.12 @ 12:48AM
Granted that Romney can't let Obama perpetually dictate the issue of the day, but he also can't afford to create a narrative that he is hiding something important. The solution is to slow walk the issue. The issue will fade during the Olympics and the RNC convention. Obama will resuscitate it during the DNC convention and hammer at it in early September. Romney will then disclose enough to make any further demands look petulant (for instance, by releasing summaries and by allowing independent parties to review them but without releasing them in full). He simply can't afford to hand Obama this issue during the debates when all the undecideds will be tuned in. Yes, Obama will pound him on his low effective tax rate and great wealth, but he already has that ammunition. Yes, Obama will then turn to the next ginned up controversy, but by September Romney will have defined his own image, be deluging Obama with ads, and be able to take the high ground in appealing for an issues debate. Any new distractions Obama brings up will be easy to portray as game-playing at the expense of weighty issues. But any unresolved issues, like taxes, still lingering from before the conventions will be easier to cast by Obama as unfinished business that Romney must answer.
So Romney can delay for now, put the issue to rest at the beginning of the fall campaign, then be able to more easily control further distractions once we are in the serious part of the campaign.
Americanpatriot| 7.26.12 @ 8:56PM
The liberal media along with Obama has found themselves repugnent to the American people. It is so easy to see what they are doing, not transparent at all. When they attacked Ann Romney for being a stay at home mother and for riding horses that I think was the lowest they could go and it brought nothing but more people to Romneys side. American people see ugliness and evil for what it is. The liberal media has presented themselves to the American public as devoid of morals, character and any sense of what is right and wrong. They call evil good and good evil. Romney will win if he continues to not play their game. And, no wonder liberal media outlets have such low ratings. I am not surprised.
Vance P. Frickey| 8.5.12 @ 1:14AM
George F. Will hasn't been a consistent conservative since his days on the back page of Newsweek, when he coached Reagan before the debate with Carter.
Will's having lent credibility to George Stephanopoulos' agitprop shop at ABC News, especially during the Halperin years, is why I don't think he has a real commitment to conservatism any longer.
It's unsurprising that Will has added his voice to the baying pack of reporters cooperating with the Obama team on the tax return non-issue, with his bit of conspiracy mongering.
Mitt Romney should do one thing only. Governor Romney should emphasize that (a) he is a private citizen, and (b) that the Democratic Party in the person of Harry Reid is dealing in lies in order to invade the privacy of a private citizen. After a brief but significant pause, he or a spokesman should calmly state that this is a game the Obama team could play with any other American if it became convenient for them to do so.
Then, a cutaway to Joe the Plumber, with clippings of some of the more outrageous assassinations of his character by the liberal press for daring to talk back to the One.
The American people need to be reminded that Obama and his friends in the press don't discriminate - they'll go after anyone, Mitt Romney or Joe the Plumber, to take care of business. That is the linkage between Romney and the common man - Obama doesn't really think any of us has Constitutional rights to privacy, to be secure in our property, or anything else.