[SideoutFred]

Unfortunately there may be some truth to the wood timber industry comment by Kerry.

It came from here.

Bush did very well tonight, however.

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@DocID=265.html

[Still German Shepherd]

Not sure I trust factcheck.org after what they did after the VP debate. I think the Pres would know if he had done this, and I do not think he would lie.

[TaxRelief]

What a silly whiny article. Tom Hayes, you say? The gay guy who's "boyfriend" was the co-pilot of the plane that flew into the Pentagon? or the NY AP homosexual agenda reporter?

[AgThorn]

Good link, thanks for providing [text lifted and included below].. so there is 'some' truth but it appears that it should have been listed as 'oil and gas' ... anyway, Bush's surprise is still original!

President Bush himself would have qualified as a "small business owner" under the Republican definition, based on his 2001 federal income tax returns. He reported $84 of business income from his part ownership of a timber-growing enterprise. However, 99.99% of Bush's total income came from other sources that year. (Bush also qualified as a "small business owner" in 2000 based on $314 of "business income," but not in 2002 and 2003 when he reported his timber income as "royalties" on a different tax schedule.)

(Oct 9; CORRECTION: What we originally reported as a "timber-growing" enterprise is actually described on Bush's tax return as an "oil and gas production" concern, the Lone Star Trust. We were confused because The Lone Star Trust currently owns 50% of another company, "LSTF, LLC", described on Bush’s 2003 financial disclosure forms as a limited-liability company organized "for the purpose of the production of trees for commercial sales." So, Bush does own part interest in a tree-growing company, but the $84 came from an oil and gas company and we should have reported it as such.)