Posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 18, 2012
The Obama campaign is asking supporters to sign a letter to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney release “just five years of tax returns.”
In an email to the BarackObama.com list, campaign manager Jim Messina noted the letter he sent Friday morning to Romney’s campaign manager, vowing to get off Romney’s back about the returns if the documents were produced. The Romney camp brushed off Messina’s move.
Now Messina has converted his letter into an online petition of sorts.
“According to the one full year of returns he has released, Romney paid 13.9% in taxes on his income. Thursday, he said he went back and looked, and has never paid less than 13% over the last ten years. Now we’re asking him to put his money where his mouth is,” Messina wrote.
“It is absolutely relevant for us to ask how much a presidential candidate paid in taxes, if he sheltered his money or tried to get out of paying taxes at all, why he started — and continues to own — a corporation offshore in Bermuda, why he keeps his finances offshore in the Cayman Islands, and why he opened a Swiss bank account,” he continued.
In addition to being invited to sign the petition, supporters were reminded in a P.S. to open their wallets: “Election Day is closer than you think — make a donation to fund this campaign in the time we have left.”
Ok, so how long will it take to get a petition going for the Obummer to release his Social Security records, passport records, college records, etc.???
Everything they do reaks of despiration.
“We’re out of ideas, money and energy. Will you PLEEEZE do our opposition research for us?”
“Ok, so how long will it take to get a petition going for the Obummer to release his Social Security records, passport records, college records, etc.???”
Where do I sign?
And if it takes off, do they REALLY not realize what kind of petition we will launch. Their campaign is pure high school.
FUBO!
Remember, November is coming!
when pigs with lipstick fly
Everyday more desperation
The Obamadork/cretin/felon/quota baby is getting desperate.
Shove it, Chicago idiot.
this jerk will do anything to avoid discussing his horrible record of failure, chaos, collapse, debt, deficit, amd decline.
Just another fundraising scam
I can’t wait for the greasy kenyan and his criminal entourage to get their eviction notice.
What is the value of a petition signature from someone already in the Obama camp? This Obama Camp is getting stupider by the day.
I bet Wikileaks will have Romneys tax records out within the week.
Forged by the same people that did Barrys birth record.
Only problem is Obama team could find a way to release phony versions of the above while Romney would be stuck releasing his genuine tax returns. Which are so complicated the Obama propagandists will pick them apart and find things to rail about even though Romney's taxes are 100% legal.
Romney has no divorce records for Obama consigliore Axelrod (scumbag) to get unsealed so they are trying to force Romney to release his taxes which are extremely complex for anyone in his line of work or on Wall Street
The trap is set and will trip when a deal is cut to trade tax returns for college records or passport or what have you. Since obviously Obama can't afford to reveal the real ones, he'll be forced to fake them like the BC which will be his undoing.
Stand up to the Alinskyite POS or get the Hell out of the race.
It’s Amateur Hour in Obamaville.
They don’t reeeeeally want to go down this road, do they?
I want him charged, tried and put in Jail.
Not ever going to happen. Romney is not obligated to release returns and won’t for sure now if he has any guts at all.
This could be entertaining if it were not so critical.
Winning is not enough. I want revenge.
"Okay Romney, I'm gonna draw another line in the sand and if you cross it you're in big trouble.
"Okay Romney, I'm gonna draw another line in the sand and if you cross it you're in big trouble.
"Okay Romney, I'm gonna draw another line in the sand and if you cross it you're in big trouble."
I’ll sign now for his complete college records.
Slim Shady can’t hang in the light of day!
Sorry, but they would not have standing.
The returns will get out somehow.
Great idea. If someone will create it I will sign it and pass it on to others!
The Obama campaign is successfully controlling the debate. This is all I hear about on the news.
But the ObamaMedia will repeat and magnify it endlessly and Obama's supporters and some independents, who are pure high school, will be energized. Obama supporters are wrong and maybe even evil but they're not all stupid.
CNN was pushing this earlier this afternoon! No one but Obama, et al and leftwing aka mainstream media care! Everyone else is worried about their JOBS!
It’s like most of America really doesn’t care, and that frosts Obama’s hiney. What is this supposed to show, that Mitt got some scandalous tax breaks in a tax return that is as long as “War and Peace” but nowhere near as entertaining? There is a reason that job-creating investment risks are taxed more gently than more prosaic income.
I agree with you but I have one concern. Obama certainly knows exactly what’s in Romney’s returns. Since they’re private by law he can’t even leak what’s in them, but he knows, and believes it’s win.win. If Romney releases them, Axelrod & co bash Romney with the contents. if Romney doen’t release them, then Axelrod with the Media bash Romney for a coverup. Right now this is his only play.
As they should! Imagine if Dingy Harry can just spew lies about not paying taxes for ten years and get away with it then how would they twist ten years of tax return data?
Keep hammering at Camp Ubama and his worthless record! When the media stooges bring up the tax issue hand them an "I love Obama" button for their jacket and tell them to put it on! Keep piling on the shame to the media for their relentless shilling for Ubama.
I’m sure Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck will sign this one, too.
This is beginning to smack of despiration. I don’t know anyone who could care about Romney’s tax returns. However, everyobne I know cares about Obama’s horrible record creating jobs and managing the economy!
Four years in office and the Obama campaign has nothing positive to run on.People are tired, out of work and the outlook is bleak.
This type of campaign worked for him in 2008, but slick words and empty promises won't work this time.
Let them keep chasing after tax records, while Romney and Ryan are out there offering leadership that has been so lacking.
Maybe we could get our own little petition going, on November sixth, let’s see if we can get enough people to sign a petition to send Obamay and his scrawny ass packin’...
well obama is in name although maybe not legally, head of the fed government. surely he could just order the irs to produce romneys tax returns. even though it wouldn’t be lagal, he could likely get them.
What I’m hearing on the news is how Obama has gutted Medicare to the tune of $700 Billion.
Obama is running a 3rd grade campaign, matching the political education of his supporters. They gonna put y’all back in chains! You didn’t build that. It’s god to spread the wealth around. Sign my petition and here’s your pack of Kools.
Them are some tig jiggly bitties.
The worst thing that could possibly be in them, I am NOT saying this is TRUE, is that Romeny took advantage of a “swiss bank amnesty” in 2008.
But here is the history of Axelrod
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2012/08/axelrod_playboo.php
What gripes Obama, Axelroduphisarse and the Left is that Romney makes SO DAMNED MUCH MONEY !!! They can’t stand it.
Even if Obama traded college records for Romney tax returns, they would be obviously fake. Romney should ignore this.
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