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James to Obama: first, Romney's tax returns has nothing to do with the Election, it is his business and his business only.

Second, Obama: release your Birth Certificate, College Transcript and College Degree and then I and the GOP will shut up!

Those have everything to do with the election because they will prove once and for all whether you were eligible to become President in the first place which we all know you weren't!!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-romney-release-five-years-tax-returns-ll-131726417.html

Hasn't he already shown a couple of 1040s? And I don't really care about Obama's college transcripts.

This is all desperate nonsense from both sides. Just get to the real issues, you fucking hacks.

Control wrote:

I don't really care about Obama's college transcripts.

This is all desperate nonsense from both sides.

Possibly, but maybe not. Romney's tax returns are only going to be used as political cannon fodder, which is why releasing any more of them will be an ultimate waste of time. Because no matter how much money in taxes Romney paid, his opponents will say it wasn't enough, or they'll mock his charitable write-offs (The Left doesn't approve of, or consider, The Mormon Church to be a worthwhile charity), or they'll take advantage of Americans hazy or confused understanding of tax laws to suggest that Romney dodged paying "his fair share" (even though his corporate earnings or investments may have already been taxed before he saw a dime). He's in a no-win situation with them.

Obama's transcript situation is a bit different. From what I've read recently, and I find it intriguing, Obama *allegedly* had to have been an Indonesian citizen in order to attend Muslim schools when he was a child, and the allegation is that his mother revoked his American citizenship in order to qualify him. When he did apply to Columbia University was it as a foreign national? If his mother altered his citizenship status is he legally able to be President?

Ultimately the question is rendered moot if he simply loses in November, but considering how the Obama campaign has allowed the questions of Romney's tax records by surrogates to go unchallenged, it is should be considered fair game to ask about Obama's college papers, his transcripts, his grades, and his application to get into Columbia, seeing as how no one seems to be able to remember going to college with him and by his own admission he was a "C' student who mostly did drugs and skipped school. The idea of tax records may not be an area his supporters want to go down if they don't want to get challenged.

j7wild wrote:

James to Obama: release your Birth Certificatel

Didn't he do that last year?

@Gravity's: finally, someone who makes sense and has not been drinking the kool aid.

Jack Wade wrote:

:lol!: Sometimes our pets ARE smarter than we are.

Oh poor woman burned her butt sitting down on a black bench while outside the Dallas Cowboys stadium while it's 104+ plus.

Stupidity and lack of common sense on her part - I hope a judge and a jury throws her lawsuits out of court and laugh in her face!

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/8276263/dallas-cowboys-hot-water-burned-fan-files-lawsuit-team

Next time bring your own insect repellent!

Do you expect your employer to also provide you with long sleeves shirts?

http://wtaw.com/2012/08/17/railroad-employee-wins-west-nile-lawsuit-against-up/

j7wild wrote:

Oh poor woman burned her butt sitting down on a black bench while outside the Dallas Cowboys stadium while it's 104+ plus.

Stupidity and lack of common sense on her part - I hope a judge and a jury throws her lawsuits out of court and laugh in her face!

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/8276263/dallas-cowboys-hot-water-burned-fan-files-lawsuit-team

Next time bring your own insect repellent!

Do you expect your employer to also provide you with long sleeves shirts?

http://wtaw.com/2012/08/17/railroad-employee-wins-west-nile-lawsuit-against-up/

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JFK 50 years ago this week, sounding well to the right of not only all Democrats today but many current day Republicans as well:

Back when it was safe to vote Democrat. JFK, what a guy. Did a nice job standing up to Kruschev and Castro too.Too bad he wasn't in the White House now. But there is hope. Paul Ryan talks the same way.

"Instead of being permanently saddled with excess plan capacity and the budgetary deficits created by these means......"

"top to bottom cuts in both personal and corporate taxes....."

He's the anti-Obama.

Prince Kamal Khan wrote:

JFK 50 years ago this week, sounding well to the right of not only all Democrats today but many current day Republicans as well:

The good ol' days when Democrat presidents had affairs with hot chicks.

CJB wrote:

The good ol' days when Democrat presidents had affairs with hot chicks.

JFK was one a kind! He read Fleming too. Fave was FRWL but we all know that........it's part of Fleming lore.

Obama would probably regard the works of Fleming as wacist. He's also be upset at how often the Communists are foiled.

CJB wrote:

Obama would probably regard the works of Fleming as wacist. He's also be upset at how often the Communists are foiled.

Harsh!

The books would be banned from the White House along with the bust of Churchhill that he tossed.

Doesn't matter. All books were banned from the White House during the W. administration. (Except for pop-up books.)

However, we can all agree that Marilyn Monroe > Monica Lewinsky.

CJB wrote:

However, we can all agree that Marilyn Monroe > Monica Lewinsky.

Yup.

CJB wrote:

Obama would probably regard the works of Fleming as wacist. He's also be upset at how often the Communists are foiled.

True. Not to mention the fact that the hero of them is British.

tiffanywint wrote:

CJB wrote:

Obama would probably regard the works of Fleming as wacist. He's also be upset at how often the Communists are foiled.

Harsh!

The books would be banned from the White House along with the bust of Churchhill that he tossed.

Yep. I figure it's only a matter of time before all Fleming literature will be banned as "hate".

:roll:

To be replaced with copies of The Communist Manifesto, of course.

I would looooooooooooove to hear from the one person who voted for "other" person in the election poll to explain who that other person is that they think is going to win the U.S. presidential election and how they plan to accomplish winning that election while polling nationally at 0% and apparently not having even started campaigning yet with only 80 days left till the election. Please enlighten us!

j7wild will be elected president. If you don't vote for him, you're off to the FEMA Camps.

thank God I'm not American then.

I can't run for President because I wasn't born in the United States.

Unlike someone we know who is now in office, I am honest about it.