Fortunately I do no have that problem for I am throwing out plenty of unread and half-read Boston Globe's these days.
"Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts draw more fire; Obama camp presses for tax records’ release" by Callum Borchers | Globe Correspondent, July 09, 2012
A week of news reports about a Bermuda company Romney owned and transferred to a trust in the name of his wife, Ann, on the day before he became Massachusetts’ governor in 2003.
First I've seen of it in my Glob (frown).
The existence of the company, Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd., and other foreign assets — including investments in the Cayman Islands and a Swiss bank account maintained until 2010 — was not known to the public until Romney released his 2010 tax return and an estimate for 2011 in January.
Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs suggested Sunday that Romney might have broken the law; at a minimum, Democrats say, Romney is guilty of secrecy and of betting against the country he aspires to govern.
That is really rich coming from this White House. Hey, if Mitt were president he could evoke executive privilege to cover-up the gun- and drug-running Fast and Furious fiasco.
And as for betting against the country, NOT A BIG DEAL when it is WALL STREET COSTING TAXPAYERS TRILLIONS!!
“You either get a Swiss bank account to conceal what you are doing or you believe the Swiss franc is stronger than the American dollar,” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
A lot of Republicans and Democrats had them with UBS, 'member?
“The one thing he could do . . . to clear up whether or not he’s done anything illegal, whether he’s shielding his income from taxes in Bermuda or Switzerland, is to do what every other presidential candidate has done and that is to release a series of years of their tax returns,” Gibbs added on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Gibbs’s claim that “every other presidential candidate” has released “a series of years of their tax returns” is not quite accurate. In 2008, GOP nominee John McCain released only two years of returns.
And the Obama campaign’s demand that Romney release 23 years of tax returns — the number he shared with McCain while being vetted as a potential running mate — is unprecedented. According to a list compiled by PolitiFact, no presidential candidate since 1976 has released more than 12 years of tax returns.
The Romney campaign on Sunday called attacks on Romney’s offshore assets “unseemly and disgusting.”
“Mitt Romney had a successful career in the private sector, pays every dime of taxes he owes, has given generously to charitable organizations, and served numerous causes greater than himself,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement.
The significance of Romney’s foreign assets is unclear. Though it has used Romney’s offshore holdings to paint him as an out-of-touch rich man hoarding his wealth abroad, the Obama campaign and its surrogates have struggled to articulate why the investments are relevant to the election....
Because they can't talk about it without exposing themselves to be in the other pocket of private equity!
In a video posted online Sunday, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt levied no direct charges against Romney but made his points with innuendo. “What taxes would Romney have paid if his money was invested here in America?” LaBolt asked.
And, he continued, if Romney took advantage of tax shelters but broke no laws, “is not technically breaking the law a high enough standard for someone who wants to be president of the United States?”
Musing about why Romney would have transferred Sankaty to his wife, LaBolt said “the only logical explanation is in order to avoid disclosure.”
In fact, that is not a logical explanation....
What are we to do when Democrats engage in deception and lies? I mean, it's expected of Republicans, right?
Despite the vagueness of the Obama campaign’s attack, Romney’s team appears uncomfortable discussing the candidate’s foreign assets. Debating the issue with O’Malley on ABC, Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana and a possible vice presidential pick, repeatedly ducked questions from host Terry Moran.
“Look,” Jindal said, finally, “I think voters will consider all the distractions thrown out by the Obama campaign, but at the end of the day, this election is about two fundamental choices.”
The whole campaign is a distraction, and the choice is agenda-serving crap A or agenda-serving turd B.
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Also see: Mitt's Money Man
Slow Saturday Special: Mitt's Money
Who the hell knows where else he is hiding it.
In fact, that is not a logical explanation....
What are we to do when Democrats engage in deception and lies? I mean, it's expected of Republicans, right?
Despite the vagueness of the Obama campaign’s attack, Romney’s team appears uncomfortable discussing the candidate’s foreign assets. Debating the issue with O’Malley on ABC, Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana and a possible vice presidential pick, repeatedly ducked questions from host Terry Moran.
“Look,” Jindal said, finally, “I think voters will consider all the distractions thrown out by the Obama campaign, but at the end of the day, this election is about two fundamental choices.”
The whole campaign is a distraction, and the choice is agenda-serving crap A or agenda-serving turd B.
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Also see: Mitt's Money Man
Slow Saturday Special: Mitt's Money
Who the hell knows where else he is hiding it.
