ChasNUMBO blabbles:
> On May 9, 2:06=EF=BF=BDam, "Clave" <ClaviusNoSpamDam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "lc" <lol7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Cindy McCain's Business Relation****p With Charles Keating and Why
She
> > > Must Disclose Her Finances
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>http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Mark%20Nickolas/blog/&blogId=3D208=
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> > > May 8, 2008
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> > > On the Today Show this morning, Cindy McCain defended the McCain
> > > campaign's decision to withhold her tax returns, saying they would
> > > never make her tax returns public--not even if she becomes First
Lady.=
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> > > I think that's a serious problem and an untenable position for John
> > > McCain (R) to maintain. Considering that McCain fa****ons himself as
a
> > > fighter for more public transparency, and the fact that both Barack
> > > Obama (D) and Hillary Clinton (D) have released their family's tax
> > > returns, this will dog McCain for the entire general election.
Earlier=
> > > today, the Democratic National Committee called on McCain to do what
> > > his opponents have already done and release his wife's returns.
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> > > First, as was well documented in a 20,000 word profile by the
Arizona
> > > Republic on John McCain back in 1999, it was Cindy's own money that
> > > was used to get McCain elected to Congress in the first place.
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> > Funny thing, but the conservative punditocracy has been rather quick
to
> > challenge this secrecy.
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> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD Trusts and income this large, even if only partly
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ntrolled
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD by a potential future First Lady, matter. We've
alre=
ady seen
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD how (she) effectively helped finance her husband's
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ampaign,
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD at least in its bleaker moments.
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD -- Andrew Stuttaford, National
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eview
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> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD Making (her) tax returns public would confirm that
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he's
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD (Senator McCain's) sugar daddy (sugar mommy?). It
wo=
uld also
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD strike a blow against (her husband's) populist
rheto=
ric by
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD detailing the lavish lifestyle he and his wife
enjoy=
....
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD -- Matthew Continetti, The
Weekl=
y Standard
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> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD "(this is) politically critical, because no
previous=
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD presidential candidate relied so much on his
spouse'=
s wealth"
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD and without his wife's money, "it is fair to say
(he=
) would
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD not be his party's presidential standard-bearer
and =
probably
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD would not even be a U.S. senator today."
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD -- Robert Novak
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> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD "...with her husband seeking the presidency, her
fin=
ancial
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD dealings, as well as his, ought to be as open as
pos=
sible.
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD Keeping her returns private would set a bad
preceden=
t.
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD Imagine a future presidential candidate whose
spouse=
has
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD complicated business dealings or federal
contracts, =
chooses
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD to file a separate tax return, and refuses to make
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t public.
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD -- The Wa****ngton
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> > BEG pardon -- those were all written about John Kerry's wife in 2004.
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> > She *did* release her tax returns.
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> > Jim
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> WOW! =C2=A0THIS IS EMERGING AS A *HUGE* SCANDAL!!!
Sure, ChuKKKles.....SURE..........
Everybody BACK to SLEEP now..........
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...................
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This "revelation" is about as "shocking" as the fact that you are
congenitally unemployed.................
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Best
Greg
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