Cindy McCain says she'll never release her tax returns »
Posted By not2needy 1 year, 6 months ago in News"You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This is a privacy issue. My husband is the candidate,"
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Cindy McCain's refusal to release her tax returns gives the appearance of a double standard on the part of her husband.
"What is John McCain trying to hide?" Dean said in a statement. "Throughout this campaign, he has acted like his own calls for openness and accountability apply to everyone but himself. Now he thinks he can bring that same double standard to the White House."
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton filed joint tax returns with their spouses and publicly released those returns.
If Cindy McCain were to become the first lady, she should do like every first lady before her, and release her tax information. Everyone already knows she's a multimillionaire, so what is she trying to hide.
PLUS, what self respecting man lives with a woman for 28 years and allows her to have this kind of control. Money can't buy everything. What would the cons say if this was Michelle Obama.
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questionseverything1 year, 6 months ago
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mccain trying to play both sides against the middle...releasing his tax returns to look "semi-normal" all the while riding around in his multi millionare wifes priv jet
yet he has the nerve to call obama an "elite" when the obamas just got their student loans paid off when his book made money
the sad part is with the msm being the corp shills they r a big segment of the population doesnt get to hear the truth
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Beau78901 year, 6 months ago
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 6 months ago
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"PLUS, what self respecting man lives with a woman for 28 years and allows her to have this kind of control."
Perhaps he is a self-respecting man who also has respect for a woman. Or would you rather we return to the days when women were considered the property of their husbands and were not legally able to own businesses or other property, or to sign binding legal contracts?
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mesodude1 year, 6 months ago
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Poor little misguided Cindy. Little does she realize that's the first thing Dems are goin after once Hillary and Obama's duel comes to an end in a few weeks. And much like her makeup, things are gonna get REALLY ugly. Ugly and scary. ;-(
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StarLord1 year, 6 months ago
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1. While I disapprove of Mrs. McCain's decision, it is hers to take.
2. Sen. McCain can't force her to release her tax records, you know.
3. They've been filing separate tax returns since 1980. I'd say that this means that it's not a cheap gimmick.
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humemacdonald1 year, 6 months ago
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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Are you married hume? My husband and i have only been married 17 years, and we share tax information, file together, i know what's going on in my own house, and so does he! That's my point...
Cindy McCain doesn't get a free pass, enough free passes for the McCains/ She has stolen from her foundation, forged prescriptions, among other things, all of which she had no consequences, not even a record. Now she refuses to disclose her tax information! More of the same, and apparently the one in control, but there is a reason for it, and it's not because she's paying tooooo much taxes!
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bubba21 year, 6 months ago
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Republicans made an issue out of John Kerry's wife not releasing her tax returns in 2004, even when she did at least release part of that information.
But, I fully expect the hypocritical Republicans to fully defend Cindy McCain's decision to release NONE of her tax information, and I expect the media to basically ignore it or defend it subsequent to this 'official' announcement.
Behold the double-standard ...
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Spadecaller1 year, 6 months ago
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The presidential candidate should be married to a partner that accepts the responsiblility to the nation, as well.
Their cooperation to share important information like tax returns should be imperative to even run for office. The people have the right to know exactly who the President is married to; otherwise he should not run for office.
McCain's wife insists that she is not the candidate; then what is she doing campaigning for him? You can't have it both ways and expect the public to trust them.
The only reason that she refuses to submit her tax returns is that she has something to hide and knows that technically she can get away with it. "Their" decision to conceal her financial records was carefully thought out.
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humemacdonald1 year, 6 months ago
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Perhaps she does have something to hide, I don't know or care but would hope that she would be audited if suspected of tax evasion.
Spadecaller I really don't understand why you think that the spouse has a responsibility to the nation as well.
Our last PM, Chretian had a wife that other than at the high-points of a campaign, was pretty well out of sight, and that was completely acceptable in my country. The assumption that it should be otherwise is really quite foreign. I guess I really don't see the basis for the position so perhaps some of you could expound on it. Cheers!
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idyll1 year, 6 months ago
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I don't think Cindy gets it. In a campaign where a flag lapel pin can become a major issue, she's just asking for trouble. There is no such thing as privacy in a 21st century presidential compaign. Plus, this issue is wide open for exploitation. I can see the MoveOn YouTube commercial in my mind now.
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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lol, you got that right.
I don't think i can find the gray area with this. If she supports and loves her husband and really wants to see him win, then this should be a cake walk for her.
I don't have 100 million dollars, but out of love, respect and support for my husband, it wouldn't be an issue for me at all.
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mamasan1 year, 6 months ago
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Once again double standard for Republics.
Just like Sen David Vitter...he gets caught with a hooker and all the Cons say...so what.
While Spitzer gets caught with one and all the Dems say...quit your job bub!
David Vitter still is a Senator while Sptitzer quit with dignity.
Oh yeah that other gay guy...oh Mr. Wide stance...he still has his Senate job too!
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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Teagen1 year, 6 months ago
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mamasan, that's rather rare with the GOP. Because so many of them depend upon the conservative religious right, usually they can't wait to toss the accused under the train. Sometimes even before they've been charged much less convicted. Your party has a terrible record of protecting the guilty.
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texangelwings1 year, 6 months ago
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If she wants to be First Lady, she must be above reproach! If her income is a part of her husbands life, she should be willing and submit her Income Tax records, the same as her husband! I wonder why she wouldn't want to submit her Tax records?
Thanks not2needy!
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tanglang1 year, 6 months ago
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Wow N2N. Between your pos for this douche calling a woman a "Broad", and this little doozy from page one "PLUS, what self respecting man lives with a woman for 28 years and allows her to have this kind of control." you have shown us that your husband must have your ass in check.
I would ask you to respond back but I would not want you to have to go ask him for permission.
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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Neither was Rev Wright, and Obama wasn't sleeping with him every night, nor would Rev Wright be living in the WH. I want to know what's going on with Cindy McCain, if she want's her husband to be president, we deserve to know that she has no more skeletons than we already know about. HAHAHA
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Manicdude1 year, 6 months ago
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A lot of you use the argument that Cindy Macain is guilty of this and that and therefor should bequired to disclose her tax info. The simple fact is that regardless of her position in society, she has not been convicted of any crime or done time for doing so. Why shouldn't she be afforded the very same rights you and I are where none of the crap you are shoveling here can be used in any court of law in the good ol' U.S. of A?
C'mon, Just because a few Dems wives buckled to the whims of the G.O.P. and social pressures doesn't mean ALL women are stupid, does it?
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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That's just it, i'm not afforded the same rights Cindy McCain is. If i had been caught smuggling drugs internationally, forging prescriptions and stealing, i would still be in prison, and you know it!!! McCain called in his big guns to get her off without so much as a charge, but only when she got caught! Nothing was done about her drug addiction before she was caught.
What choices did the Dems have, the repugs had it all over tv, newspapers, talk shows, and any other venue they could find, making their demands. It's high time they got a little taste of what they have been dishing out for years.
Face it, they're a bunch of perv, dopies, and wh0re mongers, while totin their Bibles and preaching the wages of sin, oh and add hypocracy to that list of faults.
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Teagen1 year, 6 months ago
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You're worried about a write off? Clinton was caught selling pardons and renting out the Lincoln bedroom and you didn't have a problem with that. Cindy might fly in her own plane and you're mad? You folks need a better hobby.
Add to that, with the money the McCain's have, you don't think they'd employ an army of accountants? They're not going to make a mistake like that. The media loves Obama and hates McCain. They will cross every "t" and dot every "i".
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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abntv1 year, 6 months ago
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 6 months ago
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It's a strange idea, abntv:
Jesus addressing the Republican National Convention; and denouncing the love of money as the root of all evil, and condemning those that love to pray in the open for show; commanding everyone to no longer return evil for evil;
saying to the Bush's base: "give all that you have to the poor, then come, follow me".
Ok, at that point I see him being torn to pieces; but the dems are just holding the coats.
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