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    coolslow8 months, 1 week ago

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    Same principle that Obama uses to fire GM's CEO, or make other corporate decisions: Obama is living in our house. We make the rules.

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      Dionys8 months, 1 week ago

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      The rules are that he won the election and is the President of the US.

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        coolslow8 months, 1 week ago

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        Yeah? so let's see his tax statements. He is still on the government payroll. Or did you make him King already?

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          NoWayMan8 months, 1 week ago

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          "Yeah? so let's see his tax statements. He is still on the government payroll. Or did you make him King already?"

          um, this story is about Obama making his tax statements public.

          if you had read the story, then clicked on the word "source" (bottom left, end of story) it will take you to a page containing his actual tax return.

          DOH!

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            coolslow8 months, 1 week ago

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            You have got to understand that Obama releasing his tax statements is not some leap of transparency or some new innovative wonderful thing that Obama has done. It has been standard operating procedure for a long time.

            I thought that the President, who lives in the "People's House" was elected and accountable to the people of the country. I didn't realize that he makes the rules and we all have to fall in line. Thanks for explaining that concept.

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              Dionys8 months, 1 week ago

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              "I didn't realize that he makes the rules and we all have to fall in line."

              He doesn't. That was Bush.

              Or Cheney.

              You know -- the people who constantly ignored the rule of law and requirements of their positions.

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                NoWayMan8 months, 1 week ago

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                "I thought that the President, who lives in the "People's House" was elected and accountable to the people of the country. I didn't realize that he makes the rules and we all have to fall in line. Thanks for explaining that concept."

                wtf are you talking about?

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          Bkumm8 months, 1 week ago

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          Not in 2008 he wasn't. He was in the Senate, but there aren't any rules against Senators having outside income.

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            coolslow8 months, 1 week ago

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            Well Obama signed the book deal shortly before being sworn in as Senator, and another book deal days before being sworn in as President. So he dodgerd those rules. With the tax scams our elected and appointed officials are pulling we better take a look. Otherwise it seems Geithner, Rangel, Daschele, et al would never pay up. I tke it your response means that Obama's tax return should not be public information? Is that transparent?

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              NoWayMan8 months, 1 week ago

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              he dodged what rules?

              if anything, it was his publisher who wanted to hurry up and get this deal signed.

              no rules were broken whatsoever.

              the book deal Obama signed just days before he became president was for a children's version of one of his books already in print.

              and he'll get another HUGE book deal after his eight years in office as well that one's gonna be worth MILLIONS!!!!!!!

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                Bkumm8 months, 1 week ago

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                No, it absolutely should be transparent. My point is that he didn't break any rules or violate any laws.

                It always amuses me when Conservatives who talk about people being "self-made" and "doing for themselves" hammer away at a Liberal who has done just that.

                Not that President Obama is a liberal.

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                  coolslow8 months, 1 week ago

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                  I think it is noteworthy that a self-made black man can be elected President. Just as Clinton rose from humble beginnings in Arkansa to become President. I don't like the current crop of political dynasties that include Pelosi, Dodd, Kennedy, and Gore, as well as Bush, or the uber rich like Kerry.

                  Obama's parents both had PhDs. His maternal grandmother, who raised him, was a bank VP. These are hardly humbe beginnings and are considerable advantages to starting out in life. Many would think that Obama started out with a considerable advantages. Obama is now making millions. Guess its OK for him, but not for others who are consistently tarred as being the undeserving filthy rich.

                  What confuses me is that Obama criticizes as a failed system the very social and economic structure that enabled both he and Clinton to rise. He is "self-made", sort of, but is instilling a sense of entitlement in the population. Otherwise what is his patented "change" about?

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