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- thirdcoastborn, on 05/15/2008, -10/+27she shouldn't have lent your jets to mccain to campaign in. she tied in her money right there
- Hillsfar, on 05/15/2008, -15/+30C'mon, Cindy McCain! What you hiding?
- alx1507, on 05/15/2008, -4/+15If i'm not mistaking, Senator McCain released his. But it is Cindy that hasn't.
- headzoo, on 05/15/2008, -12/+26Cindy McCain is kind of GILF.. Just sayin'.
- darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -5/+14Her eyes look VERY strange.
- ngmcs8203, on 05/15/2008, -10/+23I'm an Obama-ite, but since her and her husband file separate tax returns, I believe it to be her right to privacy to not have to divulge the information in her tax returns.
- Qong, on 05/15/2008, -7/+16I honestly don't remember that, I certainly played no part in it. It's wrong on both accounts though. It's an invasion of privacy no matter how you look it, no matter what you believe politically.
- topgigmedia, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10The amount of a candidate's wealth may not have much relevance other than to possibly tilt perception like in the case of Hillary Clinton saying she is just one of us "common folk", but really work over 100 million. The important bit of information that needs to be disclosed by all candidates is where their fortune came from.
- mmurillo, on 05/15/2008, -3/+11This is a trust issue. How are we supposed to trust our leaders if they do not trust us? The wives of our leaders are open to the same scrutiny as our leaders are. Honestly I dont even care what she made. But now I feel like she has something to hide. I won't vote for her husband if I feel I can't trust his wife.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -5/+13This is the political equivalent of pleading the 5th. Sure, you're entitled to do it under the law, but don't act surprised when everyone assumes you're guilty as *****.
- foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -5/+14Just what we need: a president who believes in more secrecy!
- Tikisam, on 05/15/2008, -6/+15yeah I don't remember that at all... but I guess if the ministry says it happened
also... anti-troop? where do you get that from? - foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7For more on what squinky is talking about see: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics ...
Anheuser-Busch's political action committee was among McCain's earliest donors. Cindy McCain's father, James Hensley, and other Hensley & Co. executives gave so much the Federal Election Commission ordered McCain to give some of it back. McCain's campaign used Hensley office equipment such as computers and copiers, and Cindy McCain personally paid some of the campaign's bills.
The campaign gradually reimbursed Hensley for use of its equipment and Cindy McCain for her expenses. The loans - described initially by John McCain as coming from him and his wife - caught the eye of the FEC, which repeatedly questioned him about them; spouses are held to the same donation limits as everyone else.
McCain told the FEC the loaned money came from his share of joint accounts. At the time, McCain reported drawing a $25,067 salary and $25,000 bonus working for Hensley in public relations and receiving a Navy pension of $11,038 a year; his 1982 financial disclosure report showed bank interest but didn't say how much the bank accounts held.
McCain's campaign debt grew to about $177,000 by the end of 1982. His 1984 House campaign repaid just under half the loans. McCain forgave about $93,000 in loans, a sizable personal donation to his inaugural campaign.
McCain's fundraising base is now far broader than his family bank accounts and Hensley. Still, Hensley and Anheuser-Busch executives have been important and longtime supporters. Long before McCain became a sought-after speaker on the national stage, he gave several speeches at Anheuser-Busch's invitation in the 1980s and donated his fees to charity. - Swift2, on 05/15/2008, -3/+13I don't much care about the tax returns. I do care about how much his wife contributes to her husband's campaign, and I want to see some honest accounting. The other day I saw a news report that said, well, the Clintons have a hundred million or so over the last 8 years, mostly from Bill's speaking -- like it or not, people pay him a lot to hear him speak. And they both wrote best-selling books.
Barack's made what would be a lot of money for me -- he seems to have about $3 million, more than Bill had at that age. But McCain was presented as a poor, struggling senator, who hardly knew where his next meal was coming from, without mentioning his wife, the eight or so houses they have around the country and the globe. In fact, the McCains are the wealthiest of all. - tifosiuno, on 05/15/2008, -8/+16Her income and wealth will make the Clinton's $110 million look like our income.
- hittnrun, on 05/15/2008, -2/+8links?
- alx1507, on 05/15/2008, -4/+10There is a big difference in the information given in a Tax Return and a Financial Report....
- foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -3/+9Except she uses her "personal" money to fund McCain's campaings, bail him out of debt, among other things.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics ... - bjornski, on 05/15/2008, -2/+7It's amazing what plastic surgeons can do now if you have enough money.....
- darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7She released hers as an act of good faith.
Apparently the "faithful" conservative Republicans don't believe in "good" faith. - chrgrose, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7Its not that i deserve to know. Its that her husband wants my vote.
- synarchy, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Dugg for providing a source link, even though it's broken; and for pointing out what a hypocrite McCain is on campaign finance. And if he's violated the law, he should be held to account. Meanwhile, his wife still has every personal right to keep her tax returns private, even if she has no political justification for doing so.
- TinternAbbot, on 05/15/2008, -13/+20She's a private citizen. This is none of our business.
- phrenzy, on 05/15/2008, -4/+11Sorry, Republicans. In these days of Karl Rove, swift boating and scandals about preachers and parsing the words of Obama's wife - this is FAIR ***** GAME.
Do you think that the Republicans, with all of their "classy" campaigns on the last 8 years are going to just ignore similar issues when it comes to their Democratic opponent?
Prepare to have EVERY LITTLE ***** THING thrown at you just as you have done for the past 8 years. Of course, after using the services of the most Machiavellian "campaign manager" of our time, you will suddenly call for "civil discourse" when it suits you.
NO. - foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -2/+7http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics ...
Anheuser-Busch's political action committee was among McCain's earliest donors. Cindy McCain's father, James Hensley, and other Hensley & Co. executives gave so much the Federal Election Commission ordered McCain to give some of it back. McCain's campaign used Hensley office equipment such as computers and copiers, and Cindy McCain personally paid some of the campaign's bills.
The campaign gradually reimbursed Hensley for use of its equipment and Cindy McCain for her expenses. The loans - described initially by John McCain as coming from him and his wife - caught the eye of the FEC, which repeatedly questioned him about them; spouses are held to the same donation limits as everyone else.
McCain told the FEC the loaned money came from his share of joint accounts. At the time, McCain reported drawing a $25,067 salary and $25,000 bonus working for Hensley in public relations and receiving a Navy pension of $11,038 a year; his 1982 financial disclosure report showed bank interest but didn't say how much the bank accounts held.
McCain's campaign debt grew to about $177,000 by the end of 1982. His 1984 House campaign repaid just under half the loans. McCain forgave about $93,000 in loans, a sizable personal donation to his inaugural campaign.
McCain's fundraising base is now far broader than his family bank accounts and Hensley. Still, Hensley and Anheuser-Busch executives have been important and longtime supporters. Long before McCain became a sought-after speaker on the national stage, he gave several speeches at Anheuser-Busch's invitation in the 1980s and donated his fees to charity. - darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -4/+11She's violating campaign finance laws by providing corporate services to her husband and writing them off on her tax returns as charitable contributions. That forces normal Americans to PAY MORE TAXES to make up for the tax money that she squirmed out of.
It's ILLEGAL.
If she wants her husband to have a chance in November, she owes it to him (and the American People) to release her tax returns.
It's really quite simple. - foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -3/+7Noob? From the guy that joined digg January 2008. Not only are you a tool, but apparently stupid too.
- foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -8/+13The GOP astro-turfers are out in full force tonight. Don't let them bury this.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6"Get some money and buy your own business, then mind it."
After that, run for highest office in the land and tell Americans to butt out when they ask what you did with all your millions. - synarchy, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5So far, this is the only valid justification I've seen for this demand.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -3/+7It's not about how much you're worth, it's about how many hoops you'll jump through before you'll let people know how much you're worth. The fact that every other candidatae is a millionaire only makes it all the more peculiar that McCain is keeping his financial details under lock and key.
- bjornski, on 05/15/2008, -4/+8If Michelle Obama was a multi=million dollar heiress, and funding her "poor" husbands lifestyle, I think you'd be screaming for an investigation on how she earned every dollar, to fund her "boy toy" and his run for office (which COULD make her very rich, with the proper policies enacted).
You'd be screaming for a 20-year audit, and public disclosure of every penny earned, and you know it. - darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5Qong: She's campaigning for him and she's providing campaign services like usage of her private 747, etc.
The reality is that she wants to be the First Lady and she's willing to help McCain cheat so they can achieve it.
The American People have a problem with that. - Swift2, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6Funny, they got Mrs. Kerry to release all kinds of info, including two pages from her tax returns. She made about $5 million the year before. Ya happy now? Oh, but Cindy McCain doesn't have to release that info. She's a Republican.
- goomba323, on 05/15/2008, -3/+7McCain proposed a bill or something to make sure that anyone donating to a significant amount of money to a campaign have to release where they are getting their income from (seems noble enough), except he put in a convenient clause that stated "personal jets aren't included in this".
That seems like Bush politics if I've ever seen it...how convenient.
But yeah, I think Cindy McCain should release her tax returns. John Kerry's wife was forced to by the right and now they want to play by different rules. It was wrong when the right demanded Mrs. Kerry to release hers and it might be wrong that the left are demanding Cindy release hers, but the fact of the matter is, people are suspicious, and to "keep the vow of silence" is definitely worse than releasing them and not having anything to hide (but of course, with a phrase like 'NEVER release them', you have to assume there is a reason). - Tikisam, on 05/15/2008, -8/+13These demands for tax returns are just silly, especially in this instance... The woman is not running for president, she is under no obligation to release that information.
Also, she's kind of a babe... which is weird because she's gotta be almost 3 times my age... - foofightrs777, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6Read this article. McCain's political life is inexorably tied to his wife's finances
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/03/politics ... - darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -2/+5Republicans are liars, thieves and cheats. The past 7 years have made this crystal clear.
If they continue to lie (and cheat on their taxes, while we pay out 20% of our income each year), they are not able to lead. - thatsmyaibo, on 05/15/2008, -7/+11No. They aren't. To be honest I'm not a fan of any leading nominee right now but the Dems are on a ghost hunt for anything that will make McCain look bad. These left wing blogs like Huffington Post, Fire Dog Lake and Raw Story are going out on a limb here. Her tax return has no reason to be publicized.
- Malacandra95, on 05/15/2008, -7/+111) Because everything John McCain owns is in her name.
2) Because knowing what someone's sources of income are reveals their potential conflicts of interest.
3) Because when Teresa Heinz Kerry and Geraldine Ferraro's husband didn't want to reveal their tax records, they were pressured to relent. - Anpheus, on 05/15/2008, -5/+8Normally I'm inclined to agree to your insight jcr, on Slashdot or on Digg.
But in this case, we have made it a national 'issue' that we consider married couples to be in some ways a legal entity. If she's hiding anything campaign related, that could be fraudulent. After all, McCain has so far come under scrutiny himself for trying to decouple himself from agreements for public funding after he decided he didn't need them. McCain's funding is under intense scrutiny and his financial documents have to be in tip-top shape, how is it that his wife, who shares those bank accounts, is inviolate here? - darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -2/+5Qong, you've replied to EVERY SINGLE post here defending her. Did she hire you as a "promoter"?
Is that why you're defending her finances so vehemently? - Qong, on 05/15/2008, -3/+6"Get some money and buy your own business, then mind it."
That is brilliant. Hopefully you don't mind if I go ahead and steal that~ - darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6We're not running for the MOST IMPORTANT JOB in the WORLD.
There's a difference. We need someone we can believe in.
We don't need more lies, coverups, corruption, scandals, wars, death, destruction, ad nausem. - Qong, on 05/15/2008, -5/+8Jesus man, are all of your comments nothing more than inane rants and randomness? Give it a rest...
- shauncorleone, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5Ah Democrats, we love to loathe you because you're always the poor wittle victim, aren't you? Any attack made by the left is right and justified, but any rebuttal towards Obama is a racist, mean-spirited, unfair personal attack.
- darkciti2, on 05/15/2008, -3/+6It's called "co-mingling funds" and it's illegal under campaign finance law.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -8/+11...just as any of us are entitled to vote against her conniving husband for busting his ass to maintain absolute secrecy over his financial affairs while running for the nation's highest office.
- BottledSunshine, on 05/15/2008, -6/+9The troops moola supports are Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and any other group that wants to kill Americans and wipe out Israel. Check his profile.
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