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Mitt Romneys Tax Forms: He Should Challenge Obama to a Data Dump Says Steve Forbes
"I was a little surprised that he was flat-footed during the primaries that he didn't have this all squared away," Steve]Forbes says in an interview with The Daily Ticker.
Forbes notes that the best move for Romney now is to "reverse the tables" on President Obama and call for a "data dump": both would release 20-years worth of tax returns, school records and health care records. "Everything" should be included Forbes adds.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/mitt-romney-tax-forms-challenge-obama-data-dump-161941805.html
The President has all ready release a lot of his, it's your turn Romney.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,278 posts)that he is being honest with them? Are they that naive?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Your turn, Romney.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)...that lame, but the fact that Forbes is resorting to this means President Obama has already won.
Your turn, Mitt.
Mitt is trapped.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021073742
[font color="black" size="12" face="arial"]What is Mitt hiding?[/font]
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)grok
(550 posts)Not to mention his DUI traffic record and maybe even an alcohol/drug treatment health record.
Might have made a HUGE difference in 2000.
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)There's no way Romney could take that deal. I'm that conviced that Romney's tax history is as crooked and convoluted as a West Texas pawn broker's 1040A.
Romney can't afford to bluff. Releasing his returns is political suicide.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)What exactly are they expecting to find in his school records?
Fastcars
(204 posts)The right-wing talking point is that Obama attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student and his grades and attendance were nowhere near good enough to qualify him for a scholarship to Harvard.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,353 posts)proof that he lied about his past, isn't as smart as everybody thinks he is, and that he got *something* (i.e. degrees) that he didn't deserve, and is essentially "a fraud" who *happened* to get lucky and become POTUS. It's part of their "failure to vet" fantasies- always thinking that there is something hiding under some rock somewhere that will unmask Barack Obama for the fraud that they firmly believe he is and that that will finally be the end of his political career. First, it was the birth certificate and now that that's been settled, now they're focusing on his school records. There is no apparent end to this insanity! It seems as though Republicans just can't fathom the notion that there might actually be intelligent, competent, and (gasp) successful minorities in this country (or anywhere).
SDjack
(1,448 posts)liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)Romney would lose again!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)due to his bizarre and aggressive behavior in his youth and his traumatic near fatal head-on car collision when he was at the wheel in France.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)I'd forgotten about him. What an entitled, brainless douche.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)BadgerKid
(4,541 posts)Don't face the challenge that's ALREADY before you; instead, you double-down with fishing nets to see what might stick. Spineless.
Pardon the mixed metaphor.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)cleduc
(653 posts)(in the top 10% of his class)
Romney graduated Harvard Law School Cum Laude (in the top 33% of his class)
Obama headed the Harvard Law Review while Romney did not.
Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe called Obama the best student he ever had.
Romney also got a business degree from Harvard while Obama did not.
I think for the Obama v Ronney at Harvard contest, Obama probably has the edge as the stronger of the two academically. Romney has the edge with the business schooling.
Romney's report card from high school didn't look that hot
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/mitt-romney-report-card_n_1748140.html
- no A's, B average.
So I don't see Mitt dramatically winning that exchange - probably pretty close between the two as Obama wasn't deeply interested in school until later in his college years.
This article by Factcheck addresses a bunch of the other stuff one might seek in a "data dump"
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/was-obama-born-in-the-usa/
- from that link which reviews a variety of items, it links the medical info Obama has released - by all accounts, he's been a healthy guy so there's not much to report.
It also refers to Obama being a full scholarship student at Occidental so he couldn't have been horrible academically there nor was he according to the various accounts of people who went to school with him there or taught him.
I honestly think a major data dump that delves into all the stuff Romney's done as a Mormon might be the most volatile between the two because there's some pretty weird stuff like baptizing dead people of other beliefs that Romney has admitted to being involved with.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Obama has released 7 years of tax returns, had to show his birth certificate (which will go down as a dark fucking day in U.S. history), had to address EVERY PIECE of baseless, accusatory BS flung at him, has had his entire past scoured over and dug through by the RW blogosphere, etc. F*** THAT, YOUR MOVE, ROMNEY!
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)I swear I never heard this Obama gave up his citizen ship for financial aid as a foreign student meme until today - are they getting dumber - this woman lawyer pulled this on me. when I asked for proof she told me it was out there and I can just google it. I swear how do you keep from calling someone like this a racist ass to their face?
How do these people hold jobs?
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)It's about Tricky Mitt. Don't make this about the President. This is STILL about Mitt.
Don't turn this into the latest right wing, racist, teabilly, clusterfuck, obsession with the President's schools records.
The President has been vetted more than any other candidate in history. He has endured the hateful probing idiocy from you and your MSM friends, and Romney and McCain surrogates, and Palin, and republican Congressmen, and local GOP political boards, you name it. HE has been vetted. Your idiot friend Romney has not.
Tell your pal Mitt to release his damn tax returns. Deflect, attack, divert, dance, whine, scream, and hold your fucking breath... people STILL want to see the damn tax returns. So STFU. It wont' work.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Rmoney on the other hand....