Hillary Clinton Won’t Xerox Her Tax Returns…Yet

HILLARY SAYS: DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO

Why should Hillary Clinton release her tax returns?

During her Senate campaign, Hillary Clinton blasted opponent Rick Lazio for not releasing his tax returns.

The campaign of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized the delay, asking whether he was hiding something.

It was clearly a BIG issue for Hillary Clinton and caused Rick Lazio’s team to say at the time: ”The only story here is Mrs. Clinton’s desperation in basing so much of her campaign in attacking Rick on this issue.”

  • Barack Obama has already released his tax returns. John McCain has not, and makes no pledge to do so. Once again, the difference between Hillary Clinton and John McCain becomes blurred.
  • Hillary Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million from her own money, which happens to be a shared account with Bill Clinton. He has overseas business relations. There are strict rules about where campaign funding can come from. The fact that Hillary Clinton is stalling, shows there is something amiss. Surely we know the Clinton’s have an accountant in place to organize preparation of their taxes. So why the hold up?
  • In Iowa, Hillary Clinton said she would ensure an open and transparent government, if elected. Watch video to see how she answers the question that she “would not withhold information from the public, even if it gave ammunition to her critics”.

In the MSNBC Ohio debate, Hillary Clinton danced around the question , but did finally say she would release her tax returns. So why hasn’t she done it?

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Clinton’s main excuse was that she was too busy to do it before March 4th and barely had time to sleep. So now that she has a bit of free time, how hard is it to XEROX her tax returns and release them to the public?

KICKING THE DEADLINE FURTHER OUT

Her campaign has now said they will release “on or around April 15th”. We shall see if the deadline gets pushed back again.

  • Should we presume she would be more organized (or transparent) with our budget as President, than her seemingly last minute tax filing (withholding of information) indicates?
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Clinton Darkens Obama’s Face for Ads in Ohio

HILLARY GETS ARTISTIC, BLACKENS RIVAL

Political candidates have done it before, slightly darkening images to make their opponent appear more sinister. Hillary Clinton’s camp took it one step further and heavily doctored debate footage to make Obama blacker. Presumably they forgot the widely available footage on the net which would make the contrast evident. A few DailyKos.com users noticed it first.

The ad, which was played throughout Ohio, is taken directly from her official website and her official YouTube channel. The footage was darkened so much, that the normally red background of MSNBC’s walls appear purple. Obama has a darker face, darker hair and eyebrows.

John Ararvosis of AmericaBlog compared the same debate footage from 3 different sources and noted that none of them had such a darkened hue as Hillary’s ad.

Clearly the image was darkened. The question is “why.”

The Clinton campaign finally responded to the claims. Since the footage is clearly and deliberately darkened, they decided to claim that the ad footage on DailyKos was not theirs. (Note: in spite of this lie, they have not removed the darkened footage from their own website as of yet.)

See the original DailyKos write up with images and video footage here.

Race-baiting continues to be a tool in Clinton’s artillery.

Clinton camp also lied in the ad about a subcommittee that Obama chairs, saying:

As chairman of the oversight committee charged with the force of fighting al Qaeda in Afghanistan, he was too busy running for President to hold even one hearing.

Scroll down to the bottom of the story at this link, to see why this is false.

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