I personally don't give a rat's ass about Romney's tax returns. I don't think any of us should have to pay income tax anyway. I would hide my money offshore too if I were making millions. I don't like the guy, just sayin'. I like the candidate who says he wants to abolish the IRS and end the Fed.

Originally posted by Merlin Lawndart
I personally don't give a rat's ass about Romney's tax returns. I don't think any of us should have to pay income tax anyway. I would hide my money offshore too if I were making millions. I don't like the guy, just sayin'. I like the candidate who says he wants to abolish the IRS and end the Fed.

I would love to abolish the IRS, TSA and all the alphabet organizations. They're all corrupt and just a bunch of "good ol' guys" groups...but I don't see that happening any time soon.

I've often wondered why the big cover-up about Obama's college transcripts.

I remember the media making fun of Bush as being a mediocre student at Yale. They blathered on about him being a C average student.

They've also blathered on about Obama being a genius in law and the constitution. I just want to know if Obama really was a genius in college, or did comparably to Bush.

I think the difference between "Tax Returns" and "College Transcripts" is simply this: What did you do "recently".

Obama is in his 50s, his "birth" was over 50 years ago, his "College" was over 20 years ago, if you can't find "something" more recent than that to take the guy down, then Mr Obama must have had a stellar career since graduating. Surely, people can find some more recent things to tackle the guys image. Do you know that every 7 years every single atom and molecule in the human body is replaced by new ones? People change all the time, and most of us have already "forgotten" much of what we learnt in college. So, who cares whether you got an A or C in class 20-30 years ago. What do you know today?

Most resumes for job applications only detail the last 10 years of what you did anyway. The employer doesn't want to know all that stuff you did more than 10 years ago. So, college transcripts are only valid if you graduated within the last 10 years.

My "instincts" tell me the following, since everybody is rambling on about their instincts, here's mine:

Obama probably didn't do all that well in college. He got into Harvard Law because of his "unique and diverse" background. Most of the top universities look for "unusual" things in the background of the potential students, to bring a wide range of experiences onto their campuses .It's not all about your grades. So, Obama got in because he was educated in Indonesia, traveled about a bit, had lived in different places, was a minority student, showed some smarts somewhere, and probably had some extra help, being recommended by some "connected" folks he'd met during his time in Chicago. That's probably the truth.

In the case of Mr. Romney, he's probably evaded taxes over the years, like every good rich American who hides his assets in offshore jurisdictions, and so simply cannot release his returns because then everybody would know for sure. Obama never made any money, so had nothing to hide, therefore could release all tax returns back to his birth, if people wanted. But, Mr Romney can't do this. You don't get rich by following all the rules. You get rich by being smart, and evading the rules wherever you can. It is simply not possible for Romney to have made all that money and to have paid the regular tax along the way. So, he joined the winning team.

Unfortunately for Mr Romney, tax returns for the last 20 years is a hell of a lot more relevant, than a couple of grades you got in College over 20 years ago. It's not just that it's more "recent data," but it's much more "relevant data" too, since people in government "set and collect" the tax from ordinary folks, so at least they need to be seen as paying what they demand other people to pay.

An ordinary person might be forgiven for a little tax dodge here and there, over the years, but the man who would be King (er..President), must rise to a higher standard than the rest of us.

Originally posted by Darkrunner
I've often wondered why the big cover-up about Obama's college transcripts.

Why have you sealed yours? What are you covering up?

Has Obama published all his tax returns ?

I wonder what names he used on the very first tax returns he ever filed

I think obama has proven to the winner of the next election. I think key issues have put him over the top.

His historical health package, landing on mars on his watch with Curiosity, getting Osama.
I think his college record is a futile attempt to prevent the inevitable.

I would of voted for Jesse Ventura because I like his take on the Democrypts and Rebloodlicans.
That they should have to wear their lobbyists advertisements on their suites so the voters know who they were bought out for. Just like the Indy 500 race car drivers!

Though I yearn to see Obama take it for the next election.
I can't stand how running for the president seems only to be for the rich.

Originally posted by xuenchen
Has Obama published all his tax returns ?

I wonder what names he used on the very first tax returns he ever filed

See, that's the angle I was striving for earlier. I want to see Barry Soetoro's tax returns....

college records??? what does that have to do WITH ANY legislative policies of the president of the united states?? i beginning to think that the term "liberal elite", means, (one having critical thinking skills).

Originally posted by jimmyx
college records??? what does that have to do WITH ANY legislative policies of the president of the united states?? i beginning to think that the term "liberal elite", means, (one having critical thinking skills).

First, his poor grades and lack of classroom attendance will just confirm that he is just another snake in the grass who is an expert at milking the system and can succeed simply based on who he is and not on what he has accomplished due to his own efforts. IMO of course.

Second and most important is the contention that Obama may have enrolled at Columbia and even Occidental as a Foreign Student from Indonesia who was eligible to receive increased financial aid. I think that is the main theme in the OP source.

He's got nothing to hide right? If he had poor grades so be it. He is still the president. Nothing to be ashamed of he apparently turned himself around academically while at Harvard. What else could be keeping him from clearing the air once and for all?? This cloud of suspicion will follow him for the rest of his life if he does not clear it up now. No one is asking for a DNA sample. Yet

Originally posted by buster2010
How can Root now claim to be a former roommate of Obama when in a earlier interview he claimed to have never met or saw Obama?

Maybe you should read it again. Classmate is completely different than roommate. It's very easy to have never met a classmate in a large school.

I would guess MR's 2011 returns will be released when they are completed and due, which is October 15th.

TheBlaze? Why not just pull directly form Romneys site? Or Crossroads, or Heritage for that matter... lol.
Ill leave you with a quote form TheBlaze from Wests ChikFilA story; "The problem with the Left is their intolerance to anything not on the Left. You must conform to their standards or lack there of or be cast out. Their whole agenda is a demoralizing one in the end." So...yeah....there you go.