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February 07, 2008 5:24 PM

ABC News' David Wright Sen. Barack Obama called on his rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to release her recent income tax returns -  a move the Clintons have long resisted.

Watch the VIDEO HERE.

Strapped for campaign cash, Clinton announced this week that she loaned her presidential committee $5 million of her own personal funds, but it was not immediately clear how she came by that much money.

"I've released my tax returns," Obama said today on his campaign plane, noting that Presidential candidates have a duty to be transparent and accountable.

He said, "The American people deserve to know where you get your income from."

Back when Bill Clinton was an office-holder, Hillary Clinton's business dealings  were often a source of controversy.  Remember the Whitewater land deal and all the scrutiny given to her client list at the Rose Law Firm?

Now that she is running for President,. Bill Clinton's finances are attracting attention.

He has cashed in since leaving the Oval Office - raking in a small fortune in speaking fees, as well as consulting for private clients and foreign governments.  Fundraising for his Presidential library has also come under scrutiny.

In one recent controversy, he reportedly consulted with businessmen connected with the repressive government of Khazakstan. Some have criticized him for selling his credibility and, in the process, undercutting US foreign policy and his wife's public pronouncements.

Should Hillary Clinton use the former President's windfall to fund her own bid for the Presidency, it would inevitably become a campaign issue. 

And, for her, there's another sensitivity. Given that she is making the case that she is an independent career woman, dipping into a rich husband's assets might undercut that image.

Nonetheless the Clintons have resisted frequent calls to open the library's books or release their income tax returns.

Pressed by reporters for his thoughts, Obama said "I don't have enough money to drop $5 million on a campaign."

Asked by email for reaction, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson emailed back: "Senator Clinton discloses the sources of her income every year."

Clinton does file annual financial disclosure forms in connection with her job at the US Senate, but they are far less detailed than a joint tax return.

Wolfson added: "When will Senator Obama release the complete details of his relationship with Tony Rezko?"

Rezko, a Chicago businessman currently under indictment and facing trial later this month, was involved in a deal allowing Obama to purchase land adjacent to his house at below market value. Obama has, in retrospect, acknowledged the deal was "bone-headed."

Obama also recently returned some $150 thousand in campaign contributions from donors connected with Rezko.

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I think if Hillary or Bill are contributing to her campaign then she should release her income tax documents!

As far as Rezko, how much has he contributed to Bill Clinton in any way shape or form?

As far as the number of debates, why not have a caucus in Michigan and in Florida and then the delegates can be seated fairly at the convention??

Posted by: paulet | Feb 7, 2008 5:37:14 PM

I think releasing your tax returns is a simple enough request to complete that could only build more credibility...if you have nothing to hide. Not to mention, you're asking for my vote for Democratic nominee for the POTUS. You're practically asking to live under a microscope..as you should when given so much power. Surely you're not offended by this request.

It sure sounds like she's a little defensive when she throws Rezko back out there...

Posted by: whatsayyou | Feb 7, 2008 5:37:17 PM

Can you media crop write something meaningful? The country is in trouble with economy plunging, european laughing at us on our $$ devaluation. Bin Laden is thinking about next move to suck up our economy and nation standing in the world to lower five notches. Do you have a head to talk about substance? How do the candidates handle the crisis? NO, NO, NO, NO. All you are talking and writing are bunch of crap. Wake up and be a real citizen care about your country, not just meaningless subject and stories.

Posted by: MediaBashOnBothSides | Feb 7, 2008 5:37:22 PM

Hello? Wolfson? Anyone home?

Do you actually think the Clintons can win a contest with Obama over who has shadier friends, or who has shadier finances?

Rezko was a scumbag. He helped raise a lot of money for Obama. Obama should have had nothing to do with him. All granted. Now, let's see Clinton's tax returns.

Posted by: Fight can't be won | Feb 7, 2008 5:38:54 PM

Why is Hillary hiding from releasing her tax returns? Something really going on in her campaign...They all come across as a bunch of crooks who will do anything and say anything to get Hillary elected. Hillary go away!!!

Posted by: Cortez | Feb 7, 2008 5:40:48 PM

GOOD!

I'd love to see transparency in campaign and politics when dealing with tax money!!!

Bravo!!!

Posted by: truth4ever | Feb 7, 2008 5:46:02 PM

Kinda reminds you of Nixon's refusal to release the Watergate tapes, doesn't it?
Re the nonrelease of her tax info: Must be a reason somewhere...and it's probably not good. The Clintons never do anything unless it's favorable to their political ambitions.

Posted by: somethings fishy | Feb 7, 2008 5:47:58 PM

Geez, obama needs to quit sniveling so much he is really showing his age he is still a child, and as for the money hey it's polotics they all cheat and scam. so go hillary take your place in history and after that obama will have had time to progress in traing to run our country.

Posted by: lisa | Feb 7, 2008 5:50:00 PM

Geez, obama needs to quit sniveling so much he is really showing his age he is still a child, and as for the money hey it's polotics they all cheat and scam. so go hillary take your place in history and after that obama will have had time to progress in traing to run our country.

Posted by: lisa | Feb 7, 2008 5:50:05 PM

America to Obama
Tell us why you are afraid to debate Hillary.
Tell us the details of your deal with Rezko.
Tell us some examples of how you have united Washington since taking office.
Tell us details instead of offering America a bunch of Hallmark greeting card stump speeches.

Posted by: Joe | Feb 7, 2008 5:51:20 PM

This is positively Nixonian/Bush-League. Clintons -- release those damn papers and records, NOW!

These are PRECISELY the kind of sleight-of-hand shenanigans that are driving Dems in ever-increasing numbers to Obama!

Posted by: Mark | Feb 7, 2008 5:52:35 PM

Clinton won't release her tax records for the same reason she asked for a extension to divulge her campaign's financial records to the FEC. She has $10 million listed on her latest divulged campaign records under "transfers." Interestingly, there is some questions about the Clinton Presidential Library funding. And her supporters say the media favor Obama. C'mon people. This IS the Clinton's we're dealing with here. Those of us who are questioning her are clearly not her supporters who, not so coincidentally, are older, less educated, needier people who believe what she says because they don't have access to information that would suggest they do otherwise. Give me a break!

Posted by: bobbie | Feb 7, 2008 5:55:44 PM

Something is very *amiss* -- as in FISHY -- with all the secrecy surrounding the Clintons and their hinky dealings. Their relentless secrecy reminds me disturbingly of Bush and Cheney.

Posted by: Mark | Feb 7, 2008 6:00:02 PM

If she cant release something as simple as a ta return she absolutely cannot be trusted. They have the ausacity to bring up Rezko? Are you serious? He's not accused by anyone of doing anything wrong in connection to Rezko and there dozens of riduculously and obviously shady dealings the Clintons have going. They are lucky Obama is pulling his punches!!!!

Posted by: James | Feb 7, 2008 6:00:37 PM

Khazakistan uranium deal is a new news, the 35 years of experience is sealed and the list of contributors to the Clinton library itself is sealed. Simple answer to a simple question from Obama: make available to the media info re taxes.

Posted by: BKMC | Feb 7, 2008 6:00:47 PM

Wow the more Obama opens his mouth the more he sounds like old school Washington politician. No wonder he is afraid to debate Hillary. His only position is to CHANGE the topic when people think they deserve answers from him.

Not seeing much change in this guy.

He should talk to his good friend John Kerry about tax returns and lending money to campaigns. The more I hear from Obama the more he is exposed as a bright but empty package.

Posted by: Bill | Feb 7, 2008 6:02:23 PM

I don't think it is unreasonable. She has not released her Campaign finance records and won't release her income taxes to show where the $5 million came from, which she did not initially release that she had loaned her campaign but when it was found out, confirmed it. Then she asks us to trust her.

Posted by: Louis | Feb 7, 2008 6:02:27 PM

Did some one see the pictuer where Rizko was standing between the Clintons?

Mr. Wolfson should ans. the question
and then raise another question.

It's very obvious and embarasing to stand against transparency when you run for the highest office in the USA to avoid TRANSPARANCY as if you are running for an office in a third world like un DEMOCRATIC Country.

Posted by: S. Mengesha | Feb 7, 2008 6:02:38 PM

It's not Senator Clinton's fault that she has more personal finances than the Senator from Illinois. Her tax returns are of no interest to me. Let's see the Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld tax returns. I'm much more interested in hearing a clear sentence come from Obama rather than his speaking in parables and trying to channel Dr. King. The fact is, the Clintons have been vetted by Republicans for years. If this is all Obama has to focus on these days, I'd say he's in for a long, and ultimately, unsuccessful bid.

Posted by: Julia | Feb 7, 2008 6:07:49 PM

OK Clintonites, enlighten the rest of us:

1) WHY won't she release all of these records and emails and assorted documents?

2) Do YOU PERSONALLY approve of her secrecy?

3) How do YOU think she'll fare when McCain NAILS HER on it at debate after debate, and in his relentless commercials?

Posted by: Mark | Feb 7, 2008 6:09:35 PM

Everyone knows that if Hillary had nothing to hide - something potentially damaging to her campaign - she would not have loosed the leash off of Wolfson to attack Obama for making a genuine request on behalf of the American people. The fact is we do need to know where the $5 Million came from. We do know, however, that the American people did not give it to her to boost her campaign as they have done in Obama's case. We also know that Bill and Hillary will try to do anything to get back to the White House. So, Hillary, if you're worthy of any vote you need to disclose your tax returns.

Posted by: Kensing | Feb 7, 2008 6:10:13 PM

Hillary keeps telling everyone she is running on her record... so why won't she release the documents pertaining to it?

What's in those returns?

Posted by: Bob Loblaw | Feb 7, 2008 6:11:42 PM

"remember whitewater"

Ohh, how clever...you're drudging up the past in which Republicans spent hundreds of millions to investigate the Clintons, and it was found they DID NOTHING WRONG!!!! Aside from a blue dress, "remember whitewater" should be a stain on the republicans forever and ever!

ABC PLEASE!

Posted by: Josh | Feb 7, 2008 6:13:04 PM

Clinton should just release her tax records. At least that would put this angle to rest, assuming there's nothing surprising in there. By not doing it, well, it just reinforces her secretive perception with many voters.

I really doubt her income includes anything really embarrassing. Maybe its bigger than most of us are thinking, but nothing too bad. So to not release them strikes me as kinda dumb.

Posted by: Paul | Feb 7, 2008 6:15:15 PM

I think someone is afraid of another Clinton. Hillary Clinton is in control and will make a great president.

Posted by: thinkaboutit | Feb 7, 2008 6:21:00 PM

To all of you smitten with Obama mania: will you support Hillary if she is the nominee? Of course not...since you are actually REPUBs in Obama clothing..ha,ha,ha

Posted by: Norris | Feb 7, 2008 6:24:22 PM

Paul, I think you're absolutely correct: no minds are being "changed" here, and we're all just kind of venting I guess.

As for the sock-puppeting, that's disturbing to hear. Once again, there's something almost Nixonian in the implied paranoia -- the idea of actually paying staffers to cruise and to propagandize these meaningless boards, while looking for "enemies" to crush....

Posted by: Mark | Feb 7, 2008 6:27:07 PM

Norris, I can't speak for the rest here, but I'm not a Republican. I'm an independent. And, nope, just can't support Clinton if she's the nominee. Just don't think she has the character.

I understand others see it differently.

Posted by: Paul | Feb 7, 2008 6:27:09 PM

REF: OBAMA RAISING $32 MILLION

HOW MUCH WAS OPRAH's CONTRIBUTION ?

Posted by: NELL | Feb 7, 2008 6:29:15 PM

Let's face it, if the Clintons haven't found any better dirt on Obama than what this 2009 poster has to share, and believe me, the Clintons play as dirty as the Republicans, I'm pretty confident that there isn't anything out there on Obama. But while Hillary keeps saying that she has been "fully vetted" new suspicious facts about her and her husband arise daily. Is it possible that an asian dictator is indirectly funding Hillary's campaign? Release the returns!

Posted by: Paul | Feb 7, 2008 6:29:41 PM

TELL OBAMA TO RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS, ESPECIALLY THOSE FOR THE YEARS WHEN HE WAS 30 TO AGE 33.

I READ HIS BOOK AND IT AIN'T PRETTY! HE IS ALMOST 50 YEARS OLD, WHAT DID HE DO BEFORE HE JUST POPPED UP ON THE SCENE?

PEOPLE YOU BETTER INVESTIGATE AND KNOW YOUR CANDIDATES.

OBAMA IS AN UNKNOWN, NON-SUBSTANCE PERSONALITY WHO WILL BE TORN TO BITS BY THE REPUBLICANS, AND I WILL BE SMILING ALL THE WAY TO THE REPUBLICAN INAUGRATION BECAUSE YOU UN-INFORMED PEOPLE PUT UP SOMEONE WHO HAS A LOT OF NEGATIVES.

AS FAR AS SENATOR H. RODHAM-CLINTON, SHE IS AMERICAN BORN, AMERICAN RAISED AND STEEPED IN AMERICAN POLITICS. SHE IS A KNOWN COMMODITY! NO FLY BY NIGHT HERE.

SHE HAS PROVEN HER GRACE UNDER FIRE AND I DON'T BELIEVE SHE WILL JUMP SHIP, OR QUIT!

As a woman, I am for her, but as a Voter, I am for her even more. She has been investigated, and investigated, and investigated, and the worst the Republicans can do is to keep going back to the fact that she had a cheating husband. Well that just puts her in the majority of the married women in the world. I CAN IDENTIFY WITH HER THERE AND SO CAN MILLIONS OF OTHER WOMEN!!!

HEY PEOPLE, MEN CHEAT AND WOMEN ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR IT!!!!ALL THE MORE REASON FOR WOMEN TO STICK TOGETHER!!!

BY THE WAY, IS OBAMA WITHOUT CHEATING SIN??? I BET NOT!!! SOME LITTLE OLE GAL OUT THERE CAN TELL YOU A THING OR TWO!!!
McKay

Posted by: McKay | Feb 7, 2008 6:31:24 PM

Obama needs to stick to the issues at hand...THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!

Posted by: Cindy, Calfiornia | Feb 7, 2008 6:32:01 PM

It would appear that Hillary was not able to budget her finances in this race ,since she has to borrow . I therfore wonder how she will handle the finances of the American People

Posted by: phillip | Feb 7, 2008 6:33:05 PM

Norris, Hillary must earn the nomination *legitimately* and with no "ticking bombs" (i.e. scandals) under the floorboards. If she's got skeletons and things to hide, I expect her to get them sll out in the open NOW, not in September or October, once we're stuck with her (if indeed she is the nominee, which is far from certain) as we run agaisnt McCain.

Playing all coy and cutesy with the truth just ain't gonna cut it 2008! Voters are demanding truth and authenticity, and will severely punish those they decide lack them.

Posted by: Mark | Feb 7, 2008 6:35:42 PM

2009, you are supporting a person who, when making a speech, had to look at her notes to see who the people were that were most important to her (super tuesday night speech). Hillary is so fake. I would not be suprised if this whole $5 million loan is a farce to counter Obama publicity.

Posted by: Jason | Feb 7, 2008 6:37:25 PM

Are the Clinton supporters naive enough to think that there is some mud on Barack Obama that hasn't already been thrown by the Clinton machine? There isn't!That's why Hillary has to stoop to the false flyers and robo calls right before a primary. She has to make things up in order to beat him. The woman is a disgrace as well as unethical and the American people should be smart enough to see that!

Posted by: Janet | Feb 7, 2008 6:39:16 PM

Before the Dems nominate Obama, they better due some due diligence. I just can't believe he is that squeaky clean. And if you are going to pick on her spouse, let's do some Michelle bashing. She has already stated that if Hillary gets the nomination she won't campaign for her but I bet Bill will campaign for Obama.

Posted by: KMW | Feb 7, 2008 6:39:41 PM

Paul: Once again, you've hit it right on the head re the Clintons and their willingness to "go dirty" to win. Sad but true.

And my fellow Democrats, we fail to heed independent-voter Paul's concerns at our peril, as we'll need good folks like him to win in November -- particularly now that McCain's going to be the GOP's standard bearer.

Posted by: Mark | Feb 7, 2008 6:44:05 PM

"Are the Clinton supporters naive enough to think that there is some mud on Barack Obama that hasn't already been thrown by the Clinton machine?"

YES CHECK THESE OUT:

*Nuclear and obama<--- opps did i miss something
*Obama and his kenyan cousin <--- genocide?
*Obama attends a racist church<-- Oh no , he never played the race card.
*Obama Likes single payer insurance? <---- Oh no he didn't
*Obama lies about guns<--- Is he for or against it , we will never know???
*Obama and Resko<------How did he get his house again?
*Obama Was A Constitutional Law Professor<-- no you weren't you are just registered as a speaker.
*Obama's record on choice is less than 50%. He pretends to be pro-choice while voting for anti-choice justices who have vowed to end choice. Obama even voted for cloture on Priscilla Owen, a justice Alberto Gonzales felt was too far to the right
*Obama's pretense at being anti-war is a fraud on the American people. His actions are fully pro-war. He has voted anti-choice and to keep the USA-PATRIOT Act. A win for Obama will be a win for the neo-con agenda. An Obama nomination is a guaranteed loss for the American people who would have no major candidates to support in 2008.


What do you really know about Obama, seems to me , not much!

Posted by: danw | Feb 7, 2008 6:46:09 PM

If OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO HIDE THEN WHY DOESNT HE DEBATE?

GOD IF HE CANT BEAT HILLARY IN A DEBATE < HE SURE AS HELL CANT BEAT MCCAIN

Posted by: Eleven22 | Feb 7, 2008 6:47:23 PM

Apparently, with Rezko, they just continue to beat a dead horse, and when you're done, then try creating another horse, dead or alive, at this stage it doesn't even matter.
This issue with Rezko was already all over the news, already investigated, and they found nothing illegal on Obama. But hey, since we didn't really like the answers from the investigation, because there just HAD to be something more to it, we'll just keeping making it an issue.
What a way to attempt to beat your opponent...slickwillie style!

Posted by: LA in Indiana | Feb 7, 2008 6:58:22 PM

oh my, danw must be the only person that has truthful, legitimate information on obama. no one else knows anything about obama except danw. danw, ask yourself this, do you think Barack Obama would be a US Senator if all this information you are 'bringing to light' wasn't already investigated?
that is why it is so interesting to hear hillary talk about the vetting process hahahahaha she truly IS funny, and a Senator to boot.

Posted by: LA in Indiana | Feb 7, 2008 7:05:23 PM

Obama is getting really good at avoiding having to talk about the issues. Unfortunately, he know that he can not win on the issues, so he has to divert the attention to non-issue related matters.

Obama:DEBATE. It's how people get to know the candidates. Are you afraid? Are you just sure you'll lose?

Posted by: Jason C D | Feb 7, 2008 7:06:10 PM

Jason, how many more debates do you think they should have after 18??

Posted by: LA in Indiana | Feb 7, 2008 7:09:21 PM

What do you have to hide? Release the tax returns like everyone else.

Posted by: JT | Feb 7, 2008 7:13:24 PM

There we go again, left winged populist leaders who think politics is about taking from the rich to give to poor, at that´s about that.

Obama´s showed his populist colours.

Posted by: Ana, Shanghai | Feb 7, 2008 7:16:23 PM

Listening to you people it pains me to know that your great party is divided by bickering and innuendos, this is all the republicans will need to to be back in the White House in January 2009 -- whoever wins should take on the other as his/her running mate!!!

Posted by: Sammy D | Feb 7, 2008 7:17:05 PM

Obama will debate Hillary again but at this point another debate is pointless. Are you deaf or what? Every debate covers the same issues and they make the same points time and time again. Further, Hillary has mastered the art of presenting the B.S., which many have translated as wit.

You can read every bill they have sponsored or cosponsored. You will find that as Peter posted previously, she has not done anything substantive since being in the US Senate. Obama's record is far more impressive. The facts speak to this and not Clinton machine can change that truth.

Posted by: L Smith | Feb 7, 2008 7:17:42 PM

Howard Wolfson and Mcauliff are members of the Hillary Clinton campaign I find so repulsive. They tell tales a lot. They never answer any question straight. They call blue white and red yellow. They are true representatives of Hillary. Birds of the same feather, goes a saying, flock together.

WHY WON'T HILLARY CLINTON RELEASE HER TAX RETURNS if she knows the $5.0 million she 'loaned' to her campaign is not from Kazakhstan.

Is she afraid of another whitewater gate?

Posted by: Kizeem | Feb 7, 2008 7:20:00 PM

Control information.
Control audience questions.
Control sources of income.
Control tax returns.
Control white house papers.
Control Sandy Berger's underwear.
Control public perception.
Control the DNC.
Control Villarigosa.
Control Florida and Michigan.

The wheels are coming off on the Clinton machine. A nick here, a leak there. Defections, money issues, Bill's racist card, the end of inevitability, Barack's momentum, the power of the internet, youth on the march.

The Times They Are A Changin'.

Posted by: Gorgon '08 | Feb 7, 2008 7:25:30 PM

The media is only after another story and Obama is so dumb he is playing right into their hands. He does not deserve to be the next president.NO EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!

Posted by: Al Smith | Feb 7, 2008 7:26:29 PM

Comparing bills authored, passed and signed by George Bush with sponsored bills is like comparing grains of salt and oceans. I would HOPE you would CHANGE the politics of distortion and spin...sponsoring is not writing and speaking on the floor is not getting Bush to sign a bill. Clinton extended healthcare to 6 million uninsured kids with SCHIP...in a republican congress...Obama brags about getting coverage to 150,000 people in a democratic state with a democratic congress and governor. That's 40 times as many kids....and it takes a lot of experience and know how to accomplish that surrounded by republicans...

Posted by: kris | Feb 7, 2008 7:29:47 PM

Hillarys campaine will be DOA when
McCain gets ahold of her, Theres talk that they already have enough to put one of the Clintons away and are just waiting for dem nomination.HMMM- can you leagally put Obama back when that happens?

Posted by: sean wigley | Feb 7, 2008 7:29:55 PM

How many debates are necessary when the candidates have already stated their positions and platforms many times over now. Hillary is, understandably, trying to get some additional free exposure because her campaign funds were dwindling. Also tired of hearing all this rhetoric about "experience"...both candidates have more than adequate experience...that simply doesn't wash as an edge in this case. The resistance to release joint returns is another matter though. Hoping Hillary will see the light on that one...otherwise, she'll give the impression that she has something to hide. Given the Clintons' old school methods of operation and campaign strategies, there may be some substance to the concern that they're afraid will be exploited. When all the nonsense settles, this senior is voting for Obama because I like the way he thinks, pulls people together to reach a consensu, and I believe he is honest.

Posted by: Bill Stanfield | Feb 7, 2008 7:31:20 PM

Why Hilary wants to hide everything if she has nothing to hide?

She is most vetted, most experienced, ready to lead from day one - why she do not show how truthful she is?

She cries for the love of our country, or love of her power?

Clintons love power! They build all these propaganda machines in 90's thinking they will be back again!

America ruled by 2 dynasties for last 20 years. Hilary thought it will be a cake-walk and its her birth-right to be president from day one!

Hillary bring memories of scandals, Monica saga, watergate, failed healthcare - she still live with her infidel man! If not power hungry, what is Hilary?

Posted by: Cohen | Feb 7, 2008 7:31:58 PM

You have to be kidding me. Look up Clinton fundraiser Peter Paul. Trust me on this, if you look this up you will see the truth.

Posted by: Aaron | Feb 7, 2008 7:35:02 PM

Obama is beginning to sound like one of those professional male athletes who are finding themselves behind in the game. wah wah wah that isn't fair. I think I'll fake an injury so I can sit on the bench and whine, wah wah wah

Posted by: r | Feb 7, 2008 7:37:22 PM

Romney sets a good example for Obama, get in line, and stop damaging the party and the voters. Everyone is tired and exhausted, and the real fight has not even started yet... If the republican wins in the fall, he will be the blame, and becomes the greatest joke in history for offering the republican party the white house...

The democractic party is kind of stupid, ---compare to the Republicans.

Posted by: jamie | Feb 7, 2008 7:39:57 PM

VPNNathan:


By the way, Hillary Clinton is not running against Brittany Spears.....Brittany is being treated as an American idol...huh....

Senator Obama is qualified to be president, and It does not matter how or what you feel otherwise....He will be elected.

Posted by: tony | Feb 7, 2008 7:42:00 PM

You don't get it! The mud the republicans will throw isn't about stuff they haven't found yet. It's about the stuff we know and how they'll use it against him. Here's an example:
A POW verses a cocaine user
A conservative against the nations most liberal senator (conservatives strongly dislike liberals)
A man with ties to Louis Farrakan (it doesn't matter how remote)
A man with a middle name that sounds like a terrorist.
A man who worships in a denomination not highly recognized by evangelicals.
These are known aspects about Obama but how they will create videos, banners, ads that make people step back and think is the real mud. You're so passionate right now that you think the enemy is Hillary Clinton when the enemy is the Rove political machine. WAKE UP!

Posted by: Jeff | Feb 7, 2008 7:42:22 PM

Hillary is so much smarter than B.O. he should follow her lead and take advantage of getting as much free air space as possible with the debates since it is way over priced anyway. He shouldn't be scared to debate her again, we all already know that he has no platform to stand on but he could take advantage of some free air time, he could use some air time to blow all of that hot air that he's been blowing. That's just another reason why she will make the better President because she knows how to get the most of what's available.

GO HILLARY! GO HILLARY! GO HILLARY!

Posted by: Jamey | Feb 7, 2008 7:44:02 PM

Who cares what Bill did with that other female. Our countries best presidents have been unfaithful to their wives, it releases all those pent up hormones, In referrence to this, Obama won't be able to hold a candle to JFK, tired of hearing that someone thinks they're similar. They are as similar as black and white, and in regards to MLK, I have a dream too, it is to see Hillary elected in October.

Posted by: r | Feb 7, 2008 7:49:27 PM

oh, obama, let's see your accounting of your campaign fund records, then------candidates should be transparent, you know-------I want to see that you've given back every cent of that $100,000 campaign donation money that your "friend of 17 years" Rezko gave you---you know, he's the guy in Chicago that has been arrested and charges with corruption, and he has been sent money from some rich Iraqi Arab.......

Posted by: | Feb 7, 2008 7:49:55 PM

Hillary should not release her tax returns because it is no ones business how much financeil she has. If Obama wants to release his then let him do it. He doesn't need to know where Hillary got the money or what she did with it. The Clinton's happen to be political millionaires and Obama only has about 1.5 million. He couldn't write out a check for 5 million because he doesn't have that kind of money. A candidate can use their own money, Romney used his. Obama can't do that.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | Feb 7, 2008 7:52:13 PM

r:

Dr. King was more than a dreamer.....He was a doer. So, since your dream is to elect Clinton, then less dreaming, make it happen...

but, it won't, because senator Obama will be elected the 44th president of the United States........

Posted by: tony | Feb 7, 2008 7:53:54 PM

Obama is just calling foul that Hillary has her own money and that she didn't give him any.

Posted by: r | Feb 7, 2008 8:02:44 PM

Jamie:

Senator Obama has confessed his faith. Have you ever heard of being born again? You can find scripture reference in St. John 3. Even if senator Obama were a Muslim in his early years, SO WHAT??? Muslims turn to Isa al-Masih (Jesus the Messiah.

People from various ethnic backgrounds and religions have turned to Christ. The largest local church is in South Korea.....Christianity is worldwide as Jesus intended....So, will you back off senator Obama's faith......If he confesses Jesus as Savior, then you should leave that alone.......just be sure you confess Christ as your Savior.

Posted by: tony | Feb 7, 2008 8:05:45 PM

All these Obama lovers calling for the psychological warfare .
Senator Obama has LOTS of things for the Republicans to 'swift boat' . The worse the country gets, the more people look to real solutions rather than utopia.

No doubt the war is going to go magically well by the republican media, and torn apart by the democratic media.

While obama tries to get his JFK shine on, he will have forgotten one thing.

Unless he is hundreds of delegates ahead by the convention - which the odds are slim to none - the Clinton backed Democratic party will hand the nomination to her via super delegates.

The main backing of the party is behind Bill and Hillary Clinton.

There are no 'youth vote' or 'independent' super delegates

Posted by: tom | Feb 7, 2008 8:06:19 PM

r:

I gotta go, but at least I chuckled at your little comment about Clinton not giving Obama any money.....cute; but silly.

Posted by: tony | Feb 7, 2008 8:09:07 PM

Hello Wolfson? Are you there?

You want to talk about Rezko? How about the photo of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton with Rezko? Clintons don't go where they don't gain. It is true Hillary denied knowing anything about the photo. We also know that SHE DENIED SO MANY THINGS THAT ARE TRUE.

LET US TALK ABOUT WHITEWATER GATE

1. Hillary Clinton's Former Campaign Finance Director Indicted.
Let’s talk about David Rosen

2. Hillary Clinton Donor Hsu Indicted in New York
Let’s talk about Norman Hsu

3. Another Hillary Clinton donor fraud gets busted
Let’s talk about Mauricio Celis’ four indictments:
a. falsely holding oneself as a lawyer
b. impersonating a public servant
c. state jail felony theft
d. aggravated perjury

4. Let us talk about Richard "Dickie" Scruggs

5. Let’s talk about the ‘Clintons’ Multi-Million Dollar Dubai Conflict –of-Interest
Bill's $20 million payoff from the United Arab Emirate

6. Let’s talk about drug dealer Jorge Cabrera,

7. Let us talk about Chinese arms dealer Wang Jun

8. Let us talk about Grigory Lutchansky, whose company, Nordex was Bill Clinton’s CIA list and was denied entry to Canada because he failed background check, yet he met with Clinton.

9. Let us talk about the Pakistani immigrant, Abdul Rehman Jinnah
PRO-CLINTON 'DIRTY CASH' MAN FLEES
A Pakistani immigrant is wanted by federal authorities on charges he channeled $30,000 in illegal contributions to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential war chest.

10. Judicial Watch Monitors Hillary Clinton's Campaign for Election
The first time Hillary Clinton campaigned for the Senate in New York, she violated campaign finance laws by failing to report almost $2 million in contributions.

LET’S TALK ABOUT THEM, BABY
LET’S TALK ABOUT ALL THE BAD THINGS ABOUT HILLARY
LET’S TALK ABOUT THEM


Posted by: Kizeem | Feb 7, 2008 8:09:23 PM

Peter:

unless there's another Tony on this site, I'm not sure what you are referring to....

take care

Posted by: tony | Feb 7, 2008 8:13:58 PM

When will Barak stop sniping at Hillary. He's going to lose this contest if he doesn't start understanding that we're all on the same side.

Posted by: Ron Johnson | Feb 7, 2008 8:17:06 PM

i havent made my mind up with whom im vote for. but this is little childish to me. as long as she not cheating so who care where she getting her money from. i dont care if mr. bush giving it to her.--if she want to make her taxes public let her or anyone do it at their own will

Posted by: mike | Feb 7, 2008 8:18:38 PM

Okay fellows:

Can we all just get along?--Rodney King.

Seriously, the end result in Novemeber will more than likely be a team effort to win the White House with senators Obama and Clinton. They are both appreciated for their service by millions of people. They will probably team up. Senator Obama will get the nomination and more than likely pick sen. Clinton as his running mate.

So, please stop this gender and race war....Thank the Lord for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964....Thank the Lord for the dream of Dr. King being realized in America. No more fighting, okay my friends?

Shalom

Posted by: tony | Feb 7, 2008 8:21:43 PM

Hmmmm...some of us old Republican guard can hardly wait to see what skeletons will be drug out on Hillary. Just as she has been building her campaign since before Bill left office, Republicans have built their files.

I am supporting Obama because I have 3 small grandchildren and I want a better future for them...a better America for God's sake. With Hillary, you democrats will get more of the same. But you sure won't get any of us cross-over voters and you will lose a lot of independents.

I will vote "Republican anything" if her name is anywhere on the ticket. So will a lot of others.

Posted by: An Ex Republican Voter | Feb 7, 2008 8:26:39 PM

if she cant come clean about the five million she contriubated to her own camp? then she cant be my president. obama released his.what does the clintons have to hide huh?

Posted by: clemmonsanthony | Feb 7, 2008 8:33:01 PM

Obama - schedule a debate - clarify your policies. In other words focus on something the American people care abbout.

Posted by: UBS | Feb 7, 2008 8:39:20 PM

Did you watch the abc7news yesterday Dan Ashley mentioned that barack obama spent his childhood in indonesia,what can you say people. Do you know that in my opinion some republican are funding barack, if the general election in november all the whites will vote for mccain, do you want that to happened, republican are trying to psychologize the democratic voters so another republican will be in WH again.

Posted by: gerry | Feb 7, 2008 8:45:18 PM

It is not so much any single item that calls into question Hillary Clinton's honesty and integrity--it is the long (and growing longer) string that seems to be unraveling. I understand her supporters are vested emotionally (more than intellectually, for the tone of the emails) and so are in denial; that much is simple human nature. It is also human nature to attack when threatened, which is why so many of these folks make such absurd comments about Barack Obama. The facts are self-evident that Clinton has a checkered past. She could assuage a heck of a lot of doubts NOW if she would simple unseal the Presidential records and release her tax records. I think this is a small price to pay to establish herself as a truthful and above board candidate.
But even if she does that, there is still much for her to answer to. Though she excels in the debate forum (which is why she is desperately pushing for more), her record as a senator is dismal: she did nothing original and failed to accomplish anything of note. She had six years and yet seemed incapable of introducing and sustaining successful legislation. And on a subject as critical to our future as invading Iraq, she simple didn't do any required homework, and excuses that by saying if she knew then what she knows now....but she didn't know ANYTHING then because she didn't even bother to read the report. How does that translate into successful candidacy.
Final thought: I am a woman of a certain age and I am absolutely disgusted by the idea that so many women are voting for Hillary simply because she is a woman and these people feel it is time to correct a wrong. The worst possible reason to vote is revenge, and that is what you are doing: taking revenge on the American people for denying you a role model for so long.

Posted by: Deb | Feb 7, 2008 8:48:44 PM

Good job, Peter. Also, if you read the article, Obama was responding to a question as to whether she should release her tax returns. His answer was, "I have released mine. I think it's important for the American people to know this." He didn't bring it up, the press did. He merely answered truthfully, as always. All this outrage here is indicative of the fear that there is scandal ahead, that cannot be prevented, even by Clinton Network News. They are mired in scandals, from the past and from now. If they won't be transparent in their own financial dealings, how do they expect to bring transparency to government? It's the same old hypocritical nonsense we must clean out of Washington - for good. Why shouldn't we know? The government can get ahold of our IRS records anytime they want. Is she above the average citizen?