So far, the only points of interest are the income the family received from Treehouse, the Wal-Mart supplier on whose board Michelle Obama sat, and. in 2005, the capital gains reporting from their investements in Skyterra and Avi Biopharma. See here for background. Oh, by the way: Obama did not regularly tithe to Trinity United Church of Christ.
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On Obama's Tax Returns
25 Mar 2008 01:33 pm
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Look idiot, just because someone didn't claim the deduction didn't me he didn't give. Somebody aren't obsessed with minimizing their taxes.
Yeah, Marc. It would be accurate to say there's no record of his tithing in the returns. The site you link to at least acknowledges he may have given to causes that weren't tax-deductible; I'm not saying he did, but if your post was appearing in a print medium with a copy editor worth a damn, that would get fixed. You're not doing the Fourth Estate any favors when you can't stick to the fundamentals of actual, principled journalism. They taught that thing about assuming in my Basic Reporting class. Actually, they taught it when I started working on my high school newspaper.
All that said, it's going to be so great to see the same people who've been outraged about Obama attending Wright's chuch being outraged about how he didn't give it enough money.
And you know, you actually can just change the verbiage really quickly with this fancy-schmancy "Weblog" software, but that would be silly, and let's face it, quite common, in the worst sense of the word. Because phrasing something almost accurately is just as good as phrasing it accurately!
If I had to put money on it, I'd bet that the returns are indicative of Obama's regular tithing, or lack thereof, rather. But again, this kind of sloppiness masquerading as snark is fully objectionable on principle, especially when it would be so easy to get it right.
After listening to the Obamas, their past and present pastor, and their congregation's anti-American screaming and gyrating about the lack of opportunities in America ... the Obamas sure did benefit financially from our American system.
They made MUCH more than the majority of Americans make ... white, or black. And, especially considering the fact that we paid Obama for voting 'present' during most of his time in the senate ... and, since he didn't vote once on the Afganistan committe he chaired.
After listening to the Obamas, their past and present pastor, and their congregation's anti-American screaming and gyrating about the lack of opportunities in America ... the Obamas sure did benefit financially from our American system.
They made MUCH more than the majority of Americans make ... white, or black. And, especially considering the fact that we paid Obama for voting 'present' during most of his time in the senate ... and, since he didn't vote once on the Afganistan committe he chaired.
After listening to the Obamas, their past and present pastor, and their congregation's anti-American screaming and gyrating about the lack of opportunities in America ... the Obamas sure did benefit financially from our American system.
They made MUCH more than the majority of Americans make ... white, or black. And, especially considering the fact that we paid Obama for voting 'present' during most of his time in the senate ... and, since he didn't vote once on the Afganistan committe he chaired.
After listening to the Obamas, their past and present pastor, and their congregation's anti-American screaming and gyrating about the lack of opportunities in America ... the Obamas sure did benefit financially from our American system.
They made MUCH more than the majority of Americans make ... white, or black. And, especially considering the fact that we paid Obama for voting 'present' during most of his time in the senate ... and, since he didn't vote once on the Afganistan committe he chaired.
After listening to the Obamas, their past and present pastor, and their congregation's anti-American screaming and gyrating about the lack of opportunities in America ... the Obamas sure did benefit financially from our American system.
They made MUCH more than the majority of Americans make ... white, or black. And, especially considering the fact that we paid Obama for voting 'present' during most of his time in the senate ... and, since he didn't vote once on the Afganistan committe he chaired.
After listening to the Obamas, their past and present pastor, and their congregation's anti-American screaming and gyrating about the lack of opportunities in America ... the Obamas sure did benefit financially from our American system.
They made MUCH more than the majority of Americans make ... white, or black. And, especially considering the fact that we paid Obama for voting 'present' during most of his time in the senate ... and, since he didn't vote once on the Afganistan committe he chaired.
Marc, the only point of interest is that HRC has not released hers. Because there is another scandal at least the equal of future trading.
And Howard, I think they would have made far more if they had sat on Wal-Mart's board - and would have done equally or better in UK, Canada, Australia, given the stellar qualifications they both have.
I love how TreeHouse Foods is referred to as a "Wal-Mart supplier". It's a little tiny food company based in a Chicago suburb. There isn't a single company in this country that makes consumer products that isn't a Wal-Mart supplier.
Moderator - Why is Howard's post at 5:23 PM appearing 6 times - once is more than enough
Let's pull our heads out of the sand and look at every one of the three candidates closely.
Okay, where are Obama's returns or info for 2007? NOW he's the one short on disclosing return info.
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How about the names of his nannies? I bet they're getting calls today.
Posted by neil | March 25, 2008 1:43 PM