mookiemookie |
10-25-12 02:18 PM |
The whole "if you have nothing to hide, you should consent to X" thing is such a farce. That's the same type of wrongheaded thinking that got the Patriot Act passed.
Refusing to release records from years ago because your political enemies are looking to make hay with anything they find in them is not a crime or even controversial. If Mitt Romney had said "screw you, my taxes are my business." I wouldn't have batted an eye. It was a spun up issue that was absolutely retarded - of course any sane person with access to accountants and tax shelters is going to make use of them to minimize their tax burden. You'd be a fool to do otherwise. That's why TurboTax and H.R. Block and every other tax preparer advertises that they can find you the most deductions and get your tax bill down lower. But all of a sudden we're going to tar and feather Mitt Romney because he did the exact same thing millions of Americans do every April? Come on now.
And the same thing with this Obama college stuff. What Obama got in college in 1980-whocares-ever is irrelevant to anything going on today. First off, the debunked lies that Dowly posted are being repeated over and over. Second of all, people are trying to claim it's not about some birther garbage, but instead it's about claiming to be a foreigner to get some sort of advantage. Uh...hell-oooo, that's what being a birther is. And it's not the eeeeevil libruls that are trying to make being a birther an out-there and crazy thing - the fact that there are still people who believe in it despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary are what make it an out-there and crazy thing. If you don't want to be labelled a conspiracy theorist, then don't believe in conspiracy theories.
If there was anything to find, the armies of Koch-funded PACs and the Clintons and the McCains and the Romneys would have found it by now. Give it up.
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