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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2008 / Good Question

Good Question

by John Cole|  April 28, 20086:30 pm| 56 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Media

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Kevin Drum is incredulous that no one in the media is discussing the fact that John McCain has sheltered all of his assets behind his wife’s name:

Can we stop pretending to be children about this? There’s only one reason for a politician to make sure that all his assets are in his wife’s name: it’s to make sure that no one knows anything about his assets. It’s not as if McCain is the first pol to try this, after all.

Is the press really going to let him get away with this?

Kinda makes you wonder about that liberal media, doesn’t it? I mean, if the media really was all that liberal and in the tank with the Democrats, you would think by now impeachment proceedings would be under way for Bush. At the very least, a liberal media would not have spent the last 4 months painting Hillary Clinton as a castrating bitch and Barack Obama as a scary negro who hangs out with terrorists.

But then again, maybe the media is liberal and scheming, and they are just holding until things are boring in September and October to drop it on the McCain campaign then. If I were a paranoid conservative type, that would be my concern.

More than likely, the media will just ignore it, though- McCain has gotten a free ride with the press for so long it is just second nature. Cripes, go check out the Daily Howler (or his incomparable archives!) on any given day if you don’t believe me. Chances are, they won’t ask because they might miss out on some of that good BBQ action.

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  1. 1.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    April 28, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    I still think Matt Taibbi has a pretty healthy outlook on the true nature of the press:

    All journalists are cowards. Hitchens knows it, I know it, everybody in this business knows it. If there were any justice at all, every last goddamn one of us would be lowered, head-first, into a wood-chipper. Over Arizona. Shoot a nice red mist over the whole state, make it arable for a year or two. A year’s worth of fava beans and endive for the children of Bangladesh: I dare anyone in our business to say that that wouldn’t represent a better use of our rotting bodies than the actual fruits of our labor.

    Nuff said.

  2. 2.

    annagranfors

    April 28, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    “Is the press really going to let him get away with this?”

    No, no, dear boy. They’re going to HELP him get away with this.

    I get so pissed off every time someone wonders why “the press aren’t doing their jobs” or says “the press are lazy”. How can you even think that after seven years…? The “press”, being a subsidiary of Corporatocracy USA, are COMPLICIT. No more, no less.

  3. 3.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 28, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    Is the press really going to let him get away with this?

    Yes. Because McCain is a straight talking maverick. That’s the narrative and anything that doesn’t fit is ignored. Just as during the early parts of the Democratic primary campaign the press seized on The First Woman versus the First African American narrative and that was that for the other candidates.
    I sometimes suspect that the Democrats believe the “liberal media” myth as much as the Republicans do.

  4. 4.

    Jake

    April 28, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    The press is stuck on stupid.

  5. 5.

    demkat620

    April 28, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    No, no, dear boy. They’re going to HELP him get away with this.

    McCain makes them feel all funny down there.

  6. 6.

    General Disorder

    April 28, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    You’re talking class warfare, man. Don’t go there. It’s not fair and it’s unAmerican. So, he married to a beer fortune. See, the press is just showing respect.

  7. 7.

    Soylent Green

    April 28, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Chances are, they won’t ask because they might miss out on some of that good BBQ action.

    Real Americans drink Budweiser, not orange juice.

  8. 8.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 28, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    In this, the latter days of a once-great nation, it’s easier to change the government than to change The Narrative.

    On the tombstone of the Republic will be the epitaph “Killed By A Story Arc”.

  9. 9.

    Robert Sneddon

    April 28, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Mrs McCain inherited her money, emphasis on “her”. Three gets you five there’s a pre-nuptual agreement buried in a lawyer’s office somewhere. Senator John Sidney McCain III may be married to her but he’s not necessarily married to her money.

    If he has free access to all that cash, then why did he get involved in the Keating 5 scandal in the late 80s? That was penny-ante crap in comparison to a beer heiress’ loot.

  10. 10.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 28, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    Maybe when Wolf is done factchecking anti-McCain ads….

  11. 11.

    nightjar

    April 28, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    The children all want to hear the story of Saint McCain and his enlightened vision of family values. Calling Pat Buchanan at MSNBC.

    McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while, according to The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, “aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.” McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife’s family money. In 2000, McCain managed to deflect media questioning about his first marriage with a deft admission of responsibility for its failure.

  12. 12.

    General Disorder

    April 28, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Since, for the most part, it’s the press that’s been tagging along on the “Straight Talk Express,” isn’t it really a “Man Crush Express?”

  13. 13.

    Zuzu

    April 28, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    All journalists are cowards. Hitchens knows it, I know it, everybody in this business knows it.

    I don’t know about cowardice, but the laziness factor is mindblowing. The number of times they wrote about or hosted one of those Slow Boat liars without bothering to do the most basic research first…it was quite amazing.

  14. 14.

    Dave_Violence

    April 28, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    McCain’s boring right now. The Hillary! vs. Obama war is selling a lot of papers. Things may or may not change. It’s business, that’s all.

  15. 15.

    Some Guy Named Matt

    April 28, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    What Liberal Media?

    I just borrowed it off a friend and haven’t had time to delve into it yet. But this might be up you ally John

  16. 16.

    Richard Bottoms

    April 28, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    It was a 49% country when I was goading John four years ago.

    It’s a 49% country now that I am fucking with David.

    Not a bit of it matters. Republicans will lie, say they will consider Obama or Hillary whatever the silly fantasy they’re selling this week.

    But really they want their tax cuts or zygote protection or some excuse to say the Democrats would be worse, and fuck everybody else.

    The only thing that matters, the only thing that has mattered for eight years is the %3 of independents who actually give a shit about the real world.

    Republicans, jam it. Stuff it where it don’t shine. Keep your vote,w e need to learn to win without it.

    You’re only talking this yang now because Romney was just a little too brazenly slick to beat out grandpa for the nomination.

    All they really want is someone who can best obscure the fag bashing wacko Christian snake handlers who run your party for six or seven months.

  17. 17.

    pennywit

    April 28, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    Sigh. Let’s set aside the conspiracy ranting. Here’s a likely scenario: The press isn’t covering the question because they’re concentrating on the Democratic race. Then again, it could be a conspiracy. It’s not like Bloomberg or Slate didn’t do anything. Or maybe the AP. Or the Los Angeles Times. Or USA Today. Nope. The media are totally ignoring the story.

    –|PW|–

    –|PW|–

  18. 18.

    Martin

    April 28, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    They’ll leave McCain mostly untouched until the Dem nominee is chosen.

  19. 19.

    Richard Bottoms

    April 28, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    >They’ll leave McCain mostly untouched until the Dem nominee >is chosen.

    Or until they stop hoarding their cash at the DNC and start eviscerating the motherfucker.

  20. 20.

    PaulB

    April 28, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    The media are totally ignoring the story

    And the major television news media? Fox? CNN? ABC? CBS? NBC? MSNBC?

  21. 21.

    DougJ

    April 28, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    I’m a peaceful man, but I really think the only hope for our civilization is that someone carries a bomb into one of the White House correspondent dinners. It’s pretty amazing to be living through this, an era in which our entire civilization is systematically destroyed by the media.

    I realize that may sound extreme.

  22. 22.

    Incertus

    April 28, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    Or until they stop hoarding their cash at the DNC and start eviscerating the motherfucker.

    The DNC has been doing anything but hoarding its cash. It’s been the weak link in the Democratic fundraising machine lately, because Dean basically pissed off the Clinton machine by not losing to their preferred candidate(s) back in 2005. He’s also spent the money they’ve had coming in at a higher rate by hiring organizers in states where the national party has been invisible for decades–remember those “nosepickers” Paul Begala was complaining about back before the 2006 elections? Basically, he’s been doing party-building, and that takes money, money that in the past would have gone to television (and the pockets of Democratic consultants who ought to be hung up by their nads).

    They’ll run ads–they’re fundraising for them right now, as a matter of fact–but I’m more pleased with the other work they’re doing.

  23. 23.

    AkaDad

    April 28, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    It’s completely logical that the Liberal Media™ would smear the most Liberal Senator.

  24. 24.

    Richard Bottoms

    April 28, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    I have bo quarrel with Howard Dean, we did win congress after all. But right, now this second it’s time to start taking a figurative pipe wrench to John McCain.

  25. 25.

    Cain

    April 28, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Can someone still tell me why McCain is still polling 49% or whatever nearly half with the democratic one? I don’t understand why people support this guy?

    The only thing I admire is that the bastard is till advocating war even though he has a son in Iraq. It might be great fun to ask the son whether he agrees with the war. On the other hand, I rather the press concentrate on stuff that matters.

    cain

  26. 26.

    Soylent Green

    April 28, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    I’m not that worried yet about McCain getting his comeuppance in due time. As I have said before, the media likes to build people up before it tears them down.

    Reporters, by and large, are lazy and look for the quickest way to make their deadlines. This usually means following the herd.

    If you artfully draw the herd to greener pastures, that’s where it will graze. The smartest activists, campaign managers, lobbyists — anyone with an axe to grind, product to promote, or scandal to expose — know how to produce tasty morsels for the press to chew on. But don’t expect the media to feed themselves.

    I’m convinced that many of the commentators, columnists, and satirists are getting their best material straight from the blogs. So keep up the good work.

  27. 27.

    Soylent Green

    April 28, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    Can someone still tell me why McCain is still polling 49% or whatever

    It’s the usual percentage of GOP and right-leaning independent voters. This year is all about turnout, not poll results. If the Dems make good on getting out the vote, and assuming Hillary isn’t still a giant buzzkill, a dead heat in the polls will mean nothing on election day.

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    April 28, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    By: John Cole

    Kevin Drum is incredulous that no one in the media is discussing the fact that John McCain has sheltered all of his assets behind his wife’s name:

    Can we stop pretending to be children about this? There’s only one reason for a politician to make sure that all his assets are in his wife’s name: it’s to make sure that no one knows anything about his assets. It’s not as if McCain is the first pol to try this, after all.

    Is the press really going to let him get away with this?

    Kinda makes you wonder about that liberal media, doesn’t it?

    As pennywit notes, various media sources, from AP to the LA Times, have already looked into McCain’s assets. Drum’s uninformed musing indicates that the mainstream media is lazy and stupid whatever its ideological faults.

    He may be sheltering his assets behind his wife’s name, but by any measure she has far more than he has, or likely will have, even if works up to Clintonian levels of earnings from speaker fees. As the AP story notes, Cindy McCain may be worth more than $100 million, and the pre-nuptial agreement that she had John agree to obviously protects the family fortune and business that she inherited far more than it benefits him. In fact, it kinda makes him her bitch.

    At a certain level of wealth, the very rich often do what they can to limit public scrutiny of their wealth even if they are not doing anything particularly naughty or nefarious with their money. The Slate article suggests that Cindy McCain has not been very successful in increasing her wealth outside of her inheritance of her father’s stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix:

    Mutual funds are another story. Cindy McCain—or someone advising her—is trying to make a lot of money through active mutual-fund trading. She has between $600,000 and $1.25 million invested in three mutual funds run by the American Funds Group, which is anything but conservative. They are investing for high growth and paying high loads (sales charges) to do it—an expensive strategy that seems to have won the couple some money in the past but does not look promising so far this year.

    Where the McCains seem most susceptible to investing fads is in real estate.

    But some in the media have an extra dose of teh stupid. They so easily forget that John Kerry’s wife also (I think rightly) refused to release her tax returns AND that the GOP tried to make a big stink about it. However, the political blogger from the LA Times is on the case (John McCain releases his tax returns — but not hers*).

    *UPDATE: No surprise, Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean is already teeing off on the issue, releasing this statement a little while ago:

    “John McCain’s lack of transparency is troubling and raises questions about what he’s hiding. From his willingness to skirt FEC law to releasing less information about his tax returns than any other candidate since Ronald Reagan, John McCain continues a troubling pattern of thinking the rules don’t apply to him. McCain should hold himself to the same standard set by past presidential candidates, both Republican and Democrat, and the example already set by both Democratic candidates.

    “In 2004, the Republican National Committee called on the Kerry campaign to release Teresa Heinz Kerry’s tax returns, saying ‘Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns.’ We expect the RNC will call on John McCain to release Cindy McCain’s records just as they called on the Kerry campaign to do so in 2004. The connection between the McCains’ business ventures and their political ties have been well documented and the American people deserve to know how McCain’s role as a public official may have benefited their bottom line.”

    So the bigger story may not be Cindy McCain’s money, but rather GOP hypocrisy.

  29. 29.

    Martin

    April 28, 2008 at 10:38 pm

    Can someone still tell me why McCain is still polling 49% or whatever nearly half with the democratic one? I don’t understand why people support this guy?

    People don’t pick sides until there are sides to pick. The NL is still in the playoffs, after all.

    (I deliberately equate the AL with the GOP because the AL is for pussies.)

  30. 30.

    KRK

    April 28, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    If he’s trying to claim that her money is entirely separate (and therefore need not be disclosed), isn’t she limited to a maximum $2300 contribution to his campaign, just like any other person? Does anyone think her actual contribution is within 100 times that amount?

  31. 31.

    Phoenix Woman

    April 28, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    Dammit, John. There’s no need for me to actually post anything in my own blog anymore; you say what I want to say, only better. So I’ll just link to you and say “What John Said”.

  32. 32.

    Martin

    April 28, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    If he’s trying to claim that her money is entirely separate (and therefore need not be disclosed), isn’t she limited to a maximum $2300 contribution to his campaign, just like any other person?

    Win!

  33. 33.

    Richard Bottoms

    April 28, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Can someone still tell me why McCain is still polling 49% or whatever nearly half with the democratic one? I don’t understand why people support this guy?

    Because Republicans are greedy and selfish, willing to ignore that the GOP is now an evil party of torturer supporting, fag bashing, snake handlers– as long as they get their tax cuts?

    There are no good Republicans.

    There are no bad Democrats.

    Period.

  34. 34.

    TenguPhule

    April 28, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Can someone still tell me why McCain is still polling 49% or whatever nearly half with the democratic one?

    The pollsters are combining McCain’s scores from 2 seperate polls against Clinton and Obama into one.

    That, or we fucking deserve to be overrun by the rampaging Chinese Overlords.

  35. 35.

    area man

    April 28, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    That, or we fucking deserve to be overrun by the rampaging Chinese Overlords.

    Heh, of course at this point it’s less about rampaging than it is “Hey, about that money you owe us…”

  36. 36.

    Kevin

    April 28, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    You’re talking class warfare, man. Don’t go there. It’s not fair and it’s unAmerican. So, he married to a beer fortune. See, the press is just showing respect.

    You’re right. “class warfare” is unAmerican, unless it’s the top doing it to the bottom, then it’s all-American.

  37. 37.

    pennywit

    April 29, 2008 at 5:26 am

    Muslims/Arabs in general. The rhetoric seems a bit racist and/or over the top to me, particularly when we get to the paranoia regarding, for example, banks that make loans compliant with sharia.

    On the other hand, the Times seems to have selected the most egregious elements of the movement that it can find.

    –|PW|–

  38. 38.

    Googootz

    April 29, 2008 at 5:36 am

    It’s all designed to keep you confused and pissed off. To make you feel powerless. Because, if you believe you’re powerless to change anything, then you’ll just give up on the idea and let “the politicians” in DC, or the State House, or City Hall do their thang. Once in a while, they’ll through a “rebate check” your way. Or even womb to tomb “health care” so that even though you can’t change the corrupt system, at least you can get a piece of what’s your “fair share”.

  39. 39.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    April 29, 2008 at 6:11 am

    Should John McCain be receiving a $50,000 pension from the Navy even though he’s married to someone worth $100 million? Just wondering.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story

  40. 40.

    cleek

    April 29, 2008 at 7:42 am

    If he’s trying to claim that her money is entirely separate (and therefore need not be disclosed), isn’t she limited to a maximum $2300 contribution to his campaign, just like any other person?

    i’m sure the FEC will get to the bottom of that – right after they figure out if he’s abusing the public financing system or not.

  41. 41.

    The Other Steve

    April 29, 2008 at 8:39 am

    I still think Matt Taibbi has a pretty healthy outlook on the true nature of the press:

    I have to agree with Matt, that he should be lowered into a wood chipper head first.

    I must say, that is the first time I have agreed with matt Taibbi about anything.

  42. 42.

    The Other Steve

    April 29, 2008 at 8:42 am

    She may not have access to the money herself. Otherwise, why would she have bothered stealing vicodin from a charity she worked with, instead of buying it mail order like Rush Limbaugh?

  43. 43.

    The Other Steve

    April 29, 2008 at 8:48 am

    Did you guys see the one the other day about how he’s been using a jet owned by his wife to fly around the country, and getting discount airfare as a result?

    Right here in the Times

    It lowered his campaign travel expenses by half in the latter part of 2007.

  44. 44.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 29, 2008 at 8:56 am

    From the article linked by TOS:

    Mr. McCain’s campaign paid a total of $241,149 for the use of that plane from last August through February, records show. That amount is approximately the cost of chartering a similar jet for a month or two, according to industry estimates.

    The senator was able to fly so inexpensively because the law specifically exempts aircraft owned by a candidate or his family or by a privately held company they control.

    So the straight-talking maverick, knowing that he would run for president again, wrote a nice loophole for himself into his own signature legislation.

  45. 45.

    grandpajohn

    April 29, 2008 at 9:28 am

    It’s pretty amazing to be living through this, an era in which our entire civilization is systematically destroyed by the media.

    I realize that may sound extreme

    Well it also sounds prophetic. as an oldie of 70 who can remember back to the days of Murrow and Cronkite, and the media before it became entertainment instead of news, Just look at the last few election cycles and the damage done to our country and constitution that the MSM has been complicit in spawning on us.

  46. 46.

    Zifnab

    April 29, 2008 at 9:47 am

    So the straight-talking maverick, knowing that he would run for president again, wrote a nice loophole for himself into his own signature legislation.

    The dude owns his own plane. You aren’t going to charge a candidate car rental fees for driving his own car. This is completely legit. Rich people have an advantage. Boo-hoo.

    I call bullshit on this, at least.

  47. 47.

    Zifnab

    April 29, 2008 at 10:00 am

    I have to agree with Matt, that he should be lowered into a wood chipper head first.

    I must say, that is the first time I have agreed with matt Taibbi about anything.

    This, at least, I’ll agree with. How many tours in Iraq has Matt done? What investigative journalism has he conducted on CIA torture black sites? How many hours did he spend researching the VA Hospital scandal? Did he get in the FBI’s face about national security letters? No? I didn’t think so.

    Maybe Taippi is getting the cable news model desk jockeys confused with actual on the ground reporters. Maybe he can’t tell the difference between a newspaper editorial section and actual journalism. Maybe he’s just a pissy little shit. Who knows.

  48. 48.

    Glocksman

    April 29, 2008 at 10:07 am

    Actually McCain doesn’t own the plane.
    His wife’s company owns the plane.
    And as the article indicates, he did write the exception to the corporate plane rule into the law.

    Her company is going to have tax issues over the non-deductible political use of the craft and McCain’s payments don’t even come close to covering the actual operating costs.
    While not illegal, it does amount to using her wealth to subsidize his campaign and that’s something he said he wouldn’t do.

  49. 49.

    cleek

    April 29, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Drum’s also confused about the kind of person Hillary really is, in this one.

    he seems to think she has it in her to:

    Defend Wright where he’s defensible and criticize him where he isn’t. Repudiate the ugliness that’s overtaken the campaign — much of it her own doing — and say plainly that it’s unfair to keep pretending that Obama bears responsibility for another person’s words. Take the press to task for focusing on trivia, and the public as well for holding a black preacher to a different standard than white ones like John Hagee, whose comments have been every bit as incendiary as anything Wright has said. Talk as honestly about race from a white perspective as Obama did last month from a black perspective.

    that doesn’t sound much like the Hillary i know and loathe.

  50. 50.

    Paul L.

    April 29, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Brachiator Says: “In 2004, the Republican National Committee called on the Kerry campaign to release Teresa Heinz Kerry’s tax returns, saying ‘Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns.’ We expect the RNC will call on John McCain to release Cindy McCain’s records just as they called on the Kerry campaign to do so in 2004. The connection between the McCains’ business ventures and their political ties have been well documented and the American people deserve to know how McCain’s role as a public official may have benefited their bottom line.”

    Did Teresa Heinz-Kerry ever release her Tax returns?
    Wikipedia says no.
    So it seems that the DNC and Howard Dean are also hypocrites.
    You are going to point out hypocrisy, you should make sure that your side is my guilty to being with.
    Cindy McCain and Teresa Heinz-Kerry can release them together.

  51. 51.

    Paul L.

    April 29, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Correction:
    You are going to point out hypocrisy, you should make sure that your side is not guilty of it to being with.
    Cindy McCain and Teresa Heinz-Kerry can release their tax returns together.

  52. 52.

    Cain

    April 29, 2008 at 11:09 am

    So the bigger story may not be Cindy McCain’s money, but rather GOP hypocrisy

    So basically, no story then. GOP hypocrisy is a boring story and not worth reporting on.

    As for the whole plane flap. Personally, it’s a bit clever as the guy had no money for his campaign and was looking for any way he can reduce costs. I’m not sure if I wouldn’t have done the same thing if I had his ambition. You got lemons, you make lemonade.. if a little moonshine is involved so what? :-) He probably thought he was being pretty clever trying to run circles around his own bill. He probably thought that he had hte republican nomination sewed up at the beginning and didn’t realize he had to fight. Huckabee and what’s his face, Romney (man, I hardly remember him now!) really threw the guy for a spin.

    Now granted it’s against the spirit, but we are talking about a republican so doing something above board would probably not occur to any of the republican candidates except for maybe Huckabee and Ron Paul.

    cain

  53. 53.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 29, 2008 at 11:15 am

    The dude owns his own plane. You aren’t going to charge a candidate car rental fees for driving his own car.

    As was pointed out in the article and by Glocksman, McCain doesn’t own the plane. If he did, I’d say “Fly on!” He wrote the exception into the law to advantage himself. I’m sure that Cindy could afford to buy him a lovely Gulfstream but, like most Republicans, McCain wanted to have it both ways. The company pays for the plane and McCain gets the use of it at a steep discount. It takes no cynicism at all to imagine that the company also gets a tax break for allowing him to do so.

  54. 54.

    Brachiator

    April 29, 2008 at 11:22 am

    Paul L. Says:

    Brachiator Says: “In 2004, the Republican National Committee called on the Kerry campaign to release Teresa Heinz Kerry’s tax returns, saying ‘Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns.’ We expect the RNC will call on John McCain to release Cindy McCain’s records just as they called on the Kerry campaign to do so in 2004. The connection between the McCains’ business ventures and their political ties have been well documented and the American people deserve to know how McCain’s role as a public official may have benefited their bottom line.”

    Did Teresa Heinz-Kerry ever release her Tax returns?
    Wikipedia says no.
    So it seems that the DNC and Howard Dean are also hypocrites.
    You are going to point out hypocrisy, you should make sure that your side is my guilty to being with.
    Cindy McCain and Teresa Heinz-Kerry can release them together.

    Sorry, dude. Teresa Heinz Kerry is not running for anything, so she has no obligation to release or disclose anything to anybody.

    The Republicans made a big stink about John Kerry hiding behind his wife’s money. Now, typically, they want to shout all kinds of bullshit about elitism and class war and poor little John McCain just had to use his wife’s private jet to fly about.

    The GOP stepped in the shit when they tried to act holier-than-though with respect to the Kerrys. If they really believed their own campaign BS, they would have the McCains release their info. But they don’t believe their BS. They just expect the voters to be saps and to eat up whatever crap they dole out.

  55. 55.

    Paul L.

    April 29, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Sorry, dude. Teresa Heinz Kerry Cindy McCain is not running for anything, so she has no obligation to release or disclose anything to anybody.

    Cindy McCain should release her tax records. But don’t act like the DNC and Howard Dean are the paragons of virtue. Because when the roles were reversed, they did the same thing.
    Just like when the progressives who condemned David Vitter, defended Elliot Spitzer.

    If they really believed their own campaign BS, they would have the McCains release their info. But they don’t believe their BS.

    McCain has a history of that.
    Rules are for thee, not for me

  56. 56.

    A.Political

    April 29, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Too funny John, I had chuckled at his little tagline for his archives as well a few months back.

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