Hans Trefousse states in his recent biography of Rutherford Hayes that, as party nominee in 1876, Hayes made public his property tax returns from 1874-76, to dispel rumors of corrupt dealings.

Oh, I thought you were talking about a real Presidential candidate….

None other than Ralph Nader. Who knows why, but if anyone else, particularly a Republican, tried to get away with that, it would be all over the news.

If anyone has a correction to this, I would appreciate hearing about it. Until then, Ralph is off my Christmas card list.

Happy trails…

Heh, people will label you with whatever they dislike … Here I get branded a liberal when someone disagrees with me. On other forums I get labeled a conservative by people that disagree with me. On some boards, they label me multicultural and other they label me racist.

I’ve got a set of nice ink stamps at home so I can label myself with whatever words I feel like

And going to sleep during an Obama speech simply confirms that you are a living entity as opposed to a brain dead zombie.

Well, I’m not a racist (as far as I know) But if I’m ever asked or made to watch Obama speak and I fall sleep would that make me a racist?

I don’t know.

As I red on it turn out that the nest egg is primarily made up of global warming, war making, big oil exports.

Ethical what?

http://tinyurl.com/ysdpoy

Kill two birds. Lower medicine for seniors by turning on the teeve purchased at Wal-Mart put on a timer, thereby getting some zzzz while investing in a good old American company.

I’m not voting for Obama either, but I like his sleep medicine policy. |-)

However, that Wal-Mart ‘link’ is downright silly. Mrs. Obama is apparently employed at a Food Manufacturing company as a “non-executive director and sits on the company’s audit and nominating and corporate governance committees”. Which, as far as I can tell basically deals with auditing and corporate governance. The link to Wal-Mart is that they buy lots of pickles and peppers from the company she works at.

So, she deals with internal bureaucracy at a company (salary of $51,000) which sells a lot of product to, Wal-Mart, the nations largest purchaser of consumer goods. Meanwhile her husband campaigns that he doesn’t like Wal-Mart’s internal practices.

I fail to see how that makes Sen. Obama a hypocrite in any way, shape or form. I think he’s a vacuous politician, with no clearer direction on the future of our nation than any of the other befuddled candidates. I dislike his politics… but this sort of political BS is simply pathetic.

Also, I now have an image of Sen. Kerry bellowing “I’ve come to Wive it Wealthy in Padua” ala Howard Keel in Kiss Me Kate….

Bad Roger!!! I shall now have to find a way to scrub my brain.

The presumption engendered by the “disclosure” is one of dishonesty. There is nothing about it that says what kind of people we are (for the most part).

I agree we may not be there yet, but we sure are slowing if not stopping all progress by stripping naked peoples whose only guilt is wanting to serve.

While it may be nice to have a moat of privacy for public figures, it could foster an environment where even more questionable deals are done than exists today.

Of course a few of those questionable deals come to mind. Hillary turning $1,000 into $100,000 in commodities trading. And there is, of course, Whitewater (and no one knows what really happened, especially after Janet Reno fired ALL district attorneys – hmmmmm). Harry Reid did his real estate deal in Las Vegas. Obama recently came into money after being elected to the Senate, but there is that real estate deal with Tony Rezko, who is under indictment. There is Diane Feinstein, who appears to have directed federal funds to the benefit of her husbands companies. Let’s not forget the esteemed Congressman from Louisiana, Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Murtha of Abscam fame is not above reproach. I saw something in the news about Nancy Pelosi recently that slips my mind. The Republican side if the aisle is not lilly white either. In fact, I am sure there are other reader’s here with a better memory than mine.

Roger, I concur with you. We aren’t there yet.