SO do you think there are any records a presidential candidate should release? Since you feel that you should be the judge of what is relevant or not, what do you consider relevant?
If you wanna hold the highest office of the land then declare all your assets for scrutiny including your swiss bank accounts.
I find it amusing that the same people who didn't think it was important for Oblama to release all sorts of records think its so important for Romney to release equally IRRELEVANT information
do you admit or deny that the main reason the dems want this is so they can engage in further class warfare
Why do you feel it is irrelevant?
Why do you feel the need to call anything you don't like class warfare?
Why? did it ever occur to you that maybe the reason why we don't get the best and the brightest running for president because of this sort of silly attitude you have?
He gonna manage trillions. He needs to be transparent just as the people expects the government to be transparent to gain the trust.
the butt hurt envious losers are being pandered to by rich dems who are going to feign indignation over Romney being wealthy-just like the Kennedys, Kohls, Rockefellers, Boxers, Feinswines, Etc
Why do you feel it is irrelevant?
Why do you feel the need to call anything you don't like class warfare?
Much is being made right now of Romney having a Swiss bank account, not having released all his tax records, and his offshore holdings. Is it fair and right to expect him to release all that information to the public?
Why do you use the same lowgrade tard insults over and over when you dont have any sensible responses..lol..
LISTEN UP EVERYONE...If you dont agree totally with turtle...your an envious , entitlement sucking, leech...its impossible to turtle that anyone that is not poor could possibly disagree with the great one...well look at my name...you found one lol
If the Republicans' candidate for president can't even be counted upon to be transparent about how much money he's hiding from the federal government, how can we depend on him to hold corporations accountable and help fix our crumbling economy?
lets be honest
why do you think the dems are demanding this information
Because they feel it will paint Romney in a negative light. So are you going to stop evading the questions?
So you do not understand the difference between financial records and college records? That is kinda sad....
what a load of crap....he wants to be Potus, what is being asked of him is pretty standard for all potus candidates....that info gives insight into his thinking, and why he advocates for certain posistions, especially those of economic importance, such as tax rates, tax cuts.....your whole 'hating the rich....being pandered to...blah blah blah' is a huge load of crap...the butt hurt envious losers are being pandered to by rich dems who are going to feign indignation over Romney being wealthy-just like the Kennedys, Kohls, Rockefellers, Boxers, Feinswines, Etc
There are legitimate ways that could have happened, just as there are potentially legitimate reasons for parking large sums of money in overseas tax havens. But we don’t know which if any of those legitimate reasons apply in Mr. Romney’s case — because he has refused to release any details about his finances. This refusal to come clean suggests that he and his advisers believe that voters would be less likely to support him if they knew the truth about his investments.
And that is precisely why voters have a right to know that truth. Elections are, after all, in part about the perceived character of the candidates — and what a man does with his money is surely a major clue to his character.
One more thing: To the extent that Mr. Romney has a coherent policy agenda, it involves cutting tax rates on the very rich — which are already, as I said, down by about half since his father’s time. Surely a man advocating such policies has a special obligation to level with voters about the extent to which he would personally benefit from the policies he advocates.
Yet obviously that’s something Mr. Romney doesn’t want to do. And unless he does reveal the truth about his investments, we can only assume that he’s hiding something seriously damaging.
Oh thats crap...every other candidate for president was asked the same questions...FROM BOTH SIDES turtle not just democrats
If you want to be president of the united states...how you made your money, what youve done with it and how your hiding it to avoid taxs should be public knowledge, because it reflects on your character and gives the voters a basis to judge the rest of what comes out of your mouth.....and it goes for all candidates not just republicans...if roles were reversed you would be clammering from atop the sears building for obama to give it up...
Some have suggested that it's fair game to demand records that Romney has no requirement to provide because he's "touting his business knowledge" and what he does with his money ties into that. The same sort of logic could apply to Obama's educational record since his "intelligent" was touted as one of his strong points and reasons why people should vote for him. While there is a definitive difference between financial records and college reocrds, it's kind of sad that you're so quick to go on the attack that you fail to note that there is a similarity between the two...records. Namely, records that are in no way legally required to be provided during a campaign and which tie into the basis for which the individuals running have used to justify their argument that people should vote for them. In both cases you have individuals who leap to conclussions...such as those on the right suggesting Obama did poorly in school or didn't even go to the schools he suggests or those suggesting that Romney is involved in dirty dealings financially or the various accusations as facts people like lpast are throwing out in this thread...based on the lack of those records being provided. So while they are not absolutely identical things, the situations surrounding the two types of records are somewhat similar.
Romeny should be "expected" to release records he has no requirement to release no more than Obama should be "expected" to release records he has no requirement to release. Whether or not it'd be good...either politically for the candidate or for the public in general...for him to do it is irrelevant as to whether or not he should be "expected" to do it.
If there's sometihng ILLEGAL going on, then it should be investigated and dealt with by the IRS as is the case with breaches of the law. If there's something unethical going on, but not illegal, and it's brought to life then perhaps it becomes an issue. However, the method being used currently is by some on the left in regards to his records is identical in methodology as was used in regards to the school records and even to a point the birth certificate issue. Namely....a demand for information that he in on way is required to give is made. When the individual declines to give into the demands to release information he's not required to release, those individuals making the demands then proceed to proclaim it as some sort of proof that there is wrong doing going on. If the individual then continues to decline after the accusations of wrong doing occur it's then suggested that they're trying to "cover up" and again the demand for release occurs. It's kind of sad that you don't see the exact same methodology playing on out on your own side as it did on the other side previously.
The point being however is that school records are significantly different than financial records, and one key difference is that school records are not the topic of the thread.