Well, it's April 15: Tax Day in the United States. Your taxes are due at midnight tonight (local time). And as George Harrison once sang, "Don't ask me what I want it for, If you don't want to pay some more." And speaking due, a presidential candidate's past tax returns are long overdue.
Is it Barack Obama? No, he long ago submitted his past tax returns. Is it Hillary Clinton? Well, no. Even Buddhist monks who don't have access to newspapers or TV know that the media hounded her to release the past tax returns, and had hilarious and mean things to say once they were released.
Is it John McCain? You are absolutely correct. Open up a Budweiser to celebrate. Oh, did we say something that might trouble the senior senator from Arizona?
McCain's campaign said in March he would release them in the next month or so, but it's not like we've seen any significant pressure to do so.
The only thing as startling as the fact that a presumptive presidential candidate nominee hasn't released his tax returns is the fact that the MSM hasn't asked for him to do so. On the day Clinton released her tax returns, I was in a conversation in a bar with a producer for a MSM Web site. I asked her why the press hasn't asked about McCain's returns. She said all that would happen in due time.
Really? This is the justification for the double standard. And you can rest assured that when the MSM does wake up to the idea, it will sound more like "hey, Senator McCain, you might want to think about, maybe, if you don't mind and it's not too much trouble, could you possibly release your tax returns for the past few years, if it's no big deal, well, you are running for president, not that it's any of our business, but we would like to know if it's not too much trouble.">>>>snip
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