SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Been living in South Carolina for 44 years, and I'm not looking for greener pastures.

screen48 Loc: Northwest IL

Again - what will a tax return tell if he is holding off shore and if he is using proper deductions is that wrong. The site factcheck.org says the Obama people are not telling the whole truth on the horse. Fact check everything both say and you will be ready for a wakeup call. Just because Obama says something does not make it fact. Just because he believes something does not make it true. Now look at both records and I will take Mitt hands down. Jobs and econo. is why Obama does not deserve another 4.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

I'm sure that he has quite a few good qualities about himself but unfortunately a couple people sitting around talking about some of them in promoting a book freshly released does nothing to sway my concerns about the man.

I don't beleave that there has ever existed an individual that was 100% all bad. Everyone has some good about them.

It was a decent program but non the less it was still about someone that I have no faith in at all. Did think he smiled very plesently to the camera that was there not to take pictures.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

The question concerning his tax returns revolves around how much taxes did he get out of paying? Forget the IRS, they would not go for him because of who he is. So that argument does not work.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

The honesty of the man hiding the information is what is at question.

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Well, old sarg, if Mitt showed you two more returns, you'd want to see four. Neither you nor frenchcoast are going to vote Romney, anyway. And I think the IRS would take exception to frenchcoast's statement that they would likely look the other way concerning his off-shore accounts.
On the other hand: When conservatives (the wild-eyed, gun-totin' radicals) want to see Obama's records from Columbia or Harvard, or how he was able to travel to Pakistan in the middle of a "no-visit" policy, with a passport from where?...they are criticized as being unreasonable.
Sometimes you guys just make me feel old, and tired.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Thats real funny,

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Okay you answered a question and I didn't even have to ask it, Factcheck.org. That is really funny, you people are so desperate to have something to raise hell about.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Don't worry Dan, it's only gonna get better. When you wake up and see the light you will be kicking up your heels.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

He went on his US Passport you could travel to Pakistan when he went.

see

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/more-birther-nonsense-obamas-1981-pakistan-trip/

More “Birther” Nonsense: Obama’s 1981 Pakistan Trip
Posted on June 5, 2009

We continue to receive queries about claims and theories advanced by "birthers," who wish to believe that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the USA or that he somehow gave up his citizenship and thus is not qualified to hold the office he occupies. One is a claim, first advanced last year, that his trip to Pakistan in 1981 proves he must not have been a U.S. citizen because Americans were not permitted to travel there at the time.

This one is not quite as transparent as the April Fools’ Day hoax that took in many of these deniers of Obama’s birthplace bona fides. That one was a fabricated Associated Press story about Obama’s student records from Occidental College. But the Pakistan theory is just as false. The truth, easily proven, is that American citizens traveled freely to Pakistan in 1981.

Obama did go to Pakistan that year when he was 20 years old with a college friend, after first seeing his mother and half-sister in Indonesia. That much is true. When he mentioned the 1981 trip during a campaign appearance last year, it came as news, because he had not previously written of it in his books.

Some then speculated, or claimed outright, that Obama must have gotten into Pakistan using an Indonesian passport obtained while his mother was married to Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian man whom she had divorced the previous year. Under this theory, the young Obama had somehow become an Indonesian citizen. "Birthers" claimed that the Pakistan trip constituted indirect proof of Obama’s supposed Indonesian citizenship. Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg even told the U.S. Supreme Court last year, before it refused to hear his case challenging Obama’s qualification to be president, that Pakistan "was on the State Department’s travel ban list for U.S. Citizens."

But that claim is quite false. There was no such ban. Americans traveled there without incident, as shown by a travel piece that appeared in the New York Times in 1981, dated June 14. Barbara Crossette, an assistant news editor of the Times, told her mostly American readers they could travel to Lahore, Pakistan, by air, rail or road, adding: "Tourists can obtain a free, 30-day visa (necessary for Americans) at border crossings and airports."

Her article prompted a letter to the Times from the U.S. consul general in Lahore saying he would "welcome an influx of Americans" to Lahore. He cautioned only that in addition to getting a visa for Pakistan, American visitors also should be careful to line up an Indian visa for the return trip if they planned to travel overland. The letter is dated Aug. 23, 1981.

Also, a travel advisory from the State Department dated Aug. 17, 1981 notes that Americans traveling to Pakistan require a 30-day visa, and that any staying longer must check in with Pakistan’s Foreigner Registration Office. A digital copy of the advisory is archived at the Electronic Research Collection, a partnership between the State Department and the Federal Depository Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

For those who missed it earlier, high-resolution images of Obama’s birth certificate are displayed as supporting documents to our article "Born in the U.S.A." The document meets the U.S. State Department’s requirements for proving U.S. citizenship. That, along with a 1961 newspaper announcement of his birth and statements last year by state officials in Hawaii, remove for us any doubt that Obama is indeed a natural-born citizen.

The "birthers" aren’t buying it. They, however, so far have produced what we judge to be zero credible evidence that Obama was born elsewhere, or that he later gave up U.S. citizenship. The false claim about a 1981 travel ban is typical of what’s been offered along those lines.

Was he or wasn't he still employed by Baine when all that outsourcing went on. That would be answered by the tax returns.

Romney has flipped on just about every issue there is but he takes a stand on his Tax Returns. Makes me think he is hiding something.

Makes member of the GOP wonder what he is hiding. This is not only a Democrat issue. Even Christie said show the returns!

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

Try factcheck.org to see an impartial report on Bain and other issues.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

I wouldn't show anything until Oboma showed all he is hiding. We know nothing about his past. Every thing is off limits.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

looked but things keep emerging regarding Romney's involvement.

this will be the crux of the campaign until until it is cleared up.

The Birther arguments on certificate, grades is of no interest to the general public. They have not gained any traction.

screen48 Loc: Northwest IL

When Obama ran n 08" he had no experience and he proved it in the first 2 years when he could have done so much. For those on Obama's side, what make you think he will do anything in the next four but cost the USA more and do nothing about jobs?
I am a middle of the road conservative and have voted for many Dems. but my head is not in the sand on this liberal. Some need to stop voting party and vote what will save America.

Nikocarol Loc: NM & FL

Reading your post reminded me of this email I received..


While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand was caught in the squeeze gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our president.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle''.

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a 'post turtle' was.

The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.

The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with."

Best explanation I've heard yet.