While Clinton plans to release tax records by April 15, Obama still won't answer Rezko questions.

[Maddy McCall]

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is poised to release her tax returns "on or around April 15," Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson said in an exclusive "This Week" debate Sunday morning with David Axelrod, senior campaign adviser to her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

When pressed by Axelrod as to why "Clinton continues to refuse to release her tax returns, as all the other candidates have," Wolfson asserted that "the tax returns are going to be released around tax time."

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Wolfson also challenged the Obama campaign to come clean about the Senator's relationship with campaign contributor Tony Rezko, who is set to go on trial Monday for corruption charges. "I can't imagine he's going to answer them, but I wish that he would, and I think Democrats hope that he will For instance, how many fundraisers did Mr. Rezko throw for Senator Obama? What did Senator Obama do for Mr. Rezko? Did he write letters for him? What projects of his did he support? How many business meetings did he attend where Mr. Rezko had business associates there? What are the -- one more important one -- what are the full details of this very unusual real estate transaction that Mr. Rezko and Mr. Obama entered into?" Wolfson asked.

More at: http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=4373868&page=1


As we already know, when Obama was asked tough questions about Rezko on March 3, he accused the reporter of having a personal vendetta, abruptly ended the press conference, and left, while whining, "I've already answered like eight questions."

Thread about that here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4866255

[KittyWampus]

1. There's nothing to answer that hasn't been answered. Unlike the Clintons' mystery income.

[Seeker30]

19. Interpretation: I don't care if my candidate is corrupt

[BigDDem]

2. but but but

they should have asked him in the first 7 questions

:rofl:

[MadBadger]

3. He'll answer all questions on April 14th

[burythehatchet]

4. She's "poised" to release her tax records "on or around April 15"

those scribes must be working awfully hard trying to make a duplicate set.

I don't give a crap about her tax records. I really couldn't dislike her any more than I do now.

[bowens43]

5. keep up the mindless attacks......it helps your candidate

LOL!!

[thewiseguy]

6. April 15th? Why not now?

[shifting_sands]

7. Rezko

I do hope Obama answers the questions regarding Rezko, of course there is always the possibility that he has answered all the questions and doesn't know what else to say. Once you've said everything how can you answer another question when it's obvious the "pack" just wants you to say whatever will make them happy. The Clinton's have not answered what their relationship was with Rezko, and they did have a relationship with him and attended fund raisers he gave for them. What's the story there, I expect the story is the same as Obama's, this was someone who was willing to raise money for them and no one even thought to look into his background. Clinton has had a couple of people like that, a couple of her fundraisers were arrested, she didn't know who they were or what they were doing, at least she said she didn't when they went to trial, I have to take her at her word.

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. I don't give a shit about either her tax returns or his rezko dealings

fuck. I just want this primary to be over with.

[Saturday]

9. On another note regarding Rezko....

did you know Obama has a staff member in the court room taking notes on the trial proceedings? I wonder why he cares if he has nothing to hide. hmmmmm

[tabatha]

16. I heard it was just the opening...

and would not be the whole trial.

Don't you think he needs to know what is said, so that somebody else cannot twist it around.

[Saturday]

20. If you have nothing to hide why do you need to know? n/t

[Maddy McCall]

22. Gotta keep his story straight, I guess.

[Shakespeare]

21. No, that's just keeping the campaign on its toes.

There's a good possibility he could be asked about anything said in open court, so his staffers are keeping track and thus able to respond quickly.

Big fucking "duh."

[Debi]

10. And when will her schedule as First Lady be released? Or her phone logs?

:shrug:

[cali]

11. Talk to me when she actually does it. And when she releases

pertinent papers from her First Lady years. Until then, as Hill would, say, it's just talk. Not worth a red cent.

[chitty]

12. Well, it does take

a few months to walk over to the file cabinet and pull them out.

What a bunch of BS.

I don't care how much money you make. It shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes to produce tax returns that have already been filed.

[DefenseLawyer]

13. Does Hillary Clinton really want to go down this road?

Of questioning shady land deals and financial backers with shady pasts? If Rezko is fair game, isn't Norman Hsu also?

[DJ13]

14. Its a shame Hillary and Bill cant afford an accountant to do their taxes

The poor things, wading through all those records and deposits from overseas transactions, it must be hard on them.

I hope they can take the time to do their taxes so they can release them a month and a half from now.

:sarcasm:

[cottonseed]

15. No one will care by April 15th.

She'll have conceded well before then. Gore and Edwards will be stepping in after today.

[thoughtcrime1984]

17. She'll never show the tax return

There is far less to this Rezko "thing" than there was to the many, many Clinton felon donors. Don't even get started on dealing with shady characters.

[OhioChick]

18. Why not now? n/t

[Maddy McCall]

23. Back to the top.