Our president is black – get over it or kill yourself.

So much for taxing “the rich” and fairness and all that other crap. In addition to making 1.2 million a president, Obama has made himself another 9 million on the side from investments!

Source:
http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/13/over-30-of-president-obamas-2009-2011-gross-income-came-from-foreign-sources/

Hypocrisy.

I cannot tell you why Romney got 100k, because I’m not the guy who wrote his contract with Bain capital. It is not unusual for officers of a company — even ones who have resigned or taken a leave of absence — to still receive compensation on a basis other than what we would consider “full time employment”. My guess — because I do not know for certain — is that the 100k is a consulting fee of some sort, or at least that’s what someone might call it.

And in the grand scheme of things, 100k is a mere bag of shells.

Hell, 100k is nothing: In my 25 years on Wall Street, I once saw a guy get a $32 million golden parachute while HE WAS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD (this was the Global Crossing fraud case). If I’m not mistaken, that guy was convicted, too.

And Obama got how many millions for a pair of autobiographies he didn’t even write, and which apparently contain nothing but fiction, and someone’s making a big deal over 100k? At least Romney got it from an ACTUAL JOB, unlike President Obama, who never had a job outside of government or academia where results hardly ever matter.

Look, when you start poking into the finances of very wealthy people, you’re going to find a lot of questionable things, and that’s mostly because the tax laws are written in such a way as to allow or reward unfairness. I agree, it’s not right, but then again, this is what happens when you set out to create a “Progressive” tax system that punishes success: the Successful use their money to carve out special privileges. It’s often unseemly, but guess what? it’s not illegal. If we had true tax reform, the worst of the abuses might disappear.

I’m no fan of Romney (I wanted Gingrich), but I don’t think it’s fair to him to have this sort of smear campaign waged against him, just as it was unfair to hold Obama to the Walk-on-Water standard (even if he DID promise to, almost) considering the troubles he found on his doorstep on Jan. 20, 2009. I would react the same way if someone accused President Frequent-Flyer-Miles of the same thing, sans evidence, and based on a 10-year-old rumor spread by a political opponent (McCain is a nasty bastard), and more-or-less squashed five minutes after it was printed.

You do understand that the Obama people are accusing Romney of having committed a FELONY, with no evidence to back that up?, except for half-truths, innuendo, half-a-story-here-and-half-a-whisper there, which is usually how Leftards construct conspiracy theories, come to think of it.

They make the accusation, they tell half the tale, and then they get evasive on the specifics, only to keep hammering away on the original point, never proving anything, but continuing to insist. Right out of Lenin’s playbook.

If anyone has evidence of Romney doing something illegal, then present it — warts and all — and let the country (or the courts) decide. Since no one has, we must assume that it doesn’t exist, and that this whole thing is a teapot tempest generated for political purposes. Arguably, this is all tantamount to slander, an actual offense before a court of law.

Perhaps if you read more than Mother Jones and the other Left-leaning propaganda outlets, you’d know these things. Yes, his name is on the document — it has to be as an officer of the company — but he wasn’t running Bain anymore than either of us runs GE, which last time I looked, not only outsources jobs left and right, but also evades taxes while it snuggles up to President Capitalism-is-evil-unless-I-need-a-capitalist’s-money.

I get you, Rippa: anything that tends to make your man look better, regardless of it’s veracity, is automatically true, and then if it truly isn’t, then what matters is the perception — or at least whatever perception you can manage to contrive — while the Other Guy is the worst thing since Ebola Virus, and no amount of fact-checking or evidence t the contrary will change your opinion.