.....I thought that on March 4th, for the first time in 20 years we'd have the Bubba Clinton Arkansas Clan off our plates --- now we got 'em for at least six more weeks 'til Pennsylvania's primary. Yesterday, Obama had the temerity to query as to Ms Clinton's tax returns. She immediately started screaming "Ken Starr! Ken Starr! Now columnists have started in again on 'missing documents', Web Hubbell, missing FBI files... it goes on and on and on... Note this column from two weeks before the March 4 primaries from the NY Post:WHAT ARE THE CLINTONS HIDING?
February 21, 2008 --
So it turns out that Bill Clinton's ties to mining mogul Frank Giustra extend far beyond the lucrative contract he won in Kazakhstan after the two of them shared a dinner with that nation's president.

It makes one wonder - what have they got to hide?
As Bloomberg News reported, over the past three years Giustra's private commercial-sized jet has been turned into a veritable Air Bubba - whisking the ex-president around the world at least a dozen times for well-paid speaking engagements, personal fund-raising or stops to assist wife Hillary's White House campaign.
Giustra has also become one of the Clinton Foundation's largest benefactors - in a way, Bloomberg reported, that ties the foundation's success with his own.
Though Clinton's people angrily deny any ties between him and Giustra's business interests, the Clinton history on such matters makes those protestations hard to take seriously.
Which causes us once again to ask a critical question:
When will Hillary Clinton finally release her tax returns?
This isn't such a stretch: Bill and Hillary's finances are co-mingled, and the senator recently loaned her sinking campaign $5 million.
Indeed, the loan was made at about the same time that Bill Clinton ended a business relationship with another longtime benefactor that allowed him to reap a $20 million bonanza.
On top of the $50 million he's earned for himself and the hundreds of millions he's picked up for his global charities - not to mention his presidential library.
Yet he refuses to identify most of the sources of all this cash.
What's the big mystery?
Bill says that if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination - an increasingly unlikely prospect - he'll make public the names of all future donors. But not those who've already curried favor with the Clintons by kicking in some cash.
As for releasing her tax returns, Hillary says also that she'll do it once she's the nominee - as if primary voters don't deserve the same information.
Barack and Michelle Obama, it should be noted, made their tax returns public long ago.
But the Clintons - despite their long record of dubious fund-raising, not to mention their ties to financial people who've ended up on the wrong side of the law - continue to hide behind a veil of secrecy.
It makes one wonder - what have they got to hide?
Right about now, I'd rather have Dennis Kucynich and Sean Penn in the White House more than havin' eight more years of the soap opera about the folks from "Hope, Arkansas"!
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