Obama: Follow the Money

When the Clintons came to Washington they didn't even own a house. At one point in his second term, a reporter asked Bill Clinton if he was broke. The president said he didn’t know, but that was probably the case.

My, how times have changed. Now Billary can take $5 million out of petty cash and loan it to their campaign. Barack Obama fired back, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest depending the source of the Clintons' new wealth. Her vague financial disclosures put the couple's net worth somewhere between $10 and $50 million.

From the Associated Press:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvG1XWiPC5IjZQjGrvdVqEW8tRqgD8UMDRJ00

"For someone who claims to be fully vetted, hiding a campaign loan from voters until after Super Tuesday and refusing to release your tax returns until after the primary doesn't seem like the best way to prove that there are no surprises for the Republicans to find once they start digging," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Friday.

A day earlier, Obama had stopped short of saying Clinton should release her returns.

"I'll just say that I've released my tax returns," he told reporters on a flight to Omaha, Neb. "That's been a policy I've maintained consistently. I think the American people deserve to know where you get your income from."

The timing is noteworthy. The government's fraud case against Obama friend and campaign contributor businessman Tony Rezko continues to move forward. Despite the fact that Obama has returned all the money he got from Rezko, admitted his dealings with Rezko were a mistake, Billary has already shown they view this issue as one of the weapons in their arsenal against Obama.


I'm much more interested in who made the Clintons rich and what they would likely expect in return.