Given the nature of our system, I don't think anyone should be surprised that a politician of any prominence has a good deal of money. It's the only way to get elected anymore. Transparency is a much bigger issue here. If we were just talking about this year's return, ok, it's not past the deadline or anything. But years previous to that? What's the holdup? It's not helping her image. Better that she gets it out there and shows there's nothing to hide.

I would assume that if Obama stayed in the Senate for his complete term and possibly got re-elected, that he too would have accumulated quite a load of money and connections. It has been shown over and over again that the Senate is a private club and that if you aren't a millionaire when you get in, you soon are.
Please, what is the big deal about tax returns? HRC has been filing them for years as a member of the Senate--and when she has run for election. Does anyone have a cow over Teddy Kennedy's tax return? Just what does Obama hope to find in her and Bill's tax returns? That they've made a lot of money? Well, yeah. Almost every president has ended up richer after he retired. What is the big news about that?

Under a million is low for a senator. Most have more than that, many are very wealthy.

Comparing income from the the three candidates Barack is the regular joe.

Would he be considered a better candidate if he had fifty or a hundred million? Worse is he had a hundred thousand?

BHO is the better candidate of the three and income has nothing to do with how I arrived at that opinion.

Yeah, I agree with capt-Hussein on this. This info doesn't ruffle my decision to vote for Obama.
I do think that Clinton's reticence to release her own, coupled with she and Bill's checkered past, is really fishy. What is she afraid of people seeing? I suspect she's afraid that the huge amount of wealth will act as a catalyst for further investigations of who many of her hidden donors are and perhaps the hidden donors for Bill's library. Money from members of conservative Christian groups or fundamentalist Muslim oil tycoons? Amazingly, this campaign has not only tarnished my view of Hillary but it has managed to throw a shadow over Bill that for me personally did not really exist before. Perhaps that's only due to the fact that the fallout of some of his worst work, i.e. NAFTA, is now so evident in our country, but the conniving and ruthless tactics they've used in the campaign are a major contributing factor to my utter disgust in the couple from Arkansas.

First – Who cares if he made money? Is that all bad? I would be suspect if he didn’t.

Second – What the Hell does a decline in savings have to do with this? Americans are idiots. They voted for Bush (twice), they thought the Iraq invasion was a good idea, they buy homes they can’t afford on speculation, they buy gas for huge vehicles helping to finance people who try to kill them and they spend more than they save. It just goes to show you how dumb people are. Obama being the opposite of that is only a plus!!!

And Rachel brings up a good point (by accident). “HRC”. What happened to the Rodham in Hillary Rodham Clinton? Doesn’t sell like Hillary Clinton, does it?

1) Mo’ money ≠ Mo’ Problems

2) Average Joes need not apply. This job needs a friggin superhero.

Moneybags? H. Clinton's net worth is still about 35 times the Obamas' combined.

I think they're both very wealthy and very powerful. It's too bad we have to distinguish between the very rich and the super rich. Then there are the truly rich, which are in a class all by themselves. And we probably don't even know how much money the divinely rich have - it's all offshore.

Mr. Obama has SOLD alot of BOOKS he has written and landed with a windfall from them god bless!
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