While I disagree with you on some points, thank you for at least making them. Sure, The Daily Show is not 100% fiction... but it is at times a one-sided, slightly exaggerated representation of non-fiction... to get some laughs. It is as much comedy as it is news. It is certainly not unbiased so it really shouldn't be used as a pure news source anymore that Fox News should. In truth, most news outlets have some degree of bias, but shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report take what ever they can use to be funny. Letterman and Leno too.
So Romney went to a private school... so? So his dad gave him a lot of money... so? So he did a Mormon mission in France while the Vietnam war was going on... so? I don't call that a dodge anymore than my dad not going because he had childhood polio. Not every single able bodied man was slogging through the jungle.
I would agree that how a man made his living could be an indicator of his leadership and expectations. But not the only one... and not always a good one. A person could be moderately successful at business, not make a huge amount of money... and be a raging dick of a leader. A person could be very successful in a business, make a crap ton of money... and be a horrible leader... or a great leader. He could have inherited a bazillion dollars from his family. Or made a couple of wise investments 30 years ago. Or won the lottery. None of which say anything about his leadership style or what we expect from him. I think there are better, less private ways to find out his leadership style and expectations than looking at some glorified spreadsheet the IRS collects every year. Sure it can be one of the useful items... and he did release some.
(for the record, I'm not a Romney supporter. I just don't really care about his tax returns. I don't care about Obama's either. I'll look at the candidates for their policies and ideas. And on some level their ability to manage money.)
So Romney went to a private school... so? So his dad gave him a lot of money... so? So he did a Mormon mission in France while the Vietnam war was going on... so? I don't call that a dodge anymore than my dad not going because he had childhood polio. Not every single able bodied man was slogging through the jungle.
I would agree that how a man made his living could be an indicator of his leadership and expectations. But not the only one... and not always a good one. A person could be moderately successful at business, not make a huge amount of money... and be a raging dick of a leader. A person could be very successful in a business, make a crap ton of money... and be a horrible leader... or a great leader. He could have inherited a bazillion dollars from his family. Or made a couple of wise investments 30 years ago. Or won the lottery. None of which say anything about his leadership style or what we expect from him. I think there are better, less private ways to find out his leadership style and expectations than looking at some glorified spreadsheet the IRS collects every year. Sure it can be one of the useful items... and he did release some.
(for the record, I'm not a Romney supporter. I just don't really care about his tax returns. I don't care about Obama's either. I'll look at the candidates for their policies and ideas. And on some level their ability to manage money.)