Huckabee Wants To Know If Obama Got College Loans "As A Foreign Student"
January 20, 2012 9:21 pm ET by Matt Gertz
During a Fox News appearance this evening, Mike Huckabee suggested that Mitt Romney, who has come under fire for refusing to immediately release his tax returns, respond by challenging President Obama to release his college application materials in order to "show whether he got any loans as a foreign student."
Speaking on The O'Reilly Factor, Huckabee said of Romney, "Let him make this challenge: 'I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.'"
From the January 20 program:
O'REILLY: Because of the media, the perception is if you don't release [your tax returns], you're trying to hide something. Look, Romney doesn't want his tax returns in the hands of The New York Times because they're going to cherry-pick it and make him look like a greedhead and he doesn't want to give them any more ammo. You know what this is all about.
HUCKABEE: Absolutely. And the thing is you get zero credit from the media for releasing them and then you buy yourselves a lot of grief. The question is, why would you help load a gun that's pointed at your own head?
O'REILLY: Because the people, the folks, most of them, want you to. I think that's the answer to your question.
HUCKABEE: Well, but he has to forcefully tell it why he's not going to, why it's irrelevant, say, "Look, I've disclosed more than I need to." Let him make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns."
Obama's college applications materials - like his birth certificate - have long been the subject of conspiracies among certain segments of the right wing.
In May 2009, FactCheck.org assessed the claim made in a chain e-mail that Obama had attended Occidental College on a scholarship for foreign students. The email purported to quote an Associated Press story indicating that Obama's college transcripts had been released and indicated that Obama "under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school," and that the document "would seem to provide the smoking gun" proving that Obama is not an American citizen and is thus ineligible for the presidency.
FactCheck.org determined that "the claim is false and the story is a hoax," noting that the AP story had been fabricated as an April Fools' Day joke.
This is not the first time Huckabee has promoted falsehoods about Obama's background. During a February 2011 radio interview, he repeatedly claimed that Obama had grown up "in Kenya." Huckabee drew heavy criticism for his comments from the media and offered an evolving series of explanations for his comments, eventually blaming Media Matters for bringing his remarks to light and falsely claiming he had been taken out of context.
That's what gives him so much Republican credibility.
I hate to tell the morons on the right this but America noticed he was black the first time around. They arent going to suddenly find out he is black and not vote for him.
Oops, that's right, Huck had all those hard drives demolished, destroyed.
Sure sounds like someone has something to hid, wouldn't you say?
-Out-going Guv Romney bought all new computers for the Guv's offices and had his staff buy up all the old hard drives!
Maybe a few that were not really wiped will surface....
When the market for used, 150 k. hard drives crashed (so to speak), Bain sold the drives at a steep discount to a Bolivian start-up that specialized doorstops and it used the loss to offset bonuses paid that year. Then, in recognition of its failed hi-tech venture, Bain tried to lay off the guy whose name was on the drives, a certain Mr. Hewlett Packard. Because Packard was nowhere to be found, Bain instead fired 200 mill workers in S. Carolina. Business is business. You gotta take the bad with the good.
Give it up Huck.
Then they demanded a "long form" birth certificate, they got one and they still refuse to believe it's legitimate.
Now they want college transcripts and admission records, and if they get those they will still refuse to believe they are legitimate.
After that, they will want his medical records, and then his diplomas, and then proof of insurance for his car, and then they'll want him to take a drug test and get a body cavity search on national television, and then they'll demand that he call them 'massah'....
President Obama needs to refuse this and all other absurd requests at this point. It will never end, so why encourage them by capitulating?
I'd also like an explanation for why the ex-governor of Arkansas released a criminal from prison who murdered someone after he was pardoned.
Is he calling us all stupid?? Where is the MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE on this, Fox News?
So, you can blast Obama for a week about an out-of-context comment about Americans being lazy, but we're going to let Huckabee's comment about Americans being too stupid to understand their own tax return fly?
According to the Paris Business Review, Huckleberry was born in a foreign legion.
"Huckster's Lies are Legion Because the Truth is Foreign to Him".
Supposedly we're supposed to check if Romney would benefit from his tax policy. But we already know his policy is awful. It's not a matter for debate -- we've tried his policy over and over again, and it produces terrible results every time. Nothing will be learned from anyone's tax returns.
This just lets the media find other things to say besides "Romney's tax policy is awful, and that's not opinion".
Who the hell cares if Romney is immoral or hypocritical? He's wrong regardless, and that's all anyone needs to know.
He has his reward.
Romney is one very twisted, warped and possibly psychotic man.
He is not psychologically fit to be The President of The United States of America.
The Super-Pacs haven't disclosed since last JULY.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/01/alarming-lack-of-transparency-in-go.html
Will MMFA get off their "OOOH did you hear what so and so said on Fox News" obsession and start reporting the Mainstream Media's indifference to this blatant lack of transparency on the part of the Republicans?
John
Welcome Joe Strupp, Media Matters' new investigative reporter
March 08, 2010
Joe is still lurking at MMFA and his work still shows up here at CountyFair blog. He posted a report several days ago.
The topic here is Huckabee aiming a ridiculous, birther-tainted "challenge" at the President in response to the calls for Romney to release his tax information; something Mitt's fellow GOP wannabe nominees are badgering him about--not Obama.
What do you say we stick to that topic?
Mmmmm-kay.
Birther.
Who would have known?
After an applicant has been accepted, he/she gets an immigration I-20 form from the university, with which the student can apply to the consulate for an F-1 student visa.
So Obama would have to go to a US consulate (in Indonesia???) to get a foreign student visa for a US university. Also, he would need a Indonesian passport in which the visa would be stamped.
It would be illegal for a US university to accept a student without verifying their F-1 visa status.
Here's what Occidental university (where Obama first went to school) advises its foreign students.
Here's some information from the state department regarding student visas.
It is also a lot harder for foreign students than US students to get admission to the same university. Why would Obama want to make it harder for him to get accepted?
He, Gingrich and Santorum could form a Gospel Trio called The Sanctimony Singers and produce their own special blend of humbug and sacrilege.
And now we have a perfect guy to prove that theory, Mitt Romney, at an absolute perfect time too, so as to validate the claims that Fox makes about income taxes.
So if Romney was paying a lot in income taxes, he and Fox should want to use that information, they should be eager and proud to crow about how much (too much) the mega-wealthy Mitt Romney pays in income taxes...
On the other hand, were his tax returns to indicate many deductions and exemptions and tax-sheltered income and loopholes you never even knew existed, and as a result he paid a lesser share of his income in taxes than do most working Americans...
Well, you get the picture, you can see why they're going all-out to hide Romney's tax burden, versus crowing about it as they should be, were their rhetoric true about wealthy Americans paying way too much in taxes.
Huck your foolish remark shows while you may be a Minister (by legal definition) but not by any moral standards!
In other words...if you don't have anything nice to say that ypou shouldn't have said anything....Huck your the worst kind of hipocriate....one who calls himself a man of religion as you stab others in the back!
EVERY award, adoration, compliment, grant and any other praise you guys get is well deserved. I just don't see how you guys do it! What ever it is, keep it up. GREAT work...
I hope he continues to call attention to his tax returns by dragging out the process, only releasing a year or two at the start, make it as conditional as possible.
This is great news for Mr. Obama.