"The Obama campaign's latest unfounded character assault on Mitt Romney is unseemly and disgusting" [View all]

[Liberal_in_LA]

Obama team targets Romney over taxes, Republicans cry foul

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign and top Democrats on Sunday called on Mitt Romney to release more personal tax records and raised questions about his offshore assets that the Republican challenger's campaign condemned as an "unseemly and disgusting" character assault.

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"The one thing he could do ... to clear up whether or not he's done anything illegal - whether he's shielding his income from taxes in Bermuda or Switzerland - is to do what every other presidential candidate's done, and that's to release a series of years of their own tax returns," Gibbs said.

"This is a guy whose slogan is: 'Believe in America' - and it should be 'Business in Bermuda.' That's what Mitt Romney's all about," Gibbs said.

Romney's campaign fought back.

"The Obama campaign's latest unfounded character assault on Mitt Romney is unseemly and disgusting," said Andrea Saul, a Romney campaign spokeswoman.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/08/us-usa-campaign-idUSBRE8670F120120708