I have to be honest, if there is anything less interesting in an election cycle it is looking over a candidates taxes. At least when you look over endless campaign finance documents you could possibly find a smoking gun or learn a thing or two about a candidates overall strategy. The many years of IRS filings for an individual candidate though, that right there is a snoozer.

Just like they did with Hillary Clinton though the Obama campaign now hopes to turn Sarah Palin’s tax returns into a major campaign issue. Today Joe Biden released ten years of his own (Oh great, there goes my weekend… nah forget that I am not going to bother) and the Obama camp is already putting out the “when will Sarah Palin release them, when will Sarah Palin release them) game.

Earlier in the year the hype surrounded Hillary Clinton’s tax returns. Her failure to release them on the Obama timetable gave journalists lots to write about and bloggers lots to speculate over. “There must be some kind of conspiracy, they must show Clinton is lying about something, she must be on someones take!” But just like Obama’s birth certificate, they revealed absolutely nothing of interest when we finally got our grubby little hands on them. All we found out was that Clinton, like Obama and everyone else who runs for president, makes more money than most of us do or ever will. Wow, shocker!

I can just see the blog posts questioning if some crazy Alaskan cessationist cult bent on banning books and feeding babbies mind control juice and gives dentists molar probe listening devices pays her bills. In reality they undoubtedly contain the same boring information all of our taxe returns contain. Still, I am sure MSNBC and CNN right now are talking about it and precious space will be devoted to it in the New York Times this weekend.

Cannot wait.