The president is an employee of the American people

And if an employee refuses to share his or his wife's tax returns when applying for the job, it arouses suspicions.

According to McCain's personal financial disclosure, Cindy McCain's investments include two mutual funds -- American Funds Europacific Growth fund and American Funds Capital World Growth and Income fund -- that are listed by the Sudan Divestment Task Force as targets for divestment.

"Those have been sold as of today," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. Both funds have holdings in Oil & Natural Gas Corp., an India-based company that does business in Sudan. The American Funds Capital World Growth & Income Fund also has holdings in Petrochina, a Chinese government-owned oil company with vast investments in Sudan.

Last year, in a speech on energy policy to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, McCain cited China's investments in Sudan as an example of regimes that survive off free-flowing petro dollars.

"The politics of oil impede the global progress of our values, and restrains governments from acting on the most basic impulses of human decency," he said. "There is only one reason China has opposed sanctions to pressure Sudan to stop the killing in Darfur: China needs Sudan's oil."

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But Cindy McCain files separate tax returns which she has not made public. Last week, she said she would never make her returns public even if her husband becomes president.

Later Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee reiterated its call for Cindy McCain to release her tax returns. "The fact the McCain family was holding Sudan-related investments even as John McCain was out on the campaign trail calling for sanctions is a reminder of why the American people expect and deserve full disclosure from their elected officials," said DNC spokesman Damien LaVera.

Cindy McCain is an heiress to a $100 million dollar estate, so it probably is a little hard to keep track of all the investments. But her husband is running for president. In fact he's been running for president for YEARS.

So you think the investments would have been rinsed through and cleaned up by now, wouldn't you?

Cindy, what else are you not telling us?