For Obama: 'It's the network, stupid!'
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By Andy Goldberg Oct 22, 2008, 3:53 GMT
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'The Democratic presidential nominee raised a staggering 150 million dollars in September - most of which came from small donors who gave less than 100 dollars each through Obama's website.'
BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN ACCEPTING MONEY FROM FOWEIGN SOURCES, ILLEAGALLY.
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Foreign Donations
And then there are the overseas donations — at least, the ones that we know about.
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” which the FEC often uses as an abbreviation for 'information requested.' Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.
More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton’s presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
With such lax vetting of foreign contributions, the Obama campaign may have indirectly contributed to questionable fundraising by foreigners.
In July and August, the head of the Nigeria’s stock market held a series of pro-Obama fundraisers in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. The events attracted local Nigerian business owners.
At one event, a table for eight at one fundraising dinner went for $16,800. Nigerian press reports claimed sponsors raked in an estimated $900,000.
Concerns about foreign fundraising have been raised by other anecdotal accounts of illegal activities.
In June, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gave a public speech praising Obama, claiming foreign nationals were donating to his campaign.
“All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man,” the Libyan leader said. “They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency...'
Though Gadhafi asserted that fundraising from Arab and African nations were “legitimate,” the fact is that U.S. federal law bans any foreigner from donating to a U.S. election campaign.
The rise of the Internet and use of credit cards have made it easier for foreign nationals to donate to American campaigns, especially if they claim their donation is less than $200.
In response to an investigation conducted by Pamela Geller, the Obama online campaign store revealed on July 31 that donors from the Gaza strip had contributed $33,000 to the Obama campaign through bulk purchases of T-shirts they had shipped to Gaza.
The online campaign store allows buyers to complete their T-shirt purchases by making an additional donation to the Obama campaign.
A pair of Palestinian brothers named Hosam and Monir Edwan contributed more than $31,300 to the Obama campaign in October and November 2007, FEC records show.
Their largesse attracted the attention of the FEC almost immediately. In an April 15, 2008, report that examined the Obama campaign’s year-end figures for 2007, the FEC asked that some of these contributions be reassigned.
The Obama camp complied sluggishly, prompting a more detailed admonishment form the FEC on July 30.
The Edwan brothers listed their address as “GA,” as in Georgia, although they entered “Gaza” or “Rafah Refugee camp” as their city of residence on most of the online contribution forms.
According to the Obama campaign, they wrongly identified themselves as U.S. citizens, via a voluntary check-off box at the time the donations were made.
Many of the Edwan brothers’ contributions have been purged from the FEC database, but they still can be found in archived versions available for CRP and other watchdog groups.
The latest Obama campaign filing shows that $891.11 still has not been refunded to the Edwan brothers, despite repeated FEC warnings and campaign claims that all the money was refunded in December.
A review of the Obama campaign finance filings found that the FEC had asked for the redesignation or refund of 53,828 donations, totaling just under $30 million.
But none involves the donors who never appear in the Obama campaign reports, which the CRP estimates at nearly half the $426.8 million the Obama campaign has raised to date.
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IF OBAMA IS ALREADY BREAKING THE LAW NOW THINK OF WHAT HE WILL DO IN OFFICE!
'My warning to all Americans both white and black (those AA's who can overcome the vote black impulse) is that in Barack Obama, you are not getting Bill Cosby, you are getting a very well disguised version of Louis Farrakhan.'
Thank you jazzman646. Thank you for your integrity. You are a better man then the lot of them.
'The internet may make it easier to disseminate character smears, but it also makes it much less likely that these smears will stick
It seems the previous posters haven't understood this...the smear goes on,without the slightest feeling of shame.
Well then why not claim then that McCain is having his campaign paid by Putin,is willing to sell you all out to the Kremlin,he 'is' the manchurian candidate and his letter sent to the russian Un-representative' indicates this .Be scared,be very scared,McCain is selling your beautiful country to the russians,who will butcher your children,rape your wives,torch your churches ,brainwash you (sorry ,already happened ,noticed too late )
You dont believe me?Here is the source:
www.everyauthor.com/writing/category/blog_categories/mccain_russia_camp aign_contribution
Now my friends ,if you dont believe that,you can always believe the other BS posted by above agents from the GOP internet smear campaign taskforce above.
Rubbish Jazzman. Sounds like paranoia to me. You are probably one of those that voted for Bush...who devastated this country.
'I believe Barack Obama is one of those people with a basic belief that America is an evil and racist nation that needs radical change.'
What is the radical change that will happen if Obama is elected?
Will he proclaim himself a dictator and expel all whites?
Tell us what you believe will happen.
If you think that Obama is evil, why do you say that you are conflicted about not voting for him? Are you part of the lesser of two evils crowd?
'I came to understand through my Christian spiritual experience what the true causes of racism and all other hatred and disputes between humans truly stem from.' What have you foun d out about the true causes of racism.? Please teach us about this with your words of wisdom. Thanks.
What was Karl Rove doing at the Mortgage Bankers Association's 95th Annual Convention in SF ? Was he partying with the bankers ?
It's ACORN Stupid!!
Ballot box stuffing with the media at your heels is the means by which B.O. is pushing for his election but, keep this in mind, friendly liberals of America.........Grass roots movements in Urban America will come in a distant second to the honest voting behavior of the majority of informed Americans on election day. Heartland voters have seen and heard what the urban media has wrought and, I'm sure, part of their anger toward politicians is not directed at what President Bush did or did not do for many Americans. Won't the media be surprised at how 'the margin of error' worked to help pick our next Commander-in-Chief? (A job that can only be held by one who has experienced defending his own country)
Excellent post, thank you for stepping forward with what I believe to be the sad, sad truth.
@jackassman,
yes you are the jackassman. Your silly little post has been noted and you have received a failing grade.
''.......one nation, under Allah, indivisible............''
And I spend 150.000 dollars to look like a small town hockey mum, on hairderesser and clothes.I bill the state of Alaska 685 dollars per day that I stay at home for ...travel expenses in compensation for ling 45 miles from my job .I'm looking forward to be your VP and spend more than ever .THe 4000 dollars that I billed Alaska for airplane tickets to send my kids to parties will be nothing compared to my new lifestyle in Washington .
I represent every woman in the USA who knows what it is to raise an average family and struggle to survive .My party has done well on creating an image I now am hiding behind at great expense ...of your money.
With all the new clothes and hairdo, and such, I can really fit in with all the real Americans in Washington. I've stocked my wine cellar with expensive bottles so I can wine and dine the politicians in the style I deserve. I want to look real good to the MSM, as I bash'm around a bit.
This six pack hockey mom stuff is for retards, not real Americans.
The Repubs are getting angry, out of sorts, and running scared.
Just look at the mentally handicapped morons who are celebrating the potential election of Obama... Another excellent endorsement for McCain.
...the extreme hatefulness (racism, antisemitism, hate speech, conspiracy theories, you name it) that is overwhelmingly common among left-wingers and Obama supporters for years, and the New Republic’s James Kirchick points out the abysmal hypocrisy of the media—where this vitriolic nastiness has been completely ignored in their rush to demonize the McCain campaign: Who are left-wing haters to point fingers at John McCain?
Since 9/11, major anti-war rallies have included people holding signs and puppets comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler. Leftist writer Naomi Wolf, who has expressed fears that the feds were monitoring her children’s letters from summer camp, recently published a book titled, “The End of America,” which likens the Bush administration to a fascist junta.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spews over-the-top, hateful rhetoric in his “Special Comments” on a regular basis. He has said that the Bush administration threatens America with a “new type of fascism,” referred to the GOP as the “leading terrorist group in this country” on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and has said that Fox News is “worse than Al Qaeda” and “as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
Have the journalists now bemoaning the low tactics of the McCain campaign and its supporters never set eyes upon the Huffington Post? That Web site hosts countless angry rants, many examples of which are too vulgar to document in a family newspaper. In 2004, Nicholson Baker wrote a novel imagining the assassination of President Bush. Last week, Fox’s “Family Guy” depicted Nazis donning McCain-Palin buttons....
To Jazzman646
You watch too many Oliver Stone movies; Sen Obama was not 'mentored and tutored by Rev Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers'. He was tutored by Columbia & Harvard Universities, where he finished in the top 20% of his class.
McCain can win is thru voter fraud aka GWB x2.
McCain is going to lose because of his negative campaigning, agreeing to having Sarah P. as his running mate, confused demeaner half of the time, policies that won't work, and too old!
' Sen Obama was not 'mentored and tutored by Rev Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers'.'
Yes he was.
One International Crisis, Coming Up
Looks like Joe “Nostradamus” Biden’s prediction of an international crisis if Obama is elected may come true even sooner than he thought: Top Iran officials recommend preemptive strike against Israel.
Senior Tehran officials are recommending a preemptive strike against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London.
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JAZZMAN646Oct 22nd, 2008 - 05:28:19
Barack Obama Revealed, A Dire Warning from an African American...
I have been hoping I would never have to write this. I hoped it would never get to this point, which would force me to openly speak out against the first African American to seriously have a chance to be elected President of the United States.
But after reviewing all the Stanley Kurtz material on Barack Obama/Bill Ayers relationship, I've come to the conclusion Barack Obama is definitely under the influence of a radical ideology that is so dangerous, it could literally pose a danger to the very existence of the United States, especially when we have an economy already in crises, and a war in progress against one of the greatest threats we have ever faced, in Islamic terrorism.
I know Barack Obama. No I haven't met Barack Obama personally, but I know many African Americans like him. African Americans who were born in the 1950's and early 1960's who are now in their 40 and 50's in age. I am of that generation. Our generation grew up personally witnessing the turmoil of the 1960's and 70's, which shaped our viewpoint of America. During the great civil rights movement of this era a very young radical element evolved and came into being in the Northern black communities of major cities of America.
This element I refer to did not embrace the nonviolent civil disobedience philosophy of Martin Luther King. In fact we ridiculed King's non-violent movement going on in the South. We wanted to meet violence with violence, and so organizations like the Black Panther Party, Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (which later renounced non-violence) and The Nation of Islam came into being in cities like NY, Chicago, Boston, and LA. Those times and organizations produced leaders like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, the dis-Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Bobby Seale, and others.
In the mid 60's those leaders of the black radical movement began to form alliances with white radical groups also dedicated to the use of violence in the opposition to American policies. Groups like the Weathermen (or Weather Underground as they later became known), the Yippies (Youth International party) , the SDS, had become active on American college campuses protesting the Vietnam war. These groups were led by people such as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bill Ayers, Berenedette Dohrn , Cathy Wilkerson. I remember them all. Young Kathy Boudin was one who died in preparation of a bomb.
At age 16, born and being raised in New York City, these people became my greatest political influence and also that of many other young African Americans, I came very close to joining the Black Panther Party, but in several years I was totally discouraged with that movement and embraced the teachings and beliefs of MLK.
But there are many AA's who grew up in that era who never stopped believing the basic idea that America was a evil and racist place, although these same people moved into the mainstream of middle and upper class American society to have families, own homes, and get decent paying jobs, as they grew older.
I personally know many of them who still have a deep rooted, well hidden hatred, for white Americans, for perceived racial grievances, both past and present. These people will interact with whites on a daily basis, but in private in the presence of other AA's express their true bitterness regarding this country, and the need for change, no matter how radical that change may be
Based on things I have heard and read of his associations in the 90's with Bill Ayers and others,, when he was 34 and not 8 years old (as Barack relates his age to the bombing apex of Ayers, instead of when his true interaction occurred), I believe Barack Obama is one of those people with a basic belief that America is an evil and racist nation that needs radical change. I not only believe that of Barack, but of his wife Michelle too, who early in his campaign let slip her true feelings about this country.
I too once held that same bitterness, and I won't claim it doesn't some time well up in me. But I finally rejected , and am able to overcome the hatred and bitterness, as I came to understand through my Christian spiritual experience what the true causes of racism and all other hatred and disputes between humans truly stem from.
But I truly doubt Barack and Michelle have rejected their hidden rage and bitterness, under the warped hateful Afro-centric version of Christianity which they were subjected to for many years under the pastor-ship Rev Jeremiah Wright.
Afro-centrisim is basically came into being to falsely legitimize the deeply hidden bitterness and hatred toward the white community. Instead of a true Christian spirituality which would cleanse the person of hatred and bitterness, Afro-centrism re enforces that hatred and bitterness. A couple of very subtle but sure signs of how Barack and Michelle truly feel about his country were his refusal to wear an American flag pin on his lapel, until media coverage of the issue forced him too, and Michelle's statement about being feeling some pride for her country for the first time in her life. Every African American in this country from age 40-60 could probably identify with, and understood those two statements , one physical and one verbal, by the Obama's.
But although I can identify with the Obama's feelings I can't stay silent in the thought that this type of radicalism may soon sit as the executive head of our government. I feel African Americans in our sometimes blind rage about racism, have made many unholy alliances with less than stellar elements of the white community on a quest to press to their own agendas; to the detriment of ours.
I truly believe the relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers epitomizes those unholy alliances of the 60's and early 70's, which driven from the streets, moved into the inner city black neighborhoods and schools of Chicago, morphed into something seemingly respectable, but only spreading the same hatred and bitterness.
My warning to all Americans both white and black (those AA's who can overcome the vote black impulse) is that in Barack Obama, you are not getting Bill Cosby, you are getting a very well disguised version of Louis Farrakhan.
The question you need to ask yourself now and on Nov 4th is this.
Do you really want to put the toxic cocktail of a character mentored and tutored by Rev Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers in the White House?
Especially when this country is facing economic and security issues so critical our very existence is threatened.
I do not.
Some African Americans will read this and brand me a traitor for this article. I say to them what good is changing America from what you may believe is bad to something much worse, for the small satisfaction of being able to say we have a black man in the White House.
So personally, with conflicting feeling about it, I'm rejecting the first African American nominated for the Presidency, for what I honestly believe is the future good and well being of this country.
I hope all those reading this will give serious consideration to what I present here, and do so too,
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