$55 million February windfall for Obama (breaks fundraising record)

Hotline / National Journal ^ | 3/6/08 | Hotline

[kabar]

Not from me.

[Alter Kaker]

That's not likely: the FEC audits campaigns all the time (for example, Kerry's campaign was audited and subsequently fined several million bucks), and that scenario would be an unbelievable scandal.

What's much more likely is something like the Hsu scandal, where a major donor gives money to surrogates to contribute in their names. That's illegal, but the campaign itself isn't doing anything illegal and they can deny any knowledge (assuming they had any to begin with).

[massgopguy]

And they’re not going to have any money left to blow at his pal Deval Patrick’s casinos.

[ricks_place]

Illegal donations? Are donations traceable to US citizens? Are any straw-man donations? Nonexistent donors? Soros or Chavez funded? It just seems so unlikely that Obama could fool so many people.

[depressed in 06]

These are Bolshecrats, there is something that does not ring true here. Soros has managed to game the system.

[Blood of Tyrants]

People who donate less than $100 donate that amount because they don’t have that much money to give away. Besides, pols asking for MORE money is highly annoying.

[onja]

Obama was born in 1961. He would have been 13 at the time, certainly not attending college. If it was a joke, sorry for being overly serious, but I do hope that we’ll keep our criticisms valid. There’s plenty of other material to work on...