Where DOES the Money Come From?

Atlas Shrugged ^ | July 20, 2008 | pharmamom

[pharmamom]

I don't know if this has received Freeperization yet, but Atlas Shrugged has an interesting post about Obama's evidently very-rich-yet-unemployed donors. Surely this will be followed up on by the MSM?

[detective]

There is clearly fraud going on here.The MSM dutifully repeats the fund raising totals reported by the Obama campaign and states how popular Obama is and how successful he is in fund raising. Obama appears to be bought and paid for by foreign money. My guess would by Soros, the Chinese communists and Muslim terrorists groups. The FEC is asleep at the switch and totally ineffective. The MSM has pushed for campaign finance reform but when the Clinton's and Obama collect millions of dollars from obviously fraudulent sources they say nothing.

[Mr. Peabody]

It looks like wealthy democrats are donating many numerous small donations to make it seem as if Obama has the support of the poor and working class. He can claim this way that the average donation was $25.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

So the middle east is buying Obambi’s way in to office so he can stop all the oil drilling and alternative fuel ideas. No way......that would just keep all the money going over seas. (s)

[proudtobeanamerican1]

Seems like a lot of work to claim the serfs are supporting you.

[Mr. Peabody]

It’s important to them. Remember when Bush had average donations of $25 and the dems refused to release that info. They became the party of the rich.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The law of diminishing returns should have set in. How can Obama raise $52 million in June when he's already the nominee? You'd think people would save their money now and wait until after the conventions and then donate in September or October.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Silvie, see Post #5 for the correct URL.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the link; post. Hooray Pam! BTTT!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Thanks, guy!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Sent to Grandy & Andy & Nehman; sent to Austin Hill; sent to Chris Plante and his producer Geoff.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I sent the article off to Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. I really do hope that they jump all over this because I’m sick and tired of hositle foreign governments subverting this country’s elections.

[dalereed]

“Soros-funded straw donors?”

Couldn’t be, must be monrey trees in their yards, they just pick it when it’s ripe.

[Grampa Dave]

. LOTS of foreign addresses. Here’s a sample:

“A red flag is a donor like Jeanne McCurdy. Look at the contribution excerpt below. It’s a compilation of a mere four pages of listings, pages 40-44, approximately 9% of the pages of the total document I received, and it lists contributions made by a Jeanne McCurdy, who is always listed as unemployed, and who does not have an address at least as can be found in the files provided (and, as you might well expect, no phone number or email address either).

John did a computation of her contributions from roughly Aug. 07 through Feb/Mar of 08, and it is over $1200. She ranges from a $15 to a $400 contribution, most running $25/35 to $50. Several of her separate contributions are listed on the same day, a very curious way to make campaign contributions, which are usually in response to mailed solicitations. (She should accumulate them, save on postage.)”

[BIGLOOK]

So all that's needed is a name; no address, phone or place of employment. I suppose lists of names could be compiled just about anywhere; welfare rolls, unemployment offices.....cemeteries. Just the sort of thing a Community Organizer could provide while on the job and turn over to a fat cat handler.

Jeanne McCurdy may well have a permanent address and is unemployed forever. At least her plot number ought to have been listed.

[Grampa Dave]

“So all that’s needed is a name; no address, phone or place of employment. I suppose lists of names could be compiled just about anywhere; welfare rolls, unemployment offices.....cemeteries. Just the sort of thing a Community Organizer could provide while on the job and turn over to a fat cat handler.”

The Chicago rats at the local ward levels have been doing this for about a century. Now they have computer power to make it even more efficient for raising money for Obama.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Update here:

Obama's Foreign Contributions: Who is Ronald Hickel?

[RipSawyer]

“Someone needs to forward this to Rush, Glenn, Shawn, and Mark Levin.”
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No need to worry, our fine investigative journalists at all the alphabet news agencies will be all over this likea duck on a junebug! They will expose any wrongdoing to the sunlight of truth, no candidate can get away with breaking our wonderful campaign finance laws, they could never look Dan Rather in the eye again if they let this kind of thing happen.
Oh, honey, can you roll me another one and this time go a little heavier on the Panama Red please? Oh, and I need another glass of Thunderbird and some lacquer thinner to sniff.