Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign

NewsMax ^ | 9-30-08 | Ken Timmerman

[GeeMoney]

Monday, September 29, 2008 9:23 PM

More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose.

And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.

Obama has raised nearly twice that of John McCain's campaign, according to new campaign finance report.

But because of Obama’s high expenses during the hotly contested Democratic primary season and an early decision to forgo public campaign money and the spending limits it imposes, all that cash has not translated into a financial advantage — at least, not yet.

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee began September with $95 million in cash, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

The McCain camp and the Republican National Committee had $94 million, because of an influx of $84 million in public money.

[GeeMoney]

I want to tar and feather this traitor.

[wk4bush2004]

Accepting foreign donations???? What a traitor!!! We can’t let this madman be elected!!

[television is just wrong]

More reasons for Americans NOT to vote for this traitor.

[mlocher]

Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign

Which is exactly why the $700B mortgage bailout will contain provisions to give money to foreign banks.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Don’t expect any investigations. He’s “the black guy.” He’s untouchable. This isn’t America anymore.

[Cobra64]

"And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate."

Ummm... aren't there laws concerning this? If so, who are the enforcers?

[Wuli]

At $4XX million, a lot of “political experts” are becoming very wealthy on their contracts on and for the Obama campaign.

You can take the man out of Chicago but you can’t take the machine out of the man.

One could even wonder if Obama is already funding his retirement from his campaign money. Just do like Clinton; create a non-profit foundation, “donate” everything to it and then go to work for it.

[ncfool]

Like the Edwan Brothers from Rafah,GA. Now that is not Georgia. This was exposed during the summer but nobody seems to care.





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[tcrlaf]

“Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign” has been flowing into Democrat coffers, and used for CAMPAIGNS for several years now.

Non-US Nationals cannot contribute to a Candidate DIRECTLY, but they can do it through “527’s” and Democrat “non-Profit Issues Groups” like ACT BLUE, MoveOn.Org, Center For American Progress, etc,etc, adn...

This is a HUGE, HUGE part of Democrat financing now, a MASSIVE loophole in the laws, and has been UTTERLY IGNORED by the MSM for years...

[Lurker]

If so, who are the enforcers?

"There is no controlling legal authority..." Vice President Al Gore.

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[Beowulf9]

No wonder he took a trip overseas, and no wonder Europe prefers him.

He’s their puppet.

[JSteff]

“And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.”

He really took a bunch of pages out of the clinton operating manual. He kept acorn, uses the tiangulated smear tactics, and now the unvetted foreign contributions.

Bill although he hates Barack must be real proud of him. Chip off the first black presidents block.

[El Gato]

n a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.

Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”

A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.

In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
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Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.

Obviously they weren't trying very hard to actually hide anything, just enough to provide plausible denial. Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth, not to mention the Congressional Hearings and calls for a special prosecutor, if a nasty evil Republican had this in her campaign finance closet?

Waiiill,Waiiill,Waiiill,Waiiill. Gnash, Gnash, Gnash, Gnash.

I call for a special prosecutor to investigate Senator Barak Hussein Obama's campaign finances, with full prosecution under the law, regardless of whether promises are made to return the money or not.

This is unconscionable. The One makes Her Thighness look like a straight arrow.

[ncfool]

I guess that

“Obama been lying.”

[caseinpoint]

I remember a story about this a few months back where it was noted that many contributions, like those of the Edwan Brothers from “Georgia” were in odd amounts, like $349.11 or somesuch. The speculation is that the odd amounts were the result of foreign currence exchange rates. If the story of this campaign is written, by someone other than Ms. Ifill, it will be interesting to see the real source of these funds. The Obama Campaign probably figures it is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission, that all this can be settled after the election and the damage done.

[FlyingEagle]

Shocked - you mean GA is GAZA!!!

[BreezyDog]

But didn’t McCain have something to do with this!;-)

[PhatHead]

bttt