Has Foreign Money Bolstered Obama?

Has the Obama campaign made a regular practice of accepting illegal foreign campaign contributions, as the research of Kenneth Timmerman suggests?

Well, if one is to judge by an article published last month by the Italian columnist Maria Laura Rodotà, in certain European circles such solicitation would appear to be an open secret. Moreover, Rodotà’s account of being inundated by emails from the Obama campaign suggests that the campaign may not only have been accepting illegal foreign campaign contributions, but that it may have been soliciting them. Here is what Maria Laura Rodotà writes in her October 2 column in the major Italian daily Corriere della Sera [Italian link]:

Oh God. It’s my fault. And your fault. And also the fault of that friend of yours who gave her email to the Obama campaign. They have been writing us for a year, the Obama people — several times a day. They’ve sent us videos of Barack, they’ve responded to criticisms, they’ve laid down the party line, they’ve sold gadgets. They’ve invited us to interesting events like “Camp Obama” in California. … At the foot of each email, they’d ask for small contributions, even just five dollars — which won’t even get you breakfast here in downtown Milan. We never gave a cent. The cheapskates said, “You can’t do that,” they’d be foreign contributions; others sent donations from fake American addresses. Real or fake, live or online, you felt part of a community of like-minded persons, all normal and liberal.

Did the sun rise this morning? The most unqualified candidate that I have ever heard of or read of (fiction included) is running the most corrupt campaign in American history. What they are getting away with defies any sense I’ve ever had of right or wrong, or upholding the law. They seem to be exempt from both.

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FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "BARACK OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ALLIANCES" by Rachel Neuwirth (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO's press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel's coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour.") (October 24, 2008)

Elections.FOX NEWS.com: "LA TIMES REFUSES TO RELEASE TAPE OF OBAMA PRAISING CONTROVERSIAL ACTIVIST Video of farewell party for alleged PLO worker shows Obama toasting 'friend and dinner companion' with questionable past." (October 28, 2008)

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LA TIMES.com: Chicago - "ALLIES OF PALESTINIANS SEE A FRIEND IN BARACK OBAMA" by Peter Wallsten (April 10, 2008)

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE: "OBAMA'S FRIENDSHIP WITH KHALIDI" by Mona Charen (October 28, 2008, 12:00 am)

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "THE SAID-KHALIDI-OBAMA CONNECTION" by Ed Lasky (October 22, 2008)

stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org - Campus Watch Research: "COLUMBIA U. RELEASE EDWARD SAID CHAIR DONORS: NAMES ARAB GOVERNMENT" (March 19, 2004)

stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com): "SECRETS, DONORS AND THE EDWARD SAID CHAIR" by Jonathan Calt Harris (November 19, 2003)

stepping back in time...MARTIN KRAMER'S SANDBOX - blog: "RASHID REDUX" (Posted Janurary 29, 2003)

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One of the four tenets of our foreign policy is to spread what we are calling “the rule of law.” What does it say to the world that we are letting an election be illegally funded and will do nothing about it? Are we becoming more like the corrupt societies we claim to be helping to improve or are we spreading the rule of law?

If the Obamanators sent scads of email solicitations to email addresses with foreign country code suffixes then that would be an obvious form of solicitation to commit election fraud.... not to mention how they disabled the security protections on their website donation form, which opened the doors wide to all sorts of credit card fraud and election fraud.

Every country has a unique suffix on its email addresses, including ones for Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc.:

http://www.nsrc.org/codes/country-codes.html

You’d have to make a conscious effort not to exclude the obviously ineligible addresses, plus of course there should have been warnings at the donation link etc.

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