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Obama likely to escape campaign audit
Politico.com ^ | 11/11/08 | KENNETH P. VOGEL

Posted on 11/11/2008 9:29:50 AM PST by Species8472

The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.

Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.

Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant for his campaign that automatically triggers an audit and because the sheer volume of cash he raised and spent minimizes the significance of his errors. Another factor: The FEC, which would have to vote to launch an audit, is prone to deadlocking on issues that inordinately impact one party or the other – like approving a messy and high-profile probe of a sitting president.

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KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; audit; bho2008; campaignfinance; cash; corruption; election; fec; fundraising; govwatch; greed; obama; probe; trysearch
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OUTRAGEOUS!
1 posted on 11/11/2008 9:29:50 AM PST by Species8472
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To: Species8472

I am speechless.


2 posted on 11/11/2008 9:31:47 AM PST by Amityschild (Holding my dachshund closer today)
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To: Species8472

I tell ya ... nothing is going to surprise me anymore. It’s been ONE WEEK since Election Day and I’m so sick of Obama already.


3 posted on 11/11/2008 9:32:06 AM PST by txmissy
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To: Amityschild

Let me guess, because he’s B-L-A-C-K, and to question him would be R-A-C-I-S-T.


4 posted on 11/11/2008 9:32:33 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (Thanks to the robber barons in D.C. and on Wall St. I've been forced to become a minimalist.)
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To: Species8472

“Like the fella said, ain’t that a kick in the head!”- Dino

Unfair, is he not investigated for anything!


5 posted on 11/11/2008 9:32:35 AM PST by RGPII (There are no atheists in foxholes.)
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To: Species8472

Public financing is dead.


6 posted on 11/11/2008 9:33:00 AM PST by Genoa
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To: Species8472

If the tables were turned and McCain had been victorious with hundreds of millions in shady campaign money, the Democrats in congress, even if they were in the minority, would be screaming about “no one is above the law” and “culture of corruption.” And the media would be picking up every screaming voice and amplifying it from every orifice.

But because their favorite candidate won, it’s like “hey, that’s cool.”


7 posted on 11/11/2008 9:33:44 AM PST by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Amityschild

Obama is gonna love you. When he makes you penniless you won’t have anything to say.


8 posted on 11/11/2008 9:33:54 AM PST by hflynn ( The One is really The Number Two)
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To: Species8472

And yet, Palin’s campaign clothing budget was Breaking News ad infinitum.


9 posted on 11/11/2008 9:34:37 AM PST by fullchroma
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To: Species8472
"All your government computers are now belong to us!" - Obama bin Biden

Audit? I don't think so!

10 posted on 11/11/2008 9:35:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: Species8472

How’s that McCain-Feingold thing working out, John?


11 posted on 11/11/2008 9:35:04 AM PST by Obadiah (NOMR! - Not One More RINO!)
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To: Species8472
Snip - Obama’s campaign admitted it initially mis-categorized the purpose of an $832,598 payment for get-out-the-vote efforts to a consulting firm affiliated with ACORN, the community organizing group that became a top target for Republicans alleging voter fraud.

And FEC analysts over the course of the campaign have written more than a dozen letters to Obama singling out hundreds of contributors for whom the campaign either didn’t supply adequate information or from whom he accepted donations exceeding the $4,600 limit. -Snip

12 posted on 11/11/2008 9:35:06 AM PST by Species8472 (Obama - Not my president!)
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To: Species8472

Obama Admin will never EVER be investigated. IT will run the typical democrat shenanigans and the media will turn a blind eye or treat any scandal with kid gloves before letting it die on the vine.

as I have constantly typed, THE FIX IS IN.


13 posted on 11/11/2008 9:36:14 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: Wuli

ping for later


14 posted on 11/11/2008 9:36:16 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Amityschild

why are you speechless???

this is the EXACT type of thing that the GOP has let the rats get away with time after time after time....

they should be screaming from the top of Capital Hill about this 24/7- demanding an investigation...but they won’t...

just like they should have been screaming 24/7 to demand an investigation into jim johnson/harold raines/fannie mae...but they didn’t...

then they wonder why they get their clocks cleaned in elections...give me a break....


15 posted on 11/11/2008 9:36:25 AM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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"Obama is expected to escape that level of scrutiny mostly because he declined an $84 million public grant,,,"

Nice legal loophole, Barry. But you took public money anyway, we heard you begging for it, "just another $10, just another $5, etc).

If this corruptness is left to stand, we will never have another election in this country...elections will turn into "selections" by deception.
16 posted on 11/11/2008 9:36:31 AM PST by FrankR (Operation Tightbelt...let's see how the economy runs when Conservatives spend less...)
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To: Species8472
Heaven forbid we “embarrass” the Lord High Master Obama.
17 posted on 11/11/2008 9:36:36 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Species8472

McCain should never have taken the federal funds once Obama opted out. He and Sarah (mostly Sarah) were raising huge amounts in the last couple months.


18 posted on 11/11/2008 9:36:49 AM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Making a stand on 4 Nov 08 for America: 63% for McCain/Palin)
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To: Genoa
Public financing is dead.

Truer words were never spoken.

19 posted on 11/11/2008 9:37:10 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Species8472

Not surprised.

Libs are above the law - expect it to only get worse. :D


20 posted on 11/11/2008 9:37:16 AM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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