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Rumors Swirl: How Bad Will The Obama Foreign Donor Scandal Be?
Townhall.com ^ | October 7, 2012 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/07/2012 8:06:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

Since last week, the news sphere has been buzzing about the possibility of an Obama campaign foreign donor scandal being the big October surprise of 2012. Since the Washington Examiner first reported the story last week, many are asking how the Obama campaign will handle foreign donation allegations expected to go public Monday in a major magazine and national website story. The Obama campaign has already tried to block the story from publication and although the details of the scandal are still under wraps, we do know taxes and unsecured credit card transactions are about to cause a major headache for the Obama campaign.

Just yesterday, we received news the Obama campaign raised a whopping $181 million in September alone, pulling the question of foreign donations even closer to the surface and putting Obama closer than ever to reaching a $1 billion fundraising number.

 U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic Party have raised $181 million in September for his re-election effort - their highest monthly total yet of the 2012 presidential race.

The president's campaign said Saturday that the money represents donations from more than 1.8 million people.

Stay tuned.....the story could come as early as Sunday night, rather than Monday morning as originally planned.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; election2012; foreigndonations; obamacampaign; obamaforamerica
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1 posted on 10/07/2012 8:06:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

bttt


2 posted on 10/07/2012 8:09:06 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. EdmondBurke)
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To: Kaslin

Probably a lot donors with names of abdul,abdullah, muhammad, Al Kayda, Mose Lem Bro-hood.......


3 posted on 10/07/2012 8:10:03 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Kaslin

He’s a member of the Dictator’s club. Who knows how much wealth they’ve confiscated and can ‘spread around’.

And we’re supposed to be afraid of the companies that bring us the energy we need to function.


4 posted on 10/07/2012 8:11:06 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Kaslin

How bad will it be? It’ll be so bad that 99% of the nation’s voters will not have even heard of it on election day.


5 posted on 10/07/2012 8:11:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: dynachrome

yes and a guy named George


6 posted on 10/07/2012 8:11:51 AM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: dynachrome

yes and a guy named George


7 posted on 10/07/2012 8:12:01 AM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: Kaslin

Only 2% reportable....

The Ministry of Propaganda will be out in force to MOP it up.

Just like in 2008.


8 posted on 10/07/2012 8:12:09 AM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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To: Kaslin

Now you KNOW this commie SOB must be getting big bucks from the Russians and ChiComs, and the rest of the anti-America scum out there.


9 posted on 10/07/2012 8:12:51 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing to see here. Just move along.


10 posted on 10/07/2012 8:12:59 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: Spunky

bookmark


11 posted on 10/07/2012 8:15:21 AM PDT by Spunky (Those)
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To: Kaslin

Hey, at least I’m doing something about the trade deficit. - Barak Obama


12 posted on 10/07/2012 8:15:35 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Gay State Conservative

And that is the problem.
Libs will shrug it off with a so what and the rest won’t understand why this would undermine the elections.
Maybe most Americans are just that;too stupid!


13 posted on 10/07/2012 8:16:21 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: Kaslin

If a tree falls in the forest, but the media doesn’t cover it, did the tree really fall?


14 posted on 10/07/2012 8:16:36 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Kaslin

Here`s hoping


15 posted on 10/07/2012 8:16:48 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2012 OR BUST)
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To: Kaslin

Yep!

$181 million in September?!?!?

It isn’t just that they are foreign donations, it is that much of it originated from U. S. Citizens, who channeled their donations through foreign portals.


16 posted on 10/07/2012 8:17:24 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Kaslin

I look forward to reading the story, but not sure it matters much. I remember years ago when the Clinton campaign was receiving large sums of money from Chinese donors and nobody seemed to care. When Gore ran the same kind of donations surfaced and everybody yawned.


17 posted on 10/07/2012 8:18:06 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: TEXOKIE

181000000 x 98% = 177380000 / 250 = 709520

so 709,520 people donated $250 each to Zero in September.

Really?

I mean REALLY?

.


18 posted on 10/07/2012 8:20:17 AM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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To: Kaslin

If a Democrat scandal occurs in the middle of the New York Times’ lobby but no NYT reporter could remember how to write when it occurred, did it really happen?


19 posted on 10/07/2012 8:21:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: Kaslin

oh bullsh8 it’s all stimulus money in obama’s “war chest”


20 posted on 10/07/2012 8:22:05 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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