Readers don't buy 'explanation' of donations GAZA $33,000 ILLEGAL TO OBAMA

World Net Daily ^ | August 8, 2008 | World Net Daily

[Amityschild]

A Wall Street Journal report brushed off concerns about contributions of more than $30,000 to Sen. Barack Obama campaign from three brothers in Gaza, but the newspaper's readers weren't swallowing the explanation.

[Norman Bates]

Interesting. Not going to ask you to do my homework for me but do you happen to know how many of McCain’s contributions are in odd dollar/cents amounts?

[Lady Jag]

I haven’t yet found the article but online there is some detailed history of Iran’s renaming. The whole Germany/Iran relationship was pretty brutal on their enemies.

[Amityschild]

I checked. None. I was stunned.

[Norman Bates]

Then, discounting differences in reporting, the chances of statistically that being a coincidence is zero. Incredible.

[Kaslin]

Did anyone read about the fundraiser that George Clooney is holding for the jug ears on September 2nd in Geneva, Switzerland.

Something stinks and it's not Swiss cheese

[Norman Bates]

Read about it, yeah. I’m not so much worried about that (though I despise Clooney). It’s the small overseas internet donations that cause the most concern. They come in under the radar. Obama is getting bankrolled by the arabs. An event like the Swiss one will bring scrutiny with it. (Or perhaps one would hope.)

[Kaslin]

My point is that it’s still illegal for foreigners to donate to our Presidential campaign. I would be upset too if the donations were made for McCain or any Republican candidate

[Amityschild]

Donations to McCain appear as you'd expect campaign contributions to appear. Increments of $25, $50, $100, $250 up to the limits of $2,300 & $4,600 for both primary & general election cycle. There are some $9,200 which are not OVER the limit but represent $4,600 for two spouses.

There are some odd $. Just NO and I mean NO cents transactions.

[Amityschild]

See post #25. Foreign currency conversions don't explain it. All the entries in the spreadsheet at this post are domestic.

It has to be something else.

[Norman Bates]

I would be upset no matter which party. But I think this Swiss fundraiser is for Americans living abroad. I could be wrong.

[Norman Bates]

Duly noted. Thank you for the information and for doing your homework. Your work reflects great credit upon yourself.

[Kaslin]

How many Americans are living in Switzerland?

[Amityschild]

I was never before aware how lax the reporting requirements are for campaign contribtions.

Obviously, the public is kept in the dark about the majority of campagin funding activity by the candidates.

I didn't see any red flags in the McCain file, otherwise I would have looked deeper.

The candidates do not report the bundling activity publicly. At least that has been what I have found. I wanted to review McCain's activity after the WaPo article last week, but what I found are requests for the donors to publish it, but they are not required to.

If anyone knows where to find the data, I'd love to know where it is!

[Norman Bates]

Who knows? Maybe a few hundred or a couple thousand at most.

[freema]

Passing this along in case anyone is interested. Thank you, Calpernia-

[SC Swamp Fox]

All the entries in the spreadsheet at this post are domestic.

How do you know they are domestic? Does the donor get to fill in the donation web-form?

[SC Swamp Fox]

Check out this detail on that donor

Something really weird is going on.

[stylin19a]

check this out

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059406/posts

400k in obama foreign donations