Posted on 08/12/2008 10:04:19 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
At a time when money from Washington lobbyists and special interests is polluting the political process more than ever, the question for campaigns isn’t just whether they can compete financially — it’s how they do it.Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, E-mail of June 12 2007
We should indeed look at “how they do it” because this E-mail itself may have been an illegal lottery. Furthermore, one of last year’s “Dinner with Barack” lotteries announced a winner before the entry deadline, which suggests that not all participants had an equal chance to win. Meanwhile, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs reports (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/in-digging-deep.html) that Obama’s campaign accepted illegal contributions from foreign sources. We finally have the matter of Obama’s deliberate and willful misuse of the United Church of Christ’s tax exempt resources to promote his candidacy. Yes, Mr. Plouffe, “how they do it” should indeed be foremost in voters’ minds this year.
...David Plouffe’s E-mail of June 12 2007 said,
If you make a donation in any amount by 11:59 pm EDT tomorrow, June 13, you could be one of four people chosen to dine with Barack....
Right, Dave, “how they do it” in Obama’s case consists of (1) payment of consideration (”If you make a donation in any amount”), (2) an element of chance (”you could be one of four people chosen”) and (3) a prize (”dine with Barack”)–that is, a lottery that was quite possibly illegal in most parts of the country, noting that this one did not offer a means of entering without making a donation. In addition, Barack Obama signed his own name to another such lottery solicitation, whose content suggests that it might even have been rigged.
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bfl
So is it really Obama that keeps sending me those emails from Uganda?
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