Posted on 10/01/2008 2:43:14 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose.
And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.
Obama has raised nearly twice that of John McCain's campaign, according to new campaign finance report
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And then there are the overseas donations — at least, the ones that we know about.
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.
More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France......
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Is this the same FEC that oversaw Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? YEP, that’ll be worth holding my breath for!
This is one campaign finance law I would like to see enacted - NO FOREIGN MONEY. PERIOD. MANDATORY LIFE IN PRISON FOR THOSE VIOLATING.
FEC looks at federal campaign money, not mortgage lenders.
SEC
More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran.
This speaks volumes. And as Barack Hussein often says we are our brothers keepers. Maybe the Iranians consider themselves his brothers. He could also learn from the Iranians and send his brother in the hut twelve dollars.
The most sure-fire way to eliminate fraud in campaign donations is to require a social security number to be attached to all donations to politicians and require that the complete list of donations be made available to the public online at least 60 days prior to the election. Then, if a donation is made fraudulently it can be caught and the fraudulent donor punished (if they can be found). If someone uses my social sucurity number to donate to a candidate I oppose, I can also petition to have those funds “returned” to me or redirected to another candidate. Make campaign bundling a felony punishable by a minimum of 5 years in prison.
And John McCain came to rescue with the CFR diversion.
Ironic.
THIS needs to become a major attack point in the McCain Palin campaign ! I hope Gov. Palin brings it into focus ,loud and clear, tomorrow night .
We need to go on OFFENSE here , right away .
Everyone should be demanding full disclosure and accountability on this matter of foreign funds
IMMEDIATELY!
Make those keyboards smoke folks!
It’s just contributions from those other 7 states, folks, nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here...
Some secret.Does everybody think these moonbat supporters are really sending in this kind of money when the economy is supposedly in such bad shape? Bet they dont do a damn thing about it.Obama seems to be in.Costa Rica here we come.
Overseas money to be sure.Unreal.
BTTT...........
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