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In Switzerland, George Clooney raises $625K for Barack Obama
Chicago Sun Times/AP ^ | 27 August 2012

Posted on 08/27/2012 6:20:33 PM PDT by Lorianne

George Clooney headlined a fund-raiser Monday that took in more than a half-million dollars for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Organizers said they took in at least $625,000 from U.S. donors for Obama’s campaign, including many who flew in to Geneva, Switzerland, from around the world for the one-night event.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201208; 20120827; bundler; bundlers; clooney; donors; fundraiser; fundraising; geneva; genevacell; georgeclooney; lakecomo; lugano; luganocell; obama; obamacampaign; ssp; swissbanks; swissfundraiser; switzerland; taxhaven
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To: Lorianne; Cindy

.....The ICC documents obtained by TIME show a significant portion of this new investigation is based on data from the Satellite Sentinel Project, a network of private spy satellites and analysts organized by George Clooney in partnership with John Prendergast’s Enough Project. The satellites have been snapping pictures of northern Sudan since December of last year. “We are the antigenocide paparazzi,” Clooney told TIME then. -———George Clooney’s Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal(???) , Time ^ | Saturday, Dec. 03, 2011 | MARK BENJAMIN, Sunday, December 04, 2011 5:45:25 PM · by GQuagmire


21 posted on 08/27/2012 8:27:01 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Lorianne
more servings of crap sandwich from the corrupt dems. I used to like ol Clooney, you'd have to pay me to go see one of movies now.
22 posted on 08/27/2012 8:45:48 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: piasa

Remember, in 2008, almost all of McCain’s donations were nice and round, while Obama’s ended in really odd, almost random cents? Almost like it was donated through currency exchange?


23 posted on 08/27/2012 8:47:48 PM PDT by Cruising For Freedom
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If we told the Swiss they could keep the money if they also kept clooney would it be enough?


24 posted on 08/28/2012 12:05:40 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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