Thursday, October 23, 2008
Obama's First Broken Campaign Promise
It is not unusual for politicians to break their campaign promises but they generally wait until after the election. Barack Obama broke his promise to accept public funding for his Presidential campaign before the election. This promise, made during the primaries was put in writing which should mean it is a promise the candidate intended to keep. Obama's excuse for changing his mind is that the public funding system "is broken". There has been no change to the rules of public funding since Obama's made the promise. I would say that he reneged but that would leave me open to accusations of "racisim".
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Democrats Love Legal Loopholes!
American citizens are allowed to contribute a maximum of $2,300 to a candidate for the Primary and again for the general election. This limits an individuals legal donation to a candidate to $4,600 a law with which I disagree. However, when one candidate is following the law and another is side stepping it something should be done.
The law, stupidly, does not require a candidate to identify a donor who gives less than $200. Consequently, dishonest Obama supporters are flooding the donation web site with multiple small donations given under false names. These contributors could be identified easily by the Obama campaign (the McCain campaign identifies all of it's donors) but to do so would make the fraud obvious. A donor listing himself as "Will Good" made 1,000 donations for a total of $17,375. Even after a number of the donations were returned the amount contributed of $8,950 is well above the legal amount one person may contribute. Since Mr. Will Good listed his employer as "Loving" and his job as "You" it is possible he isn't who he says he is.
Another contributor, Doodad Pro gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations. Remarkably he had the same employer and job as Will Good (Loving & You). In addition to these questionable practices the Obama campaign has been running a "Matching Donation Drive" Here is how that works, If you donate say $100 some rich Obama supporter who has already met or exceeded their donation limit will donate an additional amount in your name. That way they are exceeding the legal amount they may donate but it is no longer illegal since the excessive amount is said to have come from you.
Barry Obama learned well in the Chicago School of dishonest politics. This shocking fund raising situation has been known since late September but it is yet another "story" in which the main stream media has no interest.
The law, stupidly, does not require a candidate to identify a donor who gives less than $200. Consequently, dishonest Obama supporters are flooding the donation web site with multiple small donations given under false names. These contributors could be identified easily by the Obama campaign (the McCain campaign identifies all of it's donors) but to do so would make the fraud obvious. A donor listing himself as "Will Good" made 1,000 donations for a total of $17,375. Even after a number of the donations were returned the amount contributed of $8,950 is well above the legal amount one person may contribute. Since Mr. Will Good listed his employer as "Loving" and his job as "You" it is possible he isn't who he says he is.
Another contributor, Doodad Pro gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations. Remarkably he had the same employer and job as Will Good (Loving & You). In addition to these questionable practices the Obama campaign has been running a "Matching Donation Drive" Here is how that works, If you donate say $100 some rich Obama supporter who has already met or exceeded their donation limit will donate an additional amount in your name. That way they are exceeding the legal amount they may donate but it is no longer illegal since the excessive amount is said to have come from you.
Barry Obama learned well in the Chicago School of dishonest politics. This shocking fund raising situation has been known since late September but it is yet another "story" in which the main stream media has no interest.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Illegal Foreign Donations AGAIN?
How do the Democrat presidential candidates always attract foreign donations and get away with accepting most of them? Bill Clinton sold technology to the Chinese which may well come back to bite us on the butt one day. Why would he do such a thing? To generate illegal foreign contributions, oh and contributions from the corporations who would profit from their new Chinese customers.
Barack Obama has used a legal loophole in the campaign finance rules to accept millions from foreign supporters. Using the Internet foreign citizens can make multiple small donations which are illegal and add up to millions. Since the Internet is an excellent tool for tracking information it is well within the ability for the Obama campaign to identify these donors and refuse the illegal contributions. However, if they did that they wouldn't hove those millions to use out-spending McCain 4 to 1 in the battleground states. The Federal Election Commission has identified 11,500 foreign donors who gave a total of $33.8 million to the Obama campaign.
The Hillary Clinton campaign required out of the country donors to fax their proof of citizenship prior to accepting donations. Did you ever expect to see the day when the Democrat Presidential candidates fund raising policies would be less scrupulous than those of a Clinton campaign? Over 1,400 of the foreign donations were from American service people and diplomats who contributed a little over $200,000. That leaves 33.6 million from unknown and undoubtedly foreign donors. Over 500 listed their "state" as "IR" which probably means Iran. Other contributions came from Iraq, France the middle east, Beijing and Italy. Dividing the number of donors by the dollar amount reflects an average donation of nearly $3,000.
Donations to American political campaigns from foreigners are illegal. The Obama has taken some too little too late steps to discontinue accepting foreign donations but has not addressed the vast sums already received. As John Fund of the Wall Street Journal recently said "Oh, there will be an investigation, after the election and someone will probably have to pay a fine." By then the damage will have been done and America will be the one to pay the price.
Barack Obama has used a legal loophole in the campaign finance rules to accept millions from foreign supporters. Using the Internet foreign citizens can make multiple small donations which are illegal and add up to millions. Since the Internet is an excellent tool for tracking information it is well within the ability for the Obama campaign to identify these donors and refuse the illegal contributions. However, if they did that they wouldn't hove those millions to use out-spending McCain 4 to 1 in the battleground states. The Federal Election Commission has identified 11,500 foreign donors who gave a total of $33.8 million to the Obama campaign.
The Hillary Clinton campaign required out of the country donors to fax their proof of citizenship prior to accepting donations. Did you ever expect to see the day when the Democrat Presidential candidates fund raising policies would be less scrupulous than those of a Clinton campaign? Over 1,400 of the foreign donations were from American service people and diplomats who contributed a little over $200,000. That leaves 33.6 million from unknown and undoubtedly foreign donors. Over 500 listed their "state" as "IR" which probably means Iran. Other contributions came from Iraq, France the middle east, Beijing and Italy. Dividing the number of donors by the dollar amount reflects an average donation of nearly $3,000.
Donations to American political campaigns from foreigners are illegal. The Obama has taken some too little too late steps to discontinue accepting foreign donations but has not addressed the vast sums already received. As John Fund of the Wall Street Journal recently said "Oh, there will be an investigation, after the election and someone will probably have to pay a fine." By then the damage will have been done and America will be the one to pay the price.
Friday, October 03, 2008
From the Tiny A.C.O.R.N. a Mighty Scandal Grows
Yet another Obama connection that is of not interest to the MSM (Main Stream Media) is A.C.O.R.N. This is a group with fingers in many pies and a hand in the taxpayers pocket.
One of the things A.C.O.R.N. does is register new voters, generally Democrat voters. The organization claims to be non-partisan but they do have a PAC (political action committee) which has endorsed Obama. Several A.C.O.R.N. employees have been convicted of voter fraud. In Washington state 1800 voters were registered but only 6 of them were legitimate. In Ohio employees of A.C.O.R.N. admitted to making up names of registrants, using names like Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. Statistically speaking 15 to 30 percent of the voters registered by A.C.O.R.N. are felons, do not reside in the state in which they are being registered or are dead. I suppose a few might have died after being registered by A.C.O.R.N. but that would be a small percentage.
Barack Obama was the attorney for A.C.O.R.N. for several years and involved with one of their groups in Chicago. They're motto was "It's a power thing". As an attorney for A.C.O.R.N. Obama sued banks to force them to make sub-prime loans to low income borrowers. A.C.O.R.N. is one of the organizations pushing the lending policies that resulted in the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
All of Obama's associations are with groups promoting the same old liberal ideas that sound good but eventually blow up in our face. Heaven help us if he becomes President with Democrats still in control of both houses. The troika of Obama, Reid & Pelosi would be disastrous for our country.
One of the things A.C.O.R.N. does is register new voters, generally Democrat voters. The organization claims to be non-partisan but they do have a PAC (political action committee) which has endorsed Obama. Several A.C.O.R.N. employees have been convicted of voter fraud. In Washington state 1800 voters were registered but only 6 of them were legitimate. In Ohio employees of A.C.O.R.N. admitted to making up names of registrants, using names like Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. Statistically speaking 15 to 30 percent of the voters registered by A.C.O.R.N. are felons, do not reside in the state in which they are being registered or are dead. I suppose a few might have died after being registered by A.C.O.R.N. but that would be a small percentage.
Barack Obama was the attorney for A.C.O.R.N. for several years and involved with one of their groups in Chicago. They're motto was "It's a power thing". As an attorney for A.C.O.R.N. Obama sued banks to force them to make sub-prime loans to low income borrowers. A.C.O.R.N. is one of the organizations pushing the lending policies that resulted in the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
All of Obama's associations are with groups promoting the same old liberal ideas that sound good but eventually blow up in our face. Heaven help us if he becomes President with Democrats still in control of both houses. The troika of Obama, Reid & Pelosi would be disastrous for our country.
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