WaPo, Crediting Conservative Blogs, Hits Obama (A Little) On Fraudulent Fundraising
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A great example of conservative bloggers shouting the truth until somebody hears. Our post,
Bombshell: Obama Neck Deep in Breaking Campaign Finance Scandal, went up on October 1, pulling from a Newsmax piece. I am sure somebody had it even earlier.
The Post gives righty bloggers the hat tip.
Concerns about anonymous donations seeping into the campaign began to surface last month, mainly on conservative blogs. Some bloggers described their own attempts to display the flaws in Obama’s fundraising program, donating under such obviously phony names as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and reported that the credit card transactions were permitted.
There is still a huge “don’t look over here” by the Post trying to protect The One. They use the tried and true, “Both parties do it, so we need a bipartisan approach to fix it,” which is a crock, in light of the fact that McCain’s campaign (and Hillary’s, for that matter) caught essentially all of the phony stuff with the existing credit card fraud prevention programs.
And while they rough up Obama a bit, there is no discussion of the fact that the Obama campaign had to deliberately disable all of the fraud protection in order to accept a these phony donations.
While the potentially fraudulent or excessive contributions represent about 1 percent of Obama’s staggering haul, the security challenge is one of several major campaign-finance-related questions raised by the Democrat’s fundraising juggernaut. . . .
Obama officials said it should be obvious that it is as much in their campaign’s interest as it is in the public’s interest for fake contributions to be turned back [biggest lie ever], and said they have taken pains to establish a barrier to prevent them. Over the course of the campaign, they said, a number of additional safeguards have been added to bulk up the security of their system.
In a paper outlining those safeguards, provided to The Washington Post, the campaign said it runs twice-daily sweeps of new donations, looking for irregularities. Flagged contributions are manually reviewed by a team of lawyers, then cleared or refunded. Reports of misused credit cards lead to immediate refunds.
If Obama has raised more than $600 million so far, then 1% (and when you add in all of the illegal
foreign contributions, the tainted amout is much higher than that), is $6 million. Well, McCain only had $86 million in matching funds for the general election, so Obama fraud money is 7% of McCain’s total.
The thugs in the Obama camp know that campaign finance irregularities are never investigated until after the election is over. The message to Chicago politicians is crystal clear: Cheat and lie as much as you can, raise as much money from any source to win the thing, and we will have it “investigated” once our guy is the President.
http://patriotroom.com/?p=3379