International Terrorists Endorse Obama and Contribute Funds to His Campaign…
October 1, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
Whoa, did the title catch you off guard? Well, it isn’t far from the truth. Seems our friend Barack Hussein Obama is not only getting endorsements but also raising tons of cash from foreign nationals who are based outside the borders of the United States, including Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi .
Kenneth Timmerman @ Newsmax has the following nuggets (it’s edited, so if you want to read the full article, click here):
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.
Federal law does not require the campaigns to identify donors who give less than $200 during the election cycle. However, it does require that campaigns calculate running totals for each donor and report them once they go beyond the $200 mark.
Surprisingly, the great majority of Obama donors never break the $200 threshold.
“Contributions that come under $200 aggregated per person are not listed,” said Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the FEC. “They don’t appear anywhere, so there’s no way of knowing who they are.”
The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign has identified a staggering $222.7 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less. Only $39.6 million of that amount comes from donors the Obama campaign has identified.
In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.
Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”
A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.
There can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed these contributions, since Obama’s Sept. 20 report specified that Good Will’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $9,375.
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.
But in some of them, he didn’t even go this far, apparently picking letters at random to fill in the blanks on the credit card donation form. In these cases, he said he was employed by “VCX” and that his profession was “VCVC.”
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.
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.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In July and August, the head of the Nigeria’s stock market held a series of pro-Obama fundraisers in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. The events attracted local Nigerian business owners.
At one event, a table for eight at one fundraising dinner went for $16,800. Nigerian press reports claimed sponsors raked in an estimated $900,000.
The sponsors said the fundraisers were held to help Nigerians attend the Democratic convention in Denver. But the Nigerian press expressed skepticism of that claim, and the Nigerian public anti-fraud commission is now investigating the matter.
In June, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gave a public speech praising Obama, claiming foreign nationals were donating to his campaign.
“All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man,” the Libyan leader said. “They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success,
and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency
…”
Though Gadhafi asserted that fundraising from Arab and African nations were “legitimate,” the fact is that U.S. federal law bans any foreigner from donating to a U.S. election campaign.
and
Geller first revealed on July 31 that donors from the Gaza strip had contributed $33,000 to the Obama campaign through bulk purchases of T-shirts they had shipped to Gaza.
The online campaign store allows buyers to complete their purchases by making an additional donation to the Obama campaign.
A pair of Palestinian brothers named Hosam and Monir Edwan contributed more than $31,300 to the Obama campaign in October and November 2007, FEC records show.
Their largesse attracted the attention of the FEC almost immediately. In an April 15, 2008, report that examined the Obama campaign’s year-end figures for 2007, the FEC asked that some of these contributions be reassigned.
The Obama camp complied sluggishly, prompting a more detailed admonishment form the FEC on July 30.
The Edwan brothers listed their address as “GA,” as in Georgia, although they entered “Gaza” or “Rafah Refugee camp” as their city of residence on most of the online contribution forms.
Great analysis from Andy McCarthy , and from Hotair.
Posted by PUMA Pundit
From ABC news. More shocking behavior from people afraid to be pegged as racist for speaking out against Obama.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5927324&page=1
This was not racially motivated. The sign says it all. “Act 6 Reject”. A program that promotes racial diversity and community leadership Obama wouldn’t qualify for. How is that racist? The students should be expelled? I think not. They did nothing wrong. Freedom of speech. I don’t even get the lynching metaphor. Lots of criminals were hanged/lynched: black, white, purple, green: It didn’t matter. Obama accepts money from non-citizens, Obama tries to advise foreign powers in their dealings with the US. Those acts are illegal, they are crimes. If no one else will act on these blatant infractions, it’s up to the people. That’s why the Second Amendment is there. When the government gets too corrupt, it is time for the people to act. It’s past time.
“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
~Thomas Jefferson
After reading this exposee on Obozo and his foreign suitors I have decided to take up a collection for the Obozo..
….who will join me and chip in for a bag of cement?
Go Sarah 2008!!!
McCain and Palin need to call a press conference immediately.
This election is being rigged by the enemies of the USA.
WasHRCnowPalin,
I’ll chip in!!
Not only does this guy keep taking illegal campaign contributions, he always seems to only return half. (Think Rezko) What an ego, he really believes his candidacy is SO important he doesn’t have to play by the rules. I guess this is more “change you can believe in”.
I’m in!
In the article linked, what the kids did was stupid and reflected badly on the school as well as some others. The school has no choice but to discipline them. My problem, though, is with the FBI investigating them for “Civil Rights Violations” and hate crimes. That is outrageous.
The campaign contribution article is very interesting. I just think that so many people simply do not care that I find it disheartening. A few years ago in Denver there was a mayor who was known to be corrupt. Nobody question it. It was reported by both newspapers and I don’t even think the mayor denied it. He was reelected anyway. Nobody cared about his corruption. I have a hard time understanding that enough to argue with people who support such things.
This should interest you…Part 1 is included, too…
By request….Part 2 of Grail Guardian’s primer on Barack Obama’s associates is UP….greatly expanded list for reference now!!!
Part 2–The Lineup: A Who’s Who of The Associates of Barack Obama
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/part-2-the-lineup-a-whos-who-of-the-associates-of-barack-obama/
I urge everyone to go to campaignmoney.com and notice how many of Obama’s donors in your area are contributing in funny ways; Like using different variations on their names or that same name at different addresses or even same name same address different town; report it.
badlybehaved - check out the below link - you so called it! This is hair raising!
http://purplepeoplevote.com/2008/10/02/reports-of-obama-fundraising-fraud/
The GOP finally filed a complaint against the Obama Team - and so it begins\…
Badlybehaved - this one is for you!
A lawyer for the Republican National Committee today said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.
The RNC is alleging that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it “looked the other way” as contributions piled up from suspicious, and possibly even illegal foreign donors.
“We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election,” said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross.
Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as “Good Will” and “Doodad Pro.”
The Newsweek report says that earlier this year the Obama campaign returned $33,000 to two Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip who had bought T-shirts in bulk from the campaign’s online store — purchases that count as campaign contributions. The brothers had listed their address as “Ga.,” which the campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza.
“While no organization is completely protected from Internet fraud, we will continue to review our fundraising procedures,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told the magazine.
At the heart of the RNC complaint is a federal fundraising rule that lets campaigns accept donations under $200 without itemizing the names and addresses of the donors on its campaign finance reports. The rule was intended as a matter of practicality — it did not seem reasonable to ask a campaign to gather that information from every five-dollar donor.
But the Obama campaign has raised more than $200 million this way, a staggering sum for donations that will not be subjected to outside scrutiny.
Obama campaign aides said today that a number of steps have been taken to safeguard against foreign or illegal contributions coming in in smaller increments. The measures include: requiring donors to present a passport at fundraising events held for Americans overseas, ending contributions to the Obama Store from contributors with addresses outside the U.S. or its territories, and requiring donors to enter a U.S. passport number when contributing via the Americans Abroad page.
Palin took alot of heat in the msm today for talking about Obama’s connection to Ayers. She needs to get more specific about the connection, because that’s the only way the MSM is going to print any of the facts, is by quoting her. They’re certainly not going to do it as part of their investigative “journalism”.