Obama’s Ill-Gotten Campaign Cash

Very troubling.

a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine . . . 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.

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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.

That’s $200 million that Obama has raised that we don’t know where it came from.

And those “handful of instances” of “repeated small donations” by ”Good Will” and “Doodad Pro”?  Well, those added up to several thousand dollars above the legal individual limit as well.

more than $11,000 in increments of $10 and $25

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Other news accounts suggest that roughly 11,500 donors who gave a total of $34 million to the campaign may be citizens of foreign countries, who are not allowed to contribute to U.S. elections, the RNC said.

What you are witnessing is the attempt by foreign individuals to impact our election. This is far worse that Algore’s accepting money from Bhuddist monks.

UPDATE:  There’s even more to this story now.