Secret Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign

Pressing-On · #1 09-30-2008, 03:47 PM

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Why does this NOT surprise me?

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Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign

Under campaign finance laws, an individual can donate $2,300 to a candidate for federal office in both the primary and general election, for a total of $4,600. If a donor has topped the limit in the primary, the campaign can "redesignate" the contribution to the general election on its books.

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.

Foreign Donations

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.

More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.

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.

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/Oba...29/135718.html

All4one · #2 09-30-2008, 03:54 PM

Do these people from other countries expect favours in return for their donations? Or are they just trying to help out a brother?

Pressing-On · #3 09-30-2008, 04:03 PM

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Do these people from other countries expect favours in return for their donations? Or are they just trying to help out a brother?

The point of this election. Yes, they want him in office. The Nation of Islam wants him in.

tamor · #4 09-30-2008, 04:03 PM

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The point of this election. Yes, they want him in office. The Nation of Islam wants him in.

Yes they do.

Pressing-On · #5 09-30-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tamor

Yes they do.

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Unlike the McCain campaign, which has made its complete donor database available online, the Obama campaign has not identified donors for nearly half the amount he has raised, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).