Barrack Hussein Obama

[92bDad]

Some interesting links with references and other stories pertaining to Barrack Hussein Obama.

http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/02...ng-parrot.html

Enjoy the rants...


Exactly what has Barrack Hussein Obama done to merit such a lofty place in our American Political System?

What exactly qualifies him to be President? What has he done?

[Usually Lurkin]

collect money

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...RjYTg1ZGU0MWM=
Obama's Funny Money, or Who's "Loving" "You," Barry? [Andy McCarthy]

Mr. "Good Will," apparently.

My pal Diana West points me to Ken Timmerman's must-read Newsmax column — which naturally is getting no coverage in the MSM — about Sen. Obama's eye-popping fundraising operation. Bottom line: the would-be President of the World is raising goo-gobs of money from foreigners outside the United States (a violation of federal law), and matching goo-gobs of money inside the United States from phantoms who are blowing out the individual contribution limits by, among other devices, making up identies and breaking up contributions in amounts less than $200, for which reporting requirements are less rigorous.

According to Ken, the Obama campaign has raised nearly half a billion dollars ($429.6M) but refuses to provide the names of most of the donors. Election law requires the campaign to track this information but not for it to disclose the names of those who donate less than $200, which is most Obama donors. (Sen. McCain discloses the names of all donors.) The Obama campaign has raised millions upon millions of dollars from outside the United States. Only Americans living overseas may lawfully contribute, but because the Obama vetting machinery is negligent (or worse), the probability is that enormous sums are coming from foreigners. The campaign knows the FEC is a lethargic agency and won't have a full accounting until perhaps years after the election.

This typifies the domestic fundraising issue:

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.

In an e-mailed response to a query from Newsmax, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt pledged that the campaign would return the donations. But given the slowness with which the campaign has responded to earlier FEC queries, there’s no guarantee that the money will be returned before the Nov. 4 election.

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.”

Following FEC requests, the Obama campaign began refunding money to Doodad Pro in February 2008. In all, about $8,425 was charged back to a credit card. But that still left a net total of $11,165 as of Sept. 20, way over the individual limit of $4,600. Here again, LaBolt pledged that the contributions would be returned but gave no date.

In February, after just 93 donations, Doodad Pro had already gone over the $2,300 limit for the primary. He was over the $4,600 limit for the general election one month later. In response to FEC complaints, the Obama campaign began refunding money to Doodad Pro even before he reached these limits. But his credit card was the gift that kept on giving. His most recent un-refunded contributions were on July 7, when he made 14 separate donations, apparently by credit card, of $25 each.

Just as with Mr. Good Will, there can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed the contributions, since its Sept. 20 report specified that Doodad’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $10,965.

Bear in mind that we only know about Messrs. "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro" because someone detected that they went over $200 in aggregate contributions. If more clever Obama supporters have given thousands of dollars to Obama by structuring it in a variety of different phony names and amounts under $200, we might not learn about that for years ... if ever.

And then there is the foreign money. A sampling from Ken — though all of it should be read (italics are mine):

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.

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. Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently....
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..."

[O]n 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.... 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.... The latest Obama campaign filing shows that $891.11 still has not been refunded to the Edwan brothers, despite repeated FEC warnings and campaign claims that all the money was refunded in December.

A Newsmax review of the Obama campaign finance filings found that the FEC had asked for the redesignation or refund of 53,828 donations, totaling just under $30 million.

But none involves the donors who never appear in the Obama campaign reports, which the [Center for Responsive Politics] estimates at nearly half the $426.8 million the Obama campaign has raised to date.

[Mavdog]

this seems contradictory, the article says "According to Ken, the Obama campaign has raised nearly half a billion dollars ($429.6M) but refuses to provide the names of most of the donors", but then the article proceeds to name donors such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro". apparently the obama campaign has provided names of donors, right?

it seems to me that this is a problem resulting from the use of the internet to receive campaign contributions. it is difficult to acheive very much oversight when the $ are taken electronically, and there needs to be some way established to accomplish this function. don't have an answer but there clearly is a need.

[rabbitproof]

Dallas-mavs.com: Where one "What is Barrack Obama's middle name?" thread is not enough

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by Mavdog

this seems contradictory, the article says "According to Ken, the Obama campaign has raised nearly half a billion dollars ($429.6M) but refuses to provide the names of most of the donors", but then the article proceeds to name donors such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro". apparently the obama campaign has provided names of donors, right?

it seems to me that this is a problem resulting from the use of the internet to receive campaign contributions. it is difficult to acheive very much oversight when the $ are taken electronically, and there needs to be some way established to accomplish this function. don't have an answer but there clearly is a need.

wow. if your gap-toothed Obama-love comb comes up with that, it should be devestating. It really is a shame that the big media voices use the same comb you do. We're setting ourselves up for a big fall.

[Mavdog]

Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin

wow. if your gap-toothed Obama-love comb comes up with that, it should be devestating. It really is a shame that the big media voices use the same comb you do. We're setting ourselves up for a big fall.

now that's what I call speaking directly to the points raised

if your obsession filled thoughts ever grasp reality, let us know. as it stands there is evidence that a deep seated psychosis has taken control.

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by Mavdog

now that's what I call speaking directly to the points raised

if your obsession filled thoughts ever grasp reality, let us know. as it stands there is evidence that a deep seated psychosis has taken control.

are you talking to me, or are you referring to this post:
http://www.dallas-mavs.com/vb/showpo...90&postcount=3

which seems to confuse the word "most" with the meaning for "all," and ignores how an author describes differences in how candidates treat online contributions in order to accuse the candidate of singling out an individual among a general problem. Now, if that author were to turn around and just a few posts later, accuse someone else of not directly addressing some point, and obsessively failing to grasp reality, then the term "psychosis" might fit.

[Mavdog]

yes, your psychosis with attacking all things obama somehow allowed you to miss the fact that there was no "gap toothed love comb" in my post, not one single effort to explain away the accusation that there are apparently efforts to game the system by making multiple $25 donations to the obama campaign but rather an acceptance there have been violations of our nation's election regs, or the last part of my post where I raised the question of how this type of illegal activity will be addressed going forward so there is no reoccurence in the future as more and more campaign fundraising will be done via the net.

no, you just regurgitate some comment about "gap toothed love comb" and "big media" drooling over obama showing you didn't even grasp the points of the post.

so yeah that pretty much indicates an obsession on your part.

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by Mavdog

yes, your psychosis with attacking all things obama somehow allowed you to miss the fact that there was no "gap toothed love comb" in my post, not one single effort to explain away the accusation that there are apparently efforts to game the system by making multiple $25 donations to the obama campaign but rather an acceptance there have been violations of our nation's election regs, or the last part of my post where I raised the question of how this type of illegal activity will be addressed going forward so there is no reoccurence in the future as more and more campaign fundraising will be done via the net.

no, you just regurgitate some comment about "gap toothed love comb" and "big media" drooling over obama showing you didn't even grasp the points of the post.

so yeah that pretty much indicates an obsession on your part.

the simple answer is that Obama could easily return the money.
but a better question is, why are you raving?

[Mavdog]

read the article. they have returned money, and they pledged to return all the questionable money.

maybe a look at opensecrets.org info on contributions would be a bit enlightening.

here's john mccain's page, notice the info on disclosure. apparently the article is wrong, there is NOT total disclosure of mccain's contributors.

here's obama's page, which shows a greater level of contributor's disclosure than the mccain campaign.

very interesting.

yeah, "gap toothed love comb" and "big media voices" aren't "raving"...

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by Mavdog

maybe a look at opensecrets.org info on contributions would be a bit enlightening.

here's john mccain's page, notice the info on disclosure. apparently the article is wrong, there is NOT total disclosure of mccain's contributors.

here's obama's page, which shows a greater level of contributor's disclosure than the mccain campaign.

here's from your website there, mavdog:

All other numbers in these profiles ("Quality of Disclosure," "Geography" and "Special Interests") are derived from detailed FEC reports that itemize all contributions of $200 or more.

if you root around some more at that site you quoted, you'll see that 50% of Obama's and 30% of McCain's money comes form $200 or less, so is not included. Those are very big gaps in your Obama-love comb.

[rabbitproof]

To the mods:

Is the ONE EXACT duplicate thread that is going to be preserved on dallas-mavs.com going to be the one that pathetically tries to point out Barack Obama's middle name sounds like a Midde East dictator or considerately considers the fact we all know at least five different Barack Obamas and by using his middle name, all talk surrounding Barack Obama the Presidential candidate has managed to be aggregated.

Seriously??

Note: most of the rabbitness in this post is because of the lame name of the two threads (clearly negative agenda-driven) rather than the duplication (which happens) - truly, people, wtf?

[rabbitproof]

PS- my favorite mystery Mod, you can, and probably will, merge the threads to make me sound absolutely nutso.

I just want you to know I'm ok with that.