Um, Ma'am...Why Did You Give the Obama Campaign $174,800? And Did You Know That's Illegal?

Based on the evidence gathered thus far it is clear that the Obama campaign is in serious trouble with fraudulent and illegal contributions. The question is, when will the main media channels and the Federal Election Commission pay attention to this? After the election?! If it turns out that the Obama campaign did indeed encourage these fraudulent credit card transactions by turning off the security features on their online donor page, thus stealing the election, there will be hell to pay later.
THIS WILL NOT STAND.

Hey RL --

You have it completely backward. This story indicates that the Obama campaign is looking through the list of donations to find irregularities, and refunding donations that don't appear to be lawful. They are doing this ON THEIR OWN; no outside group found a problem and forced them to do this.

That's not cheating, it's called being honest.

How many ways can Obama cheat? He started out cheating and he's STILL CHEATING. When is the media going to cover this? His whole life is a made up cheat. Why didn't he go to his grandmother? Because his new birth certificate isn't finished yet!!!

to Sharonklim - the reason the Repubs did not eclipse Obama is because John McCain stood behind his work to take the public financing money. Obama promised he would then decided he did not need to. Another example of political expediency for this man - say one thing to get through the primaries then change your mind when you have what you want. Don't be surprised when his presidency is the same way.

Obama's big donations are ocming from all the fundraisers that were begun starting in July-Aug. Go back and read newspapers to see where Democrats were one with no money. Experts predicted Republican Machine would dominate Democrats as they have in past. Obama signed on with Democratic National Party. Large Fundraisers set up all around country. Obama and Democratic Party now have the money. Under Obama management Democrats now have money for first time. Large donors now have outpaced small donors which were the trademark of Obama Campaign. Obama has been wise to know about Republicans and all their 527 groups of the super rich who add to Republican candidate campaign money coffers and the attacks they make upon Democrat candidates. Republican candidate may show no money, but they are supplemented largely by 527 groups and others.

Please do your research into this before accusing Obama. You would be shocked about Republicans. I am Republican and I am!! Just retired an d have had much more time to do lots of research. Shocking, shocking!!

Nothing is wrong with Obama Fundraising!! Ask about John McCain Fundraising and his 527 groups???? Ask what these groups are doing???

This Republican has had it with the Republican lies!!

This is nothing!! Both parties/sides will have some problems. Technology has created this problem. But since donations are below $200 by law they do not have to be reported. Obama does have many questions, name, address, employer, age, occupation, salary range, must check box to indicate that person donating is compliant with their rules. Can this system be broken - yes - all system can be broken. Is usually done by expert or possible other party plant. So this expert may be a plant. We face these same problems any time we do business online.

This example is given as it shows they do try. This is not a cleansing. But is more than likely a response to Republican complaints Obama has dangerous odnors!!

You must examine Republican methods and the Republican claims Obama is a terrorist. Obama is dangerous. Obama is anti-American!! Should be illegal!! These are despicable and totally false!!

Obama donation site has developed as many safe guards they they could to avoid problems. They want all to be fair. They have corrected problems in past, but don't say much. Maybe they need to now proudly show how many times they correct since they are getting attacked!!

I have had it with Republican smears!! I am Republican but have given up on them. After election I am changing my part affiliation at age 64. Can't take the lies and tactics any more. I don't even know this party anymore. They are acting like "THUGS" of a mafia organization.

get with the program,
Obama didn't lie. He stated publicly, 'I have promised that I will sit down with John McCain and talk about can we preserve a public system, as long as we are taking into account third party independent expenditures.'
That was the problem, reining in third party independents from running tv ads, etc. (remember the damage by the swiftboaters)
There was no agreement reached so Obama wisely opted out.
The idea of public financing seemed a bad one this year for fairness because the Republican National Party had a huge war chest, and the DNC had a very modest one two months ago. So McCain would have had a huge advantage.
And with half of Obama's donation total coming from the 'little people' in contributions less than $200 this election really has been influenced by regular folk, not just the rich and powerful. Democracy at work. It is supposed to be about all of us, not just the rich and powerful.

Who did they return the $174,800 to? The person whose identity was stolen or the ones who made the contributions? If it's to the contributors who falsely listed her, then they know who they are.

The Obama campaign is reported to have also received an order for $30,000 worth of Obama t-shirts that were determined later to be for the Gaza Strip. The campaign's defense was the address was GA, which they thought was Georgia. They claimed they returned the money. My question: Where did they ship the shirts to and how many more Obama t-shirts are in the Gaza Strip. Will they be wearing them in celebration like when they danced on 9/11?

Obama LIED he said he would take public financing. What else is he lying about???
could it be...
EVERYTHING!

That's some credit card limit. Must be a student huh?

I have no doubt a full disclosure would reveal names of individuals, like myself, who have never contributed to Senator Obama's campaign.

The lack of scrutiny by regulatory agencies allows candidates to accept contributions from anyone, anywhere, in any amount with virtually no threat of being held accountable.

The public financing program was established to prevent big money from influencing elections. The concept is good, however, the fact that public financing is not mandatory leaves the door wide open to corrupt campaign funding.

So all this stuff of them being bad and getting foriegn money is bogus!

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It's been documented, that the Obama campaign has recieved money from foreign donations. I'm sure it's been returned.

Remember early on, it was reported, that ACORN was using felons to help get registrations, and it was also disclosed, that some of these were experts in identity theft. It's very possible, someone got hold of this womans credit info, and made the charge. Kudos to the Obama campaign for catching it.

However, this is the 2nd time this has been reported. My advice would be, to check your statements carefully. Identity theft is a rampant crime.

I may want to hold back on donations...

House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-California, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.

Essentially they'll do away with 401k's, and oblige another 5% of your earnings into this plan. You will have no other retirement plan, then what comes from the Government.

Another social security plan...and we all know how well the government has done with that program.

BO has 200million dollars of "undocumented donations", becasue htey are each individually under 200.00. However, a list of some of those donations was discovered to reflect names such as "Doodle Poo" and "Good Will", and cumulative donations under those (and other) fraudulent names that total well over the max contribution of 2300.00 BO refuses to post the list of sub $200.00 donations - as is his right - but the McCain capmpaign has disclosed theirs on their website. BO also received $30000 from a Palestinian group (illegal to accept foreign money) which they claimed ot have returned but there is no documention for that return and the guys (Ibrahim Abu Jayyab) calim they never received it...hmmm

Why are you guys so mad. If Barack is elected its because the American chose him. And OBVIOUSLY No one cares about any of your attacks except people who were alreadyy voting for McCain. This is About the Issues stop trying to pull at peoples AMERICAN Pride heart strings, it worked in 01 and 04 and weve seen the outcome. Its Not happening this year,GET OVER IT. REPUBLICANS HAD THEIR SHOT.OBAMA 08

John Michigan: "I read your ridiculous attempts to label Barack Obama as a liar, liberal, terrorist, muslim, un-american, socialist, communitst and more. So why is it you have called him everything but a black man?"

Maybe because his race doesn't matter to them.

I find the McCain supporters rather fake....

I tried to donate to durring the Primaries to Barack Obama not knowing its ilegal and they sent me an email saying they had returned my money and that they thank me but australian can not donate... It was all done in two days from my donation..

So all this stuff of them being bad and getting foriegn money is bogus!

Oh... I get it... Obama is a Democrat... so that makes it fraudulent.

Gotcha.

What is fraudulent about contacting donors to make sure that they intended to donate large amounts?

Card is conservative. He might be registered as a Democrat... or he may have registered as a Democrat... but he is widely understood in the sci fi community as a "conservative" thinker.

He's a great writer. And I think he brings a lot to the field of SF with his perspective.

Totally corrupt.