Who Took “Foreign Money,” Mr. President? er HYPOCRITE?
October 12th, 2010 Rick Moran, The American Thinker
Based on a single, poorly sourced article in Think Progress – a rabidly partisan blog that is an offshoot of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress – President Obama laid into Republicans for allowing “foreign money” to be used to fund campaigns against him, specifically, dues money from foreign countries paid to the Chamber of Commerce.
The problem? The story by Think Progress is (not surprisingly) almost certainly untrue…
And, as Glenn Reynolds points out in this extensive blog post , it is Obama’s 2008 campaign where untold millions in foreign money flowed into his coffers:
Obama’s “foreign money” claims are bogus. They’re also pretty rich, considering how his 2008 campaign handled foreign credit cards. From that National Journal story: “The lack of a computerized address-verification system would allow the Obama campaign’s computers to accept online donations from U.S. citizens above legal limits, and to accept donations from foreigners who are barred by law from contributing at all.” Perhaps its time to remind people of that issue again. Oh, wait, I just did!Here’s more on that from 2008: “A breakdown of controls has enabled foreign and other unaccountable funds to pour into the Obama campaign — and it’s not an accident.”Read more.
Plus, from the Washington Post: Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations. “Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged.”






An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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