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Topic: Rumors Swirl: How Bad Will The Obama Foreign Donor Scandal Be? |
Rumors Swirl: How Bad Will The Obama Foreign Donor Scandal Be?
Townhall, by Katie Pavlich
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Posted By:Photoonist, 10/7/2012 3:00:24 PM
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| Since last week, the news sphere has been buzzing about the possibility of an Obama campaign foreign donor scandal being the big October surprise of 2012. Since the Washington Examiner first reported the story last week, many are asking how the Obama campaign will handle foreign donation allegations expected to go public Monday in a major magazine and national website story. The Obama campaign has already tried to block the story from publication and although the details of the scandal are still under wraps, we do know taxes and unsecured credit card transactions are about to cause a major headache
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Comments: Blow the 0bama campaign out of the water. I look forward to this story hitting tonight or early tomorrow on Drudge, the Wash. Examiner and the Daily Caller. Let's see if the press whores can ignore it once Drudge starts promoting it.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rolanddd, 10/7/2012 3:03:20 PM (No. 8916233)
The house (Issa?) should subpoena everyone in the money chain- in and out of the Obama campaign.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bobdog, 10/7/2012 3:08:26 PM (No. 8916240)
From your keyboard to God's ears.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hammock, 10/7/2012 3:09:13 PM (No. 8916241)
Why wasn't this done after his campaign did this in 2008?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 10/7/2012 3:15:05 PM (No. 8916256)
#3 has it right. Not a whisper when he did the exact same thing in 2008.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snowcloud, 10/7/2012 3:20:25 PM (No. 8916265)
I didn't read the article yet, but my first thought is, who will hold the regime accountable? The Department of Injustice under Eric Holder!??????
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 10/7/2012 3:27:03 PM (No. 8916273)
IMHO, they were smart to leave it alone in '08. The Regime and their propaganda media would have labeled Republicans racist sore losers and it would have gone nowhere. This is probably where it will do the most good.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cinwasp, 10/7/2012 3:29:16 PM (No. 8916277)
It will be bad, but who will really care? Not Obama voters...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Susannah, 10/7/2012 3:32:53 PM (No. 8916283)
Any guesses as to what magazine and what website will be breaking this?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
CGardner, 10/7/2012 3:38:13 PM (No. 8916288)
I wonder if Obama reopened his phone banks in Gaza for this election?
Everyone, just make sure and check your debit and credit card statements. There were quite a few BO donations charged that people never made back in 2008. Of course by the time the bills arrived, it was too late.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ghost of hallelujah, 10/7/2012 3:39:40 PM (No. 8916289)
Pretty sure it will be Newsweek. Which is significant because they campaigned hard for Barack Marshall Davis in '08. This is not 2008, a lot fewer people are drunk on BarackJuice. This will get some attention, I think (hope)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 10/7/2012 3:55:13 PM (No. 8916310)
In 2008 tens of thousands of the donations to the Obama campaign--we saw longs lists of donation amounts online--were in odd penny amounts. Donors paying in dollars would just about always pay in even dollar amounts. Odd amounts were (and are) almost certainly in converted foreign currencies--illegal donations, in other words--that Obama enabled by deliberately turning off the portions of the software that would identify the origins of the donors.
There are monumental and deliberate campaign law violations going on here. Obama got away with it in 2008. He might not this year. When the light is shone on this cheating, some people in the Obama/DNC organizations will be headed to prison.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
curious1, 10/7/2012 3:59:03 PM (No. 8916315)
Might I also remind people that the house and senate were controlled by filibuster proof libtard majorities in 2008 - and the senate being still under their control has continued to block any substantive actions by the house that requires cooperation on the part of the senate.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EQKimball, 10/7/2012 4:07:57 PM (No. 8916328)
Pre-paid, disposable credit cards? If so, a very strange phenomenon unlikely duplicated by any other campaign taking place in the country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
geneinnyc, 10/7/2012 4:10:15 PM (No. 8916334)
Very frustrating that the article doesn't name the magazine and Web site. I suspect that the impact on Obama will depend on who it is. If it's a "Republican" publication, such as National Review or The Washington Examiner, the article will be characterized as a partisan hit job and the impact will be minimal. But if it's Time, Newsweek or somesuch, with "liberal street cred," or (please! please!) the NY Times or the Washington Post or some other major MSM publication, then it could move the polls in Romney's favor by at least a point, maybe even more.
Also, if it's a "liberal" publication, it could signal that the MSM is getting a whiff of defeat for Obama and wants to save (or restore) its credibility.
I think it also will depend on whether the story "has legs" that keep the story going, or does it get buried quickly after the initial reporting. Does the publication stop with the allegations, or does it do independent checking to verify whether the allegations are true?
If the story is true, if the amounts are substantial and if the MSM stays on the story, it could doom the Obama campaign. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
wtm, 10/7/2012 4:11:20 PM (No. 8916336)
Should be easy to trace back the IP addresses of where they came from, unless, they are using a US middleman (which is highly illegal).
The software has the capability to filter the donations based on where they are coming from (their IP address), and block certain locations. Most Democrats ignore this US requirement that only US donations can be made.
That is why Clinton sold missile technology to China, had to pay back all those donations from the Chinese.
Same is going on for Obama, only it's probably coming from the Middle East this time !!!!
Time for subpoena's from the IT people involved!!! Start with them and work up the chain, at the very least, make them pay all of it back.....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
horacer, 10/7/2012 4:12:03 PM (No. 8916337)
Obama's been leaving off the 3 digit credit verification code on his web sites. Without that there's no way to verify the identity of the donor. You could go to his website, enter your card # and claim to be the queen of england and your donation would be accepted. No one else would ever do this, even Papa Johns makes you enter the code. What Obama is doing allows unlimited donations from the same credit card. I think this gets picked up by a major publication. Newsweek makes sense.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
chicodon, 10/7/2012 4:12:36 PM (No. 8916339)
I don't know, a lot of despots want him reelected including the Muslim Brotherhood. Didn't a lot of money come from the Palestinians last time?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/7/2012 4:14:28 PM (No. 8916344)
As bad as the potential scandal is,what's worse is Obama goons trying to stop the release of the details. We'll get a superficial account but the meat of the story will be blocked.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
GOP_U_BET, 10/7/2012 5:12:50 PM (No. 8916434)
The Arab Street illegally poured money in Barky's campaign in 2008. Nothing was done then and nothing will be done now.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 10/7/2012 5:39:57 PM (No. 8916473)
Hey--the guy and his feckless Secretary of State just let a US Ambassador get murdered and Brian Williams and NBC devote 5 mins to Big Bird instead of covering this story. Does anyone really think that the left wing media is going to cover any type of Obama scandal? In 5 years they are going to say 'yeah we went easy on the guy -our bad' but until then nothing is going to change.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JoniTx, 10/7/2012 5:49:42 PM (No. 8916501)
If the magazine is a conservative one expect it to make no difference at all. We must just wait and see......let's hope and pray that it's one of the left-leaning ones. Perhaps (big perhaps) then it may cause problems.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
nathan92083, 10/7/2012 5:54:57 PM (No. 8916512)
My fear is it will be World Net Daily (WND.com) and if that's the case even Fox News won't carry the story. Newsweek or something similar makes sense because we have heard that the campaign has tried to block the stories release, that would not be the case if it was WND. Just like 2008 it will be ignored. Or briefly covered with excuses why its untrue and then dropped, just like any other story negative to Obama.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kristen, 10/7/2012 6:04:10 PM (No. 8916520)
I fear MSM will try a cover-up. They have done it before.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 10/7/2012 6:43:31 PM (No. 8916563)
Not bad at all because 99% of Americans will never hear about it.
Anyone who dares to mention it will be ridiculed by the MSM.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Juzthinkin, 10/7/2012 8:21:11 PM (No. 8916717)
It will be bad, but who will really care? Not Obama voters... or the Lame Stream Press
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 10/7/2012 8:28:46 PM (No. 8916730)
Don't forget - it was the Nat'l Enquirer that broke the John Edwards story.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Coy860, 10/7/2012 8:40:26 PM (No. 8916748)
When we got Obamacare rammed down our throats, we got mad...now it is time to get even..vote Obama and democrats OUT. It is time they learn that America is NOT Chicago. WE can teach them a lesson.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 10/8/2012 2:08:20 AM (No. 8917233)
Thank heavens the mainstream media are researching this. Otherwise, they would be betraying their first principles.
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