The Washington Post lowers the boom (finally!) on the Obama campaign for aiding and abetting illegal donations through their website.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards t…

That violates which, and how many federal election laws?

Mommypundit…there is no legal basis. The only thing they can do is to revamp the entire prepaid card system to include an application to be filled in before purchasing the prepaid card. Even so, who’s going to regulate these applications? When you buy prepaid cards (which are really like gift cards) you wouldn’t want to give your vital identity info everytime. I have four kids. We buy gift cards and prepaid cards like crazy for birthday presents. I wouldn’t buy them if I have to fill in an application every time I buy a $20 giftcard/prepaid visa/mc.

There is so much more going on here than you simply not buying a gift card. (By the way…who cares?)

The Obama campaign (and probably Bambi himself) are fully aware of what they are going. When I buy online these days, I am ALWAYS asked for the security code on the reverse of the card. ALWAYS. And if I misspell my name by a single letter, the transaction is denied. ALWAYS. And if I do not give an accurate billing address, the transaction is denied. ALWAYS.

And if the merchant wants to be ultra careful, the ship to address and bill to address must be the same. (Of course, this is not relevant with donations, but the idea is that a merchant can exercise as much or as little care as his is willing to risk.)

Under federal campaign finance rules, the candidate is required to exercise care in accepting donations, and do their best to prevent illegal donations. This is why candidates are prohibited from taking large sums in cash. And why records must be kept of donors and employers and amounts and so forth.

Clearly, by disabling verification checks on credit card transactions, and engaging in untracable, unverifiable transactions (like accepting pre-paid cards or gift card donations…which are the same as cash), Obama is knowingly engaging in conduct calculated to result in huge amounts of unverificable donations and unattributable donations.

No rocket science needed here.

Just a few more filled jail cells.

However, we only need to publicize the cases with more than 100 donations from a single card. That alone would get very interesting. Too bad this didn’t come up earlier.

Biden’s state.

Biden’s endorsement got the stupid bankruptcy bill through that exempted CCs.

Payback time.

I have not spent nearly enough time on this issue, but given the centrality of Barack Obama’s amazing internet fundraising machine to everything he’s been able to accomplish in the primary and general elections, it’s been staggering to discover the….

If you were an enemy of the U.S. and could easily flood massive amounts of money to the candidate you wanted in office why wouldn’t you do it? If you could decide the who the President of the U.S. is wouldn’t you do it?

If the U.S. (or England or France) could fund (without being caught) the opposition leader to run for election in Iran or Russia or Venezuela or where ever wouldn’t they do it? Of course.

So why wouldn’t Iran or Russia or Venezuela or Cuba or China be doing this in the U.S. Presidential election? What if all these questionable hundreds of millions of Obama donations are coming from Iran or Russia or China or other unfriendly country?
Doesn’t the CIA or State Department or President even think of these possibilities and investigate?

albill on October 29, 2008 at 1:41 PM

Absolutely possible. The USA did it in Italy for years after WW2 and in Chile in 64 & 70 election just to name two incidents. So why can’t someone do it to us? Especially knowing gift cards are the unknown factor. Hard would it be for a country to buy 1000′s of $175 gift cards and have a center set up to enter “donations” into the system.

Sorry to be a conspiracy “nut” but I think I have more standing than a 9/11 truther!

However, much to the contrary, and given that of the 12% Blacks in America — an estimated less than 5% will vote for Obama (less than 14 million Black adult voters in a country of more than 305 million!) — McCain has a better than most chance to win big time on next Tuesday.

Over the last several months, we have learned that Obama is a radical, repugnant, and incessant liar. Obama is a thug much like the many, many “friends” and “mentors” he hangs with — Rezko, Farrakhan, Rev. Wright, Khalidi, communist Frank Marshall David and others. Now we learn that Obama is definitively a socialist and extremist leftist. Obama gets upset when TV hosts point this out — why? — because it’s the truth. Barack Hussein Obama is a loser.

The tens of millions, and more, voters that have learned the ugly truths about Barack Obama are NOT going to vote for him. They will defeat Obama.

Obamalies or Lies Obama Tells:
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=73

The best hope we have for our economy, our military, our health, and our freedom is to vote for John McCain — honorable, with integrity, and a true patriot.

God Bless America.

I say yikes!

Are Hotair posts being given the thumbs down in mass to get them off of the front page? This particular post should be on the front page. What gives?

Theworldisnotenough on October 29, 2008 at 4:11 PM

Just like the Diggbats, liberal nerd losers dominate sites like that, which is why I don’t participate in it. A Crazy leftist with no real job and 100 different accounts will merely give 100 thumbs downs to anything that doesn’t fit his leanings.