Turns out that ?Doodad Pro? and ?Good Will? are not the only phony contributors to Barack Obama?s presidential campaign. The New York Times finally bestirred itself to apply some basic investigative journalism attention to the Democratic presidential nominee?s donor list. The Times found nearly 3,000 other questionable donors like ?Jgtj Jfggjjfgj? and ?Dirty West? after what the paper admitted was just a cursory look at the Illinois senator?s September financial filings. But then Times reporters Michael Luc and Griff Palmer revealed an incredible level of naivety by stating ?it is unclear why someone making a political donation would want to enter a false name.?
Unclear? What other motive could there be for using a phony name and a nonexistent address to make multiple small donations using a single credit card than to evade U.S. election laws? Such journalistic gullibility may explain why bloggers have been on this story for months and the Times is only now noticing. The Atlas Shrugged blog first broke the story of such suspicious donors behind Obama back in July after noticing little gems like this in the Illinois senator?s official FEC filings:
Name: Hbkjb, jkbkj
City: Jkbjnj
Works for: Kuman Bank
Occupation: Balanon Jalalan
Amount: $1,077.23
In case you are wondering, there is no such thing as the Kuman Bank. It is difficult to see how the Obama campaign could have mistakenly accepted such an obviously duplicitous donation - and thousands more like it - in good faith. Yet the campaign is now claiming to be the victim of ?Internet fraud.?
Then there?s the question of whether foreign nationals are contributing to the Obama campaign. There is more than enough evidence to warrant a full-scale investigation by the Federal Election Commission, including the $32,332.19 that appears to have come from two brothers living in a Hamas-controlled Palestinian refugee camp in Rafah, GA (that?s Gaza, not Georgia). The brothers? cash is part of a flood of illegal foreign contributions accepted by the Obama campaign. Potentially at issue, according to a complaint filed last week by the Republican National Committee, is as much as half of the $427 million he?s already collected. In any case, a complete FEC audit became an even more urgent matter after MSNBC reported that Obama?s Muslim outreach director quietly met with top Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officials in an uncharacteristically unpublicized event in Springfield, Virginia on September l5th. The FEC?s primary job is to protect the integrity of our federal election process. With this many red flags flying and barely three week left before election day, there?s no time to lose if voters are to have all the information at hand before casting their ballots.
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/FEC_Should_Begin_Obama_Audit_Now.html
