Right on, and in any case why should a political post be on this particular list? If we're going to campaign here, let's don't stoop to the smear Obama (or anyone else) b.s. Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [GENHUMOR] GENHUMOR Digest, Vol 3, Issue 167 > False per Snopes: _http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/donations.asp_ > (http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/donations.asp) > > > In a message dated 9/3/2008 8:22:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fw: Obama's money (Edna Wakeham) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:37:55 -0500 > From: "Edna Wakeham" <[email protected]> > Subject: [GENHUMOR] Fw: Obama's money > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > Cc: GenHumor <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > > > Carey, > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Obama's money > > > Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished > commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 > after having > served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. > She has > covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House > correspondent. > She also wrote a column, 'On Washington,' for The New York Times > Magazine. > > Ms. Dowd joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983. > She > began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington > Star, > where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and > feature wr > iter. When the Star closed in 1981, she went to Time magazine. > > Born in Washington D.C., Ms. Dowd received a B.A. degree in English > literature from Catholic University (Washington, D.C.) in 1973. > > > WHERE DID OBAMA'S MONEY COME FROM??????? > > > New York Times Editorial > > By MAUREEN DOWD > > Published: June 29, 2008 > > OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING > > Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I > have > received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama's > campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's > internet > fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so > far. > That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in > history > ? and this was all from the internet campaign. > > What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn't be > surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules > that > can't be broken and no ethics that prevail. Obama's internet campaign > started > out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking, lists saved from > previous > party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign > web > sites. Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet > campaign staff were more than pleased by the results. > > Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake > multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security > monitors > began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from > overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of > transmission it > was clear these donations were 'programmed' by a very sophisticated user. > > While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due > to > firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were > able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly > from > individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and > bank > electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they > were > able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern > countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in > Saudi > Arabia . > > Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with > a > similar pattern of limited credit card charges. > > It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources > other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the > campaign > and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign > financing laws. > > It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to > audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific > credit > card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of > these > internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative > basis > of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not > complete enough to do it anyway. > > This is a shocking revelation. > > We have been concerned about the legality of 'bundling' contributions > after > the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an > even greater problem. > > I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started > to > come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet > contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so. > > If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, > that > would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would > also > be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that > happen? > > I believe the Obama campaign's internet fund raising needs a serious, in > depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of > internet > fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws > to > insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit > as > well. > > IS IT RIGHT FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN WHO BECOMES > OUR > NEXT PRESIDENT??? . > > The fact that the NY Times allowed this to be printed is amazing in > itself. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************** > It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal > here. > (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Be the filmmaker you always wanted to be?learn how to burn a DVD with > Windows?. 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