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Posted on October 30th, 2008 at 8:19 am by CordeiroAdolph Hitler
Fake Name
Not A. Realperson
Finance Violation
Fraudulent Charge
Over Donation Limit
Daffy Duck
OJ Simpson
Bart Simpson
Family Guy
And…King Kong
Yes, dear reader. Pay no attention to Team Obama’s willful solicitation of illegal campaign contributions. Their excuse for accepting contributions from the above rogue’s gallery is the lack of safeguards on credit card transactions. Never mind the fact Team Obama turned said safeguards off – purposefully. Even the simplest of fraud detection measures might have put a crimp in Obama’s campaign style – and we simply can’t have that. The fate of the free world is at stake. What’s a few hundred million dollars among friends anyway?
No longer will people like Algore have to show up at a Buddhist temple to collect grocery sacks full of thousand dollar checks from impoverished monks. Obama doesn’t even have to bother with that thinly veiled stunt. Forget the checks. MasterCard, Visa, Discover, or AmEx will do nicely. And names? Get real. Or on second thought, make one up. Names are so 20th century. Whatever you feel like calling your self today will do just fine. Addresses? Zip Codes? Employer? Fugettaboutit.
In even an imperfect political world the free and independent constitutionally protected press would be all over this story in an effort to find and expose the illegal money behind a potential president. Don’t hold your breath for this to happen during this election cycle. Why? Two reasons, really.
First, the donations in question didn’t end up in Republican coffers.
Second, and probably more important, Stiletto Sarah’s wardrobe expenses make for better headlines.
For the record, I did not watch the Obamessiah’s infomercial. I’m not buying what he’s selling and besides that, the rerun of Law & Order was much more believable. At least Jack McCoy’s cases are somewhat factually based.
*Hat Tip to Ace of Spades (warning - gratuitous profanity. Tis the nature of Ace) and Ken Timmerman for Team Obama’s contributor highlights.
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Wow, I leave this site for a couple of months and hope that you can govern yorselves accordingly and it seems like the conservative crybabying has come out in full force. Ok, I’ll bite. So it seems as if with everything going on that the focus now is on the lack of a real published name associated with the donation? I guess we should find out who this ‘anonymous’ person is that donates to both campaigns and drag his behind to jail! Even though you have to have a real person associated with any credit card payment, but let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. Let’s focus on trivial things and juvenile labeling like “Obamessiah”, instead of dealing with the reality..like the reality that no matter how much you hate it in your gut, this man is going to win the presidency. Period. If you are making more than 1/4 of a million a year and disdain placing our generation in a position to compete in the global workplace or think that our position in the world is A-OK then I can see where it may keep you up at night nitpicking for any non-consequential thing you can. Hey, knock yourself out. Meanwhile, I am getting ready to do my part in helping better this land that I love by questioning what is wrong and trying to better it rather than standing on the sidelines hurling insults.
This has got to be Lazlo…
“disdain placing our generation in a position to compete in the global workplace”
Yes, because that’s what Obama is all about - competitive markets with low corporate taxes and no tax hikes to further slow down the economy…what? You mean that’s not what he’s promising? Oh dear, and I voted early for him!
Nah, its not Lazlo.
It’s gotten quite depressing for the staunch conservatives on PD, and the posting reflects that.
I’m not really thrilled with either candidate, but I think that the nation doesn’t have quite the dire future painted by Cordeiro, kristen, Alaina, et al.
I’m skeptical that Obama will be able to deliver on his high-falutin’ promises, but it will be fascinating to see what he tries.
My job is largely dependent on the economy and the economic prosperity of banks so forgive me for freaking out a little right now. Wall Street hates him too.
Oh I’m fully aware that Wall Street hates him, but Wall Street doesn’t hold a lot of street cred right now after the mess they’ve put themselves in, and you talked about that on several occasions.
Someone has to fix this mess, because it is impacting everyone, everywhere. I work at a state-related university, and we’ve had to tighten our belts considerably, due to cuts in state funding.
We all feel it.
A lot of our clients started pulling funding and cut their budgets for next year… not a good time to be a consultant, especially one in the wealth and investment management space.
Agreed that someone has to fix this mess, I just don’t know too many people in my industry that thinks he can do it.
They also allowed the use of gift cards/prepaid credit cards, which are largely untraceable.
His campaign said they didn’t think that Mastercard or Visa even had a way to match the name on the credit card with the name on the credit card account. That’s interesting because I recently tried to buy something online from Macy’s and my purchase was rejected because I mistyped my billing address and it didn’t match that on my credit card account.
But, I’m sure that was because it was not the Mastercard and Visa he knew….
So now Mastercard and Visa are under the bus?
They were just some credit cards around the neighborhood.
Conservative crybabying….??
No less than all of the liberal crybabying that’s been going on the last 8 years. George Bush Derangement Syndrome anyone?
Cordiero raises a good point and points out a giant loophole in the campaign finance laws. It bothers me….not just because I’m a conservative, but because I am an honest person. If you donate to a campaign your name should be made public. If you don’t want it to be public, then don’t donate. Camp Obama should be using the ID safeguards that any responsible web-merchant or website that deals with credit cards and money uses…it prevents fraud, and theft. There have already been cases documented where people have had their IDs stolen and charged to the Obama campaign. As an American, I would just like to know who bought the election for him is all, I don’t consdier that crybaby behavior. I’d demand the same from any candidate no matter what the letter after their name was.
Huzzzahh, Eden!