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 for the Obama campaign.
Just yesterday, we received news the Obama campaign raised a whopping
$181 million in September alone, pulling the question of foreign
donations even closer to the surface and putting Obama closer than ever
to reaching a $1 billion fundraising number.
U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic Party have
raised $181 million in September for his re-election effort - their
highest monthly total yet of the 2012 presidential race.
The president's campaign said Saturday that the money represents donations from more than 1.8 million people.
Stay tuned.....the story could come as early as Sunday night, rather than Monday morning as originally planned.
As Katie Pavlich posted on October 5,
the Obama campaign is about to get rocked by a fundraising scandal
involving “taxes and foreign donors.” Pavlich wrote that since
“billionaires like George Soros support him and considering Hollywood is
partially controlled by European money, naturally Obama has foreign
support. Obama’s economic philosophy is also similar to European style
resdistribution of wealth, which is why French President Francois
Hollande supports him.”
This development comes after Obama raised $181 million dollars for the month of September. As Allapundit noted yesterday, that’s a lot of donors. If there wasn’t anything to hide then why is the campaign trying to put a kibosh on the story.
Back in April, I stumbled upon a video
that recorded an anomaly with respect to donating to Obama’s campaign
online. As the man in the video donates online, he notices that “the
Obama campaign does not have the universal 3-digit security code
feature for credit card transactions on their website. It appears that
anyone, anywhere can donate to President Obama’s re-election campaign,
all you need is a credit card number.”
He tried the same thing with the Romney campaign, but the donation was denied since it wasn’t verified.
Nidal Hasan, accused Fort Hood shooter…big Obama supporter.
Donation successful!
Paul Bedard of The Washington Examiner wrote on October 4 that:
Many of us remember how “Doodad Pro” and “O.J. Simpson” gave money to Obama during his first presidential campaign. And how this was no accident. From 2008:
The Obama campaign has turned a blind eye to the
possibility of donor fraud. Reportedly, during the heated primary battle
with Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign “turned off” many of the
security features on its online donor page, allowing any person with a
valid credit card number to donate using any name or address.
Typically, card merchants require a cardholder’s name to match
critical personal details, such as an address or, at the least, a ZIP
code.
And of course some of the money came from the credit cards of real people. It’s just that they didn’t authorize the donations.
Well, in the wake of news that Obama is headed towards raising $1
billion as a candidate this time around, there has been word of a new
scandal regarding foreign contributions, which Katie Pavlich says could break as early as tonight.
The latest incriminating information on the U.S. consulate attack in
Benghazi, Libya indicates that the State Department turned down a
request for additional security from concerned U.S. embassy staff.
New evidence shows there were security threats in Libya in the months
prior to the deadly September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Despite these threats,
the State Department left its personnel there to fend for themselves.
And when the terrorist attack did take place, the Obama
Administration peddled the ridiculous story that an offensive,
amateurish, anti-Islam YouTube video was to blame in order to avoid
characterizing the murders of four Americans as terrorism.
On October 2, a letter
was sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R–CA) and Jason
Chaffetz (R–UT), Chairman of the National Security, Homeland Defense and
Foreign Operations Subcommittee. The letter detailed 13 known security
threats against U.S. facilities in Libya in the six months prior to
September 11.
On October 10, the committee will hold a hearing on events in Libya
and seek answers from the State Department. Also on October 10, The
Heritage Foundation will host a public panel discussion on the events in
Libya titled, “Intelligence and Security Failure: Attacks in Benghazi and Across the Middle East Reveal Ongoing Threat of Terrorism.”
To help follow the path to tragedy on September 11 and its aftermath, below is a chronology of key events:
As God is my witness: I never thought that it would get this bad. This illustrates just "how absurd it is to blame
today’s huge national debt on George W. Bush’s spending on Iraq and
Afghanistan."
I thought that after it was clear that the stimulus didn’t work, the
Democrats would see sense. I thought that after it was clear that the
country wanted the government to concentrate on economic recovery, the
Democrats would see sense. I thought that when the American people went
out and spanked the Democrats in 2010 like Romney spanked Obama at the
last debate, the Democrats would see sense.
But they didn’t.
So vote every Democrat out that you possibly can. Down to bedrock.
1970 Earth Day cartoon rebounds in the reality of 21st century California: On the first Earth Day, in 1970, a cartoon
poster appeared at rallies in all 50 states. It showed a rueful opossum
picking up papers, bottles, cans, wrappers—the detritus of modern life.
Superimposed on the image were the words WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US.
That poster has stayed in print for more than four decades and
remains as pertinent now as on the day it was created by Walt Kelly.
