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January 30, 2010
Oh Yea, 'Bout That Foreign Money Creeping into American Politics
Posted by The MaryHunter at January 30, 2010 2:05 PM
When Obama dissed the Supreme Court in his State of Obfuscation Preach, he famously and incorrectly stated that their decision on Citizens United v. FEC threatened to allow money from foreign corporations to enter our political system. Funny choice of attack, thought I, as I was reminded of the influence that foreign money had on Dear Leader's own election campaign. A wee reminder of how things stood at the end of 2008:
In addition to the $259 million with undisclosed donors, studies of the reports filed with the FEC, by the Obama Campaign, through the 2008 Year End Report, show the following irregularities in their submissions:
• $1.8 million -- Contributions over the $4,600 limit (1,608 contributors)
• $26 million -- Contributions over the $2,300 per campaign limit, reallocated without contributor affirmation.
• $4 million -- Contributors with Foreign Addresses (4,158 contributors)
Details have been submitted to the FEC as complaint MUR6142 and are posted at: http://complaintstofederalelectioncommittee.wordpress.com/
Of course, this was barely noticed by the mainstream state-run media during the run-up to the election, or since. While Obama's campaign had allegedly returned some $89,000 in foreign donations as of July 2009, questions still remain as to what happened to all those other questionable donations. And still, Obama had the audacity to bring up the topic in his SOTU.
One can't help but develop a never-ending fascination with Dear Leader's powers of obfuscation and denial regarding this subject. Pamela Geller is certainly fascinated.
The Obama campaign received a substantial amount of money from countries that have an interest in seeing a weak American President: $366,708.22 from China; $25,259.00 from the United Arab Emirates; $7,062.60 from Russia; and $6,716.28 from Saudi Arabia. Obama also took in $6,350.00 from Indonesia; $5,000.00 from Kenya; and $1,750.00 from Egypt.
The FEC alleges that Obama also illegally took donations from Tamil Tiger leaders. The Tamil Tigers are, according to the FBI, the most successful terrorist group in the world. While the Hillary Clinton returned contributions from the Tamil Tigers, Obama kept them.
There are many other questions and mysteries regarding Obama's campaign finances. The Puma P.A.C. blog notes: "Obama spent a record $744 million on his campaign but has disclosed donors for only $485 million of his windfall."
This is by no means over. Keep an eye on Atlas Shrugs and Big Government.
