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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (50259)	10/5/2008 7:32:39 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224720

Obama's illegal foreign donations:Formal Complaint Monday RNC: Obama Accepted Illegal, Foreign Campaign Cash Amanda Carpenter, townhall.com, Oct 5 2008 The Republican National Committee is filing a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission over what they believe are illegal donations made to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign from foreign sources. "We believe they have been accepting donations from foreign nationals and excessive contributions," said RNC Communications Director Danny Diaz. He said there were "questions with regards to the legitimacy" of the hundreds of millions low-dollar contributions Obama has received. Federal campaign finance law forbids campaigns from accepting donations from foreign nationals. The complaint will be formally filed with the FEC Monday. The RNC is requesting that the FEC begin auditing Obama's campaign contributions. If the RNC's allegations are true, it won't be the first time the FEC has found Obama guilty of taking money from foreign sources. Earlier this year, the FEC ordered the Obama campaign to return an illegal donation worth $31,100 made from two brothers in the Gaza Strip. The RNC's complaint was spurred by a story written by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff on October 4. It said the Obama campaign had accepted online donations from people named "Doodad Pro" and "Good Will." The "Good Will" donor said his employer was "Loving" and his occupations was "You." The address he submitted was for a GoodWill Industries store. Before Isikoff wrote his piece, several conservative blogs had discussed some of these odd-sounding donations as well. RNC General Counsel Sean Carincross said various press reports have called into question at least 11,500 donors names. Those names donated approximately $33.8 million to Obama's campaign. Carincross said, "There were no quality control devices," such as a method to verify a U.S. passport if a citizen was donating to Obama's campaign from overseas. He said he believed Obama had knowingly accepted foreign donations and taken no reasonable action to investigate the illegal donations. "This is a widescale problem," he said. townhall.com

To: TideGlider who wrote (50259)	10/5/2008 7:55:38 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

Palin responds: "The Associated Press is Wrong" by Fin Gomez SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Before leaving for a fundraising stop in San Francisco, Sarah Palin responded to a reporter’s question on the AP analysis this morning that framed Palin’s recent attacks on Obama as ” racially-tinged.” “The Associated Press is wrong. The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about and I think its fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room. And he of course, having been associated with that group, a known domestic terrorist group, it’s important for Americans to know. Its really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is.” In an analysis piece out today, AP writer Douglass K. Daniel slammed Palin’s recent shots on Obama’s past association with radical militant Bill Ayers as “ unsubstantiated and carried a racially-tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.”