It’s clear that the Obama campaign is exploiting cracks in a system that is not set up to detect multiple small-scale breaches of the law, despite that fact that numerous small donations could quickly add up to a substantial sum of money. There appears to be no mechanism for reporting, or for the FEC to investigate, such irregularities.
The current FEC regulations appear to be outdated, in that they haven’t kept pace with the increasing ease with which money can be transferred across international borders electronically. That in itself wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, but the aggravating factor here is that Obama is arguably the first “global” political figure, in that he inspires as much devotion in idealistic leftists and naïve young people in foreign countries as he does in a volunteer in Chicago.
If Obama’s legions of foreign admirers found that they could easily donate to his campaigns, why wouldn’t they do so? Looking back to four years ago – when his campaign was also accused of accepting foreign donations – Obama’s Berlin speech now begins to look like the first global fundraiser conducted by an American president, with the aim of soliciting donations from non-U.S. citizens.
The obvious remedy would be for the FEC to order all campaigns to require potential donors to supply the CVV number for their card, but as there’s currently no requirement for them to do this, such a move would presumably require a change in the law. And that would come too late to stop the Obama campaign collecting perhaps millions of dollars in illegal contributions, and spending it in their increasingly desperate bid to hold onto the White House.
On Friday, I’m due to speak with representatives of the GAI, who’ve been looking into the issue of illegal foreign campaign contributions for some time (their detailed report on the problem is here). Hopefully, PJ Media’s reporting will be able to help them in their efforts to put an end to this scandal.
Read part one of Mike McNally’s report on the Obama campaign’s illegal foreign donations here.
I just made a substantial donation to Romney. I was asked for the cvv number.
REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 3 of 3)
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/26/rezko-obama-and-the-nadhmi-auchi-railroad-linking-chicago-washington-and-baghdad-part-3-of-3/
Why aren’t they all in jail?
Barack Hussein Obama and his cohorts, his campaign gang, are CRIMINALS. Their thinking is we’ll do it until we are STOPPED. Like the lies that Obama tells openly while campaigning and during the debates. His thinking is, a lot of people are watching, they work hard 9 to 5 every day, they won’t do fact checking; so Obama lies.
History will refer to the Obama administration as not only a failed administration but all 4 years an Obama disaster.
On November 6th, 2012, kick Obama out of the White House.
Because any allegations will be call “Political” in nature no matter who calls them out on it.Any other naive questions?
Hey fellow R’s…. Play by the rules of the street. RomRyan should stop complaining and understand the rules of he game.
Last time, Obama did not go with public campaign money, and McCain did. Romney changed to reflect the rules.
Everybody knew Obama got millions in foreign donations last time via this credit card loop hole.
RomRyan need to do likewise.
Right. If they don’t respect the law, the Constitution and the American people, we should join them in their gutter.
Get the truth before the voters and let the people decide.
Not worth it. Obama’s the “world’s candidate”. There are countless leftists of various stripes abroad who snicker at the idea of Americans having to pay for %8.00/gal gas like they do, or who relish the idea of a militarily weakened America, or who just see America as the last semi-bastion against global leftism to be brought down from the inside. How many foreign donors are going to relish the idea of a stronger and more prosperous America? Lets not forget that a lot of foreign Obama donations are probably coming directly from hostile states, be they Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, China, Various middle eastern countries etc. They would all love to see America brought to its knees by another Obama presidency. Which country would do the same for Romney, with the possible exception of Israel?
Why isn’t he in jail? Because Eric “The Red” works for O’Dismal and Harry Reid wields the power in the Senate. So the NBP can wield billy clubs in polling places and only get a slap on the hand.
Democrats are by their nature law breakers.
I wonder if you could donate with a “gift card” that could be purchased by say…a Saudi king to whom you owed more than a deep bow, or a George Soros.
In this way, a straw donor could be recruited by an ACORN or SEIU flunky and foreign money could be funneled to The Lawless Presidency campaign.
Communists, Socialists, One Worlders, Saudi royalty, George Soros, Tony Rezco, Rashid Khalidi, all could be “globe bundling” at $199.99 a crack and The Scandal A Day administration would owe a debt of gratitude that could not be traced back to America’s (and Israel’s) enemies.
Neat trick.
Might also explain some of the bizarre behaviors and coverups in the Middle East, leaking national security secrets, cratering our natural resource exploration, never visiting Israel, refusing to utter the word Jerusalem and booing the very mention of its name, the coverup in Benghazi, the refusal to call terrorism by its name, skipping of intel briefings, calling deaths of our ambassador and three others “not optimal” and a “bump in the road”, refusal to recognize that an Al Qaeda flag was raised on our soil in Libya, apologizing and scraping about an insignificant video that insulted Muhammed instead.
Those are not the acts of a man who puts America first. His fealty lies elsewhere.
Donors from the Cayman Islands perhaps?
Considerably more support for the Won in China, I think.
With the obscene amount of money already funneled into these campaigns, and the emptiness of it all, how much are we talking about here, and is it such that it actually corrupts the system more than what we already find.
“corrupts the system more than what we already find.”
The system is corrupted infintely more by ignorant and lazy voters who do not know enough about their own history or the issues, who dismiss politics as a rigged game, and who don’t pay any federal income tax but consistently vote for more and costlier programs for themselves. After decades of thinking Americans will get it right eventually, after this administration, I find myself agreeing with Harry Reasoner’s comment back during the Watergate scandal: “We definitely need a new electorate.”
You will get no argument that the electorate is uninformed. Partisans, too, fall into that category because they are generally interested only in their own narrative to see there are different sides to matters in controversy.
That said, it does not answer the question of how prevalent this is in the overall scheme of multi-billion dollar campaigns.
“Is Barack Obama the first “global” fundraiser in American politics?”
No. It was Bill Clinton.
Got that right…
All those million dollar “speaking” gigs for tyrants and dictators overseas became marital property for the Wife’s Presidential run.
But its the least he could do, after humiliating her so with his shamelessly wandering dick….
I mean, if a powerful guy needs a mistress, make sure she’s got something going on? A place of her own, a career, fame, power, money? Something?
Just whipping it out to Typists and Interns when youre The President (or Governor) is sooooo low.
Only a real no-class scumbag even thinks of doing that.
Loser pig that he is.
Why I thought it was Jimmy Carter! Wasn’t he the president that ruled over a down economy? Wasn’t he the lost his second term to Ronald Reagan?
Sounds like Obama is on his way out of the White House on November 6th, 2012.
Billy-Jeff beat me to being the 1st Black President too, btw. But I’ll need this dough on November 7 when I announce my campaign for King of the World.
He told us that his campaign’s organization was his primary qualification for the job, didn’t he?
He was absolutely right in the sense that organized crime does seem to be his specialty and the Senate and legal experience were just cover jobs.
Rules are for the proles, not the elites.
In the past few days, a poll of foreign countries has shown that Obama is far more popular outside the U.S. than with the American electorate. He could haul in a lotta do-re-mi from small foreign donors — and, by the sounds of it, he already has and still is.
Why is the Obamanation campaign always front and centre when it comes to shady transactions? And why are they not called to account? It’s one thing to have the consensus media in your pocket, but when you have the Federal Election Commission in your pocket as well, then I think it’s safe to call it crap and corruption.
Crap, corruption, and Obama seem to go hand in hand.
OMG! Thanks for the excellent reporting on this issue! You have single handedly created a genuine scandal which should revolutionize elections and democracy in America. Please now follow up on Sheldon Adelson’s Macau derived contributions to Obama. Keep up the good work Mike, you are a true American hero.
What difference does it make? Obama did EXACTLY the same thing in 2008 and was still allowed to take office.
But that’s RAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
Biden was quoted saying something about some Turkish and asberwhatistan donors. It was in the papers. they were paying 10K a plate or something like it. Wasn’t that illegal?
Someone please reply
What scandal?
Oh you mean that scandal of the strange wealth creation of the Clintons for the Clintons and friends since becoming professional politicians during the “revolution of the 1960s”? Before, during and after their apprenticeship in State politics to their claim on the White House as political masters in the Advent to the Millenium?
How is it this, among others, “sort of crime” – illegal campaign contributions, even from foreigners, to members/hierarchy of the socalled Democratic Party – is dismissed, nothing to see here, move on for “democrats in high places”?
What do the Clintons know, about whom, and when did they know it in their choice of contender BH Obama? Whatever their feint – Hillary in tears when Obama “won” -Obama did not get the imprimature of the DNC without the Clintons’ permission.
Nor the drumbeating and trumpet blowing for his campaign and tenure as Chief Executive of these United States by the propaganda and educational media. That’s permission.
These Clintons as Kennedy clones, mentor and ally of their Obama, immune from their “fair share” of compliance, or penalties if non-compliant, to laws of these United States. Laws they with their cohorts added on the code book of laws, e.g. sexual harassment and “hate” crimes, as that “offer that cannot be refused”. Used against their “enemies” Or anyone they choose for whatever reason, eg Clarence Thomas. To “secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city…” and CHANGE the social conract of these United States. This “shining city on the hill”. Finally implemented within the past half century by people calling themselves democrats and liberals..
Illegal campaign contributions? Illegal campaign contributions from foreigners? News?
Obama, trained in law at Harvard. As Chief Executive of the USA a prize practitioer of misuse and ignorance of the laws and customs of these United States.
Obama, Harvard trained lawyer, deems THE fundamental law of the land, the Constitution of this nation comprised of a corps, Obama’s corpse of his 57, his fifty seven, States, to be “defective”. His Misuse of THAT LAW modelled on the democratic party’s CHANGE of law and customs “for the good of the people” by the hierarchy and their clergy of his democratic party.
That democratic party hierarchy cloaked (Red Riding Hood?) as “liberal” and champions of the poor and disadvantaged? That democratic party of liege lords and vassals carried on the backs of productive citizens.
THAT scandal?