Good Ol’ Edrty Eddty of Poiuyttrrewe / Qwertyuio
The Washington Post’s Matthew Mosk takes a look at some of those iffy internet low-dollar Obama donors and wonders how they escaped notice of the campaign.
"New discoveries from a cursory review of the listings include Edrty Eddty, who donated $250 in July 2008 and Es Esh, who gave $325 in July. Esh hailed from this unusual address: ‘fhdfhdfh, Erial, NJ 08081′ Eddty listed his, or perhaps her, employer as ‘Poiuyttrrewe / Qwertyuio’ — the letters, more or less in order, found on the top line of standard computer keyboards," Mosk writes.
"The Obama campaign gave all the money from questionable donors back. But the series of news reports uncovering fake contributions is raising eyebrows. How could a system that collects contributions not immediately discover such obviously false names?"
The Obama campaign points out that McCain has had issues with improper donations as well, and has returned $1.2 million in contributions during the primaries, including some raised from foreign nationals.
But Edrty Eddty and Es Esh raise eyebrows, Mosk points out. Read more HERE.
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“The Obama campaign gave all the money from questionable donors back”
Enough Said
Posted by: Vanessa | October 11, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
I’m more interested in exactly what the $800,000 payment from the Obama campaign to ACORN was for, and whether or not Obama will apologize for saying “They brought a knife to a gunfight” and “Get in their face!” which stoked anger and division on both sides.
Posted by: magic | October 11, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
yawn..move on
Posted by: jen | October 11, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
JPT
Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has already stated: “There is no allegation or evidence of any wrong doing on Barack Obama’s part.”
Is there a new Prosecutor ?
Can someone update me ?
Posted by: Aussie | October 11, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
Does that include the money he got from Rezko? Obama gave it back?
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | October 11, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
“The Obama campaign gave all the money from questionable donors back”
maybe that explains the increase in McCain’s finances, it was his money in the first place.
Posted by: JR | October 11, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
Appears to me that the return of these donations is just another OBAMA CAMPAIGN LIE. Edrty Eddty and Es Esh appear to be fake names and the fake addresses, how would you return the money?
Unless these are foreign names and addresses…hum.
Posted by: Polly | October 11, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
What am I the only one that usually fakes internet forms I fill out?
Posted by: Jeff | October 11, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
Follow the font trail….perhaps you’ll find the same font was used in submitting these donations as was used in submitting the fraudulent voter registrations in AcornGate.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | October 11, 2008, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
I tried to donate and they refunded it back to my credit card! So they do give it straight back!
Posted by: Aussie | October 11, 2008, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
Where is the story? While the contributions may have been made the Campaign has a way of finding those contributions and returning them.
Perhaps you believe that there should be an automated way of preventing such contributions. You maybe correct, but at the same time I can see where it might prevent legitimate contributions. A machine just can not do what humans can.
Again there are illegal contributions being made to both Campaigns, and I am sure that both campaigns are making a good faith effort to control it. The fact that there are millions more donors to the Obama Campaign makes that job harder that is all.
Posted by: Thinking | October 11, 2008, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
As a swiss citizen I donate $50 back in March. 7 days ago, before the news came out, the Obama campaign called me back and they wanted to confirm my home adress and ask me if I was an US citizen and my passport number. I say no and they gave me my money back 2 days later. At the first place, I didn’t know that only the US Citizens could donate. There is a lot of Obama fan’s everywhere in the world. I think that the online donation page should not have allowed non US citizens to donate in the first place. They should have written :”Attention, only US citizens can donate”.
Posted by: Fred | October 11, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
When I gave money to the Obama campaign it was because I heard his mother was Protestant Irish. Now I find out his father was black. I want my money back.
Posted by: ian paisley | October 11, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
Oh I forgot to mention the handles used on these blogs. Are you who you say you are?
Posted by: Thinking | October 11, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
Jake, you kill me. Small-donor contributions are now being analyzed more than big-donor contributions, despite the obvious inequity. And it’s not like anyone believes the accounting won’t catch up with the bad gifts.
Good work: stay vigilant!
(And don’t talk any more about how Sarah Palin is a petty, unethical political hack who will not submit herself to the press for a thorough probing. If, as a proven unethical politician, she doesn’t see the need to talk to the press about anything, why should you write about that?)
Posted by: The Phantom | October 11, 2008, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
Many of us have known from the beginning, at least during the caucuses, that there was unethical, illegal and totally fraudulent stuff going on with Obama’s campaign.
There’s no surprise here. I’m surprised that Obama’s self-righteous followers can be so blinded by his BS, when he has long since proved to us that he’s got terribe judgment, bad character, blind ambition, and dangerous connections.
Democrat for McCain/Pain
Posted by: qpweiotuwp | October 11, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm
“The Obama campaign gave all the money from questionable donors back.”
How? With those unfathomable fake names and addresses?
What method of contribution were these phony-folks using? Cash? Money order? If the money came by way of check or credit card, it should make it pretty easy to get to the source of the fraud.
Posted by: RLamb | October 11, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm
Thinking
If that question was to me yes Australian ???
Posted by: Aussie | October 11, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm
RLamb
I gave by credit card (Citibank) and it was refunded two days later!
Dont know about the others I didnt know either that only US Cits could donate..
On the Obama blog though they do tell you about Only US citz can give but when you get an obama email it didnt have that message it does now!
Posted by: Aussie | October 11, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm
Fred — Not correct: both US citizens and US permanent residents can donate. If you are a Swiss citizen but a US permanent resident, you can still make donations to the Obama campaign.
Also, on the campaign donation page, you have to check the box to confirm, among others, that you are either a US citizen or a US permanent resident.
Posted by: chris | October 11, 2008, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people’s faces. They seem determined to shut people up.
That’s what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign emails, did when conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program in Chicago. Kurtz had been researching Obama’s relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago — papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.
Obama fans jammed WGN’s phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Rosenberg’s example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.
Posted by: OTown | October 11, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
FOX NEWS Just admited Obama gave no money to ACORN.
CSI is not part of ACORN
Barack Obama gave $800,000 to CSI NOT ACCORN!
Posted by: Aussie | October 11, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
If the system that screens names is a computer, it would have no way of knowing those were bogus. I’m not sure the campaigns can afford having a person sit there and read over 2 million names in case a couple of the might be bogus.
Especially when the opposition or the Washington Post is likely to do it for you! LOL
Posted by: jock59801 | October 11, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
Hmm…
They require you to provide a legitimate passport number if you’re living abroad. Did those donors with the strange names do so? Some people might’ve just not wanted to be identified for privacy’s sake, even if they were Americans.
Posted by: Grey Matter | October 11, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Obama now holds a 7.7 point lead in the Real Clear Politics poll of polls. That is his biggest lead ever.
Posted by: El_Pajaro | October 11, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Obama is flooding the airwaves with his illegal money and he’s flooding the voter registration polls with illegal and illegitimate “voters” (Obama paid ACORN $800,000 to do so).
But this election stealing isn’t new to those of us who paid attention to how Obama stole the Dem primary caucuses, by using the same very tactics.
The media, in true partisan fashion, has consistently downplayed all of these illegal activities that the Obama campaign is engaging in, even though the general public would be very interested to know the illegal actions the Obama campaign is taking in order to steal the election.
Using ill-begotten funds to flood the airwaves with campaign ads is cheating. Stuffing the ballot box with pro-Obama, fictional voters is cheating.
Posted by: OxyCon | October 11, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
“FOX NEWS Just admited Obama gave no money to ACORN.”
Aussie, can you cite the source for us?
Posted by: Emm | October 11, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
RLamb
No Dramma
Posted by: Aussie | October 11, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
It’s time to expose AcornGate and QwertyGate.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | October 11, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
lol, hey concerned.
Posted by: Emm | October 11, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
I don’t know about ya’ll but I always sign my bogus online illegal credit card donations “Qwerty”. How else can I prevent it from getting back to me?
Posted by: Emm | October 11, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
It was to ACORN, but to specifically to their front group, CSI.
That is why they had to go back and redo their reporting to the FEC regarding this $800,000+
Posted by: SandyB | October 11, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
Keep up the good work, Jake.
Although we shouldn’t be so quick to judge. Maybe there is an actual dude named Poiuyttrrewe. He probably got picked on his whole life by all the regular named kids and has to live a life of solitude. Let’s call him Po for short.
Posted by: Emm | October 11, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation.
Posted by: robert burns | October 11, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
Damn Skippy, Jake is a good boy, unlike those Obama mouthpieces over at MSNBC and CNN.
Everytime Keith Olberman opens his mouth you can see Obama’s face peering up at you from the the back of his throat.
We will not even mention the one that gets “tingles” running up and down his legs at the mere thought of The Tainted One.
PUMA!
Posted by: LeeLee07 | October 11, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
LeeLee07 CNN covered this story yesterday! FYI
The did both sides and proved you could donate to the RNC and Barack Obama with fake names! Wonder why JPT just covered oneside ?
Posted by: James | October 11, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
“If the system that screens names is a computer, it would have no way of knowing those were bogus.”
Untrue. It’s easy to use a lookup list to sort common from uncommon names. That’s a trivial query. Those would pop to the top immediately.
Some of us write code, friend. Don’t even go there. If they aren’t finding those, they aren’t trying.
Posted by: len | October 11, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
RLamb,
Don’t be stupid my friend.
You donate by Credit Card and the form you fill does not have to have the address on the Credit Card files.
Once they verify they send money back to non-US citizens/residents by refunding the credit card you used.
As someone who has contributed to Congressional/Senatoral candidates and to Howard Dean, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, I find that the Barack Obama campaign was more stringent than the others in verifying donors.
The other campaigns counted more on your honesty, something that is in very short supply in this campaign especially among Republicans.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 11, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
You know, I’m one of those folks in that pile. How and why? Did you ask us? No. You assumed we’re frauds.
Here’s an issue…should you wish to contribute at the Obama site and also participate in blogs or other things, the name you entered carries around the site with you.
If you use your real name, that name carries to your blog and blog posts.
Now, let’s face it. None of us are identifying ourselves here either.
Some people are in jobs or job searches where their political affiliation would be a problem for their boss. Not just folks who work at Wal-Mart, but many people in finance, civil service, etc.
It it a privacy issue, not a fraud issue.
McCain got more by hiringthe lobbyist who used to work for the lobbyists than Obama got from donors who just don’t want to be identified.
Spend more time tracking down Sarah Palin for an interview on Troopergate, and don’t take no from her campaign about why she’s not available.
Either don’t report her trivia, or get her on the record about Troopergate. That’s fair.
Posted by: kravitz | October 11, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
kravitz
Exactly right!
Posted by: James | October 11, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm
So, let me get this straight. If I donate to a campaign by credit card using my real name, a little red light and siren go off in my bosses office and the riot squad comes out and takes me away because the boss doesn’t support that candidate?
Bull!
Posted by: Emm | October 11, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
How do they return the money if they don’t know who really donated it?
Posted by: Maria | October 11, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Troopergate Inquiry finds Sarah Palin GUILTY.
Sarah Palin VIOLATED THE TRUST Alaskans placed in her and BROKE THE LAW as their governor when she fired a state official who had refused to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper, according a legislative report released Friday night.
Ten republicans and four democrats were unanimous in adopting the findings (as they were in initiating the investigation.)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081011/pl_politico/14481_1
Posted by: Bob | October 11, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
All this hoopla and all it means is she tried to fire a guy who was bad at his job, and the Dems turn it into something serious, like, oh I dunno, like voter registration fraud, terrorist links, or anti American religious mentors.
Posted by: Emm | October 11, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
Don’t argue with rednecks. They don’t even know when they’re being insulted. They’ve run out of reason and intelligence. Do we see what’s left? By their fruits ye shall know them.
Posted by: OttotheScourge | October 11, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
“If you use your real name, that name carries to your blog and blog posts. Now, let’s face it. None of us are identifying ourselves here either.”
Untrue, Kravitz. Some of us have been blogging under our real names from the beginning and post with our real names on all web posts. Some of us have a rule of submission on our blogs: no name, no post.
If all of the political blogs for the news services did that, much of the racism, bigotry and hate filled rants would stop almost instantly. And then any candidate’s supporter or surrogate that threatened you would be identified and you would know that to vote for them is to vote for thuggery.
Go through the posts on the lists for the last ten months and count the posts from Obama supporters using false names that are thuggish by content. Then you will understand why so many of Hillary Clinton’s supporters will not vote for Barack Obama. The means count because they go to the question of character, and yes, a candidate must account for the character of their supporters and surrogates.
Just as you are saying McCain should and has.
To do otherwise is to say that we are afraid. Fear is the mindkiller.
Posted by: len | October 11, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm