Um, Ma’am…Why Did You Give the Obama Campaign $174,800? And Did You Know That’s Illegal?

Error…yea…that’s the ticket. Just an innocent error. When all it’s said and done, Obama is going to have to account for every penny and it won’t be pretty.

A bogus campaign contribution that was refunded is news?
The Republicans have nothing to run on. All they do is smear.

Sad, we NEVER know the truth about the campaign fund-raising in any election, nor do we every truly know the truth about anything.

Word from the Disney boys: too many pieces on Obama. Start spreading some dirt and make it look even.
Come on. THIS is the best you could come up with? Obama gives money BACK? This is supposed to be bad? Noooh, this is good. And no one reports on donors under $200 – and as a donor I want it that way. Everything I give is honest – and private.

Common Sense: You are absolutely right. VOTE EARLY. If they have taken you off the polling lists – and if you live in a swing state, do not believe that they have not, you’ll have time to make sure they get it right. They had my husband’s name spelled wrong. They had a non-existent address for me. And it was not because someone from ACORN was involved. VOTE EARLY and double check your vote.

he returned the money… about the same amount Palin spent illegally on clothes for her family from the republican campaign… how ironic and indicitive of the difference between the two tickets

No Jake you are wrong, again the press, my employer, my future employer, the government has no need or right to know my political affiliation. Put that stuff on line and then I am subject to a google search by anyone world wide.
Again if the Government need or suspects anything they can subpoena the records.

1976-1977 federal charges dropped against Ayers and Dohrn due to prosecutorial misconduct.
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1980 Ayers and Dorhns come out of hiding and turn themselves in.
1981 marks official end of WU when WU member Kathy Boudin commits armed robbery and kills three men.
20+ years of Barack and Michelle Obama
1985
Barack moves to Chicago.
Barack goes to work for the Developing Communities Project (DCP).
Barack obtains the DCP’s first funding from the Woods Fund of Chicago.
1987
The Chicago School Reform Project is lead by Mayor Richard Daly, Jr and Bill Ayers who are good friends, as were their fathers Richard Daly, Sr (also Mayor of Chicago) and Thomas Ayers (Thomas Ayers served as an advisor to Richard Daley, Sr).
Barack Obama is the leader of the Development Community Project.
The Development Community Project works with Bill Ayers on their School Reform Project
The law firm of Sidley & Austin is run by Howard Trienens, friend of Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers, Father-in-Law of Bernadine Dohrn.
Bernadine Dohrn, wife of Bill Ayers works for Sidley & Austin (hired in 1984 by Howard Trienens).
Michelle Robinson goes to work as an attorney at the law firm of Sidley & Austin
1988
Barack quits work at the Development Community Project. Travels to Kenya, the birthplace of his father, where he spent five weeks.
Barack enters Harvard Law School.
Bernadine Dohrn leaves Sidley & Austin. She is unable to obtain a license to practice law due to her criminal history. Trienens says it was because she would not say she was “sorry” for her terrorist past.
Bernadine Dohrn goes to work in the office of the Cook County Public Guardian.
1989
Barack interns at Sidley & Austin;
Barack first meets and begins his relationship with Michelle Robinson, who was assigned to be his mentor.
1990
Barack selected as editor for Harvard Law Review.
1991
Valerie Jarrett, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley, offers Michelle Robinson a job as Assistant to Mayor Richard Daley.
Michelle Robinson insists fiancé Barack Obama meet Valerie Jarrett.
Michelle Robinson leaves Sidley & Austin and goes to work for Mayor Richard Daley, Jr, friend of Bill Ayers – husband of Bernadine Dohrn.
Bernadine Dohrn goes to work at Northwestern University School of Law as an adjunct professor of law as a “Clinical Associate Professor of Law.”
Howard Trienens, former employer of Bernadine Dohrn at Sidley and Austin law firm, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern.
Thomas Ayers, father of Bill Ayers, father-in-law of Bernadine Dohrn, is a former board member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern.
1992
Barack and Michelle get married.
Barack directs Illinois’ Project Vote, a voter registration drive.
Barack begin teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
1993
Barack and Michelle founded Chicago office of Public Allies. Michelle is named Executive Director of this group which encouraged young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies.
Barack goes to work as an associate for the law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which specializes in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development.
Barrack gets on board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago.
1994
Barack on board of directors of the Joyce Foundation.
Bernadine Dohrn says “I still see myself as a radical.”
1995
Ayers works with Mayor Richard Daley on the city’s school reform program.
Ayers writes grant proposal for Chicago Annenberg Challenge and obtains $49.2 million over 5 years for public school reform.
Barack selected as Founding President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
Bill Ayers has Barack fundraiser and political coming out party in his home. Barack and Michelle Obama were both present.
In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist … [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small ‘c’ communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams […]”
1996
Michelle Obama goes to work for the University of Chicago as Associate Dean of Student Services.
Barack promoted as Senior Lecturer at University of Chicago.
Barack elected to Illinois Senate.
Barack reported member of the “New Party,” (Democrat Socialist Party). They proudly announce their member Barack Obama won his State Seat.
1997
Connie Chung interviews Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. They say they do not regret what they did and would do it again. Wish they could have done more. Wish they had been more militant.
Mayor Richard Daley presents Bill Ayers the Key to the City and named his citizen of the year.
Michelle Obama organizes a discussion panel at the University of Chicago.
Michelle schedules Barack and Ayers to appear on the panel together.

2000
Barack loses bid for U.S. House of Representative.
Barack, Michelle and Bernadine Dohrn are listed together as mentors with the University of Chicago Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
2001
Bill Ayers donates $200 to Barack’s re-election fund for the Illinois State Senate.
Bill Ayers publishes “Fugitive Says: A Memoir,” detailing his time as a terrorist.
In an article with the Chicago Tribune, Ayers said, “We weren’t terrorists. The reason we weren’t terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States.”
Bill Ayers gives interview to New York Times. Published on September 11, Ayers said he did not regret his militant tactics and believed they had not done enough.
2002
Barack reelected to Illinois Senate.
Barack loses his license to practice law for reasons unknown at the time of this writing.
Barack no longer serves on board of Woods Fund of Chicago.
Barack no longer serves on board of Joyce Foundation.
Barack no longer serves on board of Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
Barack hires political strategist David Axlerod.
Barack and Ayers are scheduled to appear together on a panel at the University of Illinois Chicago titled “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis.”
Michelle goes to work for the University of Chicago Hospitals as executive director for community affairs.
2003
Barack announces his bid for U.S. Senate.
2004
Barack wins primary.
Barack gives Keynote address at Democrat National Convention.
Barack elected to U.S. Senate.
Barack resigns his seat in Illinois Senate.
Bills Ayers gives interview: “How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?” He replied:[24] “I’ve thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it’s impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? … I don’t think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable.”
2005
Barack sworn in as U.S. Senator
Michelle Obama is promoted to Vice President of Community and External Affairs where she still works part-time.
2006
Barack traveled to Kenya and openly campaigned for violent radical muslim Raila Odinga, Barack’s alleged cousin.
Bill Ayers travels to Venzeula and gives a speech to Hugo Chavez, stating “We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution” or “La educacion es revolucion!”.
2007
February Barack announces he will run for President.

The Jordanian business partner of a prominent Florida businessman, who has raised more than $500,000 for Senator John McCain, appears to be at the center of a cluster of questionable donations to his presidential campaign.
Campaign finance records show Mr. McCain collected a little more than $50,000 in March from members of a single extended family, the Abdullahs, in California and several of their friends.
Amid a sea of contributions to the McCain campaign, the Abdullahs stand out. The checks come not from the usual exclusive coastal addresses, but from relatively hardscrabble inland towns like Downey and Colton. The donations are also startling because of their size: several donors initially wrote checks of $9,200, exceeding the $2,300 limit for an individual gift.

I’m running a campaign in support of the culprits of the collapse. I’m taking donations of $1,000,000 from all executives involved. However, when things go bad I want an exit clause to compensate me $20,000,000.
I’ll be looking for my first check.
KenB

Tapper, you are a jerk. You take a positive move on the part of the Obama campaign and turn it into something nefarious. I know where you can use some sunshine yourself — like why you are so in the tank for McCain.
BTW: I’m one of those under $200 donors and, no, you don’t get to know who I am. I appreciate the Obama campaign protecting my privacy.

correct, Brenda. as much as I think that Obama is a criminal piece of trash, even I don’t believe Andy Martin’s theory, unless he presents proof. However, Andy does bring up an excellent point….the pics of Obama and his GM were released to the media by the campaign….but isn’t it strange, that this only full blood relative of Obama, the one person that he says he truly respects and talks lovingly all the time…..there is not ONE recent picture of the two of them together? I mean, they release of pic of him from at least 25 years ago with his GM.
How odd! If a newspaper was doing a story on you and your grandmother, would you send them a pic that was 25 years old?
Why is his GM kept in seclusion? She has osteoporosis, but that hardly should keep anyone quarantined 24/7. What is going on here?
BTW, Obama’s paternal grandmother swears he was born in Kenya, and she was there for the birth. Are you going to call her a liar too?
All of this could easily be solved, and save precious legal resources, if BO just released his original BC.
but he won’t. strange, isn’t it? McCain did, no big deal, why is this such a huge ordeal for BO?
as always, the plaguing question for everthing Obama does: what does he have to hide?

McCain at least stuck to his promise and if I am not mistaken post all donars. Obama will have spent over a half billion dollars when this thing is over…. I am sure it will be worth it to someone.

The reason why Jake is questioning is because Obama has failed to be more transparent and reveal his list.
The bulk of Obama’s funds has been less than 200$ donations and Obama wants you to think that this is coming from regular Americans which is not the case.
Obama wants to buy the Presidency and this is not good for the democracy.

A lot of the comments in this thread reflect the ideas that Richard Hofstadter explored in The Paranoid Style in American Politics in 1964.
“In recent years, we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right wing. I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggerations, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy I have in mind.”
Forty four years later…another Senator from Arizona…more of the same “paranoid style.”

smt,
What are you talking about? Please give speifics.

you repubs are all in a tizzy this morning aren’t you? lol… it is just so hard for you to imagine that this man Barack has garnered so much support that people are dumping their wallets to get him elected… :) it is so much fun seeing you all squirm…

How true is this and is it being investigated ???
C. C.| New York, NY
NEW Facts from a friend of mine who was
working on the Obama Campaign but just quit
after this. The reason he has raised as much
money as he has for example he has 130
million in the bank vs Mccains 46 million is
because he is having people submit multiple
small donations under false names and false
addresses, but even more frightening is the
over seas postage coming in from the middle
east and then being re sealed into envelope
and mailed again from us post office so its
non traceable to the original source. This
scared her so bad she quit.
J. W.| Andover, NJ
I read your statement earlier and also have a
friend who worked with the Obama campaign
and also quit after being asked to take
donations coming in from the middle east
and having to put them in new envelope and
mail them back to the campaign under fake
names so it looks like it came domestically.
WAY TOO FRIGHTENING.

Lets Spread your Wealth
By the way how much did Obama spread his wealth. How much did he really donate to charity. Let me think since i am a rock head.

“Not long ago, the Obama campaign called her to ask why she donated $174,800, which was just $172,500 above the legal limit.”
This PROVES, I would say, that the Obama campaign is honest and honorable when it comes to overseeing the donations!
Palin would have spent that on hairdo, blouses and high heels!!

“So what is the GOP response to that: they’re trying to buy the election.”
It’s funny to hear the Democrats whine about profits for big oil when they are electing the King of Big Money.
I am sure this will get investigated by 2016 or so.
It’s not the money. It’s how they got it, and they’ve obviously gotten it illegally.
Not that Democrats care about integrity of the voting process.

Madeleine – I agree with you. Silly and immature attacks like that on all candidates should not be tolerated.

pollster,
Quinnipiac has Obama up 14 points, FOURTEEN PERCENT OF THE VOTES, in OHIO today!
An dZogby (Drudge’s favorite until recently) has Obama leading 52 – 40 nationally today…
bye bye McCain
bye bye Barbie Palin!

Obama’s nomination has made our country a complete mess and an embarrassment for the world to view.
Obama and his team of supporters have reared the ugly head of sexism and racism, criticized our country to the world and have been a complete embarrassed with voter fraud and the entire voting process.
Many in my community have never seen such bias in reporting, if you want to call it that. It is an embarrassing time to be an American.
The media should be emphasizing the importance of a man with good character, not defend a man that has associations with far left, anti American radical leaders and the like.
Shame on the media, shame on the Democrats and all Americans that support Obama’s unfair tactics and lack of experience.

Obama’s tactics during this election are a disgrace to the election process. He is a fraud and has no principles. He speaks as if he does, then does whatever he wants on the side. Obama is a fraud.

Card is conservative. He might be registered as a Democrat… or he may have registered as a Democrat… but he is widely understood in the sci fi community as a “conservative” thinker.
He’s a great writer. And I think he brings a lot to the field of SF with his perspective.

Oh… I get it… Obama is a Democrat… so that makes it fraudulent.
Gotcha.

John Michigan: “I read your ridiculous attempts to label Barack Obama as a liar, liberal, terrorist, muslim, un-american, socialist, communitst and more. So why is it you have called him everything but a black man?”
Maybe because his race doesn’t matter to them.

BO has 200million dollars of “undocumented donations”, becasue htey are each individually under 200.00. However, a list of some of those donations was discovered to reflect names such as “Doodle Poo” and “Good Will”, and cumulative donations under those (and other) fraudulent names that total well over the max contribution of 2300.00 BO refuses to post the list of sub $200.00 donations – as is his right – but the McCain capmpaign has disclosed theirs on their website. BO also received $30000 from a Palestinian group (illegal to accept foreign money) which they claimed ot have returned but there is no documention for that return and the guys (Ibrahim Abu Jayyab) calim they never received it…hmmm

I have no doubt a full disclosure would reveal names of individuals, like myself, who have never contributed to Senator Obama’s campaign.
The lack of scrutiny by regulatory agencies allows candidates to accept contributions from anyone, anywhere, in any amount with virtually no threat of being held accountable.
The public financing program was established to prevent big money from influencing elections. The concept is good, however, the fact that public financing is not mandatory leaves the door wide open to corrupt campaign funding.

Obama LIED he said he would take public financing. What else is he lying about???
could it be…
EVERYTHING!

get with the program,
Obama didn’t lie. He stated publicly, ‘I have promised that I will sit down with John McCain and talk about can we preserve a public system, as long as we are taking into account third party independent expenditures.’
That was the problem, reining in third party independents from running tv ads, etc. (remember the damage by the swiftboaters)
There was no agreement reached so Obama wisely opted out.
The idea of public financing seemed a bad one this year for fairness because the Republican National Party had a huge war chest, and the DNC had a very modest one two months ago. So McCain would have had a huge advantage.
And with half of Obama’s donation total coming from the ‘little people’ in contributions less than $200 this election really has been influenced by regular folk, not just the rich and powerful. Democracy at work. It is supposed to be about all of us, not just the rich and powerful.

Obama’s big donations are ocming from all the fundraisers that were begun starting in July-Aug. Go back and read newspapers to see where Democrats were one with no money. Experts predicted Republican Machine would dominate Democrats as they have in past. Obama signed on with Democratic National Party. Large Fundraisers set up all around country. Obama and Democratic Party now have the money. Under Obama management Democrats now have money for first time. Large donors now have outpaced small donors which were the trademark of Obama Campaign. Obama has been wise to know about Republicans and all their 527 groups of the super rich who add to Republican candidate campaign money coffers and the attacks they make upon Democrat candidates. Republican candidate may show no money, but they are supplemented largely by 527 groups and others.
Please do your research into this before accusing Obama. You would be shocked about Republicans. I am Republican and I am!! Just retired an d have had much more time to do lots of research. Shocking, shocking!!
Nothing is wrong with Obama Fundraising!! Ask about John McCain Fundraising and his 527 groups???? Ask what these groups are doing???
This Republican has had it with the Republican lies!!

How many ways can Obama cheat? He started out cheating and he’s STILL CHEATING. When is the media going to cover this? His whole life is a made up cheat. Why didn’t he go to his grandmother? Because his new birth certificate isn’t finished yet!!!

Based on the evidence gathered thus far it is clear that the Obama campaign is in serious trouble with fraudulent and illegal contributions. The question is, when will the main media channels and the Federal Election Commission pay attention to this? After the election?! If it turns out that the Obama campaign did indeed encourage these fraudulent credit card transactions by turning off the security features on their online donor page, thus stealing the election, there will be hell to pay later.
THIS WILL NOT STAND.