Obama's Shady Funding Sources

Obama's campaign was funded by foreign citizens.

Campaigns do not have to disclose anyone who contributes under $200. John McCain disclosed all of his donors, regardless of contribution. BO did not. Surprisingly, the vast majority of Obama supporters' donations are less that $200. More than half of the over $400 million B.O. has raised has come from secret sources.

“We and seven other watchdog groups asked both campaigns for more information on small donors,” says Massie Ritsch, a spokesperson for a campaign watchdog group. “The Obama campaign never responded,” whereas the McCain campaign “makes all its donor information, including the small donors, available online.”

The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.

More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.

But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.

Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton’s presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
With such lax vetting of foreign contributions, the Obama campaign may have indirectly contributed to questionable fundraising by foreigners.


FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS FOREIGNERS FROM DONATING TO U.S. ELECTION CAMPAIGNS.

Click here to read more about contributions from Arab nations to Obama.

Do you think middle Eastern loons were lining up to support McCain? Hmmm? Whose side would I rather be on? The side of the terrorists who want to kill us are on, or the other side? I'll choose the other side, thank you very much.