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Carol Platt Liebau: A Disturbing Lack of Concern
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Ace of Spades points out how readily suspect donations are accepted at the Obama web site . Apparently, a fictitious John Galt at Ayn Rand Lane (zip code 99999, which, incidentally doesn't exist) was able to donate to Barack Obama; when the same non-existent person tried to donate to John McCain, the information was rejected. Ace speculates that the fraud safeguards on the site have been deliberately disabled; of course, it will be a cold day in nether regions when anyone in the press bestirs him- or herself to inquire about the possibility. Of course, the absence of such safeguards make it easier for those who are so inclined to steal from people in order to help fill ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Time for a Deep Breath
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — The Hill has noted that police are preparing for riots in the aftermath of the presidential elections . This kind of thing makes me wonder where the America I know has gone. That's the one, of course, where we take pride in a peaceful transition of power in the wake of presidential elections. Street violence on election night has hitherto been the stuff of banana republics, not The United States of America. It strikes me that everyone of every political stripe should be able to agree: Not only that violence in electoral politics is evil and unacceptable -- but that the whiff of intimidation that accompanies the threat of it is pernicious and intolerable. And they should be saying so. ...

Obama’s Fraud
PoliGazette — It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the major reasons Senator Barack Obama was able to raise many millions for his campaign is that he enables supporters to donate more than the limit established by U.S. law. Additionally, the credit card system used by the Obama campaigns enables foreigners to donate whatever amount they wish by credit card as well. The scope of the fraud committed by the Obama campaign became clear in recent days after conservative readers of various websites decided to try to donate money to Obama’s campaign using a fake name, fake address, but a real credit card. The result: each and every single time, the donation was ...

Remainders: Heavy traffic
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama in Ft. Lauderdale today. Obama buys ad space on the Straight Talk Express. Jay-Z says he's got 99 problems but McCain and Palin ain't one. Obama bat sign appears in Raleigh. Michigan has registered a huge percentage (98%) of its people to vote. Early black turnout is gigantic, and a product of both organizing and enthusiasm. Let Freedom Ring does Biden TV. The McCain campaign dips into West Virginia. The AFL-CIO is dropping pro-Obama mailers in WV. Jim Pinkerton says McCain's mistake was not linking Obama to Lucifer. No, really. Ruffini explains ...

Thursday evening links
Sister Toldjah — I’ve got lots to catch up on, so I’ll try and condense today’s hot stories in one post. Here goes: —– Local news networks in the Pittsburgh area are reporting on an attack that happened to a woman at an ATM machine in Bloomfield. Allegedly, after her attacker took her money he saw that she had a McCain bumper sticker and proceeded to carve a “B” on the side of her face. The attack happened outside of the range of the hidden camera, and police are still investigating and trying to find out who robbed and allegedly maimed the woman, who is a College Republican volunteer. Let’s pause for a moment and think about how ...

Obama's Secruity Free Online Donations
Sound Politics — Obama's Secruity Free Online Donations The most interesting story in the conservative blogosphere was host of talk about the gaping holes in the security of Barack Obama's online contribution system. Patrick Ruffini and ...

The Media's "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil" Approach to Covering Barack Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community — There is now ample, ample evidence that Barack Obama's campaign is accepting donations from foreigners in violation of federal law. There is now ample evidence that Barack Obama's campaign has intentionally opted out of credit card address verification services ("AVS") thereby making it extremely easy to contribute to his campaign while the campaign can claim ignorance to theft, excessive contributions, improper contributions, and illegal contributions. See, here, here, here, here, and here. As Patrick Ruffini notes, The issue centers around the Address Verification Service (or AVS) that credit card ...

If the New York Times were the paper it once was . . .
GayPatriot — . . . it would be running a story on Obama’s campaign finance irregularities on the front page* and relegate stories on Sarah Palin’s clothing to the middle of the paper. Yep, the story about the Republican National Committee buying clothes for the Vice Presidential nominee made the front-page of the New York Times. A story on fraudulent donations to the Obama campaign last made the dead-tree edition of the paper on October 10 on page A24 of the New York edition. There, the Old Gray Lady reports: An analysis of campaign finance records by The New York Times this week found nearly 3,000 donations to Mr. Obama, the Democratic ...

Holding My Nose and Pulling the Lever
Brain-Terminal.com — In New York State, the winner of a general election is often whoever won the Democratic primary. So by the time I get a chance to cast a vote, many elections have effectively been decided. This year, Senator Barack Obama will win New York State. Period. It’s a sure thing affords me a little flexibility with my vote. I’ve never been a big fan of John McCain. Although I salute him for a life in which he’s shown more courage than most men—including myself—ever could, he’s just never appealed to me as a politician. Was his maverick persona genuine or merely designed to maximize media coverage? Senator McCain obviously knew that, as a Republican, ...

We Should Not Minimize Obama's Fundraising Advantage
The Next Right — Today, the final fundraising numbers of the 2008 election cycle were released, showing Barack Obama climbing to a staggering $750 million haul for the election season. Obama's spending in the general election was $300 million to McCain's $84 million in public funding. Obama outspent McCain by $135 million to $26.5 million in the final two weeks of the campaign. Several prominent conservatives have sought to minimize the significance of Obama's accomplishment, pointing to this Campaign Finance Institute study showing that Obama's mix of small and high dollar donations was roughly similar to President Bush's in 2004, or pointing to the Obama campaign's poor protections against ...

Those Other Fishy Emails
Weekly Standard Blog — Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Fox News's Major Garrett had a heated exchange last week over whether the White House was spamming people with emails to support Obamacare. Garrett reported that several people had contacted him saying that they received a mass email from David Axelrod to support the health-care legislation, and Gibbs was unable to explain how they got there. White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement to Fox News yesterday: "The White House email list is made up of email addresses obtained solely through the White House website. The White House doesn't purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all emails come from the White House website as we ...