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WaPo Puts Obama's Sleazy Online-Donor Security Avoidance on Page...Two?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the Obama campaign confirmed that it’s "allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity." Why is this story not on Page One? (It’s in small print on the Post’s home page: "Obama Accepting Untraceable Prepaid Credit Cards.") Then there’s this nugget, buried in paragraphs nine and ten, about what spurred the Post story by reporter Matthew Mosk: ...
Oopsie
Corrente —
WaPo:
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.
Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is ...
Washington Post Takes On Barry’s Credit Card Donation Issues
Pirate's Cove —
... Woah! How did this end up not only in one of the main U.S. papers, but, on page A2? Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations. Rather innocuous headline, but, the story basically says Obama is playing games which, as has been said across the right-o-sphere many, many times, are allowing him to rake in millions and millions without any checks on the front to make sure the donations are real, are authorized, are from real people, and are from U.S. citizens ...
Washington Post Takes On Barry’s Credit Card Donation Issues
Stop The ACLU —
Woah! How did this end up not only in one of the main U.S. papers, but, on page A2? Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations . Rather innocuous headline, but, the story basically says Obama is playing games which, as has been said across the right-o-sphere many, many times, are allowing him to rake in millions and millions without any checks on the front to make sure the donations are real, are authorized, are from real people, and are from U.S. citizens ...
What the hell is wrong with people?
Sister Toldjah —
... In semi-related news, the Washington Post has an article that should get more attention that it will. The headline? “Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations.” Beldar ...
MORNING READ
News —
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Obama's Easy Credit
Opinionator —
“ Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed,” reports the Washington Post’s Matthew Mosk. “Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is ...
Obama Campaign Gobbles Up Illicit Donations via Prepaid Credit Cards
Moonbattery —
... Without even having won the election, the Obama Administration is already notable for its corruption. The latest revelation: ...
WaPo: Obama Campaign Purposefully Accepting Questionable Donations
PoliGazette —
... Less than a week before Americans will elect their next president, the Washington Post decided to do some origional reporting and research. As many bloggers, pundits and even National Journal have made clear in recent weeks, and the WaPo confirmed today: the Obama campaign is purposefully accepting untraceable donations. ...
WaPo on Obama Campaign's Encouragement of Fraudulent and Untraceable Donations
Little Green Footballs —
... The Washington Post finally starts to cover the real issue in the Barack Obama campaign’s acceptance of fraudulent credit card donations—the fact that the campaign has deliberately disabled the online payment industry’s standard safeguards against fraud: Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations. ...
A technical look at Obama's campaign finance fraud
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... with
its flaws found by Matthew Mosk was designed that way with any
intent other than the assistance of credit card fraudsters donating
to the campaign. ...
Barack Still Wants My Money
Weekly Standard Blog —
... toughest we've seen, and I need your support to reach as many voters as possible.
Donate $5 or more today to strengthen this movement for the final push.
This campaign is in your hands.
Thank you for everything you're doing,
Barack
As Andrew Malcolm notes, "Just to relieve himself of that $150 million before the polls open, Obama will have to spend $12.5 million a day," but he's still asking for fivers from his supporters.
You'd think with his website set up to accept multitudes of fraudulent ...
The arithmetic of news
Belmont Club —
... pledge, wouldn’t you expect a pretty high response rate? But 114,000 of 2.85 million is 4%. This seems really low. Only 1 out of every 25 donors signed the pledge (and this assumes none of the other 10.15 million signed - the more that did, the higher this ratio goes). This super-low response from his most ardent fans is consistent with the hypothesis that Obama didn’t really have that many small donors, but rather was taking in large amounts of money from phantom donors through the “hole” in his credit card processing form . If these people really existed, you’d expect more ...
Is the President’s Former Main Man a Spammer, Too?
The Sundries Shack —
... (MAAWG), I’ve been able to confirm that former Obama Campaign Manager, David Plouffe is engaged in specifically designated deceptive practices, which also appear to be illegal under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 using the barackobama.com domain name. This was done while assisting the Obama administration in promoting their current health care initiative through fundraising. To my knowledge, the Obama campaign was never investigated for the large number of shady , and ...
On Birthers, Obama, Muslims, and More
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Most notoriously, Barack Obama allowed is campaign to accept foreign donations, a matter that got passing mention from the Washington Post and not much else. ...
Daniel Snyder, President Obama, and Lack of Leadership in Washington, DC [Reader Post]
Flopping Aces —
... Which brings us to President Obama. Everyone knows about his meteoric rise since impressing America at the 2004 Democratic Convention with his amazing ability to read aloud. And in 2008, despite having no real accomplishments nor ever having won an election without ...
