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The Obama Campaign and Their Foreign Donor Scandal

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:02

Written by The Loyal Opposition

We've discussed the potential foreign donor scandal that's percolating for Barack Hussein Obama, but a complicit media has helped squelch the story.  The fact is that the Obama campaign has been accepting foreign donations, which is illegal.  Truthfully, Team Obama is no doubt hoping that, with the election being two weeks away, this scandal goes under the radar.  It happened in '08 and we suspect it's happening at a much larger rate this election to keep money pouring into the floundering campaign.

This scandal is convenient for the Obama campaign: they benefit through millions of dollars in illegal donations.  Team Obama is struggling to raise money, which they had claimed would be a $1 billion campaign, particularly because many Americans that voted for him in '08 now see what an empty chair he is and simply refuse to support the biggest failure of a president America has ever seen.

The New York Post has more details on this growing scandal:

Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens.

Walker said he used his actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state with the Schenectady, NY, ZIP code of 12345.

“When I did Romney’s, the payment got rejected on the grounds that the address on the card did not match the address that I entered,” he said. “Romney’s Web site wanted the code from the back of card. Barack Obama’s didn’t.”

In September, Obama’s campaign took in more than $2 million from donors who provided no ZIP code or incomplete ZIP codes, according to data posted on the Federal Election Commission Web site.

The Obama campaign said the FEC data was the result of “a minor technical error.”

“All the ZIP codes and numbers are real and can be verified,” spokesman Michael Czin said.

The Obama campaign’s apparent lack of safeguards makes it possible to violate the law, says a report released by the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based watchdog group.

The report found that one Obama site — Obama.com — gets almost half of its traffic from foreign computer addresses. The site directs users to an Obama donation page.

“We are not suggesting that just foreign traffic by itself is a problem,” said Peter Schweizer, president of the GAI. “But for a campaign that is very sophisticated in its fund-raising capabilities, they do not make one effort to try to even see or ask somebody to check a box that says they are a US citizen.”

Team Obama intentionally doesn't have the necessary safeguards put in place to avoid foreign donations because it's part of their strategy.  They make sure that foreign donors don't exceed the $200 threshold that requires the campaign to submit information to the FEC.

The most corrupt administration in American history has a campaign that's equally as corrupt and will do anything, especially if it's illegal, to stay in power.  This information won't get touched by the elite media until the election is over.

The Loyal Opposition is a contributing editor for Habledash.