More on the Obama Campaign Funding Scandal

MOre on the Obama Campaign Funding Scandal

The New York Post s saying something we told you about here over a week ago.

The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges.

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.

I said this was going to get large. Here we go.

How to know when your campaign has picked the wrong spokes person and is in trouble:

Sandra Fluke, the woman at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” spoke Saturday in front of about 10 people at the Sak ‘N Save in north Reno.

The speech was part of a daylong effort by Democrats to get Northern Nevadans to the polls on the first day of early voting.

“I’m trying to do everything I can for an election that I feel is very important. I have a unique opportunity for how I get to do that,” said Fluke, who is coming off recent campaign trips to Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida as a surrogate for Democratic President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.

It would appear that people in Nevada are getting a little tired of parasites telling them what leader they should choose.

I suspect this to be indicative of what we’re going to see in November.

Why did Benghazi happen?

It’s a question the news media and the left keeps asking,  along with a number of Americans who decided back in ’08, along with that magnificent mental midget John McCain, that we had nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency.   And the American people are starting to wake up to the threat Obama represents.

The fact was and remains we had a great deal to fear from Obama, and his ideology, and Benghazi is merely one consequence of that ideology. Obama has been projecting the idea that his policies have been working… THat all cultures are “equal” and that if we only stopped being so “hostile’ to certain elements around the world they’d follow suit, they’d all be peaceful, and we’d all live happier singing Kumbayah around teh campfire ever after. Ambassador Chris Stevens died, in the service of that myth.

So far were the Obami willing to go to hold this illusion over the American voter, that even after our people died on American soil, they demonstrably lied to the America people about their rate of success. Of course, it goes far deeper than this. Over at Gulag Bound, we find:

A State Department document, obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Darrell Issa (R-CA), revealed that the U.S. mission in Libya recorded 230 “security incidents” over a one-year period between 2011 and 2012, including other high-profile attacks, like the attempted assassination of the British ambassador in June, gunfights, the murder of foreign nationals, and an explosives attack on the Benghazi consulate that occurred on June 6, 2012, according to Catherine Herridge’s FOXNews article yesterday.

Even more damning to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, will be direct testimony taken during Issa’s high profile committee hearing on the attacks today, which will feature security officers who actually served in Libya over the past year.

One of them, an October 1, 2012 email obtained by FOXNews, from Eric Nordstrom, who argued therein for additional embassy security-citing the [aforementioned] “number of incidents that targeted diplomatic missions.”

Unfortunately, it seems the U.S. government ‘was eager to give the impression that Libya was safer than it was’-and summarily declined Nordstrom’s request. Nordstrom wrote:

These incidents paint a clear picture that the environment in Libya was fragile at best and could degrade quickly; [and] certainly not an environment where [the] post should be directed to ‘normalize’ operations and reduce security resources in accordance with an artificial time table.

Lt. Col. Andy Wood, the former head of a Special Forces security team, whose account is similar to Nordstrom’s, has also agreed to testify about being rebuffed by the State Department when calling for more security.

When reporters pushed for details regarding pre-attack security levels, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland deflected their questions by saying:

I’m not going to go into all of these kinds of timeline details as to what we had when and where.

But then she inadvertently hammered several more nails into the Obama Administration ‘coffin’ by adding that the [State] department evaluated the “threat stream” and determined [that] “security at Benghazi was appropriate for what we knew.”

First, this is really bad news for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, who made the rounds of all five Sunday morning news shows selling the Obama Administration myth that Benghazi did not suffer a ‘terrorist attack,’ just a case of Muslims with ‘hurt feelings.’

Whether she realizes it or not, the writing is on the wall-she was pathologically ‘prepped’ and staked out to be the next ‘sacrificial lamb’ for the Obama Administration-much like the way that Islamic Jihadists’ persuade ignorant young men [and now women] to become ‘suicide bombers.

Finally, it is extremely telling that Barack Obama would short change a room full of giddy college students, by coming off the campaign trail to meet an insistent Hillary Clinton this afternoon in The White House, for what is being billed a ‘damage control’ meeting.

There’s only one reason for all this; The Obami are desperate to prevent the Amiercan people from finding out that Benghazi is now an Al Quieda strong hold… a fact which runs directly afoul of the mantra,  “Bin Laden’s dead, Big Bird  is alive”.

Jim Quinn the other day mentioned that it might actually be a little too late for all of this to come out to affect the election. I like, Jim having been acquainted with him loosely from his days in the Buffalo radio Market.

But frankly, I don’t think he’s spot on, here. The American people have been watching this business unfold for the last four years along with all the rest of it …. the war on America’s energy supplies, the war on health care, the war on individualism, and the government takeover of anything and everything. The pattern of course is well-established… this is exactly the same international leaning of every leftist president since Woodrow Wilson… they’ve all been driven by the same misbegotten ideas and ideals and and history is not kindly disposed to their records, once they make it out of the realm of the leftist worship centers that our government-run education system has become. It’s to the point where even staunch Democrats have started to question Obama and his ideology to the point of moving away from supporting him.

The debates have shown this… particularly the most recent “Town Hall” where we had a number of supposedly “undecided” voters, who all seemed to tilt left in their questions of the candidates. There’s only one logical answer for what we saw that night…. There’s only one way, really to account for the ‘undecided’ voters offered up by Crowley at the most recent debate… All these undecideds, were actually former Obama voters who cannot stomach the idea of supporting the re-election of what they’ve seen the last four years, even though they’ve yet to determine in their own minds precisely what went wrong. They recognize Obama is a failure of epic proportions…. Even by the standards of the left. Trouble is, they haven’t figured out yet that the problem is leftist/socialist policy and that Obama is merely rather grotesque symptom of the problem, not the cause.

That point aside, the trend is clear… the American voter has long since begun to see the threat that Obama represents. The fact is that while Benghazi may very well take awhile to steam roll to the point of removing Obama from the White House, if that was the only sin of the Obami that was on the minds of the American public… when added to the rest of the last four years, it is more than enough to push this election out of Obama’s reach.

One can only wonder how long it will take to undo most of the  damage the left has caused us. Of course, there are some damages, such as our people who have died because we projected weakness, that cannot be repaired.

An American hero has passed.   First Lieutenant, United States Army Air Corps, George McGovern,  veteran of thirty five combat missions, has dies at the age of ninety,  from Wikipedia:

Starting on November 11, 1944, McGovern flew 35 missions over enemy territory from there, the first five as co-pilot for an experienced crew and the rest as pilot for his own plane, known as the Dakota Queen after his wife Eleanor.[37] His targets were in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, and northern, German-controlled Italy, and were often either oil refinery complexes or rail marshalling yards, all as part of the U.S. strategic bombing campaign in Europe. The eight- or nine-hour missions were grueling tests of endurance for pilots, and while German fighter aircraft were a diminished threat by then, his missions often faced heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire that filled the sky with flak bursts.

Salute.

Today’s Snark of the May, from Michelle Malkin, video:

In the wake of national tragedies like Pearl Harbor, the Challenger,  or Nine Eleven,  out president is expected to be our national spokesman.    On these painful occasions our past presidents, like Franklin Roosevelt  Ronald Reagan and George W  Bush to risen to the challenge.     Alas poor Barry Obama can not see past his own nose, video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb.

No Mitt Romney did not miss his true calling by not becoming the next Bill Cosby,  but at the Al Smith Dinner last night,  Mitt did seem to offer shades of the Gipper, video:

Hat tip:  Faussta.

Edited:  dl

Take tehis to the political bank, Victor Davis Hanson, via Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit”

“Obama did not forfeit the debate as last time, and took his cue from Joe Biden in interrupting and muttering while Romney spoke, so his energy made it an entertaining night. Nevertheless, the same theme as in Denver emerged — Romney more often providing specific proposals and detailed critiques, and Obama preferring more often emoting and running more on hypotheticals, as if he were not an incumbent with a depressing record that he is obligated to defend. A key moment was Libya, and that is bad for the Obama cause, even if Romney let Obama slightly off the hook. Obama frowned and got defensive and then blew it by disingenuous explanations — claiming that almost immediately after the attack, he had labeled it an act of terrorism, omitting that on numerous occasions in the next two weeks he most certainly did not say that clearly at all, and declared either that it was the fault of a video or that he did not have enough information.”

Spin that Candy

But Candy Crowley’s bias was more insidious. She chose the questions and the questioners. She let Obama’s towering ignorance on gas prices slip by unremarked. She corrected Mitt Romney with incorrect facts, allowing Obama to escape the most dangerous moment of the entire debate. She did what she could to tilt this debate in Obama’s favor without ever acknowledging that she was doing so. She knew what she was doing.

The Snark of the Day, from the debate, Bryan Preston, PJ Media.

I will write a more detailed response later this week. As it happens I’m preparing to leave for Connecticut. But I did want to pass along a couple of first impressions.

That Obama sounded better last night than he did in the first debate is beyond question. Trouble is the only got it half done. Sort of like the last three and a half years.

Obama has had near on forty five months now of sky high unemployment, sky high fuel prices, higher taxes, increased dependency on government domestically and a demonstrably failed foreign policy. Those milestones Governor Romney turned into millstones around Obama’s neck as the nation watched.

Obama is far younger, and yet looked far older last night. Worn out. Except for that, it was like watching a conversation between a father and son. The Son’s already wrecked two cars, and is asking for the keys to dad’s prised Ferrari.

Last nights debate showed clearly that Obama’s biggest problem, is Obama’s record of failure. Add one more failure to the pile, Obama has failed last night in the succeeding in convincing anyone that the last four years of failures we’re not totally his fault, and that he deserves another four years in that position of trust.

Governor Romney continued to hammer Obama on his record of failure, and rightfully so. Obama, Obama started out with a veto proof majority. Obama had an advantage very few presidents of head over the years, and he still didn’t get the job done.

Obama kept hammering Romney, meantime about tax cuts. 1 could wish that the governor has responded…” That’s right, Mr. President, when I’m elected I will cut taxes. It’s not your money.”

That quibble aside,  Romney did exactly what he needed to do to obliterate the Obama myth, despite the rather obvious bias of Candy Crowley, who to the surprise of no one, provided Obama with nine percent more time to make his arguments.

Interesting that even with this advantage Obama failed so miserably. In the debate last night, just as with his presidency, despite all the advantages provided, he couldn’t get the job done.

I do not know what Barack Obama does know, I do know that Obama does not know math, from Smitty, Other McCain:

[Obama] “We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system. . .”

[…]

[Congressional Budget Office] “The cost to the federal government of the TARP’s transactions (also referred to as the subsidy cost), including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $24 billion,”

Smitty suggested that maybe we did not use any dimes to fund the bailout. I might suggest that Obama used the Biden style we, to only mean himself and Mrs. Obama. On behalf of the poor taxpayers I say: Who we Paleface?

Michelle Obama must have OD’d on Kool Aide before being interviewed on a DC area hip-hop station. She said that “We are in the midst of a huge recovery.” Who is she kidding? The unemployment rate is officially 7.8% but that’s only because so many people have given up on looking for work. There are more Americans on food stamps now than at any other time in history. The cost of food and gas is through the roof, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to Mrs. Obama. Oh, no sirree, everything is just fineS.

Snark courtesy Karen, Lonely Conservative.

The Obama campaign is going all in for the stupid voote

The Romney image created by the Obama ad bombardment was unlikable, but the actual candidate turned out to be an astonishingly decent person and extremely capable. The clash between the cartoon Romney and the real Romney seems to have jolted the electorate.

Jennifer Bubin, Washington Post.

Hat tip: Ann Althouse

Sad news for the Obama Campaign and her War on Women meme, women also have working parts about the neck, from Susan Page, Useless Toady:

6:11PM EDT October 15. 2012 – WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney leads President Obama by four percentage points among likely voters in the nation’s top battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and he has growing enthusiasm among women to thank.

As the presidential campaign heads into its final weeks, the survey of voters in 12 crucial swing states finds female voters much more engaged in the election and increasingly concerned about the deficit and debt issues that favor Romney.

Women too get caught in Obama’s downward spiral of wages and upward spiral of prices.

Reax:   Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

You’ll be pleased to know that Team Hopenchange has already wet itself over these results and is circulating a memo written by their pollster dumping on Gallup’s likely voter screen.

Call be a fool, but I don’t see how Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama, can come across Tuesday as both aggressive and nice. Look for Mitt Romney to continue make the women trust him.

Karen is suggesting that BuzzFeed was duped, from Lonely Conservative:

A reader who is a photographer emailed me his analysis of the t-shirt worn by an alleged Mitt Romney supporter at a campaign event over the weekend. He believes the image was photo-shopped. When I pointed out that it’s a image from a Getty photographer he told me that he is familiar with the photographer and his work, and wouldn’t put anything past the left helping to get Obama reelected. Here is what he told me and the images he’s referring to:

Robert Stacy McCain takes a slightly different tack. He, none too tactfully, suggests the photographer was duped by an Obama plant, from Other McCain:

I can pretty much guarantee that this man photographed at a Romney rally in Lancaster, Ohio, is not in fact a Republican, but rather is a plant sent out by the Democrats as a dirty trick.

• Clue #1: Wearing a “Romney/Ryan” sticker on the back of his T-shirt. Nobody does this. Nobody.
• Clue #2: It’s kind of chilly in Ohio this time of year, and the guy’s wearing only a T-shirt, while those around him are wearing coats.

My guess is that this guy also wore a coat when he entered the rally, then stationed himself toward the back of the crowd (in front of the riser where the press photographers are stationed) and then removed his coat to expose the T-shirt, with the explicit purpose of having it photographed

There is scant evidence the man in the picture is a Romney/Ryan supporter, or even in fact attended the rally.