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unknown visitor	Is America for Sale to the Arabs?? 10/3/2008 1:27:26 AM
	Is America for sale to the Arabs? To the Taliban supporters? Mon, 14 Jul 2008 Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, 'On Washington,' for The New York Times Magazine. Ms. Dowd joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983. She began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writer. When the Star closed in 1981, she went to Time magazine. Ms. Dowd received a B.A. degree in English literature from Catholic University Washington D.C. in 1973. WHERE DID OBAMA'S MONEY COME FROM??????? Subject: New York Times Editorial By MAUREEN DOWD Published: OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of Obama's campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history and this was all from the internet campaign.What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn't be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that can't be broken and no ethics that prevail.Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking, lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites. Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were "programmed" by a very sophisticated user. While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges. It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws. It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway. This is a shocking revelation.We have been concerned about the legality of "bundling" contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers, but now it appears we may have an even greater problem. I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so. If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen? I believe the Obama campaign's internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well. IS IT RIGHT FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN WHO BECOMES OUR NEXT PRESIDENT???

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Peter 1470 7259 Lod	Re: Is America for Sale to the Arabs?? 10/3/2008 1:53:53 AM
	Hi Sandy, Why doesn't that surprise me??? Why haven't the media pounced on this issue and why hasn't the Republican campaign brought it to the attention of the voters? Why the media haven't questioned it is understood by all..... it would hurt their demi-god Hussein Obama who can do no wrong apparently. Why the Republicans haven't I can't understand!!!! I had and have my doubts where BHO's loyalties lay and this "funding" seems to show that he has "friends and supporters" that haven't got the USA's best interests at heart. Shalom, Peter
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unknown visitor	Re: Is America for Sale to the Arabs?? 10/3/2008 3:45:37 PM
	Hi Peter I really don't know why the media is not all over this. And I will tell you, I for one have emailed my Senators and Reps, and I've emailed John Kerry asking what were they thinking. I've emailed John McCain, and until We as Americans stand together, and start pouncing on the government to do something, then nothing is going to get done. I am only 1.

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