Questions About Barack Obama's Online Fundraising Prowess
The Washington Post had an interesting story Sunday looking at concerns raised by Barack Obama's absurd fundraising success. The story's good, but as Ed Morrissey points out over at Hot Air, it leaves a critical question unanswered:
What makes the Obama campaign different from online retail operations? After all, we have spent almost 15 years buying and selling products and services on the Internet, and retailers know how to protect themselves and their customers. They employ a system that compares the billing information on the order to the information in the credit-card system—and when they don't match, the sale gets denied. Credit-card companies have gone an extra step in recent years by adding a security code to protect against fraudulent use.
The McCain campaign apparently uses these systems to prevent fraud. Why doesn't Team Obama?
It's a fair—and disquieting—question.
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It's interesting how when the Republicans spend big on elections it's called crooked and dirty politics. When Obama spends big - over a half a billion dollars - it's called payback. With that kind of mentality there is no reason to believe we will ever receive the so-called change we deserve or believe in. According to some of the previous posts here, Obama's fans willfully and admittedly ignore that his fundraising is at least unethical, and could be illegal (only time will tell) because they believe that it is comeuppance for years of supposed Republican dirty fundraising. Is that really the message that Obama the Change Bringer was supposed to be sending? It doesn't sound to me like we're embracing a new way of looking at politics, that we are leaving the old ways behind. It just seems like the shoe is being taken off one foot and being put on the other.
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fagetaboutit booby, the fec couldnt find their rear-ends with both hands, let alone tackle the obooma fake contribution swindle. thanks for reporting on it though. personally, i've given up hope in anything remotely honest emanating from washington dc.
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By the time the phoney contributions to the Obama campaighn is caught the Dems will be in control and those 63 or so million known coming from such countries as Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Islamc countries will be covered up
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