An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the analyst’s requests have largely been ignored. “I can’t get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.
One reasons [sic] cited by his superiors, says the analyst, is that involvement by the Justice Department or FBI would be indicative of a criminal investigation, something the FEC would prefer not take place a month before the presidential election. Such actions, though, have been used to scuttle Republican campaigns in the past, the most famous being the Weinberger case in the days leading up to the 1992 re-election bid of President George H.W. Bush.
The analyst, who declines to be identified for fear of retribution, says that on four different occasions in the past three months, he sought to open formal investigations into the Obama campaign’s fundraising techniques, but those investigations have been discouraged.Related:
Sen. Barack Obama says President Bush’s nominee to the Federal Election Commission is more interested in denying voters’ rights than expanding enfranchisement and should not be installed on a panel tasked with ensuring fair elections.
Obama says Hans von Spakovsky’s partisan influence within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and his prior roles as a Republican appointee make him unfit for the job.
“Individuals named to the Commission should have a demonstrated record of fair administration of the law and an ability to overcome partisan biases,” Obama wrote to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee. “Unfortunately, Mr. von Spakovsky’s experience … [does] not demonstrate the evenhandedness required of an FEC Commissioner.”
Oh, and don’t forget Obama’s very own Janet Reno, Jamie Gorelick.
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Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 1:15 pm #
The government did not finance Barack Obama’s campaign, the American people did, which is something that can’t be said of John McCain.
Taste the collective backhand of finance! This one comes from the underbelly, from the ones who were supposed to shut up and do as they were told, the citizens for who money comes hard. Their donated gold put a down payment on a shared dream, and you can either curse it or behold it, but righteous-hell at least recognize it for what it is - plurality in action!
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 1:20 pm #
Undisclosed illegal foreign money’s not a problem for you, huh, thor?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/2 @ 1:29 pm #
Note that thor never bothered to address the content of the post, just went off on an incoherent, pseudo-populist rant. He’s once more trying to derail discussion of an issue that makes his Savior look bad.
As for the actual issue, well, I suspect the government will get right on it. Sometime next year, maybe. In bizarro-land.
Oh, and some of the coverage of this has pointed out that McCain has released details of ALL donations, regardless of size, while Obama has been much, much less opaque. I think it’s fair to say one of them has something to hide, and knows it.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/2 @ 1:43 pm #
Note that thor never bothered to address the content of the post
Actually, no, I didn’t notice that.
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 2:05 pm #
You’re the lowest denominator in PW’s troll faction. And a very probable homosexual with dysfunctional sexual fetishes that put our very own Dan Collins’s house pets at risk!
Why don’t you do everyone favor, asshole, and seed trollwart.com with your redundant dumbassed thoughts.
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 2:11 pm #
Obama has out-raised any and every candidate in American political history by a large margin. His campaign has refunded questionable donations. There would seem to be no motivation whatsoever for Obama to engage in such activity and even less proof he has done so to date.
Tossing unfounded allegations won’t benefit your cause. Matter of fact, I find it unseemly and well beneath your articulated genius.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 2:24 pm #
There’s evidence in them there hills, thor.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/2 @ 2:35 pm #
Thor, his eyes firmly shut, cannot see any.
Comment by BJTex on 10/2 @ 2:47 pm #
Had thor ever acknowledged a single flaw in the Messiah like so many others here (including me) have articulated about McCain and Republicans? It couldn’t hurt your nonexistent credibility, thor, if just once you would write something along the lines of “Well there is some merit to that concern. However…”
You know: FOR THE CREDIBILITY!
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 2:50 pm #
When did it become illegal to be poor in America? When did one become a “pimp†when they stood for/with the poor? When did it become solely a “progessive agenda†when the poor stand up and ask that they be on the government’s agenda? When did tax-cuts for real estate developers and when did the agendas of community re-development associations become nothing but a goddamned crooked scheme of ghetto gentrification and commercial glorification of bloodless institutionalized racism?
Be intimidated, bitches, because your Republican party, thick with Jack Abramoff-pimps for casino interests, has done nothing but force the poor man to play the bottom role in one sick S&M scene after another! Rotten leveraged-buyout bastards!
The Audacity of Hope starts when the people have a lead sled dog who has the Audacity to Stand Up and say “motherfucking shit ain’t right!†Envious greed sold as success, bitterness replacing empathy, isolation from each other as the ultimate desire and the upper social classes betraying this nation to protect their elevations, no, Good Sir, this isn’t the correct interpretation of the American narrative.
The working poor were never meant to satisfy your persecution fantasies. If the election of Barack Obama, the imperfect mortal that he is, becomes the first paradigm-shifting event of the brave new century then I interpret that someone has strapped it on and kicked some ass, and there’s nothing more American than that. If what’s going down is more than your collective conservative/classic/liberal psyche was prepared for than whose fault is that?
The revolution is here. Put your earmuffs on. The goddamned forgotten and shunned working man has found his voice!
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I’m re-posting this for the benefit of Dan’s possible reply. These events we witness and participate in are worth reflection and open to interpretation. Mine is attitudinal proclamation meant more as a interpretive manifesto versus a pillar of my ever-fluid ideology.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,” Thoreau said, and even people from the wrong side of the tracks have dreams. Listening and witnessing is sometimes what the day calls for. I’d like to think it’s, to a degree, what I strive for in interpretation.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 2:53 pm #
I want the poor and the homeless to vote, thor.
Once.
Foreigners? Notsomuch.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 2:55 pm #
Also, if you’ve been reading, you know I’ve done something with gambling here.
Comment by BJTex on 10/2 @ 2:56 pm #
Is it me or did thor just fling the goalposts to Antarctica?
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 2:56 pm #
BJT, I’ve been occasionally critical of Obama. Thanks in advance for not being immature and asking for a link.
He’s certainly not perfect. But Obama is one of the most talented politicians America’s ever witnessed in modern times. His odds-beating effort in campaigning and burning oratory is heroic in itself. I like him. He’s American as America gets. We’ll see how he does from here.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 2:57 pm #
Hey, I like Thoreau all right, but face it: he lived in a shack on Emerson’s land for a while and had his meals delivered.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 2:59 pm #
I’d be happier if he were as transparent about his campaign contributions as McCain. Why don’t you write and ask him?
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 2:59 pm #
On-line gambling should be legal.
We should occasionally appreciate what we are witnessing instead of being reactionaries and detesting every outcome as if life is as simple as a good/bad binary. That’s what I’m trying to say above, BJT. Whatever he/it/this is, I want to understand it.
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 3:09 pm #
Dan, per my treatise’s thrust, when did being a goddamned wage slave become of thing that should be despised, an assumption of work as not work unless it pays CEO money when we live in times of staggering wage deflation?
Good men work hard yet nowadays they’ve become nothing more than a label in a game of classifications where they are reduced to wearing a name-tag stating “the poor,” a symbol today meant for derision and that’s openly mocked. They’ve done nothing more than be the core of America, that human shit that does most of the living and dying and heavy lifting.
We need to take care of and expand our working class, and even occasionally celebrate those that celebrate them - cough, cough - like OOOOOOOOOOObama.
Comment by BJTex on 10/2 @ 3:11 pm #
That being the case why would you make a blanket assumption that most of us who might be critical or even ask questions are operating simply from partisan reactionary politics? I’m trying to understand the guy too and that involves asking questions about the myriad of issues that plague the man, just as I and others have done about McCain.
Throwing out broad brushing words like “racists” and “reactionaries” automatically denigrates the individual with a tag of your own making. It does not reflect, in any manner, shape or form, the intention or the mindset of the individual but instead manufactures a cloud form wholly created by yourself.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 3:12 pm #
Putting them in houses they couldn’t afford and then refied to cash out was a pretty bad idea, though. It’s not really taking care of them. And the criticism of executive pay would have more teeth if it weren’t for what Gorelick, Raines and Johnson took away from F&F, a government sponsored entity.
Comment by BJTex on 10/2 @ 3:15 pm #
Please refer to my comment #19. Quod Erat Demonstratum
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 3:24 pm #
Well, BJT, I do not cast yourself or Dan in the same light as the vocal majority here. We can be rhetorical without drowning each in pithiness.
Dan, the crisis in lending isn’t solely a sub-prime problem nor were all sub-prime loans given like candy to “the poor.” Take these fuckin’ empty sandcastles on the beach that I live next to. They went up in value by 30% a year before dropping like an anvil in the ocean, and none were meant as habitat for the working class nor ACORN advocates. You are over-simplifying!
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/2 @ 3:25 pm #
Just as the arguments regarding the privilege of McCain and his not being a “man of the people” are somewhat undercut by the prior support many of these same people showed for Gore or Kerry.
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 3:40 pm #
OK, but I didn’t support Gore nor Kerry. A partisan sword fight won’t benefit America nor does it frame a decent debate. 30% of America are registered as independent, as I am, so it’s with them that you need to understand and win over.
The heck with the same old worn out politics of your-way or my-way as if were in some two way war where the ideologies of these two corrupt parties are the only roads to travel down.
This bail out package defeat found “no” votes on both sides of the aisle, which is healthy I think. The process of legislative solutions should not be quick and easy as if it’s a simple problem a three-page memo could fix. There may be no real solution to be found within legislation, that should be discussed as well.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/2 @ 3:42 pm #
Even more damning — in order to get their “bonuses”, F&F had to hit a specific set of numbers on their books. They did — to within 1/10,000th of a cent. I dunno about you, but that smells of cooked books.
Which is all beside the point, because it remains that Barack Obama leads McCain in the important fund raising from Iran and Gaza race.
Comment by SarahW on 10/2 @ 3:47 pm #
Thor, whatever point you are wanting to make, it has little enough to do with taking money from outside of the country.
Comment by thor on 10/2 @ 4:10 pm #
I repeatedly point, for your necessity, to my post proclaiming that it makes no sense that Barack Obama would knowingly take money outside the country.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/2 @ 4:27 pm #
The point thor is trying to make is any point what-so-ever, so long as no one pays attention to his Savior taking cash illegally.
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Comment by RC on 10/2 @ 9:19 pm #
Thor? Thor who? Did Jeff hurt himself working out again so now he’s thor?
Sorry, couldn’t help it. Thor-less blog reading is so much more pleasant.
Comment by SarahW on 10/2 @ 10:42 pm #
thor, where is that post? I did not see it.
Comment by B Moe on 10/2 @ 10:55 pm #
We should occasionally appreciate what we are witnessing instead of being reactionaries and detesting every outcome as if life is as simple as a good/bad binary.
If I were a beach front condo dwelling trustafarian I might feel that way, too. But I am one of those poor, working stiffs you like to romanticize and Obama can go fuck himself in his little nancyboy ass as far as I am concerned. You educated idiot rich boys need to stay stoned in a bar full of dirty cops where you belong, just stay the fuck out of my life and bank account.
Obama has out-raised any and every candidate in American political history by a large margin. His campaign has refunded questionable donations. There would seem to be no motivation whatsoever for Obama to engage in such activity and even less proof he has done so to date.
That might be one of the dumbest fucking things I have ever read on the web. The fact that he has raised insane amounts of money proves he doesn’t need to steal? Did you really say that out loud?