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- mediablitz, on 10/07/2008, -46/+426So, somebody goes in anonymously, and posts bogus contributions. The Obama campaign quickly finds the bogus contributions, and refunds them:
"The Obama campaign says “out of an abundance of caution” all of these donations are in the process of being returned.
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton sent CBS News the following email statement, “We constantly review our donors for any issues and while no organization is completely protected from internet fraud, we will continue to review our fundraising procedures to ensure that we are taking every available step to root-out improper contributions.”
And this is somehow proof of some nefarious plot, according to the right wingers who can't debate on issues? The next 30 days are going to be interminable... - inactive, on 10/07/2008, -33/+2547,722 dollars?!!! Stop the PRESSES!
- V0lk, on 10/07/2008, -21/+158wow....2 donors out of 4,000,000. Must be some sort of liberal conspiracy!
do your own research.
http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/mapApp.do - mobbo, on 10/07/2008, -16/+144I wonder if Mr. QWERTY has donated yet.
- Antimatter85, on 10/07/2008, -23/+149Guys, people are donating money to obama anonymously! This is clearly evidence of a devilish plot by those pinko bastards to corrupt the entire election! This is all clearly Obama's fault!
Who the ***** dugg this ***** to the front page? - dist0rtedwave, on 10/07/2008, -8/+126Dahsudhu Hdusahfd and Uadhshgu Hduadh are going to be pissed when they hear about this. We are such racists.
- stealth658, on 10/07/2008, -19/+120Hm, which conservative blog linked to this? (I say this because of all the unusual anti-Obama posts that aren't yet dugg down.)
Oh, and $7,722 that's being returned isn't really anything to go crazy over...
Edit: Ah, there we go, they're all dugg down now. - wafla, on 10/07/2008, -2/+94What they have is a transaction ID from the merchant account system. It doesn't matter what bogus information is attached to the transaction, they can refund it with nothing more than the authcode and the authtransid.
- miken32, on 10/07/2008, -14/+105News flash: people often don't fill out forms on the internet with accurate information!
- RaysinX, on 10/07/2008, -26/+97anti-Obama? Front Page of digg?
dugg for the sheer absurdity - malex, on 10/07/2008, -19/+83OMG THIS IS HUGE.
/s - elhaf, on 10/07/2008, -10/+72Probably righties are doing this to make the Obama campaign look bad.
- MalarkeyPN, on 10/07/2008, -2/+61Can you prove anything you said in your post?
- Ganpachi, on 10/07/2008, -5/+63[citation needed]
- Wryly, on 10/07/2008, -17/+68Relax, they're giving back the money. Nice try, Karl.
- Ganpachi, on 10/07/2008, -2/+50"The bogus contributions are coming in faster than the few that the Obama campaign is rejecting."
[citation needed] - Raptor007, on 10/07/2008, -13/+56Err, so what? People can contribute online and enter whatever information they want. The Obama campaign is returning the money anyway, so I don't see what all the fuss is about.
- roberekson, on 10/07/2008, -5/+47Except you missed the whole "refund" part, which means they aren't "accepting" the contributions.
But don't let facts ruin your argument. - Raptor007, on 10/07/2008, -1/+41I guess you're not high enough up in your company to know how the credit card processing works. They can easily refund a transaction back to the same account. They don't have to track down the person to refund their card.
- JinnRikki, on 10/07/2008, -21/+61When are you going to focus on McCains breaking campaign finance law?
When John McCain's campaign was strapped for cash John McCain opted into the campaign financing system by requesting certification that he was eligible to collect federal money. As the New Hampshire primary approached and John McCain was broke he took material advantage of the system by using the promise of matching funds to borrow money to keep his campaign afloat. And he took advantage of a rule that gives candidates who take public financing automatic ballot access on ballots in several states. (Governor Dean estimated that he spent 3 million dollars in 2004 getting on ballots in states because he had opted out of the public financing system. )
Once John McCain had taken advantage of the system by gaining ballot access and securing a campaign saving loan, he won the New Hampshire primary and became the apparent nominee of the Republican Party. He then sent a letter saying that he was opting out of the primary process and claiming that the FEC is now impotent to stop him.
If John McCain is forced to stay in the matching system he will only be allowed to spend $56 million dollars before the Republican convention in September. As of the end of January John McCain had already spent $49 million dollars meaning that today he's either close to the cap or over the amount of money he can spend during the primary.
What does it mean for John McCain? It's yet another issue where John McCain tries to legislate one way and do something completely different. In this case it has to do with campaign finance issues. As Brad Smith, the former Republican FEC commissioner noted, if McCain drops out of the system the FEC will subpoena McCain, and his staff during and their records to determine whether they violated the law. If they're found to be in violation of the law they can be fined up to $25,000 and they can be jailed for up to five years. - agaiziunas, on 10/07/2008, -23/+62At least Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs remembered to spell THEIR names right.
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -3/+40Wait, so people who didn't give their names make this a contribution from terrorists and whatnot? Talk about jumping to conclusions. For all you know these donations came from McCain / Palin.
- AndrewMoyer, on 10/07/2008, -2/+38Unfortunately, a lot of people will stop at the sensational headline, which alone suggests wrongdoing.
The headline should have mentioned the refunds.
"Obama refunds more bogus donations"
Wow, I should have been a journalist. - V0lk, on 10/07/2008, -2/+36I bet Mr. asdfjklj is a terrorist too!
- wafla, on 10/07/2008, -5/+38This story is a crazy magnet.
- jeffbw, on 10/07/2008, -5/+38You're going to hearily defend are great country? Count me ing.
- jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -6/+35My favorite part of your comment was when I hit bury, and you went from 0 to -9.
- billbugger, on 10/07/2008, -2/+31TRFA before commenting.
- rz8472, on 10/07/2008, -11/+39$7722, that was btw refunded. This story isn't worth the pixels it's printed on.
- thaddeusphoenix, on 10/07/2008, -6/+34He also eats babies.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -2/+283 babies died during the posting of this comment.
- diggit83, on 10/07/2008, -2/+28wow you are a moron....
- kidrichgt, on 10/07/2008, -2/+27This story=distraction from issues.
The news really needs a preface of "In order to appear to be remaining neutral we had to dig to find something negative about the Democrats instead of talking about the issues" - minimitable, on 10/07/2008, -1/+26That was my first thought.
- Gutterpunk, on 10/07/2008, -3/+27Thats what she said!
/zing - twiztidsinz, on 10/07/2008, -9/+31What about the 4 little boys that McCain was caught with?
See.. we can make ***** up too!! - kronix2, on 10/07/2008, -5/+27"He has accepted well over $30 million from FOREIGN donors, some from Iran, Lebanon and other places that are less than friendly to the US."
Source? Or is this another "Obama associates with our enemies and is probably a Muslim terrorist" smears? - CrimsonBlur, on 10/07/2008, -12/+33Someone filled out an Internet form with inaccurate information? Stop the presses! What the hell? How is this news? The campaign is returning any donations from individuals they think gave bogus information. What more could they possibly do about this?
This has nothing to do with the Obama campaign, some people are idiots and don't put their real contact info in Online forms. What do you expect the Obama campaign to do, perform a background check on every Online donation in real time? Give me a break.
The only reason the Obama campaign is running into this in large numbers is because they have by far the most donations. - KirbyMeister, on 10/07/2008, -6/+27The McCain campaign, probably; although I doubt McCain would be able to find Digg much less figure out how to post a comment.
- tensionhead, on 10/07/2008, -5/+25Don't hold your breath Ganpachi.
- V0lk, on 10/07/2008, -1/+21well, there's the FEC website, go find some more Sherlock.
- enki25, on 10/07/2008, -8/+28Calm down. Breathe, breathe. It'll be ok little wingnut. When Obama is sworn in and starts solving problems, you'll be happy. Go fap to some anime porn or something.
- gullyben, on 10/07/2008, -11/+30Wouldn't be at all surprised if these donations are really from McCain supporters trying to create a false scandal
Just wait for them to start complaining about this in the media
And yes, please people, READ THE ARTICLE - PHiZ187, on 10/07/2008, -11/+30Please, McCain's bundlers have been donating through strawmen all campaign: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story ...
- evanct, on 10/07/2008, -0/+18not only that, it's an insult to the diverse grassroots communities of Df and Dhff.
- GawtMilk, on 10/07/2008, -4/+22"Obama took $70,000 from Hamas"
"No, actually, he gave that money back"
"Obama gave $70,000 to Hamas"
"Well, they weren't actually part of Hamas. They just lived Israel"
"Obama: $70,000 to the pocket of Israel"
"Well actually, the Gaza Strip is geographically in Israel; but it is in actuality a Palestinian state"
"Obama: funds terrorism with $70,000 of his campaign funds"
etc etc. You're going to have a hard time persuading idiots to stop using their talking points. - zeroeffect, on 10/07/2008, -3/+20@PolishLogic
Well then I don't need a citation to say McCain is having an affair with Palin! Prove that he isn't...
Do you see the fundamental flaw in your logic? - somegeologist, on 10/07/2008, -14/+31Traceback of the IP of donors leads to an address owned by Sean Hannity.
- 5fifteen, on 10/07/2008, -5/+22Get your facts straight. The donors are not part of HAMAS. They just happen to live in the gaza strip. The money has been returned to them.
- Zoogla, on 10/07/2008, -17/+34So let me understand this out the the tens of thousands of donors to Senator Obama there are two that are a problem for about $7,000 and that's news?
McCain got a lot more money from Charles Keating. He cheated on his wife after she waited for him to come back after crashing his fifth plane and confessing to the Vietnemese that the US war was illegal. -
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