While nothing can be more of a scandal than the Libyan Embassy disaster, criminal in both its circumstance and its subsequent cover-up, there is another evolving scandal involving the collection of foreign money


 Editor's notes:  This scandal has been in the making for months,  developed in a primary sense by the Government Accountability Institute. The Daily Beast,  perhaps the Lefts most moderate and well respected digital news site,  gives the best summary of the issues involved in this scandal.  Personally,  I do not believe that this scandal will have the impact of the Libyan Embassy scandal,  nor should it.  Many, many folks understand that Obama is a crook,  and,  if not a crook,  one who is more than willing to “play loose”  with the numbers,  whatever they represent.  But to carry that further,  to believe that he is willing to “play loose” with peoples lives,  well,  that is another matter.  For this editor,  that last consideration has been an established fact for years,  beginning with the idiocy swirling around Obama’s rules for engagement in Afghanistan.  The lives of those who he commands have been put at grave risk,  since he took the reins as Commander.  As an example, Obama has held to this rule,  part of his convoluted “fairness” doctrine:  if and when our troops are “pinned down,”  trapped in heavy combat,  if a residential site is anywhere close to the battleground location,  calling for air support has  not been allowed,  Obama pushing for the deaths of our soldiers over the potential deaths of near-by villagers. War is hell and,  often, decisions have to be made between terrible choices,  this is one of those situations. Understand that nearby villagers are no more “innocent” than are our soldiers,  period. To imagine that a Command in Chief would send his troops into battle and not “have their backs” in any and all situations,  is down right criminal.   Only a pink-o,  commie loving pig farmer would disagree.  What do you think?  In the following excerpt,  

The Daily Beast gives us a view of the criminal issue involved,  it makes the point that this abuse of funding laws has been around,  in the Obama camp,  since the 2008 campaign cycle.

From The Daily Beast: 
Further complicating the issue are websites like Obama.com—which is owned not by the Obama campaign but by Robert Roche, an American businessman and Obama fundraiser who lives in Shanghai. Roche’s China-based media company, Acorn International, runs infomercials on Chinese state television. Obama.com redirects to a specific donation page on BarackObama.com, the official campaign website. Unlike BarackObama.com, Obama.com’s traffic is 68 percent foreign, according to markosweb.com, a traffic-analysis website. According to France-based web analytics site Mustat.com, Obama.com receives over 2,000 visitors every day.

The name Robert W. Roche appears 11 times in the White House visitors log during the Obama administration. Roche also sits on the Obama administration’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, and is a co-chair of Technology for Obama, a fundraising effort. (In an email exchange, Roche declined to discuss his website, or his support for the Obama reelection effort, referring the inquiries to the Obama campaign team. The Obama campaign, in turn, says it has no control over Roche’s website; it also says only 2 percent of the donations associated with Obama.com come from overseas.)

But it isn’t just foreign donations that are a concern. So are fraudulent donations. In the age of digital contributions, fraudsters can deploy so-called robo-donations, computer programs that use false names to spew hundreds of donations a day in small increments, in order to evade reporting requirements. According to an October 2008 Washington Post article, Mary Biskup of Missouri appeared to give more than $170,000 in small donations to the 2008 Obama campaign. Yet Biskup said she never gave any money to the campaign. Some other contributor gave the donations using her name, without her knowledge. (The Obama campaign explained to thePost that it caught the donations and returned them.) . . . . . . curiosity up??  I suggest you read the full article at TheDaily Beast.   

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