Comments on: WaPo: Obama Campaign Purposefully Accepting Questionable Donations

By: Orson Buggeigh

Orson Buggeigh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:41:27 +0000

Thanks for picking up on this, Michael. I’ll be commenting on this shortly. Orson.

By: c3

c3 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:12:43 +0000

Be reassured though that these donations, though some may be large (and even some very large) are “ordinary people coming together to achieve extraordinary things.”

Lets not lose sight of the fact that “the public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken”. The large donations(some might call them HUGE, some might use other terms) are “the only way we can truly change how Washington works”.

So “this is our moment and our country is depending on us. So join” Senator Obama “and declare your independence from this broken system and let’s build the first general election campaign that’s truly funded by the American people”.

(Please understand your conviction will require a minimum donation of….)

By: Tully

Tully — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:17:08 +0000

Now now, they’re just using the same screening system they hope will be used for screening votes for legitimacy.

They borrowed the idea from ACORN.

By: mw

mw — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:15:10 +0000

This really is pretty shoddy. In and of itself, it might be shrugged off. But when you look at it in the context of the sheer magnitude of money being raised, the lack of transparency, the broken promise to take public funding, the lust for big campaign donations, and the deep and broad connection between the Obama campaign lobbyists and major corporations, it is getting pretty ugly. The Axelrod/ATT connection is particularly troubling in light of Obama reneging on his explicit promise to fight Telecom Immunity, but then voting for it.

By: Bilby

Bilby — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:06:49 +0000

Washington Post is only reporting this now because they think the polls are accurate and there’s no way it can keep Obama from winning next Tuesday. From CNN to NYT to Washington Post to Politico we’re finally seeing stories that reflect negatively on Obama. Of course most of us have known this information for weeks. The MSM is reporting it now so they can say they reported it.