Obama camp struggles to return bad cash

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Some of the statements in this article are better than a Tim Wilson comedy routine.

A few excerpts.

More than eight months after President Barack Obama won the White House, the remnants of his campaign organization is struggling to deal with some unfinished business: returning about $669,000 in tainted or illegal campaign contributions to a motley assortment of donors, among them a convicted murderer, Washington lobbyists and a number of foreign nationals, including his own aunt.

But the 11 Chicago-based staff members still on the campaign’s payroll are finding it was a lot easier to rake in a record-shattering $750 million than to identify and return donations that ran afoul of federal election laws or Obama’s own strict fundraising standards.

Obama supporters a motely bunch? NEVER!!!

The effort is unprecedented in modern politics, according to election law compliance experts, and underscores both the logistical challenges of processing so much contribution data and the Obama team’s hypersensitivity to anything that could sully the president’s carefully honed image as a crusader against special interests and a champion of ethics and transparency.

They used the words Obama, ethics, and transparency in the same sentence, and they did it with a straight face. lol:

Obama’s oft-repeated commitment to those ideals has been a favorite target for critics. During the campaign, they assailed him for breaking a promise to participate in a government financing program intended to reduce the role of fundraising and for lax screening of prohibited contributions from foreign nationals. Since taking office, he’s come under fire for backtracking on his pledge to keep his administration free of lobbyists, whom he vilified during the campaign, and for lending hisfundraising clout to groups that usually don’t adhere to the same strict no-lobbyist-cash standard that he imposed on his campaign and on the Democratic National Committee.

The Messiah backtracked and lied? NOOOOOO!!! :cray:

Most of the refunds are likely over the limit, foreign or lobbyist donations, or some combination thereof, but the campaign also continues to keep an eye out for individual donors whose notoriety could be used by critics against Obama — someone like Phil Spector. The award-winning record producer and songwriter gave a series of contributions to Obama, totaling the maximum $4,600, while facing murder charges — and even wore an Obama pin during his trial. But about one week after the case went to the jury in late March, the Obama campaign refunded $4,350 to Spector. (It had refunded the other $250 in the weeks after Election Day.) A week later, Spector was convicted of second-degree murder, and he’s now serving 19 years to life.

A week before?

"WHOA! Looks like they are going to convict him. We better send that cash back."

Well, I wll have to say, that's definitely transparent. I'm pretty sure even an Obamasheep can see through that one.

Obama announced to great fanfare during the campaign that he wouldn’t accept contributions from lobbyists or political action committees, because he wanted to decrease the power of special interests in Washington. And the second-quarter report lists refunds to lobbyists representing organizations ranging from the National Council of La Raza and the National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease to huge energy and hospital companies that oppose Obama’s cap-and-trade and health care reform plans, respectively.

Sure, let's refund the money to our supporting racist organizations. We'll give them a seat on the SCOTUS instead.

Unlike lobbyists, foreign nationals are legally barred from contributing to federal campaigns. But some foreign donors whose checks were returned apparently did not receive or cash them. Obama’s second-quarter report showed reissued refunds to 40 donors with foreign addresses from Argentina to Turkey or foreign nationals living in the United States.

That group includes Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who has lived illegally in the U.S. for years and is facing deportation. In May 2008, she donated $265 to her nephew’s campaign, listing an address in Boston. The campaign tried to refund her contribution in the final days before the election — on the same day The Associated Press revealed her illegal residency. Obama’s recent report shows the refund was reissued in May, and it’s not clear whether it was cashed.

Is this the illegal alien aunt who was on government assistance?

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You missed the most hilarious line of all in the first box, "Obama’s own strict fundraising standards."

I laughed when I read this.