Obama’s World Tour ‘Splained

Fanboy and I have been having a recurring conversation regarding Obama’s web-based fundraising, in particular the inherent exposure for fraud and abuse.  Atlas Shrugs has an interesting post on this topic:

There are way too many overseas contributions and I find it hard to believe they are all American citizens. How does the FEC monitor that? Some of contributions appear to be “bundled” from one person as source to hide the contributions of many, and an example of one among many such “incidents” will clearly show why I arrive at such a conclusion..

A  red flag is a donor like Jeanne McCurdy. Look at the contribution excerpt below. It’s a compilation of a mere four pages of listings, pages 40-44,  approximately 9% of the pages of the total document I received, and it lists contributions made by a Jeanne McCurdy, who is always listed as unemployed, and who does not have an address at least as can be found in the files provided (and, as you might well expect, no phone number or email address either).

John did a computation of her contributions from roughly Aug. 07 through Feb/Mar of 08, and it is over $1200.  She ranges from a $15 to a $400 contribution, most running $25/35 to $50. Several of her separate contributions are listed on the same day, a very curious way to make campaign contributions, which are usually in response to mailed solicitations. (She should accumulate them, save on postage.)

This is a scam. It appears to us he is fronting the contributions to hide the contributors.  Now, why in the hell would he do that?  He doesn’t want people to know who his contributors are?  What an odd approach for a politician. Now, this woman, Jeanne Mccurdy (is she is a woman, a real or ficticious person?) appears to be mining a population of people who do not wish their identities known…..

Obama’s world tour is not to shore up his international cred – it’s a fund raising mission.  It’s time for the GOP operatives to comb through the filings and highlight fraud.  Tis only fitting.  Obama won his first elected office by challenging the signature on petitions for his competitors until all of them were removed from the election.  He won by default as the only candidate on the ballot.  He’s earned a Karmic Payback.