georgie soros is the puppet master On Oct 21, 4:27 pm, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Travis > Subject: Massive Fund Raising Misdeeds Prove Obama is Bought, But Who owns > Him? > Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 > > > [image:http://familysecuritymatters.org/]<http://familysecuritymatters.org/> > > October 21, 2008 > Massive Fund Raising Misdeeds Prove Obama is Bought, But Who owns Him? > > Paul > Hollrah<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.62/author_detail.asp> > In a July 25 column titled "Who Owns Barack Obama?" we discussed Obama's > phenomenal fundraising juggernaut. > In July, Obama* *boasted that, as of May 31, his contributor base numbered > some 1.5 million people, with one-fourth, or $66.25 million of his $265 > million, coming from those contributing $2,000, or more... some 33,200 > people. Thus, the remainder, or $198.75 million, came from some 1.47 million > people, each contributing $5, $10, $20... or, as Obama assured us, "whatever > they could afford." > While it is true that Obama is the kind of guy who could read Bill Clinton's > golf scorecard and make it sound convincing, simple arithmetic should have > told him that $198.75 million dollars cannot be contributed by 1.47 million > people in "$5, $10, or $20" amounts. Each of those 1.47 million people would > have had to contribute, on average, $135 to create a pool of $198.75 > million... and that simply does not happen. It has never happened before in > American politics and it is *not* happening now. > But now, just days before the election, the Obama campaign has compounded > their sins. They are now reporting that their contributor base has increased > from 1.5 million to 2.5 million and that the total amount raised now > approaches $600 million. If we can assume that 25% of their contributions > still come from individuals giving $2,000 to $2,300, that base has now grown > from 33,200 individuals to 65,000 in a time span of just three months, and > the number of individuals contributing modest amounts... "$5, $10, $20, or > whatever they could afford"... is now up from 1.47 million to 2.43 million, > each contributing, on average, $185. > Anyone who believes that is actually happening will believe almost anything. > So how are they doing it? > In our July 25 column we pointed out that UBS Americas, headed by Robert > Wolf... along with George Soros, one of Obama's top two money men... had > been accused of highly unethical and illegal banking practices in six months > of hearings by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. > According to an article in *The Nation*, UBS Americas, a subsidiary of UBS, > of Zurich, Switzerland, has advised wealthy Americans, including many of our > worst villains, how to shelter funds from the IRS, as well as from > prosecutors, creditors, disgruntled business associates, family members, and > each other. > In a Statement of Facts in the recent criminal trial of former UBS executive > Bradley Birkenfeld, it was alleged that UBS took extraordinary steps to help > American clients manage their Swiss accounts without alerting federal > authorities. For example, UBS advised American clients to avoid detection by > using Swiss credit cards to withdraw funds, to destroy all existing > off-shore banking records, and to misrepresent the receipt of funds from > their Swiss accounts as *loans* from the Swiss bank. According to *The > Nation, *UBS established an elaborate training program which taught bank > employees how to avoid surveillance by U.S. Customs and law enforcement, > falsify visas, encrypt communications, and secretly move money in and out of > the country... " > It is the perfect instrument for funneling illegal campaign contributions > into the coffers of an unscrupulous American politician. Putting two and two > together, I suggested that a very wealthy individual, or cartel, wishing to > influence the election of the President of the United States, could transfer > unlimited sums of money through this device. A U.S. recipient, such as the > Obama campaign, could receive hundreds of thousands of individual > contributions via Swiss credit card transfers, with fictitious payees being > entered by teams of paid staffers working in a "boiler room" setting. The > owners of the Swiss accounts would receive periodic statements indicating: > a) debits of varying amounts, up to $2,300 each, and b) offsetting credits > provided by the cartel, or by the wealthy, but unnamed, "international > financier." > For most of the super wealthy, especially those attempting to hide income > and assets from U.S. authorities, an unexplained debit and credit of $2,300, > or less, would not even raise an eyebrow. So who would ever know the source > of such contributions? No one. > Now, in an October 20 article in *Newsmax*, writer Kenneth Timmerman > provides details from Federal Election Commission records that give > substantial weight to my theory. In studying Obama's FEC filings, > *Newsmax*found more than 2,000 donors who had given substantially more > than their > $4,600 limit ($2,300 in the primaries and $2,300 in the General Election). > The law requires that such excess contributions must be returned to the > donor within 60 days of the donor going over his/her limit. However, many of > the donors contacted by *Newsmax* said that they had not been contacted by > the Obama campaign and that they had not received refunds. > But these are relatively minor infractions compared to 66,383 highly > suspicious contributions, from 37,265 donors, whose contributions were not > rounded to even dollar amounts. For example, Timmerman tells us that John > Atkinson, an insurance agent in Burr Ridge, Illinois, gave a total of > $8,724.26. He gave in odd amounts such as $188.67, $1,542.06, $876.09, > $388.67, $282.20, $195.66, $118.15, and one of $2,300. > Sandra Daneshinia, a self-employed caregiver of Los Angeles, made 36 > separate contributions totaling $7,051.12. Thirteen of her contributions > were later refunded. However, in an odd coincidence those 13 refunds, in > amounts such as $233.88 and $201.44, came to an even $2,300, the maximum > amount allowable in any one election. > One contributor interviewed by *Newsmax*, Ronald J. Sharpe, Jr., a retired > schoolteacher from Rockledge, Florida, is reported to have given $13,800... > $9,200 over his limit. However, Mr. Sharpe does not remember giving that > much money to Obama, nor has anyone from the campaign ever contacted him > about a refund. > Of the 66,383 contributions in odd amounts, 44,410 were in unrounded amounts > of less than $100, 15,269 contributions were in unrounded amounts of between > $101 and $999, and 704 contributions were in odd amounts greater than > $1,000. > Lest anyone suggest that these 37,265 donors either emptied their piggy > banks or emptied their pockets and purses periodically and just sent it all > to Obama, pennies and all, allow me to suggest something a tiny bit more > Macheavellian. Those 66,383 contributions are the proceeds of conversions of > foreign currency, smuggled into the country in foreign credit card receipts, > and converted to U.S. dollars. > According to a *Newsmax* analysis, the Obama campaign finance reports > contain some 370,500 unique names... a far cry from the 2.5 million > contributor base claimed by the campaign. Of course, when your money is > coming in large chunks from offshore accounts, such as hundreds of thousands > of dollars at a time from the Middle East and from Third World African > countries, then laundered though UBS accounts in Zurich, it takes a bit of > creativity to put authentic-sounding names on all of it for the FEC records. > How massive is this crime? Since the Obama campaign has refused to disclose > their complete contributor list (they continue to hide the identities of > some 2 million donors), as the McCain campaign has done, *Newsmax* estimates > that "Obama is financing his presidential campaign with anywhere from $13 > million to a whopping $63 million from overseas credit cards or foreign > currency purchases." > Given the massive voter registration fraud committed by Obama's supporters, > the fraudulent votes already cast in early voting by itinerant out-of-state > voters, and the massive crime involved in accepting tens of thousands of > illegal foreign contributions, John McCain and Sarah Palin simply must close > the gap in the closing days of the campaign. If not, we will inaugurate a > man on January 20 who will have to be impeached before his wife has a chance > to measure the White House for new draperies. > *FamilySecurityMatters.org <http://familysecuritymatters.org//> Contributing > Editor Paul Hollrah is a Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Heritage Institute.* > You can find this online > at:http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1527/pub_detail.asp > > COPYRIGHT 2008 FAMILY SECURITY > MATTERS<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/>INC. > > -- > *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
* Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
