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GOP to file complaint against Obama
October 6, 2008
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Washington — The Republican National Committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign today, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal limits as well as illegal contributions from foreigners.
RNC officials acknowledged Sunday that they do not have a list of foreign donors to Obama's campaign. Instead, the complaint is based largely on media reports, including one from the conservative Web site Newsmax.
The complaint asks the Federal Elections Commission to audit Obama's campaign fund, RNC chief counsel Sean Cairncross said in a conference call with reporters.
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6 October 2008
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DouglasCountySucks (Anonymous) says…
Republicans must be fox news network family members……….
No facts but go to mama and bit-h , what a bunch of jackof-s .Republicans more of the same and less for the working man…………………………………………….
Vote OBAMA and get change .
6 October 2008
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jonas_opines (Anonymous) says…
“RNC officials acknowledged Sunday that they do not have a list of foreign donors to Obama's campaign. Instead, the complaint is based largely on media reports, including one from the conservative Web site Newsmax.”
Please. Maybe you should do the research before you trust Newsmax. It's highly possible that this is true, I suppose, but going with the pundit media for your leads is a bad sign.
6 October 2008
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jmadison (Anonymous) says…
Sen Obama's campaign has refused to disclose all their campaign contributions, Sen McCain has. Foreign contributions are illegal.
6 October 2008
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LiberalDude (Anonymous) says…
The Republicans are starting to get desparate. The polls are looking very good for Obama. I expect them to resort to some sinister tricks over the next month as they try to “swift boat” Obama. The American people are tired of their dirty politics and they won't work this time.
Yes We Can!!!
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
As Obama increases his margin of victory, the more shrill and panicky the McSame and bimbo supporters become.
6 October 2008
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
Great Leader O'dude is a global leader. Why shouldn't he take money from his global followers?
(beo, your copy/paste function is stuck)
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Taking a lesson from current administration. Repeat something long enough and often enough, even if a lie, which my post is not, people will start to believe it. You apparently do, along with far too many on right.
6 October 2008
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
Desperate times call for desperate measures…
Agnostick
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http://www.independentvoting.org
P.S. Coming up next… the “earth-shattering” story about Obama's extramarital affair(s)… the Neoconcircus is saving the best for last! roflmao!!
6 October 2008
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1029 (Anonymous) says…
Looks like the RNC is getting flustered. Come on, Republicans, take your defeat with dignity. McCain was a weak candidate and there just weren't enough people who were ignorant enough to be energized by Palin and not recognize her dangerous incompetence. The inevitable death of the GOP's primitive ideology is only going to be accelerated if all the party does is whine and b**ch for the next four years.
6 October 2008
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duplenty (Anonymous) says…
“I suspect they're getting many of their donations from terrorist organizations. Makes sense, put'em in jail.”
I agree. Now, let's just see the *evidence*…
Or are you against our legal system as well, koolaid?
6 October 2008
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Mkh (Anonymous) says…
Google “Barack Obama Truth Squad”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIenDG…
6 October 2008
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bad_dog (Anonymous) says…
I thought you were (a) “truthteller” Koolaid?
Disruption, distortion, distraction and desperation. Despicable tactics all, courtesy of the RNC and McCain. McCain apparently forgot he's the candidate who so infamously stated the American people were tired of the politics of hate and promised not to run that kind of campaign.
Would McCain endorse (at least publicly) the asinine characterization of Obama and Biden promoted by you and your ilk?
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
mkh, anyone who list youtube as a valid source is beyond hope. Like those who believe Foxnews is fair and balanced and those who believe anything Russ spouts. 1/21/09 can't get here soon enough for the real world.
6 October 2008
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
So, all you have to offer is a propoganda video, rather than a published news story, huh?
Telling. Very, very telling.
Oh, and I think you misunderstand the concept of all this, Mkh.
See… ***you*** are the one making the claim. It's up to ***you*** to do the “googling,” not the readers. The main job of the readers like myself is to either accept your argument, because you've taken the time to back it up… or throw the appropriate stones at you, for being the fool that you are.
Don't expect me to do your homework, Mkh. It's simply not my responsibility. I've already offered links with my posts; now, it's your turn.
—Ag
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meggers (Anonymous) says…
Better yet, google John McCain is a big fat liar.
6 October 2008
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autie (Anonymous) says…
Mkh, maybe those truth squads will help keep every Joe Sixpack and Hockey Mom straight on their facts. This sounds like a “well, could be” type accusation. Desparate times call for desparate measures.
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
mkh, does this not describe you?
“As Obama increases his margin of victory, the more shrill and panicky the McSame and bimbo supporters become.”
6 October 2008
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meggers (Anonymous) says…
jmadison says: “Sen Obama's campaign has refused to disclose all their campaign contributions, Sen McCain has. ”
This is factually incorrect. According to opensecrets.org, McCain actually has more undisclosed donors than Obama.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/ind…
6 October 2008
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autie (Anonymous) says…
thanks meggers. Interesting info. It would appear McCain is lacking a bit more than the Obama camp when it comes to full disclosure. Living in glass houses can be dangerous.
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
The fact Obama turned down public money after scolding the other Dem runners about accepting special interests $$$, after he originally said he would take it should have been a red flag this guy is the same-old-same-old he rails against with his bullsh*t “change” mantra. He lifted his campaign spending caps by doing this, something that has not been done by a pres. nominee in 35 years. Then he proceeds to rake it in from special interest like no other. It shows he is a smart politician…..but again, “change”? Where? And the far-left are so love-struck they either don't care and are making a “one-time exception” or are just willfully ignorant of the real picture….or just stupid.
6 October 2008
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BuffyloGal (Anonymous) says…
“Does the President have a secret Swiss bank account” - if you read this headline without reading the article, which then goes on to suggest that actually the reporter found no evidence to that effect, it wouldn't matter. The idea is placed in people's heads and in two months they will ask, “Didn't I read something about a secret Swiss bank account?” forgetting the details. Having no proof but filing a complaint nonetheless is what the RNC is all about. Since 12% of our population still believe that Obama is Muslim, it is no wonder they are pulling this stunt as well.
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Tom, doesn't this describe you and average Obama hater? “just willfully ignorant of the real picture:.or just stupid.”
Which are you?
6 October 2008
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Larry_The_Moocher (Anonymous) says…
the only change you will get from Obama is heard on the street.
Hey, you got any spare change?
6 October 2008
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beatrice (Anonymous) says…
Obama saved the tax-payers money by not taking public funds. It was also the only way he could compete against the fat-cats in the Republican party who have a lot more big-business special interest funds to throw in support of McCain. Obama is leading in the polls and will likely be our next president, and the haters are getting desparate. Too bad, so sad, goodbye Republican haters.
Tom, Obama will also win re-election, followed by 8 years of Hillary Clinton.
6 October 2008
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logicsound04 (Anonymous) says…
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
Smells like…..victory.
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
Beobachter, you can think what you want. Where is your worthwhile input? Do you actually know anything of substance to post? Can you put aside your irrational hatred for Bush long enough to form a meaningful and/or coherent point?
I don't agree with you beatrice. I think the economy is too fragile just as is the global outlook. Obama is not going to handle either well. He won't serve a second and Hillary is never going to be elected president.
6 October 2008
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duplenty (Anonymous) says…
“Where is your worthwhile input? Do you actually know anything of substance to post? Can you put aside your irrational hatred for Bush long enough to form a meaningful and/or coherent point?”
bwhahahahaha! The exact same question goes right back atcha, Lil' Tommy.
Give me a break.
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Tom, would you post just one simple example where you posted anything of substance? And would you explain why every post you makes contains a reference to those dreaded liberals
6 October 2008
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logicsound04 (Anonymous) says…
Come on guys, go easy on Tommy Boy. He's starting to realize that an Obama/Biden victory is becoming more and more inevitable.
His world is crashing down around him.
Let's just watch. :-) Anybody have some popcorn?
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
Let me tell you, I'm not going to let an Obama victory ruin my world. What's it going to mean to you on the left? Let's be serious here. What is Obama going to do to improve your life, in your own words?
6 October 2008
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BuffyloGal (Anonymous) says…
Hopefully nationalized health care! It is a wonderful thing and the peace of mind that comes with it cannot be given a monetary value. It is disgraceful that we are so behind the rest of the “developed” world in this regard.
6 October 2008
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jaywalker (Anonymous) says…
What jonas said.
6 October 2008
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autie (Anonymous) says…
I think the other day, Tom said he was going to get on a plane and fly away if Obama won. Being serious here, cause I can't just up and renounce my citizenship and move to another country, regardless of who wins, my hope would be that Obama would focus on the people of the US and spend some of my tax dollars on building America from the inside out..and bring us back up to the level of the rest of the 1st world countries..Ditto Ms. BuffyloGal..national health care would be a good start..along with effective and affordable education…
6 October 2008
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invictus (Anonymous) says…
He is getting money from Hezbollah and opium money from Al-Qaeda.
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Tom?
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
So autie is resonating Obama's view of America as not a great country–one that needs overhauling–-a classic far-left, secular-progressive viewpoint. Not impressed. And whether I said I'd high-tail it outta here or not, maybe I will and maybe I won't. I think the American people will right this the listing ship that Obama will be at the helm of. Hell, pay the healthcare, my wife and I will just do more pre-tax investing, and beat the liberals at their game–again. If that's the worst Obama does, I'll be surprised. Again, in any event, I'm ready, are you? You down and outers are gonna be more down and out with Obama as your president–-bet on it. Obama is a fraud, and his own party will launch a jihad on him before his four years is up.
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
Here is your “change agent”:
http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/new-c…
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Tom, would you post just one simple example where you posted anything of substance? And would you explain why every post you makes contains a reference to those dreaded liberals
For once right_thinker would you answer a simple question?
6 October 2008
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merrill (Anonymous) says…
McCain must have campaign funding problems plus having no real platform of his own.
There are many other reasons not to put republicans in office ever again. Republican presidents have some long history of big time crime taking place within their administrations. The Bush and McCain families worked as a team in the Savings and loan
scandal.
CRIME: Who has history with financial institutions going south such as the savings and loan scandal?
http://rationalrevolution0.tripod.com…
Republicans! McCain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-1…
How do voters forget so easily?
Crime against Vets:
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org…
CRIME: What party is in the white house that went around the nation lying to citizens about Social Security? Republicans!
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archiv…
What party is in the white house and has been observing the sub prime loan scandals, pretending nothing was wrong? Republicans at a cost of $700,000,000,000 to the taxpayers.
CRIME: Who hosted the Iran Contra secret illegal sale of weapons? Republicans!
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publ…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/p…
CRIME: Who brought the nation Iran Contra number 2? Republicans!
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/5/…
CRIME: Which party illegally spied on the democrats to win an election? Republicans! Watergate!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/…
CRIME: Which party held secret energy meetings and refused our elected officials its' content and who attended? GW Bush and the republicans!
CRIME: Which party lied to congress and the world,went against military advice and created the worst strategic blunder in the history of the USA aka Iraq War? Republican Party!
Which party has held secret oil deals with Saudi Arabia?
Republicans!
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/20…
CRIME: Secret Oil deals for Iraq Oil- Republicans!
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/…
crime against the economy: Which party introduced voodoo economics into our system? aka Reaganomics. Republicans!
Who still practices Voodoo economics? GW Bush and the republican party!
The USA has fewer jobs for taxpayers today as a result of a Texas republican governor exercising his executive decision making powers as president of the USA. 159,000 lost in September….600,000 since January.
crime against democracy : pnac's policy document, “Rebuilding America's Defences,” openly advocates for total global military domination. Many PNAC members hold highest-level positions in the George W. Bush administration. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?…
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
It's all there for you beobachter….Tom, me, gives you the information–-learn how to use it. Now if this elusive 'right thinker' will answer, will you be happy?
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Tom, formerly right_thinker, you have never provide any information other than rants. The only true answer you have ever provided me was “yes, I'm a gigolo” remember that?
Have you ever posted anything that didn't rant against the dreaded “liberals”?
6 October 2008
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beatrice (Anonymous) says…
Tom: “He won't serve a second and Hillary is never going to be elected president.”
Then again, you previously said America wouldn't elect a black man. Although the race isn't over, it appears to be heavily favoring Obama. It is going to be two terms for Obama, two for Hillary Clinton, followed by two by — oh, why not say — Chelsea Clinton.
Clinton 2024! A Daughter for a Change!
6 October 2008
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BuffyloGal (Anonymous) says…
Oxford educated, and she certainly learned from the mistakes of her parents, so yeah, why not. Shame we'd have to wait so long for a female president though!
6 October 2008
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zzgoeb (Anonymous) says…
Obama is a Muslim, a terrorist…at least McCain and company are addressing the issues. The Keating 5 is NOT fiction or fantasy, but documented fact. Read the current piece in Rollingstone to get a REAL idea of McCain's past.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/cove…
6 October 2008
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RedwoodCoast (Anonymous) says…
The air is rife with conservative desperation. I love it.
6 October 2008
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badger (Anonymous) says…
So, I'm totally down with eight years of Obama. I've been supporting him and working for his campaign down here in Austin.
But I might slit my wrists if I had to endure Hillary Clinton as a Pres. As far as I'm concerned, she burned the bridge and salted the earth behind her and I'll sit out any election in which she's the Democratic candidate unless the Repubs actually nominate someone who doesn't make me vomit.
As to the article? Pish tosh. If they had proof, they'd have included it in their charges. They have media reports and hearsay, and any judge with sense is going to demand proof of actual wrongdoing instead of entertaining a last-ditch fishing expedition based on a bunch of conservative wankery.
Pfft.
6 October 2008
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tangential_reasoners_anonymous (Anonymous) says…
Please *file* that complaint in the B-mcC cabinet.
6 October 2008
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sfjayhawk (Anonymous) says…
desperation sure does reek, someone open a window
6 October 2008
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logicsound04 (Anonymous) says…
Can anyone imagine how berserk Tommy Boy, BigPrune, Marion, etc would be going if there was a news report about the Democrats filing a complaint against the McCain campaign for something they read on Huffington Post?
I don't know what's more amusing, the hypocrisy or the desperation.
6 October 2008
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beobachter (Anonymous) says…
Can't we simply call it “Hypocritical desperation”?
6 October 2008
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
Libs remind me of teenagers out in a group. Unable to truly fend for themselves, but complaining to each other about their big, bad terrible parents (conservatives) who they feel are just out to get them–how they stomp on their freedom. But the parents are the ones taking care of them and keeping things together, and the teenagers only think about themselves and don't appreciate anything–not seeing the real picture.
6 October 2008
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
Hopefully nationalized health care! It is a wonderful thing and the peace of mind that comes with it cannot be given a monetary value. It is disgraceful
that we are so behind the rest of the “developed” world in this regard.
–Buffy
hey Buffy, please sign my death certificate if we get Obamacare/nationalized health care. at least four times modern health care has saved my life *because I live in the U.S.A., and *not* in Britain or Canada! you get his plan: long waiting to see specialists, even for *emergencies!*
think before you surrender the best medical care in the world to a guy who started running for president *after only 143 days* in the senate! least qualified candidate to run for a major party in one hundred years.
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hey Tom,
you think the Obamanoids found some more of that stinky clinton-chinese money?
indeed, Newsmax ain't the best source!
ya' know Tom, they're crying hypocrisy.
what's really hypocrisy: if a republican or republican white politician had been in a church for twenty years, given scores of thousands of dollars to that church, and the congregation were so hate-filled, racist, and headed by such a white equivalent to Rev. Wright. that politician would be toast in five seconds.
in the '90s, Barney Frank, on the banking committee (as it was called then) had a long-term homosexual relationship with manager at *Fannie* Mae whom he was to be providing oversight and regulatory management for! that's when this mess we're in started, and Barney Frank even fought against Bill Clinton's attempt to draw the line on FM…Clinton's own words!
real hypocrisy, eh Tom?
oh, yeah, some of these above posting so sanctimoniously, went on and on and on about Mark Foley, but happily overlook that about Frank, and that he had a *homosexual “callboy” ring working outa his house! yeah.
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Mr_Nancy_Boy_To_You (Tom Shewmon) says…
Yes BG, imagine if Barney Frank was a Republican, straight and dating a FNMA exec and on the take, making the statements Frank made, collecting political donations….it would be all over the NY Times, NBC and CNN as though it were the news of the past two centuries.
But openly gay Frank who was on the dole and bedding a male FNMA exec…..ah heck, not enough story to cover there.
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BuffyloGal (Anonymous) says…
Hey BG - as I've mentioned before on other posts - I lived in Australia for ten years and believe me, we do Not have the best medical care in the world. You're dreamin'.