Speaking of foreign money

...Strong words for the President, especially when you consider that his 2008 campaign was riddled with foreign donations and other irregularities.

Beginning in mid-July 2008, blogger Pamela Geller went through publicly accessible FEC records and discoveredforeign donors supporting the Obama effort. Geller’s investigations unveiled a series of donations to Obamamade by Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan (Palestinians born and raised in Gaza) totaling $29,521.54. A third brother, Yousef, reportedly gave the campaign about $4,000. After that particular donation was discovered by Geller, the WSJ followed up with the Obama campaign who claimed the donations were returned. Not true, said the Palestinians. From reporter Aaron Klei:

“No, we did not receive any money back from the Obama campaign at any time,“said Monir Edwan.

Geller wrote a series of articles which were barely mentioned in the MSM except in pieces trashing her. Her research not only showed foreign contributors, but people who had contributed well over the $2,500 dollar limit, and contributors from the progressive media.

The investigation showed that Gaza wasn’t the President’s only source foreign dollars, his campaign accepted contributions came from over 50 nations. They tried to scam the system by having the foreign contributors make multiple small donations, seemingly in their own names, over a period of a few days, while the individual donations were under maximum allowed, but the aggregate were in excess of the maximums. Other donations came in from donors with fake names such as “Hbkjb,” “jkbkj,” and “Doodad.”

Thousands of Obama’s foreign donations ended in cents. This was evidence of foreign contributors sending in donations in foreign currencies that were exchanged into dollars resulting in odd amounts. Donations from Americans living overseas would more likely be in dollars so they wouldn’t have those “odd amounts.”

The Obama campaign received a substantial amount of money from countries that have an interest in seeing a weak American President: $366,708.22 from China, $25,259.00 from the United Arab Emirates, $7,062.60 from Russia, and $6,716.28 from Saudi Arabia. Obama also took in $6,350.00 from Indonesia, $5,000.00 from Kenya, and $1,750.00 from Egypt.

The records also indicate that Obama also took donations from Tamil Tiger leaders. The Tamil Tigers are, according to the FBI, the most successful terrorist group in the world. While the Hillary Clinton returned contributions from the Tamil Tigers, Obama kept them.

Two years after that election the mainstream media has yet to report on stories about President Obama’s foreign donations all verified by FEC documentation. Maybe it’s time for them to challenge the unsubstantiated administration rumors with the real evidence of foreign donations being used to influence an election, the election in 2008.