Obama's Hypocrisy, Obama's Fraud

Just before the 2008 election I published an essay on campaign finance at Pajamas Media, "Obama’s Fundraising Fraud." No candidate in American history has raised more money for a presidential bid than Barack Obama. Great story, but what's normally stuffed under the rug is the massive amounts of money that were funneled to the campaign through illegal sources. This was widely documented at the time, but the MFM largely ignored the scandal (WaPo was the major exception). But now there's the new convenient outrage on the left over alleged foreign sources of campaign influence. Michelle has been reporting on this, "Newly nativist Democrats and their own foreign funny money." And also William Jacobson, "Obama Was Right About Xenophobic Bitter Clingers."

And Sister Toldjah caps it off with more on the left's blatant hypocrisy: "Barack Obama: so hypocritical, it’s almost grotesque."

Forget whether the charge is correct or not. Ignore the fact that this is a desperate, xenophobic smear job by a party facing a massacre at the polls.

It’s the hypocrisy that’s jaw-dropping, given that Obama’s own presidential campaign winked at foreign money. Michael Barone explains:

Glenn Reynolds nails this one: the Obama Democrats’ campaign riff against foreign donations to Democrats is bogus—and according to the New York Times, no less. This looks like a matter of projection, since it’s well documented that the 2008 Obama campaign did not put in place address verification software that would have routinely prevented most foreign donations. In effect they were encouraging donations by foreign nationals. Here’s the Washington Post on this back in October 2008: Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed. Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged.”

Go read the rest of the article and follow the other links back to reports from 2008 on the Obama campaign and odd donations. Here’s another. Obama and the Democrats engaged in rampant cheating regarding foreign donations, and now they have the gall to falsely accuse the Chamber of Commerce of doing what they themselves did?

More: "Axelrod: Chamber must prove foreign money allegations false." (Via Memeorandum.)