[Rhodes22-list] How Much for the White House?

[Brad Haslett]

Where are you, you chickenshits?  Send $15 to McCain and then send $15 to Obama.

Tell me where I'm wrong.

Chickenshits!

Yeah, that's name calling.  So is Truth!

Brad

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> The 2008 Presidential campaign will go down in history as the most
> corrupt in our nation, ever. What we're witnessing here is something
> you'd expect in some third-world banana republic. Remember the pledge
> to take public campaign funds?  Vanished down the memory hole like so
> many incriminating characters from the past.  Here's the latest
> example-
>
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>
> October 23, 2008  Posted by Scott at 6:52 AM
>
> We've previously noted the gusher of illegal campaign contributions
> flowing into the Obama campaign from contributors such as "Doodad Pro"
> and "Good Will." More recently, incidents have been reported in which
> people have seen credit card charges surface suggesting they donated
> to Barack Obama when they did not. Matthew Mosk and Sarah Cohen noted
> one such incident earlier this week:
>
>    Now comes the story of Mary T. Biskup, of Manchester, Missouri.
> Biskup got a call recently from the Obama campaign, which was trying
> to figure out why she donated $174,800 to the campaign -- well over
> the contribution limit of $2,300.
>
>    The answer she gave them was simple. "That's an error."
>
> Is the Obama campaign knowingly receiving illegal contributions?
> Yesterday one of our readers reported the results of an experiment he
> conducted:
>
>    I've read recent reports of the Obama campaign receiving donations
> from dubious names and foreign locales and it got me wondering: How is
> this possible?
>
>    I run a small Internet business and when I process credit cards
> I'm required to make sure the name on the card exactly matches the
> name of the customer making the purchase. Also, the purchaser's
> address must match that of the cardholders. If these don't match, then
> the payment isn't approved. Period. So how is it possible that the
> Obama campaign could receive donations from fictional people and
> places? Well, I decided to do a little experiment. I went to the Obama
> campaign website and entered the following:
>
>    Name: John Galt
>    Address: 1957 Ayn Rand Lane
>    City: Galts Gulch
>    State: CO
>    Zip: 99999
>
>    Then I checked the box next to $15 and entered my actual credit
> card number and expiration date (it didn't ask for the 3-didgit code
> on the back of the card) and it took me to the next page and... "Your
> donation has been processed. Thank you for your generous gift."
>
>    This simply should not, and could not, happen in any business or
> any campaign that is honestly trying to vet it's donors. Also, I don't
> see how this could possibly happen without the collusion of the credit
> card companies. They simply wouldn't allow any business to process,
> potentially, hundreds of millions in credit card transactions where
> the name on the card doesn't match the purchasers name.
>
>    In short, with the system set up as it is by the Obama camp, an
> individual could donate unlimited amounts of money by simply making up
> fake names and addresses. And Obama is doing his best to facilitate
> this fraud. This is truly scandalous.
>
> Our reader was not yet done. He tried the experiment on the McCain
> site: "I tried the exact same thing at the McCain site and it didn't
> allow the transaction." He then repeated the experiment at the Obama
> site:
>
>    I went back to the Obama site and made three additional donations
> using the names Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, all
> with different addresses. All the transactions went through using the
> same credit card. I saved screenshots of the transactions.
>
> Our reader reports, incidentally, that he was using his MasterCard for
> the contributions. We submit this report in the spirit of inquiry and
> would especially appreciate hearing from readers who can illuminate
> how credit card procedures might (or might not) allow this to happen.
>
> UPDATE: Readers have replicated the experiment reported in this post.
> We will have to revisit the issue tonight or tomorrow and appreciate
> any information you can provide in the meantime.
>