This Day in Potentially Damning Yet Utterly Ignored Obama News
So, today the big focus is on how you can make fake donations to the Obama site that still take money from your account. As in:
So I went to the Obama website this afternoon and clicked on the "Donate" button.
I used my real MasterCard number (but was not asked for the 3 digit security code).Used the following information and it was accepted...
First name: Fake
Last Name: Donor
Address: 1 Dollar To Prove A Point
City: Fraudulent
State: AL
Zip / Post: 33333
Email Address: allmyinfoismadeup@mediabias.com
Phone Number: 2125551212
Employer: Mainstream Media
Occupation: Being in the Tank
And incredibly, my $5 donation was ACCEPTED!!!
I then went to the McCain site and used the exact same information (and WAS asked for the 3 digit security code for my MasterCard). There, my contribution was rejected with the following message: "Your transaction was not approved for the following reason(s): Invalid data", and then: "We have found errors in the information that you have submitted. Please review the information below and try again."
Well, my reaction is that Obama is from Chicago...why are we surprised? The man has built up his political career by relying on the efforts of crooked politicians and leaders. He is at his best a dissembling shit, and at his worst a deceitful political thug. I know such talk offends, but John McCain and his supporters have endured a worse sort of casual contempt from followers of Obama. One side of the political debate seems to always be guardedly assessing the other's stupidity. Guardedly, I say, for when they see the first sign of an intelligent critique of Obama the guardians of PC drop in to accuse the critic of abject racism or bigotry.
Then there is this:
Turning the Page from Campaign Finance Fraud . . . [Andy McCarthy]
What is the deal with Obama's birth certificate and citizenship status?
Pamela Gellers at Atlas Shrugs raises some apparent shenanigans with the birth certificate the Obama campaign previously produced. Meanwhile, Philip J. Berg, a former Deputy AG of Pennsylvania and a professed Hillary supporter, filed a lawsuit claiming Obama is not constitutionally eligible to be president; instead of simply clearing up any questions — which you would think would take about five minutes — Obama's lawyers moved to dismiss the suit and failed to file a timely answer, meaning that, under the applicable rules (according to Berg), Obama is legally deemed to have admitted Berg's allegations that he is constitutionally ineligible to be president.
Admittedly, I've ignored this issue up until now on the theory that if there was anything here worth looking at, surely the Hillary and McCain campaigns would have raised it. But this all seems very strange. It's not just a matter of whether Obama was born in Hawaii — Berg claims he wasn't, but most others seem to agree he was (though the publicly available proof seems shaky at this point). There is also the question whether he was also a citizen of one or more other countries (Kenya? Indonesia?) and whether that means, as a matter of law, that he could not be a "natural born" citizen as required by the Constitution.
Has anyone around here looked into this? Is it a serious issue, and why does Obama seem to be so squirmy about it?
I'm not sure if this smells of desperation or if this issue really has legs. I actually hope it does. Our Constitution is pretty clear that you must be a natural born citizen to be President. If Obama is in fact not eligible for the Presidency, expect a whole lot of talk about how the Constitution is a living document and it evolves over time...apparently enough to mean the opposite of what it says. Well, now's definitely not the time to be polite. The best opportunity to bring up this question happened to be 2 years ago. But there's no time like the present.
"No person except a natural born Citizen(Obama's status now in doubt), or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution(these people are all dead), shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years(Sign of the times, huh? Barely out of college these days), and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States(again, these are all dead)."
Comments
But what about McCain? He was born to American parents in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 - one year before the 1937 law that made "natural born citizens" of children who could prove at least on American parent. At least one legal scholar has opined that this makes him ineligible for the post of PotUS (others disagree, of course - these are lawyers we're talking about).
John
I'm shocked! shocked! that gambling is going oh here! ;)
I had heard about John McCain too, and figured that this issue would go nowhere...but a man can dream, can't he?
I'm more concerned about the credit card donors on the Obama site. How many millions did the campaign give back? How many didn't they give back?
It's funny, because I'm not surprised at revelations about Obama's thuggish political tactics. With ACORN, the attacks on Palin, the legal teams in Missouri and now it seems millions in unsubstantiated donations...possibly from overseas...I've come to view such things as typical Obama politics.
Crooked and Glossed Over should be his new campaign motto.
John
John