Thursday, October 30, 2008

Obama's 30-minute ads bought not only with broken promises, but also with broken laws

"The McCain-Palin campaign correctly points out that Sen. Barack Obama's '30-minute prime-time address [tonight will be] a "gauzy, feel-good commercial" that was "paid for with broken promises."' But for Obama's undisputed and indisputable violation of his solemn oath to accept public campaign financing, there's no way he could have spent hundreds of millions of dollars, including this hugely expensive cross-network TV buy.

But 'paid for with broken promises' is the most charitable characterization. The Obama-Biden campaign deliberately has solicited and received hundreds of thousands of credit card transactions of $250 or less, whose details the campaign won't make available for outside review even though in the aggregate they amount to hundreds of millions of dollars — via a fraud-friendly credit card system (a) which accepts transfers from untraceable pre-paid credit cards, and (b) whose basic anti-fraud measures have been deliberately crippled. The Obama-Biden campaign might just as well have set up dumpsters all over the world into which illegal donors could dump shopping bags full of cash donations made in unmarked small bills."

Just suppose you had over $25,000 and bought lots of pre-paid credit cards. Your cards would be untraceable. "Basic anti-fraud measures have been deliberately crippled."