Did anyone watch the Obama Infomercial?

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Did anyone watch the Obama Infomercial?
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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 9:56pm
I missed it due to a graduate class :( so I wondered if anyone else had seen it. I was surprised not to see anything posted here about it. If you did watch it what did you think? Good? Bad? Valuable info? Waste of time? Are you planning to watch McCain later tonight?

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 12:47pm

Is THIS a right-wing site? LOL! I got all of this info from this board. Read this:

Hunting Mr. Good Will

WHO is "Will, Good"?

Mr. Good Will - who lists his employer as "Loving" and his profession as "You" - has contributed 1,000 times to the Barack Obama campaign.

All the contributions have been in amounts of $25 or less. But they add up to $17,375 - far more than the legal limit of $4,600. That's $2,300 each for the primary and general election campaigns.

Kenneth Timmerman, a reporter for NewsMax, a conservative Web site, discovered Mr. Good Will when he reviewed 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest Federal Elections Commission master file for the Obama campaign.

Mr. Good Will said he was from Austin, Texas. When I called directory assistance, they could find no listing for him.

Mr. Doodad Pro made 786 contributions for a total of $19,500. Like Mr. Good Will, Mr. Pro lists his employer as "Loving" and his profession as "You." Mr. Pro said he is from Nunda, N.Y. Directory assistance found no listing for him either.

Mr. Obama has raised a whopping $223 million in contributions of less than $200. Candidates are not required to disclose the names of those who contribute less than $200, and Mr. Obama has not. John McCain has made his complete donor database available online.

But the Federal Elections Commission does require campaigns to keep a running tally of contributions and to disclose the identity of donors once their total contributions exceed $200. This is how Mr. Good Will and Mr. Doodad Pro came to light.

If there are more suspicious donors to the Obama campaign, we won't know until long after the election as long as their aggregate contributions are below the legal limit. Mr. Timmerman was particularly curious about 11,500 contributions from overseas totalling $33.8 million.

Mr. McCain and Hillary Clinton required foreign donors to provide proof of citizenship. Until very recently, Mr. Timmerman said, the Obama campaign did not. "More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address," Mr. Timmerman wrote. But they accounted for only 12 percent of Mr. Obama's overseas donors, and the aggregate total of their contributions was just $201,680.

"In July and August, the head of Nigeria's stock market held a series of pro-Obama fund-raisers in Lagos," Mr. Timmerman said. "At one event, a table for eight went for $16,800. Nigerian press reports claimed sponsors raked in an estimated $900,000."

Making contributions on credit cards via the Internet - as both Good Will and Doodad Pro did - makes it easier for foreigners to contribute. Web logger Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) reported three Palestinians living in a refugee camp in Gaza tried to donate $33,500 to the Obama campaign last year. They were caught only because the amount was far above the legal limit. If foreigners donate in amounts less than $200, their illegal involvement would be virtually undetectable.

If Mr. Obama were a Republican, the news media would be demanding he disclose the names of all of his donors - as er, the Republican has done - so we can see if there are among them other Good Wills and Doodad Pros.

CNN recently sent a reporter to Little Diomede Island, the westernmost part of Alaska (2.4 miles from Russia) to determine whether Sarah Palin had ever been there to see Russia with her own eyes. But CNN - and the rest of the media - have been incurious about the Obama campaign's fund-raising.

"Off the record, every suspicion you have about being in the tank for O is true," said an e-mail to Web logger Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) from someone he knows at a major news organization. "We have a team of four people going through Dumpsters in Alaska and four in Arizona. Not a single one looking into ACORN, Ayers, or FreddieMae . Editor refuses to publish anything that jeopardizes the election for O, and betting dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. … The fix is in, and it's working."

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081004/COLUMNIST14/810040346/-1/NEWS02

And this:

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Not To Beat a Dead Horse

But an e-friend sends this:

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."

I have screen shots and printouts of all of this as well.

Please tell me what I can do with this information? Is this a violation of FEC law by the Obama Campaign? How do we publicize this???

Thanks for all you do.

Best,

10/23 03:04 PM

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGFiMmU2MjYxOWU2M2E0NmQwMDI4YzIyZWNlNGJkMjg=

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 12:47pm

>>> McCain should be talking about American issues, like economy, health care, war, foreign policy.

In case you missed it, McCain's speeches on "Joe the Plumber" and Obama's "socialist policies" are specifically addressing the economy and health care. As for the war and foreign policy...no need to beat Obama when he's already on the mat.

>>> Lying about the other candidate only makes me want to vote for Obama even more.

What lies? Obama's policies ARE socialist. Obama DOES have a LOT of relationships with extreme radicals...that he's lied about. Obama IS inexperienced and HAS been wrong on every issue that the country has faced in the past couple of years.

>>> And I have to say that McCain of 2000 is not the same McCain in 2008, and it started with him picking Palin,

Heavens, we wouldn't want him picking a popular, successful governor with a record of bi-partisanship when he could pick a gaffe-machine who's gotten it wrong on every national issue for the past decade.

>>> and it progressed with hateful language at his campaigns. No thank you!

LOL! It's amazing how the kool-aid can magically make Obama's campaign seem "respectful."

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 12:48pm
Did you "get in their faces" like Obama suggested?
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Registered: 09-23-2002
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 12:56pm

I have hard time trusting your sources, and I know for a fact that Obama's donation page asks for 3 digit numbers as I have donated! They even ask what company you work for.


The claims I hear on this board are beyond pathetic. I don't get why people want to smear lies when those same people

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 12:58pm

Just their opinion too.

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Registered: 09-23-2002
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 12:59pm

Please tell me what McCain would do for our economy other than accuse Obama of being a socialist?

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 1:07pm
If it were determined that Obama was scamming the system, would that bother you? I suspect that many supporters would be happy about it and hope he doesn't get caught. Of course if he is elected, he will be the most powerful person in the world (for a while anyway) so it is doubtful he would get caught. If he loses, who cares - right?
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Thu, 10-30-2008 - 1:10pm
I thought it was excellent. I hope he gets through to the people sitting on the fence, or disillusioned Republicans. Well worth it. And a first class presentation, without the snarkiness and nastiness that characterizes the "other" candidate's efforts. Good for Obama, not wasting his time or money making nasty attacks! Nice to see a candidate show some class and dignity! :)) And no, I had better things to do than watch the sour grapes snarky nastiness later. After all, there were better things to watch. ROFL! :D




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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 1:11pm

No it is NOT "just" anybody's "opinion". These illegal donations were found. Those are facts.

The second link could be true or not, I don't know, but with all of the other evidence of wrongdoing, it does make me suspicious.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 1:34pm

>>> That's your opinion, about Obama being 100 times worse.

Actually, I was referring to how much money his campaign has compared to McCain.

>>> I believe Obama before McCain anyday.

Really? I'm shocked.

>>> McCain isn't helping the working Middle Class.

Yeah, he really is...and it isn't with a $500 welfare check and lost jobs.

>>> Taxing our Health ins? He's got to be kidding.

Actually, he's not taxing healthcare. I've provided links to this previously. You're just hearing Dem propaganda.

>>> his 5,000 will go nowhere. Healthcare expenses go up more yearly than his 5,000 would adjust each year. He's saying 2%? HA! it goes up yearly much more than that. You must have really good Health ins, not pay much a month. Maybe he'd help you, but not us.

Unlike Obama, McCain's not a socialist and isn't offering "free" health care (not that Obama's health care plan would be free either). McCain's is a two fold approach...a $5000 tax credit to "help make health costs AFFORDABLE"...and deregulation, so you can buy insurance across state lines, creating competition and bring the overall price down.

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