Everything You Wanted to Know About the Obama Online Fundraising Scandal in Less Than 5 Minutes! Since it is apparently too much effort for the mainstream media (National Journal excepted) to be bothered to investigate what is potentially one of the largest campaign finance fraud scandals ever, we thought we'd set the table for them. Here's a Cheat Sheet if you will on how the story broke and what the important issues are:
1. In early 2007, Obama tells Silicon Valley mogul, Marc Andreeson, to watch how I run my campaign - you'll see my leadership skills in action. Which makes the following account all the more concerning. Can we expect more of the same should Obama assume the seat in the White House?
2. Rumors begin to circulate that the Obama campaign is accepting foreign and other illegal contributions. Atlas Shrugs blog breaks the story on July 23 and confirms the rumors.
3. On October 22, a citizen does his own investigative work and gives an online donation to the Obama campaign with a the fake name of John Galt along with a fake address. Several bloggers quickly follow up on this story with their own investigative work and find that they too can donate to the Obama campaign with fake names and addresses. Most disturbingly, foreign citizens were also able to donate using their foreign issued credit cards with fake foreign addresses.
4. By now, it has become common knowledge that the Obama campaign is the ONLY campaign to NOT disclose their under $200 campaign donor list. No substantive reasons are given by the Obama campaign.
5. On October 24, it is confirmed by the National Journal that the Obama campaign has turned off address verification on their website. This is highly irregular - in fact, it's quite unheard of. Essentially, turning off address verification (known as AVS) enables donors to fake addresses and circumvent donor limits. This means foreigners can give illegal donations and motivated Obama supporters can exceed the $2300 campaign limit! As Internet and e-commerce professionals, we launch this blog to raise the issue of how highly irregular and potentially unethical it is to turn off online credit card address verification.
6. In light of the aforementioned and in light of the record $150 million haul Obama brought in during the month of September from over 600 thousand new, mostly unidentified, donors, this blog attempts to size the problem. We calculated that over $181 million of Obama's donations fall into the potentially fraudulent category.
7. On October 29, the Obama campaign is quoted favorably in the Washington Post as checking for fraud on the back-end. The Obama campaign did not elaborate on what this means and the Washington Post didn't bother to ask.
8. Since the Obama campaign turned off the easiest and most obvious way to stop campaign finance fraud, this blog and the National Journal proceeded to explore other ways in which the Obama campaign could prevent campaign finance fraud. We determined that the Obama camp could use IP addresses (unique identifiers for computers with geographic information) and BIN numbers (unique identifiers of credit cards with geographic information) to prevent fraudulent and foreign donations on the back-end. Unfortunately, all records indicate that the Obama campaign does NOT use these simple and cheap methods to prevent illegal donations.
9. With public pressure mounting on the Obama campaign to disclose his donor list (despite the apathy from the New York Times and Washington Post), Charlie Gibson of ABC News asks Obama why he won't disclose his donor list. Obama said it would be too difficult to process. RED FLAG! Isn't this the internet generation candidate? Shouldn't it be easy for computers to process these records?
10. It turns out that the answer is Yes!. The liberal online publication, Slate, proves how easy it is to process the donor list. The National Journal also proves how easy it is by talking to the bank that houses the Obama campaign records.
In summary, the Obama cam
Was is not the Clinton administration that relaxed the lending laws and started this mess.
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No they will try to blame it on the Bush administration, because as we all know everything that has gone wrong in the universe over the last eight years is W's fault.
I would never cause damage to my company's systems because my work ethic would not permit it, but what gets me going to the point of have to step away from my desk and take a walk to cool off is the the incompetent ass kisser that only keeps his job because he knows someone or is spending too much time on his knees under a desk.
Office politics are an unfortunate fact of life. Some days it takes a lot f fortitude just to keep from walking out. Some of you may say just find another job. That's all fine and dandy in a perfect world but landing a new job with a salary that even close to what I make now in this economy is not all that easy in my part of the country.
It is a shame that most management does not care about the welfare of their employees because they are so short sighted. Do they not know that turn over cost you more than retention.
I could be wrong but one of the keys to success would be to keep the brightest, replace the dead weight and treat their people like human beings.
OK, I feel better now, I will go and take my meds.
It really makes no difference what they put on the disk. In 2000 years do they actually think that anyone will be alive to read it. Maybe the cockroaches will have evolved by then.
So you take a map, draw a line on it, and anyone on the wrong side of that line is fair game.
If you are at war with the other side of the line you bet your ass. Play to win.
Given that thinking, it isn't hard to see why your nation has a history of aggressive war and genocide.
"Aggressive war", what is there another kind? Oh yea and that must of been the USA that was trying to kill all the Jews in Nazi Germany. Lets not forget the Bataan Death March, I'm sure that was our idea too. WTF do you mean by genocide?
Why would anyone want to put their health info anywhere if HIPAA does not apply. I know that HIPPA is not perfect, but it at least has recourse if info is released or stolen.
It seems to me that the easy solution to get around all the rules, regulations, and BS is for ISP's to move everything off shore to a country that is friendly to them and wants their business.
Just a thought
What's is the postal service doing to prevent piracy. Maybe the MPAA should be asking for a law to allow the inspection of all mail anytime the MPAA feels that the mail system contains pirated material
Because Rep. Ed Markey (D -- Mass.) doesn't have the backbone to come out with legislation to make throttling illegal he is going to leave it open for interpretation and allow special interest decide what is right and wrong.
Comcast is getting its cue from the oil industry. There is no need to update its infrastructure and improve its service when they can just keep using to same old stuff (as in oil refineries) and charge more because they say that the demand is larger than the supply that they can provide. And because of the high demand they "must" throttle the band with to the evil file sharers.
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Are you referring to the upper management? You know, the one's that have very large salaries and deny basic services.
How much money and time was wasted on this.
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Really, what a non story. Who gives a rats ass anyways.
Shouldn't this be public record anyway?
Let the excuses start.
So you are following Colin Powell's lead.
What do you mean? It has already been decided.
The media has put too much effort in getting Obama elected.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Obama Online Fundraising Scandal in Less Than 5 Minutes!
Since it is apparently too much effort for the mainstream media (National Journal excepted) to be bothered to investigate what is potentially one of the largest campaign finance fraud scandals ever, we thought we'd set the table for them. Here's a Cheat Sheet if you will on how the story broke and what the important issues are:
1. In early 2007, Obama tells Silicon Valley mogul, Marc Andreeson, to watch how I run my campaign - you'll see my leadership skills in action. Which makes the following account all the more concerning. Can we expect more of the same should Obama assume the seat in the White House?
2. Rumors begin to circulate that the Obama campaign is accepting foreign and other illegal contributions. Atlas Shrugs blog breaks the story on July 23 and confirms the rumors.
3. On October 22, a citizen does his own investigative work and gives an online donation to the Obama campaign with a the fake name of John Galt along with a fake address. Several bloggers quickly follow up on this story with their own investigative work and find that they too can donate to the Obama campaign with fake names and addresses. Most disturbingly, foreign citizens were also able to donate using their foreign issued credit cards with fake foreign addresses.
4. By now, it has become common knowledge that the Obama campaign is the ONLY campaign to NOT disclose their under $200 campaign donor list. No substantive reasons are given by the Obama campaign.
5. On October 24, it is confirmed by the National Journal that the Obama campaign has turned off address verification on their website. This is highly irregular - in fact, it's quite unheard of. Essentially, turning off address verification (known as AVS) enables donors to fake addresses and circumvent donor limits. This means foreigners can give illegal donations and motivated Obama supporters can exceed the $2300 campaign limit! As Internet and e-commerce professionals, we launch this blog to raise the issue of how highly irregular and potentially unethical it is to turn off online credit card address verification.
6. In light of the aforementioned and in light of the record $150 million haul Obama brought in during the month of September from over 600 thousand new, mostly unidentified, donors, this blog attempts to size the problem. We calculated that over $181 million of Obama's donations fall into the potentially fraudulent category.
7. On October 29, the Obama campaign is quoted favorably in the Washington Post as checking for fraud on the back-end. The Obama campaign did not elaborate on what this means and the Washington Post didn't bother to ask.
8. Since the Obama campaign turned off the easiest and most obvious way to stop campaign finance fraud, this blog and the National Journal proceeded to explore other ways in which the Obama campaign could prevent campaign finance fraud. We determined that the Obama camp could use IP addresses (unique identifiers for computers with geographic information) and BIN numbers (unique identifiers of credit cards with geographic information) to prevent fraudulent and foreign donations on the back-end. Unfortunately, all records indicate that the Obama campaign does NOT use these simple and cheap methods to prevent illegal donations.
9. With public pressure mounting on the Obama campaign to disclose his donor list (despite the apathy from the New York Times and Washington Post), Charlie Gibson of ABC News asks Obama why he won't disclose his donor list. Obama said it would be too difficult to process. RED FLAG! Isn't this the internet generation candidate? Shouldn't it be easy for computers to process these records?
10. It turns out that the answer is Yes!. The liberal online publication, Slate, proves how easy it is to process the donor list. The National Journal also proves how easy it is by talking to the bank that houses the Obama campaign records.
In summary, the Obama cam
Was is not the Clinton administration that relaxed the lending laws and started this mess.
No they will try to blame it on the Bush administration, because as we all know everything that has gone wrong in the universe over the last eight years is W's fault.
I would never cause damage to my company's systems because my work ethic would not permit it, but what gets me going to the point of have to step away from my desk and take a walk to cool off is the the incompetent ass kisser that only keeps his job because he knows someone or is spending too much time on his knees under a desk.
Office politics are an unfortunate fact of life. Some days it takes a lot f fortitude just to keep from walking out. Some of you may say just find another job. That's all fine and dandy in a perfect world but landing a new job with a salary that even close to what I make now in this economy is not all that easy in my part of the country.
It is a shame that most management does not care about the welfare of their employees because they are so short sighted. Do they not know that turn over cost you more than retention.
I could be wrong but one of the keys to success would be to keep the brightest, replace the dead weight and treat their people like human beings.
OK, I feel better now, I will go and take my meds.
Now that's funny.
It really makes no difference what they put on the disk. In 2000 years do they actually think that anyone will be alive to read it.
Maybe the cockroaches will have evolved by then.
So you take a map, draw a line on it, and anyone on the wrong side of that line is fair game.
If you are at war with the other side of the line you bet your ass. Play to win.Given that thinking, it isn't hard to see why your nation has a history of aggressive war and genocide.
"Aggressive war", what is there another kind? Oh yea and that must of been the USA that was trying to kill all the Jews in Nazi Germany. Lets not forget the Bataan Death March, I'm sure that was our idea too. WTF do you mean by genocide?As long as eBay is following the law they should tell those bleeding hearts to go pound sand.
Why would anyone want to put their health info anywhere if HIPAA does not apply. I know that HIPPA is not perfect, but it at least has recourse if info is released or stolen.
Wonder how well that works over dial-up?
In business timing is everything.
It seems to me that the easy solution to get around all the rules, regulations, and BS is for ISP's to move everything off shore to a country that is friendly to them and wants their business.
Just a thought
What's is the postal service doing to prevent piracy. Maybe the MPAA should be asking for a law to allow the inspection of all mail anytime the MPAA feels that the mail system contains pirated material
She is 7 years old, her parents have every right to control her computer. It's called parenting, something that is greatly lacking now a days.
Take it one step further and just make the interweb illegal. That would fix everything.
Because Rep. Ed Markey (D -- Mass.) doesn't have the backbone to come out with legislation to make throttling illegal he is going to leave it open for interpretation and allow special interest decide what is right and wrong.
Comcast is getting its cue from the oil industry. There is no need to update its infrastructure and improve its service when they can just keep using to same old stuff (as in oil refineries) and charge more because they say that the demand is larger than the supply that they can provide. And because of the high demand they "must" throttle the band with to the evil file sharers.