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Obama & Soros!
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Is Obama being financed, in part, by George Soros and Moveon.org?????
George Soros (Moveon.org) and Obama's association goes back a long time:
In his run for the Senate:
Because Obama was running against Blair Hull in the primary and then Jack Ryan in the general election (both multi-millionaires), Obama could, and did, receive especially large donations from individuals, to so-called "millionaires exception." Normally individuals are limited to giving $2300 to candidates in federal elections, but when candidates are running against millionaires, these limits are lifted and candidates are allowed to receive up to $12,000 from a single individual. Soros and his family gave Barack Obama $60,000.

Founded on millions of small donations, MoveOn.org hit the jackpot when it was embraced in 2004 by George Soros and his circle of rich friends, who later organized themselves into a loosely structured coalition known as the Democracy Alliance. Like MoveOn.org.

Soros and his friends favor a more liberal brand of politics than was being advocated by a majority of the candidates who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
It was that independence that enabled MoveOn.org to grab headlines in September 2007, by anticipating a long-awaited report on the progress of the Iraq war by General David Petraeus. The group created an ad suggesting his name should be changed to "General Betray Us" because he was advocating a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq. The ad, which appeared in The New York Times, called on the general to come up with a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq. The Republicans' response to that ad demonstrated just how influential MoveOn.org had become and how intent the GOP was to discredit its supporters. Democrats seemed afraid to defend the group. When the GOP members of Congress put forward a resolution condemning MoveOn.org for its attack on Petraeus, it passed both the House and Senate with strong bipartisan support.
From Moveon.org's web site:
"MoveOn.org Political Action brings hundreds of thousands of small donors together to elect candidates who will represent the American people. With one secure online credit card transaction, you can immediately make contributions to several campaigns. All contributions go to the individual campaigns in the amounts you specify. MoveOn.org Political Action takes care of all the required FEC paperwork by transmitting necessary contributor information to each campaign."
Isn't Obama pushing the 527 limitations on coordination with a campaign which they are not allowed to do by law?

When did MoveOn become a bank or a finance company?

Obama paid MoveOn.org "credit card fees" of $18,000 because they "processed campaign contributions" for the Obama campaign.

Was Obama "REIMBURSING" MoveOn for their cost to process contributions for the Obama campaign?

Why would the Obama campaign do this unless MoveOn was giving the contributions to his campaign? They cannot legally give money to Obama.

It appears they did.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/obamas_foreign_contributions/
Tags: election08, obama, politics, opinion
In response to assignment: Campaign 2008
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