We citizens have no idea who is manipulating our electoral system with foreign money flow. Please see:
Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama CampaignNo one gives secret money to political campaigns without expecting power and favors in return.
From the financial melt down we already see what the hidden obligations of the elected in Congress had to do with the growth of graft and corruption in Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. What graft and corruption quid pro quo is implicit in foreign money the donations to the
Obama campaign?
By a loophole in the law a greedy presidential candidate is using the loop hole, unlike former President
Clinton's who rose above using the loophole to hide donations, to not reporting all his overseas donation sources and amounts. Unlike McCain's or Sen.
Hillary Clinton's online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton's presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
"Our goal is to bring 50,000 new donors into our movement by Friday at midnight," campaign manager
David Plouffe e-mailed supporters on Sept. 15. "And if you make your first online donation today, your gift will go twice as far. A previous donor has promised to match every dollar you donate."
Until now, the names of those donors and where they live have remained anonymous - and the federal watchdog agency in charge of ensuring that the presidential campaigns play by the same rules has no tools to find out.
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their "state" as "IR," often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as "UK," the United Kingdom.
More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.