DEMOCRATS OUTSOURCE CAMPAIGN WORK...TO ROMANIA

This is the party that claims to be for American jobs?

Republicans, furious about negative campaign phone calls made by Democrats last week in Billings, did everything but label the tactic un-American.

Turns out, they could have.

The calls were made from Romania, according to phone records submitted this week to the state commissioner of political practices.

Jack Sands, a GOP candidate in Senate District 27 and the target of the Oct. 12 calls, filed the complaint alleging that the people making the calls didn't identify who they were calling for. Senate District 27 includes parts of Billings and Yellowstone County. State law prohibits anonymous election material.

WELCOME TO "CAMP OBAMA"

Chilling. Just chilling.

Voters coast-to-coast are receiving e-mails from the Obama campaign encouraging them to sign up to learn pre-election agitation tactics at "Camp Obama." Red kerchiefs, anyone?

When readers first alerted us to the camps, we thought it might be another hoax that migrated into inboxes. But it's for real.

The unsolicited pitch goes like this: "Camp Obama attendees will receive real world organizing experience that will have a direct impact on this election. Graduates of Camp Obama will go on to become Deputy Field Organizers who will lead this campaign to victory in crucial battleground states around the country."

The letter continues, "By participating in Camp Obama you'll get the kind of experience that Barack got as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he learned that real change happens from the bottom up."

While the letter neglects to identify the source of that "experience," a slide on a camp blog linked to the Obama Web site offers a clue. Underneath a "Welcome to Camp Obama" banner, a trainer at Obama headquarters in Chicago is seen speaking next to a wipe board with the words "Saul Alinsky" scrawled across it.

Alinsky is the late Chicago socialist and street agitator who is considered the father of community organizing.

Another slide of a camp trainer identified as Mike Kruglik is equally telling. Kruglik happens to be the Alinsky disciple who first taught Obama hardball organizing tactics on the South Side. He was Obama's boss in the '80s. Kruglik now works for the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, which trains and deploys radicals across the country.

Kruglik once declared Obama "the undisputed master of agitation," according to David Freddoso, author of the best-seller "The Case Against Barack Obama."

Obama learned well from the master agitator. Alinsky taught future radicals that bad things are often done for the right reasons, love without power is sentimental mush, power must be taken, and all change comes about as a result of threat and pressure.

Obama calls his Alinskyite experience "the best education I ever had."

Now he's passing it on to his groupies. He recently told supporters in Nevada, a state that will be hotly contested, to sharpen their elbows in the final lap of the race. Confront Republicans, he said, and "get in their faces."

"Be absolutely ruthless," adds Camp Obama director Jocelyn Woodards, who leads the intensive two-day training course for campers in Chicago.

Dirty street fighting is at the heart of Obama's organizing. While he stands above the fray, his minions at ACORN are threatening, intimidating, confronting and even committing voter fraud. This is Alinsky's end-justifies-means morality in action. Whatever it takes to win the revolution.

Obama needs more agitators, so he's set up these camps to train them.

I have located more evidence of these "Camp Obama" emails. Here and here.

I TOLD YOU SO: SECRET, FOREIGN MONEY FLOODS INTO OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN

This election will go down in history as the one decided by the dirty liberal media and foreigners. You haven't heard the end of this story. I predict some devastating news to surface on this issue in the future.

More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose.

And questions have arisen about millions more in foreign donations the Obama campaign has received that apparently have not been vetted as legitimate.

Obama has raised nearly twice that of John McCain's campaign, according to new campaign finance report.

Federal law does not require the campaigns to identify donors who give less than $200 during the election cycle. However, it does require that campaigns calculate running totals for each donor and report them once they go beyond the $200 mark.

Surprisingly, the great majority of Obama donors never break the $200 threshold.

The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign has identified a staggering $222.7 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less. Only $39.6 million of that amount comes from donors the Obama campaign has identified.

It is the largest pool of unidentified money that has ever flooded into the U.S. election system, before or after the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms of 2002.

Biersack would not comment on whether the FEC was investigating the huge amount of cash that has come into Obama’s coffers with no public reporting.

The rise of the Internet as a campaign funding tool raises new questions about the adequacy of FEC requirements on disclosure. In pre-Internet fundraising, almost all political donations, even small ones, were made by bank check, leaving a paper trail and limiting the amount of fraud.

But credit cards used to make donations on the Internet have allowed for far more abuse.

In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.

Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”

A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.

In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.

Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.

There can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed these contributions, since Obama’s Sept. 20 report specified that Good Will’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $9,375.

Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.

But in some of them, he didn’t even go this far, apparently picking letters at random to fill in the blanks on the credit card donation form. In these cases, he said he was employed by “VCX” and that his profession was “VCVC.”

And then there are the overseas donations — at least, the ones that we know about.

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.

Concerns about foreign fundraising have been raised by other anecdotal accounts of illegal activities.

In June, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gave a public speech praising Obama, claiming foreign nationals were donating to his campaign.

“All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man,” the Libyan leader said. “They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency..."

Though Gadhafi asserted that fundraising from Arab and African nations were “legitimate,” the fact is that U.S. federal law bans any foreigner from donating to a U.S. election campaign.

The rise of the Internet and use of credit cards have made it easier for foreign nationals to donate to American campaigns, especially if they claim their donation is less than $200.

One new measure that might not appear obvious at first could be frustrating to foreigners wanting to buy campaign paraphernalia such as T-shirts or bumper stickers through the online store.

In response to an investigation conducted by blogger Pamela Geller, who runs the blog Atlas Shrugs, the Obama campaign has locked down the store.

Geller first revealed on July 31 that donors from the Gaza strip had contributed $33,000 to the Obama campaign through bulk purchases of T-shirts they had shipped to Gaza.

I see two things happening here. One, scurrilous foreign types are donating huge amounts to the Obama campaign. Second, scurrilous domestic types, the same ones that ran this country in the ground by not paying their mortgages, are racking up huge credit card debt to support Obama. Debt they have no intention of ever repaying. This is what's will decide our fate. How does that sit with you?

CAUSE WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH...

the tough roll up their sleeves and help with a solution...and the man who took more than a $100,000 from the primary culprits stays on the campaign trail...and blames other people

McCain suspends campaign to help solve financial crisis...Obama?...Well, he's spending his time trying to come up with an excuse as to why he took so much money from the institution that ruined America...Just as well...Does anyone really think he has any ideas that would help in this situation?

UPDATE: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refuses help.

A Democrat tells ABC News that, in a phone call late this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that it would NOT be helpful for him to come back to Washington, D.C., to work on the Wall Street bailout bill.

McCain this afternoon suspended his campaign and said he would skip the first presidential debate in order to return to Capitol Hill to work on the log-jammed Bush administration legislation, which, as of Wednesday afternoon, was in peril.

McCain had phoned Reid to ask about the prospects of him, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and others to sit down and work together on hammering out a bipartisan proposal.

"Sorry," Reid said to him, a Democrat close to Reid says.

Reports are speaking of a joint statement to be issued by the candidates said to be forthcoming. Here's a crazy idea. How about a joint solution from the candidates? McCain has expressed his willingness. All I see from Obama is the desire to stay in front of his teleprompter.

Wait a second. I thought Obama already had plans in place? What gives?

UPDATE: Obama says he'll return to Washington if he can be "helpful". Does anyone hear anyone calling for Obama's help? Anyone? Crickets...

GRASSROOTS WRITE-IN CAMPAIGN GAINING MOMENTUM: MANY DEMOCRATS CONSIDERING WRITING IN OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER

A grassroots phenomenon is gaining some serious momentum. Scores of Democrats are now considering writing in a new, dynamic individual who seems to have all the rights answers and, according to many, is "unflappable" under pressure. Here's what some of are saying about the one known as "The Teleprompter":

"I mean, you got the first mainstream Computer-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,". "I mean, that's a storybook, man." - Joe Biden

"For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my country" - Bill Gates

"He's a typical teleprompter" - Barack Obama's Grandmammy

"Hey...What happened to that big-eared fella?...I kinda liked that guy" - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

He's got my vote.

WAS PALIN EMAIL HACKER A FOOT SOLDIER FOR OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN?

So I read this at Gateway Pundit this morning:

There is a connection between David Kernell and David Plouffe--- Barack Obama's Campaign Manager!
From a commenter at Terry Frank (who has screengrabs of David Kernell's Facebook page):

There is an apparent connection between David Kernell and David Plouffe. If you do a Technorati search for “david kernell” (http://www.technorati.com/search/%22david+kernell%22?authority=a4&language=en) and then click on Videos about David Kernell, the first video you see if of David Plouffe (Campaign manager for Obaman). He probably did the video for Plouffe.

This is not a casual connection.

So I went looking around. I found this at Frankly Speaking who is investigating David Kernell:And this from Libertarian Republican: A video from David Plouffe linked on Kernell's Technoratti page.

In another bizarre twist to the Sarah Palin email hacking story, the prime suspect in the FBI investigation David Kernell of Tennessee, had a video produced by Barack Obama for President Campaign Manager David Plouffe on his Technorati Search Page.

Libertarian Republican blog interviewed Computer Applications Specialist Dave Kittlery of Abilene, Texas this evening. Kittlery discovered the video link late yesterday, and captured it in a screen shot. (The black pen markings on the screenshot are from Kittlery).

Kittlery asserts that it is a very strange coincidence that the Plouffe video would show up right on Kernell's Technorati page. One possible explanation according to Kittlery: Kernell's name would be in the credits for the production of the Plouffe video.

Plouffe is known to be a big advocate of NetRoots, a gathering of Leftwing Bloggers, formerly known as Yearly Kos, who often engage in on-line mischief against political opponents. Obama produced a personal video to the NetRoots convention which was held in Austin, Texas the weekend of July 16. Kittlery told LR that is entirely possible that Kernell might be a member of the NetRoots community.

Kittlery also pointed out to LR that the video, which encourages volunteers to become the "cavalry" of the Obama campaign, has since dissappeared from Kernell's Technorati page. He has the screen shot in his possession, and has graciously made the screenshot from yesterday available to LR and to a limited number of websites covering the Palin email hacking story.

Kernell is the son of Democrat State Representative Mike Kernell of Memphis, Tennessee. He is a 20 year old college student at Univ. of TN - Knoxville.

Here's the screenshot (Click to enlarge)



The actual video seems to have vanished from the face of the internet. We have yet to find anyone linking it. We'll update if found.

UPDATE: Might this the "cavalry" video? Nevermind that this douche pronounces it "calvary" which, of course, has a totally different meaning. It doesn't mention Kernell, but it's easy to see how a demented liberal nutjob like Kernell could interpret this video as his marching orders to do the kind of things he has done.

OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER HITS THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

His staffers are really going out of their way to not have him speak his mind. And this is the guy that Joe Biden said is too smart for your neighborhood? It's no wonder why the Hollywood types love him so. He's just as much of a simpleton as they are.

It appears Barack Obama's teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn't use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

Here's an earlier example of what happens to Obama when the teleprompter stops working.

OBAMAGANDA

Fun with photoshop...

IRAN FINDS FLIP FLOP IN OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY

These whackjobs can spot a bullshitter, but at least half of American can't.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Thursday ruled out "unrealistic" claim of a US presidential candidate that Iran's nuclear program is threatening in nature.

"Peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program is undeniable," said Hosseini.

He added, "This (the US presidential candidate's claim) is a fully one-sided and unreal assessment, is in open contradiction with realities concerning peaceful nature of Iran's peaceful nuclear program and is unjustified." He regretted over such "opportunistic attitudes" and said the claim stems from Zionists' insinuations and the candidate's wrong concept.

The candidate's stances are contrary to his campaign promises to counter lobbyism in the US and the Americans and the US elite are concerned over the fact that the US' independent position is getting undermined, he added.

Wake up America! Iran has!

h/t Gateway Pundit
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VOICES FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE: WHAT DID SHE GET FOR $20 MILLION?

The Big Feed is proud to present this article from the esteemed Robert Stacy McCain who writes for the blog, THE OTHER MCCAIN.

Reprinted with full permission.

What did She get for $20 million?

Hillary should demand a refund:

Clinton aides continued to insist that she will remain in the race even while confirming that she is $20 million in debt. "The voters are going to decide this," senior adviser Howard Wolfson said on "Fox News Sunday," acknowledging the $20 million figure. . .

As of a month ago, most of that debt was reportedly owed to the firm of former Clinton top strategist Mark Penn:

A source who has had close connections with Penn got word to me that he believes the Clinton campaign is $10 million in debt to Penn, Schoen & Berland, which is owned by Burson-Marsteller. The campaign's March report to the Federal Election Commission recorded indebtedness to the company of nearly $2.5 million (with its expenses for the month listed at $3.1 million).
My sources suggest that Clinton's full indebtedness may be revealed only gradually. This money link helps explain why Penn is still around even though organized labor demanded his scalp last summer and he is blamed inside the campaign for failing to perceive the public's demand for "change."
Just how much money Clinton owes Penn could cause major difficulties. If not repaid
promptly, would it constitute an illegal financial contribution? Because the British WPP owns Burson-Marsteller, would that debt constitute an illegal foreign contribution?

This is one of my pet peeves about political professionals in both parties. The top operatives get rich running campaigns, and they get paid whether the candidates win or lose. There is a built-in bias for operatives to respond to every problem in the campaign by saying, "The solution is to give me more money." The pollsters always want more money for polling, the media strategists want more money for ads, etc.

What results is a high "burn rate" -- spending campaign funds as fast, or faster, than they come in. These contributions often come from true-believer types, in response to "urgent" appeals to the effect of, "Help us save America!"

Those donors are getting ripped off, if that money goes mainly to line the pockets of some bigshot operative. And how can a candidates, in good conscience, ask students and housewives to work as unpaid volunteers while, at the same time, the campaign is pouring out millions in fat fees to expensive consultants? The consultants, strategists, and pollsters get paid, win or lose.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There are McMansions in Virginia horse country -- and yachts on the Chesapeake Bay -- that were paid for with consulting contracts on losing campaigns.

OBAMA OUTRAISES CLINTON 2:1 IN MARCH

Barack Obama raised $40 million in March. Hillary Clinton raised only $20 million. Obama has attracted nearly 1.3 million donors, largely through the Internet. Earlier this week THE BIG FEED reported on Obama's support from Hamas sympathetic Palestinians in Gaza. Which raises the specter of donations from foreign terrorist organizations. Obama Raises $40 million In March

Obama: Big in Gaza