Obama Is a Pro-Abortion Extremist

In his 2004 U.S. Senate race, Barack Hussein Obama’s website proudly proclaimed he would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.” (Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, Three Rivers Press, New York, NY, 2006, p. 195) He has kept this promise. Without a doubt, Obama is “the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood.” (Patrick J. Buchanan, “A Catholic Case Against Barack,” Human Events, August 2008)

Now, a majority of Americans do not want all abortions outlawed. Even many of those who believe Roe v. Wade is bad law – that the issue should be decided at the state level – do not want to completely ban all abortions. Of course, others believe all abortions are wrong, citing religious beliefs or echoing the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence that life is a fundamental human right.

For most Americans, though, some procedures or practices are so beyond the pale that they have no problem saying they should be banned. These include partial birth abortion, a late-term procedure “where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out.” (Ibid.) As the late Democrat Senator Patrick J. Moynihan described it, partial birth abortion "comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary." (Ibid.) The vast majority of Americans believe that babies who survive an abortion procedure should be given medical care rather than be allowed to die without it.

Obama supports partial birth abortion and opposes life-saving measures for abortion survivors. He voted against a measure in the Illinois Senate in 2001 that would have treated surviving fetuses of botched abortions as human babies, saying he would have supported it if it mirrored federal law. Going back on his word, Obama led the battle in 2003 to defeat a bill that duplicated the federal “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.” Yet, he claims that among the anchors of his faith is certainty regarding “the Golden Rule” and “the need to battle cruelty in all its forms.” (Op.cit. p. 224)

During questioning by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church forum, Obama was flippant about the abortion issue’s fundamental question. Pastor Warren asked him, “When does life begin?” Obama joked, “You know, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”

Cling to Your Guns: Obama Lies about Gun Control

Few politicians have the gall to blatantly lie in their television ads. Barack Hussein Obama has plowed new ground in his audacity of deceit to run a political ad in which he claims he is pro-gun rights. When I heard it, I laughed out loud after I picked my jaw up off the floor.

With friends like Obama, who needs enemies? As a Life Member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), I know Obama is no friend of my Second Amendment rights. He has an “F” from the NRA. Any gun owner needs to pay close attention to Obama’s words and, more importantly, his actions. Despite his few years as a politician, he has a long string of anti-gun votes.

Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which has given millions of dollars to anti-gun groups, from 1994-2001. He wrote in his own handwriting on a candidate questionnaire in 1996, when he first ran for the Illinois Senate, that he would like to “ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.” Similarly, in 1998, he supported a ban on the sale or transfer of all semi-automatic weapons. (NRA-ILA Staff, “Obama: Issue by Issue,” America’s 1st Freedom, Nov. 2008, p. 36) Back in 1999, Obama proposed increasing taxes on firearms and ammunition by 500 percent. He also called for a federal ban on gun stores within five miles of any park or school. A study of these “Obama Exclusion Zones” determined that over ninety percent of all gun stores would be forced to close and “most major metropolitan areas and their suburbs, and even small towns, would become ‘gun store-free zones’.” (Ibid. p. 39)

As an Illinois State Senator, he voted to limit handgun purchases to one per month in 2003. He supported S.B. 1195, another 2003 anti-gun bill, which would have banned “all single-shot and double-barreled shotguns 28 gauge or larger, and many semi-auto shotguns…along with hundreds of models of rifles and handguns.” (Ibid. p. 38) Any Illinois resident found in possession of one of these guns ninety days after passage would have been charged with a felony. Fortunately, the bill did not pass.

Obama voted ‘no” four times on S.B. 2165 in 2004. This bill would protect citizens from prosecution who used a gun in self-defense in their home against an intruder or attacker. He also said in 2004, “I am consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.” He proposed “federal legislation that would ban citizens from carrying weapons, except for law enforcement.” He continues to oppose citizens’ right-to-carry laws, stating in April 2008, “I am not in favor of concealed weapons.” (Ibid. p. 39)

More recently in 2005, Obama supported Sen. Edward Kennedy’s ban on center-fire rifle ammunition used in hunting and sport shooting. Even the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) opposed it. Fortunately, this Kennedy amendment to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act failed. He voted “yea” on S.397 in the U.S. Senate in 2005. This terrible bill would have made firearms’ manufacturers responsible for illegal use of their products after sale. It would also have outlawed most types of rifle ammunition. (www.gunbanobama.com) Both Obama and his running mate Sen. Joseph Biden voted against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. This bill protects legal firearm manufacturers from lawsuits resulting from the illegal acts of armed criminals. Obama supports Biden’s bill (S.2237) that would reinstate Brady Bill bans on “roughly 200 makes and models of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns on the basis of things like the shape of their grips, and on ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.” (“Joe Biden: The Voice of Anti-gun Experience,” America’s 1st Freedom, Nov. 2008, p. 41)

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the handgun ban in Washington, D.C. recently in District of Columbia v. Heller. Over 300 members of Congress joined in a brief asking the court to uphold the Second Amendment rights of individuals. Neither Obama nor Biden joined them. This decision was decided 5-4. Key to this landmark decision in defense of your individual right to keep and bear arms was Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito. Both Obama and Biden voted against confirming these justices and expressed strong disagreement with the Court’s decision. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the decision. At an August 2008 candidate’s forum, Obama stated he would not have nominated him or Justice Clarence Thomas who voted with the majority.

Biden, during a speech to the N.A.A.C.P. convention during the presidential primary, predicted: “The next president is likely to name at least one, if not three new Supreme Court justices.” (Wayne LaPierre, “Vote for the Second Amendment,” America’s 1st Freedom, Nov. 2008, p. 9) If you own guns of any type or believe you should have the right to do so, then you do not want Obama to be the one nominating Supreme Court Justices and hundreds of lower-level federal judges. If you, like the Founding Fathers, believe the Second Amendment is essential to freedom from government tyranny, then McCain-Palin is the ticket to support.

Obama would like to ban all handguns and semi-automatic firearms, revoke state Right-to-Carry laws, ration purchases of other firearms, and impose gun licensing and registration. (www.nrapvf.org) As NRA President John C. Sigler warned, “Taken together, Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden constitute the most anti-gun ticket ever to run for the White House.” (John c. Sigler, “Obama-Biden a Clear and Present Danger,” America’s 1st Freedom, Nov. 2008, p. 10)

The divide between Democratic and Republican views of the Second Amendment is clear in their party platforms. The 2008 Democratic Party platform says, “We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation, but we know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne.” This new concept that Constitutional protections are subject to regional differences has been dubbed “geo-constitutionalism.” It flies in the face of our Founding Fathers’ intent and the concept of equal protection under the law.

In contrast, the Republican Party platform states, “We uphold the right of individual Americans to own firearms, a right which antedated the Constitution and was solemnly confirmed by the Second Amendment. Gun ownership is responsible citizenship, enabling Americans to defend themselves, their property and communities.” Voters, cling to those guns! Vote for McCain-Palin.

Why Is Karl Marx Cheering from the Grave?

Karl Marx, the author of the failed economic system of communism, must be cheering from the grave over the prospect of Barack Hussein Obama becoming President of the United States. If the polls are correct (and I pray they are not), then the American people are about to elect a trained and avowed Marxist as President. How can I say this?

It is the result of having read both of Obama's books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. In them is revealed the degree to which Obama has been and continues to be influenced by the principles of Marx and Marxism. Likewise, his continued relationships with radical leftists, whom he refuses to disavow, also show it. Finally, his actions as an Illinois State Senator and a U.S. Senator illustrate his commitment to radically changing America’s economic system of capitalism.

As a youth, Obama disdained American middle-class values, what Marx would have ridiculed as “bourgeois” [capitalist] values. “Theirs [his white grandparents] were the faces of American Gothic, the WASP bloodline’s poorer cousins…the world in which my grandparents had been raised, the dab-smack, landlocked center of the country, a place where decency and endurance and the pioneer spirit were joined at the hip with conformity and suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty…where fear and lack of imagination choke your dreams…” (Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press: New York, pgs. 12-13; 15)

Obama’s white mother, who grew up in the Midwest, tried to instill her values (“Honesty – Fairness - Straight talk - Independent judgment”) in him, but he rejected them. “My mother could give voice to the virtues of her Midwestern past…I would dutifully nod my assent, but she must have known that many of her ideas seemed rather impractical…My mother’s confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn’t possess…a faith that rational thoughtful people could shape their own destiny…” (Ibid. pgs. 49-50) Later, he wrote, “…Her [his mother’s] faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn’t overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn’t help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.” (Ibid. p. 96)

One of Obama’s early mentors, a kind of father figure during his teen years in Hawaii, was a man he calls by only his first name, “Frank,” in Dreams from My Father. He warned Obama as he prepared to enter college, “Understand something, boy. You’re not going to college to get education. You’re going there to get trained. They’ll train you to want what you don’t need. They’ll train you to manipulate words so they don’t mean anything anymore. They’ll train you to forget what it is that you already know. They’ll train you so good, you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit…” (Ibid. p. 97)

Who was this “Frank”? He was a black poet named Frank Marshall Davis. He was also a card-carrying member of the Communist Party U.S.A. [CPUSA] during the years it was controlled by the Soviet Union. Davis joined the CPUSA during World War II and never resigned before his death in 1987. His membership was confirmed in a 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 and wrote columns for the Honolulu Record. Davis was a friend of Obama’s white grandfather, who introduced the young Obama to Davis.

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs and a history professor at the University of Houston, talked about the relationship between Obama and Davis in March 2007 in a speech, "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party," at the Tamiment Library at New York University where CPUSA archives are housed. “Davis ‘befriended’ a ‘Euro-American family’ that had ‘migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama.’” Horne wrote Davis “became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/)

Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa did her dissertation on Davis. She confirmed Davis was the “Frank” in Obama’s first book. She notes that Davis had “‘an acute sense of race relations and class struggle throughout America and the world’ and that he openly discussed subjects such as American imperialism, colonialism and exploitation.” He "espoused freedom, radicalism, solidarity, labor unions, due process, peace, affirmative action, civil rights, Negro History week, and true Democracy to fight imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy." (Ibid.)

Writing of his days at Occidental College, Obama heeded his mentor’s advice, “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets…We were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints.” (Op.cit. pgs. 100-101) While there, he became involved in the efforts to force Occidental College to divest its investments in apartheid South Africa. Among his efforts was “contacting representatives of the African National Congress to speak on campus” (Ibid. p. 105) The African National Congress [ANC] was and is a communist-backed front group.

Obama completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University in New York City. He continued his Marxist studies, where, “Political discussions…came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union or the African cultural fairs that took place in Harlem and Brooklyn during the summers – a few of the many diversions New York had to offer…” (Ibid. p. 122)

Upon graduation, Obama set out to become a community organizer. However, he could not find a job in that field. “Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office.” (Ibid. p. 135) Frustrated working in a capitalistic, profit-making enterprise, “In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Touré, formerly Stokely Carmichael of SNCC and Black Power fame, speak at Columbia. At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature and arguing with each other about Trotsky’s place in history. Inside Touré was proposing a program to establish economic ties between Africa and Harlem that would circumvent white capitalist imperialism.” (Ibid. pgs. 139-140)

Finally, Obama was hired by Marty Kaufman, a white Chicago community organizer and moved to Chicago. There he “came into contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which maintains close ties to European socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI), and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), William Ayers and Carl Davidson.” Marx founded the SI.

After two-and-a-half years, Obama decided to enroll in law school. His stated purpose was to learn “power’s currency in all its intricacy and detail, knowledge that would have compromised me before coming to Chicago but that I could now bring back to where it was needed…bring it back like Promethean fire.” (Ibid. p. 276) He returned to Chicago after receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School and went to work as a Civil Rights attorney. Later, he was a part-time professor of Law at the University of Chicago.


Obama remained true to his Marxist disdain of the bourgeoisie, even when he began visiting Trinity Christian Church in Chicago and consulting with its pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Tellingly, he wrote, “There was one particular passage in Trinity’s brochure that stood out…’A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness,’ the heading read. ‘While it is permissible to chase ‘middleincomeness’ with all our might,’ the text stated, those blessed with the talent or good fortune to achieve success in the American mainstream must avoid the ‘psychological entrapment of Black ‘middleclassness’ that hypnotizes the successful brother or sister into believing they are better than the rest and teaches them to think in terms of ‘we’ and ‘they’ instead of ‘US’!’” (Op.cit. p. 284)

In 1996, Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate. He received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). “DSA describes itself as the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. The Socialist International (SI) has what is called ‘consultative status’ with the United Nations.” ("Is Barack Obama a Marxist Mole?” Accuracy in Media Report, March 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-report/is-barack-obama-a-marxist-mole/)

“Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul Mendelson, one of the ‘champions’ of ‘Chicago's democratic left’ and a long-time socialist activist.” Chicago Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky endorsed Obama and “was honored in 2000 at a dinner sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the DSA.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's International Socialist Connections," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 14, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-international-socialist-connections/)

With DSA encouragement, U. S. Senator Obama sponsored “The Global Poverty Act” (S.2433), which “commits the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars more in foreign aid on the rest of the world, in order to comply with the ‘Millennium Goals’ established by the United Nations.” Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Obama’s vice presidential pick, pushed S.2433 through the committee. It is currently awaiting a vote by the full Senate. (Op.cit.)

Much has been written about William Ayers, the self-admitted and convicted Weather Underground domestic terrorist, and Obama’s working friendship with him. Obama served on the board of the Woods Foundation and authored the foreword to Ayers’ book. Ayers and his wife Bernadette Doerhn, another Weather Underground terrorist, helped launch Obama’s state Senate campaign by hosting an early “Meet and Greet” party in their home.

Few have looked at Obama’s on-going relationships with other Chicago radical leftists. Carl Davidson is active in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), an offshoot of the old CPUSA; he “helped organize the 2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/)

Another CCDS activist is Leslie Cagan, who organizes anti-Iraq War demonstrations through a group called United for Peace and Justice (UPJ). Herbert Romerstein, a former Congressional investigator on communist activities, said the CCDS has “a close working relationship with the Stalinist remnants in the former East Germany, now called the Party of Democratic Socialism.” ("Is Barack Obama a Marxist Mole?” Accuracy in Media Report, March 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-report/is-barack-obama-a-marxist-mole/)

Lance Fairchok wrote accurately, “Barack Obama has a thing for Marxists. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his campaign. And they seem to feel the warmth.” For example, Sam Graham-Felsen is Obama’s official presidential campaign blogger. He also a writer for the Socialist Viewpoint, the mouthpiece of the Socialist Workers Organization (SWO). Graham-Felsen, “after being expelled from Socialist Action in 1999,” helped found the SWO “in an attempt to carry on the project of building a nucleus of a revolutionary party true to the historic teachings and program of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.“ (Lance Fairchok, "Another Obama Marxist," American Thinker, April 2008 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/another_obama_marxist.html and Socialist Viewpoint socialistviewpoint.org)

"Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through." Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, penned these words in a letter to the party’s newspaper “hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/)

Voting Recommendations for Duval County [Florida] Residents

Below are my recommendations for Duval County residents. As you will see, I have split my ballot more than I usually do. Whomever you chose to support, what matters most is that you exercise your right to vote.

President: John McCain (REP)
Congressional District 4: Jay McGovern (DEM)
Public Defender: Bill White (DEM)
Clerk of Courts: Jim Fuller (REP)
City Council-at-large, Group 2: John R. Crescimbeni (DEM)
School Board, District 1: Stan Jordan
School Board, District 3: W. C. Gentry
Soil & Water Conservation Board, Group 2: Jonathan McGowan
Soil & Water Conservation Board, Group 3: Victor L. Wilhelm, Jr.
Soil & Water Conservation Board, Group 4: Katrina L. Finley

On the judges, I could find no agregious decisions, so I voted to retain all.

Here are my recommendations on the Amendments:

#1: No (A 'yes' vote would give "equal rights" to illegal aliens under Florida's Constitution and prohibit the Legislature from "discriminating" against those who are in the United States illegally.)
#2: Yes (This amendment puts the current definition of marriage under Florida statute in the Constitution to prevent activist judges from ordering Florida to allow homosexual marriages. Current law defines marriage as between a man and a woman. This amendment will have no other impact.)
#3: Yes (This gives homeowners the incentive to make hurricane protection and energy conservation improvements without penalizing them with higher property tax assessments.)
#4: Yes (It encourages property owners to maintain their undeveloped property for conservation purposes with tax breaks.)
#5: Removed from ballot by the Florida Supreme Court
#6: Yes (It requires property tax assessments on working waterfront properties to be assessed according to their current usage, not future or potential usage. It protects small businesses, such as marine repair, commercial fishers, and marinas, from being forced out of business by higher assessments because their properties could be used for condos or resorts, etc.)
#7: Withdrawn
#8: No (This amendment would allow an increase in sales' taxes. Although the purpose is good, increasing taxes on anything at this time of economic turmoil is bad.)

Again, I hope this helps you and please, get out and vote! Deo Vindice, Sue

Invitation to Pray & Fast

Two weeks from today is Election Day. Many Americans are voting already in early voting and via absentee ballots. There is still much electioneering to do. I plan to devote every spare moment to the effort to get John McCain elected President. However, there is more to be done by Christians than the usual blogging, emailing, phone calling, letter writing, pamphlet distribution, and sign waving.

The Bible recommends prayer and fasting for the nation in times of trouble. The Lord advised Solomon: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (1 Chron. 7:14).

The prophet Jonah went to Nineveh and prophesied that the city would be destroyed in forty days. The people of Nineveh “declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth” (Jonah 3:5). The King ordered, “Let everyone call urgently on God” (Jonah 3: 8). Thus, God chose to withhold his anger and the city of 120,000 was saved from destruction.

God promised Abraham that whoever blessed Israel would be blessed, but whoever cursed Israel would be cursed (Gen. 12:3). National security is an important issue in this election. The Bible instructs, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May those who love you [Jerusalem] be secure’” (Ps. 122:6).

Please join me during the next two weeks in praying and fasting for our nation. Ask God that our new President be a true man of Christ and a follower of the Bible. Please join me in begging God that we remain faithful to our promises of protection to Israel. Plead that the next President will be the one who will appoint judges who will end the holocaust of abortion. Our nation needs spiritual revival; ask God for an outpouring of His Spirit upon us.

Follow the Money: Palestinians Make Illegal Donations to Barack Hussein Obama

A review of Barack Hussein Obama’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings reveals that he has accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign nationals, and they exceeded the maximum allowed from individuals. Federal election laws forbid all campaign contributions from foreigners. If received, the law requires that such contributions be returned to the donors promptly. Moreover, the maximum amount allowed from any single donor is $2,300 per campaign.

Obama received illegal donations to his presidential campaign from Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, beginning in September 2007. The FEC records show three contributors: Monir Edwan (or Adwan), Hosam Edwan, and Osama Edwan. Monir, an accountant, has given $28, 380. Hosam, also an accountant, donated $7,502. Osama, a trader, has given $1,809. Thus, two have exceeded the limits for contributions by individuals.

These three brothers reside in the Tal Esaltan neighborhood of Rafah, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. They are not Americans living abroad, who would be allowed to make contributions; they are all Palestinians. The brothers claim not to be members of Hamas, but other members of their family are in leadership positions with this terrorist group.

In fact, the FEC filings from his campaign appear to be an attempt to disguise or hide these donations. These donations are listed under the state of Georgia (GA). The street address is listed as “Tal Esaltan” or “Tal esoltan 295/5”, the city as “Rafah,” and zipcode “972xx” in “GA.” (See http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/MapAppRefreshTran.do?tranComeFrom=stateMap&cand_id=P80003338&cand_nm_title=&tranType=stateZip&showType=all&stateName=GA&zip_3=972 and http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/MapAppState.do?stateName=GA&cand_id=P80003338 )

No atlas shows a town named “Rafah” in the U.S. state of Georgia. Georgia post office zipcodes range from 300xx to 398xx. The “972” in the filings is actually the telephone area code for Israel, including the Gaza Strip.

When caught, the Obama campaign claimed that these donations had been returned. However, according to Monir Edwan, “No, we did not receive any money back from the Obama campaign at any time.” He tried to deny these were political contributions to World Net Daily’s Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein. Instead, he claimed the brothers had purchased $29,000 worth of Obama T-shirts to sell to Obama supporters in Gaza. When asked, he could not explain how these supposed shipments could have been received. At the time, the Gaza Strip was closed by Israel to imports from June 2007 until June 2008. However, even if he had received the tee shirts, it would still constitute an illegal contribution. All monies used to purchase items in the “Obama store” on his website are considered campaign donations. (See “Illegal cash to Obama: WND stands accused. Website suggests donation scheme concocted to make Dem look bad,” Word Press, August 7, 2008: http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/illegal-cash-to-obama-wnd-stands-accused-website-suggests-donation-scheme-concocted-to-make-dem-look-bad/ )

Asked why he supports Obama, Monir said, “We just like Obama and believe he will be the best for the Palestinians and for the world." He went on to say, “Not just the people in Gaza but people from all over the world are rooting for this great man.” (See Aaron Klein, “Illegal Obama donors: Middle Eastern Arabs,” World Net Daily, August 4, 2008: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71431 )

The FEC has challenged Obama’s filings repeatedly for illegal foreign contributions. “On 4/15/08 the FEC sent a letter requesting additional information for 36 contributors the Obama campaign had submitted. There is an attachment to this letter with the names, dates and amounts,” including seven of Hosam’s donations. Obama filed the required amended filing on May 15, 2008 for contributions received between October 10 and December 31, 2007. On July 30, 2008, the FEC requested clarifications or corrections on an additional sixteen pages of this same filing. Twenty contributions from Monir Edwan were questioned. (See http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ )

This may be just a small part of a much larger problem. According to Pamela Geller, author of the Atlas Shrugs blog who does extensive investigative reporting, “An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.” (See Pamela Geller, “Obama Foreign Illegal Contributions: Infiltration at FEC, DOJ, and FBI,” Atlas Shrugs, October 2, 2008: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/obamas_foreign_contributions/ )

Researchers have found suspicious contributions from over 68 foreign cities and nations to Obama’s campaign in FEC filings. There are also suspicious patterns to some of these contributions. For example, the same donor makes multiple small contributions on the same day or over a period of a few days. Other donors listed have names, occupations, and cities of residence that are either gibberish or obviously phony. Examples include: A donor named “Jkbkj Hbkjb,” working for a fictitious Kuman Bank as a “Balanon Jalalan” and living in the city of “Jkbjnj,” gave $1,077.23 on April 30, 2008. A donor named “Doodad,” employed by “FDGFDGF” as a “DFGFDG,” gave 1,044 donations totaling $10,780. (See Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes,” American Thinker, August 14, 2008: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html )

On Monday, October 6, 2008, the Republican National Committee (RNC) finally filed a complaint with the FEC over Obama’s alleged foreign contributions. The FEC will have no choice but to investigate and rule on this complaint. Unfortunately, it will happen long after Election Day, November 4th.