October 14, 2008
Racism!
I can't believe this: just because Obama voters have names that are nearly as odd as Obama donors, the press is all over it. Sort of.
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Turns out that “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will” are not the only phony contributors to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The New York Times finally bestirred itself to apply some basic investigative journalism attention to the Democratic presidential nominee’s donor list. The Times found nearly 3,000 other questionable donors like “Jgtj Jfggjjfgj” and “Dirty West” after what the paper admitted was just a cursory look at the Illinois senator’s September financial filings. But then Times reporters Michael Luc and Griff Palmer revealed an incredible level of naivety by stating “it is unclear why someone making a political donation would want to enter a false name.”
Quite unclear. I can't figure it out, either. It's just . . . . odd.
Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer.Orange County elections officials rejected his application, which was stamped with the logo of the nonprofit group ACORN.
I'm downright ashamed to be an American right now, what with all the namesism going on.
h/t: Insty, who had an interesting juxtaposition of posts up this morning.
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Why would someone donate money under an assumed name? Here are the possibilities I can think of:
1. To make it difficult to detect a violation of the law, as in a foreigner donating to a US campaign or someone violation the amounts.
2. the false-named donor is trying to make the small numbers of law enforcement types who investigate these crimes work har on minor stuff so they have less time for anything really big.
3. They are spending someone else's money, be that Daddy's, George Soros or anyone else's. So, fearing punishment, they use a fake name.
4. They are ashamed.
Now I think we can discard #4, if I were gonna spend my own money on something I was ashamed of it'd be something else beside politics.
Posted by: Peter at October 14, 2008 03:46 PM (GAf+S)
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