The audit of McCain is automatic because he took public funding.

We have no reason to think there’s any legal grounds for an audit of Obama’s campaign. I don’t recall any other presidential campaign being audited.

In other words, this story seems to be of the dog-bites-man variety.

jpe, so you’re telling me that people at the FEC don’t have enough common sense to take a look at Obama’s credit card page, realize that it does nothing to prevent illegal donors, realize that half of Obama’s donations fit into the “unscreened” category, and figure out that there might be something there?

Come on, fella. You might also argue that since the police are not required to investigate every crime in toto, that there is nothing amiss in neglecting certain crimes when there is abundant evidence that they could be easily solved. Sorry, this isn’t law, but rather politics.

JPE, here’s the relevant section:

http://vlex.com/vid/19623195

And here is what it says:

a) An investigation shall be conducted in any case in which the Commission finds reason to believe that a violation of a statute or regulation over which the Commission has jurisdiction has occurred or is about to occur.

Clearly Congress intended for the FEC to investigate when, say, a candidate has enabled possibly hundreds of millions of dollars of fraudulent donations.

Hoisted by your own petard!

So, since he is a Democrat the law protects him from being audited? Who wrote that law?

I also heard that no one has questioned why he is paying his workers with pre paid Visa and mastercards!
Everything he has done during his campaign should be investigated.
From Acorn and all the fraudulent voters they registered, to where did all his whirl wind funds come from, to why are his workers getting these visa and mastercards instead of checks?

No ethics. There are still some with integrity in the USA. These are not some of them.

A thugocracy is born .. reject Obamunism.

Why would they investigate McCain and not NOBAMA?

The law requires them to audit McCain. It doesn’t require an audit of Obama. I looked in to the legal standards for triggering an audit, and I don’t think they’ve been met. (I had been an auditor for many years, so I have a decent sense of these things)

We could always turn up the heat. Would it do any good though? I mean say we press for and get an audit, does anyone think they’ll hold Obama or his campaign accountable? Whether or not, it is worth the effort.

Remember that WE questioned this practice of paying workers with the pre-=paids when a story submerged last week about campaign workers not being paid on time.

Are you seriously arguing, jpe, that when multiple sources offer abundant evidence that the Obama campaign enabled and took a lot of illegal donations, that the FEC needs to wait for permission from Congress to do its job?

Come on. Have some common sense here; when authorities see clear evidence that laws are being broken, they ought to investigate. Is that so difficult to figure out?

Chief

Same thing with the ‘Rainbow coalition”, ACORN, etc. Illegal criminal activity, swept under the rug. Here we go. Just wait a few more months for more anonymous verbal rule changes.

There’s going to be more than a few anonymous verbal rule changes. There will be constitutional changes…but then the People have spoken, right?

No ethics. There are still some with integrity in the USA. These are not some of them.

So Obama took illegal campaign contributions and he and those who should hold him accountable have no ethics….what does it matter, after all again, the people have spoken!

As you said yesterday on another blog:

I support the President elect of the USA. He was elected by the people.

For someone who feels so strongly about supporting Obama as you do Chief, bashing his ethics or his alliances with ACORN, et al is a little hypocritical, don’t you think?

No ethics. There are still some with integrity in the USA. These are not some of them.

I agree Chief.

I fail to see where the volume of Obama’s contributions are significant. If he took money illegally then he took money illegally. End of discussion. And we know the Obama campaign took some money illegally. We know the Obama campaign disabled online security measures to allow fraudulent contributions to flow into his campaign. This should be investigated, and the findings should be made public.

This sounds like a Red Herring. Why would they investigate McCain and not NOBAMA? Obama is the one that had fradulinent donations.

since Barri took all kinds of untraceable funding, it is just a foregone conclusion that he should not account for any of it

Bet those prepaid Visa cards would prove difficult to trace as well!

There’s been no showing that the Obama campaign hasn’t substantially complied w/ FEC regs. A few errors here and there aren’t substantial noncompliance.

On the issue of frivilous spending, who’s going to foot the bill for obama’s mother in law’s living expenses in the White House?
Reports are that she’s going to tend the kids.
I remember seeing obama’s baby momma saying that caring for her kids was going to be her job.
Maybe she’s taken up her husband’s habit of lying?

It’s stories like this that just remind me how utterly lame McCain and his “honorable” campaign were. He had months and months to nail Obama on this bullsh*t and did nothing.

Sure he whined to the FEC, but why didn’t he talk about Obama’s corruption in his stump speeches? Why didn’t he call Obama out in the debates? FORCE Obama to address this issue?

I can’t tell you how many times over the past 3 months I have sat there screaming like a madman at my TV set saying, “Say it John, just f*cking say it!” But he never would. I’m surprised I didn’t have a stroke.

John McCain, worst candidate EVER.

How many coups scrutinize their own legitimacy after they take over? This one will be no different.

The Commission is made up of six members, who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Each member serves a six-year term, and two seats are subject to appointment every two years. By law, no more than three Commissioners can be members of the same political party, and at least four votes are required for any official Commission action. This structure was created to encourage nonpartisan decisions. The Chairmanship of the Commission rotates among the members each year, with no member serving as Chairman more than once during his or her term.

Not a Democrat appointed agency.

And Democrats, who are undoubtedly the ones blocking this from happening even as they pay lip service to things like “open, honest and transparent government,” should be held accountable for it.

And yet you jump to that conclusion.

Maybe there is nothing to see there. Just like the non-partisan agency who’s job it is to conclude such things has said.

Not everything is a conspiracy.

The law is very particular about how audits are triggered. As far as I can tell, news accounts about possible fraud can’t be taken into account in determining whether to audit.

Why do I keep being reminded of the O.J. verdict?

If this was a story about the FEC actually auditing the [putative] fraudulent donations given to Obama, that would be a man bites dog story.

I thought that was just some fucked up french film?

The dems have no ethics and what the Republicans do is none of your effing business.

Is that about right?

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