Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Another Fraudster for Obama

First we had the Fannie-Freddie financial meltdown fueled by Friends of Barack. Now amid the ACORN vote-stealing, the scandal on illegal foreign donors--mostly unremarked upon by the MSM, the pingpong king comes through for the BarackStar. Sweet in the Chicago Sun Times on Obama's third fundraising arm, under the radar of course:

On Friday in Chicago, the featured speakers at a "Committee for Change" fund-raiser are Joe Rospars, the Obama campaign new media director and Mike Slaby, the technology director for the campaign, with national headquarters on Michigan Avenue. A ticket goes for $500; with co-chairs having to raise or donate $25,000.

One of the co-hosts: Robert Blackwell Jr., a longtime Obama friend, businessman and ping pong "Killerspin" magnate. In April, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Blackwell was an $8,000-a-month Obama legal client (before election to the Senate) and that Obama later wrote a letter for Blackwell for a state grant.

My beef: While the names of the donors giving to this Committee for Change of course are reported -- $1.89 million raised according to a September filing -- its fund-raising activities have been done out of sight. The Obama campaign has championed transparency, and "they should not shy away from telling the public what they are doing," said Chris Holman, the campaign finance lobbyist for Public Citizen.

Good luck with that. The MSM is very uncurious on the subject of The One. The fourth estate is his fourth fundraising arm--reaping big dividends for their Obamessiah. Another fraudster for Obama, who will doubtless escape once again unscathed by any serious scrutiny.

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