Barack Obama is a Fraud

WaPo does a story on Rezko and Obama, leads with polling--how salient, leaves out most recent news.

And this is pretty laughable if it weren't so despicable...

But Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Obama has "led the fight for ethics reform and worked to reduce the influence of money over the political process."

(gee, how come we still have so many crooks in Illinois?)...given the scandal of ACORN voter registration fraud and Obama's multiple illegal campaign donors.

UPDATE: Via HotAir:

Patrick Ruffini was Bush’s web guy in 2004 and specializes in online campaign finance, so he knows what he’s talking about here. Verdict: Fraud.

The issue centers around the Address Verification Service (or AVS) that credit card processors use to sniff out phony transactions. I was able to contribute money using an address other than the one on file with my bank account (I used an address I control, just not the one on my account), showing that the Obama campaign deliberately disabled AVS for its online donors…

The end result? “Donors” like “Doodad Pro” can submit tons of donations totaling well above the $2,300 limit using different bogus addresses (this does clarify how donations from “Palestine”, or PA, got through). And the campaign has no way to reliably de-dupe these donations, besides looking at the last four digits of the credit card number, which with 3.1 million donors is an identifier that could be shared by literally hundreds of donors, and is not as easy to eyeball like a common name or address would be. The ability to contribute with a false address, when the technology to prevent it not only exists but comes standard, is a green light for fraud.

And the cheaters in Ohio, who fraudulently registered to vote for Barack Obama confess. Rhodes and Marshall scholars among them, they claim they didn't understand the law, and are let off with a slap on the wrist.

UPDATE: Political Punch, earlier today:

This fundraising advantage comes directly as a result of Obama's abandonment of his pledge to enter into the public financing system, a system creating to squelch the influence of money in presidential politics.

And while Obama's campaign can rightly claim an unprecedented number of donors, and myriad small donations, it has also refused to abide by principles of full disclosure -- it does not provide the public with the names of any donors who have given less than $200, for instance.

And amidst legitimate inquiries about some of that money coming (illegally) from non -U.S. citizens, and some of that money being given -- in aggregate -- in excess of individual contribution limits, one wonders why it is that the Obama campaign feels this refusal to inform the public where all its money is coming from in any way squares with Obama's claim to be a reformer.

You know, in Illinois we have a governor who raised money like that.