Uh,oh! McCain screws up again, timing suspicious.

The Green Zone
FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions' | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
By Matthew Mosk

While the Republican Party is pushing the Federal Election Commission to investigate the possibility that Democrat Barack Obama collected excessive contributions, its own candidate is facing scrutiny on the same subject.

The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain's campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about "contributions that appear to exceed the limits."

The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from McCain's August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer and wine distributor.

"Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question," the letter from the FEC's senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. "The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem."

The FEC sent its letter a week before a lawyer for the Republican National Committee said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to Obama.

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Anyone who can't seen the McCain campaign for what it is at this point, is really trying hard to play an ostrich.

where is a roll eyes the size of Texas when you need it.

Great find, Summerwind

The more McCain tries to make Obama look shady the more he looks like the thing he is trying to make...well except for the white skin and the big...thing on his face.

This is not surprising, but like the Obama campaign finance "nothing" that another poster tried to make into "something"....this is really, nothing.

McCain - adulterer, gambler, mafia ties, junkie wife, bigot.

McCrap is just jealous that people want to give Obama money because they believe in him, but nobody wants to give McDodo any money because he is a big phony. What about what he accepted in contributions from the Keating Five?

Let's be honest here.

McCan't has run the most dis-jointed, floundering, blundering campaign in modern history. He has never had a focus to his message except "I'm not Obama."

When he finally figured out that people wanted change, he adopted it as his own slogan months after Obama made it a winning phrase. McCan't has now moved on to slogan 3.0, "Country First."

He has blundered about like a blind man in a fun house over the economic crisis, he picked possibly the most un-qualified VP candidate ever, he has run counter to every statement he previously made about running an honorable campaign, and has made me feel like a pinball bouncing from one position to another to another.

As a candidate, he has been a vacillating, indecisive buffoon. When he has actually made decisions, they have been clearly and obvioulsy wrong.
Any resemblance between what he has said and straight-talk has been purely coincidental.

How could he have not seen that by "suspending" his campaign to ride his white horse to our economic rescue that he would then by default take ownership of the failure of that effort? How could he have not seen that the American people would eventually look past the lipstick and the smile to see his VP candidate for the empty blouse that she clearly is? How can he not see that the voters are viewing his latest last-ditch effort of smearing and slandering his opponent for what it is: desperation?

He has proved over the course of this campaign that he is not up to the job of President. For a man to have run an absolute train-wreck of a campaign and then have the audacity to ask fo rmy vote is beyond the pale.

I love it when the pot gets caught calling the kettle black. It's poetic justice at its finest.

CaptainCourtesy said:

Moderator's Warning:

Folks, though the topic is OK, comments like "McCrap" and "McCan't" add nothing to debate and only bait and flame. Please stop this behavior.

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Does this mean the distortions of Obama to Obsama and Obama - Biden to Obsama bin Biden are also going to be questioned?

Frolicking Dinosaurs said:

Does this mean the distortions of Obama to Obsama and Obama - Biden to Obsama bin Biden are also going to be questioned?

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They have, so stop your bellyaching.

CaptainCourtesy said:

Moderator's Warning:

Folks, though the topic is OK, comments like "McCrap" and "McCan't" add nothing to debate and only bait and flame. Please stop this behavior.

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How about Sargeant Stinger using "Repuke" in his signature. Huh? Huh? Huh?? What about it? It's been reported to you several times. When ya gonna do something about it?? Huh? Huh? Huh:???

Yeah, just what I thought.

American said:

How about Sargeant Stinger using "Repuke" in his signature. Huh? Huh? Huh?? What about it? It's been reported to you several times. When ya gonna do something about it?? Huh? Huh? Huh:???

Yeah, just what I thought.

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Frolicking Dinosaurs said:

Does this mean the distortions of Obama to Obsama and Obama - Biden to Obsama bin Biden are also going to be questioned?

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I saw Navy use Hussein Obama yesterday. :roll:

Re: McCain - adulterer, gambler, mafia ties, junkie wife, bigot.

Jessica said:

McCrap is just jealous that people want to give Obama money because they believe in him, but nobody wants to give McDodo any money because he is a big phony. What about what he accepted in contributions from the Keating Five?

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You mean the $112,000 that he gave to the US Treasury? That money? :roll:

If Repukes is going away can Democraps go with it?

Are we serious here? The FEC has demanded more information about some of McCain's contributors that appear to have exceeded contribution limits and this is representative of McCain screwing up? And reflects suspicious timing? How does an action by the FEC reflect suspicious timing on McCain's part?

And I love the blind partisanship here where such a thin original post garners, "Great find"...:roll:


On one hand, we have named donors to McCain's campaign that the FEC is inquiring about.

On the other hand, we have Obama's campaign...well, read for yourselves:

Ken Timmerman at Newsmax writes:

In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.

Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”

A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.

In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.

Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.

There can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed these contributions, since Obama’s Sept. 20 report specified that Good Will’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $9,375.

In an e-mailed response to a query from Newsmax, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt pledged that the campaign would return the donations. But given the slowness with which the campaign has responded to earlier FEC queries, there’s no guarantee that the money will be returned before the Nov. 4 election.

Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.

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Hmmmm, Good Will and Doodad Pro?

Looks like the RNC has good reason demanding that the FEC look more closely at Obama's contributors.