Shocked! To learn that a Chicago machine politician may be violating campaign finance laws.
Unlike the McCain campaign, which has made its complete donor database available online, the Obama campaign has not identified donors for nearly half the amount he has raised, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).
Federal law does not require the campaigns to identify donors who give less than $200 during the election cycle. However, it does require that campaigns calculate running totals for each donor and report them once they go beyond the $200 mark.
Surprisingly, the great majority of Obama donors never break the $200 threshold.
The right way to do campaign finance reform is not the idiotic, unconstitutional way McCain/Feingold did it, but with total transparency. You really only need two rules: 1) You must be a citizen to donate. 2) All donations, of any size, must be publicly recorded on a web site within 48 hours. Putting limits on donations is wrong, and only invites this kind of slimy behavior anyway.
Update:
At least his Muslim supporters aren’t violating any tax laws.