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Monday, April 2, 2012

Those Evil 1%

From April 1, 2012 Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A major donor to President Barack Obama has been accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official, creating new headaches for Obama's re-election campaign as it deals with the questionable history of another top supporter.
The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than $50,000 to Obama's re-election effort this year, federal records show. But Assongba is also fending off a civil court case in Florida, where she's accused of thieving more than $650,000 to help build a multimillion-dollar home in the state - a charge her husband denies.
Everytime I hear Obama yammer on about how the rich need to pay more, I fear that while he says "taxes" he really means "campaign contributions."

2 comments:

  1. I don't recall reading these definitions in the Newspeak appendix to Orwell's 1984, but they are newspeak:

    Public Spending = Invest
    Taxes = Campaign contributions
    Leftist = Moderate
    Not leftist = Radical dangerous conservative fundamentalist.

    Others doubtless will come to mind later.

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  2. And his campaign has disabled address verification on the donation page of his website. Again.

    It's amazing how shamelessly brazen he his, and how the media won't call him on it.

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