Mr. Obama is apparently trying to score some points with his base over political campaign financing. He is attempting to say that the US Chamber of Commerce is funneling foreign funds into domestic campaigns.
He's wrong on that count, which isn't surprising.
However, if he really was interested in preventing foreign contributions in US campaigns, perhaps in 2008 he should have directed that his campaign not remove the standard name-address-account number verification used for most credit card payments. By removing that safety feature from his campaign's online fund-raising feature, Mr. Obama created a wide open hole through which foreign funds were free to flow.
Into his campaign coffers.
I guess that makes all the difference.
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