I understand many Europeans favoring Obama, as they are largely from Socialist countires. I am not certain why the middle east people would be actively campaigning for him. Working the phones from poverty stricken Gaza has to be cost prohibitive. Yet many are working those phones and have set up phone banks. I am including a link at the bottom of the page showing one of these Palestinian phone banks in action, and an interview with the groups leader. If you are not satisfied with the link, just go to youtube and look it up for yourself.
Of the $450 million dollars donated to the Obama campaign, more than $200 million of that; the donors have not been identified nor disclosed.
It is in the media today that there are several donations from the middle east illegally flowing into the Obama campaign. Obama's campaign has said they have returned part of the money. Two brothers in Gaza reportedly have donated over $30,000. Not bad for a family that lives in a refugee camp! Obama said his campaign returned the money, but the brothers say no money was returned. When the Obama campaign receives donations from people with odd names such as "Doodad", and "Good Will", a reasonable person expects red flags to go up. Not so with the Obama campaign. Money is money. The end justifies the means. Win at any cost.
"No, we did not receive any money back from the Obama campaign at any time," said Monir Edwan.
Last week, the blog Atlas Shrugs outlined the series of donations made last year by Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan, totaling $29,521.54. A third brother, Osama, reportedly gave the campaign about $4,000.
A WND investigation tracked down the Edwans in the Tal Esaltan neighborhood of Rafah, a large refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The Edwans are a large clan that include top Hamas supporters.
The brothers denied their financial transactions were actual donations to Obama's campaign, claiming they purchased about $30,000 in Obama T-shirts from the presidential candidate's online store – a contention that did not hold up during a interview, when they changed their story several times.
"My brother Hosam and I knew that Obama will be a big hit even before he became a candidate. We knew the guy would be a celebrity in Gaza so we decided to invest the amount of $29,000 to buy Obama T-shirts from his website and sell them in Gaza," Monir Edwan told WND, speaking by cell phone from Gaza.
Asked how he managed to get shipments of T-shirts into the Gaza Strip during the time Israel imposed a tight closure, Edwan maintained the packages were sent to him by the U.S. Postal Service.
Monir Edwan said he wants Obama to be president.
"Not just the people in Gaza but people from all over the world are rooting for this great man," Edwan said.
I am not comfortable with illegal foreign money flowing into a candidates campaign. I wonder what they were promised in exchange.
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/05/14/palestinians-phonebank-for-obama/
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/izoneguy/2...-behalf-of-pal/
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