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Am I the only one who listened appalled at the Shell Oil exec who was livid about Obama's lies about oil and energy and what he has done--only to learn that he VOTES FOR OBAMA in '08??!! And that was after he had met with him and gotten the cold shoulder.This is insane. Most posters here saw what was coming well ahead of time. Yet these people like to cut off their own nose and vote liberal to feel good about being "broadminded." When Obama talked about fundamentally transforming America, we knew he MEANT IT. But then some jews and industrialists voted for Hitler thinking he really didn't mean what he wrote in Mein Kampf. And in '08 we have these execs who voted for a committed Marxist. Amazing.
It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card.
That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.
AVS stands for Address Verification System. It's the software that checks whether the name of the cardholder matches his or her address.
If a campaign doesn't use AVS, it can wind up accepting contributions from phony names or accepting contributions from foreigners, both of which are illegal.
The 2008 Obama campaign pocketed money from "John Galt, 1957 Ayn Rand...
2008 it was to turn the dogs loose on Palin to knock McCain out of the picture, not to mention McCain's people did their part on her.