By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

President Obama calling out the SCOTUS during his SOTU seems like so many Crocodile tears. Words about foreign and fraudulent donations seem hypocritical when they came from the Clintons, and now they seem more so, when a probable recipient takes our U.S. Supreme Court to task for doing their job.

If the story, which is linked below, is to be believed, then Mr. Obama escaped serious sanctions only because his illicit gain was a rather insignificant percentage of his overall campaign treasure (in the minds of many) and he didn’t take the 84 million in public money that would have triggered an audit.

Here are some quotes from the story, some of which come from off site sources such as Politico:

OBAMA LIKELY TO ESCAPE CAMPAIGN DONOR AUDIT Politico (hat tip Cathy)

The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.

Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.

Politico articles or observations are not the main sources for the allegations.  A blog called Atlas Shrugs owned by Pamela Geller lays the allegations out in spades and includes 51 posts that relate to Mr. Obama’s foreign and domestic contributors.

Obama’s Crocodile Tears are not the end of hypocrisy

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