I did not know that Erik Erikson was Russian! Heh! But adding onto Steve and Mike’s posts about how the Obama campaign is deliberately allowing “holes” in credit card processing for donations. Well, Erik of RedState decided to push the envelope on seeing if his “inner Russian” could help Obama to the wire (reformatted, emphasis mine) and try to make an illegal foreign donation:
In light of this Newsweek story about the Illegal-Donor loophole with Team ObamaA while back, among conservatives, it was even a story that he was doing this shoddy credit card verification for overseas donors. So, after talking with some lawyers about the process, etc. I donated to Barack Obama. Sort of. It is rare that I do something where I feel the need to talk to lawyers first. But giving money to Barack Obama was one of those times. I didn’t actually do it. I made up a name, made up a passport number, made up an address in Russia — hell I made everything up except my credit card number and expiration date.
Got that?
Everything was bull**** except the actual credit card number and expiration date. Everything.
Go try that with Target or Amazon or Apple or Mitt Romney’s campaign and see what happens. Here’s a hint: it’d get rejected. When the zip code does not match, it would get rejected. When the name on the card does not match, it will probably get rejected. When nothing matches, it will get rejected.
Barack Obama’s campaign processed my very generous $5.00 donation.
But wait! There’s more!
