Secrets and lies
Fool’s hope for transparency from the Obama criminal conspiracy:
Barack Obama refuses to release the names of the 2 million-plus people who have given his campaign less than $200. According to campaign officials, it would be too difficult and time-consuming to extract this information from its database.
So how come we were able to do it in a couple hours? Not literally—we don’t have access to the campaign’s list of donors—but we created a database of similar size and format in a Web-ready file and posted it online. (You can view a sample text version of it here. The full version is 824 MB.)
But before we get into the technical details (though, if you’re with the Obama campaign and want to skip ahead, please do), it’s worth dwelling on the reasons for the Obama campaign’s reluctance to disclose this information. It can’t be legal: No law prevents Obama from releasing these names.
Oh, it’s a legal thing, all right — just not in the way you think.
Of course, releasing the information would also be politically risky, since the inevitable errors in a database so huge (errors of the kind McCain also had, like a contribution from “Adorable Manabat”) would give McCain an opportunity to scream fraud. Then again, he does that sometimes even without evidence.
“Without evidence?” Yeah, right. Just keep telling yourselves that.
Obama aides also deflect the question about the names of the campaign’s low-dollar donors by saying that the McCain has lapsed in reporting the names of more than 100,000 donors. They’re right—and they illustrate the point by helpfully pointing to an online spreadsheet. Which also proves our point that it’s easy to put this data together in a digestible form. So how ’bout it, guys?
Hold your breath waiting for the corrupt charlatan to do it, whydon’tcha.
(Via Insty)
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