In a not-so-veiled reference to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Obama complained that “groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence American elections, and they won’t tell you where the money for their ads come from.” Mr. Obama mentioned a report by the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group, which this week asserted in a blog that the Chamber of Commerce may be mingling money from foreign contributors with its domestic receipts as it pays for advertisements and other political activities. That could be illegal, and the Chamber has vehemently denied it.

Hold it right there, Scooter.   Who in the world are you to talk about shady campaign contributions? 

From americanthinker.com:

It is well-known that George Soros, the hedge-fund manager, major Democratic Party donor and anti-Israel crusader, has been a generous contributor to Barack Obama. But relatively few people realize that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed Soros his family members to be particularly generous in support of Obama’s Senatorial campaign.

 

Because Obama was running against Blair Hull in the primary and then Jack Ryan in the general (both multi-millionaires), Obama could, and did, receive especially large donationsfrom individuals, to so-called “millionaires exception.” Normally individuals are limited to giving $2300 to candidates in federal elections, but when candidates are running against millionaires, these limits are lifted and candidates are allowed to receive up to $12,000 from a single individual. Soros and his family gave Barack Obama $60,000. This does not include money that Soros was able to funnel to so-called 527 groups (Moveon.org, for example) [the Center for American Progress, run by John Podesta, for another] that have also been politically active; nor does it include money that Soros was able to raise from tapping a network of friends, business associates, and employees.

And Scooter, don’t forget about those small anonymous donations from your supporters in the Middle East.

Hey, Captain Ahab, what is your obsession with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?  Since you ascended to the throne of The Regime, your attacks against this country’s premier business organization have been unrelenting. 

Gosh, it’s almost like you don’t like capitalism or sumpin’.  Guess what, Scooter?  You picked the wrong Americans to pick on.

Thomas Donohue, the chamber’s president and chief executive, announced on Thursday that the nation’s largest business lobby is adding to its staff so it can fight health care and financial regulation reform in court.

Donohue said in remarks prepared to be delivered in Des Moines, Iowa:

Litigation is one of our most powerful tools for making sure that federal agencies follow the law and are held accountable.

Donohue used the opportunity to speak about the danger of the accomplishments of Obama and Congress, saying over-regulation “will silence the heartbeat of our economy.”

Also, on Thursday, the Chamber unveiled a new publicity drive with a strong anti-regulation theme, designed to complement its legal fight to blunt regulation.

His remarks were made at campaign events first in Bowie, Md., where he tried to convince about 4,000 students and African-Americans to support Gov. Martin O’Malley, and then later in Chicago, where he appeared for Alexi Giannoulias, the youthful state treasurer who is locked in a close fight with Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican, for Mr. Obama’s old Senate seat.

In Chicago, Scooter would not mention Mr. Kirk’s name. He became, instead, “Alexi’s opponent”, but he spent much of his time attacking the Republican Party for its ties to big business.

The combined Chicago events, organizers said, will raise more than $750,000, half for Mr. Giannoulias and half for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

By the way, while in Chicago, Obama avoided his former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, like Rambo was an ex-wife.

Scooter said that the Republican Party’s “big idea,”  was to give a tax cut to the wealthiest Americans:

At a time when education is the biggest predictor of this country’s success.  They think it’s more important to provide these tax breaks.

In Bowie, in a blatantly hypocritical statement, Obama characterized the outside campaign financing as not “just a threat to Democrats.”

He added:

All Republicans should be concerned. Independents should be concerned. This is a threat to our democracy. The American people deserve to know who’s trying to sway their elections.

They certainly do, Scooter.

White House officials and Obama’s Democratic backers have been taking aim at the Chamber of Commerce; Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s political adviser; and independent groups that have been spending to elect Republicans in November.

The administration’s hypocrisy continued:

David Plouffe, Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, had the audacity or cluelessness, take your pick, to tell reporters in Washington that such groups “are becoming the central financial actors in the 2010 election.” He called the flood of money a “hijacking of our democracy.”

Scooter and his minions are desperately trying to fire up his Democratic base in the last three weeks before the November elections. Painfully aware of his poll numbers, he has been devoting a lot of his campaigning to friendly audiences on college campuses, like the historically black Bowie State University, and to fund-raisers, like the one back home in Chicago.

On the cusp of Midterm Elections that will be a Political Massacre of the Democrats, Obama was pleading with the people who put him in the White House two years ago not to come to their senses and abandon the Democratic Party, and more importantly, him, now:

Don’t make me look bad now.  I’m betting on you.

At the beginning of the Maryland rally, about three dozen people became ill and emergency aid had to be called in.

Prince George’s County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady said that numerous ambulances were dispatched to the rally after people started fainting and became dizzy.

The problems may have been related to warmer temperatures Thursday. Brady says crowds at the rally were outside and packed shoulder to shoulder.

Two people were taken to the hospital, according to Brady. The others were treated at the scene. A triage area was set up inside the gymnasium at Bowie State.

That’s understandable. Most Americans get ill when Scooter speaks.