Obama's credit card donation policy: Morrissey brings the hammer

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air sums up the big problem with team Obama's credit card donation policy, commenting on a Washington Post story on the issue.

There is only one reason to deliberately choose to bypass those security processes, and that’s to facilitate fraud. Team Obama claims that they vet the donations after the fact, but that’s hogwash. It costs far more to do that than to screen for security codes and address verification up front, and everyone knows it. Obama counts on the fact that most of the fraud will fly under the radar of its victims, and the only cost they’ll incur is when they have to process refunds after getting a specific complaint.

This is a key, revelatory moment about Obama and his team. They have deliberately chosen to make it easier for people to defraud the public so that they can ring up millions more in a campaign that has already broken records for fundraising. It’s unethical, dishonest, and dangerous — especially since these will be the same people with their hands on tax records if Obama wins this election.

The point about the far greater ease of screening donations at the front end is a good and devastating point.

The picture of Obama's executive experience was just made clearer, and Obama is the one who suggested that administering his campaign served as an example of executive competence.

In an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” Obama responded.

(CNN)

And just look at the huge revenues he was able to bring in by disabling credit card screening. Now isn't that the type of competence we need in the executive office?