Double Standard? If Obama Had McCain's "Abdullah" Donations

Marc Ambinder has a question about the about the John McCain bundler scandal:

If there were a group of questionable donations all with the name Abdullah that were funneled through a guy in Jordan who is a Jordanian national who is under investigation for war profiteering and it were Barack Obama instead of John McCain would this be a bigger deal?

McCain is returning $50,000 in donations solicited by Mustafa Abu Naba'a from members of a single extended family in California, the Abdullahs, along with several of their friends. Abu Naba'a is a dual citizen of Jordan and the Dominican Republic.

Read more about McCain's suspicious bundler here.

Comments

[yvonne61]

WHEN THEY SHOULD THE POLLS AND OBAMA IS 5 PTS OR 6 I DON'T BELEVIE IT. WHO DO THEY HAVE TAKING THE POLLS. I WISH IT WAS A WAY WE CAN DO OWN POOLS AND I BEG OBAMA IS A HEAD MORE THAN THEY SAY. BECAUSE, IT DON'T FIND RIGHT FOR MCSAME TO BE THAT CLOSE. IF, THERE ANY ONE OUT THERE KNOW HOW TO DO THIS TO REALLY FIND OUT THE TRUE. I THONK OBAMA IS UP 15 OR 25 AND THEY DON'T WANT TO SHOULD IT. THE MEDIA TALKING IT SO CLOSE WANT PEOPLE ARE THEY ASKING TO TAKE THE POLLS?

[BCubedReg]

Obama is actually 3-4 points behind. That 9% undecided vote is the racist vote of the democratic party (yes there are racists in the dem party -- they voted for HRC and are "bitter" now, they are called PUMAs).

They are torn between voting their self interest and voting for a black guy. At the end of the pennsylvania primary 17% of pennsylvanians said race was an issue in their vote, and pennsylvania is a norther progressive state that said that (and traditionally votes democrat) . Yet pennsylvania is a toss-up state in this election. Why? Because people are going to vote against their self interest to not vote for the black guy.. That entire undecided vote is voting McC in this election. This election could be held tomorrow. People have already made up their minds and will not change between now and November.

When those people go into the voting booth, they are going to vote race over their country. O is going to lose

[HoldenLitgo]

I'd love to see a study done on the effect polling by younger voters who only use cell phones. It's my understanding that cell phone users are not polled. My guess is that these polls are complete garbage without that information and that Obama actually leads by at least 10 percentage points due to the newly registered voters brought into the system by Obama's candidacy.

[Ramirez]

Ooops. From Washington Post:
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Correction to This Article
An earlier version of this story about campaign donations that Florida businessman Harry Sargeant III raised for Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified three individuals as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those donors -- Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and lounge owners Nadia and Shawn Abdalla -- wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain. Also, the first name of Faisal Abdullah, a McCain donor, was misspelled in some versions of the story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/06/ST2008080600491.html

[Daisy1111]

You don;t want to go that route -- then you'd have to rveal all O's questionable donations from the middle east

[enlighteninglad]

Care to elaborate with some verifiable evidence rather than just spout your partisan BS? You're probably the one that puts out those e-mails with all the lies. (See, I can do it too.)

[Talwar]

Again, proof or it didn't happen

[athenasword]

I think it is high time for one of those remarkable, intelligent Huffpo articles that exposes the MSMedia... Cover the double standard. Interview reporters and "journalists". Publish the facts (i.e. number of gaffes ignored or who published/who didn't). Someone in media needs to get to the bottom of it, because it is intensely frustrating!!

[orianna]

Easy one... next time be sure to report the dubious connection as with Obama... let the media flip a gasket out.... let it build and build and then say: 'oh, wait that was McCain who'd done that!'.... and let everyone catch themselves thinking a horror that ends up being caused by McCain's dirty game.

[spyda]

I wish there was a way to get togther and bombard the msm with questions as to why there is a double standard being played.But as long as we stick together and get all Dems. to register and then get out to vote we will be just fine.I think the msm also blows the repub. support way out of context for ratings.WAKE UP PEOPLE and get out to vot!!! I don't know of anyone who can afford another repub. for any office.Now they are accusing Obama of running a shameful ad and saying that that haven't run any negative ads against him.This is crazy and they get away with it too!!I still don't understand why his service record is off limits!!Give me a break!!! Being a POW DOES NOT qualify you for being POTUS and they need to be brought out on that too!!!!!!!!!!! OBAMA'08

[PAposter]

You know what guys, every time HuffPo post a story that has not even been mentioned in MSM, let's inundate their mailboxes with the story until they cover it properly, meaning with the same ad nauseam coverage of anything Obama.

[RHONDA1204]

How do we go about doing that? Because I notice alot of stuff on this website that doesn't get put on the CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or FOX. FOX usually will show anything that's against Obama though. But I think Chuck Todd said that alot of things don't make it on air because they have to make sure they're facts.

[PAposter]

Sure they have to check it out, but that's what they get paid for. Do they believe there is a military conflict going on between Georgia and Russia, or do they think the explosions are photo shopped, because they are not covering that either.

The people here aren't a bunch of idiots, they are very well informed and knowledgeable when it comes to reporting a story. It's the MSM's job to corroborate the facts of the story, just a bunch of excuses.

[Gogetter]

Go to all of their site and collect every email address you find; put them in an email group; whenever you see a story like this, fire a link off to that group. It would be great if we could get 50 to 100 HuffPost readers doing this is a coordinated manner.

[mnash]

Chuck Todd is wrong. Many things are on the air that aren't true. All they have to do is go to fact check. Mc puts out ads all the time that aren't true

[SuperId]

This little scandal would make a nifty add.

[SuperId]

I mean ad.

[rudyinbama]

Everybody keeps bitching about unfair treatment - the real question is, where are the Democratic surrogates who should be attacking McCain relentlessly? Can only Republiocans give press conferences? Issue statements?
The Obama campo seems stuck in its own bogus primary message - the Clintons, not Republicans, were the cause of divisiveness.

[jupitor]

Got that wrong rudyinbama! The media is so bias at this point, that mccain offering his wife up for the beer belly , pot smoking bikers and their chicks for their Buffalo Manure beauty contest where they go topless, and some bottomless, with lude sex acts wasn't even bad enough for the Media to give one whisper of this awful behavior on the national news media! I've just come here now for the real news of the day!

[Gogetter]

You're exactly right except for this:
"The Obama campo seems stuck in its own bogus primary message - the Clintons, not Republicans, were the cause of divisiveness."
The media and the clintons are the only ones talking about the clintons.

[HadEnoughCrap]

I wonder if anyone has bothered to see what special gifts his wife has been making to individuals in the media. It's almost impossible to believe that they give him a pass on almost every blunder he makes. Surely it can't be out of some misguided friendship or loyalty.

[clearthinker2008]

It's the bbq.

[RatgurlSD]

Laced with crack!

[MaybeMilo]

Hell, yeah it'd be a bigger deal - I guarantee the MSM would be calling it "fatal" to his campaign.

[BEHM777]

It WOULD be absolutely fatal to Senator Obama's campaign. They'd be calling him the Ayatollah Obama for sure.

BEHusseinM777

[edwarvir]

If Senator O had any of the baggage that JohnnyMac carries it would be all over
for his dreams of him ever becoming the POTUS. The list is endless of the
many passes personal and about issues that have been given to johnnyMacBush. If
not for HuffoPo we would not know anything close to what this idiot does and saids

[obamanation31]

Mc-NO-Shame is being supported by terrorists.

[Susej]

So, the name alone determine whether or not one is a terrorist?
That is an abomination, indeed.
We have a very long way to go.

[clearthinker2008]

Maybe not, but I believe the point is if someone with a name like that was supporting 0 that's what we would hear on a 24/7 loop that would make Rev W look small deal.

[BEHM777]

Forgive me if I seem sarcastic (I don't meant to), but how long have you been in America? Have you been here long enough to observe campaigning by Republicans since 1980? 1988? Since 2001?

Demonize that which is "different" is what American politicians and citizens do too often, I am afraid.

Yes, we have a long way to go, but we have come quite a long way. Keep hope alive and your head up. All will be well.

BEHusseinM777

[nellie]

If Obama had McCain's gafforamas, he'd be done.

[Podewumun]

McCain isn't running a campaign, more like a gaffathon.

[clearthinker2008]

...and JMac might still win.

[sociocanuck]

Republicans get a free ride. Democrats get scrutiny. Nothing new to see here...