RNC Calling for Audit of Obama's Contributions

I had a piece the other day about the mysterious Mr. Good Will who had made 1,000 contributions to the Obama campaign totally well over the regulatory limits, and now the RNC is calling for a full audit due to multiple irregulaties, including illegal contributions from foreign nationals:

The Republican National Committee announced today that on Monday it will file a fundraising complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., charging the Democrat has accepted illegal donations from foreigners as well as contributions that exceed the $2,300-per-person federal limits from American citizens.

Obama's campaign has raised almost $460 million so far, and almost half that has been raised by small donors contributing less than $200. RNC chief counsel Sean Cairncross today noted in a conference call that questions have arisen about those smaller donations, which by law the campaign is not required to disclose.

Newsweek reported over the weekend that that FEC auditors have asked the Obama campaign about a number of contributors whose contributions seem to violate campaign laws, such as "Good Will" of Austin, Texas, who listed his occupation as "You" and his employer as "Loving" and gave more than $11,000 total in $10 and $25 increments. Another questionable donor, "Doodad Pro" of Nunda, N.Y., gave $17,130 in similarly small increments.

"The Obama campaign has a track record of accepting these," Cairncross said.

He also said that "the Obama campaign has accepted contributions from foreign nationals and has knowingly done so through at least its failure to reasonably investigate where all this money is coming from." The RNC will ask the FEC to audit these smaller donations.

Earlier this year the Obama campaign returned more than $30,000 from Monir and Hosam Edwan, two Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip who said that they'd purchased Obama 2008 T-shirts in bulk from the Obama campaign Web site.

Of course, any questioning of Obama is racist:

The Republican National Committee's complaint about "foreign" contributions to Barack Obama's presidential campaign is a directed, political tactic designed to raise questions about Obama's foreignness and otherness.

McCain's campaign is going into a full-throated attack on Obama's character. It's hard to say whether anyone is willing to listen to it anymore.