Friday, November 07, 2008

White House for Sale

is an interesting web site. You can't track all the money donated to Obama, but you can see a lot of it. McCain's would be a little more straight forward since he didn't weasel out on the campaign funding agreement. Both the bundlers and the mega-donors. Pick anyone at random who's made a hefty donation and google his name (often husband and wife for double the mega-bucks). For instance this guy
    Nasser A. Ahmad is chief investment officer and managing partner of DiMaio Ahmad Capital L.L.C. Prior to co-founding the Investment Manager, Mr. Ahmad was previously a managing director of CS Capital, the chief investment officer for the Diversified Credit Hedge Fund Group Prior to that, he was co-head of Global Cash and Derivatives Credit Trading within the Fixed Income Division at CS. Merril Lynch has minority stake in DiMaio Ahmad Capital. Originally, according to Fundrace and Campaign Money websites, Ahmad was covering his bases with an event for Asian Americans for Obama which required $28,500 a piece or $50,000 per couple. He and wife(?) were co-chairs for a Biden event ($50,000). He's been a featured speaker on a summit on Pakistan. That speaker's bio added a bit more:

      Mr. Ahmad is on the boards of Breakthrough for Human Rights (a human rights, economic empowerment, environmental
      sustainability and political stability organization (new media) which glancing through the report seems to help women in India) and the Soros Economic Development Fund. He is also a board member of the South Asian Action Forum (SAAF), a Political Action Committee (PAC) consisting of community and business leaders that promotes a progressive policy platform with key rising and established U.S. policymakers to which he donated $3,000 according to Fundrace. I assume that also when to Obama.

      In 2008, Mr. Ahmad joined the National Finance Committee (NFC) of Senator Obama’s presidential campaign and was appointed co-chair of the Asian American Finance committee.
Isn't it interesting that I select a name at random and he turns out to be on the board of George Soros organization.

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