No other American presidential candidate has ever left the US to garner campaign contributions from foreign citizens.
There is a reason for this, one that Romney and his staff seem oblivious to and the mainstream media had ignored until just recently.
Using foreign contributions in any American election is a felony. Hello Romney campaign…is anybody home, hello?
I don’t know… But the case is made in this article…
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Which is worse. This, or inciting another war. Fox News, “Fair and Balanced”, having John Bolton interviewed every couple days on Iran. To sum up Bolton, “Obama sanctions on Iran aren’t working”. “The ONLY option is a military strike”, which a Republican administration would dutifully perform. Republicans have no problem saying we can’t afford Medicare, social programs, education. But please pass the bombs. We can certainly afford another war. Might as well hit Pakistan too, while we’re at it. Bolton ought to be in jail for inciting the war in Iraq. People have short memories. Just like good OLD Clint Eastwood. Love his movies. But he didn’t like Obama setting a date to leave Afghanistan, but would like us to leave tomorrow instead. Guess he must have forgot that McCain wanted to stay in Iraq for 100 years. And what does Romney want? No one knows, except we all know he likes profit, and the best profit for profiteers comes from war. The Republicans, Clint, and most of the electorate on the right, seem to be suffering from Alzheimer’s and “bomb, bomb, bomb…bomb Iraq” syndrome.
I would think there are plenty of rich expatriates in London and Israel, who are US citizens but don’t live here. Lots of Americans working in the London financial industry, for instance, and lots of American Jews move to Israel or live there part-time. Probably a fair number of right-wing settlement supporters among them.
As long as he’s raising money from US citizens, it’s not a problem.