CNN

Uh oh. Abu naba? Does this mean the Arabs support McCain.does this mean McCain is an anti Israel secret Muslim? Does it Mr. Hannity? Mr. Limbaugh? I'm so sick of the double standard.

Why doesn't the media talk about McCain's Islamic connections? And the fact that McCain is getting money from a foreigner is probably because he himself was not born in the United States of America.

I used to support the old John McCain, but now I will vote for anyone except John McCain, even if it means voting for a democrat.

How about we ALL start cutting both McCain and Obama some slack and give them the benefit of the doubt. I truly believe both of them are honorable men who are trying to do the right thing in a VERY complex set of circumstances. How about we look for the GOOD behavior from each of the candidates and vote for which one we think would be best rather than strictly cynically dissect the actions of the "other guy" and blog until the cows come home??

We need more explanation

How did you accept the money in the first place? You better explain this please.

Boat loads of lobbyists and illegal donations don't go together do they??? I mean this just happened to happen right??? When you base your campaign off of government and other companies money, and not from the American people, thing like this happen huh???

How about returning the Exxon Money given to your campaign?

That way I might believe your not carrying water for mega oil enablers who have no interest in alternate energy options, but rather to continue the addiction.

Where are the Fox folks? Can you believe that a top Mccain supporter and fundraiser will have a Muslim for a friend?

Oh my goodness, what a shock. I wonder why someone named Mustafa Abu Naba’a would be sneaking money into the McCain campaign. Poor John, he could have used it if only no one knew! But I'msure there's a good deal of quiet money flowing from oil into John's campaign.

Wow...I'm REALLY SHOCKED!

Republicans and questionable campaign donations and practices go hand and hand....

Obama '08

McCain camp returning about $50,000 in contributions believed to be brought in by a foreign citizen. Give It UP Proably MORE than $50,000

LOL! The Barackiddies are all worried about McCain. Meanwhile they don't seem to have realized it yet but they are in the process of being outflanked by the Clintons! Hillary is going to call for her delegates to be counted – including ALL of them (not half of them) from Florida and Michigan (which Obama foolishly agreed to earlier this week). AND the Clintons are busy flipping enough super-delegates right now to pull the nomination away from Obama at the Democratic Convention. Just watch – we've never seen a comeback story like this before but that's what the Clinton's are doing as we speak. Obama is too weak to hold on against the Clintons and the super-delegates are realizing it as McCain is pacing him in the polls. This will be an historic Democratic National Convention. How can I get tickets to that stadium?

Any connection with oil?

The PROUD AMERICAN takink money from a foriegn citizen, not him.

What is a "foreign citizen"???

HUM!! tThey had to give it up !!!

Americans are refusing to give money to Mccain. That is why they run for foreign money. Now he try to fool the American voters that he dont accept money from FOREIGNERS. What about the donations from Jews from Israel? Is that acceptable?

That's not all that is questionable...

Obama '08

McCain getting illegal cash...no way...Keating Five ring a bell? John McCain long ago sold his soul to the devil for power. Of course all of his buddies in the media will never mention any of this...

Senator Drill Surgent McKeating 5, reporting for graft as ordered!
Aye Aye Sir!!!!

Nah, I'm glad McCain is doing the right thing here at least and that's all he realistically can do other than to be careful and have a proper disclaimer.
My concern is more of the supposed bundler of blue collar workers. It's hard to buy average wage workers maxing out. That's 2,300 bucks each which is probably a lot for a mechanic or a server to pay to get screwed.

And no comments on how much the governments of Germany and Berlin in particular donated services to Obama's campaign, hmmm. Last I checked, they were foreigners too.

That's what happens when Kael Rove's people take over your campaign,straight to the gutter.

Excuse me, but McCain back in March chose not to go see our wounded troops (while oversease) to go to a political fundraiser thrown by a British lord for him.

Why would this foreign money/donations all of a sudden be returned? Because it was brought to the light and questioned, that's why.

A HONEST MAN. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Thanks CNN for some McCain news coverage.

I keep seeing Obama's 'Presidential Seal' overtop an Oreo cookie rather than the Eagle he now has.

And so begins the countdown to the release by the McCain campaign of an ad attacking Obama for NOT returning his 'questionable donations' (and the never-ending cycle of allege/defend tactics debating just what constitutes a 'questionable donation').

McCain about the KEATING 5 ????
the big RANCH deal he was part of in ARIZONA... ??
Just yet another one of his HUGE SCANDALS ....

DIDN'T MCbush DO A FUNDRAISER OVERSEAS THIS YEAR?
NO SURPRISE THESE ANIMALS HAVE NO BUSINESS IN
MAKING LAWS & POLICIES FOR AMERICA!

HOWEVER.... WHEN THEY CATCH BARACK WITH FOREIGN
MONEY HIS BUTT WILL BE CRUCIFIED! McCain a minor
speed bump!

When will the bigots WAKE UP!!!! PITIFUL

Wow! I consider it pretty impressive that less that less than 0.001% of McCain's campaign chest is considered tainted and should be returned. He certainly should be applauded for his obvious integrity---somehow.

patrick
novi, mi

Well , lets follow Obama's money trail .
No doubt one would find some , if not more , questionable donations.
It's time the 'black churches' are investigated. The rumors are rife that millions are being funnelled through these so called 'tax havens' from outside sources.
Lets call this election for what it has become, an Abama 'cult mentality'. In other words, he has no intellectual deptth except charisma. Ladies and Gentlemen, today, charisma and nothing else will not give the confidence of security that the 'free world' expects from the United States. Obama is no more than a 'preacher'. Remember, Rev. Wright was his mentor for twenty years!
Of course, cultists will hear nothing that challenges their believe!.

So, here is one less issue where the McCain crowd can pretend to be above everyone else.

I hear that the petition the Hillary supporters have been trying to get going only has a couple hundred names on it.

Most of what is going on is getting blown out of proportion.

Party Unity.

Obama 08

Both sides are guilty of accepting improper contributions from foreigners, but it appears that the Obama camp is taking in far more of them – and not returning them as McCain has done. Obama's records show an amazingly large number of contributions in strange amounts, like $72.47, which are indicative of "even" amounts that become "odd" after being converted from foreign currency. Obama has his own share of money to return, like contributions from Hamas member in the Gaza strip. Obama's web site has absolutely no controls to prevent foreign contributions, and it shows from a review of the records reviewed so far by astute reporters (i.e., reporters that don't work for CNN or the New York Times.)

CNN posts this story about contributions to McCain from foreigners, yet nothing about Obama's similar, and larger, problem. No wonder people think CNN is in the tank for the dems.

I just want to know how this so called hero destroyed 5 U.S Navy aircrafts(1 accident caused over 100 deaths of Navy crewmen)
and he was decorated as a war hero. With only 20 hrs of actual combat duty he is no hero.

America,use the internet and google his record.PLEASE, you will be glad you did!

Hey, the campaign found and disclosed the problem themselves. Isn't that what we want them to do?

This is not the first time McCain has been involved in shady fundraising schemes. If people knew his real history they'd see that straight talking all American image is just a front he concocted a long time ago to further his political career. The real McCain is an anything-to-get-what-I-want bully.

He probably needs to return more than that.

why haven't you reported that obama's bundled donations could have come from kenya, europe, or from hamas? heaven forbid someone dig into The One's campaign finances.

The real question for me remains whether anyone in the media will actually go in and ask the hard questions to see if this is really a case of "precautionary measures" or a question of somebody getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

Sure, media outlets can let this rest and tell themselves they've done their job by reporting it...but wouldn't it be great for the American people if someone actually investigated what goes on behind the scenes?

Well , lets follow Obama's money trail .
No doubt one would find some , if not more , questionable donations.

Good for McCain. Now, how about the fundraiser for Obama, hosted by George Clooney in Switzerland? That smells to high heaven!

McCain can not help who sends him donations. But he can do the rightful thing and return donations that he feels are inappropriate.

Obama has decided not to accept public funding so that he can keep his contributors secret – although we know that he is gleefully accepting contributions from foreign lands, vis a vis his recent trips to China and Germany to raise dollars.

How come the Obama fans are not requiring their candidate to do the noble thing and either accpet public financing or not accept contributions from foreigners (including Huffington, Soros and Kos).

I said I wouldn't write anymore blogs because I was just appalled at all the nasty, race hate comments coming from people but I have to say this one.......

Where are all the McCain supports now. Why isn't anyone commenting on this one.

Hummmm......... is right. Where are the PUMAs and the repubs on this issue. I guess they aren't going to link this guy to McCain like the repubs would do if it were Obama. If it were Obama, they would say... another Muslim connection. Oh, they would be all over this one.

We have been sold down the river.

Old man yell at cloud.

Right you are, John.

Better safe than sorry.

I wonder what else McCain is hiding.

IS HE GONA RETURN THE MONEY(2,000,000.00) WHO GOT IT FROM THE OIL COMPANY?

Aw come on John, please. Why pretend you don't want the money. And to all of you who say you can't trust Barack Obama. What makes you think you can trust McCain? And all of you PUMA people, go ahead and vote for McCain. I dare you. It will be fun to read the ticker when McCain's policies start to bite you. And to all the republicans who keep showing up on this website – why don't you go to a conservative website? There must be at least one festering somewhere on the internet. Bye!!!! Obama forever!!!!

Alawys after his hand is caught in the cookie jar....

Since McCain is addressing questionable donations, what happened to the funds raised by the person who made the inappropriate comments about rape? McCain cancelled the event, but did he keep the funds? Also, has McCain refunded the donations requested by the Hiltons for treatment of their daughter? I used to support McCain in 2000, but he is unfortunately not the same politician now.

IF THE CLINTONS DIVIDE THE PARTY -their legacy is toast.

I WANT TO KNOW WHETHER THIS MUSTAFA ABU NABA IS A MUSLIM OR FROM A MUSLIM COUNTRY, AND WHETHER HE OR HARRY SARGENT HAVE ANY TIES TO AL-QUAEDA OR ANY OTHER TERRORIST GROUP. The term "foreign national" is vague and does not tell us anything. There is something "smelly" about this and needs to be looked into before McCain and his camp pull a cover-up.

If this was Senator Obama, it would be all over the front page news with all kinds of wild baseless accusations! We need to have this thoroughly looked into; McCain is a crook! The public sentiment is enough has not been reported about McCain. SO, GO REPORT CNN AND OTHER MEDIA! WE'RE WAITING.

Hey, stuff happens... when they are discovered, you correct it, and then move on. Done.

I'm an Obama supporter, but I don't fault McCain for this. He discovered it, and corrected it. Obama's done the same.

So what, we expect McCain to cheat, now if Obama had something like this happen, it would prove he was unfit to be president. But for McCain, no problem, we all know he's an OK guy. But Obama, we can't really trust him, can we?

What about Obama's $20K plus from two Gaza Strip residents?

HIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN IS QUESTIONABLE.. WHAT ABOUT ALL THE HELP TO THE VETERIENS, HE'S ALWAYS BACKING AWAY FROM THEM.............

McCain, the guy who makes good decisions in hindsight... but his plan for the future stinks.

When I say "Loser", you say McCain; "Loser, McCain", "Loser, McCain"!! What else is new? McCain is a crook, and it says in all in that sneaky half-dimwit smile he has; which is insincere and condesending. Senator Obama has already told everyone that he has taken in excess of 2 million from the oil companies for his campaign (and clinbing). But NO, no one wants to believe Senator Obama! McCain is in lockstep with Bush, WHICH INCLUDES RIPPING OFF AMERICANS ALONG WITH THE BIG OIL COMPANIES FOR THEIR OWN GAIN. What disgusts me is when McCain is "caught red-handed", the media excuses it, sweeps it under the rug and searches for things to criticize Senator Obama about. It's ridiculous how much bad press McCain is allowed to get away with, with only a slap on the wrist, but everyone stands ready to demonize Senator Obama. It's RIDICULOUS!

another thing that is questionable is his sobrity in sturgis this week. was he drunk, high on exhaust fumes, or just that stupid that he can't form a sentence while he speeks. howard dean threw his whole effort away and didn't look half as stupid as mcidiot did. heck i would vote for paris before i would vote for him!!!

No need to return any donations. McBush is intentionally and knowingly of that kind of donations to accept, and now He knows that he's been recorded trying to return them. Who cares, he's not gonna win any way.... Obama for President!

Everything McCain does is questionable!! OBAMA 08!!!

Any further information about Cindy McCain's investments in SUDAN, now that Sudanese President is being investigated by International Court!

IT WILL, NO DOUBT, BE THE FIRST TIME

MCSENILE QUESTIONED THE ORIGIN OF ANY DONATION.

I think anyone who donates to the McCain campaign is questionable in some way shape or form.

If this story was about Obama rather than McCain, the right wing noise machine would frothing at the mouth. I can just hear Limbaugh and Hannity trying to link someone who happens to have a different kind of name like this donor to some terrorist organization and use it as proof that Hezbollah or Hamaas supports Obama.

Obama 08!!! On his way to winning 300+ electoral votes

The 'straight talk' express is corrupt.
The guy was censured in what 1993 or 92 for his part in the S&L BS as a sitting Senator.
That means he was probably guilty, but they couldn't quite prove it. He didn't protest it. He just kept quiet, and a few years later pretended to become a campaign finance reformer.
All a lie.

Does the "questionable" list include Exxon/Mobil for more than $50,000?

McCain stories are boring... do you have anything about Obama?

i would be very lerry if mccain got donations too,, and where, they cam e from

Don't forget to return the millions of dollars that you have received from Big Oil.

I guess Crist of FL is off the "short list"

GEE IS THIS ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION CASE. LET'S VOTE FOR ANOTHER REPUBLICAN AND INCREASE OUR GAS PRICES, FOOD PRICES, NATIONAL DEBT AND BRING RECORD PROFITS TO BIG OIL, DRUG COMPANIES AND INSURANCE COMPANIES. WAKE UP AMERICA!!

So what else is new? Bush became the president because of his brother and the famous "CHAD" problem now McCain has a supplier of ill gotten money. He threw Paris H. under the bus after her mother gave him money and he sold his soul to the devil.

Under 50,000 is being returned. SURPRISE. I read that hundreds of thousands were donated. McCain you are so transparent, I find it truly amazing that there is one person that would vote for you, let alone millions. Does that tell you why this country is in the state that it is.

Too Late Mccain! We All Know That Your In The Pocket Of Crooks, Liars, And Thieves!

I trust Obama will do the same? Perhaps millions of overseas internet donations from highly questionable sources? Probably not, though . . . THAT would REALLY expose him for the fraud he is - and
CNN would NEVER publish that.
I applaud McCain for this move - integrity again. He's got my vote!

CNN, look closer at the Obama Rezko connection - Obama knew him for a decade and considered him a close friend. Obama pushed for IL Senate legislation that DIRECTLY benefited Rezko.

CNN, I DARE you to do some REAL investigative journalism. (But, alas, THAT would be WORK - so much easier to feed us OBAMA PABLUM! SAD!

The email barrage of fraudulent claims about Obama's "foreign fundraising" was stupefying.

I wonder if the same neocon dolts who were responsible for that avalanche of spam will even let this story seep into their sorry little brains.

It's less than 50k today; the big number will be 2 weeks from now – when the story is buried.

John McCain is highly questionable.

LETS TAKE A LOOK AT OBAMA'S 272MILLION IN DONATIONS.....WHY U THINK HE OPTED OUT OF PUBLIC FINANCING!!!

HIS INNER CIRCLE NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED CAREFULLY !!!!

McCain is no maverick. He is a lackey.

And then they'll ask for more money right?

Campbell Brown is really doing a good job– she's provocative and objective. I like the way she pushes her guests– she's asking the kind of questions that I would like to ask. enjoy her show. She has made tremendous strides since moving into this job. Congrats.

CNN moderators are so pro-Obama. You censor McCain supporters.

McCain 08

Experience versus judgement. McCain's judgement is so wrong on so many issues.

Questionable character-Talk is cheap

He's doing the right thing. Have you Democrats ever looked at the donations and contributors of you darling Clinton's.

McCain 08

Questionable character-Talk is cheap

What about the $61, 000 from that woman who earns less than $25,000 a year? McCain himself is questionable. Oh! Do they question the 2 million from Big Oil? Oh yea! they need that

He doesn't know that he is not suppose to take foreign contributions?what a joke?
Experience versus Judgement at any time. If this is a mistake made by Obama's camp, this wrinkly white haired idiot will jump up and done and chew our ears off.
Get McInsane and his lobbyist campaign manager out. Immediately. This is an urgency my friends.

Remember this guy was a part of the Keating 5 and do i think he has changed? no way once a crook always a crook

I'm a strong Obama supporter but I think I can say that McCain knew nothing about this and even though he has flip-flop 30 -40 times, forgets who is who or what country is next to another, lies on ads and has a problem of telling the truth when he talks about Obama.

McCain reviews things?!

Now John, how are you going to spin your accepting questionable dontations to Sen. Obama being fit to run our nation? I would suggest that you who took so many weekends off from campaigning, leave Sen. Obama's well deserved vacation alone.

...

So the crook himself is looking to see if he took anything, this sounds well though out.

McShame was BOUGHT by Big Oil for 1.3 mil

McShame, McShame ?? What Have We Got Here ??

And where does Obama get all his money.

He says most of his money comes in as small donations from supporters. He brings in huge amounts over what Hillary was able to raise. Says she gets most of her money from big corporate donations. Then is only able to muster a narrow margin in the primary votes.

Hum, the math looks a little fuzzy. Maybe all the millions of people making small donations to him aren't voting?

OK HERE IS THE TITLE IN THE TIME PLZ ,PLZ READ IT YOU WILL BE AMAZED....

Family’s Donations to McCain Raise Questions

He needs money...Money he can not raise from American citizens...and we what him as our President who may take kick backs from our counties...selling our country to the highest bidder.
Please send him to a nursing home!!!!!!!!!!

I call lobbyists donations (i.e. oil and gas) to his campaign questionable donations. But he won't review those. So this is a moot point.

Obama/Sebelius 2008/2012.

Hmmm... questionable donations to the GOP... THAT NEVER HAPPENS!!! HAHAHA

I'm betting Stevens, DeLay, and the rest of the GOP that are on the take were wishing they gave back all of those questionable donations right about now. Thank God their Culture of Corruption is almost over.

Republican motto: Party before Country, Money before Honor!

People it is in the AM. New York Times the whole story and CNN. won`t let me post it check it out you will know what kind of underhanded things you all want for a commander and cheif.i say OBAMA ALL THE WAY

On his toes...FOR YOU!

John McCain's campaign says it is returning tens of thousands of dollars in contributions solicited by a foreign citizen.

The move follows the disclosure that the money was being raised by a Jordanian man who is a business partner of prominent Florida Republican Harry Sargeant III.

The McCain campaign says some of the people solicited by Mustafa Abu Naba'a had no intention of supporting McCain for president.

Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers says "that just didn't sound right to us" so the money is being returned.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ John McCain's campaign began on Thursday to review donations brought in by the prominent head of a Florida oil trading company following disclosures that his business partner, a foreign citizen, also may have engaged in fundraising.

The campaign is looking into hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to make sure that they are appropriate, a spokesman said.

While they're at it, let them review their questionable candidate who doesn't speak for his own campaign. Also let them review why an old man picks on a young woman who's parents gave him money for his stupid campaign and tries to joke it off as if something is funny. They should also review why John is backing away from laughing at tire gauges.

Yeah, they need to review lots of questionable issues. Good luck.

Obama 08

President McCain '08!!!

Funny, CNN.. how you conveniently did not mention that the money is coming from "middle-eastern" non citizens...

but this comment, like so man more today.. will never see the light of day.

probably a little too "newsy" for your news organization.

Oh hell, they're all questionable. He's going to review the ones that reporters are working on. He's a 27 year politician who will say and do anything.

keating five and now this.

The tax cut for the wealthy funded China's growth to American workers detriment. Rather than invest it here they invested in China to build the plants that took away American jobs. Now those same foreign workers who are buying cars are driving up the price of gasoline.

The tax break was a double wammy for American workers. Not only was the capital used to outsource their jobs but now the oil demands by the low wage employees who tooks those jobs is pushing up fuel prices and creating more misery and unemployment.

The wealthy tax break is a job eating ebola virus to the American economy. John McCain thinks this is wonderful.

mccain is not good for america he talks about energy and he voted against every bill that came to the senate floor,and he calls his wife blue chip what kind of man is this.

This is the same guy who was a part of the Keating Five Savings and Loan Scandle ...what would you expect?

Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.)

Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating's airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a "sweetheart deal."

I guess we will only know the result of that after he is the President.

Let's see Obama's campaign open up their books! NOT!!!!

If this was Obama it would be "BREAKING NEWS"

How come this is being reported but not the 5k+ in donations that Obama got from a pair of Palestinian brothers in Rafah?

McCain does not care one way or another.

Both sides should review them. I guarantee you that both sides have questionable donations. Obama has them and McCain has them AND they shouldn't be allowed!

Although I do find it interesting that CNN has chosen to only point out that McCain is reviewing them. Can you be any more more transparent in your partisanship? It's truly laughable. Independent news organization my rear. CNN is (and has been) in the pocket of the liberal Democratic party since it began its first newscast.

Hum......

McCain himself is questionable. He is a sell out.

Review? Bet they don't give back one filthy dime!!!!!

McSleaze questioning donors? HA – Keaton 5 comes to mind – drugs missing from charitable organizations comes to mind -

Oh – how did the Buffalo Chip contest come out?

What Mc Cain taken in donations from non US citizens say it ain't so! This radical right wing has totally ruined our republican party!!!

Forget the donations i want them to review his questionable Sanity..

We need campaign finance oversight! Where is the FEC on this? Will the MSM report on it? Not holding my breath on either of them. Obama '08 - a fair and scrupulous man for President. Yes WE Can!!!

"will be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations brought in by Florida businessman Harry Sargeant"............ but not RETURNING IT since the money is questionable..........Same old politics, McCain....

Wow what a shock!

Gotta ya! Been caught! This should be blared from here to Timbuktu! If it were Obama, it would be blasted from sea to shining sea!

It is my sincere hope that this will be thoroughly investigated by the press now! McCain has gotten away with so much so far in this election season. Ignore this, and it will be obvious that CNN and MSNBC in addition to NBC, ABC, and CBS are all in the tank for McCain. He is playing fast and loose with the truth, so this is not surprising. We wil be watching!

Looks like McCain is taking the high road on this. Deifintly a man of integrity.

Now all of a sudden, McBrainless wants an internal investigation into this Sargeant's illegal contributions. It seems it took Federal intervention before McBrainless realized that there was any impropriety in those contirbutions. I wonder if there weren't any questions into any illegalities, would McBrainless even say anything at all?

It just points to the fact that the republican's candidate has no character nor integrity. Voting for this man would be an absolute waste of energy. Why don't people just vote Dubya in for a third term and be done with it?

Uncle Sam, maybe you don't know the history behind your name. You're not an American mascot. You're a creation of the state, a symbol for big government, a reminder of the military draft. Yet here you are criticizing a war hero and civil servant. Obama has twisted your mind.

surprise surprise.

ISN'T THE FIRST WON'T BE THE LAST OF ILLEGAL DONATIONS.

Clearly there are crooks in the background supporting the McCain campaign.

John McCain is confused, showing signs of dementia and is mindlessly spouting dirty politics talking points from corrupt Republicans. Another four years of Bush would totally destroy our country and this is what the American people would get with McCain. For the sake of our country, we must make sure that Barack Obama is elected President.

Someone should look into Obama's questionable donations, too.

McCain is in deep with taking thousand from folks he rather not having us know about.

who cares....he won't win!. he's a dirty old man! and totaly senile

Not a surprise from a republicain. They are all corrupts

all of it is a scam if u ask me .. look at his party, name one who is not particpating in illegal activities. The whole party is just a bunch of crooks

Vote for Change!!!
Go Obama

Will we ever get the truth regarding McCain and his "donors"...NOT

Don't worry, John McCain doesn't care about illegal immigrants coming into the country, that's why he support the legislation with Ted Kennedy to give them amnesty.

This does nothing to change the image Republicans should have if they were fully informed about their candidate.

Wait they probably aren't fully informed?

If you believe that I have some swamp land in Florida I'd like to sell you. He will use the money and run "cut and burn" ads against Obama. McCain is shameless.

McCain is getting such a free ride.

This guy dumped his first wife after she gained weight from car wreck injuries and wears 500 dollar shoes....

if this were Obama, people would be screaming about it over and over.

Problem with McCain contributors????? Why is everyone so surprised.....He'll do anything to get elected, no matter how dishonest.

Pretty funny stuff considering how many times the Republicans have spread those rumors about Obama's online campaign raising.

Guess what goes around does come around.

If donations don't come from the U.S. return it.

How many asians...particularly Indians–have donated to the DNC? You know they are lining up to be the call center country of choice–for our new national health plan.

CNN LET ME PLAY ......They already Know !!!

the counsel of ahitofa is upon you

Hope you have to give back a lot. Anything to stop your stupid TV ads.

While they are at it they should check out McCains son too. Keating five ring any bells????

What about the secretary (who makes $61k annuallyworking at the oil firm) who made her and her husband's first political donation ever – $2600 to McCain and a whopping $57,000 to the RNC. Her boss made the same donation the same day. The next week McCain switched his position on offshore drilling. Suspicious much?!!

If you think offshore drilling is going to help anyone except the oil companies, you are fool who does not understand the world market.

It's considerably more vigilant than the Obama 'I'm only taking donations from state lobbyists, not federal ones' campaign is doing...

Questionable donations....They already know ....somebody gave them
a heads up .......now they are trying to pretend to be innocent

Uh huh, watch this one closely folks. These are the donations made by low level employees of 'Hess Oil' where they made Fifty Thousand Dollar donations out of the goodness of there hearts. Donations in excess of their salaries. Stinks like rotten McFish.

Will he be done in time for the November election ?
The only major contributors to McBushie are members of the criminal element.
See how they bow down to a member of the Keating Five.

Obama needs to do the same.

WWooooooPPPPsss... The OLD BUCKAROO is now going to tell us that he didn't know Mr Sargeants donors ( he's called a bundler folks) thats some one who collects money from people who don't want to be identified with a candidate OR are of questionable origin birth place or citizenship but want to influence our politics... According to Mr. Sargeant he has "a lot of Arab business partners and does a lot of business in the middle east" . Now I just wonder WHO is taking money from foreign sources. Could it possibly be that old Senator from Arizona who wants to be President of the United States of Arabia OOOPPPPs again.... America? NNNAAAAAHHHH!!!! MC BUSH WOULDN'T DO THAT NOW WOULD HE.....

In that case, McSame would rejects most of his supporters, and from the RNC!!!
What's an HYPOCRITE!!!!!!

With the way Obama is against drilling offshore, I would not be supprised if he is getting money secretly from big Arab oil.

He does not want America to produce more of our own oil. He says McCain is in the pockets of US big oil because he supports offhore drilling. He wants us to keep buying foreign oil instead of producing more of our own. Would rather give we give our money to big Arab oil instead of big US oil. Anyone wonder about this? Wonder how he is taking in so much more money than Hillary and McCain form supposdly just small doners. But barley beat Hillary in the primary and has just a 2% lead over McCain in the polls. It would take a tremendous amount of small donations to account for the difference in money. Where is the support in the votes?

Here we go...................hope the news will follow through on this one and not ignore the story

Maybe they should review the questionable candidate and all his dirty, backdoor dealings, his wife's overseas investments, his lobbyist (campaign manager's and staff's) ties to foreign dictators and warlords. Need I go on?

THOSE QUESTIONANBLE PEOPLE ARE MY BIG OIL FRIENDS……

My friends.... We need in a surge in Drilling !!!

The Oil company executives have so far contributed $2 million to my campaign.
I recently told them, that if their donations to my campaign reach $100 Million .......and I become President.... I'll sign an Executive Order.....giving Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP & Chevron permission to Drill at the Rose Garden, the Capitol, the Pentagon, Disney-Land, and any other location of their choice.

That, my friends….. is how we get out of the energy crisis.

I'm John McSurge, and I approved this message

Well, at least McCain is willing to review his own campaign. Obama only reviews McCain's campaign, and then behind closed doors still continue to accept money from 'state' lobbyists and oil companies who just happen to have multi-million lobbying business in Washington...

Just wait and see a week when Obama announces he's following suit... and then his supporter's spin on it declaring Obama a 'visionary' Isn't it time Obama returned the $400,000 he got from oil companies, since he seems to hate them so much?

Now, McCain did read that law that bears his name, right?

While I don't think it is the senator's fault that the donations were allegedly done the way they were reported, once his camp looks into it they should immediately take action. Early reports said that the amounts from some donors were grossly in excess of limits. This kind of thing could have a huge impact on McCain's campaign and reputation in particular.

Surely the so called "Maverick", would not take hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaign from a foreigner. Sounds like McCain is a Clone of Bush..............

Let the games begin! He's already accepting illegal funds. It's a preview of what's to come!

OBAMA '08

McCain is questionable himself and it has become very obvious as to why Bush didn't make him his VP and now he wants to the president! Please give me a break, McCain is not what our country needs.

Straight talk, my butt!

Don't forget Cindy McCains investments in companies that are taking American jobs away!

The most "questionable" donations are the millions of dollars that poured in from the oil industry after McCain pushed for offshore drilling.

Are we suprised.? Bush08 iis not what we need. McCain is a soulless vessel for the Bush legacy.

WOW HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, MORE THAN I WILL MAKE IN A LIFETIME......................

McCain far removed from illegal campaign donations? Nah! It must be a mental donation imagination.

I think the big oil companies is the real questionable donation but is he looking into that, no he still racking it in.

I don't believe him, I am becoming an independent. The republicans have been lying for the past 8 years. We need a change.

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look into it.. right.... I don't think soo.!
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Yeah, no kidding McCain and questionable are redundant, no?

Let me guess McWar's response......GEEZ I DIDN'T KNOW

His solution.....come on guys let's get this swept under the rug

I bet if they dug deeper they would reveal tons of questionable stuff going on!

This has got to be the least questionable about McCain's campaign!

Also, aren't permanent residents allowed to contribute? They are foreign nationals.

Why all the honesty now?
Once a crook always a crook

Let's give McCain the news coverage he has been wanting. We can start with this one. The media will probably think it is "not news" since we all knew this all along. McBush is as corupt as they come!!!!

For someone who was so committed to campaign finance reform, Sen. McCain certainly seems to have more than his fair share of questionable fund raising and legal campaign issues.

But then again, he has greatly disappointed me on most fronts turning his back on his independent streak to win the nomination. Taking the low road attacking his opponent with "celebrity" ads rather than telling us why he is the better candidate and what he will do DIFFERENT from President Bush.

He may not be "willing to lose a war to win and election" but he seems perfectly willing to sell out his integrity to do so!

WOW!!!!!!!! He is not even in office yet and already has some mess like this. This is just becoming a mess. First never getting facts right, second the two silly commercials, and now this. What's next.

Let him keep his money, he is only using it for comic relief anyway... tire gauges, Hilton and Spears, etc.

He's not campaigning, he's making jokes, which I find disgusting considering the energy crisis, economic crisis, housing crisis, health care problems, etc. It's an outrage, not funny at all.

It would probably be quicker if he sorted out the legal donations. ; )

Glad to see the "campaign finance reform" champion is practicing what he preaches. All aboard the double talk express!!!!

Check all the "off shore" accounts!!! McCain is a crooked as a day is long!!!

McCain does not care if his money comes from big oil with filthy jokes about women. I'm sure it don't bother him about any other donations.
He will not return it regardless.
Bush can always help him to raise more! Mcsame!!

What about the husband and wife team in Queens N.Y. who donated what amounts to their yearly income ($57,000) to McCain???

The wife is a low level Oil employee and the husband a municiple worker

I smell more than just one rat

uncle sam:
a whole lot if the media would ever focus on it

AWW how cute, he just wants to look like he's different then his colleauges when he's like the rest of them.

"He's like a worse copy than Bush," Mr. Makhlouf said of Mr. McCain.

Funniest line ever. Even funnier is that this is a direct quote from one of the donors in the scandal.

WHY am i not surprised.......??

He's getting a SURGE in illegal donations.

By the way, surge surge.

Well, well, why am I not surprise?!!! Typical attitude. Thinks the American public is basically stupid like he is. His campaign is going to send copy of the legal requirements??? Oh, yeah, like they didn't know them already. Says it right on the campaign donation page.
What's the penalty for this?

BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB... SHELL

How did the Republican McSlime machine allow this to get caught....and PUBLISHED ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

More of the same McCain at it again.

Why doesn't CNN mention the FACT that Obama has received tens of thousands of dollars from members of HAMAS??

Simply posting an article about McCain reviewing some of his donations is not news, simply CNN planting seeds of conspiracies amongst the loyal Obamaphiles.

McCain has less questionable money/influence in his campaign than Obama does. As long as he's reviewing those donations in order to do the right thing, that's what's really important.

and that's just the tip of the iceberg that is Mccain's back room dealings

like the lobbyists in his campaign will cooperate.hah!

WAKE UP, AMERICA! HOW DULL ARE YOU? CAN'T YOU SEE THE DECEPTION WITH MCCAIN"S CAMPAIGN? DO YOU WANT TO BE LULLED INTO ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF MISERY? PUT A STOP TO IT. VOTE OBAMA!!

No different that when Hillary and Obama went through the same thing.

I will say this about McCain...

At least we find out about these issues from his own camp, unlike Obama where we don't find out about it until the media uncovers it. (At which point his handlers spend 3 days writing a speech for him to explain how it wasn't his fault.)

Well, well well, for the web and other newsrooms that`s an old story

THIS STORY WAS ON HUFFINGTON POST "TWO DAYS AGO"

IT IS JUST NOW BEING COMMENTED ON IN THE "MAIN STREAM"

wow.

Will be looking at it, counting it, seeing how much they need...

It's about the oil people. McCain is crooked and does not care about the common American.

Please look into this matter. This is awful. McCain has always been linked to shady donors.

Why is it always after his hand is caught in the cookie jar? Thank you John McCain for pressing for the same kind of media Obama you claimed Obama was getting!!

And most of OBama's Donations, came from Foreign Oil???

CNN finally decides to talk about this. If this where Obama there would be 24 coverage. I'm sure the media will cover for McCain and forget all about this.

Lets take a look at those donations from big oil while we're at it.

I won't be surprised. He's trying to compete with a candidate that brings in 50 million a month. He just can't compete monetarily with that, without some questionable donations, esp. oil money. That's McCain's ace in the hole, oil money.

A Florida Republican party official takes thousands of dollars in questionable donations for the Mccain campaign? Just another day, another dollar for the GOP.

Why haven't we heard more on the questionable Hess contribution? Now there's a story.

Naturally McCain supporters will somehow try to tie this to Obama...

tell him to returned all the monney he has received for the last 27 years he has been in congress... or what, because he is old he can get away with it??,

Some Maverick!

go for it john and this just in it is found out that Exxon Execs Gave More to Obama!!!

HAHAHA! Republican thugs come out, come out, wherever you are!

Hey "Uncle Sam", at least the McCain campaign has enough honesty to bring this to the press's attention. Obama's Chicago thugs would keep it under wrap or blame it on someone else.

No...not the Maverick (gasp) the man who said he was going to fight corruption....couldn't be...then who...heard dear Hill's name in the mix too....tisk tisk. Let's not get caught with our hands in the cookie jar now kids.

McBush doing something underhanded–anybody shocked.

Man, I'm surprised this got any mention at all. It is St. John by the way.

Nothin' but sleaze in the mccain camp with all those lobbyists on staff – and this is probably just the tip of it.

It's really a shame seeing "The Gelding" compromising all his principles.

...aaand this is the last we'll hear of that

McCain's campaign doing something admirable. I'm shocked. Hopefully they'll end their silly negative and childish attacks and focus more on the issues and less on their obsession with Obama.

What the poor candidates have to do to become President this day and time,is awful.

so that guy (the citizen) lives not too far from me. He is known to have given money to Charlie Christ as well. So does that mean the president and the potential VP have been taking money from people who might not have our best interest on their mind?

He should've done this sooner, honestly, but ah well. I'm an Obama supporter, but I'm glad he's doing this. His reputation with me is shot after the negativity, and this is a band-aid, albeit a small one.

Please wait until after RNC Convention before starting scadals. Thank You

I'm sure whatever it is it will be swept under the rug.

The "maverick" you have been waiting for.................

I think we should also review the sources of Obama's donations. Rumor has it that many have come from overseas donors who are citizens of other countries.

Obama's donations should be investigated as well. Most of Obama's donations come from outside the United States. Wonder who is really funding his campaign.....

Maybe he should review those donations from that Texas tycoon who made the rape jokes too.

"who is not an American citizen – may have been connected with the fundraising efforts"

YA THINK! I HOPE THIS TURNS BIG! Mcfrankenstein is going Dooooownnnnnn

McCain campaign?? Questionable donations??? Now that's a real shocker!!!! What else is questionable in his campaign????

PUMA !

MIght as well review all his donors while their at it. I think you might find some very interesting individuals on the list.

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DOES MCCAIN HAVE???

I mean educational qualifications.What college did he attend?What degree does he have?What books has he written by himself not by other authors?what exactly qualifies to him be Commander-in-Chief?

I am not asking about POW.That is not a qualification,it is was his job and what happened happened.

Thanks!

Shady repug campaigning? Say it isn't so!

John McCain is too risky to be POTUS

I wish they would drop John McCain and nominate Ron Paul

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