The McCain campaign is not exactly returning the $50K in questionable contributions. Instead it is leaving it to the donors of those contributions to admit that they made contributions in violation of federal law. Here is the McCain letter being sent out to those donors, courtesy of the Washington Post

August 7, 2008
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We do greatly appreciate your support and financial contribution However, if your contribution does not meet all of these [legal] requirements, please contact me at ... xxx@mccainhq08.com so that we can arrange a refund of your contribution.
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Sincerely
[Directory of Treasury, John McCain 2008]

I hope that they investigate the Hess money. That stuff stinks to high heaven.

But, but but but but.

John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan.

And, and and and he's a WAR HERO.

Finally as the great DemBillc has pointed out all along since the beginning of this campiagn, in his astonishly horrible vote in 2005, Barack Obama chose to side with his lobbyist benefactors over the American people, when he voted FOR the Bush-Cheney Energy bill. Of course Hillary Clinton or John McCain voted against the bill. DemBillC has said repeatedly that he would never vote for Oilbama since he proved he is in the pocket of Big Oil by voting for the worst Energy Bill in History crafted by Dick Cheney and Oil Lobbyists. That alone is reason enough to not nominate Barack Obama. When push comes to shove, Oilbama always sides with same old money men. If every American voter knew that Barack Oilbama voted with Dick Cheney and George Bush on energy and profiteering for big energy companies, they would dump this pretender of Change and Hope. Oilbama is more full of shit than GW Bush. Of course they are both ex Alchoholic Coke heads.

Great, glad to see that campaign contributions will be investigated.

Now, will this include the contributions to the Obama campaign from various Middle East folks, Gaza strip, Hamas folks, and other terrorists and terrorist sympathizers?

I know there is a group working on that as well so hopefully all is investigated at the same time and we can let the American people make decisions after the results of all investigations become public.

Thanks for the update! :)

You think there is any way we can get the love-child to sell her photos to the National Enq. and donate the proceeds to John McCain, via Harry Sargeant?

If McCain is helping to shield his bundlers with illegal contributions and Bush was having falsified documents drawn up to prove his case for war, we should take these instances and consider them like people who break into cars to steal stereos or other such things. These type of criminals might break into ten cars in a night. When they are caught they are charged with one crime, but it stands to reason that these thieves have committed many more crimes than the ones they are being charged. With politicians when a crime is discovered, it should be considered that the crime the politician is caught doing is probably only one of a larger list of crimes perpetrated. We need to take back the word conspiracy and assume that these crimes are common place. The word has come to be associated with mental illness rather than its proper place as a word which describes what happens more often than not in politics and in general when there is a lot of money or power to be had. We need to reverse engineer the history of corruption since Reagan was put into office and make sure similar crimes do not happen again by taking legislative measures. Why didn't Bill Clinton find the people in government who were selling crac k in black neighborhoods to raise money for the Contras? Why was Noriega completely shut up? Do we really believe that this guy committed suicide in the anthrax case?

Yes, yes BUT, the poster just wanted to mouth off, never mind the facts. People have tried and tried to muck Obama and it simply has no basis. In fact, in my own case in purchasing a condo, I got several upgrades just by dickering with the company that built them. A discount is not a bribe, It is called getting the best deal I coul.d get. Hmmm, imagine if some Republican came to audit my finances, grrr he would report me for getting a discount on the purchase of extras. Prolly he had similar deals when he nought stuff. Seems normal to me. But you know Republicans, they like THEIR deals, they hate other deals. All purchase dickeringdeals are ok.