Round up all the acornites and throw them under the jail. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:35 AM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Barack Obama is running as fast and as far away from his association > with the radical group ACORN as he can, but he can't hide from the > facts of his close relationship with the organization. > > ACORN, or Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, > describes itself as a "non-partisan" group devoted to helping the poor > and to registering millions to vote. Critics accuse ACORN of > involvement vote fraud, voter intimidation, shakedowns against > businesses, and the promotion of socialist class hatred and class > warfare. > > Apparently worried by the connection between Obama and the group, his > campaign has put claims of his ties to ACORN as the lead item on its > "Fight The Smears" Web site — a site the Obama campaign created to > counter what they claim are partisan lies made up against their > candidate. > > The release on the Obama site reads: "When Obama met with ACORN > leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and > his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit > focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, 'I come out > of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three and > half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to > Chicago was to organize. > > "So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the > importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you > care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, > when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN > was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work." > > Indeed, Obama was being far too modest. The 2008 Democratic > presidential nominee had worked not just alongside ACORN, but also as > a key operative for the organization. > > He was its lawyer in several pivotal ACORN cases. > > Obama funded a number of its activities, as well. When he sat on the > board of the prestigious Woods Fund for Chicago alongside former > Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, he oversaw and approved > many grants for ACORN. > > As the National Review's Stanley Kurtz reported, one Woods committee > report boasted that the fund's "non-ideological" public image "enabled > the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational > tactics against the business and government 'establishments' without > undue risk of being accused of partisanship." > > Obama was the Illinois director of ACORN's controversial voter > registration operation, and he trained the group's leaders in the ways > of radical, sometimes illegal, confrontational politics. > > He also paid ACORN affiliates during his recent Democratic primary > contest. For example, leading up to the 2008 Ohio Democratic Primary, > Obama's campaign between Feb. 25 and March 17 paid Citizens Services, > Inc., a subsidiary of ACORN, $832,598, apparently for get-out-the-vote > activities. > > ACORN's four co-founders were 1960s New Leftists. One was George > Wiley, whose National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) members > practiced confrontation politics, e.g., swarming into welfare offices > and bullying social workers. The second ACORN co-founder was NWRO > organizer Gary Delgado. > > ACORN's other founders and longtime bosses were former Students for a > Democratic Society (SDS) activist Wade Rathke, a close NWRO ally, and > his brother Dale. > > http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_acorn_smears/2008/10/06/137891.html > > > -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
