Obama seeks distance from ACORN
Barack Obama took time out from debate preparations today to weigh in on the increasingly loud controversy over an activist group's voter registration drive.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, claims to have registered 1.3 million young people, minorities, and working-class voters. But some of those registration cards have listed dead or nonexistent people and are being investigated in at least eight states.
Republican John McCain, and today his running mate Sarah Palin, have called on Obama to take control of ACORN's activities. “Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN and prove that he is willing to fight voter fraud," she told radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today.
But Obama told reporters in Ohio today that he his campaign has no direct ties with ACORN and that he is concerned that the criticism is designed to discourage voters.
"We've got the best voter registration, turnout, and volunteer operation in politics right and we don't need ACORN's help," Obama said. "What I want to make sure of, though, is that this is not used as an excuse for the kind of voter suppression tactics that we've seen in the past. Let's make sure everybody is voting, everybody is registered, everybody is doing this is a lawful way."
On Friday, six GOP leaders wrote to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to urge him to make sure ballots by ineligible or fraudulent voters are not counted on Nov. 4, the Associated Press reports.
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Voter suppression? He doesn't need ACORN's help? Is he serious?!
Who knows how many elections have been won by Democrats that wouldn't have been won had it not been for ACORN?
They should also investigate the donors who gave money to Obama's campaign. Many of them are dead, non-existent or underaged too. Too bad we can't bring Hillary back. At least she ran an honest campaign. Obama is a crook. I hope we don't have to wait till he is elected to have to go thru the whole process of impeaching a crook again.
Please Ms. Sherry. Were talking presedential elections here and from what I can tell republicans have won two in a row under suspicious circumstances. So please spare us.
Barrak Hussein Obama
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Ladin
Obama Bin Joe Biden
(Just words, Just Names) Uh huh O`Really?
Obama's accomplishments:
Shadow Terrorist
Associates and Worked Closely with William Ayers, Acorn (this is his community organizer role), Rev. Wright his Pastor, mentor, the one who baptized his kids! Attended Writes church for 20 + years!
Obama's answer for everyone is: "I didn't know"
I didn't know Ayers was a terrorist.
I didn't know Acorn was involved in voter fraud.
I didn't know Rev. Write preached hate America, hate white people sermons.
Can I ask you Obama.... What do you know?
Isn't not knowing the same thing as "I G N O R A N C E"?
Need I say more?
This is nothing more than a tactic used to devert the American people from the real issues at hand, and we are NOT stupid and falling for this CRAP again! Acorn did nothing wrong, what you are seeing is a just a ploy to try and score some very badly needed points on McSame's side :)
This is a statement given by ACORN:
"We registered nationwide 1.3 million folks over an 18 month period, employing some 13,000 workers during that process. And during that time on a weekly basis, a by-weekly basis, we identified and tagged potential problem voter registration forms. At that time, we notified local boards of elections of those problematic forms. What we're hearing about today, is the accumulation of those forms over an 18-month period that some folks are wrapping in an umbrella of fraud. And that's just not the case. These are forms that we identified, we brought to the local board's attention, and we know that they might be problems and ask for the local boards to identify them."
Okay, DONE! Moving on to REAL problems for this country!!!!
Brandon, you are a pristine, crystal clear example of just how dangerous ignorance can be. Thanks so much for showing your face here and letting us all see what ignorance looks like.
Its scary how Obama denied his ties to acorn. he is crazy!
Obama was an employee, then trained trainers, was ACORN's lawyer for years, gave them $800,000 to help him win this election, used their members to physically intimidate Hillary supporters at the caucuses (which is the only reason he won the nomination, he never won a single large state in the primaries).
The left is muddying the waters and talking about Bush/Gore (all major newspapers did private investigations trying to show that Bush stole the election and all investigations proved conclusively that he did not.).
Our votes are precious. Please America, don't let ACORN submit more than a million illegal votes. Not to mention all of their well known thuggery. That stuff is unAmerican and we should all detest it. This is a free country. We have to work to keep it free.
obama you are a liar. first you throw ayers under the bus then wright under the bus, now ACORN under the buss the only thing is we saw the trap door and you was throwing them in your bus. Thank a democrat in NOV for stealing all the taxpayers money VOTE NOI NO NOI obama
I bought a grill at wallmart. If tomorrow they are found guilty of fraud does that mean I am somehow connected to the fraud. Again the republican party is grasping at straws. Is Obama talking about mccain's affairs, his wife criminal drug addiction, the keating five, the world anticommunist league, the bridge to nowhere, the road to nowhere, trooper gate, palin's connection with a right wing anti American political party, the polarbear lies of palin, etc? No and the reason why is nobody cares. People care about their wallets which have taken a big hit in the last eight years. How come palin doesn't get that? She keeps asking why does Obama keep talking about the past. Then she proceeds to talk about ayers. Totally ridiculous.
It is (to use Palin's words) unconscionable that people are so blinded by fear of change that they will believe everything that the Repubs tell you. How many of you could say with all honesty that if you were under a microscope they way Obama is right now that you would have absolutely no one that you've had some loose association with that harbored raciscm, that beat their wife, that partook in an anti-Vietnam war rally, or some other act that you do not agree with. All of these allegations took place decade(s) ago. This guilt by association crap is ludicrous. Imagine if Obama's campaign used the same tactics. It would be a laundry list:
Keating 5 Scandal that led to the S&L financial crisis (sound familiar)
William Timmons - A McCain top aide who also served as a lobbyist for, wait for it... Saddam Hussein
Gordon Liddy - convicted of Watergate Conspiracy who also made some rather inflammatory statements about the US and the Vietnam war - except in this case McCain himself went on a radio show and proclaimed Liddy a great person anda good friend.
This is just the start...
I guess the Gop (McC/Palin) Campaign will reject all ACORN ' registrants' that will vote Republican.
Saying something meaningful or intelligent might be a good addition.
Plllease! Nobama trained these thug activists for God's sake!! They did their dirty work for him and he became Senator! It is Nobama who told them" get in their face!" I guess he did not order them to do that either and that is why you see the vandalism of the McCain/Palin signs everywhere! Nobama is tied to to Acorn left, right, front and center!
Honestly, I've got to wonder if Obama truly is the true Democratic nominee? With all the "connections" he claimed to have "had" in the past (Oh, but of course, not NOW in the general election), could it be that he is truly NOT the nominee of the Democratic party? Heck -- we'll never know, will we. And we may truly never know this election who truly won, as long as we allow this to happen in our nation. IMO, this election should be suspented until we sort out exactly WHO has the right to vote, how many times, and WHERE. This is just outright criminal.
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Let's get this straight. ACORN does not work for Obama. They are a non-profit agency that pays workers to get people registered and they have had some workers just take names out of phonebooks, etc. to get money. Registration fraud does not mean voter fraud. Mickey Mouse is not coming to the polls to vote. They just tricked ACORN out of some money.
Here is what Obama has said.
"My relationship to ACORN is pretty straightforward. It's probably 13 years ago when I was still practicing law, I represented ACORN and my partner in that representation was the U.S. Justice Department in having Illinois implement what was called the "motor voter" law, to make sure that people could go to DMVs and driver's license facilities to get registered. It wasn't being implemented. That was my relationship, and is my relationship to ACORN. THEY ARE NOT ADVISING OUR CAMPAIGN," Obama has said. "We've got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now and we don't need ACORN's help."
"This isn't a situation where there's actually people who are going to try to vote because these are phony names. ..Let's just make sure everybody is voting, everybody's registered. Let's make sure that everybody's doing it in a lawful way."
Mary Frances Berry spent years trying to find voter suppression, and managed to ignore what she did find, since it was black Democratic activists suppressing Haitian voters in Florida. On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence of voter fraud and voter registration fraud.
"I bought a grill at wallmart. If tomorrow they are found guilty of fraud does that mean I am somehow connected to the fraud."
Obama didn't buy a grill from ACORN. He gave them $800,000 for their voter-registration drive, during which they turned in invalid voter registrations in multiple states. Which means that bogus names are on the rolls, which opens up the opportunity for multiple vote casting by unscrupulous individuals. Those individuals will not be spreading their votes evenly between McCain and Obama.
"I guess the Gop (McC/Palin) Campaign will reject all ACORN ' registrants' that will vote Republican."
Yeah, all 0.0000000001 of them. Get real.
Acorn is a made up orginization made to make Barack Obama look bad. Dont drink the ice-tea. . .
Dear Radical Republicans,
Shouting something loud enough won't make it true. If you're going to accuse someone of something, I want well reasoned arguments, facts, figures, and references -- not soundbites, name calling, and rants.
If all you can drudge up is mud and moonbat theories, keep it to yourself. The more you rant and the angrier you get, the less I'm going to listen. Anger isn't charming, and I'm tired of the sophomoric name calling, tired of the insults, and tired of the mud.
Obama served on the board of the Wood's Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit, with Ayers, ex-Weather Underground radical terrorist, from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. Woods Fund has given sizable grants to the ACORN: $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002), and $40,000 (2002). Woods Fund made grants to ACORN from 2001 to 2005 for a total of $355,000.
Obama served together with Ayers on Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2001. CAC also granted money to ACORN.
McCain was keynote speaker at an ACORN conference in March, 2006 - he has had more recent and closer contact with them than Obama. He complimented ACORN on their important work and the President of ACORN considered McCain to be a friend. McCain knows that registration fraud happens whenever you pay people to register voters. It has nothing to do with voter fraud which is very rare according to the US Department of Justice. This is another example of McCain trying to throw sand in the face of the electorate, to confuse the less educated voter and to take this election further into the mud.
ACORN runs by CONMEN and CONWOMEN.
This is the same response Obama gave when asked about Rezko and Ayers, he lied. Wolf Blitzer asked Obama, "Who is Tony Rezko", Obama said "he was some guy I did 5 hours of work for". When asked about his friendship with Ayers, Obama said "He's just some guy from the neighborhood". First Obama claimed he never worked for ACORN, then all the info showing his many connections showed up on the Web. I was looking at the records of that ACORN V Citibank case, Obama was a Lawyer on that case, suing Citibank to give loans to deadbeats. Are you angry about the Financial troubles of our Country? This is what happens when to Courts and Gov't decide who should get a loan.
“From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.”
- A slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. The phrase summarizes the principles that, under a communist system, every person should contribute to society to the best of their ability and consume from society in proportion to their needs, regardless of how much they have contributed. In the Marxist view, such an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist society will produce; the idea is that there will be enough to satisfy everyone's needs.
Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend that his economic philosophy is to "spread the wealth around".
Obama made the remark, caught on camera, after fielding some tough questions from the plumber Sunday in Ohio, where the Democratic candidate canvassed neighborhoods and encouraged residents to vote early.
"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
FINALLY!!!! My prayers have been answered and we will turn this country into a Communist/ Marxist regime!!!!!!!
GO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!
YES, I AM PROUD OF HIS MUSLIM MIDDLE NAME, AREN'T YOU? WHAT ARE YOU ASHAMED OF OR EMBARASSED OF?
Quote "FINALLY!!!! My prayers have been answered and we will turn this country into a Communist/ Marxist regime!!!!!!!
GO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!
YES, I AM PROUD OF HIS MUSLIM MIDDLE NAME, AREN'T YOU? WHAT ARE YOU ASHAMED OF OR EMBARASSED OF?"
My response? This is really sad, I don't believe that the we, the United States people are throwing our dignity and freedom out of the window. It shows the true colors of this country. You have another thing coming to you Karl Marx. If you want experience communism, here's some advice: Move to Cuba, Russia, China, or N. Korea
Proud future Republican to be of Tampa, Florida
... And I mean moderate, not radical.... Radical is too much. We need balance, not Liberals and Radicals
Isaac, when you grow up, you will recognize Sarcasm when you see it.
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I knew all I needed to about Obama when he was asked about whether raising the capital gains tax might result in a decrease in revenue and he said it might but that raising the tax was a matter of fairness!
That is enough to tell me he is at least a socialist.
I think it's important that people understand you can register millions of nonexistent voters, but no fraud exists unless they actually cast votes. Obviously, Mickey Mouse, dead people, and made up people aren't going to show up at the polls. ACORN employs a lot of people and pays them by the number of voters they sign up; a few of their employees may not be honest and put people on the lists who don't exist. ACORN has a variety of methods for checking these lists and flagging the names that do not represent real voters. They submit those lists to the election boards, so there is a second check point. These fake "people" will note be voting, so relax.