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September 17, 2009

'The President from ACORN'

The ACORN scandal carries on apace. The latest installment includes serious illegality and creepiness on the part of the ACORN employee, who not only seems interested in organizing some time with "Eden," but volunteers to help organize an illegal border crossing for (he believes) a dozen 13-15 year-old child prostitutes. (Do all of these people hate children?)

Meanwhile, Robert Gibbs calls this conduct "unacceptable."

"The administration takes accountability extremely seriously."

Gibbs said he was not sure whether the president would ask Democrats to pull back from any campaign-year collaboration with the group.

"I don't know that I've had any discussion with him about that," Gibbs said.
It you'd like to review Obama's close relationship with ACORN read Stanley Kurtz's article from May '08. Several excerpts:
Sure enough, a bit of digging into Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate indicates strong concern with Acorn’s signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage and banking practices. You begin to wonder whether, in his Springfield days, Obama might have best been characterized as “the Senator from Acorn.” [. . .]

As best as I can tell (and this needs to be checked out more fully), Acorn maintains both political and “non-partisan” arms. Obama not only sought and received the endorsement of Acorn’s political arm in his local campaigns, he recently accepted Acorn’s endorsement for the presidency, in pursuit of which he reminded Acorn officials of his long-standing ties to the group.
Do click on that link. More from Kurtz:
In any case, if you’re looking for the piece of the puzzle that confirms and explains Obama’s network of radical ties, gather your Acorns this spring. Or next winter, you may just be left watching the “President from Acorn” at his feast.
Yes, we were warned. But not by the mainstream lapdog media. I can feel my blood pressure rising as I think about their absolute refusal to honestly report on Obama.

Michelle Malkin can hardly believe the audacity of Obama's attempt to "distance" himself:

Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN:

“W.H. distances from activist group”

Choking. Up. With. Laughter.

Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.

For a second I thought she was going to say 'grandmother.' Or pastor. Never mind. Moving on:
He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. And the “accountability” that White House flack Robert Gibbs says they take “extremely seriously” doesn’t extend to Team Obama itself — and the accountability they have evaded for pouring more than $800,000 into an ACORN front group for campaign advance work that was mysteriously re-classified as “get-out-the-vote” work.
Read on about the phony investigation. More from Karl in the Green Room.

Comments welcome.
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Posted by jill at 9:39 AM
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2 comments:

  1. I'll leave discussions of whether or not the ACORN sting holds up to scrutiny to others - but I am going to undermine the notion that ACORN is an influential and well funded arm of the political left:

    First, via Glenn:
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    ACORN has received a grand total of $53 million in federal funds over the last 15 years -- an average of $3.1 million per year.
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    That'd be about enough to pay a low salary for 2 full time employees in every state.

    Second, via Anonymous Liberal
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    ACORN's relative lack of political influence was on full display yesterday, when the U.S. Senate (in which Democrats have a supermajority) not only entertained a vote to defund ACORN, but approved it by a huge margin (with only seven Democrats opposing).
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    As far as the political class is concerned - ACORN is a bunch of nobodies. ACORN does not They don't fund them and they don't pay them homage - two clearer yardsticks of political ties you will not find.

    AL enlarges on his point that You Can Tell a Lot About People By Who They Choose to Demonize:
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    That the GOP and its conservative supporters would single out [ACORN] for such intense demonization is telling. In September of last year, the entire world came perilously close to complete financial catastrophe. We're still not out of the woods and we're deep within one of the worst recessions in U.S. history. This situation was brought about by the recklessness and greed of our banks and financial institutions, most of which had to be bailed out at enormous cost to the American taxpayer (exponentially more than all of the tax dollars given to ACORN over the years). The people who brought about this near catastrophe, for the most, profited immensely from it. These very same institutions, propped up by the American taxpayer, are once again raking in large profits.

    But rather than focus their anger on these folks, conservatives choose to go after an organization composed almost entirely of low-paid community organizers, an organization that could never hope to have even a small fraction of the clout or the ability to affect the overall direction of the country that Wall Street bankers have.
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    So go ahead... follow the shiny object that the right wing pundits have dangled in front of you. Who knows? you might get a conviction on a few ACORN employees.

    Meanwhile Goldmann Sachs and the rest of Wall Street will continue gobbling up government money by the billions.
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  2. Linked to this:
    http://republic-can.blogspot.com/2009/09/kai-su-teknon.html
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