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Re-Prioritizing the ACORN President

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Re-Prioritizing the ACORN President
"I have been fighting along side ACORN on issues you care about my entire career" (in address to ACORN in 2007)


Obama's first job out of college was ACORN as a community organizer. Obama hired ACORN affiliates for voter registration. Obama was a speaker at ACORN seminars. Obama was their lawyer.
And now he says the enormous, gross ACORN scandal is "not something he is not paying attention?

Only one of the five television networks that interviewed President Obama for their Sunday shows bothered to ask him about Acorn, the left-wing community organizing group whose federal funding was cut off last week by an overwhelming vote in Congress.
"Frankly, it's not something I've followed closely," Mr. Obama claimed, adding he wasn't even aware the group had been the recipient of significant federal funding. "This is not the biggest issue facing the country. It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to," he said.

Mr. Obama added that an investigation of Acorn was appropriate after an amateur hidden-camera investigation had found Acorn offices willing to abet prostitution, but he carefully declined to say whether he would approve a federal cutoff of funds to the group.

Not the biggest issue facing the country? I beg to differ. I think a national organization dedicated to stealth revolution, Communism, ripping off the American taxpayer, subverting free markets, among other insidious traitorous objectives is of enormous import.

What is he paying attention to? Nationalized a perfectly good private health care system, the best on the world? Outreach to the ummah (worldwide global Muslims community)?

What is he paying attention to? Mounting a DoJ t witch hunt, a persecution of CIA agents whose crime was keeping us safe in immediacy of 911 and a worldwide global jihad.. What's he paying attention to - ethnically cleansing Israel of the Jewish people. Or facilitating a nuclear Iran? Sanctioning Islamic law? Snuffing out the people marching for freedom in Iran? Lest we not forget his priority of crushing democracy in Honduras?

He is ACORN. Mirror man not interested in ACORN? This from John Fund.

Mr. Obama added that an investigation of Acorn was appropriate after an amateur hidden-camera investigation had found Acorn offices willing to abet prostitution, but he carefully declined to say whether he would approve a federal cutoff of funds to the group.





Mr. Obama took great pains to act as if he barely knew about Acorn. In fact, his association goes back almost 20 years. In 1991, he took time off from his law firm to run a voter-registration drive for Project Vote, an Acorn partner that was soon fully absorbed under the Acorn umbrella. The drive registered 135,000 voters and was considered a major factor in the upset victory of Democrat Carol Moseley Braun over incumbent Democratic Senator Alan Dixon in the 1992 Democratic Senate primary.





Mr. Obama's success made him a hot commodity on the community organizing circuit. He became a top trainer at Acorn's

Chicago

conferences. In 1995, he became Acorn's attorney, participating in a landmark case to force the state of
Illinois

to implement the federal Motor Voter Law. That law's loose voter registration requirements would later be exploited by Acorn employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names.





In 1996, Mr. Obama filled out a questionnaire listing key supporters for his campaign for the Illinois Senate. He put Acorn first (it was not an alphabetical list). In the U.S. Senate, Mr. Obama became the leading critic of Voter ID laws, whose overturn was a top Acorn priority. In 2007, in a speech to Acorn's leaders prior to their political arm's endorsement of his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama was effusive: "I've been fighting alongside of Acorn on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote in

Illinois

, Acorn was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."





But the Obama campaign didn't appear eager to discuss the candidate's ties to Acorn. Its press operation vividly denied Mr. Obama had been an Acorn trainer until the New York Times uncovered records demonstrating that he had been. The Obama campaign also gave Citizens Consulting, Inc., an Acorn subsidiary, $832,000 for get-out-the-vote activities in key primary states. In filings with the Federal Election Commission, the Obama campaign listed the payments as "staging, sound, lighting," only correcting the filings after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review revealed their true nature.





Given his longstanding ties with Acorn, President Obama's protestations of ignorance or disinterest in the group's latest scandal seem preposterous. Here's hoping White House reporters will press the president to clarify just how much he really knows about Acorn and when he knew it.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 05:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
 
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