ACORN Recycled At The Republican National Convention
By NancyA on September 10, 2008 at 12:01 AM in ACORN, Backtrack Obama, David Plouffe, Obama, Pennsylvania, Voter Fraud
According to Michelle Malkin, the “far left” was not at all amused by Rudy Giuliani’s joke about Obama’s “community organizing” days. And they were even less amused by Governor Sarah Palin’s replay of Obama’s days in Chicago. Malkin had this to say:
I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama’s deep experience as a “community organizer.” I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
Malkin wasn’t laughing near as hard as I was. I started the whole brouhaha at NoQuarter about ACORN here, here and here, with the Pittsburgh Tribune finally covering the story.
More from Malkin on the laugh fest!
Team Obama was not amused. (Neither were the snarky left-wingers on cable TV who are now allergic to sarcasm.) They don’t get why we snicker when Obama dons his Community Organizer cape. Apparently, the jibes rendered Obama’s advisers sleepless. In a crack-of-dawn e-mail to Obama’s followers hours after Giuliani and Palin spoke, campaign manager David Plouffe attempted to gin up faux outrage (and, more importantly, donations) by claiming grave offense on the part of community organizers everywhere.
Plouffe let loose with an “outraged retort”, saying this,
“Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed. Let’s clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.”
Really. What explains Obama teaching classes for ACORN? Why is ACORN implicated in the subprime home mortgage mess? Why do they continue to commit fraudulent voter registration drives? And why does Obama continue to use them to do his bidding?
More from Malkin.
With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state and undermine the free market, as well as some that have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and voter fraud.
With the passage of the new housing bill, written by banks, passed by a Democratic congress and signed by President Bush, ACORN and other groups like them are due a new multi-million influx of money.
Here is an example of ACORN’s latest fraudulent work. From Malkin,
Last week, Milwaukee’s top election official announced plans to seek criminal investigations of 37 ACORN employees accused of offering gifts to sign up voters (including prepaid gas cards and restaurant cards) or falsifying driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards.
Last month, a New Mexico TV station reported on the child rapists, drug offenders and forgery convicts on ACORN’s payroll. In July, Pennsylvania investigators asked the public for help in locating a fugitive named Luis R. Torres-Serrano, who is accused “of submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registration forms he collected on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to county election officials.” Also in July, a massive, nearly $1 million embezzlement scheme by top ACORN officials was exposed.
I am not sure why Obama is being let off the hook despite citizen complaints to the FEC. Obama always seems to be able to amend whatever report he wants and the government does nothing. As usual the government is asleep at the wheel.
And the last thing from Malkin is this, aptly put,
Now, don’t you dare challenge his commitment to following tax and election laws. And don’t you even think of entertaining the possibility that The One exploited a nonprofit supposedly focused on helping low-income people for political gain.
He was just “organizing” his “community.” Guffaw.
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