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ACORN Las Vegas Office Raided on Charges of Voter Fraud; Ohio Officials Step Up Registration Checks

Wednesday update: A wire report out of Cleveland, Ohio, published at 11:48 a.m. ET:

ACORN says it can’t prevent voter registration fraud

An organization under scrutiny across the country for voter registration irregularities has told Ohio election officials it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems including duplicate registrations and workers filling out registration cards to make quotas.

The group, which works to get low-income people to vote, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August and reviewed the situation Tuesday. …

Okey doke. Uh huh. At the same time that your counterpart in Nevada — on the defensive and boxed in a corner (of Acorn’s own making) — is claiming today that Acorn has “zero tolerance” for counterfeit forms and turns them into election officials, as is required by law.

Here is the first report on the raid of the Las Vegas, Nevada offices of Acorn:

According to reports just filed by AP, FOX News, Washington Post, CBS News, and several other local news sites, “ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters has been raided by Nevada authorities looking for evidence of voter fraud”.

FOX news states:

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state’s office, told FOXNews.com that the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about “erroneous” registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

“Some of them used non-existent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,” Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev. He said some registrations used the names of Dallas Cowboys football players.

And as we know…

It’s not the first time ACORN’s been under investigation for irregularities in registration records.

In 2006, ACORN committed what the Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the “worse case of election fraud” in the state’s history.

In [that] case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes.

Mary Pat Flaherty of The Washington Post reports:

Charles Jackson, a national spokesman for ACORN, said the group would have a response later Tuesday. ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

In July, the two Nevada state agencies involved in the raid, along with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for Nevada, formed a task force to target voter registration and election fraud and complaints over voter registration practices, potential voter fraud, and enforcement of laws regarding voter intimidation. The federal agents were not part of Tuesday’s search, Walsh said.

ACORN’s Las Vegas office, Walsh said, registers voters mainly in Clark County.

Registration drives conducted by ACORN in several states are under scrutiny by local elections officials for the accuracy of cards gathered by its workers.

The group also has been the object of heated denunciations from the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign, which contend the group is attempting to overwhelm election officials with new registrations that are carelessly gathered and would enable unqualified voters to get on the rolls.

“It is very difficult to ascribe any other motive to the activities of ACORN other than to swamp the system with registrations cards” that range from illegible to being drawn from names from telephone listings or other public directories, said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross. Cairncross spoke during a telephone press conference on another ACORN voter drive in northwest Indiana that local news accounts report is under review by elections officers.

The ACORN drives, he said, “point to a lack of control in this organization” and “a willingness to go out and do this relentlessly.”

Associated Press Writer Oskar Garcia reports

No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

This is typical, I understand. Whenever anyone calls or shows up to question ACORN workers, the offices quickly become a ghost town.

Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.

The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

For great reporting on the far reach of ACORN, please check out NancyA’s excellent stories: Consumer Rights League, Obama, ACORN and The SubPrime Mortgage and Senator Graham Mentions ACORN

Please also see Uppity Woman’s excellent report Acorn Nailed Registering Dead People in Indiana.

Since Senator Obama and ACORN seem to have such a symbiotic relationship, thought today’s development in Las Vegas should get a mention.

Interesting that I have not yet seen any mention of any of this on the all-Obama-all-the-time networks, MSNBC and CNN. Please let us know if you do.

Glad to see Nevada state authorities are on the job.

There are at least some people out there who still believe in one person, one vote.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

    Of course Acorn claims they cant prevent voter fraud.

    ACORN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VOTER FRAUD!

    • katmandu

      They are also in part responsible for the subprime loans that caused the financial crisis we are under. An excellent story just out by good old Stanley Kurtz:

      http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjRjYzE0YmQxNzU4MDJjYWE5MjIzMTMxMmNhZWQ1MTA=

      This is a MUST read.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

        ADOLF AXELFRAUD PRESENTS
        A SAUL ALYNSKIZOMBIE MASTERPIECE
        A SUBLIME TRILOGY OF VOTER HORROR

        DAWN OF THE ACORN DEAD
        THEY STEALING THE ELECTION ONE DEAD VOTER AT A TIME!

        ACORN RESURRECTION
        IN THE GRAVE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM VOTER FRAUD

        ACORNZILLA
        DEAD VOTES MATTER

        Starring
        Barack Obama as the Mansourian Candidate
        William Ayers the ghostwriter of “Dreams of My Father”

        Also Starring
        ACORN
        A.C.O.R.N.
        A. Corn
        A. Cornholio
        A.C. Orn

        Special Appearance by
        Aco R.N.

        Directed by
        N. Roca

        OPENING NATIONWIDE IN SWING STATES NOVEMBER 4, 2008

        • Dawnelle

          girrrrrrrrl what r u smokin today?

          all these NUTS!
          lol

      • http://firefox McAnnie Carmel Baracuda

        Loved JM’s line last night that ACORN was the match that started the fire of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco.

      • http://nativeamericansagainstobama.com/ timepassages@bresnan.net

        Yes most do not know they are knee deep in the mortgage mess..

        http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/

      • jrterrier

        Obama’s ties to ACORN are the ones that have to be emphasized. “Over half of the ACORN-submitted voter registration forms in Lake County, Indiana turned out to be fraudulent.” And apparently, the investigation is to be extended to 7 states. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=191293

        That and ACORN’s role in the subprime meltdown and Barney Franks and Dodd’s involvement in the meltdown would stop the bleeding for McCain as it became clear that the meltdown is not because of the last 8-years of Bush’s economic policy but of Obama’s type of economic policy.

      • mary

        NOW WE KNOW WITH UTMOST CERTAINTY WHY AND HOW HILLARY WAS PUSHED OFF THE DNC STAGE BY THESE MANIPULATIVE FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE…

        OBAMARAMA–SHAME ON YOU AND DAVE AXELFRAUD!

    • http://blogawayintothenight.wordpress.com/ Miss H

      Just like Obama stole the nominating votes from the state of Texas. Here is the proof:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXNqFQmGxDU

      These thugs are attempting to take over the United States of America. They must be stopped!

      • http://nativeamericansagainstobama.com/ timepassages@bresnan.net

        This is the new Socialist america

        http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/

      • mary

        Can you imagine the Obamarama Chicago Political Sewers Ratpack residing in the corridors of…THE WHITE HOUSE?!

        The country’s going to the dogs….and Barky’s riot gangs will rule supreme….what a farce!

        I’m glad for one that Hillary’s not going to take over the Titanic…let Obambi sink it it with his rats!

    • Maverick

      homeless man targeted by the registration drive who A kool aid drinker exulted that he was voting for Obama because “I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle.”

      “Thug thizzle” is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democratic power base. Rules be damned.

  • PhxNickD

    Some one forget to tell the Obots this is not the democratic primary.

    • workingclass artist

      ( I’m Chairman Mao…and I approve of ACORN…I am also voting for Soetero in the election )
      THE DEAD HAVE RIGHTS TOO!

      Great Article ANI…YOU ROCK!

      • beebop

        So … basically …. if ACORN was in the manufacturing business they just have a little quality control problem? PLEASE! Someone save me from laughing myself to death!

        • Zeke

          Their intent, Bop, is to flood the system, create a new hanging chad scenario and then blame it on racism.
          Barry was actually called in to teach the initial members of ACORN who are now their mid-level and higher organizers how to do this and What to do.
          His pleas of ignorance are utterly false.

    • NoTrollZone

      No kidding. Dear Senator McCain, how does it feel to be in Hillary Clinton’s shoes?

      Come on Repubs get busy. Acorns roasting on a open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your toes.

    • Dawnelle

      yea what the hell r they gonna do in NOV w/no caucuses to challenge?

  • c4every

    If there’s nothing they can do to prevent it, then they should stop it!!

    stop it now!

    • Maverick

      Don’t accept ACORN”S registrations. Trash them Shut ACORN down.

  • DanNY

    What is going on? Has the Democratic party given permission to ACORN to steal the election for Obama becuase they believe the Supreme Court stole it for Bush?

    Really!

    I think some Acorn folks should be facing stiff jail sentences if this is true. They are not the supreme court.

    • Talk2ThePaw

      ACORN didn’t just start this fraud this election cycle, they have been doing it since their conception. It has to be over 10 years ago that they (or one of their affiliates) was caught on tape registerin illegal aliens in the Bay Area. And in areas such as Ohio where the SOS is an obot I doubt that the “register and vote same day” apps are really get a once over. Especially since they were not able to garner the numbers they had wanted. Remember the SOS would not allow observers to watch the proceedings. That tells me they have no intention of checking the early ballots for fraud.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

      Comment by DanNY | 2008-10-08 12:14:47

      What is going on? Has the Democratic party given permission to ACORN to steal the election for Obama becuase they believe the Supreme Court stole it for Bush?

      Yes.

      And its that sentiment Obama is using to install his socialist overlords in our government.

      Good Bye Capitalism.

      Hello Big Brother.

    • Maverick

      What about the intimidation factor that is being used on young in the colleges and older folks who are homebound and alone when Obots come to the door to register them. Precinct Intake Coordinators are NOT ALLOWED TO ASK FOR PICTURE ID. It is totally disgraceful when we need a picture ID to rent a movie or purchase booze, when there is any question of age application. This is just plain wrong, and insulting to all those, who in the past, were always taught that you had to present ID to vote and that it is a right that you have to honestly want and prove that desire by showing ID, to have.

      What about Provisional Ballots? Those are the ballots that are handed out to someone who they cannot find in the data base because they might have moved or not voted in a very long time, (enought time to have been taken out of the database) and they give them a paper ballot, they fill it out and hand it back in. They DON’T ASK FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN A CURRENT ELECTRIC BILL OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF RESIDENTIAL ID WITH THE SUPPOSED VOTERS NAME ON IT and then link it back to the address that was left and a new voter is applied to the precinct and approved without any actual proof of ID. What an open end way to get a vote that is counted but not accounted for.

  • HARP

    When did McCain switch party?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPywKOTQZig

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

      LOL! thats funny!

      Not as funny as this though

      • HARP

        Thats a 2 fur. lol

        • Dawnelle

          oh jezzzzzzzzzz louise

          what a bunch of amateurs

      • http://humorhasit.blogspot.com Shez

        Since it’s being reported there is now a law that it is illegal to say Barry Hussein Obama’s middle name [ooopsie, sue me] Biden took care of that problem for us:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTjlAd-GXM

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8 Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright

      Its important to note that that clip from Harp is the Introduction of the Main Speaker at a Joe Biden rally in Tampa Florida.

      Looks like even the Democrats have John McCain on their minds all the time.

    • sayitisntso

      That was TERRIFIC, dude!

      You can say about Biden: All hat, no cattle.

    • McHope

      LOL.
      More proof that no one listens at Obama rallies, they don’t care at all what is said, they just cheer like cult followers.

  • wodiej

    hope they ramp up the investigations and start throwing the Obot morons in prison. If they want to act like criminals, then they can sit in jail w them.

    • HARP

      Strange how Acorn is only in the swing states.

  • gatorgreenwell

    The issue of ACORN is where Obama is most vulnerable. He trained them (http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=838 sign up required)
    His campaign gave them $800,000 this year (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html ).
    ACORN has committed many acts of election fraud in the past and are doing so in this election.
    Nevada:http://www.lvrj.com/news/24004424.html
    Ohio: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/cuyahoga_board_probes_voter_re.html
    Michigan: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809140383
    Florida: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/700310.html
    Indiana: http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/10/02/news/lake_county/doc5399904569d23a75862574d600010e55.txt

  • sayitisntso

    I am so freaking tired of hearing about this.

    Shut them the fork DOWN! Geez, If I did that, I’d be doing time!

    • tj

      OF courese you would do time!! You are just a lowley peasant. They are the elite and mighty followers of “That One!!

      I am sure they will all get a pardon if they were ever to set foot in jail.

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel


    An organization under scrutiny across the country for voter registration irregularities has told Ohio election officials it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.

    These words alone requires the FEC to disqualify ACORN from any form of voter registration across the country and requires a complete investigation as to who was financing their operations and lay heavy charges and fines against those encouraging the voter fraud activities, including Obama’s campaign filing bogus expenses to the FEC on payments to ACORN.

    Failure in doing so places these activities above the law and anyone in America has a right then to file false filings with the government if it is acceptable for a political campaign to do so!

  • Jay
  • lark

    Since Obama is such a responsible candidate for president, he will call for a news conference very shortly to speak about these issues of ACORN and voter fraud.

    ROTFLOL.

    McCain looked in the direction of Vegas to comb his hair. RACIST.

    • workingclass artist

      OH GOODY…Barky does another soaring speech…lol

  • jrterrier

    Someone needs to demand that ACORN also be investigated for their part in the subprime loan debacle. I understand that they also had a piece of that. If this is how they handle voter registration, what were they doing with subprime mortgages.

    also, can you post again how much money the Obama campaign has paid to the ACORN affiliate this year for voter registration activities. And shouldn’t the RNC add this complaint to their complaint on foreign contributions.

    • Wisewoman

      The ACORN issue is McCain’s ticket to the white house. However, he appears to be unable to articulate it to his advantage. He is either getting the wrong information or is not listening to good information.

      Due to Obama’s ties to ACORN, ACORN’s ties to the stock market meltdown via ACORN’s involvement in the subprime mortgage debacle through Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (FM & FM), ACORN’s receipt of monies from FM & FM, Obama’s receipt of campaign monies from FM & FM, and investors lost of vast sums of money, this is a home run issue for McCain if articulated in plain terms. McCain and Palin must start the narrative about this issue and make it the centipiece of their campaign against Obama. This should be their overall strategy. Voters will be pissed off when they realize that the dems are the cause of the meltdown more so than the repubs.
      Right now they think the repubs are at fault since this is what Obama has told them. If they find out that the dems (Barney Franks, Chris Dodd, black caucaus members) are mostly at fault they will punish them at the ballot box.

      The strategy ties in with the overarching narrative of his poor judgement throughout his life. POOR JUDGEMENT is also the stool that Ayers, Wright, etc relationships rest on. MACAIN, GET WITH THIS PROGRAM BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. IT IS YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR VICTORY!!

      • http://firefox McAnnie Carmel Baracuda

        Agreed, Wisewoman. I was delighted when he started out last night with the accusation leveled at O. However, how much can you cover in a 1-2minute comment? The debates are the wrong venue.

        He needs to do an ad and make bold statements of truth about it…not just 30 seconds either.

  • hadenough

    Democratic lawmaker’s son indicted in Palin hacking

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — The son of a Democratic Tennessee state legislator surrendered to authorities in connection with the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

    David Kernell was indicted in connection with the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account.

    David Kernell, 20, son of state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, Tennessee, turned himself in “as soon as we found out about the charges this morning,” his attorney, Wade Davies, told reporters after Wednesday’s arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley.

    A trial date was set for December 16, Davies said

    The charge carries a maximum five-year prison term, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release upon conviction, according to the Justice Department.
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/palin.hacker/index.html

    • workingclass artist

      Hmmmm…I don’t think CHEETOS is a staple of Prison diet…Hope that little crapper gets the MAX…I mean why should he get off on privilege…Wriiiiight??

    • tj

      And daddy said he had no idea what his kid was doing. RIGHT!! I wonder if that one would work for any of us peasants down here towing the line.

  • benny

    going off topic…daring to speak Obama’s middle name in public is now against the law…

    One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked a national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local ACLU and NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott’s action was racist.

    http://www.news-press.com/article/20081008/NEWS01/81008001/1075

    • lark

      With your indulgence I would like to highlight your post for emphasis.

      going off topic…daring to speak Obama’s middle name in public is now against the law…

      One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked a national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local ACLU and NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott’s action was racist.

      http://www.news-press.com/article/20081008/NEWS01/81008001/1075

      • pasmalltowngirl

        The idea that calling by Obambi ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ is ridiculous. Halloween is coming up, are the little kids wearing sheets also going to be called racist and halted off to jail. I am so sick of them crying the race card and getting away with it. Bunch of losers, if that’s the only way Crybabybarry can win, then this country is in huge trouble.

        We all know Adrianne Marsh is another liar to be added to Barfys’ list.
        “The use of a name that has a Middle Eastern sound was used to insinuate the Muslim faith,” said Adrianne Marsh, spokeswoman for Obama’s Florida campaign. “The fact of the matter is Sen. Obama is Christian, and always has been.”

        • Pennsylvania goes RED!

          I call my Middle Eastern friends by their full names all the time.

          They never object because they don’t have anything to be defensive about.

        • Jackarooty

          So maybe he should change his middle name to JESUS? He has had a few name chnages throughout his life.

    • McHope

      He’s not aplogizing. Good for him. Here’s his email should anyone want to show him support.

      sheriff@sheriffleefl.org

      • workingclass artist

        OMG….That rumble you heard is a vast herd of independents moving toward McCain…This PC FASCISM HAS GOTTA STOP

    • Urban Hillbilly

      Sheriff Scott said that Obama picked out his middle name himself, so why not use it!

      LMAO!

      Go Sheriff, go Sheriff, go Sheriff.

      • Kal

        If the ACLU and NAACP are right, then either BO or his parents are really racist, because they gave him that name and he decided not to change it along with everything else about himself.

        Self racism anybody? Or is deciding to live with this middle name just a shrewd way to save up a lifetime supply of race cards?

        • Deep Truths

          Since Barry Soetoro picked out his name then Obama is racist.

          What the HUSSEIN?

          Ain’t this a HUSSEIN?

    • lark

      Very quickly moving into real ‘facism’ if you will.

      Biden:

      WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican rival Sarah Palin is injecting fear and loathing into their campaign with her criticism that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist. He called the effort “mildly dangerous.”

      http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081008/D93MAIU00.html

      Very very quickly. This person is running for VP. The other organizations are American institutions.

      Now, that should raise an alarm.

      Like saying that we are in a recession. We may already be into fascism. What’s missing are the arrests. But all the mischaracterizations are there.

      • NoTrollZone

        “Fear and loathing?”

        Sounds like Hunter Thompson. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and all.

        Why can’t AP pseudo journalists learn to write without all the silly commentary?

        Anyway, I already loathe Obama.

      • PhxNickD

        yeah, yeah, yeah, the democrats said this every four years. it seems if Rebublicans talk about terrorists attacks they inject fear, but the democrats have no problem scarring the shit out of us with the economy.

  • lagal

    Unbelievable! How many years have Americans been voting???? Why haven’t we been able to figure out how to register people in every single state of the union and let them vote without all this FRAUD and nonsense??!!

    WHO THE HELL IS IN CHARGE OF THIS AREA OF OUR GOVERNMENT???? Whoever it is – should be fired. TODAY!

    Do we not as a nation have some RULES in place regarding voting? Some simple REQUIREMENTS that tell us if you’re qualified to vote or if you have already registered or if you are freaking DEAD!

    Trust me, if I tried any funny business like trying register numerous times or if I tried to vote twice come Election Day, those women sitting behind the table with the big books would have me arrested! NO LIE!

  • sjc-tx

    If Ap picked it up then it should be on the MSM… aka bhoMSM. But barky’s campaign wil just say “oh we had nothing to do with that!”… Once again the obvious is obvious but everyone just blows it off!

    This whole election season is a scam and a pathetic attempt by the dnc to annoint their boy. And a boy he is… as in juvenile and immature!

  • Sarracuda In So Cal

    This is EXACTLY what I wanted McCain to bring up yesterday, intertwine ACORN with Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, and Jamie Gurrelik, I don’t understand how come McCain didn’t bring up ACORN, Obama gave over 800,000 to that group, they were registering Dallas Cowboy players in Nevada, freakin hilarious, LOL Obama knows he can’t win an HONEST election so he has to cheat, unreal

    • http://firefox McAnnie Carmel Baracuda

      He did Sarracuda. In the first exchange of the debate. He had 1-2 minutes to make his case and linked ACORN to the sub-prime mess as the major culprit and that O was a major recipient of their campaign donations and that he paid them to register voters for him. Obama, as expected, changed the subject on response. He needs to go into this in depth outside the debate and on TV.

  • Annie Oakley

    ACORN says “it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.”

    Then blames “workers filling out registration cards to make quotas.”

    Hmmm. I have a suggestion. I bet all the voter registrar’s offices would be happy if you’d stop clogging their roles with bogus registrations. Here’s a thought: why not stop paying people to do it?

    • Shiloh

      Better yet, hold the people gathering the registrations accountable for doing just a little verification. This needs sto be stopped state by state with more control over registration. The argument that it makes it hard for people to vote if verification is sought is bogus.

      • Kal

        Or withhold part of their pay until the cards come back verified, at least. Kind of like a construction holdback.

    • lark

      A simple logical consequence. If you cannot eliminate fraud from your operation then you must cease and desist your operations. Plain and simple. No if or but about it.

      If you cannot stop lying you are a pathological liar and not fit for the presidency and thus disqualified. Lets see your medical records.

      If anyone cannot live without violating the law, that person must be incarcerated.

      If a corporation non profit et al cannot operate without violating the law and knowingly engages in operations that are improper and unlawful, that corporation needs to be disqualified, dissolved, and terminated. Simple as that.

    • lark

      ACORN says “it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.”

      Soon Barack Obama will be making a statement regarding that.

      ROTFLOL.

      • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion, Proprietor of the NQ Popcorn Concession

        “That’s not the fraud I used to know.”

        • pasmalltowngirl

          As uh uh I have uh always uh said uh I do not support voter uh fraud, and uh for the uh record uh I was only uh uh 8 yrs old uh when voter uh fraud stated.

  • IndieDogg

    OFF TOPIC (but ref: another kind of fraud). Did BHO even write his own (first) memoir?

    Reproduced here for your convenience, but check out Jack Cashill @ http://www.cashill.com for more.

    © Jack Cashill
    WorldNetDaily.com
    October 2, 2008

    Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.

    As an undergraduate at Occidental College, Obama had composed what he calls some “very bad poetry,” and he does not sell himself short.

    In 1981, Occidental’s literary magazine published two of Obama’s poems—“Pop” and “Underground.” These poems are only a little sillier than the average undergraduate’s, but they show not a glint of promise. From “Underground”:

    Under water grottos, caverns

    Filled with apes

    That eat figs.

    Stepping on the figs

    That the apes

    Eat, they crunch.

    The apes howl, bare

    Their fangs, dance . . .

    Los Angeles media critic Kevin Roderick rightly described the exposure of Obama’s two published poems as a “semi-cruel exercise.”

    In a similar spirit, the Independent of London headlined its article on Obama’s early poetry, “Pop goes myth of Obama the young prodigy.”

    It would be another decade before Obama had anything in print and this a heavily edited, unsigned student case comment in the Harvard Law Review unearthed by Politico.

    Attorneys who reviewed the piece for Politico described it charitably as “a fairly standard example of the genre.”

    Of note, Politico observes that “the temperate legal language doesn’t display the rhetorical heights that run through his memoir, published a few years later.”

    But then somehow, those few years later, this 33 year-old amateur with no paper trail beyond a hack legal note and a poem about fig-stomping apes produced what Time Magazine has called–with a straight face– “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”

    The public is asked to believe that Obama did this on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I don’t buy this canard for a minute.

    To enhance the science of this literary investigation, I made some inquiries into the academy and, given the subject matter, was surprised by the consistently objective and apolitical responses I received from the authorities in the field.

    What I learned was that the technology is not currently available to do a fully reliable authorship analysis. As Patrick Juola of Duquesne told me, the best-performing methods can range from a reliability level of 50 percent or less to 90 percent or more.

    Juola cautioned that for high stakes issues like this one, “The repercussions of a technical error could be a disaster (in either direction).” He encouraged me instead “to do what you’re already doing . . . good old-fashioned literary detective work.”

    Given that advice, I dug deeper into the memoir of the man who, I believe, tortured Dreams From My Father into a credible work, the still unrepentant bomber, Bill Ayers.

    I re-examined the one relentless, linguistic thread that ties Ayers’ Fugitive Days to Obama’ Dreams, a thread that leads back to Bill Ayers’s stint, after dropping out of college, as a merchant seaman.

    The experience had a powerful impact on Ayers. Years later, he would recall a nightmare he had while crossing the Atlantic, “a vision of falling overboard in the middle of the ocean and swimming as fast as I could as the ship steamed off and disappeared over the horizon.”

    Although Ayers has tried to put his anxious ocean-going days behind him, the language of the sea will not let him go.

    “I realized that no one else could ever know this singular experience,” Ayers writes of his maritime adventures. Yet curiously, much of this same nautical language flows through Obama’s earth-bound memoir.

    Some of this I have described in previous columns, so here I will summarize and add some new information and controls.

    In reading Ayers, one senses that he is unaware how deeply his seagoing affects his language. “Memory sails out upon a murky sea,” he writes at one point.

    Indeed, both he and Obama are obsessed with memory and its instability. Obama also has a fondness for the word “murky” and its aquatic usages.

    “The unlucky ones drift into the murky tide of hustles and odd jobs,” he writes, one of four times “murky” appears in Dreams. Ayers and Obama also speak often of waves and wind, Obama at least a dozen times on wind alone.

    “The wind wipes away my drowsiness, and I feel suddenly exposed,” he writes in a typical passage. Both also make conspicuous use of the word “flutter.”

    Not surprisingly, Ayers uses “ship” as a metaphor with some frequency. Early in the book he tells us that his mother is the “the captain of her own ship,” not a substantial one either but “a ragged thing with fatal leaks” launched into a “sea of carelessness.”

    Obama too finds himself “feeling like the first mate on a sinking ship.” He also makes a metaphorical reference to “a tranquil sea.”

    More intriguing is Obama’s unusual use of the word “ragged” as an adjective as in the highly poetic “ragged air” or “ragged laughter.”

    Both books use “storms” and “horizons” both as metaphor and as reality. Ayers writes poetically of an “unbounded horizon,” and Obama writes of “boundless prairie storms” and multiple horizons—“violet,” “eastern,” “western.”

    In Dreams, we read of the “whole panorama of life out there” and in Fugitive Days, “the whole weird panorama.”

    Ayers often speaks of “currents” and “pockets of calm” as does Obama, who uses both as nouns as in “a menacing calm” or “against the current” or “into the current.”

    The metaphorical use of the word “tangled” might also derive from one’s nautical adventures. Ayers writes of his “tangled love affairs” and Obama of his “tangled arguments.”

    On at least twelve occasions, Obama speaks of “despair,” as in the “ocean of despair.” Ayers speaks of a “deepening despair,” a constant theme for him as well. Obama’s “knotted, howling assertion of self” sounds like something straight from the pages of “The Sea Wolf.”

    In Obama’s defense, he did grow up in Hawaii. Still, he gives little hint of having spent time at the beach or on any kind of real ship, and yet his memoir is awash in aquatic imagery.

    Not everyone writes this way. For instance, my book Sucker Punch, which is no small part a memoir about race, is silent on the subject of the sea.

    Sucker Punch makes no reference at all, metaphorical or otherwise, to ships, seas, oceans, calms, storms, wind, waves, horizons, panoramas, or of things howling, fluttering, knotted, ragged, tangled, or murky. None.

    This despite the fact that I have likely a deeper relationship with the sea than Obama, having spent a good chunk of every summer of my life at the ocean, and having a summer home on the boundless Lake Erie for the last twenty years.

    In one particular reference in Dreams I believe Ayers shows his hand and makes my argument very nearly conclusive. Here “Obama” describes the black nationalist message:

    “A steady attack on the white race . . . served as the ballast that could prevent the ideas of personal and communal responsibility from tipping into an ocean of despair.”

    As a writer, especially in the pre-Google era of Dreams, I would never have used an image as specific as “ballast” unless I knew exactly what I was talking about.

    Ayers knew. Obama did not.

    # # #

    • LookingForwardTo2012

      Interesting…

    • Judy L. NC

      OMG! First I’ve read of this.

    • NoTrollZone

      good find. And man, that first poem shows a sick mind. But then, we knew that.

    • Annie Oakley

      Interesting. The first agent for his book said Obama’s being editor of the Harvard Law Review sparked the interest. I think he received an advance, but nothing happened for several years. The book wound up under another agent before being published.

    • Heather

      I SWEAR THIS IS TRUE. Go to amazon.com and get excerpts from “Fugitive Days”. Then quotes “Dreams from my Father”:
      http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/Dreams_From_My_Father_Barack_Obama.htm

      The style is IDENTICAL in both: First, a general statement that sets a tone or establishes an idea, then a list of colorful poetic details that elaborates on it:

      “On the day I was born my family was bundled beneath a heavy blanket of snow in their neat little bungalow in Glen Ellyn, a promising Chicago suburb, they thought — the schools of course, the space to grow, the affordable property…”

      “That December morning was cold, cold, cold outside, while inside everything was hot and glowing — the flickering red and green lights on the little Christmas tree, the butter cookies fresh from the oven cooling on a rack, the chestnuts, the steaming cider…”

      Now, let’s see the identical style in “Dreams from my Father”. Virtually identical, but

      “City services had declined — The boarded up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets…”

      “And it was the implications of that fact, I realized, that had most disturbed me — The stories that I had been hearing from the leadership, all the records of courage and sacrifice and overcoming of great odds…”

      This style is very distinctive and it is THE SAME in both books, paragraph after paragraph after paragraph.

      F’ing creepy . Go to Cahill’s site and read the account of the circumstances around the publication of that book, you will believe — as I do — that Ayers wrote it.

  • lark

    A simple mathematical problem.

    Saddam Hussein. Barack Hussein Obama

    Obama was opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning.

    Any biases?

    Hussein = Hussein

    Hussein – Hussein = Zero

    Barack Zero Obama.

    Grade: A plus.

    • benny

      saying obamas middle name is now against the law. /snark. and if barky becomes pres, with the powers of FISA, we all got to be careful. /doublesnark

      • Jackarooty

        It could get scary at inauguration time…
        I, Barack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear…
        …his way of saying FU to the American public.

        He can say it but nobody else can…kinda like Yahweh…

  • Shiloh

    I have the secret for voter registration fraud. It’s simple really. Republicans have to start doing the same thing. Then and only then will states consider tightening up the rules.

    • Sarracuda In So Cal

      That is what I was thinking, send a bunch of people to Ohio, PA, Indiana, and Virginia, tell ACORN you want to register as a Democrat and vote the same day, and of course that you want to vote for Obama, then vote for McCain, all those fraud ballots would cancel themselves out

      • wonderwoman

        They have done this ten times. So instead of registering 1,000,000 they’ve only registered about 10 percent.

    • workingclass artist

      Shiloh…lol…I say Release the MORMON ARCHIVES AND REGISTER THEM….THE DEAD HAVE RIGHTS TOO!

      ( I’m Brigham Young…and I approve this message )

  • sjc-tx

    The same went on at the caucuses… I watched people just write a name on the roll… NEVER asked for ID or delagate ID number. Most of the ‘clerks’ were wearing some form of obama button, t-shirt etc. And there were many out of state cars in the lots… oddly enough some from ILL….. This caucus was in Texas!

  • tek

    OT: the media has pronounced Obama won! (the debate) Like I had to read it.

  • lagal

    Shiloh, I disagree. Republicans cannot do the same thing. You can’t clean up a muddy floor with a dirty mop.

    And….you can’t wrestle with a PIG…you just get dirty and the pig likes it.

    Republicans have GOT to do the right and honorable thing – despite the wrongs that the Dems are doing. We have to just keep shining the FLASHLIGHT ON THEM!

    • Perry Logan

      The Republicans stole two Presidential elections. They are traitors.

      • ohio

        I am so sick of hearing about what the republicans did. As a mom, I’ll tell you what I had to tell my kids when they were little, since it seems you are acting like them. Two wrongs don’t make a wright!!!

        • benny

          very true, ohio. unfortunately, the partisan hacks dont get it.

      • NoTrollZone

        Perry, let me invite you to leave this site. You are officially adding nothing. People here are committed to stopping Obama. You seem to be committed to annoying them.

        • HC

          I agree, he adds nothing to the discussion.

  • NYC

    Have you seen this?

    “Italians know more about politics than many Americans.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jhBVaiQw0

    Sure, and ‘some’ americans are learning fast from them. Would be great to show them this thread. I cannot do it because I am ‘banned’ for telling them what I think. Seems that those videos were paid by Obimbo.

    • Pennsylvania goes RED!

      I can’t link to the video.

      However I do know from numerous trips to Italy that every single citizen is the world’s greatest expert on all matters political.

      That may have something to do with why their governmant falls every two years or so.

      Also, they still have a centuries-old Cosa Nostra problem they can’t fix.
      Not to mention they haven’t figured out how to
      deal with their garbage:

      Problems with Naples’ garbage have been around in some form for 14 years, when Italian authorities first declared the situation an emergency.

      Complicating the issue is the involvement of organized crime, which has long controlled the region’s waste business. The Camorra, as the mafia is known in Naples, controls both dumps and garbage trucks, making the problem enormously difficult for the government to solve.

      When the Italians can figure out how to address the most basic of public services, then I may take them seriously.

  • lagal

    workingclass artist – now, THAT was funny!

    (Oh…can we still laugh? Or is that illegal now too?)

  • Will Smith

    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1575

    Nationwide General Election Daily Tracking
    Released: October 08, 2008

    Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll:
    Obama 47%, McCain 45%

    • Dr. Kate

      so it is tied, once again. Barky cannot close the deal, and McCain Palin are clearly viable. I beleive this is underestimating McCain’s support, but this is good news anyway.

      Thanks for the info

  • benny

    the repubs have played dirty politics many, many times. we all know that. but I never expected one of ours (democrats) to go so low just to win, that the repubs now look like saints. race-baiting, acorn, what next? President William Jefferson Clinton did prove that the repubs can be beat without going so low and dirty as obama. obama is almost un-american in the way he plays politics. sad….but true.

  • Perry Logan

    The more I think about, though, the less it surprises me. I mean, it’s just human nature that the Democrats would start to cheat sooner or later.

    The Democrats got to watch the Republicans put one incompetent traitor after another into office, simply because they cheat. It was inevitable that, sooner or later, a bunch of them would say “Enough of this sh*t. We’re gonna beat the Republicans at their own game.”

    That’s what’s happening. It’s a hell of an irony that the Republicans just spent the last eight years trying to turn the United States into a one-party dictatorship, and now it’s all going to go to this one Democrat.

    Republicans should be very afraid. Republicans should consider leaving the country.

    • benny

      repubs are traitors? lol. thats going to your repub-hate, perry. get a balance. and I know that you’re enjoying it, but the alternative to the repubs this election-cycle is a nightmare. you keep missing that, and allow your repub-hate to take over.

    • Gal from Tex

      Republicans should be very afraid. Republicans should consider leaving the country.

      Well gee Perry I happen to love my country, why would I leave it? It’s a great country, ain’t it?

    • Maverick

      Perry is in the Tank for Obama. Ignore him.

  • OBAMA’S NOT MY PREZ

    TOTALLY OT -

    I spoke to the editor of the NE this morning because we have all been calling him about doing the birth certificate story about Barfy. Well, he says that today’s NW has a great Obama SEX SCANDAL on the front page. Has anyone seen it?

    • WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName

      What’s the NE? and what’s the NW?

  • pd

    Well, they better get their butts in Fl. because ACORN is here too.

    • Maverick

      Systemic corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I’ve reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

      On Monday, the two liberal groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in battleground states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

      What’s wrong with that? For starters, these two groups are militant partisan outfits purporting to engage in nonpartisan civic activity. And their campaign comes amid an avalanche of fresh voter-fraud allegations involving ACORN in many of those same key states.

  • Docelder

    I think we are missing the story with acorn. The question isn’t are most of these registrations bogus? Of course they are. The question is… why is the electoral process itself under a staged assault bordering on domestic terrorism? What would these election workers ordinarily be doing in these swing states… and what is being overlooked due to the overwhelming number of these fraudulent registrations taking valuable time away from their real and important duties? It is smoke and mirror deception.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/19/can-the-msm-get-over-its-precious-self/#comments Steven

    The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a “white fighting force” to be allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” and other “anti-colonial” movements to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.” In June 1974, the Weather Underground released a 151-page volume titled Prairie Fire, which stated: “We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men underground in the United States.”

    Wake up people; this is a plot to take away the US as you know it.

    • Dr. Kate

      Thank you for this vital piece of info. This fits into a trojan candidate or manchurian candidate theory–he is here to bring us down from within.

      That is why they are trying so hard to squash the ayers story. There is the record.

      I just hope America wakes up before it is too late. There is no other choice but to defeat Hussein OBama.

  • benny

    The Dow Jones is rallying nicely. finally, a break from the meltdown. lets hope that it stabilises. after the asian and european markets slid downward, the dow is holding.

  • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion, Proprietor of the NQ Popcorn Concession

    OT but hot if you have not read this!

    For Immediate Release
    October 8, 2008

    Statement From John M.Murtagh On Barack Obama’s Relationship With William Ayers

    ARLINGTON, VA — Today, John M. Murtagh made the following statement on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers:

    “When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama’s friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn’t do more.

    “While Barack Obama once downplayed his relationship with Ayers, today his campaign took that deceit one step further. Barack Obama now denies he was even aware of his friend’s violent past when, in 1995, Ayers hosted a party launching Obama’s political career. Given Ayers’ celebrity status among the left, it’s difficult to believe. The question remains: what did Obama know, and when did he know it? When did Obama learn the truth about his friend? Barack Obama helped Ayers promote his book in 1997, served on charitable boards with him through 2002, and regularly exchanged emails and phone calls with him through 2005. At what point did Barack Obama discover that his friend was an unrepentant terrorist? And if he is so repulsed by the acts of terror committed by William Ayers, why did the relationship continue? Any honest accounting by Barack Obama will necessarily cast further doubt on his judgment and his fitness to serve as commander in chief.

    “Barack Obama may have been a child when William Ayers was plotting attacks against U.S. targets — but I was one of those targets. Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family.”

    In February 1970 John Murtagh’s father was a New York State Supreme Court justice presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at their home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. A few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. In late November that year, a letter to the Associated Press signed by Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’s wife, promised more bombings.

    Read John Murtagh’s Account Of The Weather Underground’s Attack

    • NH Woman

      Dear Mr. Murtagh,

      I was not a child and I remember well. The though of this group still sends shivers down my spine.

      Thank you for writing this press release. I think there are some younger people who think this group just “pulled a few pranks”. It is important to keep the information flowing as I believe the study of history and civics has been sadly shortchanged by today’s educators.

  • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion, Proprietor of the NQ Popcorn Concession

    OT but new!

    For Immediate Release
    October 8, 2008

    Majority of United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Board Members Endorse John McCain

    ARLINGTON, VA — McCain-Palin 2008 announced today that a majority of the board members of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce have endorsed John McCain for president because of his unwavering support for small business. Hispanics are the largest minority business community, owning 6.6 percent of all American businesses.

    “I am supporting John McCain because he understands that small businesses are the job engine of America, and he has a real plan for the issues that Hispanic-owned small businesses confront, such as health care,” said Jerry Natividad of Colorado. “John McCain’s plan puts families first, provides them with more choices, and while it cuts costs for my business, it allows my company to afford the best medical coverage for my employees. Barack Obama’s plan will not solve the problem of the uninsured and will make health care a government-run plan that will put a bigger burden on American taxpayers.”

    Maria G. Taxman of Missouri added: “I am very confident John McCain will continue to break down foreign trade barriers, giving Hispanic-American-owned small businesses the opportunity to compete in the global markets. John McCain will promote a strong and growing economy that creates news jobs and increases wages. On the other hand, Barack Obama proposes billions in higher taxes, more spending and isolationism from global economy.”

    MEMBERS OF USHCC ENDORSING JOHN MCCAIN:

    Eric Carson — Hawaii
    Elizabeth Gallagher — Nevada
    Jerry Natividad — Colorado
    Jeanette Hernandez Prenger — Missouri
    Nina Vaca — Texas
    Massey Villarreal — Texas
    Maria Taxman — Missouri
    Juventino Cano — Illinois
    David Gomez — Illinois
    Steve Gutierrez — Michigan
    Alfredo Rodriguez New Jersey
    David Hernandez — Florida
    Ignacio Veloz — Puerto Rico

    • rickrickrick

      VIVA McCAIN

    • obamaphobe

      When are we going to hear of all of these hundreds of new endorsements on the MSM? This is sooo frustrating.

  • workingclass artist

    Well that is Xcellent news..Aaaaand BTW has anyone heard from Judas Richardson lately? thanks for the post Galt…

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion, Proprietor of the NQ Popcorn Concession

      Your welcome dear artist. 8)

  • agent77

    History of ACORN in its own words

    http://web.archive.org/web/20010612171320/www.acorn.org/history-content.html

    excerpt re BANKING and Community Reinvestment Actions

    While some of ACORN’s most exciting efforts were in the area of housing, its victories also included health, public safety, education, representation, work and workers’ rights and communications concerns.

    The 1990 ACORN convention in Chicago focused on the fast-breaking housing campaign. It featured a squatting demonstration at an RTC house which was reclaimed for use in an ACORN neighborhood. Later, ACORN members, in a spirited action on the U.S. League of Savings Institutions, demanded cooperation from banks about providing loan data on low- and moderate-income communities and compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act. The convention also included the ACORN Elected Official Conference which developed strategies for independent electoral organizations. The hard-hitting actions and long-term strategies would pay off in years to come.

    The housing issue continued to heat up in 1991, when ACORN fought back against bank lobbyist efforts to gut the CRA. ACORN members staged a two- day takeover of the House Banking Committee hearing room to be sure their voices were heard by Congress. They stood in line overnight and took seats normally occupied by bank lobbyists. As a result, they won the Congressional vote to preserve the CRA in a power move that got national attention.

    The national media also listened when ACORN identified and publicized lending discrimination by banks to lower-income and minority applicants for mortgages. Jack Kemp, Secretary of HUD under President Bush, listened, too, when ACORN persistently pursued him. As a result, ACORN won thousands of homes for low- and moderate-income people that the RTC had been auctioning to wealthy bidders before this important victory.

    ACORN Housing Corporation, created to service people moving into homes under the housing campaign, rehabilitated hundreds of houses in low- and moderate-income communities around the country. Like many of ACORN’s campaigns, this clearly demonstrated the need for more investment in ACORN neighborhoods.

    The ACORN convention in New York in 1992, the “ACORN-Bank Summit,” was organized to hammer out deals with giant banks like Continental, First Fidelity, Mellon, PriMerit, and Chemical. Representatives signed agreements to establish programs for low- and moderate-income people to qualify for mortgages in their communities. Citibank, the nation’s largest bank, did not participate. In response, the conventioneers held a lively action at Citibank’s downtown Manhattan headquarters, and won a meeting to negotiate for similar programs. The meeting also led to increased Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac funding from the secondary mortgage market to ACORN neighborhoods. These efforts led to billions of dollars of primary and secondary mortgage money flowing into ACORN communities over a period of several years.

    • Maverick

      election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names.

      ACORN, which receives 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers to pursue an aggressive welfare-state agenda, has already helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. The rest of their funding comes from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.

      Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by left-wing lawyer Sandy Newman to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.

      The two groups are inextricably linked — and at their nexus is Barack Obama.

  • samb

    http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/soetorobama-kool-aid-the-movie/

    OFF TOPIC: OBAMA KOOL-AID THE MOVIE

    YOU DECIDE

  • shadow

    http://www.hannity.com/article.asp?id=397001

    Hannity is going to have Jerome Corsi on his radio show at 3:00.

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77291

    DISPATCH FROM NAIROBI
    Sendoff to Corsi: ‘See you in hell’
    ‘Obama Nation’ author departs Kenya after detention, foiled news conference

    ——————————————————————————–
    Posted: October 08, 2008
    7:36 am Eastern

    © 2008 WorldNetDaily

    WND senior staff writer Jerry Corsi

    NAIROBI, Kenya – WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi yesterday was refused permission to hold a scheduled news conference about his investigation into Barack Obama’s Kenyan links by Kenyan immigration officials and soldiers armed with automatic weapons who then took him to his departure flight and made it clear he was not welcome to return.

    “Don’t ever come back. See you in hell,” Corsi reported an unidentified official told him as the author of the No. 1 best-selling book “The Obama Nation” was delivered to a flight departing from Nairobi for London.

    Corsi is now in London, where he will file

    • http://JohnMcCain.com Galt, Master Thrall of Planet Triskelion, Proprietor of the NQ Popcorn Concession

      Kenya does not agree with the fundamental human right of free speech.

      Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

      Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

      That “work permit” excuse is lame and simply an excuse to deny Mr. Corsi his human right of expression.

    • http://blogawayintothenight.wordpress.com/ Miss H

      Jerome Corsi gave a live interview on Sean Hannity’s radio program Wednesday 10-08-08. Corsi reported that he has, in his possession, physical evidence that Obama has communicated via email and telephone repeatedly within the past 2 years with Odinga in Kenya. Odinga and Obama are from the same tribe in Kenya. Obama gave Odinga advice on how to win an election that he was running for. Well Odinga lost the election and went on a rampage of terrorism where Christians were slaughtered and 100,000s of people fled Kenya. Odinga ran on a platform of installing Muslim Sharia law in Kenya. Obama advised him on how to accomplish this. I’m sure all of you NOW ladies, supporting Obama, will be delighted with what you read about Sharia Law. Quoting from:

      Why Islamic Law should be opposed?

      By Azam Kamguian

      The Sharia & Women’s Rights

      “In the Koran and according to the Sharia, women are considered inferior to men, and they have less rights and responsibilities. As regards testimony in the court of law and inheritance, a woman is counted as half a man, equally in regard to marriage and divorce, her position is less advantageous than that of the man, her husband has the legal, moral and religious duty to beat her. She does not have the right to choose her husband, her clothing, her place of residence, and to travel. A very young legal age of marriage ranging from 9 in Iran to 13, 15 and 17 (in Tunisia) is also another aspect of Sharia. This is according to the way Muhammad the prophet of Islam married Aisha a 9 – year old girl when he was 43. The four orthodox law schools plus shi’i mainly differed on points important to women. In all schools marriage is a contract according to which husband should perform sexually and provide materially for the wife. The wife must have sex whenever husband wishes. A man can easily divorce a woman by pronouncing it three times. Polygamy up to four wives was permitted, in shi’i sect, temporary marriage is allowed where man can have access to unlimited number of women. The practice is known as Mot’a or Sigheh. According to Islamic law men were permitted concubines and female slaves. Islamic law and the Koran permit men to beat their wives if they disobey.

      Another discriminatory rule is that in many Muslim inhabited countries a woman is not allowed to marry a non-Muslim whereas men are allowed to marry non-Muslims. With the object of protecting morality and preventing sexual anarchy women are expected to cover their whole bodies but their faces and their hands up to their wrists. Islamic law is totally against dress freedom. This is obviously a huge infringement on the personal development of women, not allowing them to develop sexually and as people. It is inhumane to imprison women behind veils when it is men, who according to Islam and Islamic law cannot be trusted to control themselves.

      Once again, in order to protect morality it is dictated that women cannot be in contact with men to whom they are not related without the presence of some male relative. The segregation of sexes in this way makes it very difficult for women to leave their houses and participate in society in any way at all. Islamic law in this way completely prevents women from taking part in society and keeps them locked up, isolated and unable to reach their potential. Women deserve to be treated as human beings and for this reason alone Islamic rule and Islamic law which are completely misogynist must be opposed.”

  • Susan

    Let’s see, how about paying their workers an hourly rate, with no bonus per registration, which just encourages fraudulent registrations.

    Plus, ACORN should be charged a fine for every single fraudulent registration – along with criminal prosecutions, if warranted.

    • NoTrollZone

      Yes Susan, I thought of that too. If ACORN says it can’t put a lit on fraud because its employees are trying to fill quotas… well, shit… pay them hourly or put them on salary.

      Of course, I don’t think ACORN is at all interested in stopping voter fraud. They seem quite dedicated to perpetrating it.

      • Maverick

        Despite his adamant denials of any association with the group (his Fight the Smears website now claims “Barack Obama never organized with ACORN”), Obama’s political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.

        The Obama campaign’s “Vote for Change” registration drive, running parallel to ACORN/Project Vote, is an all-out scramble to scrape up every last unregistered voter sympathetic to Obama’s big-government vision. “Our volume,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe bragged of the voter-registration program, “will be enormous.”

        Quantity over quality. It’s the ACORN way.

        In addition to the Las Vegas raid, fraud allegations keep piling up.

  • agent77

    Document fin 1992 re: ACORNs association with Democratic Socialist Party http://web.archive.org/web/20010605162654/www.wandererforum.org/Focus25.htm

    excerpt:

    To accomplish its goals, as outlined in the People’s Platform, ACORN has developed a political alliance with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Together with others, ACORN and the DSA have formed a political party, the New Party.

    a. National ACORN president, Maud Hurd, along with Dr. Cornel West (honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America) and a representative from the Reproductive Rights Coalition Fund, are listed as New Party supporters.

    b. Bronx ACORN operates a New Party chapter out of its headquarters.

    • Kal

      Cornel West was a great admirer of the Black Panthers and Cone’s work, and he was in and out of Union and Harvard round and about the times BO was at Columbia and Harvard. West is now at Princeton.

    • Annie Oakley

      “ACORN and the DSA have formed a political party, the New Party.”

      Wouldn’t that be a problem for ACORN’s nonprofit status? If they are part of a political party, shouldn’t they be paying taxes? And why are they receiving tax money?

      • Zeke

        Hmmmm,

  • SLW

    Am not sure if this is related but does raises eyebrows; in 2007 the Ballot Integrity Act would take elections out of the people’s hands- and guess who signed off on it-Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Barack Obama (D-IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Joseph Biden (D-DE)- interesting to take note of the states that are represented.

    https://www.policyarchive.org/bitstream/handle/10207/5082/OMBWjuly-dec2007.pdf

    • Dr. Kate

      this is tough to get through and I couldn’t find the text. Would you mind just summarizing the act for what it means? “out of our hands” to whose hands?

  • agent77

    More Bragging from ACORN re: getting unqualified people loans

    Breaking Down Barriers

    ACORN realized that commitments to put mortgage dollars into low and moderate income neighborhoods were useless if most residents could not meet the banks’ rigid lending criteria. Beginning with Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia in 1986, ACORN negotiated changes in traditional underwriting standards to accommodate the economic realities of lower-income borrowers. These include counting welfare, Social Security or food stamp benefits as income and using records of regular rent and utility payments in lieu of a credit record for people who haven’t borrowed before.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20010428122414/www.acorn.org/25-anniversary/community-reinvestment.html

    • agent77

      ACORN bragging about getting
      Fannie Mae involved with the sub-prime loans and using Fannies AAA rating to attract investors in the mortgages

      Another national agreement between ACORN and Fannie Mae broke through the last major barrier to expanding home ownership opportunities to low-income families. Even when banks had agreed to ACORN’s innovative underwriting standards, they were limited by the secondary mortgage market’s refusal to buy the loans. After a series of negotiations, Fannie Mae launched a $55 million pilot program in 11 cities to purchase mortgages from banks which have reinvestment agreements with ACORN. In the two weeks following announcement of the program, ACORN offices received 4,360 calls from community residents seeking information about it.

      The latest agreement between Fannie Mae and ACORN opened the secondary market for below market interest rate loans. Fannie Mae will bundle ACORN-counseled loans and securitize them. With Fannie Mae’s AAA credit rating, the resultant ACORN Mortgage Backed Securities become attractive to socially motivated investors. The first one for $10 million of loans originated by NationsBank was purchased by Allstate Insurance.

      http://web.archive.org/web/20010428122414/www.acorn.org/25-anniversary/community-reinvestment.html

  • OBAMA’S NOT MY PREZ

    For those who asked above let me clarify…

    OT, BUT…

    I spoke to Barry Levine, the editor at the National Enquirer who has been pressured to do the birth certificate story about Barfy. He told me that the brand new issue has a huge sex scandal about barfy. Wouldn’t tell me what, just said that it’s on the front page and to go buy it. I can’t get it here until tomorrow. Wonder what this is. Of course they told the truth about Obama and his gay thing with Wright, which we all already know, but the MSM ignored it.

  • tj

    Off Topic,

    Did anyone see this one:

    http://www.topix.net/news/2008-presidential-election/2008/10/mccain-palin-supporters-threaten-to-kill-obama

    Its getting scary all.

    There is one comment in here from one of the responses to the article about Palin not allowing minorities into Alaska. this is just plain ignorance. I live in a Northern state and when I moved from the Southern state a minority pointed to her skin and said,
    “I cant live up there its too cold,and there are not many of my kind there if you know what I mean.”

    A governor cannot keep you from moving to Alaska if you want to. Only the individual can do that. Just another way to make Palin and any Republican or non BO supporter into a racist.

    The hatred of the white race is festering with the campaign of BO. We cannot even say his full legal name without being called racist. I predict it will get worse before it gets better.

  • TeakWoodKite

    During an interview on Cnn with the Nevada elected official it was stated that Acorn had contracted PRISON labor to do it’s work.

    http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2008/oct/07/acorn-hire-d-inmates-some-experts-identity-theft/

  • David

    Acorn is already crying foul and calling the raid stupid. NEWS FLASH!! Acorn is behind the whole sub prime financial crisis and voter fraud. It is time for our government to shut ACORN DOORS down permantely and NO MORE FUNDING!!

  • Touchet

    There should be no such thing as “voter registration drives”. These drives are usually held, not in the pure interest of getting someone to vote, but getting someone to vote for a particular candidate.

    If you want to vote download or go the the registars office and register to vote.

    Voting is supposed to be an activist thing. You are supposed to WANT to go vote. I mean shit, why not just go door to door on election day and tell someone whom doesn’t really give a crap, to fill out a ballot for your canidate. I’m sure they would be happy too. That is what all this is boiling down to.

    • Maverick

      – Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected a large portion of the 5,000 registration forms ACORN turned in after conducting registration drives in the area all summer. Some vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged signatures. According to local reports, “large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style” and “apparently the organization’s canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid.” The fake registrants included dead people and underage kids.

  • educatedwhitewoman

    Obama money from abroad could total $3.3 million

    WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has raised about $3.3 million from contributors who did not list a home state or who designated their state with an abbreviation that did not match one of the 50 states or U.S. territories, according to records provided by the Federal Election Commission.

    Most of those contributors did identify themselves as living abroad in foreign cities. Under federal law, foreign citizens cannot make political contributions, but U.S. citizens living abroad can.

    The Republican National Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Monday asking for an investigation of Obama’s foreign contributions, among other things.

    The FEC on Monday provided The Associated Press with a spread sheet of potential overseas donors that did not include contributors who left their state designation blank. As a result, the list was incomplete.

    The $3.3 million total does not include donors who have given less than $200 and whose contributions do not have to be itemized. Some of that money could also have come from overseas. About half of Obama’s $455 million in contributions so far are unitemized. The campaign does not identify those donors.

    See link for remainder of article:

    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081008/D93M0K5G0.html

  • katmandu

    http://www.ogdenonpolitics.com/2008/10/voting-early-often-indianapolis-bloated.html

    Let’s hear it for Marion county, Indiana, home of Indianapolis, which now has 105% of its residents registered to vote!

    What a system we have.

    • TeakWoodKite

      57 states? Agreed Katmandu. what a system.

  • Maverick

    – In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. According to the Miami Herald, “One individual had 21 duplicate applications.”

  • Entwife

    Am I slow? If so, I apologize, but I just received links to these very excellent video documentaries of the egregious fraud in the primary elections. They were put up on youtube on Aug. 28.

    Video in four parts. Does Obama hate America? ACORN hates America. In what moral code is honesty and fairness sneered at? Marxism. Our country is being stolen from within by Marxist-socialists. Obama is their leader.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZFgMNM-UU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXNqFQmGxDU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4XFvq5XMk8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnclKiHwatw

  • K Bentley

    We all can be impressed by our state officials nailing these fraudulent registrations. I went to the Republican National Attorney’s website and viewed all of the attorney’s in each state. Holy moly! There are thousands all over our country. They take calls of suspected voter’s fraud and they act.

    I’m in NW Indiana, and during the primary, Gary, IN had 11,000 absentee ballots. Ya, sure. I don’t know if you remember, but it took until after midnight for the mayor of Gary to report votes. Other officials here started to declare fraud on Gary, but the mayor released the total. It narrowed Hillary’s lead.

    We all need to be a part of this. Any instance that you know of, report it.

  • ipotter

    Here is an interesting article on Feds questioning extremely high number of SS# checks requested for voter registrations.

    http://www.ajc.com/cherokee/content/metro/stories/2008/10/07/georgia_voter_registration.html

  • becky

    Why are people ignoring the fact that barry obama is a part of this? I feel like we are like we’re in some other nation not the US. I guess that this what the people want but come on this is so crooked. Acorn, Ayers, Wright, Rizzo, etc etc etc Barry is a very scarry man with not our best interest as a leader or Pesident of the of US. The news, newspaper, magazines are so untrue about his agenda. I don”t get it! I have not heard anything on the voter fraud & he just keeps on denying everything when you look this stuff up it’s all true check it out on Fact Finder, his mom was not on food stamps or she was defrauding the goverment. How did he pay for his schooling at harvard on food stamps. this guy is a Liar!

  • Docelder

    They come looking for guns… and they might just find them. Fly-over state people aren’t addicted to the kool-aid.

  • Astra14

    Sorry, Perry, the Gun Confiscation Teams won’t be getting the guns from my family or neighbors, especially if Obama gets elected. We’re in part the gun-toting, bible clinging part of the country Obama hates even though it’s filled with Democrats! This is the first time ever I’m voting Republican to protect the Constitution – which I’m a strong supporter of – against an inexperienced, question-mark, obviously radical-friendly candidate with followers act too much like the Hitler Youth Movement. Even the other Democrats out here have McCain signs on their lawns this year. It’s Country First this year, even if it means voting Republican to protect our rights. The downtickets dems had better be shaking in their boots this year, too, because anyone Obama friendly may not be re-elected from what the neighbors are telling me.

  • Gal from Tex

    They will have to enter my house..and in TX we have the right to protect our house and home. So I dare them…hell I DOUBLE dare them! No I DOUBLE DOG dare them!

  • csuzeq

    Hannity is laying the ground work right now.

    Hang tight, my friend!

  • Docelder

    Which reminds me… I need to get a few hundred more rounds of ammo. ;)

  • Maverick

    from my cold dead hands..Perry is out of touch and voting for Obama.