SHOCK VIDEO— Obama Caught in a Major ACORN Lie
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 20, 2010, 9:28 AM
The brazen dishonesty of this president is a bit concerning to say the least.
A newly discovered video shows Obama lying to the American people about his relationship with ACORN:
Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released this video at CPAC of Barack Obama discussing his close partnership with ACORN. Obama talked about his long relationship with ACORN privately in this video before the 2008 election:
“When I ran project vote, the voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it. Once I was elected there wasn’t a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn’t right there with you. Since I have been in the United States Senate I’ve been always a partner with ACORN as well. I’ve been fighting with ACORN, along side ACORN, on issues you care about my entire career.”
But, when Barack Obama was confronted about his relationship with ACORN publicly before the election he had an entirely different story. This is what he said in October 2008:
Reporter: Senator McCain today said there was voter fraud going on in the battleground states. ACORN has been tampering with America’s most precious right. There has to be a full investigation and he also said you need to disclose your full relationship with ACORN. I’m wondering if you have any reaction to Senator McCain’s charge?
Barack Obama: Well, first of all my relationship with ACORN is pretty straightforward. It’s probably 13 years ago when I was still practicing law, I represented ACORN and my partner in that investigation was the US Justice department in having Illinois implement what was called the motor voter law, to make sure people could go to DMV’s and driver license facilities to get registered. It wasn’t being implemented. That was my relationship and is my relationship to ACORN. There is an ACORN organization in Chicago. They’ve been active. As an elected offiical, I’ve had interactions with them. But, they’re not advising my campaign. We’ve got the best voter registration in politics right now and we don’t need ACORN’s help.
For the record…
ACORN is the largest radical leftist group in America today.
This radical group worked closely with the Obama camp during the election but, the community organizing group was not open about the relationship. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election:
One of Barack Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992. He worked along side ACORN before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts.
And, ACORN even canvassed for Obama in 2008.
In 2009 Obama promoted a top ACORN operative, Patrick Gaspard, who’s oranization was fined $775,000 for election violations, to a top post in the White House. Gespard is helping shape domestic policy today.
Obama’s ACORN group was banned from receiving federal funds in September after the group was busted on tape promoting the child sex slave trade.
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richwill commented:
This is old news. Hussein has always been employed and working with acorn since he left college. It is how he was elected to the Illinois state senate. One can always tell when Hussein is lying, his lips are moving. Honesty, honor, and ethics are not in Hussein’s vocabulary.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
I would think this is huge news. Video proof of an Obama lie about ACORN. The Liberal media will have a hard time keeping this quiet particularly if they try and go after James O’Keefe. My only question is what does this mean for the 2010 election? Will ACORN be in your face or will they still try and hide their true colors?
jorgen commented:
mythomania – a compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth
jainphx commented:
Why tell the truth when a lie will work so much better. Obama is a serial liar, nothing he says is truthful. There has never in the history of this country been a more obvious liar. He’s the champ, and wears the crown proudly.
Hack commented:
0bama sickens me more with each passing day. What a narcissistic, egotistical pile of elephant dung. I seriously cannot wait until he is out of office and we have a real man in there who knows how to be president.
http://www.hackwilson.blogspot.com
DANEgerus commented:
Remember the ACORN shaped cookies the White House served to taunt those that exposed their fraud?
maria commented:
This man, Obama, shouldn’t sit in the White House and represent the Americans.
BIG MISTAKE
Anne commented:
I have heard that Acorn is still getting the money despite the ban. There has been a way to get around it. Any comment?
lill commented:
Correct, #1
Right NOW we must stop the health care/control our lives bill, which they apparently are going to ram through this week.
The legislation is probbly written to be permanent/undoable, as well.
Militant Conservative commented:
lill
February 20th, 2010 | 2:16 am | #11
Do not get too upset as “making legislation permanant or undoable is against the constitution. ”
The Narcissist Of The United States is dangerous while he holds power. Fight the MAJORITY status of the DEM’s till they are religated to MINORITY status. Then the only thisg the NOTUS can do is executive orders. The mood of the country is such he could face impeachment once the houses are overturned and may be inpeached like Clinton but this time removed from office. LOL Powder is dry.
AuntieMadder commented:
Funny you should mention Clinton, Military Conservative, because I was just thinking of “I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman” as the good old days. When it comes to lying, Clinton is no match for Obamao.
Anne #10 – I think you’re right but I can’t remember the details…I’m thinking it has something to do with Eric Holder questioning the legality of denying the funds but, as I said, i can’t recall exactly.
AuntieMadder commented:
Anne #10 – A NY judge lifted the ban on ACORN funding. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30504.html
The DOJ is appealing the ruling. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30767.html
AnnS commented:
Reb Steve King in C-Span video before Congress exposing the obama connection with ACORN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyknWVscbk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3bjXmSq450&feature=related
systemic fraud – Is ACORN Intentionally structured as a criminal enterprise
Reaganite Republican commented:
Barack Obama is of course habitually dishonest… but like any spoiled child, the lying just keeps getting worse as long as he gets away with it.
Hoft 1 -Moonbat Messiah 0
Actually, more like 15-0, lol
Corporal Vere commented:
I’m going broke buying batteries for, and replacing burnt out, Obama Bullcrap decoder rings!!!!!
Again this year, 6,969 ACORN affiliates’s will get $4 billion of your money. Not one will provide audited financial statements or allow itself to be audited.
And, ACORN enablers and paymasters in Washington chirp about bank bonuses and stealing evil rich people’s health insurance.
Corporal Vere commented:
No! Wait a minute!!!!
We’re all racists!!!!!!
AnnS commented:
Eric Holder, ACORN, and Cloward-Piven Justice
By James Simpson
Current law prohibits the community organization ACORN and its associated groups from receiving any federal funds from any federal law currently on the books. However, the Eric Holder Justice Department has interpreted the law as allowing federal agencies to pay ACORN for “binding contractual obligations” made before the current prohibition was enacted. This questionable interpretation may go a long way toward neutralizing ACORN’s funding prohibition.
The actual ban reads as follows: “None of the funds made available from this joint resolution or any other prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries or allied organizations.” (Emphasis added.)
more on link:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/eric_holder_acorn_and_cloward_1.html
pagar commented:
Apparently, no one in Washington is serious about getting ACORN out of the taxpayers’ pockets.
Article
Why do we have Republican Senators voting to defeat us?
indigo commented:
If you lie but your agenda is “good” ,it pretty much gets a pass. We live in Orwellian times.
Rivka commented:
After reading this the thought occurred to me-”What if there were no alternative media outlets..No Fox, no internet news, no Drudge, no Gateway Pundit.”, and things were the way they used to be with the three major news outlets and we had cable with CNN. Think about how ‘in the dark’ we would be to all of this. Obamacare would have passed a long time ago. Massachusetts would have gone to a Liberal. The tea party wouldn’t even be heard of. Obama and the left would be able to bring in Socialism at warp speed. The list goes on..
mrt commented:
Hmmm.
Obama.
ACORN.
Major Lie.
Caught.
So, where’s the “shock”?
Smarty commented:
So when will the ball-less GOP run a comercial showing this and then his denials of involvement side by side?
Oh yeah, that’s right, the GOP is the Gonad Optional Party ™.
Marie commented:
The more lies that Obama tells and gets away with the more brazen and enboldened he will become. Obama will go down like Nixon did. Sooner or later the lies and cover ups will become too big to contain.
Militant Conservative commented:
That is why ALL Ya’ll need to talk to YOUR Spheres of influence. The viral effect is massive. It is not Dem’s vs. Pub’s but Progressives vs. patriots. I know good democrats thier not happy either. persuade and inform education is key. If we do not come together divided we fall. Then it will be a revolution. Lets keep the revolution in the ballot box if we can. Powder is dry.
Lightwave commented:
Liberals will never again have power in this country after Obama. He is a political aberration, but we must thank him for so quickly angering the real patriots in this country again that the Dems will be gone for generations.
Rock solid conservatism returns in November for good.
CPT. Charles commented:
Breaking News:
Gen. Alexander Haig has passed on.
RIP.
jcraig commented:
i actually remember when george orwell was considered science fiction. how do we wake up from this dream?
retired military commented:
Obama lies. What is such a suprise about that?
“Obama’s ACORN group was banned from receiving federal funds in September after the group was busted on tape promoting the child sex slave trade.”
And some liberal judge reinstated them receiving federal funds a few months later.
And liberal world goes round and round.
Militant Conservative commented:
Well, there are your three.
Ted Kennedy——-aka the Liberal Lion
Jack Murtha———self professed ex marine
Alexander Haig—–the only patriot of the three dead.
Pat the First commented:
The sad part is that it is so easy for B.O. to lie. It is horrifying that he doesn’t really seem to understand the difference between the truth and a lie. That is very frightening to me.
jim commented:
Martin Feldstein in Friday’s WSJ:
“Obama’s new intitiatives…tax cuts and income transfers to low- and middle-income households that would cost some $3.1 TRILLION over the next decade.”
Obama is all about reparations by other means. His plan is to give the ACORN parasites their houses, their food, their health care, their cell phones, heat and air-conditioning, everything for free.
William Amos commented:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm
From obama’s own Website
When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”
ronnor commented:
Acorn is slated to receive over $3.5 Billion Dollars. I read this in the last few days, it was done with an end run created with the last major theft of taxpayer money. When is someone in the MSM going to mention the lying this “so called representative of the People” does constantly. How can anyone take Obama at his word, it worthless as it comes out of his mouth.
KR commented:
MC #13,
I like the term “NOTUS”.
BO really is NOT us.
wolfwalker commented:
Wow, a politician was caught in a blatant lie. This is a shock? To whom?
antilibr commented:
dear god our savior…………can we trade you barrack obama for mr haig pleeeeeeeease.amen.
Lenore commented:
Soon all will be accountable for their words and actions. Soon the people will take back America in a peaceful revolution, leave there be no doubt. http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.popupplayer&songid=64570996&artid=22456777&albid=13533310
olm commented:
Where is Brian to say “just because Obama said so doesn’t make it true”?
I really do not think there has ever been a bigger tall tale teller in the WH. And I thought Clinton was bad.
They despareately need ACORN to help in November and Obama knows that his reign is in trouble without them going forward. Hell, at the rate he is going the only thing that is looking likely is impeachment and I don’t even think we know the offense yet.
This guy is as shady and slippery as they come and people who do not see it yet really need to open their eyes.
Lenore commented:
no olm they just don’t care.
yp commented:
The thing that I find most disturbing about the clip is that Obama has a completely different manner of speaking in the two segments. I’m sure that use the words “smack dab” all the time at the University of Chicago Law School.
This is pure patronization of the audience. Unfortunately, I think that is the report that is being patronized–the ACORN clip is the real Obama.
aprilnovember811 commented:
I just don’t know why this man is not being stopped. He gave some of the TARP money to Harry Reid yesterday for housing in NV. This was illegal, and no one stopped him. Harry Reid in accepting it committed a crime. Mark Levin talked about this last night. If he kills people would someone stop him then? I’m beginning to think he can just do what he wants, and everyone turns a blind eye. So what if he lies, so what if he steals, so what if he destroys our currency(which I always thought was an act of treason,) yet he is just allowed to carry on, why? I have no faith in the FBI, CIA, Congress, the liars in the media have enabled him, have even covered up for him. The one thing he hasn’t lied about though, according to all of the brilliant people with camera’s in their faces, pens in their hands, keyboards, and microphones, is “he was born in Hawaii.”
Yes the one thing he isn’t lying about is he is a Natural Born Citizen. Sometimes I want to fight, sometimes I want to sit down and cry because they won’t stop him. Even the Supreme Court and the others in the Judicial Branch, just let him do it. If a robber came into their home, would they just allow him to loot the place?
pm commented:
Notice the wry smile when the interviewer mentions ACORN’s involvement in voter fraud — one that becomes overly broad and fake when told he “needs to disclose his full relationship with ACORN.”
Gives me the creeps every time. A normal, ethical, moral person wouldn’t react like that.
This is insanity.
Ed Wallis commented:
It is reassuring to see “reminders” – like this video – of in just what depth of corruption the current President resides.
“Wolfwalker” above expresses the passivity of terminal cynicism.
MISTAKE.
YES, we >>expect<< Leftists, non-thinking apologists, and the at-large press [ahh…but do I repeat myself?!] to apply relativism here, and attempt to "excuse away" all that with
"so-and-so wasn't perfect either, and did XYZ bad stuff!" tripe.
Conservatives are all-too well aware that Man is flawed/imperfect…but to use this as a ***justification*** – rather than to LEARN…or TRY to learn…from the mistakes of others – to extend/deepen past mistakes is unforgivable (see: "GWBush's TARP-deficit as a rationale for Obama's mega-debt orgy). Alone the few-but-objecting posts here (and also at "The Hill") verify this observation.
Thankfully, most Americans see this too.
America's reign of nihilistic, self-loathing terror will soon be at an end.
Democrats: buh-bye.
Solaratov commented:
Actually, obama’s NOT a very good liar. He’s prolific – but that’s all. He’ll lie at the drop of a hat – and then lie about whose hat it is.
But he keeps telling these outrageous lies that are quickly shown to be lies by videos of what he’s said or done before.
A really good liar will not only get you to believe what he’s saying at the moment – but he’ll be sure that there’s nothing out there to expose his lies. He’ll be sure that his lies are covered.
Obama lies so often because a) it’s what he does. He’s said in his “autobiography” that he just tells white folks whatever they want to hear so that he can get over on them. And, b) he has so little respect for the American people that he feels that they will automatically believe anything that he says – no matter that it’s proveably false. (and his moonbat lackeys do) It’s just another facet showing how disdainful he is of people in general; and how much he despises the American people in particular. It’s all a part of his dislike of America.
Rick commented:
Military Conservative at #30
YES! YES! YES! Talk to you dem, lib and progressive friends and neighbors. Remind them of what we REALLY stand for. They usually agree more than they disagree. They are fed so much crap from the Lame Stream Media, that they have forgotten our founding principles and values. They still, mostly, believe in them, they’ve just lost touch.
Educate them!
stevieray commented:
In the fight against ACORN, always remember their Achilles heel… they are deathly afraid of a legal process called “discovery”.
If you confront them, always do it aggressively and honestly… they will always have to back down. They cannot afford to actually go to court for anything as their raison d’etre (money laundering) would be exposed.
If they threaten you with legal action, do not contact your local Republican party, they will recommend a wimpy, unaggressive lawyer. Instead, contact a few area Tea Party leaders. They will get the word out and someone in the movement will be (or know) an aggressive lawyer who will wring every bit of info from ACORN if they continue to fight you.
But remember… they must back down before discovery, or their scam will end in recriminations and jail terms.
Solaratov commented:
“If a robber came into their home, would they just allow him to loot the place?”
Isn’t that exactly what they’re doing?
squeaky commented:
[Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department] what could go wrong…….the foxes are watching the chicken coop
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Holder-admits-nine-Obama-Dept-of-Justice-officials-worked-for-terrorist-detainees-offers-no-details-84799487.html#ixzz0g6KYqtqb
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Holder-admits-nine-Obama-Dept-of-Justice-officials-worked-for-terrorist-detainees-offers-no-details-84799487.html
samuel commented:
When are the Democrats going to call hearings about this?
bobby b commented:
Every time someone says “oh, big deal, a politician who lies”, a kitten dies somewhere in intense pain.
Okay, maybe not. But something does die a little bit more every time we cynically pass by a pol caught in a lie without holding her or him to OUR standards only because “all politicians lie.”
That just ensures that politicians will continue to lie.
Instead, we need to express our moral outrage and disgust every time we see those lies. We ought to be in those liars’ faces, over and over, until the liar has acknowledged the lie and until people stop considering lies from our government to be just one of those unpleasant facts of life.
ZoneDr commented:
I guess this makes Bill O’Reilly a liar too, since he investigated Obambi’s ties to Acorn–you know he’s looking out for the “folks”– and he assured us that B. Hussein had NO TIES WHATSOEVER with ACORN.
O’Reilly a liar?? Duh.
Blackice commented:
The real “Shock Video” will be when someone finds a video of Obama telling the Truth.
I know it’s a long shot but there must be one out there somewhere.
Carmac commented:
Old – and Wrong
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/oct/17/sorting-truth-obama-acorn/
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=obama+ACORN&as_sitesearch=www.politifact.com
jenny commented:
So Obama lied. Hardly a shock. RIP General Haig.
bg commented:
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Obama is the LIE..
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BigJ commented:
@Lightwave #31:
I wish I could agree, but it seems many of the “25-and-unders” (AKA my generation) lean to the far left (at least, here in Commiefornia they do). It won’t be long before their influence reaches the ballot box.
bg commented:
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Hack @ 1:29 am #7
thumbsup!!
re: [elephant dung]
Donkey Dung..
there, fixed it for you..
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crypticguise commented:
President Pinochio’s mendacious statements are constant and unceasing. He is definitely the Liar in Chief and he continues to get away with it because the Lame Stream Media and Sycophanic Press have their heads up his butt.
The only remaining people in our Nation who still support his bull***t are Socialists, Progressives, Marxists, and Ignoramuses. That’s truly shameful because there are so many of them.
2010 and 2012 will sweep the DemocRATs from office and clean the White House of Marxist detritus.
DocScience commented:
If Obama says the sun is going to rise tomorrow… take a flashlight.
Pathological liar.
Alice Wigglebotton commented:
“Acorn” is code for “black.” You are a racist bigot.
jim commented:
What would really be shocking is Obama telling the truth.
Arrogance and mendacity. Hail to the Chief.
Major Kong commented:
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson
He simply doesn’t care that his lies are exposed. With at least 6% of the population (I suspect the percentage is much higher) pathologically stupid, and a “news” media that is nothing more than apparatchik of the democrat party, he has no worries.
daveinboca commented:
Obama said after ACORN was busted in the sex slave trade that he “was unaware” that ACORN received any federal funding. The stenographers for DNC in the MSM won’t point out his constant lying, shifting, juking and jiving.
The guy’s got more moves than a sack full of rattlesnakes.
Sojourner commented:
..’discovery’.. it’s the sole antiseptic we have to keep exposing Zero & not only his lies, but the depths to which he’ll go to lie to get his radical way…enough ‘thumbs up’s’ can’t be given to Andy Breitbart, GWP et al for keepin’ on.. 14 months down.. (but then who’s counting? haaaaaa).
sybilll commented:
I am really disappointed to recognize the interviewer’s voice as Jake Tapper of ABC. Jake has stayed noticeably quiet in all of this, yet he heard this with his own ears. Time to write off the last journalist of MSM that I thought gave stories a fair shake.
Solaratov commented:
Alice Wigglebotton
February 20th, 2010 | 1:01 pm | #74
“Acorn” is code for “black.” You are a racist bigot.
Maybe “black” is code for “acorn”. That would make them an arborist bigot.
Joe Steel commented:
In a perfect world, ACORN would determine voter eligibility. Having been subjected to the vile attacks of conservatives, they have a uniquely clear perspective on who are worthwhile citizens and, thus, who should be allowed to vote.
DAmien commented:
the brazen dishonesty of THIS president???
Where have YOU been since Jan 2001?
Valerie commented:
DAmien
I’ve been watching closely. YES. the. brazen. dishonesty. of. THIS. president.
The prior President built a reputation for saying what he was going to do, and then doing it. If you are ill-informed, it is your own fault.
gus commented:
He’s not ill informed. He’s a lying sack of sh!t just like his Messiah the Kenyan dimwit.
manateespirit commented:
Valerie, #84….
I believe this president is the worst ever. That being said, the one thing he did say which is true…he wants to FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM America.
That, he is doing. Or at least, attempting. He’ll have to get past alot of teapartiers first. Or, as he likes to refer to them, domestic terrorists.
pm commented:
The last Democrat president taught a generation of young people that some sex isn’t really sex.
This latest Democrat to defile the office is teaching a generation of young people that some lies aren’t really lies.
Thanks, Dems, for the great role models. There’re right up there with Washington and Lincoln.
Someone once said, “This really isn’t helping my children.” Oh, but, wait…wasn’t that said to avoid telling the truth about other ugliness?
Like why they’d spent 20 years delighting in damning their country?
bg commented:
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aprilnovember811 @ 10:58 am #52
re: [Yes the one thing he isn’t lying
about is he is a Natural Born Citizen.]
have you seen proof??
“we the people” haven’t, ergo, not until
he proves it will i agree he’s not lying..
imo a cover-up is equal to, if not worse than, a lie.. in this case most assuredly, seeing as how he’s running my country into the ground..
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Reaganite Republican commented:
This post -linked- at Reaganite Reublican…
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/02/around-blogosphere.html
bg commented:
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please note the dates & the issues/actions differ..
Carmac @ 12:33 pm #66
[• In 1992, Obama directed Project Vote, "an arm of ACORN that also encouraged voter registration," according to the McCain campaign. Obama did direct Project Vote, but it is a separate organization from ACORN. This year, Project Vote and ACORN worked together on a nationwide voter registration drive, and they have worked together on other initiatives in the past. But they are separate organizations. We didn't find any evidence to indicate they had a relationship during the 1992 Illinois drive. And even if they did, Obama clearly directed the drive for the Project Vote organization. We couldn't find any allegations of impropriety related to the 1992 drive. We rate this statement False. ]
More proof about Barack Obama and ACORN
[On July 6, 1994, a lawsuit was filed against Citibank and on June 30,1995, Judge Ruben Castillo certified it as a class action in the case of Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 162 F.R.D. 322 (N.D. Ill. 1995). This lawsuit was file by ACORN and despite his denial of involvement, Barack Obama was one of ACORN’s lawyers on this case. See here for the full case record. He was clearly involved with ACORN and their plan to use affirmative action tactics on banks, forcing them to approve loans that should not have been granted.
Below is a video from FOX News that gives further details about this involvement. It is particularly troubling because in the video you will here Barack Obama say several times, that the original idea of subprime mortgages and the idea of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buying them up to spread the risk over the country and the rest of the world and thereby reduce it was a good idea.]
“BANK AFFIRMATIVE ACTION”
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bg commented:
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OBAMA: ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL
SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA
Acorn Who?
[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.]
Confirmed: NY Times Spiked Major Obama-ACORN Story Before Election
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AuntieMadder commented:
Ed Wallis
February 20th, 2010 | 11:41 am | #55
YES, we >>expect<< Leftists, non-thinking apologists, and the at-large press [ahh…but do I repeat myself?!] to apply relativism here, and attempt to "excuse away" all that with
"so-and-so wasn't perfect either, and did XYZ bad stuff!" tripe.
Conservatives are all-too well aware that Man is flawed/imperfect…but to use this as a ***justification*** – rather than to LEARN…or TRY to learn…from the mistakes of others – to extend/deepen past mistakes is unforgivable (see: "GWBush's TARP-deficit as a rationale for Obama's mega-debt orgy). Alone the few-but-objecting posts here (and also at "The Hill") verify this observation.
Right, Ed Wallis. Instead of the mistakes and corruption of the past being used as excuses to lower the bar, we should be trying to raise it. We should expect each representative/POTUS to do better than his/her predecessor. We should be striving for excellence instead of instead of accepting mediocrity and less.
bg commented:
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re: bg #90
Billion-Dollar Scandal Not Ready for Prime Time
[Sadly, this perception of political correctness is out of touch with reality. According to a September 2003 report by a GSE watchdog group, Fannie Mae Policy Focus, Fannie lags far behind the market in facilitating housing for minority and first-time buyers. As a matter of fact, the GSEs buy less than 10 percent of private sector loans to first-time African-American and Hispanic purchasers. Moreover, Fannie and Freddie acquired “more loans made to absentee landlords, vacation homes, and second mortgages than first-time homebuyer loans,” according to the report.]
albeit Dem CEO’s were awarded millions, crickets..
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TejasKat commented:
Yes, this is old new. Maybe Rep. Issa is just waking up or wanted to wake others up???
Also, the court struck down the ban on funding ACORN. They stated there must be an investigation first. I read an article — somewhere — about 2 mos ago.
bg commented:
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sarc on/
Obama And ACORN
no no no, please, you must listen to Obama, he never
lies, he’s just an innocent “Community Organizer”!!
“Middle Class”
[When Barack Obama trained community organizers for an ACORN subsidiary, Project Vote, he taught from the 1971 book 'Rules for Radicals', by the late socialist Saul Alinsky.]
hmmm hmmm hmmm
/sarc off
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F van Deventer commented:
Not removed, is an article in the Winter 2003/4 issue of Social Policy by ACORN leader Toni Foulkes bragging of how ACORN identified Obama early and began grooming him particularly through involvement with their Leadership Training Sessions. The picture above is taken from that story.
http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=838
justdont commented:
He is a pathological liar.
How can any democrat defend this fact.
bg commented:
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manateespirit @ 3:00 pm #86
re: FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM America.
btw:
Obama: “Remaking America”
(more info)
[Such transactions can prove hugely profitable for a buyer, depending largely on financing costs and the buyer's ability to turn around the business. Under the terms of the transaction, Platinum is expected to invest no more than $750 million, according to the person familiar with the deal. GM would provide the balance in financing. Those financing commitments may or may not be drawn upon in the future, depending on how Delphi performs. The terms of the GM loans couldn't be learned. As part of the deal, GM is buying back four Delphi plants and Delphi's Saginaw, Mich., global steering division. In addition, it's providing a $250 million loan to fund Delphi's operations while it remains in Chapter 11.]
Obama’s Harvard Sponsor is linked to GM
(via Dodge & Cox Stock Fund & Citigroup)..
ps:
Is Obama Tampering With CitiGroup
and just for the heck of it..
Prince Alwaleed: I Would Like To Thank US Govt For Saving My Butt
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Corporal Vere commented:
Jim #38:
If you don’t believe your beautiful black brothers and sistsers do not deserve “their houses, their food, their health care, their cell phones, heat and air-conditioning, everything for free.”,
YOU IS A RACIST!!!!!
bg commented:
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re: bg #90/#91 & others..
Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy
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bg commented:
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Corporal Vere @ 7:34 pm #100
no, it’s not poor blacks fault they believe in the Democrats propaganda.. it’s not their fault they chose despicable leaders such as Jesse Jackson (who was at one time credible enough to run for the Presidency, but that was before he caught the “white mans greed” disease /sarc) & Al Sharpton (who never had a credible bone in his body), it’s not their fault they blindly submit to slavery via false promises of “freedom” for “votes”.. i could go on, but won’t.. *sigh*
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bg commented:
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1991/92:
Welfare: A White Secret
2001/03:
The facts about whites vs. blacks on welfare rolls
2008/09:
Poverty and the Poor Whites
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bg commented:
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re: bg #103
i wish they’d be more definitive with their statistics..
Race and ethnicity in the US (i’d say approx):
White alone
(Not including the 29.2 million White Hispanic and Latino
Americans: 65.4% or 198.9 million) 75.0% 228.2 million
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race 15.4% 46.9 million
Black or African American alone 12.4% 37.6 million
Some other race alone 4.9% 15.0 million
Asian alone 4.4% 13.4 million
Two or more races 2.3% 7.0 million
American Indian or Alaska Native alone 0.8% 2.4 million
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone 0.14% 0.43 million
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so imo the percentages can be misleading..
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Laughing commented:
Hey wingnuts, exactly where is the contradiction between the two statements? Be specific? Oh, and did O’Keefe wear his pimp costume in ACORN’s offices, or is that just Wingnut Lie #32,198?
Robert commented:
People want to believe a lie because they probably are liars themselves so they need someone to support them. Like the drug addict that has their dope addict so called friends to support their wrong. Birds of a feather flock together. Which at the end is destruction. The blind leading the blind. Wake up before its to late.
They know he is a Liar. Most of us know someone like him that lies most of the time,but you over look it. This is not the time for that.