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Thread #115452   Message #2475575
Posted By: Sawzaw
25-Oct-08 - 12:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Spread the Truth About ACORN
Subject: RE: BS: Spread the Truth About ACORN
Well Well Well, I see a whole lot of hemin and hawin around, side steppin etc. but I don't see no hands in tha air.

So it is unanimous that CC, Bobert an everbody thinks ACORN is wrong for takin taxpayer money to pay people to fill out false registrations and bribe people with cash and cigarettes to fill out multiple registrations.

OK then. Next question needin a straight answer:

If ya think it is OK for Obama to claim he has never had anything to do with ACORN when in fact he has, raise up your hands for all to see.

Obama's campaign website states:

    Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.

The Journal Social Policy Chicago

Photo of Obama and ACORN members

Case Study: The Barack Obama Campaign

written by Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN Leader.

    "Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar, the governor at the time, and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign. ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them.
Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends.""Project VOTE" in 1992 was undertaken in direct partnership with ACORN.

The Los Angeles Times March 2, 2008:

    "At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff."