Re: Barack 2008!
GG stop your stirring! You're asking for the wooden spoon!
Was good of your kind hero to get in early with his smears - helping people know more about Barack was bipartisan!
- at least for people who can read and seek to find answers. Do Joe six-packs/rednecks?
* This reminds me how thieves lock up their own homes and cars securely. Why?
* Imagine if McCain's men had put all this nastiness into something constructive, what might they have achieved?
* McCain is a desperate puppet - looking low and cheap - smashing Barack's leggos instead of building with his own.
On Obama, Acorn and Voter Registration:
Smear: McCain’s campaign today stepped up its efforts
to tie Obama to a community organizing group that has been
accused of involvement in
problematic voter registrations in several hotly contested states, including Colorado, Indiana, Nevada and North Carolina.
Acorn, the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has long been a favorite target of conservatives.
Facts:
CEO Ms. Lewis said it was Acorn itself that informed state officials about some questionable registrations collected by its employees that are now under investigation. Acorn said it had terminated the workers involved.
Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, said:
1. Obama had worked as Acorn’s lawyer
2. and conducted training events for its leaders.
3. He also noted a payment the Obama campaign made in February to an Acorn affiliate, Citizens Services Inc.
1. In 1995, Obama was on a
team of lawyers that represented Acorn in a lawsuit
to compel Illinois to comply with federal laws intended to enhance access to the polls. The team also represented Equip for Equality, a group that promotes the rights of the disabled, and four individuals.
Davis said as their lawyer, Mr. Obama had “an intimate relationship” with Acorn “
against the State of Illinois and the federal government.”
Facts:
the Justice Department was on the same side as Acorn in the lawsuit, as were other organizations, including the League of Women Voters. Those plaintiffs won the case.
2. Davis urged reporters to question Obama about training sessions he had done for Acorn.
“What were you teaching them?” Davis asked. “
Were you teaching them how to evade the law?”
Facts:
Lewis Goldberg, a spokesman for Acorn, said Mr. Obama conducted two leadership training sessions of roughly an hour each for Acorn’s Chicago affiliate over a three-year period in the late 1990s. He was not paid for that work, Mr. Goldberg said.
3. Even before today, Republicans had made much of an $
832,598 payment made in February by the Obama campaign to Citizens Services Inc., a consulting firm affiliated with Acorn.
“
This organization is not just related to but deeply ingrained in the Acorn organization, a front group for Acorn.”
Facts:
The Obama campaign initially reported that the payment was for “staging, sound, lighting” and other advance work when it reported its expenditures with the Federal Election Commission. It filed amended reports in August and September to reflect that those payments were for get-out-the-vote efforts.
Note: Davis contended that the original filing was an effort to “hide the fact” that money was paid to Acorn.
But F.E.C. officials have said such amended filings are common.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html?ref=us