Obama’s Acorn
By NancyA on July 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM in ACORN, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, George Soros, Joyce Foundation, Voter Fraud, Woods Fund
Obama’s ACORN: A Leftist Social Reform Group
Obama’s most questionable tie is to a leftist organization called ACORN. His connection to this group begins with a woman named Madeleine Talbot. She embraced Obama and taught him the ropes. He remained a part of this group’s training cadre. Obama taught leadership conferences for the group while working for Miner, Barnhill & Galland. His connections don’t end there. Obama actively sought and received the endorsement by ACORN for his local campaigns. He has now done the same in his bid for the USA presidency.
According to its web site ACORN (an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. At first glance, this organization seems to be benign. This is not true since it uses very aggressive tactics to get its work done.
Some recent reports about their activities include the following things. They have disrupted and blocked activities within the Chicago City Council during living wage discussions. In Baltimore, MD, they burst into the scene of a private law dinner. They bussed four loads of protesters to the site of a mayor’s house, where they spewed profanities at the mayor and his family. And these are just the ones we know about. Their thuggery is over the line by far.
These are not their only questionable actions. In the past they have been tied to illegal voter registration in at least three states. These three states are Washington, Missouri, and North Carolina.
In Missouri, the voter fraud case was tied to at least one campaign, the senate campaign of Claire McCaskill.
In 2004, the Washington state Secretary of State described ACORN’s illegal activity as the “largest case of voter fraud in the state’s history”.
They were fined $25,000 and promised to instruct their paid canvassers on the state election requirements. In 2005, according to the complaint filed with Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, the voter fraud involved the registration of homeless people. ACORN agrees they break the law but said “no one told us”. In 2006, in Kansas City, MO, five low-level operatives were charged with voter fraud. Four pleaded guilty, with the fifth person released because it came out that an ACORN worker had stolen her identity.
This is just the first layer of radicalism. According to Sol Stern’s 2003 City Journal article, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities,” this group is the key modern successor of the 1960 ’s “New Left” with a 1960’s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism to match. While ACORN still uses the old tactics of the National Welfare Reform Organization to get things done, the targets and strategy have changed. They prefer to fly under the radar, taken their tactics to liberal urban areas like Chicago and now here in Kansas. Their national goals are municipal “living” wage laws, targeting big companies like Costco, rolling back welfare reform, and regulating banks.
ACORN drives companies like Costco from urban areas that actually need jobs. Their opposition to welfare reform tends to keep the people in poverty in these areas, while causing family breakdown. The worst of their tactics is the regulation of banks. They protest “predatory lending,” putting pressure on banks to make large donations to them to finance their “non-partisan motor voter drives.” Stern says that these tactics tend to be “undisguised authoritarian socialism.”
Don’t let its tactics fool you though. According to Kurtz, “ACORN is a savvy and exceedingly effective player.” They prefer to take over the system from within rather than overthrowing the system from without. Stern calls this a political version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In Chicago, where the largest organization exists, an ACORN member won a seat on the Board of Alderman as candidate of the leftist New Party.
Obama in his pre-law days was a community organizer. He was supposed to teach the residents to press for improvements in places like their parks which were eyesores back in his day. Part of Obama’s employment was to organize demonstrations, much in the same way groups like ACORN do. Some of Obama’s claims, in his book Dreams from My Father, about his actions to remove asbestos are false. It was actually a woman named Hazel Johnson who discovered the asbestos problem and who led the removal efforts.
Once again, Madeleine Talbot, Obama’s ACORN mentor, reappears on our radar screens. It turns out Talbot was in some sense responsible for the attempted unsuccessful coup of the Chicago City Council meeting on the living wage issue in 1997. Two hundred ACORN supporters were present. While the actions did disrupt the meeting, six members were arrested that night, charged with “mob action and disorderly conduct.” Among those six was Talbot, Obama’s ACORN mentor.
Does it mean Obama used these tactics? I highly doubt it since he would have been above those tactics in order to protect his political future. He wouldn’t have wanted to break the law with such aggressive behavior. I do believe by this time Obama was well aware of their tactics and understood them, maybe even teaching them in his leadership conferences.
It seems that in reality that Obama is ACORN’s way to overthrow the system from the inside. This jives with his words such as “I am for hope and change, I am for a new Washington, D.C.” While Axelrod coined the term “Hope and Change,” ACORN is fully behind Obama’s opportunity to overthrow our government, if you will, from the inside. They are not alone in their quest for this because it seems that the Service Employee’s International Union is one of ACORN’s strange bedfellows.
The extent of his ties is often dismissed. They are however covered in another article found in the journal Social Policy entitled “Case Study: Chicago - The Barack Obama Campaign” by Tom Foulkes. In this article, Foulkes claims that ACORN specifically sought out Obama’s representation in the “motor voter case,” remembering him from his pre-law days and his work with Talbot. He also trained many of the new volunteers and employees in Leadership Training Conferences even as he was working as a law professional.
This is only the beginning of his continued use and cooperation on the part of ACORN. Obama used them as volunteer “thugs” for his first bid for the Illinois state senate in 1996 and again in his failed 2000 bid for Congress. Obama doesn’t forget his old friends, many of his newly trained volunteers, and used them again in his 2004 successful bid for the United States Senate. By this time ACORN and Obama were like old friends.
ACORN as well as other groups were the recipients of foundation money from both the Woods Fund and Joyce Foundation. Why is this important? Obama sat on both boards. Through his board positions, he was able to assist in the funneling of many millions of dollars in grant money to various ultra-liberal organizations like Chicago’s ACORN. It may not be illegal but it gives me pause.
It would be illegal for Obama to funnel money to his main “get out the vote” volunteers in his position on those boards. So it would seem, at least on the exterior, that ACORN probably did observe the “rule of law” in its non-partisan efforts. It claims that its get-out-the-vote drives are segregated from its political arm. I am certain that much grant money has been received from these two foundations. And I am left with a nagging question. Where does ACORN get the money for its never-empty war chest? Could it be they receive funding from someone like George Soros, who has poured millions into presidential campaigns like Obama and even Howard Dean, according to a blog piece at No Quarter, “Hitler and the New Democratic Party.”
According to Kurtz in his NRO article, while these questions about funding and partisanship are important, what is more troubling are Obama’s ties to ACORN, “arguably the most politically, radical, large-scale activist group in this country.” ACORN sneaked its first political insider on the Board of Alderman in Chicago as a “New Party” candidate elected to that board. As ACORN has managed to sneak its operatives within the system legally through elections, one would think that Obama is able to do the same. Why do we know this? Because Obama has trained many of their current leaders.
The LA Times returned to that same Chicago neighborhood where Obama worked as a community organizer to take a look at the same neighborhood. What they found was a real disappointment. They found one of those parks that Obama “helped” restore to its natural beauty is now overrun by drug dealers and thugs again. It seems nothing changed for very long in the old Obama stomping grounds.
The best finish to this article is Stanley Kurtz’s own words. “The community organizer may generate feel-good moments and best selling books, but I suspect that a Costco as the seed bed of a larger shopping complex would have done far more to save the neighborhood where Obama worked to organize in the progressive fashion.” Unfortunately, Chicago ACORN is blocking that effort.
References:
National Review
ACORN
BillJames.org
Seattle Times
No Quarter
NLPC.org
Thanks for this post.
ACORN — YES they have trained people how to disrupt and control meetings.
I remember reading a paper on their tactics.
THEN I saw their tactics IN ACTION — at the caucus I attended in WA State.
Now the pieces are beginning to fall in to place.
My wife and I saw the same tactics at the caucus we attended.It seemed very canned how when she got up to speak they all booed her in unison.
I was so disgusted as I’m the one that got her involved in politics and for her to have such a negative experience the first time out was hard to stomach.
Later, I got up and gave them a piece of my mind and warned them about the unvetted candidate, empty suit national security risk that they were slothing over.
I have since talked to a koolaid Obamabot that attended and she told me that she was saddened that Hillary didn’t get the nomination.
Stupid Obamabots!!!
Is it possible that ths Obama campaign (using ACORN tactics) or maybe even Acorn itself is responsible for hostilely taking over the several caucuses where violations were recorded, and maybe more?
And more importantly now: what do they have in mind for false voter registration and voting disruption/suppression for November????
This is beginning to sound a little like the 9/11 conspiracy
The 9/11 conspiracy folks believe that the most incompetent administration in U.S. history brought off the trickiest hoax in world history…and fooled everyone in the world except a few guy who got on the web.
Some NQers believe Obama is part of a secret communist-Marxist-socialist plot…which has fooled everyone in the world except them.
Hehe, I love the ol’ secret communist-Marxist-socialist plot…let’s go with that one;)
Signed,
Obamabot #243
To the person above who say that conspiracy theorists believe that the Bush administration pulled off the trickiest hoax in history on 9/11. That’s not entirely true. The real 9/11 Truthers believe that it a joint US Military and US Govt who pulled off the scam. I don’t know where you get this incompetence thing. Where did you learn that the US govt was incompetent? If you think they are so incompetent then why do you pay your taxes. What has the Bush Admin been incompetent at?
Here was the Bush Goals and you tell me if they got it done
1) get patriot act passed and destroy constitution
2) get Americans to consent to a never-ending war in Iraq and Afghanistan
3) Nationalize the Banks through a bailout plan
Looks like they are doing well to me. You just don’t know the administration’s goals. If you don’t know the goals, how do you know if they are incompetent or not?
Maybe you voted for Bush because you sure seem like a fool. The country is on the brink of economic collapse, people are losing their retirements, and you are for the REPUBLICANS who caused the problem. Just like Herbert Hoover. Get smart and stop voting against your self interests.
You idiot. This problem started with the Clinton administration by helping people get houses that could not afford. I have a real estate license and most banks working with realtors do anything to get someone in a house. That’s the problem in a nutshell.
So 8 years of Bush and 12 years of his party in control of congress and they could not fix this “problem”?? Admit it they - the Republican congress - were only too happy to deregulate the industry and line their own pockets at the same time.
Clinton signed the Deregulation in 1999,
you ask others to get educated, why don’t you start first.
Is this all Clintons fault? NO, but it isn’t all Bush fault either.
WE THE PEOPLE VOTED IN THESE BOZOS into office, WE THE PEOPLE need to kick every single corrupt politican out.
but with the depth in which ACORN is involved in voter fraud, I suggest we start here first, invalidate every registration ACORN has turned in. if you want to register to vote , go to the courthouse like everyone else. ACORN Corruption in our political process has been funded BY US. the taxpayers, WE THE PEOPLE were paying for their corruption, with the approval of the no good cheating democrats. OBAMA is involved in acorn, just like he know AYERS as more than “just a guy in my neighborhood”
Obama is a far leftist liar, if he wins, you watch the FBI get called off the corruption of ACORN.
Its time we took our Country back people .
Yeah………that’s some ‘neighborhood’ Barrack’s got there!
That was supposed to be a temporary move to stimulate economy, and it did work. The only thing is when things were good the guy that was in charge of this stuff forgot to reestablish the regulations slowly. Instead nothing happened. This part where regulations needed to happen was in the Bush years not Clintons
Bush did EVERYTHING he could to regulate Fannie and Freddie, but democrats with onlt a handfull of republicans blocked it…8 times in total.
see “community reinvestment act caused meltdown”
And before you read some BS left wing denial of the blaim please note that 10 out of the 15 bank failures were from the few banks that were covered by the CRA. They ALL just happened to have “satisfactory” CRA ratings…That is statistically significant..or in lamen’s terms that proves it.
The country is on the brink of economic collapse because of Raines, Paulson and the other liberals protecting their own and not accepting any responsibility. The sub-prime crises was created by Clinton (and partially Carter). You are the fool. Uneducated kool-aid drinking liberals are the real problem.
What caused the problem was the, perhaps, well-intentioned, but very imprudent attempt to offer housing to those who couldn’t afford it. This took place via unwise legislation. Both financial institutional leaders and groups like ACORN took advantage of this and pressured banks to make risky loans or get fined for not doing do. Many got rich from all the transactions that resulted and certain members of Congress blocked any attempt to regulate or make all of this transparent. I want those in Congress who blocked attempts to fix this booted out and/or sent to jail if they were benefiting from any of this financially. Personally, Tom, I want it all investigated. How about you?
Look,
Barack may be an intelligent guy but he has never led or managed anything. He has only fed off the public $$ pile. He is charismatic, so maybe if he were to get a real job in the private sector for a few years I would feel better about him as a leader. Right now he is just a mouthpiece for the Liberal Left. Right along with the 90% Liberal Media. I am a Republican but I have no problem supporting a seasoned leader. Even though I didn’t care for Clinton he was a savy leader.
It’s not the current government and it’s policies that have gotten us into trouble in our economy. It’s the buy now, pay later, ever-entitled democratic thinking that has gone unchecked in many homes for years now. We cannot keep buying homes we can’t afford, driving cars that are way over our budgets, and spending money recklessly then get uspet when the apple cart gets spilled!
We are paying for our own stupid decisions, and a phony “change” mantra isn’t going to change a thing by offering more well-fare states and entitlement mentality. Work hard and spend smart. But certainly don’t put an under-experienced, non-American loving person in the office!
Hmmmm, with a little bit of research you would find out that it is not Bush that is responsible for the economic crisis. But why should I be surprised that the democrats aren’t doing their research, if they did they would never vote for Obama. Here’s the truth about what has caused our economic meltdown.
With the economy slowing and a weak financial market created solely by our subprime mortgage mess, what do we keep hearing now from the media in hopes the majority will believe it and vote accordingly? “The mess is caused by eight years of failed Bush economic policies, including the tax cuts for the rich that should be rescinded.”
This is not the talk of a uniter of people, but rather a separator stirring up class warfare, envy and resentment. It’s a stirring-up of hate in an attempt to endlessly criticize, condemn, demean and destroy every opponent.
Do you know the real cause of the out-of-control subprime loan mess that’s creating so much fear and hurting every American? It’s not something the media or a certain political party wants you to find out.
In 1995, President Clinton mandated new regulations that coerced banks to make significantly more subprime loans to inner-city residents previously viewed as unqualified buyers in high-risk areas. Banks were rated on how well they complied and faced big fines if they didn’t do what government regulators wanted.
The government’s worst decision was allowing and encouraging banks, for the first time, to bundle these subprime loans in giant packages with prime loans. These packages were then sold to other investors as safe because they were government-sponsored by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The first of these government-encouraged packages came to market in 1997. For the banks, they were profitable because they could be sold quickly and thereby absolve the banks of any risk in the loans they made. Many subprimes were variable-rate loans made without down payments or documentation of borrowers’ incomes.
The banks could then use the money to make even more of these lower-quality, government-required loans, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought them with virtual abandon.
It evolved into a Big Government pyramid scheme with Democrats in charge of Fannie and Freddie making large political donations to Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama and other politicians who continually defended the anything-goes lending of the two agencies.
In short, this was yet another well-intended, Democrat-supported,government-designed and run program that failed miserably and had the usual unintended consequences.
A few more facts:
• April 2001: The Bush administration’s fiscal budget stated that the size of Fannie and Freddie was “potential problem because financial trouble of a large Government-Sponsored Enterprise could cause repercussions in financial markets, affecting federally insured entities and economic activity.
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• May 2002: The Office of Management and Budget wanted disclosure and governance principles in Bush’s 10-point plan for corporate responsibility to apply to Fannie and Freddie.
• February 2003: A federal housing oversight report warned that unexpected problems at Fannie Mae could immediately spread into financial sectors.
• September 2003: Treasury Secretary John Snow, in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, recommended that Congress enact legislation to create new agency to regulate and supervise financial activities of housing-related government entities to set prudent and appropriate minimum capital requirements.
Rep. Frank, the committee’s ranking member, strongly disagreed, saying: “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis . . . . The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we’ll see in terms of affordable housing.
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• February 2004: The president’s new budget again highlighted risks of the explosive growth of these government enterprises and the then-low levels of required capital. It also called for the creation of a world class regulator. The administration determined that housing regulators of government agencies lacked the power and stature to meet their responsibilities and should be replaced with a strong new third regulator.
• February 2004: Greg Mankiw, chairman of Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, cautioned Congress against taking the strength of financial markets for granted. He too called for reducing the risk by ensuring that housing GSEs are overseen by an effective regulator.
• April 2004: Rep. Frank ignored warnings, accusing the administration of creating an “artificial issue.” “People pay their mortgages,” he told a group of mortgage bankers. “I don’t think we are in any remote danger here. This focus on receivership, I think, is intended to create fears that aren’t there.
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From 2004 to 2008 the Bush administration made 12 more attempts to get Congress to pass legislation to have safer, sounder regulatory oversight of Fannie and Freddie and capital rules. You can see them for yourself on the White House Web site.
But here are a couple of examples that show how Democrats resisted:
• July 2005: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected legislation on reforming Fannie and Freddie. “While I favor improving oversight by our federal housing regulators to ensure safety and soundness, we cannot pass legislation that would limit Americans from owning homes and harm our economy in the process,” he said.
• August 2007: Sen. Dodd, another Democrat, ignored President Bush’s emphatic calls for Congress to pass Fannie and Freddie reform legislation and called for him to immediately reconsider his ill-advised position.
Democrats have become a far-left propaganda party with the lowest-ranked Congress in history. For six years, they have consistently refused to rein in the monumentally risky subprime loans that Clinton Democrats gave birth to.
Yet, voters are blaming Republicans for this crisis and seem to think that a newcomer they know little about, despite his questionable past associates and mentors, can bring us more huge programs. These include one that would socialize the health care system at a time when government-run systems in Canada and Britain are lower in quality and nearly bankrupt.
Anyone who would vote for Obama will burn in hell with him…..Let God be the judge and have mercy on all of those affiliated with trying to get an Anti American elected to the highest office in the United States of America….
God….County…..Self……MC CAIN
Self…No Country…No God…BARRACK HUSSAIN OBAMA
Amen
Yes, God damn anyone whose beleifs arent our own! May the Mormons thrash in eternal agony for they’re PERVERSION of OUR religion! May Jehovas witnesses join Hitler and his generals in a pit of burning and stabbing and suffering! May Obama and half of this country endure the tortures of searing pain forever and ever and ever! They deserve no less!
You Republicans will be broke because of your support for McInsane and Plain. You are already in Hell. What a jerk!! Maybe we can get together and really talk you worthless idiot.
My sentiments EXACTLY! The problem actually began with the New Deal and the creation of Fannie Mae. LBJ privatized Fannie Mae then Jimmy Carter Admin created Freddie Mac to compete with Fannie, Then Clinton steps in to make matters worse by requesting they lower their lending standards (which were already riskier than most lending institutions). Now Bush is taking the heat because Barney Frank and his Buddies turned their heads while sitting as chairs of the regulating boards so that uninformed americans will elect the ultimate ANTI-american.
I’m embarrassed for you.
Obama Admits: An Acorn Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhWufhgdr7E&NR=1
this sounds more like the six degrees of kevin bacon. hey maybe we can tie obama to him as well. its an anti obama smear piece and although im not pro either candidate i do see it for what it is.
I dont believe that this is some sort of conspiracy but all of the people that are so head over heels for obama love to look past the fact he has been involved with some pretty shady company. His old church that he conviniently cut ties with when it came into question. A church that hates whites and jews and is a version of the KKK. I still cant believe that people can look past this. His little white lies about all these great things hes accomplished. All these involvments with the very people of fannie mae and companies like that that put us in this fiscal mess. People, look at Obama, from a guy who has seen a politican gain a cult following like Deval Patrick in Mass they dont work. Patrick has litterally done nothing for the state. Obama will be an empty suit with no substance and its really special that he gives a good speech but so did my football coach and he isnt on the ballot.
I’m as serious as the next guy regarding protecting the sanctity of your vote. If you choose Obama, McCain or Spongebob Squarepants, your vote should count.
If ACORN is misbehaving, throw the book at them. However, If you’re really worried about your vote, read up on voting machines. A good website is http://www.blackboxvoting.com
There are a lot of sneaky things going on in that world.
How are you going to be able to handle a problem like this unless you are honest about the scope of the problem. Groups like ACORN are not leftist progressive. They are communist.
This is a problem that has plagued the democrats for nearly three generations now. Infiltration by various traitorous marxist organizations that work at the behest of incredibly sick, hostile foreign powers.
The term “social justice” has NOTHING to do with anything benign and benevolent, in any way. It’s a Orwellian speak for violence used to destroy our way of life and enslave people to one group of privilege or another. Zimbabwe is a good example of what I am talking about. Social justice as a euphemism for ethnically cleansing white people in an orgy of racist hate, followed by enslavement of everyone else to a privilege class close to Mugabe and the total destruction of all institutions as they are forced to adhere to marxist theories which have all proven to be horrible failures whenever applied in the world, without a single, solitary exception.
This is what Obama wants for the US. Of course, it’s also what Clinton wants for the US. They just have different opinions as to who should be the masters and who should be the slaves.
ACORN is nothing more than a group of freelancing brown shirts that happen to be working for Obama now.
Many years ago, I helped in the founding of our local “Peace Center”.Over time we were infiltrated with a variety of “Peace and Justice” groups who brought their own agendas with them.Back then, in my naivety, I thought “How nice…Communists want peace too”…HA! We need to dig into the roots of these so-called peace groups to find out what their real intentions are. I was shocked to learn that ANSWER(”war is not the answer”)is a Communist based group that supported the Chinese Government crack down on the protesters in Tianamen Square. While I no longer have anything to do with the Peace Center, I still receive their rally announcements sponsered by groups that are not(IMO) for peace, and not for America.
I makes me sick to hear the bi-partisan bickering!!!
All of you are fools if you fuel either side of the two opposing factions who entire perpose is to destroy each other!!!
Do you not see how it works…The dems and republicans disagree on issues that considering the current circumstances DONT MATTER the issues that do matter are not spoke of by either party or debated amonst anyone in the media!!!
When was the last debate you heard on the UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of the current monetary system we have.You IDIOTS can blam the current overboard spending on Bush and you can blame the easy access to financing which led to this Mortgage crisis on Clinton but non of that even matters what matters is that we allow a PRIVATE FOR PROFIT FORIEGN COORPORATION TO CONTROL THE OUR FIAT DEBT BASED CURRENCY. THROUGH A PREDESINGED SYSTEM OF INFLATION AND DEFLATION THEY ARE STEALING OUR HARD ASSETS (LAND SINCE THEY ALREADY GOT THE GOLD IN 33) AND DESTROYING OUR COUTRY, NEXT WILL BE A COMPLETE LOSS OF SOVERIGNTY AND OUR ADMITENCE IN TO A MULTINATION
NEW WORLD OREDER!!!!
WAKE UP!!!!
Bush cannot do nothing without congress, so blame congress, especially the Democrats, remeber they were going to change things, they did for the worse.
I makes me sick to hear the bi-partisan bickering!!!
All of you are fools if you fuel either side of the two opposing factions who entire perpose is to destroy each other!!!
Do you not see how it works…The dems and republicans disagree on issues that considering the current circumstances DONT MATTER the issues that do matter are not spoke of by either party or debated amonst anyone in the media!!!
When was the last debate you heard on the UNCONSTITUTIONALITY of the current monetary system we have.You IDIOTS can blam the current overboard spending on Bush and you can blame the easy access to financing which led to this Mortgage crisis on Clinton but non of that even matters what matters is that we allow a PRIVATE FOR PROFIT FORIEGN COORPORATION TO CONTROL THE OUR FIAT DEBT BASED CURRENCY. THROUGH A PREDESINGED SYSTEM OF INFLATION AND DEFLATION THEY ARE STEALING OUR HARD ASSETS (LAND SINCE THEY ALREADY GOT THE GOLD IN 33) AND DESTROYING OUR COUTRY, NEXT WILL BE A COMPLETE LOSS OF SOVERIGNTY AND OUR ADMITENCE IN TO A MULTINATION
NEW WORLD OREDER!!!!
WAKE UP!!!!
Nick is on to the GAME, so please pay attention.
From my perspective, the two party system is just another divide and conquer mechanism used to control the masses. A few ultra powerful puppeteers pit the brown eyed kids against the blue eyed kids, the Rs against the Ds, the blacks against the whites, the rich against the poor, the men against the women, the blue collar joes against the white collar wannabees, right to lifers against pro choicers, and on and on. As long as the masses are feeding on each other, they will be too busy to focus on and attack the real power brokers. They have the public focused on the theatrical charades of Congressional puppets, while the entire financial power of our nation - and more - is being (or has been) “redistributed.”
If all of this was in an isolated tribe with small numbers, including you and I, we would find the individual culprits and hang them high in the public square as an act of patriotism. But the real world today is warped by the effects of social engineering, lawyers, and uncontrolled population explosions.
The master puppeteers ARE STEALING OUR ASSETS. They manipulate the markets and make money if it goes up or down, so don’t look for market stability. They manipulate currency exchange rates (can you say devalued dollar) to further enslave the masses while recapturing wealth. When the housing bubble was created and then burst, where do you think all of that wealth was transferred to? The residual vacuum is now sucking the US Treasury into even further bankruptcy. Meanwhile, We The People feed on each other and don’t seem to recognize the game.
Lots of people are sounding the alarm to “wake up.” The question is whether those that do wake up will know what to do and have the fortitude to make a difference.
Absolutely!!!!!!!!!
WE THE PEOPLE fail when we adhere to a two party government.
Are these “front-runners” the best we’ve got?!
Heed the call to arms !!!
THE POLITICIANS ARE COMING! THE POLITICIANS ARE COMING!
THE ALARMS ARE DEAFENING!
PLEASE AMERICA, WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!!!
The Seattle Times link doesn’t work.
I know the story you are referring to, I have seen it about 4-6 weeks ago and posted it on anther forum. There was a similar story out of St. Louis involving indictments and convictions for voter fraud involving ACORN members.
From Columbus, OH:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/10/21/20061021-B1-05.html
Search and you will find even more stories like this in other cities. The big BO is also opposed to voter ID laws. Why shouldn’t a voter be required to submit identification when the poll worker checks off the name on the voter rolls before receiving a ballot? Even non-driver license photo ID’s are relatively common and easy to obtain and thus do not impede the right to vote.
I did a search on “ACORN tactics” and had numerous hits.
ACORN put out a training manual — I downloaded the manual and reviewed their tactics — the Obama caucus thugs were using pages from that manual!! I wish I could locate that training manual — it may be on a computer that crashed. The manual was a blueprint for “community organizers” to take over meeting or force their agenda on a group.
These people are manipulative — they are using psychological warfare. They use methods developed to help troubled (mentally ill) patients — and these methods are very potent. We were warned about some of the techniques in Grad School — they are only to be used with caution and with supervision.
Yet this group (and Obama) use this psychological manipulation on the MASSES.
These are also methods used in CULTS — there are so many cults in the US (and probably other countries) — and most people don’t recognize the cult like techniques.
Some religions are cults — we have many in the Northwest — several small cult churches in Washington. I was just talking with a former cult member — this person escaped from the cult. A family member also left the cult and joined a supposed main stream church — the paster of this individual’s former cult visits each church and makes wild claims (trying to get his cult members to return). What has happened is that former cult members can’t find another church — because there is a network of ministers in this area.
ACORN “may” have some noble goals — but they also have a hidden agenda.
As I said before — now the pieces are falling into place.
Former cult members see the Obama movement for what it is — another cult.
I hope that Hillary can pull out a win — but if the DNC continues to force Obama on America — we will have to vote McCain in order to save America from the cult of Obama.
PUMA!
Yet this group (and Obama) use this psychological manipulation on the MASSES.
These are also methods used in CULTS — there are so many cults in the US (and probably other countries) — and most people don’t recognize the cult like techniques.
OMG we were joking (just a little snark) about Obama having a church, the ACORN worshiping church and how it was going to get thrown under the bus! I know it’s not related to this post, but the irony is unbelievable!
Could someone explain to me the brain-dead reporting and support for anyone Democrat by Taylor Marsh?
She truly has never heard of a ‘Principled Position.’
I feel sorry for Taylor Marsh — either she is the best liar blogger — or she is able to ignore the cognitive dissonance created by her support now for Obama and the investigative type reporting she was doing 6 months ago.
Taylor Marsh is now a joke — not believable as a reporter — no credibility.
Perhaps she was offered a job if she was a good girl and drank the cult-aide?
When she started kneeling down to the Obamabutts BEFORE Hillary suspended her campaign — I knew that the fix was in and yet another Blog had gone over to the dark side.
True and the day she got her profile included at the Washington Post was a clear sign she was fighting just to get a voice back in the media she got tossed from for whatever reason.
As a fellow person from the Northwest [Eastern WA] the entire process is a joke.
As a Libertarian who voted for Clinton this upcoming WA set of General Election contests will be quite amusing to watch.
I’m getting quite tired of the 527s for Governor Gregoire.
The State doesn’t care about Infrastructure and Rail Systems for Heavy highspeed freight or lightrail, but they sure continue to disproportionately spend for King County projects while shafting East of the Cascades.
She banned me for using his middle name Hussein..no warning..nothing and my honestly and disclosure was not accepted..she is only comfoortable with partial to no truth.
I don’t have any sympathy for her. I lurked a lot on her blog a few months ago because the comments were by sincere, intelligent Hillary supporters.
Even then, I noticed she was arrogant in response to any criticism. The last post I read on her site she said Hillary’s supporters who weren’t falling in line were going to hurt Hillary in terms of political payback and she seemed to have no problem with that. That was right after Donna Barkoshevich(?) from Wisconsin said publicly she would support McCain rather than Obama.
IMO she moved sides to protect herself and proved to be an opportunist. I haven’t gone back to her blog since.
Those of you who do not go to the Blog of Taylor Marsh - most excellent! Ignore the likes of her - if no one responds or reads her she might disappear - any hope of that?
Taylor Marsh is now a joke — not believable as a reporter — no credibility.
If she had supported Hillary without completely trashing Obama, it might not have looked so bad for her. However, she said some pretty vile stuff about Obama and then did a complete 180, causing her lose all credibility. Here’s one of her tamer comments from a March 14, 2008 post.
This is why her longtime readers now thinks that she appears to be an opportunist rather than just a “good” Democrat who’s falling in line behind the “presumptive” nominee. Maybe she’s bucking for White House Press Secretary. LOL!
The use of “bucking” is possibly appropriate in some metaphorical sense of the word–in it’s most lascivious sense.
Here is a recent NY Times article discussing ACORN. Toward the end of the article is mention of registrars in Louisiana receiving fraudulent applications that may be up to 35% of the total new registration applications received. The article states these applications have been gathered by Voting is Power (VIP) which is a branch of the Muslim American Society
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/us/politics/15vote.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1215241432-AvHeJ5S556D5/GOQHDb99Q
http://www.masvip.org/
There needs to be a congressional hearing bad.We can’t have these kinds of elections. This is severe.
Problem is…Congress isn’t HEARING anything people are saying. Hence the 18.5 approval rating…lower than Bush’s approval rating by 11 points!
ACORN is an organisation dedicated for justice for poor families? How very unAmerican. Everyone knows America is just for rich people. Don’t worry, Obama will dump them as soon as he can. He wants to be President so bad he can taste it, and along with blacks, women, appalachians, campaigners against guns and capital punishment, he’ll ditch the poor too. Why scuff up his nice shiny new brand which such unpatriotically impoverished ugly folks?
If ACORN was an organization dedicated to justice for the poor, then there would be no controversy, but it is not. ACORN is an organization dedicated to exploiting the poor to achieve its own ends. ACORN has already thrown the poor under the bus.
Northwestrain and every one who went to a caucus or knows someone who did..please fill out the survey. We only have a month to gather your stories which are confidential and for legal reasons. The good Dr would like to hear from you please. http://www.lynettelong.com.
Done — I completed the survey and added my observations about the trained Obama thugs in the caucus.
Truth? You can’t stand the truth!
0ur land is not for sale. We can see through deception.
The chosen one is a bad spirit. We will rise.
american_native
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs2DXHUKASA
It’s time to remove them all from office and start over.
I’m done. http://www.giveacrat.com/
No wonder Obama said he doesn’t need voters — he needs checks. The FBI should investigate Acorn and their tactics. We have a Republican Administration and a Republican Attorney General — do they want to sit back and watch Obama steal this election from a Republican?
What Obama does not say is just as important, if not more so, than what he does say. He said he would change the electoral map. Most voters would assume that he meant winning over Republicans and independents to turn a red state blue. That is the voter assumption, he never said how he would change it.
It’s creepy. WTF does that mean by changing the electoral map. He’s creepy.
THE FBI should INVESTIGATE NOBAMA!! We know about ACORN and they are under investigation. They also ought to investigate Obama’s PUBLIC ALLIES and LA RAZA for which we pay close to 4 million a year.
Michelle the dearheart that she is, told “organizers” in this group the one element of Capitalism on which our contry is based is WHITE SUPREMACY!!
Elect McCain and get even with the Obama’s. Since they like AFRICA so much, let’s send them there. They can go live with OB’s brother in his shack!
Seriously, send them back to Africa? Is this 1960 or 2008?
Seems like many states are looking into Acorn’s voter registration tactics.
I think it was LA that one of the officials found himself reregistered under a different party due to Acorn.
Very interesting organization, especially when you consider almost everything you hear verges on illegal.
It’s time to wake up. We’ve all had a huge slap it the face and we can’t go back home.
On May 31, 2008 we all knew there was no turning back and we needed a third party. Our hopes for a better world were kicked out of us. But we all have to come together and stop the bamboozle. Obama or McCain is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Hillary would have made a difference.
This affects even East Coasters today and Politicians are not helping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYdXh0xD9CQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo6n1YSqg0M
Hilliary is as bad a socialist as OB except for NOT wanting a civilian security force which OB wants.
REad the steps HITLER did to take over and you see Obama in Action! Read his WORDS and you will see his socialist personae!
Yeah we had better wake up and elect MCCain - Nobama is unthinkable!
Despite Obamas unfamiliar persona, his is a charming and conventional American success story — he grew up in a broken home, was raised by a relative, became chief editor of the Harvard Law Review (hardly the house organ for a bastion of bomb-throwers), and then spent most of his political career in the bowels of that well-known cauldron of Marxism: the Illinois state legislature.
It’s a lucky thing Obama isn’t connected with any anti-abortion groups. The extreme right’s methods are far more extreme than those of the left:
Just wait for it. He’s trying to appeal to Evangelicals now. Shortly, he’ll flip-flopping on his abortion stance, too.
Obama’s Chicago gang is also mixed up with people like one-time alderwoman Dorothy Tillman, who is a one-note Nellie regarding reparations. I imagine most Americans already realize how dangerous BO is, but if they don’t, the 527’s should take care of that. The only way he can win is by some vast conspiracy to commit vote fraud, and the GOP won’t just lie down for that like the DNC did!