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The Cleveland Leader has a series of posts tracking the Obama campaign’s lies and evasions about the candidate’s long history of connections with ACORN, and their attempts to quietly edit the Obama website as more information leaks out: Obama Campaign Involved in More Cover-Ups in ACORN Scandal.

Wikileaks.org has an article from the Winter 2003 edition of the magazine Social Policy (the full article is here, but requires registration), making it very clear that Barack Obama’s ties to ACORN are extensive.

(Here’s our local copy of the PDF file.)

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[Photo caption: “ACORN members meet with Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama. Photo courtesy Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.”]

Obama started building the base years before. For instance, ACORN noticed him when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project. He was a very good organizer. When he returned from law school, we asked him to help us with a lawsuit to challenge the state of Illinois’ refusal to abide by the National Voting Rights Act, also known as motor voter. Allied only with the state of Mississippi, Illinois had been refusing to allow mass-based voter registration according to the new law. Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican 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 5000 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.

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ScavengerType said:

probibly because of the voter fraud they are connected to. I mean could you imagine how scandalous it would be to be an elected ruler with a huge voter fraud scandal to cloud over your presidency? The only thing that could be more embarrassing is if he choked on a pretzel or fell off a segway scooter.

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That's a picture of Bush falling off a segway scooter-

ScavengerType said:

probibly because of the voter fraud they are connected to. I mean could you imagine how scandalous it would be to be an elected ruler with a huge voter fraud scandal to cloud over your presidency? 

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Phred said:

"As of yesterday, Fightthesmears.com stated:

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

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Sometime on Friday, the website was altered, and the text was changed to state:

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Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.

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ACORN is now under the bus!






So many lies......

Prisoner#1 said:

it's funny how he suddenly has no ties with them but he wants
them to help with his agenda while in office, ACORN is just code
pink with a different wardrobe

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=

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OMGZ you called ACORN a wardrobe. You sexist evil racist.

Yossarian22 said:

Yeah, fuck ACORN, trying to get the poor and minorities registered to vote. Assholes.

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ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls."

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afoaf said:
yeah, because republicans have never tried to disenfranchise black and lower
class citizens by threatening checks on outstanding warrants or posting
jack booted thugs at polls or anything...

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Today u defend them, Yesterday you called them "Niggers"......

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afoaf said:
I haven't seen any hard numbers in this thread detailing the rate of
mortgage defaults for these nigger loans.

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zappaisgod said:

Yossarian22 said:

Yeah, fuck ACORN, trying to get the poor and minorities registered to vote. Assholes.

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http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/acorn-files-vot.html

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ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls."

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It is a stunningly easy matter for anyone to register to vote.  Anybody who needs help is either infirm or insane.

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zappaisgod said:

Another factor driving Obama's distancing himself from ACORN is the results of their strong arm tactics coercing banks to lend to bums and deadbeats, which results have become quite evident recently.  Strong arm tactics that Obama helped train them in.  Organizing, heh.

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Yossarian22 said:

If you're gonna cite a source, choose a better one than "Iowa Hawk". Yes, registering is easy but there's nothing wrong with encouraging people to register and giving them information about voting.

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encouraging people to register and giving them information about voting

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Yossarian22 said:

zappaisgod said:

Another factor driving Obama's distancing himself from ACORN is the results of their strong arm tactics coercing banks to lend to bums and deadbeats, which results have become quite evident recently.  Strong arm tactics that Obama helped train them in.  Organizing, heh.

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Again, nobody outside the right-wing echosphere believes that nonsense.

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