THE ACORN NEVER FALLS FAR FROM THE TREE

How many of you have been keeping track of all the voter registration fraud being perpetrated by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)? I've lost track, too. Every day brings new reports of fraud.

What has been Obama's response to all this? As with all his politically inconvenient associations, he has thrown them under the bus and has attempted to disassociate himself from them.

Obama has denied he ever worked with ACORN and insists his only association with the radical organization was when he filed a lawsuit on their behalf back in the early 90s.

Have you ever noticed that politicians seem to develop very selective memories? Let's review the facts and see if they fit Obama's reminiscences, shall we?

• Fact: Obama was a "leadership trainer" for ACORN.

• Fact: Obama sat on the Board of Directors of The Woods Fund, which gave the Chicago branch of ACORN grants Of $45,000 (2000), $30,000 (2001), $45,000 (2001), $30,000 (2002), and $40,000 (2002).

• Fact: In 1992, Obama directed ACORN's Project Vote, which managed to elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the U.S. Senate.

• Fact: Chicago ACORN Leader Toni Foulkes referred to Obama in the 2004 US Senate Primary as "the candidate we hold dear."

• Fact: Obama's presidential campaign gave over $800 million to ACORN and then lied to the Federal Election Commission about it. (How many fraudulent votes do you suppose Obama got for his money?)

• Fact: This past summer, Obama told a New York journalist, "I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career…"

• Fact: Thousands of allegedly fake voter registrations submitted by ACORN are being investigated. At least nine states are reviewing voter paperwork, and Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) police are looking into similar accusations. Employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN, are under investigation in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin since local election officials started noticing irregularities among the thousands of registrations submitted by ACORN. And guess who trained ACORN leaders? That's right: Obama!

Obama can back-pedal, lie and deny all he wants, but that won't change the facts, and the facts are that ACORN perpetrates voter fraud and employs intimidation tactics and Obama has been closely involved with that organization for decades and has trained them in these techniques.

So we can add ACORN to the growing list of unsavory organizations and characters closely associated with Obama: racist minister, Jeremiah Wright; domestic terrorists, William Ayers and Bernadette Dorn; racist black Muslim leader, Louis Farrakhan, who calls Barack Obama the messiah; PLO associate and Israel-hater, Rashid Khalidi. The list goes on and on — and as each one is discovered, Obama denies his association and attempts to rewrite his past.

Is this really the man we want in the White House?

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