Wacko Web

Barack's leftist world.

JOE THE ACORN

While Joe the Plumber has put a face on Barack's big tax lie - he is about redistributing the wealth being acquired by the overpaid plumbers of America - ACORN has become the symbol of the radicalism that fills the pint size container of experience that purports to qualify Barack for the presidency.

"Sen. Obama won't tell you the full truth about his tax increases, and now he's kinda fuzzing up his connections to ACORN," said Palin, of the "Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now."

"Now, ACORN is under investigation for rampant voter fraud in thirteen states," Palin said, herself "fuzzing up" the difference between fraudulent voter registration forms and voter fraud, which is quite different.

The McCain campaign, while relishing the opportunity that Barack has presented with his J the P gaffe, is wise keep ACORN in the mix.

Palin then detailed the myriad connections between Obama and the group. "Now, Obama says that his only involvement with ACORN was when he represented the group as a lawyer," she said. "But what about the training that he provided ACORN in the past and ACORN staff, and his role in past ACORN voter registration efforts? And then, there's the $200,000 that he got for ACORN when he was on the board of the Woods Fund. And the fact that ACORN endorsed him this year and they're working pretty hard on his behalf."

She also noted that "a front group for ACORN received over $800,000 from the Obama campaign."

This is the kind of information the American people need to make an informed decision about Barack, and it may inflame concerns that keep Barack from establishing the sort of lead you'd expect him to have in this race.

"All of this would be a lot of baggage to drag into the Oval Office," Palin said. "And Americans are entitled to answers before Election Day ... John and I are calling on the Obama campaign to release communications it has had with this group and to do so immediately."

That's a good demand! They should make a formal request of discovery - all payments, bills, phone records, emails, etc. The public has a right to know!

She ended her remarks by saying she knew Ohioans wouldn't "let them turn the Buckeye State into the Acorn State."

Tonight's Debate Strategy

McCain needs to go after Barack tonight, but it can't be about Bill Ayers, per se. It should be about his radical past, in general. It should be about his connection to the financial crisis via ACORN. And it should be about Barack's confession a couple of days ago, to a plumber concerned about his tax proposals, that he wants to redistribute the wealth.

I want McCain to whip out a tape recorder and play this cut into the microphone tonight, telling the American people that Barack slipped the other day and told the truth about his so-called tax cut. That would cause a commotion. But it would take some balls.

Are you wondering?

The big question about Barack, should he become President, is whether he will remain committed to the radical causes, organizations and individuals who brought him to power, or if he'll sell them out as readily as he has his stated principles.

I'm reposting this video because it reflects on this important question, and it now has the added power of Rush talking about it. The piece shows Barack promising to put the folks from ACORN at the policy making table not just during his first 100 days, but in advance of his taking office.

Obama took questions from the moderator, Katherine Hughes. Katherine Hughes says, "If elected president would you agree in your first 100 days to meet with a delegation of representatives from these various community organizations, the Campaign for Community Values, and so forth, can they count on you in your first 100 days to sit down with them?"

OBAMA: Yes. But let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. (cheering) We're going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda of the next presidency of the United States of America!

RUSH: So he's going to have ACORN in without preconditions. He's going to have all these community organizations in, and he's going to let them set the agenda and he's out there denying that he knows them.

McCain Goes ACORN

ACORN is in danger of having the flow of endless taxpayer dollars going into its bank accounts slowed as a result of becoming the poster child for the mortgage meltdown. So they're fighting back.

John McCain’s presidential campaign has been on the attack against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for its voter registration tactics as well as its ties to rival Barack Obama. Today, Acorn fired back at McCain, accusing the Arizona senator of erratic and misleading behavior.

Personally, this nasty release only makes me hate ACORN more.

“ACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?” reads a release by the organization this afternoon, noting that McCain was the keynote speaker at a Feb. 20, 2006 Miami rally cosponsored by Acorn to build support for a comprehensive immigration reform bill co-sponsored by McCain and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. The bill never passed Congress.

I hope they never get another dime.

In a statement, Bertha Lewis, chief organizer of Acorn, sharply attacked McCain, suggesting the 72-year-old senator is “erratic”—a word that Republicans believe Democratic opponents use against McCain to stir up concerns about his age.

McCain, of course, should have never gone near them. But he shouldn't have been pushing amnesty for illegals either.

“Maybe it is out of desperation that Sen. McCain has forgotten that he was for Acorn before he was against Acorn; he was for immigration reform before he was against immigration reform; and he was a maverick before he became erratic,” Lewis said.

Erratic, by the way, is code for old. Stop the bigotry.

Barack Lennon

I've been pondering which way Barack goes if he gets power. Is he a committed leftist who will seek to realize John Lennon's "Imagine" vision, or will he abandon his friends as soon as they've gone home from the inaugural galas?

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

Barack's story is one of a lust for power. Was his purpose the radical agenda, or was the radical infrastructure just the railroad track he chose to put his private car on? I'm inclined to assume the latter.

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

If you believe anything Barack says, then the above video is very scary. History, though, shows that he says whatever works.

Does he really love ACORN, or are they his food of necessity? Since there's no way to find out but to elect him, we must hope that we never learn the answer.

The Cold Civil War

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Fighting a Cold Civil War

That phrase came to me a couple of weeks ago when I was thinking about the elections and all the anger going on...the whole blue vs. red thing. The phrase came up again this morning when I was discussing all this with my co-workers. So I Googled it...lots of other pundits and bloggers were writing about this at least a year ago. Maybe I read one of those articles and just didn't remember, but the phrase stuck in my mind. Anyway, I think it's accurate.

As far as I'm concerned, the differences are irreconcilable. One part of the country wants a socialist, European-style country. The other part wants a country based on free-enterprise and the Constitution. One side has disdain for orthodox Judeo-Christian faiths, whereas the other side embraces or at least tolerates those beliefs. One part believes that if we just let down our defenses, everything would be peace and lovebeads. The other part knows we live in a dangerous world and that defense is essential.

However this election turns out, there will be turmoil. If Obama wins, a large part of the country will feel angry and powerless against the will of the left leaning blue states, the news media, Hollywood and academia. (In fact, they already feel that way, I assure you.) They will believe that ACORN created enough false voter registrations to put Obama over the top. If McCain wins, the left will riot and claim, "The Diebold machines were hacked!" The blue states, the news media, Hollywood and academia will resent that the will of the "dumb hicks" in flyover country overruled that of their "betters". And we will hear the cries of, "Racism! Racism!" ad nauseam.

I hate to sound all doom-and-gloom, but I see absolutely no solution to this. Or at least no solution in which America stays in the same form it is now. I hope I'm wrong about that. I guess we'll see.

Barack's Nuts

Did Barack work for ACORN?

While Barack says he never worked for ACORN in any capacity, might he be lying, or, perhaps, parsing - working with as opposed to for?

"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 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."

At his Fight the Smears website, Barack denies the linkage.

Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is attacking Barack Obama with naked lies about his supposed connection to ACORN.

• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN community organizer.
• Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.
• Fact: ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.

For me, Barack's denial is confession enough, as it creates more questions than answers. Why is he so horrified to be linked to ACORN - Why is that so bad? And if it's such a disgusting organization, why did he visit each year to train, and why did he represent them?

Barack learned an important campaign lesson from the Jeremiah Wright scandal - never tell the truth about your radical past. Since then, he's pretended not to know Michael Pfleger, one of his self-avowed personal advisers, he's pretended not to really know Bill Ayers (just a guy in my neighborhood), and now he's struggling to keep ACORN at some arbitrary distance to avoid disclosing the truth.

Fight over details and semantics all you want. These are Barack's People.

Which explains why, when he wanted help with voter registration, he turned to ACORN.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of ACORN, the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

Who cares whether he worked for them when we know they work for him?

Knowing Saul

At the convention a month ago, Republicans made a joke of Barack's number 1 presidential credential - "Community Organizer." Through ACORN, Americans can now see that community organizers are dangerous - a force to be reckoned with.

To know Barack, and to understand ACORN, start with Saul - the original community organizer.

Who gains access to the power of the presidency if Barack claims power?

Cracking Acorn II

Does 'non-partisan' ACORN mix community activist dollars with campaigning for specific candidates?

Cracking Acorn I

Getting to know ACORN. This is an introduction piece from the organization's website.

And here's a news story on ACORN's recent problems with fraudulent voter registrations the organization has collected in Kansas City.