Speaking of Obama & ACORN
When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”
Hmmm . . . more here.
Are we having a pool for when Obama throws ACORN under his bus?
And it is getting crowded under there?
I wonder if he still appreciates their work?
Davy, I bet he does. I do. Just because they’re a slipshod organization that let things drift too far out of hand doesn’t mean they never did any good. You try hiring good help at the rock-bottom wages they pay. But in the years of their existence, they’ve tried to make better communities and help people find and keep homes. That’s not a bad agenda. If they fail, they fail. But at least they try.
“let things drift too far out of hand”
Ya think?
“You try hiring good help at the rock-bottom wages they pay.”
You mean they actually get paid for this? Why don’t all Dems in Congress and President Obama just give up their salaries and “spread the wealth around?”
“Rock bottom wages?” What, are they evil capitalists trying to hold on to as much money as they can?
“But in the years of their existence, they’ve tried to make better communities and help people find and keep homes.”
“Better communities.” Right. A whore house on every block. “Find and keep homes.” Right. By cheating on taxes, lying about income, and encouraging entrepreneurship through brothels.
I’m sure the communities are down with that. You’re very funny.
The latest from http://www.BigGovernment.com
1. BREAKING: ACORN Suspends Operations
2. ABC News: White House Calls ACORN Actions ‘Uacceptable’
3. Grey Lady Discovers ACORN Scandal
4. ‘The Audacity of Hos’: ‘Daily Show’ Skewers ACORN
5. ‘Tiffany Network’ Notices Scandal: Katie Couric on ACORN
6. L.A. Times: Acorn Needs to ‘Clean House’
7. ACORN Drops Smear Charge, Announces Reform
8. WSJ: Time for a Special Prosecutor for ACORN?
9. John Fund: ‘We’re just community organizers, just like the president used to be.’
10. Kudlow Report: ACORN Under Attack
Davy -
It’s picking up even more.
NY Attorney General will be investigating ACORN;
the NYC City Council Speaker has frozen all earmarked funding to ACORN;
San Bernardino PD have begun an investigation into Tresa Kaelke (the ACORN rep filmed) re her admission to having killed her husband;
A former SEIU boss sentenced to 25 years for child molestation and possession of child porn (folks, recall and/or discover the ACORN/SEIU direct connection); and,
the WH is trying to “distance” itself from ACORN. Yeah, good luck.
[...] Just came up with it moments ago, in light to Davy’s entry: [...]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33581
Davy -
Perhaps you’ve heard that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis has announced they are conducting an “internal investigation” utilizing their “independent advisory board.” Said “independent advisory board” includes:
Andrew Stern, SEIU President;
and,
John Podesta
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/16/acorn-leans-on-advisory-council/?feat=home_blogs
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/acorn-reacts.html
Oh yes, surely that is sufficient to put an end to all this corruption.
So, if they conduct an investigation, they’re criticized for trying to cover things up.
OTOH, if they didn’t conduct an investigation, they’d be criticized for ignoring the issue/having their heads in the sand.
Tell me where in the article ACORN says that they expect the independent investigation to be the end of it.
Oh I get it, it doesn’t matter what ACORN does at this point, you’ll take a shot.
Yeah, that’s the simplicity of it; that is what “we” are doing: taking “shots.”
I care very little what self-serving efforts ACORN alleges it is undertaking. I find it absurd that ACORN expects others to take seriously an investigation (or any eventual results of such an investigation) fronted by the SEIU President and a Chicago-politicking member of The One’s “transition team”/President CEO of CAP.
That is the point – the absurdity of the entity chosen by ACORN to carry out the “investigation” of ACORN.
ACORN have, long ago, far surpassed the point of being able to effectively self-monitor or self-investigate.
ACORN’s boss tries to defend ACORN.
ACORN’s boss reminds me of Brian Fellow.
Something I neglected to comment on earlier re Muskrat’s/Davy’s comments –
“…the rock bottom wages they pay…”
Funny that came up. In California, where this latest ACORN “let things drift out of hand” episode, ACORN specifically campaigned to be excluded from the state’s minimum wage laws. Oh yes, ACORN did lobby to have the minimum wage increased…for everyone else. ACORN argued the Earth-shattering concept that, in their case, and in ONLY in their case, the more that they had to pay a particular individual, the fewer employees they could afford to hire.
There’s blood in the water and the sharks are beginning to circle.