Obama, as well as most of the elite media, fail to reveal the full depth and extent of Obama's relationship with ACCORN.
According to the Cleveland Leader, attempts have been made to wipe the web clean of potentially damaging articles concerning Obama's involvement with ACORN.
Nevertheless, a 2004 article - Case Study: Chicago- The Barack Obama Campaign - written by Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN Leader, and published in the journal Social Policy was found and reveals Obama did in fact train ACORN "community organizers.
"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."
That article disproved a false claim, made on Obama's so-called fight the smears website, that Obama was never an ACORN trainer. On Thursday fight the smears stated:
Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
Thanks to the efforts of the Cleveland Leader, as of yesterday, fight the smears has been revised to read:
Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.
Fight the smears may have revised the blatant lie revealed by the Cleveland Leader, but it maintains the obfuscation.
Comments
"...attempts have been made to wipe the web clean..."
If Orwell could only see us now.
Obama is a fricking crook! EMAIL THE WEBPAGE TO ALL AMERICANS SOON, AND PASTE POSTERS ALL OVER AMERICA EXPOSING OBAMA AS A BLOT ON DECENCY, WHO'S HAND IS IN THE COOKIE JAR.
Obama has done a good job of appealing to the very young, the blacks, Hollywood and socialist/communist leaning groups and individuals. Apparently there are enough others (not in these categories) that are wanting a change badly enough that it doesn't matter what this guy does, is, has been, will be. He will definitely change things.
Other administrations (congress)have implemented socialist programs and the accumulation of these programs have made us a 'sort of' socialist country, already. America has survived a lot of bad presidents but it will be interesting to see what becomes of America after a combination socialist/Marxist/communist. Many Obama supporters want to believe or convenience that to oppose Obama solely racist. Sure, there are some. Most are black as they are voting over 95% for Obama and most are voting for the first, and perhaps last, time. I understand and accept that. I don't understand those who simply want things to change. But we may as well get used to the fact that he is likely going to be our president regardless of his dishonesty and anti-American plans. And, we failed to produce a strong candidate that gives us a real opponent.
I need to go barf now.
"...attempts have been made to wipe the web clean..."
Wow. Not only is he a muslim terrorist but now he has super web cleaning powers.
The website Sweetness & Light is where these lies were first uncovered back on October 4th:
Obama Claims He Never Worked For Acorn | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-claims-he-never-worked-for-acorn
Obama Ran ACORN Power Training Classes | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-ran-acorns-training-sessions-on-power
Just one week ago, the Obama campaign declared that 'Barack Obama never organized with ACORN.' According to today's New York Times, that statement is simply not true. The paper quotes Barack Obama on his role as head of Project Vote and says the statement 'linked his 1992 work to ACORN in a meeting with ACORN's leaders in November.' In fact, Barack Obama has a long relationship with ACORN, to which he and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers funneled nearly $200,000 from the Woods Foundation, and as recently as February of this year his campaign paid nearly $1 million to an ACORN affiliate for services related to get out the vote efforts.
It is clear that Barack Obama is not being honest about his association with ACORN, just as he has not been honest about his association with unrepentant terrorist Willi am Ayers. The media has an obligation to investigate the obvious contradictions between Barack Obama's rhetoric and his record."
Dan, have you seen the video at this Hyscience link: <a href="http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/10/obama_said_in_2.php"target=_blank"">Obama said in 2007 that as president he will invite ACORN to 'Shape the Agenda' of his presidency (Updated)</a>. It needs all the attention it can get.
Bigger Than Ayers [Mark Hemingway]
I've stayed largely silent on the William Ayers controversy because, while associating with someone of that nature is completely reprehensible, I'm not altogether convinced it's a poltically effective attack. (I also wish McCain was putting a better economic message on the table right now as well.) Further, if associating with criminals is a problem — there are more relevant associations with ties to his campaign that everybody ought to be concerned with.
I've been screaming into the abyss for some time about Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer that Obama endorsed when he ran for office despite no previous political experience, who has been personally mixed up with organized crime via business dealings with his family's bank. Well, guess what — this little nugget turned up in a column in the Chicago Sun-Times:
Sneed hears rumbles political fund-raiser/fixer Tony Rezko, who is now singing sweetly to the feds from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, has been talking about his "dealings" with a Chicago bank, which has political connections.
Now that's throw away item in a political gossip column, so I would suggest taking it with a grain of salt. But if there's any truth to it the odds that Rezko is singing about Giannoulias' Broadway Bank are exceedingly high. If Giannoulias turns out to be in legal trouble again, there's no way Obama can disatance himself like he has with Ayers. Giannoulias has been out raising lots of money for his campaign, and was even given a speaking slot at the Democratic convention in August.
So Obama chose to have him associated with his campaign. This was well after it became public that Giannoulias had loaned $11.8 million to Michael Giorango, a convicted bookmaker and prostitution promoter. Giannoulias first denied he personally approved the loan, then Chicago Tribune reported that Giannoulias personally oversaw $11.8 million in mortgage loans to Giorango in 2005. Then Giannoulias said the money had not gone to finance Casinos for organized crime. He appears to have lied again: “But newly obtained records show that $3.6 million of the recent loans were used by Giorango and another convicted felon to acquire a casino boat marina in Myrtle Beach, S.C.,” reported the Tribune.
It's not like the Obama campaign can credibly say they didn't know about this before he was out raising money for the campaign. But I'd like to believe major news agencies might want to pull a few reporters out of dumpsters in Wasilla (probably starting to get really cold up there anyway) and get them to Chicago to look into a potential Rezko-Giannoulias connection toot sweet. Maybe there's nothing there, but it's worth looking into right?
I can dream, can't I?
Hmm,after all the smears that turn out to be baseless, the Rovian smear team think they have hit gold. McCain is behind in the polls, some unknown persons drop off boxes of forged and obvious phony registration papers ALL in the same handwriting, flooding offices. Staffers are unable to cope so the put aside ALL Acorn papers until they can figure it out. Lou Dobbs gets on his soap box and accusations are hurled at Obama personally over this.
Just another way to smear someone and it might work this time if people don't FACT CHECK.ORG
another lie that obama gets caught in.
tony resko
bill ayers
rev. wright
acorn
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"Lou Dobbs gets on his soap box and accusations are hurled at Obama personally over this."
Uhhh,Obama's campaign paid ACORN $800,000.
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