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buffaloboy


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From Little ACORNs, Big Scandals Grow (11/3/2008 - Weekly Standard)
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From Little ACORNs, Big Scandals Grow
by Charlotte Allen

Definitely worth reviewing this article from shortly before the election, in light of recent events.

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The in-your-face Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is currently being investigated for voter-registration fraud in 13 states. ACORN is often referred to as the spawn of Saul Alinsky (1909-72), the godfather of radical community organizers, whose most famous aphorism was "Keep the pressure on." ACORN's founders certainly had Alinsky's principles in mind when they founded the organization in 1970.

There is a web of connections between Alinsky, ACORN, and the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama. From 1985 to 1988, Obama worked for the Developing Communities Project, a church-based consortium operated by several Alinsky disciples on Chicago's poverty-plagued South Side. The DCP was imbued with Alinsky's philosophy of helping poor people band together at the grassroots level to confront a city government that frequently neglected them. (Obama contributed to the anthology After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois, touting the "impressive results" his Alinsky-inspired project had achieved.) Just before he left Chicago for Harvard Law School, Obama also went through training with the organization Alinsky founded in 1940, the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), and which carries on his legacy today.

Back in Chicago in the early 1990s, Obama represented ACORN in a voter-registration suit and directed a voter-registration drive for an ACORN affiliate, Project Vote. He sat on the board of the Chicago-based Woods Foundation that made hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of grants to Project Vote and (according to a report published in an ACORN journal in 2004) ran a session on power as part of ACORN's annual leadership training sessions for several years before his first run for public office in 1996.


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What strikes me about this article is the fact that the date on it is 11-03-08 - 1 day before the election. If any other candidate for president had these kinds of connections, the sordid details of it would have been in the news, in television ads for the other side, and very public knowledge - well before election day. MSM didn't want to report any info that would tarnish their hero. They wouldn't have reported it if O had shoved a little old lady into the path of an on-coming bus.



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I wonder how many more scandals that they will have before we are done.  Obama is going to face real problems if he doesn't distence himself from this group but it will be hard for him to do that.



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