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Inside Obama’s Acorn
By Stanley Kurtz

An even earlier expose on Obama's ties to ACORN.

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What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.

This is a story we’ve largely missed. While Obama’s Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive. In the few stories where Obama’s role as an Acorn “leadership trainer” is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama’s ties to Acorn.

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To understand the nature and extent of Acorn’s radicalism, an excellent place to begin is Sol Stern’s 2003 City Journal article, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities.” (For a shorter but helpful piece, try Steven Malanga’s “Acorn Squash.”)

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ACORN tries to get the hood all up and arms about getting more help for the poor but frankly those people don't give a damn about the hood.  They pretty much now just register people to vote and count people for the census. 

There are a lot better programs out there for the poor and disenfranchised then those organizations.



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Hillarysmygirl16 wrote:

 

ACORN tries to get the hood all up and arms about getting more help for the poor but frankly those people don't give a damn about the hood.  They pretty much now just register people to vote and count people for the census.

There are a lot better programs out there for the poor and disenfranchised then those organizations.

 


Stamp!  And, the actions of this corrupt organization will make it harder for the positive,  legitimate groups to gain the trust and support of the public.

I have to say, though, that O's ties to ACORN, and the work they did to get him "elected" are not unknown to us.  We've been writing about this organization since the primaries.  MSM didn't do it's job, as usual. If the general public didn't know about Obama and ACORN - MSM can take a whole lot of blame.

 



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