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OBAMA ACORN SCANDAL BAILOUT COMMUNITY ORGANIZER VOTER FRAUD

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What if Barack Obamas 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, youd 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, Id wager, does Barack Obama.

Obama Meets Acorn
What has Barack Obama got to do with all this? Plenty. Lets begin with Obamas pre-law school days as a community organizer in Chicago. Few people have a clear idea of just what a community organizer does. A Los Angeles Times piece on Obamas early Chicago days opens with the touching story of his efforts to build a partnership with Chicagos Friends of the Parks, so that parents in a blighted neighborhood could have an inviting spot for their kids to play. This is the image of Obamas organizing were supposed to hold. Its far from the whole story, however. As the L. A. Times puts it, Obamas task was to help far South Side residents press for improvement in their communities. Part of Obamas work, it would appear, was to organize demonstrations, much in the mold of radical groups like Acorn.

Although the L. A. Times piece is generally positive, it does press Obamas organizing tales on certain points. Some claim that Obamas book, Dreams from My Father, exaggerates his accomplishments in spearheading an asbestos cleanup at a low-income housing project. Obama, these critics say, denies due credit to Hazel Johnson, an activist who claims she was the one who actually discovered the asbestos problem and led the efforts to resolve it. Read carefully, the L. A. Times story leans toward confirming this complaint against Obama, yet the storys emphasis is to affirm Obamas important role in the battle. Speaking up in defense of Obama on the asbestos issue is Madeleine Talbot, who at the time was a leader at Chicago Acorn. Talbot, we learn, was so impressed by Obamas organizing skills that she invited him to help train her own staff.

And what exactly was Talbots work with Acorn? Talbot turns out to have been a key leader of that attempt by Acorn to storm the Chicago City Council (during a living-wage debate). While Sol Stern mentions this story in passing, the details are worth a look: On July 31, 1997, six people were arrested as 200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session.

Reading the Herald article, you might think Acorns demonstrators had simply lost patience after being denied entry to the gallery at a packed meeting. Yet the full story points in a different direction. This was not an overreaction by frustrated followers who couldnt get into a meeting (there were plenty of protestors already in the gallery), but almost certainly a deliberate bit of what radicals call direct action, orchestrated by Acorns Madeleine Talbot. As Talbot was led away handcuffed, charged with mob action and disorderly conduct, she explicitly justified her actions in storming the meeting. This was the woman who first drew Obama into his alliance with Acorn, and whose staff Obama helped train.

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  • every ones a crook motherfuckers, at the top especially

  • read 'meltdown' by T Woods. seriously. if you are sick of taking people's word for it and guessing, this book will explain

  • @metalicboy Some of all economic means are starting to figure out that socialists will lie when they feel justified.

  • @brendanBLT Of course Obama took care to walk a fine line. We don't say he is stupid. We say he is corrupt.

  • this video is so full of shit. acorn was created in 1970 and recent corruption didn't have anything to do with intimidation (something fox can be very proud to be a leader of) it had to do with conservative activists releasing a video "using a hidden camera to elicit damaging responses from low-level ACORN employees". one day the poor in this country are gonna realize how full of shit conservatives are.

  • one more thing: the law that they explained that ACORN used to "force" banks to issue "bad loans" to minorities must have been created during the years your conservative president, George W. Bush, was in power because it was under his administration that this housing market bottomed out. once again, this says nothing about Bush, after all he is a liberal at heart. he expanded government more than FDR

  • this is such hog-wash. If ACORN as a whole was nearly as bad as they mentioned here, "breaking into the offices of bank officials," THEY WOULD GO TO JAIL. besides, this does not explicitly mean that Obama trained people to harrass and force people to do illegal things--he went to law school and knows what a stupid idea that would be.

  • no wonder under Obamas adminstration didnt do a dam thing to black panthers when they tried to do voter intimadation tactics with thugs and battons.Obama seems to condon corupt tactics to get his ways ,but alot people look to him like he is a god.I dont know what is going on in this country Americans look at the evidience for gods sake.

  • @MyGrassroots LOL Not Reagen. Greatest President ever.

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