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- meese, on 10/14/2008, -3/+31Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin threw McCain under the bus regarding ACORN this morning:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/13/sigh-mccain-a ...
Quoting her, "John McCain had no problem calling ACORN members his friends during his ill-fated illegal alien shamnesty crusade." At the end of her post, it sounds like she's given up on McCain. - SevenSheaves, on 10/14/2008, -3/+25"ACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?
Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College – Wolfson Campus."
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[ ... - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -3/+23I love this election!
- ChristmasPoo, on 10/14/2008, -1/+18No, this is pinned on idiots like you attempting to pin ACORN to Obama.
Everywhere the neocons step, they step in their own ***** and boy do they smell. - objective79, on 10/14/2008, -3/+17Internet Justice!!!!!!! ha ha ha ha. I LOVE THE INTERNETS!!!!
- dinot, on 10/14/2008, -1/+15Congratulations! You're retarded!
- familynight, on 10/14/2008, -0/+13Oh, Michelle. You have enough hate for everyone. God bless your vile little heart.
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -0/+10I have a love hate relationship with this election.
On one hand, it has been great theater. Tons of mock outrage, both sides stepping on themselves, a LOT of the true nature of American people coming out (just sat behind a truck with a huge, professionally done "HUSSEIN Obama, what a trauma!" window sticker). All pretty funny to watch.
The hate part is that we are falling apart in Afghanistan, our economy is in the tank, health care is spiraling out of control, etc. yet all we can talk about is Ayers, ACORN, Palin being a bimbo, and more of the worthless same.
I am just as guilty as others. It is amusing to banter among the trite-ness. I guess that is because even on the important issues, people only want to talk boiler plate.
Here's hoping we can get back to discussing what America REALLY needs to do, after the elections. Well, probably not until March or so. Whomever wins the Presidency will create months of angst ridden posts here on Digg all the way through inauguration... - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -1/+11McCain supporter: Bbbbb but but but....
- mikbunn, on 10/14/2008, -0/+8This election is giving me an ulcer. And I'm only 21.
- SheilaNoya, on 10/14/2008, -0/+7I'm 58 years old and this is definitely the most exciting election of my lifetime. It's also the most important one.
I may be an old grandmother, but I'm pushing hard for Obama! If we want this country to move forward, we can't have another damn Republican in the White House. - coachten, on 10/14/2008, -1/+7What?
ACORN didn't illegally try to register thousands of voters.
as a community organizing group they are required BY LAW to send in any and all voter registration forms, whether or not they have false information. The Board of Elections is supposed to look through every voter registration form that is filled out and approve those that are correct.
If the activists associated with ACORN or the people filling out the forms themselves try to send in multiple forms, that is not an ACORN policy, and they are still required BY LAW to send those voter registration forms in. - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -1/+7Everyone knows that poor people caused this financial crisis, not billionaires leveraging mortgages at 40 to 1. McCain will only follow in mr bush's footsteps, leading our country into more financial problems and wars.
- uncleosbert, on 10/14/2008, -0/+5christmas poo, did you even read the article you linked? what office are you referring to? most of the fraudulent cards were found by acorn people and turned into authorities:
"ACORN representatives said the group was being unfairly smeared for the wrongdoing of few errant employees.
They said ACORN staff worked closely with election officials to identify bad applications in its massive voter registration drive, which signed up 1.3 million new voters in 21 states for the presidential election."
here's more:
"According to Elyshya Miller, ACORN's head organizer for Kansas City, ACORN identified certain forms as potentially fraudulent and turned them over to prosecutors in late October; four organizers were responsible. A week later, all four organizers were indicted by a grand jury.
But in their evident haste to indict, the prosecutors made a mistake -- they indicted the wrong person. Three weeks after the election, Schlozman's office dropped the charges against one of the defendants, Stephanie Davis, admitting that her identity was used without her permission. It was not until January of this year that Schlozman's office finally indicted one Caren Davis, who was apparently the person they were really after. Caren Davis' lawyer Dana Altieri told me that Davis is currently undergoing a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she is competent to stand trial."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/05/ ...
you would think the investigators would bother to make sure they weren't trying the wrong person! - uncleosbert, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4at least obama doesn't pass campaign finance laws he doesn't follow when he runs for president:
"In the fall of 2007, McCain opted into the public financing system for the GOP primaries, which meant he'd later receive just over $5 million in public funds in exchange for agreeing to a fundraising limit of around $54 million for the entire primary process, which ends when he accepts the nomination at the Republican National Convention in September.
By late November, his campaign was practically broke, so McCain took out a pair of $1 million loans, using the public funds he would receive as collateral.
Cut to Super Tuesday, when McCain had the Republican nomination all but wrapped up. Suddenly, he didn't want to be bound by that $54 million limit, so his campaign did a 180 and opted back out of the public financing system.
But as David Mason, the Republican-appointed chair of the FEC, has pointed out, you can't just unilaterally opt out -- especially after securing a loan based on having opted in. The response of the McCain campaign is quite simply to ignore Mason. And because the FEC currently lacks a quorum (thanks to stalling tactics by that human roadblock to reform, Mitch McConnell) that's where things stand, pending a ruling on a lawsuit filed by the DNC."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/m ...
http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2008/06/mcca ... - ChristmasPoo, on 10/14/2008, -1/+5Sources please
- MJG2007, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Cool. So ACORN was founded in 1970 by Barack Obama when he was 9 years old?
He must have been extremely precocious to have managed that at such a young age. - malex, on 10/15/2008, -0/+3Why are you guys so continually obsessed with the idea that Obama wants to have a war with Pakistan?
The question he was presented with was what he would do if there was actionable intelligence showing that Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. Obama said he would try to get the cooperation of Zardari's goverment. If they were unwilling to cooperate, he would order a strike anyway.
Can you imagine any presidential candidate giving a different answer? Really?
Stop trying to distort reality. We need be ***** serious about this. - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -1/+4Well even a rightard like you must admit that there isn't a single proven case of a fraudulent from being submitted through ACORN that allowed someone to cast a fraudulent vote.
You are honest enough to do that, aren't you?
Since no crime was ever committed, don't you think you right wing shills should focus on the REAL issues?
Oh, right. Because to someone of your ethical capacity lying about it is a-ok. - chaosium, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2"Democrats are not our saviors, they are just as bad as the Republicans"
If you think they're equally bad, ESPECIALLY IN THIS ELECTION you're beyond stupid. - uncleosbert, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2nihilism might be its own reward.
- ironhide, on 10/18/2008, -0/+2@dreadpirate - you'll have to come up with a better source than the New York Fishwrap. Especially as I can't find a single report about this incident that doesn't link to the Post which is usually a good indicator of a bogus story.
- NorthMass, on 10/14/2008, -2/+2Democrats are not our saviors, they are just as bad as the Republicans. Obama/McCain are no different, both will move us back, not forward. The election SHOULD BE Dennis Kucinich vs Ron Paul.
- ChristmasPoo, on 10/14/2008, -6/+5Nobody's saying what ACORN did was right. I totally agree that it was corrupt to illegally register thousands of voters. My argument is that that the McCain camp was crying foul while not fully looking into their own history with the organization.
Also, it was the Obama campaign that paid ACORN $800,000 for them to register voters in battle ground states. Not the other way around.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/ob ... - DreadPirate, on 10/14/2008, -3/+1TH - Too bad reality trumps you yet again. "Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect." From http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/news/politics ...
- ChristmasPoo, on 10/14/2008, -4/+1No, it was pretty obvious that in one branch, can't recall the office, that they turned in as many as fifty registration forms and all appeared to have the same signature. The election office caught the fraud and pulled the forms for all applicants that were turned in by ACORN for that office. It doesn't mean that other offices were doing the same thing, just that this one office was so blatantly obvious.
"50 cards filled out for duplicate names, fictitious addresses, noncitizens" - poprocksandsoda, on 10/14/2008, -4/+1Justice? In what way? They still haven't followed the 832k back to Obama. I wonder if they will use that to impeach him should he win. I've got to think so.
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -7/+3Another distraction from the distraction.
- NorthMass, on 10/14/2008, -6/+2They both will lead us into more peril. McCain will get us into more wars and will hurt our economy very badly, and Obama will absolutely destroy our economy, and while he may not be as hawkish on foreign policy, he is still not a non-interventionist even in his wildest dreams.
How is either candidate going to pay for all their new spending ideas?
McCain - Wars everywhere, and is not a fiscal conservative at ALL
Obama - Global Poverty Act, greatly increased socialism at home, possible war with Pakistan
Who knows, Obama may start more wars than McCain, becasue if we look at 2000, George Bush ran as the peace candidate against Al Gore, while Bush as president launched one of the stupidest wars in our lifetime. - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -12/+1This election might go down as one of the biggest jokes of our lifetime.
Two ***** candidates, an inherited crisis that neither seems to have a clue about resolving, a new era of nationalization dawning, and the steady decline of a global empire.
Mickey & Pluto in '08: Change that makes no difference. - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -14/+3McCain is a populist douche for associating with them, but Your Lord and Savior Obama said ACORN would "shape his agenda" if He's elected and he got $800,000 from them.
Don't be stupid. The neocons don't need to pin him to ACORN; he pins himself. Obama is in bed with these commie frauds. - poprocksandsoda, on 10/14/2008, -13/+1Hindsight is 20/20. At least McCain didn't funnel 832k to ACORN through a shell company.
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -22/+3LOL @ trying to pin McCain to this.
Everyone knows this is Obama's baby. Quit with the spin.
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