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CNN: ACORN fraud and ties to Obama
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Posted on 10/10/2008 8:26:04 AM PDT by flyfree

Drew Griffin had better watch out. If he continues reporting on Barack Obama like this, pretty soon the Obama campaign will target him as an extremist and a hate-monger. Griffin tells Campbell Brown on CNN how ACORN commits voter fraud, and then explains how Obama is closely tied to the group:

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; campbellbrown; cnn; democrats; elections; nobama08; obama; votefraud
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1 posted on 10/10/2008 8:26:04 AM PDT by flyfree
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To: flyfree

I am sure Campbell set him straight about how righteous Obama is and how racist he (Drew) is. She’s quite the active Obama shill.


2 posted on 10/10/2008 8:27:07 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: flyfree

Could this be the beginning? Let’s face it, we’re going to need a media D-Day to get all the dirt on Obama into the mainstream. Perhaps CNN is Normandy.


3 posted on 10/10/2008 8:28:01 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Obama will give us enough hope to hang ourselves.)
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To: flyfree

GLENN BECK IS SAYING ACORN GETS $500 MILLION PER YEAR FROM THIS BAILOUT - DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THAT IS CORRECT??????????????????????????? IF SO THERE SHOULD BE RIOTS


4 posted on 10/10/2008 8:28:34 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: flyfree

And the hilarious part is that Campbell Brown, daughter of a convicted Democrat crook in LA, acts surprised at the thought that there could be vote fraud involving a Leftist group from Chicago. No one can be that stupid except by choice.


5 posted on 10/10/2008 8:28:56 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: flyfree

ACORN gets $.5 billion per year FOREVER? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE???


6 posted on 10/10/2008 8:28:59 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: SlowBoat407

Perhaps, but maybe Obama didn’t buy a half-hour political ad on CNN?


7 posted on 10/10/2008 8:29:02 AM PDT by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Mr. K
It was discussed in another thread. ACORN is getting this funding from a different bailout bill, not the recently passed $700 $850 billion bailout bill.
8 posted on 10/10/2008 8:30:32 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: flyfree

CNN? Wha-What?


9 posted on 10/10/2008 8:30:39 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Stand Up For Chuck 2008!)
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To: Republicus2001

Investigations are going on but will they make any headway BEFORE the election?


10 posted on 10/10/2008 8:31:00 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: varina davis
Perhaps, but maybe Obama didn’t buy a half-hour political ad on CNN?

He wanted only MAJOR networks......heh heh heh....!

11 posted on 10/10/2008 8:32:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: flyfree

This is not the first time ACORN has been caught committing voter fraud, when will they stop getting taxpayer’s money?


12 posted on 10/10/2008 8:33:55 AM PDT by psjones (u)
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To: flyfree
"When you look at all the bad subprime loans that were made in the last 5 years, 3 out of 4 of them were made by institutions that were not governed by the CRA, so there is no way you can blame the CRA on 75% of the subprime loans that were made in the last 5 years." [ACORN spokesperson on CNN Lou Dobbs]

So ACORN has conceded that the CRA is to blame for 25% of this economic crisis.

13 posted on 10/10/2008 8:34:32 AM PDT by igoramus08
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To: varina davis
Perhaps, but maybe Obama didn’t buy a half-hour political ad on CNN?

They are a sickening 'round the clock 100% a campaign ad for Obama.

14 posted on 10/10/2008 8:34:51 AM PDT by alrea (Yard sale proceeds go to the Jimmy Carter/Fidel Castro center for community organizers.)
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To: flyfree

Maybe Mr. Griffin has rediscovered his calling to be a reporter. At this point, you have to weigh the evidence and decide what is the bigger story.


15 posted on 10/10/2008 8:36:52 AM PDT by peridot
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To: psjones

When the Republicans stop funding them.


16 posted on 10/10/2008 8:37:29 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: sarasota

It’s called working overtime.


17 posted on 10/10/2008 8:39:32 AM PDT by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: Mr. K

I am in shock..are we finally breaking through..or are the Clinton’s launching an October surprise


18 posted on 10/10/2008 8:40:00 AM PDT by Benjamin Harrison
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To: kittymyrib

“daughter of a convicted Democrat crook in LA, acts surprised at the thought tha”

details please


19 posted on 10/10/2008 8:40:14 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Sarah Palin - High ideals on high heels)
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To: flyfree

Pretty nice. I hope some of my lib acquaintances saw this program.


20 posted on 10/10/2008 8:40:49 AM PDT by syriacus (At the intersection of Congress+ Fannie Mae .... you'll find the DEMron Scandal, a real DEMbacle.)
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To: flyfree

Trying to explain anything other than a pbj sandwich to Campbrown is useless.

She never wants to be confused with the facts.


21 posted on 10/10/2008 8:41:38 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: flyfree
Barack Obama's Involvement with ACORN Unearthed, Missing Article Recovered--Barack Obama's connection with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has not gone entirely unreported, it has not been fully explained. Most media background pieces simply note Obama's involvement in a 1995 lawsuit on behalf of ACORN. Obama's own website, as well as most major media, fail to reveal the full depth and extent of his relationship with the organization.

"Attempts to hide evidence of Obama's involvement with ACORN have included wiping the web clean of potentially damaging articles that had appeared, and were previously publicly accessible. Unfortunately, those behind the attempted cover-up failed to realize that in today's day and age, nothing disappears forever. There also exists another layer of the web, the hidden web, which is full of information included in proprietary scholarly databases where these very same "missing" articles can be easily uncovered.

"Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them).

"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."

22 posted on 10/10/2008 8:42:29 AM PDT by kabar
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To: flyfree

CNN is realizing that the market is worried sick about Obama-Reid-Pelosi government.


23 posted on 10/10/2008 8:42:29 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: kittymyrib

daughter of a convicted Democrat crook in LA, acts surprised “””

Los Angeles ot Louisiana??


24 posted on 10/10/2008 8:42:52 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: flyfree

How can they say they’re non-partisan and then come out in support of Obama?

The registration forms have the word Acorn handwritten at the top. Right now, it seems like the word Acorn is tipping the officials off to set those forms aside.
What if Acorn starts having people enter a different org. so their forms aren’t automatically separated out??


25 posted on 10/10/2008 8:42:59 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Rove>Biden is a Big,Blowhard Dufus)
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To: igoramus08

So ACORN has conceded that the CRA is to blame for 25% of this economic crisis.”

Betcha it is the other way ‘round.


26 posted on 10/10/2008 8:44:15 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: igoramus08

“When you look at all the bad subprime loans that were made in the last 5 years, 3 out of 4 of them were made by institutions that were not governed by the CRA, so there is no way you can blame the CRA on 75% of the subprime loans that were made in the last 5 years.” [ACORN spokesperson on CNN Lou Dobbs] “

Someone please explain to me what “institutions” that lend money CRA is controlling?
I understand the pressure from the threat of lawsuits, but is this person saying that CRA controls banks and S&L’s?????


27 posted on 10/10/2008 8:46:34 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: FreedomProtector

CNN is also probably aware that it is losing viewers.


28 posted on 10/10/2008 8:48:44 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: alrea

His 30 minutes are going to be overkill. Only the diehard koolaid drinkers will even watch this travesty. IMO


29 posted on 10/10/2008 8:51:11 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: flyfree

Good news. DAMN good news.

ACORN is being exposed and stopped on some level.


30 posted on 10/10/2008 8:52:26 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: flyfree

To be honest, I though Brown was fair in that piece...she followed up the report by asking wasn’t it true that Obama had in fact been tied to ACORN in the past...I was pleasantly surprised...


31 posted on 10/10/2008 8:53:06 AM PDT by Longstreet63 (Che Guevara is a genocidal hero of the ignorant...)
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To: Benjamin Harrison

yes this is probably the work of the clintons.


32 posted on 10/10/2008 8:53:40 AM PDT by henry_reardon
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To: kabar

Let’s not forget that Project Vote ‘92 also gave us Clinton.


33 posted on 10/10/2008 8:53:51 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

Voter fraud has always been a Democrat tactic. They have used it repeatedly in every election.


34 posted on 10/10/2008 8:57:18 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

The depth of it still is yet to be exposed. In my state the dead collect paychecks, vote, are used to manipulate polling numbers, they are campaign bundlers and hold paper front businesses.

I’m sure my state is not unique.


35 posted on 10/10/2008 8:59:25 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: henry_reardon

If the Republicans hadn’t complained about the military votes being tossed out in FL 8 years ago, ACORN wouldn’t have had to commit the fraud. It’s our fault.


36 posted on 10/10/2008 9:03:12 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

That darn patriotic military excercising the rights they are willing to die for.

how could they.

:P


37 posted on 10/10/2008 9:05:28 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Red Badger

Lou Dobbs slamming nobama and McCain mostly nobama
Beck slamming nobama and McCain again ditto
Beck showed another CNN reporter doing an expose’ on the Ayer’s connection to nobraina.

Is CNN moving to the “dark side” (actually reporting the news)?


38 posted on 10/10/2008 9:05:40 AM PDT by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: igoramus08
Even if 75% of the loans may have been made by organizations not governed by the CRA (a point I don't concede at this time), it would still be germane to know the relationship of ACORN in its pushing the CRA to such lenders. We also need to know all the activities and influence of ACORN in their promoting the CRA (e.g., Dodd through Countrywide), and ACORN's use of tax-payer money to advise low income mortgagees in their dealings with Fannie/Freddie.

What percentage of people being advised by ACORN or who had contacts with ACORN ended up going south on their Fannie/Freddie loans?

HF

39 posted on 10/10/2008 9:07:46 AM PDT by holden
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To: Mr. K

Calm down! The money is set aside, but a congress critter is demanding that ACORN and the DOZENS of similar groups NOT get any money.

He was on Fox yesterday, and he was hot about it.


40 posted on 10/10/2008 9:11:14 AM PDT by Islander7 (The only thing Obama has to fear is the truth!)
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To: Maine Mariner

“...When the Republicans stop funding them....”

Bingo!


41 posted on 10/10/2008 9:11:54 AM PDT by Islander7 (The only thing Obama has to fear is the truth!)
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To: Calpernia

:)

Personally, I think our military ought to receive double ballots. After all, they should have more say about whom they want leading them into battle.

My opinion, of course.


42 posted on 10/10/2008 9:14:04 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: VanDeKoik
Clinton News Network, remember ;)
43 posted on 10/10/2008 9:20:57 AM PDT by 1066AD
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To: flyfree

44 posted on 10/10/2008 9:22:31 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: holden

From my understanding Acorn, with the help and guidance of Obama and lobbyists, was able to get credit standards lowered across the board. Started during 1st Bush admin. and excellerated during Clinton. Kurtz is doing a lot of research on how Acorn influenced large banks.


45 posted on 10/10/2008 9:26:17 AM PDT by gulf1609
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To: FreedomProtector

I was pondering just that- if Obama pulls out of the race I bet the markets would skyrocket


46 posted on 10/10/2008 9:53:18 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: flyfree
Round 'em up NOW! Quit pussy-footing about the news.
47 posted on 10/10/2008 9:58:24 AM PDT by flamefront (Insane liberals (both R+D) meet barbaric islamo-fascists, this is what we get.)
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To: varina davis
maybe Obama didn’t buy a half-hour political ad on CNN

Why buy the cow when he's already getting the milk for free?

48 posted on 10/10/2008 10:38:29 AM PDT by sanchmo
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To: All
When Obama talked of his Chicago ‘Community Organizer’, I always pondered the definition... Now I understand... Working for ACORN as their attorney in Chicago, their acronym, “Association of Community Organization for Reform Now”; There is the Community Organizer!

In August it was reported Obama paid a branch of ACORN for ‘get out the vote’ projects $800,000 which he ‘misrepresented’ in federal reports (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html). So, he funneled money to pay his old employer, who is now being charged with voter fraud for ‘fixing’ the election...

How simple is this? His work as a Community Organizer is part of a liberal election stealing agency!

Now I understand the first ‘BAILOUT’, that was overthrown by the Republicans, one reason due to the fact the Democrats placed in the Bailout to pay ACORN $500 million per year! http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/14552 Why is this not being reported as the Democratic party funneling the taxpayers money to an organization that is trying to steal the election and our country to socialism!

Why are not we up in arms about this? Why is the press not covering this? Is our election going to be stolen by Obama, the Democrats and the Media and paid for by us, the taxpayers?

49 posted on 10/10/2008 10:53:08 AM PDT by glory2him
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To: devolve; flyfree; All

50 posted on 10/10/2008 10:59:22 AM PDT by potlatch
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