Posted on 10/01/2009 5:59:16 AM PDT by fiscon1
Last night, ACORN founder Wade Rathke spoke at Busboys and Poets, a Washington coffeehouse and well-known lefty hangout. Rathke was promoting his new book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families. Given the controversy over ACORN, you'd think the media would have been interested in Rathke's making a public appearence and taking questions. But you'd be wrong.
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"Do you mind if we check your freezer?"
Could someone interpret this for me? He rambles on like Qaddafi, LOL!
RATHKE: I mean, there is audits, investigations, lawyers, you know, crawling all up my leg for, you know, all the years I’ve done this work, and there’s never a dime that’s been misplaced. So I don’t know who this ‘our’ is besides you and the rat in your pocket. It’s not anybody that has to do with me. In terms of whether or not, of the thousands of people who worked for us, huge tragic problem that it happened to be somebody from my family. And that’s very regrettable in my opinion. There’s no apologies that are sufficient. But if you want to say that’s a culture . . . 38 years, yeah, there was that one problem. There are many organizations, many newspapers, many magazines, or many businesses that have problems and they go forward. And I think ACORN should have the right to have had a problem, and they did have a problem, we dealt with it accountably, took responsibility, money was paid back, eventually you know. . . . Obama has a great line in his book Tales From Our Father [sic] about one of the things he thought was such a wonderful thing about community-organizing. I can’t exactly share with you the culture that I’ve enjoyed being in for 40 years. What Obama says in that book [is that] what moved him the most about community-organizing was realizing its power of redemption. I understand from the outside people have trouble understanding the sort of subculture of organizing, and I can’t really explain it any better than I’m able to, but we have a culture within the work that doesn’t assume everybody is blameless and sinless, that actually is very redemptive and forgiving and understands that people have got lots of things going on, lots of problems, lots of things, but have come together collectively to try to do something better. And I think probably that’s one of the things that ACORN may have miscalibrated as it looked to deal with its own problem inside this family, or this organization. At the point it was all weaponized and became public, clearly, you know, deal with the major culture, not the minor culture.
(There were no para breaks. He obviously didn’t take a single breath!)
He would make the perfect James Bond evil nemesis.
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