Posted on 10/08/2008 2:32:14 AM PDT by Schnucki
As an example of the deranged reaction to Sarah Palin and the astounding hatred and bile she has provoked, this article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone is hard to beat. All the Palin smears are gathered together in one foam-flecked scream of rage – not just at Palin, mark you, but most significantly at John Public who supports her, because she
appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning.What respect for Taibbi's fellow human beings! Showing zero insight into the spitting hatred and vicious characterisation of the American people to which he has just given vent, the author then represents his hero (who he concedes may also be ‘slick’) thus:
The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.
Is that so. Here’s what Stanley Kurtz has previously revealed about ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Al Sharpton is the guy in the picture above) with which Obama was so closely connected. in abusing the law by forcing banks to make hundreds of millions of dollars in "subprime" loans to often uncreditworthy poor and minority customers:
One key pioneer of ACORN's subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae's mortgage policies. Long the director of Chicago ACORN, Talbott is a specialist in "direct action" - organizers' term for
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
Why the Justice Dept. hasn’t undertaken a RICO investigation of this group is beyond me.
Remember the push to get an approvable Attorney General? Goes along with the fresh Sec. Treasury, eh?
” ...The Woods Fund report makes it clear Obama was fully aware of the intimidation tactics used by ACORN’s Madeline Talbott in her pioneering efforts to force banks to suspend their usual credit standards. Yet he supported Talbott in every conceivable way.
Here’s what Kurtz reported yesterday:
ACORN protesters will break into private offices, show up at a banker’s home to intimidate his family, or pour protesters into bank lobbies to scare away customers, all in an effort to force a lowering of credit standards for poor and minority customers. According to Swarts, long-term ACORN organizers “tend to see the organization as a solitary vanguard of principled leftists...the only truly radical community organization.”
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(Cue Jaws music)...Land Sharks!
I wonder if some civil disobedience against ACORN would be in order, regardless of the outcome of this election?
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