Posted on 10/12/2008 12:50:58 PM PDT by vadum
One of ACORN's champions on Capitol Hill, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Illinois), has an illuminating article in Arianna Huffington's gossip website, the Huffington Post.
After the names of several Dallas Cowboys football players showed up on voter rolls in Nevada, Jackson argued that "Obviously it’s not right for a fake ‘Tony Romo’ to be registered in Las Vegas...but remember the basic point — it’s not voter fraud unless someone shows up at the voting booth on Election Day and tries to pass himself off as ‘Tony Romo.’"
So, it's OK to attempt to commit vote fraud as long as you don't succeed?
Meanwhile, Seth Colter Walls of the Huffington Post hasn't responded yet to our blog post that proves that Barack Obama worked for ACORN's Project Vote way back in 1992. The HuffPost and the Obama campaign have been trying without success to argue that Obama never worked for ACORN because, they say, Project Vote had nothing to do with ACORN back then.
The evidence shows otherwise.
And an article in the Politico today suggests that the ACORN-Obama link is somehow new. No, it's not. We reported on it in our profile of Barack Obama in the June Foundation Watch, and it was reported elsewhere previously.
It has also been widely reported that the Obama campaign funneled about $800,000 to an ACORN subsidiary called Citizens Services Inc. It is quite odd for a presidential campaign to make a donation to a charitable organization, and it's even stranger to give that donation to a group that is in the vote fraud business.
Jackson is a prime example of one who was indoctrinated with Situational Ethics!
I see that the new talking point on the left is that “voter registration fraud” is no biggie since it’s not actual “voter fraud” at the polls.
WHATEVER CHEATING CRIMINALS!!!!
Silly me. I thought a to fraudulently submit voter registrations was a crime.
Jesse Jackson should be thrown in guantanamo bay
Awfully close to the liberal dogma of political victory.
"It's okay to do ANYTHING underhanded and illegal, it's a lot of work ahead if caught".
Rotten apples don’t fall far from the extortionist tree
Hey...the father is a professional blackmailer and shakedown artist. So why wouldn’t the kid be an arrogant, hypocritical, shameless thug?
This a$$ clown is a US Congressman? Murder, Rape, Arson, Burglary, is bad, but attempted is OK with Jesse Jr.
Plenty room on the Chair for other DummyCrats!!
Methinks that Jesse Jackson Jr might be sadly surprised were he to submit a fake voter registration and try his luck before the Courts.
“Fraud” is a concept that is very wide. All that is necessary for a fraud to occur is for somebody to do something they would not otherwise do, save for the deceit taking place.
It is not difficult to envisage circumstances whereby people may act on false information like a fake voter regstration, whether or not a vote was actually cast.
Surprised he didn’t say: “Even if it was fraud, we’re entitled.”
Yuck! Jesse Jackson is so lacking in ethics, morals, common sense, credibility. Has anyone asked how much quality time he spends with his “love child.”
When I was in tech school— lo many years ago — there were some, let’s call them “Arabs,” in one of my classes. They cheated all the time. I eventually learned, however, that, in their world, the sin wasn’t in the cheating — it was in the getting caught.
It was my first introduction to morality on a sliding scale.
How many of Jessie Jackson Sr. groups were PAID to register voters?
How about ACORN
How about Operation Rainbow?
It seems these groups are another means of laundering money.
Variations of this same laughable theme are currently circulating around as Democratic talking points.
The only implications justifying “vote fraud” and “voter registration fraud”, and being able to spin the important differences between the two can only be one of two things:
pace:
1. “You never know, they may have been trying to get more
John McCain voters”
and 2.(the more likely spin explanation): They were just trying to beef up their numbers (a la Raines and Johnson) to get “bonuses” or a little more walking-around money.
Pathetic.
“how much time he spends with his “love child”.
-—this is Jesse JUNIOR, not Jesse SENIOR.
But as it turns out J JUNIOR is also SENIOR’s love child, and the answer is : he spends too much time with him/
Actually I just made that last part up.
So, are we supposed to believe JJJ knows nothing of absentee voting?
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