Posted on 10/14/2008 6:23:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TOLEDO, Ohio (AFP) Barack Obama's White House campaign charged Tuesday that desperate Republicans were waging a nationwide campaign orchestrated with John McCain's staff to intimidate voters and depress turnout.
Top aides to the Democrat battled back against what they called a Republican "smokescreen" over a liberal advocacy group called ACORN, which is under investigation in several states over allegations of voter registration fraud.
The group released a video, set to the song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," showing McCain warmly greeting its activists at a February 2006 event in support of immigration reform.
Obama said his own ties to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now went no further than legal work he did with the Justice Department for ACORN against the state of Illinois in the mid-1990s.
"As an elected official I've had interactions with them," the Illinois senator told reporters in Ohio.
"But they're not advising the campaign. We've got the best voter registration turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now, and we don't need ACORN's help," he said.
The McCain campaign is airing a 90-second ad alleging close and enduring ties between Obama and ACORN, which it said had bullied banks into extending the kinds of subprime mortgage loans at the heart of the US financial crisis.
The group boasts of gathering the names of 1.3 million mostly non-white, low-income voters in 21 states in the most successful voter registration drive in US history.
But many of the names are said by conservatives to be duplicated, or of famous sports stars, or of cartoon and movie characters.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama makes a statement on the economy at Maumee Bay Resort in Oregon, Ohio.
Obama's White House campaign charged Tuesday that desperate Republicans were waging a nationwide campaign orchestrated
with John McCain's staff to intimidate voters and depress turnout. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
He hits like a girl.
McCain needs to spill EVERYTHING on this lying pig. Every association. The court cases where he forced people to do things that screwed up the economy. Communist ties. EVERYTHING.
Sounds like we have touched a raw nerve. Can we bring Obama down with the Acorn scandal? Perhaps. McCain needs to tie Obama to Acorn with rope at tomorrow night’s debate.
Yes, I want to depress turnout amongst Disney characters and the "Deceased American Community."
What a freakin' putz.
He can put it where the sun doesn’t shine as facts speak for themselves and if our socialist Obama media wasn’t in the tank, it would be all over the airwaves. Man opens mouth and LIES!
There is a video of him asking ACORN to help advise him as President — guess he forgets the internet.
How anyone could vote for this fraud who went to Pakistan in 1981 when you had to be Muslim and Pakistan was on the banned list of places Americans could visit on a passport unless you were on Government business is beyond me.
Why doesn’t the media check out the socialist Obama like they did Sarah Palin and put American First for a change instead of their own socialist agenda? Just wait until the taxes get them.
A Kenyan Muslim girl at that ... Obama is tied in every way to this whole ACORN fraud deal. So is Ayers, so is Wright, they are all enablers of ACORN.
Bush needs to use his last 25% and make the FBI investigate vote fraud. This strikes right at the heart of democracy, free and fair elections.
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Poor Bwack can’t cheat so he cries foul.
Obama is a joke and his Odinga campaign in the US is getting stopped prior to the election.
Yeah everytime this bum does something wrong, it’s because someone else is desperate, a racist, etc.
Can you imagine what a scumball he will be as president?
He lies/denies every single charge that hits him. He is as clean as the wind driven snow. The cleanest dirtiest man to ever run.
I think you’re right. The birth certificate issue may be true but it won’t fly like this one.
Voter fraud plus all the money he’s funneled to Acorn over the years. That is what needs to come out.
Rioting could start before the Election.Keep your eyes and ears open , if you live in those areas that are riot prone.
That's funny, then why did you give them mrore than $800,000 this year?
‘The people of this nation have, for far too long, witnessed, and participated in, the systematic disenfranchisement of cartoon characters. If you can’t believe in this change, we’ll just change it.’ I approved this message before I changed it.
Has he sent his army of lawyer goons to intimidate the campaign workers yet??
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
The MSM is no doubt breathing easier tonight now that Obama has told them how they should cover and spin the story.
He lies/denies every single charge that hits him. He is as clean as the wind driven snow. The cleanest dirtiest man to ever run.
Yeah, right. And just how many Conservatives or Independents are they ‘Registering’. This is tantamount to a coup d’etat and all of this crap is just a prelude to litigation in the off chance that the Election is close.
Obama gave Acorn 800,000 dollars. Why?? To get more republicans registered? I don’t think so. Obama must not win.
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