200,000 phony voters in Ohio alone
Kenyan style intimidation politics
Posted on 10/16/2008 7:13:17 AM PDT by jessduntno
Acorn + Mickey Mouse = The Most Adorable Political "Scandal" in Recent Memory.
It may also be one of the most pointless.
In recent days, conservative activists and right-leaning media outlets like FOX News and Matt Drudge...Unless I'm mistaken, the conspiracy theory goes something like this: Obama "has ties" to Acorn; Acorn is trying to steal the election; therefore, by the transitive property, Obama is also trying to steal the election. To see why this makes no sense, it'll be helpful to break the equation down into three bite-sized pieces.
I. Obama Has Ties to ACORN: This is true. As the New York Times recently reported, "in 1995, Obama was on a team of lawyers that represented Acorn in a lawsuit to compel Illinois to comply with federal laws intended to enhance access to the polls"; the Justice Department "was on the same side as ACORN in the lawsuit." Later, "Obama conducted two leadership training sessions of roughly an hour each for ACORN’s Chicago affiliate over a three-year period." Finally, the Obama campaign made (in February) a $832,598 payment to Citizens Services, Inc., a consulting firm affiliated with ACORN; Chicago initially reported that the money was for “staging, sound, lighting” before amending its FEC reports to reflect the fact that it was spent on get-out-the-vote efforts. About $80,000 of the $832,598 went to ACORN.
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III. Obama is Trying to Steal the Election: Back to the transitive property. If Obama has ties to ACORN but ACORN ISN'T trying to steal the election, how could Obama possibly be cheating? If Obama wins on Nov. 4, expect his opponents to claim that he climbed to victory on a mountain of fraudulent votes. But don't believe them--unless you believe that Mickey Mouse actually exists. And votes. Without anybody stopping him.
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Dear Andrew,
"If Obama has ties to ACORN but ACORN ISN'T trying to steal the election, how could Obama possibly be cheating? If Obama wins on Nov. 4, expect his opponents to claim that he climbed to victory on a mountain of fraudulent votes. But don't believe them--unless you believe that Mickey Mouse actually exists. And votes. Without anybody stopping him."
If he has ties? You already established that he did. And he lied about it. You have established that. If they aren't doing something that needed to be hidden, like trying to set up this voter fraud, why the subterfuge?
Or do you think the Obama campaign doesn't know lighting from voter registration? Or excrement from Shinola?
Why fear the vote of Mickey Mouse? Clever close, but fatuous. What about the hundreds of bogus John (or Jane) Smiths? No big black ears. Once registered, ANYONE can go in and vote in his or her place. A day of stepping into the booth with a list of names could enable anyone to practice that good old Chicago practice of voting early and voting often.
This is the equivalent of a lawyer's tactic of a document dump. And Obama is a lawyer. They have created such a burden on the opponent (in this case, the voter registration process) that it swamps the system's ability to cope. This was, of course, the desired outcome. The table is set and John or Jane Smith can waltz in to vote, if they haven't already. This isn't rocket science, Junior.
Are you naive, a willing idiot, a knowing accomplice or just plain stupid?
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200,000 phony voters in Ohio alone
Kenyan style intimidation politics
Affiliated? Let's test that. CSI has the same office as ACORN, using the same telephone number, with several officers in common.
That's enough evidence to draw the conclusion that ACORN and CSI are the same thing, using different corporate names for tax purposes and deception.
Also, if the relationship Obama claims is above board, why has he tried to hide it?
..................Affiliated? Let’s test that. CSI has the same office as ACORN, using the same telephone number, with several officers in common..................
These facts need to get legs!
Take both of your posts, put them together, and send that as a letter to Weekly World Newsweek. I’m betting they won’t publish it, but at least you’ll out him.
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