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Obama: "I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career"
IsraPundit ^ | 10/18/08 | Bill Levinson

Posted on 10/18/2008 2:05:17 PM PDT by Winged Hussar

Contradicts Fight the Smears' claim, "Barack Obama never organized with ACORN"

Obama's two-faced statements on his involvement with ACORN reminds us of a scene in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" in which Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, must perform an execution to avoid the abolition of his office. The Mikado's incognito son, Nanki-Poo, volunteers to be "executed" to avoid an unwanted marriage, and goes into hiding afterward. The official Poo-Bah is initially quite pleased with his role in the purported execution.

    Mikado: And this is the certificate of his death. "At Titipu, in the presence of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Attorney-General, Secretary of State for the Home Department, Lord Mayor, and Groom of the Second Floor Front----"

    Pooh-Bah: They were all present, your Majesty. I counted them myself. [Pooh-Bah holds all the named offices.]

Then, however, the Mikado discovers that the executee was in fact his long-lost son.
    Mikado: I forget the punishment for compassing the death of the Heir Apparent. ...Something lingering, with boiling oil in it, I fancy. ...I know it's something humorous, but lingering, with either boiling oil or melted lead. Come, come, don't fret--I'm not a bit angry.

    Pooh-Bah: I wasn't there.

Like Pooh-Bah, Barack Obama was quite proud of his deep involvement and close association with ACORN.

    Meanwhile, Obama was right there by ACORN's side all along.

    "I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career," he told the group last November.

    Indeed, in the early '90s, Obama was recruited by Talbott herself to run training sessions for ACORN activists.

Now that ACORN is up to its neck in indictments and actual guilty pleas for voter registration fraud, however, Barry tells a very different story

...Just like Pooh-Bah, Barry now wants us to believe "I wasn't there."

(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; bo; demlies; democrat; democrats; elections; flipflops; mikado; obama; votefraud
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1 posted on 10/18/2008 2:05:18 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
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To: Winged Hussar

So you do have ties that go back years with ACORN!


2 posted on 10/18/2008 2:10:39 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (THE NEW MILLIONAIRES CLUB : YOUR FRIENDLY NIEGHBORHOOD CONGRESSMEN)
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3 posted on 10/18/2008 2:11:51 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Winged Hussar
Obama: "I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career"

Lawyer talk.....

....."I've stood alongside someone by riding the bus going to the same stop, but I didn't know them."

He can still claim he was for the same goal without even working with them.

4 posted on 10/18/2008 2:12:35 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Winged Hussar

As always, video would be helpful


5 posted on 10/18/2008 2:18:03 PM PDT by wiseprince
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To: Winged Hussar
"I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career," he told the group last November.

VIDEO? AUDIO?

6 posted on 10/18/2008 2:18:03 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Winged Hussar

“That’s not the ACORN I’ve known for the last 20 years.”


7 posted on 10/18/2008 2:19:10 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It's Joe the Plumber vs Barack the Socialist.)
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To: Winged Hussar

On issues I care about? Fat chance.


8 posted on 10/18/2008 2:22:32 PM PDT by HondaCRF450
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To: SteamShovel

From the mouths of babes...baby oaks in this case...aka ACORN

Obama started building the base years before. For instance, ACORN noticed him when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project. He was a very good organizer. When he returned from law school, we asked him to help us with a lawsuit to challenge the state of Illinois’ refusal to abide by the National Voting Rights Act, also known as motor voter. Allied only with the state of Mississippi, Illinois had been refusing to allow mass-based voter registration according to the new law. Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5000 of them).

Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus, it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-ran-acorns-training-sessions-on-power


9 posted on 10/18/2008 2:24:28 PM PDT by donnab (Will the real Obama please stand up?)
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To: ronnie raygun

Or check out here: Note the website.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm

When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”


10 posted on 10/18/2008 2:29:44 PM PDT by donnab (Will the real Obama please stand up?)
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To: Winged Hussar
"I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career," he told the group last November.

They're not the issues that I care about, you stinkin commie. Here's an issue - why am I paying thousands in income taxes every year while most of your constituency is paying zero or less?

11 posted on 10/18/2008 2:46:12 PM PDT by meyer (We are all Joe the Plumber)
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To: Winged Hussar

VIDEO
OF ACORN AND OBAMA

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2108833/posts?page

YOU GUYS NEED TO START A NEW THREAD EVERY COUPLE OF HOURS SO ALL FREEPER SEE THIS VIDEO

THIS HAS TO BE PLAYED NON STOP

SATURDAY + SUNDAY FOR ALL ALL ALL FREEPERS to WATCH

SO IT CAN BE SPREAD AROUND...

AND HOPEFULLY THE TALKING HEADS WILL PICK THIS UP..


12 posted on 10/18/2008 2:47:48 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (Today, July 16th I no longer donate money for Israel)
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To: SteamShovel

>>>He can still claim he was for the same goal without even working with them. <<<<

No he can’t! He went on to elaborate the ways in which he and ACORN worked together - how they helped get him elected in his first election and how he represented them in several legal actions.

http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

See videos at end....


13 posted on 10/18/2008 2:49:34 PM PDT by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: HardStarboard
OBAMA TRANSITION TEAM LEAD, JOHN PODESTA, WORKED WITH FLORIDA ACORN IN 2004
14 posted on 10/18/2008 2:50:49 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: HardStarboard
No he can’t! He went on to elaborate the ways in which he and ACORN worked together

Obama is more stupid than I thought....

15 posted on 10/18/2008 2:51:41 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: donnab

He always says “organize”. Organize whom to do what. Has anyone ever asked him that question?


16 posted on 10/18/2008 3:00:40 PM PDT by Hanna548
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To: Winged Hussar

While I would rather post this as a separate article, I will say here that what is happening to Joe The Plumber, just because he asked an honest question that elicited an honest but troubling answer from the bomma shows the nazi tendencies that accompany him and what will come to America if he is elected....


17 posted on 10/18/2008 3:17:49 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: donnab; Gemsbok; Calpernia; Liz; pissant; Issaquahking; Jeff Head
“OBAMA: “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. “

We were discussing why Obama went to Chicago. The discussion didn't go far when it was suggested he went for school. According to this statement,that isn't so.

WHY DID BARAK OBAMA GO TO CHICAGO? WHO SENT HIM? WHO WAS WAITING FOR HIM?

His Hawaiian mentor FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS was previously active in Chicago. It isn't difficult to believe Obama went to Chicago to join Ayers because of Davis's teachings and associations.

What Bill Ayers saw in Barack Obama

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107986/posts

18 posted on 10/18/2008 3:19:27 PM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Winged Hussar

Barack's Acorn Tree

Barack Obama Fight The Smears ACORN
19 posted on 10/18/2008 3:52:15 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Winged Hussar
"Screech! Racism!"
20 posted on 10/18/2008 3:58:35 PM PDT by pabianice (Inexplicable and infuriating.)
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