Posted on 09/18/2009 3:31:57 AM PDT by Man50D
While ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties to the organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as "unnacceptable."
But just how extensive are President Obama's personal ties to ACORN?
The following is a timeline outlining some of the purported connections between the president and ACORN through the years:
1990s: Obama meets ACORN
ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, first noticed Obama when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project. A March 2, 2008, Los Angeles Times article by Letta Tayler and Keith Herbert, titled "Obama Forged Path As Chicago Community Organizer," explored Obama's pre-law school days as a community organizer in Chicago and his efforts to build a partnership with Chicago's "Friends of the Parks."
"Obama's task was to help far South Side residents press for improvement," the Times article explained.
National Review Online noted, "Part of Obama's work, it would appear, was to organize demonstrations, much in the mold of radical groups like ACORN."
The Times article reveals that Madeleine Talbot, who at the time was a leader at Chicago ACORN, was thoroughly impressed with Obama because "he got people to vote with their feet."
"At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor," the article stated. "But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff."
Talbott personally led Chicago ACORN's campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers, Stanley Kurtz reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
ACORN is out of favor now. Better keep an eye on those folks because they will turn up in another form sooner or later.
ACORN is like cockroaches. They’re firmly established and it will take some strong medicine to eradicate them.
Obama is probably more mad that they screwed up badly enough to force his hand in taking a stand against them...
They are doing a mind-meld with SEIU as we speak. The new name will probably be...??? CORC. Community Organizers Resisting Capitalism.
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
Now that is a cluster molestation.
OBAMA IS ACORN. ACORN IS OBAMA.
I got out of the habit of being that crazy/paranoid .... until around the mid 90's as my political awareness approached acute.
Lately I've used the word 'emboldened' to describe the insane acts of social elements that were kept in check by American fabric (here at home), and those acts committed away from home that occur because we have been neutered in the eyes of the world.
Acorn? ... emboldened imbeds.
The two are joined at the hip.
The kindest description for the president is uppity rabble rouser.
I usually don’t post in a thread when it’s source is WND because their credibility has always been so shaky. But I want to ask if it has improved any in the past 2-3 years. Aside from the birth cert. issue.
Oh, you mean the infamous Sturmabteilung (SA) or sometimes known as brown shirts? You're right--once Hitler ascended to be Chancellor of Germany, the SA became a political embarrassment and Hitler had ordered the infamous Night of Long Knive massacre, which may have killed as many as 1,000 people.
The Zero has thrown a lot of people under the bus lately. Will this soon include the top people in ACORN?
And the SS came into being followed by WWII and the holocaust.
What will be Obama's SS?
bttt
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