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  • ACORN founder says Barack Obama helped bring down group

    04/21/2012 4:39:56 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 13 replies
    The Times-Picayune ^ | April 21, 2012 | Times-Picayune Staff
    Conservative videographer/activist James O'Keefe, and the late Andrew Breitbart, a right-wing Internet publisher, still get the credit for toppling ACORN. But ACORN founder Wade Rathke of New Orleans said President Barack Obama deserves credit for an assist. In an online book salon on the left-wing site, Firedoglake, Rathke, who relinquished the ACORN helm before the O'Keefe/Breitbart controversy, said the group's fall also had something to do with the fact that the former community organizer that ACORN helped put in the White House buckled under the pressure mounted by Breitbart and O'Keefe. "I'm not saying (ACORN"s leadership) thought they were going...