Their next dirty trick - Acorn

sportage

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Just as tricky Dick loved dirty politics, some republicans are gearing up for a new round. Right out of the Richard Nixon dirty tricks play book.

This one is about a group called Acorn.
Acorn?
Acorn was started to help people help themselves in poor minority neighborhoods.
A virgin-like organization that let most anyone use Acorn?s utilities to then go out
in you own neighborhood and sign up new voters. Mostly minorities, poor and elderly. The new voters that usually don?t vote simply because they do not have the gas or ability to go and register or get to the polls.

Say if you lived in a poor minority neighborhood and wanted to somehow get your
elderly, poor, minority residents signed up to exercise their right to vote,
then you might ask Acorn for help with this goal.

Hear is where it gets Tricky Dick nasty...

Some republicans, the Karl Rove type, the type that tried to stop minorities from voting
in Florida in 2000 and 2004. These slime bags found they could "USE" Acorn to attempt
derailing the attempt to get more minority poor voters registered. And then out to vote.
Something the Karl Rove republicans were terrified about happening, minorities voting.
So it was easy for these tricky Dick-sters to use Acorn to attempt to register ?unqualified? voters, non existent voters, and thus taint Acorn as some type of ill legit organization.
To shut it down.

We'll, they are at it again in trying to do two things:
One, get some Karl Rove crony in there to commit fraud registering voters.
Two, attempt to connect Obama's campaign to Acorn?s fraud.

This is possibly as bad as it gets. And shows just how low some republicans will go,
the extent they will go, to play dirty tricks just like those of Richard Nixon.

Acorns problem is they are too easy. Their simple goal is to help and allow a simple Joe
like you and me get poor qualified minority and elderly voters registered. And to the polls.

And if CNN's Lou Dobbs would get his head out of his ass, he would do his homework
and report this truthfully. But he, as we know, hates minorities, especially LEGAL ones.

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ProfJohn

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The Obama action wire is now the source of threads??

Why didn't you make a thread when the action wire told his supports to jam the phones at radio stations and squash the free speech rights of people who opposed Obama?
 

Zorba

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Originally posted by: ProfJohnWhy didn't you make a thread when the action wire told his supports to jam the phones at radio stations and squash the free speech rights of people who opposed Obama?

Like Reps. never do that. Give me a break, churches hold letter writing campaigns all the time, to flood peoples mail boxes.

 

ProfJohn

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Did the Republicans also cause the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission to look into allegations of fraudulent voter registration cards? link
 

brencat

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Originally posted by: sportage
We'll, they are at it again in trying to do two things:
One, get some Karl Rove crony in there to commit fraud registering voters.
Two, attempt to connect Obama's campaign to Acorn?s fraud.
Couldn't have anything to do with bogus voter registrations, misuse of gov't grants, and a national investigation into their operations. Nah...has to be those big bad Republicans.

:roll:

You fail
 

ProfJohn

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Last and best one: Did McCain and his friends force Christopher Barkley to register 10-15 times in order to discredit ACORN?

And what about Freddie Johnson who filled out 72 cards?
link

ACORN is as crooked at the day is long and virtually NO ONE denies that they have major issues.
 

bamacre

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The OP looks like something copy/pasted from someone else who has poor grammar and spelling.
 

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While we're all laughing at this, I have to ask about something even funnier.....is that a real quote from 'LegendKiller' in Bamacre's sig?
No diversion intended from the OP, just have to know...a one post answer would be cool.
 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: SigArms08
While we're all laughing at this, I have to ask about something even funnier.....is that a real quote from 'LegendKiller' in Bamacre's sig?
No diversion intended from the OP, just have to know...a one post answer would be cool.

I think so ;)
 

hellokeith

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So voter fraud and racially motivated intimidation is what Community Organizers do. Interesting.
 
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I'm voting Obama. Screw ACORN though (The bastiges called me tonight during dinner). Just like the GOP should distance itself from Evangelicals, the Dems should get away from ACORN and Code Pink. None of those are palatable to me.
 

Tab

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I'm voting Obama. Screw ACORN though (The bastiges called me tonight during dinner). Just like the GOP should distance itself from Evangelicals, the Dems should get away from ACORN and Code Pink. None of those are palatable to me.

Are you sure you really want to vote for Obama? The second you do tlc the space-time-continuem may collapse.
 

Balt

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AC360 just had a piece on ACORN in Indiana. If it's some kind of Republican conspiracy to make ACORN look bad, they are doing a helluva good job because it looks REALLY bad.

In this case I think the simplest explanation is probably the correct one, though. The organization is dirty.
 
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Originally posted by: Tab
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I'm voting Obama. Screw ACORN though (The bastiges called me tonight during dinner). Just like the GOP should distance itself from Evangelicals, the Dems should get away from ACORN and Code Pink. None of those are palatable to me.

Are you sure you really want to vote for Obama? The second you do tlc the space-time-continuem may collapse.
I have little doubt it will collapse in P&N after Obama wins. In fact, I'm looking forward to it. The current alternate reality that pervades this place went stale years ago.
 

OutHouse

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Originally posted by: OFFascist
LoL @ trying to blame the Republicans for Democrat voter fraud.

yea i know, i just dont get that. its really sad that people so so blinded by their stupid party that they cant be objective and brave and say WTF!! pathetic.
 

OutHouse

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I'm voting Obama. Screw ACORN though (The bastiges called me tonight during dinner). Just like the GOP should distance itself from Evangelicals, the Dems should get away from ACORN and Code Pink. None of those are palatable to me.

Obama wasnt born in the US. so go ahead and vote for somebody who isnt qualified. :roll:
 

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Getting the left to own up to anything they did wrong is worse than pulling teeth.
 

bamacre

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Originally posted by: Duwelon
Getting the left to own up to anything they did wrong is worse than pulling teeth.

Yup. Because they can always fall back on "better than Bush," or "no worse than Bush." While true, it is still a crutch they happily use.