This is not a grassroots minority organization; it is a Marxist “popular front” with well-educated, highly trained (and I’ll bet highly paid) white organizers behind the so-called grassroots black folks.

Do not be fooled, America.

rockmom on October 15, 2008 at 11:04 AM

Bingo. Obama’s just another sellout to this Marx-Alinsky popular front, one who skillfully uses his words and skin color for effect. He’s their perfect tool.

Is it that voters don’t see this, or that they just don’t care?

petefrt on October 15, 2008 at 12:07 PM

Some see it, and don’t care. Some don’t see it. Some don’t want to see it. Some see it and rejoice. Most of the major media tools see it and purposefully ignore it .

And then there is us.

Vid below. From Hot Air, which has the transcript if you prefer that. As ACORN says– fraudulent voting registrations are “not the point.” The point is… empowerment of the dead or Mickey Mouse or something…….

And ACORN using public money to engage in partisan voting drives would be an outrage even if they did only legitimate registrations.

forest on October 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM

This is a great point that seems to get lost in the noise somehow.

Is it that voters don’t see this, or that they just don’t care?

petefrt on October 15, 2008 at 12:07 PM

I’m betting that the voters DO see this. The media is just doing their best to cover up the truth. But I’m expecting them all to be gobsmacked when the dust from the election settles and McC/Palin pull this out, despite the ACORN voter fraud efforts.

I’m utterly failing to understand why this is important. Unless there is some plan to follow up this fraudulent registrations with votes, our democracy isn’t being subverted. ACORN’s great evil is its responsibility for the CRA and our current economic crisis. In comparison, these voter registration is like running a red light after you have already stopped and looked around at 3:00 in the morning.

thuja on October 15, 2008 at 11:37 AM

Respectfully, thuja, the reason it’s vitally important is because it inflates the voter rolls with potential ballots. After the polls close on election day, ACORN representitives go ahead and run those ballots themselves, thus giving the dems the advantage.

You make great additional points, but the voter fraud is a very big deal. At least it is to me, since it negates my legitimate vote.

I hate to be pessimist (okay, no I don’t), but I don’t see anything significant happening anytime soon. And personally, I’m just glad my identity has only been (possibly) stolen to vote with – that’s why I keep an eye on my credit.

As an aside, I remember reading about how elections were stolen or rigged all over the world, and I always thought that this country would be the last place something like that could happen. Not only was I wrong, but I underestimated the skill of Americans when it came to under-handed election manipulation. How can we continue to think we’re the best nation on Earth if we let them get away with this again and again?

What’s gotten into CNN lately?

ACE says ‘watch yer back’ and has issued a Drew Griffin Reassignment Watch. (at least or until Obama threatens him with a prosecutor!)…

THERE IS A DEAD GIVEAWAY IN THIS VIDEO!!!!!!

At 2:50, watch the WHITE GUY inciting the troops, then he gets up and leaves when he sees the camera, leaving the black woman to do the talking. I almost fell over when I saw this.

This is how ACORN operates. It’s a plantation of white organizers who are manipulating poor black people. I’ve seen this over and over again. ACORN comes to local and state hearings on foreclosures or lending practices. You always see a young white kid orchestrating the whole thing, handing out talking points, telling people where to sit, and sometimes even sitting at the witness table with the too-obviously-coached witness. It’s a joke. This is not a grassroots minority organization; it is a Marxist “popular front” with well-educated, highly trained (and I’ll bet highly paid) white organizers behind the so-called grassroots black folks.

Do not be fooled, America.

rockmom on October 15, 2008 at 11:04 AM

QFT!

His reports are uncharacteristically solid and levelheaded, I just wonder if he’s the intern that everyone forgot about.

CHETRY: Yeah, and in its defense, ACORN has said it is actually identifying these problematic registrations in advance and trying to notify authorities. In Philadelphia, ACORN said it flagged, I guess, 5,000 applications before the officials found them. Is that true?

GRIFFIN: Not according to the city officials, not true. They say that ACORN came in with a bundle of 1,100 that they thought were suspect. Actually, it turned out a couple of hundred of them were actually good voter registration cards that they processed and sent voter cards out to. So, there are a lot of disparities between the number that ACORN is getting and what city officials checking the actual records are getting, and that number, Kiran, is only going to grow as they continue to process more of these for this election.

It would be interesting to interview those 200 valid registrees about their political leanings. ACORN is generating a tsunami of bad registration cards with a multi pronged strategy. As others have pointed out, it’s classic Cloward-Piven Strategy, attack the system by bringing it to a halt and then using that breakdown as an excuse to litigate 11th hour solutions like keeping the polls open late and allowing dubious voters to vote. Also, obviously there are fraudulent voters that can’t be properly vetted because of overstressed election officials plus partisan Democratic officials like Brunner in Ohio, so there is an opportunity for real voting fraud, not “just” registration fraud. In addition to sneaking bad registrations in the flood of supposedly good registrations, ACORN takes some obviously fraudulent cards and does the Kabuki dance of flagging them as bad and adds good registrations (I’m sure they have some kind of coded flag that canvassers put on registration card so the ACORN offices can identify ethnicity and political leaning) to the bundle of “flagged” registrations, hoping to have some of their political opponents removed from the rolls.

ACORN has been perfecting their scheme for decades now.

I think ACORN gives McCain a rich target in tonight’s debate. McCain must come equipped with all the wonky details of Obama’s alliance with ACORN (including suing a bank over housing aka risky mortgages) and how Obama disbursed millions of dollars to groups like ACORN and other radical left wing and racialist organizations through his work at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund. This lets him riff on Ayers, ACORN, dirty Chicago style politics, and Obama’s unsavory friends without ever having to mention the words “Jeremiah Wright”.

I’ll be in meetings most of the day, so here are some links to keep you busy. The first two are the must-reads of the day: Robert George writes an exceptionally thoughtful essay on Barack Obama’s abortion extremism. Whatever your……

I’m utterly failing to understand why this is important. Unless there is some plan to follow up this fraudulent registrations with votes, our democracy isn’t being subverted.

thuja on October 15, 2008 at 11:37 AM

What, pray tell, do you think is the purpose of registering to vote if not to allow time to verify that someone is entitled to vote? Why not just let people walk in on election day to any polling place and cast a ballot?

Wouldn’t it be interesting if it was discovered that the registrations that ACORN flagged as fradulent were primarily from people who registered Republican??

Impossible. They throw those in the trash before heading back to HQ.