‘The President from ACORN’

posted at 10:01 am on September 17, 2009 by Pundette
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The ACORN scandal carries on apace. The latest installment includes serious illegality and creepiness on the part of the ACORN employee, who not only seems interested in organizing some time with “Eden,” but volunteers to help organize an illegal border crossing for (he believes) a dozen 13-15 year-old child prostitutes. (Do all of these people hate children?)

Meanwhile, Robert Gibbs calls this conduct “unacceptable.”

“The administration takes accountability extremely seriously.”

Gibbs said he was not sure whether the president would ask Democrats to pull back from any campaign-year collaboration with the group.

“I don’t know that I’ve had any discussion with him about that,” Gibbs said.

It you’d like to review Obama’s close relationship with ACORN read Stanley Kurtz’s article from May ’08. Several excerpts:

Sure enough, a bit of digging into Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate indicates strong concern with Acorn’s signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage and banking practices. You begin to wonder whether, in his Springfield days, Obama might have best been characterized as “the Senator from Acorn.” [. . .]

As best as I can tell (and this needs to be checked out more fully), Acorn maintains both political and “non-partisan” arms. Obama not only sought and received the endorsement of Acorn’s political arm in his local campaigns, he recently accepted Acorn’s endorsement for the presidency, in pursuit of which he reminded Acorn officials of his long-standing ties to the group.

Do click on that link. More from Kurtz:

In any case, if you’re looking for the piece of the puzzle that confirms and explains Obama’s network of radical ties, gather your Acorns this spring. Or next winter, you may just be left watching the “President from Acorn” at his feast.

Yes, we were warned. But not by the mainstream lapdog media. I can feel my blood pressure rising as I think about their absolute refusal to honestly report on Obama.

Michelle Malkin can hardly believe the audacity of Obama’s attempt to “distance” himself:

Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN:

“W.H. distances from activist group”

Choking. Up. With. Laughter.

Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.

For a second I thought she was going to say ‘grandmother.’ Or pastor. Never mind. Moving on:

He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. And the “accountability” that White House flack Robert Gibbs says they take “extremely seriously” doesn’t extend to Team Obama itself — and the accountability they have evaded for pouring more than $800,000 into an ACORN front group for campaign advance work that was mysteriously re-classified as “get-out-the-vote” work.

Read on about the phony investigation. More from Karl here in the Green Room.

Cross-posted here.

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