A cartoon by Glenn McCoy found on TownHall.com on 10/10/08
A cartoon by Eric Allie found on TownHall.com on 10/10/08
A cartoon by Robert Arial found on TownHall.com on 10/9/08
A cartoon by Lisa Benson found on TownHall.com on 10/9/08His Excellency, Barack Obama, the exalted one is linked to this discredited anti-American organization, ACORN. They are the subject of many lawsuits involving voting fraud.
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Amid a widening probe into voter registration fraud by the liberal group, ACORN. CNSNews.com news article quotes House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) as saying on Thursday, “All federal funding to ACORN must be stopped.”
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". . . Questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, have turned up in as many as nine states, including so-called swing states..". . . On Tuesday, authorities in Nevada seized records from ACORN after finding fraudulent registration forms that included the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys . . .”."In April, eight ACORN workers in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting false registration cards for the 2006 election. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said the group submitted cards with false addresses and names, and forged signatures..". . . Complaints of voter registration fraud have cropped up in Missouri, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and battleground states like Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina..(ACORN's) Ties to Obama.". . . In 1992 Obama worked for Project Vote, ACORN’s voter-registration arm . . .""The Associated Press reported that in 1995, Obama was among a team of attorneys who represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the State of Illinois. ACORN sued the state for failing implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor people to register as voters..'. . . According to an August 2008 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, the Obama presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN . . ."
Seems like the messiah of change and hope is intimately involved and associated with this corrupt, rotten ACORN group. Apparently he's not happy just being ahead in the polls, not sure he can buy the election with George Soros' millions, but wants this extra insurance to win the election at all costs. The cost he is willing to pay, cheating, fraud and lies, is too high a price to pay for being elected. It reveals again his character, or lack of it. It is just another reason to vote NObama in NOvember!
My son turned 18 a few days ago. He filled out a voter registration form and asked me to drop it by the Board of Elections, since it was near my workplace. But on my way there, I remembered that he had earlier told me that he had filled out a form and given it to a friend who was collecting registrations to submit. Needless to say, I could have easily ended up submitting a duplicate registration for him -- all in perfect innocence simply because he's a clueless teenage boy who just wanted to ensure that he got registered, and didn't realize that duplication is illegal. Such stuff I'm sure happens all the time.
ReplyDeleteBut that hardly makes us "rotten" or "corrupt."
I think you better do a better job of finding out the actual facts of situations before you make such accusations. Gee, Greg -- how many actual ACORN people do you actually, personally know? Have you visited their headquarters? Have you done any real primary research at all on the subject -- or do you just retail what you hear from the far right media? Are you comfortable basing all of your opinions on biased, partisan "reporting" with an agenda?
I've known some ACORN workers, and they were good, hard-working people inspired by the ideals of our Founders who are honestly trying to make democracy work. They work long hours for almost no pay, because mainly they're motivated by trying to make democracy work. Their idea of how its supposed to work may not be identical to yours, Greg, but that hardly makes them "rotten" or "corrupt."
ACORN focuses on poor and minority voters. These people tend to not vote the way Republicans want them to -- which means that every four years, like clockwork, the right wing launches this sort of attack on ACORN. This year, there's been a particularly concerted drive among the rightwing, some kind of tacit agreement to focus on this. Probably aided by all of those partisan Federal Attorneys that the recent Justice Department probe ended up confirming. But that hardly makes ACORN "corrupt" or "rotten."
Yes, I'm absolutely positive that -- out of thousands of people they register to vote -- some registrations are mistaken or duplicate or fraudulent or otherwise rejectable. I'm equally sure that this would be the case with ANY sampling of thousands of poor and minority voters. That hardly makes them corrupt.
And I'm also sure that a lot of the people who work for ACORN are Obama supporters, and some of them may share their enthusiasm inappropriately. Some of them, or even some local ACORN groups, may even have wittingly or unwittingly violated the law. But that hardly is proof of any kind of systematic attempt to somehow work for Obama. That hardly makes them corrupt.
Let's focus on real issues. There are enough of them right now. And let's NOT make assumptions based on this kind of agenda-driven partisan media!
About the "cartoons..."
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, you can't register someone "to vote for Obama." Whatever "cartoonist" wrote that does not understand our Constitution or our American way. You simply do not register to vote FOR anybody. That this cartoonist believes otherwise simply shows the depths of his or her ignorance.
As for the rest of the cartoons, they actually look like parodies of the far right! The one that compares voter registration -- itself a totally neutral thing -- with "the media" says FAR more about the silly assumptions of the far right than it does about its subject. It's an unintentional self-mockery that is so profound I'm surprised you've passed it on. But I think that people who are ensconsed in the cocoon of the far right often don't realize how these things look to more moderate mainstream Americans.
I was approached by someone from the ACORN organization recently. I checked out their local website, disagreed with most (but not all) of what they said (on moral and constitutional grounds). I agree with you that some people in ACORN may sincerely be trying to help the poor, but they are mostly going about it in the wrong way. They do support Obama.
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