ACORN is out of control

[note: sorry for the lack of links and formatting. I kept getting an illegal html tag error even though I wrote the blog in the 2old2play editor. I couldn't figure out the problem so you get plain text]

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Nice name. But check out…

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092008/news/politics/nuts__132771.htm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_el_ge/voter_fraud

http://www.lvrj.com/news/30613864.html

Hypocrisy always amazes me. It’s one of those “how dumb do you think I am?” moments.

ACORN has indictments in Kansas City and St. Louis, convictions in Washington state and Pennsylvania, investigations in Wisconsin, 56% of the ACORN registrations in Virginia were ruled “ineligible”, 300 completed voter registrations cards not turned in on time and found in the trunk of a former ACORN employee in Minnesota, 3000 potentially fraudulent voter registration card signatures plus registering a 13 year old in New Mexico…it goes on and on.

“Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.”

This from ACORN’s site:

“As part of our nonpartisan voter registration program, ACORN staff reviews every single application submitted by our canvassers. Special, dedicated staff makes up to three phone calls attempting to reach the voter listed on EVERY SINGLE CARD before they are turned in to verify the information. Our callers verify the information on the cards before turning them in to election officials to make sure that as many new voters as possible get on the rolls and to make sure that all of our voter registration workers are doing the high quality work they are trained to do.”

Looks like ACORN needs to improve their quality control. Yet with all of this, the Democrats in Congress, including Barack Obama, keep trying to give your tax dollars to ACORN. I guess it makes sense as ACORN certainly doesn’t work for the Republicans. However, it just supports my point that Congress is corrupt.

But worse, after two Presidential elections ending with screams of “stolen election” and “voter fraud”, this organization appears to be putting its efforts into…wait for it…voter fraud and a stolen election. Of course the official line from ACORN, whenever they get caught, is that they do not engage in voter fraud and that these are the actions of former or rogue employees and volunteers. Duh. Like they are going to say they did it on purpose.

The question is, how involved is the Democratic Party? ACORN has many different arms and Congress particularly likes to fund their housing activities. Congress and Housing. Gee. I remember something about that in the news. I think it was spelled MELTDOWN. Obama likes ACORN, has directed funds to them through a shell game of other organizations, and has said that as President he will direct funds to them. Of course, Obama likes Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, and the good Rev. Wright. Imagine if McCain had “launched his political career from the home of a right wing abortion clinic bomber”. For a Republican it goes to character, for a Democrat, I guess it’s being “inclusive”

This is the meltdown. I recently witnessed an exchange where a conservative took statements about Obama directly from an old Joe Biden speech. There were immediate cries of “racist” and “idiot” with expletives flying. Until an individual in the audience pointed out that the words were Biden’s. Brief silence…followed by claims of “taking Biden’s words out of context”, “that isn’t what he meant”, “it was part of a larger message”, and subsequent cries of “racist”, “idiot”, with expletives flying. As a nation we have lost the ability to have a discussion and to recognize that differences of opinion are useful, positive, and productive. We have also lost the ability to recall any of our history as evidences by Biden's claim to Katie Couric that "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed...". Umm...Maybe it was President Hoover and we didn't have broadcast TV in 1929. But that's OK. The man a heartbeat away from the Presidency doesn't need to know anything about history, technology, or economics for that matter. He just needs to be "clean" and have a nice smile.

Peggy Noonan pointed out that, after eight years of an unpopular Republican President, six years of an unpopular war, and the economy in the toilet, the best the Democrats can do is produce a statistical tie in the polls. They should be ahead by 20 or 30 points. Let me add to that a 150 year old Republican candidate who always looks like he is in the initial stages of a seizure, an irritating soccer mom sidekick who does a terrible Tina Fey impersonation, and a platform largely controlled by intolerant religious fanatics who would rather beat their children than abort them. This means that whatever the Democrats are doing right, they are still so out of touch with “Main Street” America that they cannot muster a simple majority. And they are too stupid to care.

So rather than get in touch, actually unite people, and perhaps move the country in a positive direction, their minions work to steal an election. Nice.

*Pink*

[Edit:  See Auzure's blog at http://www.2old2play.com/Blog/Permalink/8709/27816.  It's a lot better than my whining.]