Obama Refuses to Denounce ACORN

President Obama made the rounds on the friendly state-run media on Sunday. During his time with George Stephanopoulos on ABC This Week, the president would not commit to cutting off funding for ACORN. You can hear Obama say that he doesn’t know much about the ACORN story:

President Obama says he hasn’t been following the story. You hear him say he didn’t know ACORN was getting a lot of federal money. And you hear the president say this is not a big issue facing the country.

Well, this is a big issue for this country! The reason this is a big issue  is that Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the largest radical group in America.  President Obama thinks Americans are too stupid to connect the dots. Here is the breakdown:

Who is ACORN?

ACORN evolved out of the 1960’s radical “New Left” group National Welfare Rights Organization. The NRWO set out to remove eligibility restrictions on welfare eligibility with the ultimate goal of overwhelming the system to the point of collapse.  The theory behind this plan was that an impossibly overburdened welfare system would force “a radical reconstruction of America’s unjust capitalist economy.” Rather than socialist utopia, America got a culture of dependency.

ACORN organizes in liberal areas where local legislators are often slow to understand the goals of the organization.  This group opposes welfare reform; preferring instead to keep welfare recipients on the public dole with no hope for ever fending for themselves. ACORN has also been a major player with regard to banking regulations being used to pressure financial institutions into massive “donations” that it uses to finance supposedly non-partisan voter turn-out drives.

The organization known as ACORN is not always so stealth in their intimidation tactics. Acorn protesters have disrupted Federal Reserve hearings and burst into a closed city council meeting in Chicago. ACORN protestors in Baltimore disrupted a bankers’ dinner and sent four busloads of profanity-screaming protestors to the mayor’s home, terrifying his wife and kids. ACORN representatives are proud to report the increased memberships that follow in the wake of high-profile disruptions. They make it clear that the public officials who object to the intimidation are the same people most likely to cave as a result of it.

Enter Barack Obama

Barack Obama served as the attorney for several lawsuits that ACORN lead in an effort to force banks to provide mortgages to the poorer communities. Obama represented ACORN in the Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 1994 suit against redlining.  Barack Obama was also the attorney representing ACORN in their drive for the 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton Administration. The expansion of the CRA laid the groundwork for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac borne financial crisis we now confront. With this new authority, ACORN used its subsidiary, ACORN Housing, to promote subprime loans more aggressively.

As a New York Post article gives the details:

A 1995 strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to find ways to provide mortgages to their poorer communities. It also let community activists intervene at yearly bank reviews, shaking the banks down for large pots of money.

Banks that got poor reviews were punished; some saw their merger plans frustrated; others faced direct legal challenges by the Justice Department.

A Fannie Mae Foundation report singled out one lender (Countrywide), which worked with community activists and followed “the most flexible underwriting criteria permitted.” Countrywide’s $1 billion commitment to low-income loans in 1992 had grown to $80 billion by 1999 and $600 billion by early 2003.

Since these loans were to be underwritten by the government sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government guarantee of those loans meant lenders, mortgage bundlers and investors would not have to carry the burden of the obvious risk associated with the high-risk loans. Bloomberg reported this to be, “…a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit.”

Obama as a Community Organizer

Barack Obama began his career as a community organizer in Chicago by organizing demonstrations of parents from the far South Side to press for improvement in their communities.  The mold for the demonstrations is much like the radical group ACORN’s mold.  Obama also claims credit for spearheading an asbestos cleanup of a low-income housing project.  (Activist Hazel Johnson says she is the one who actually uncovered the problem and lead the charge to resolve it.) Enter Madeline Talbot, [at the time] leader of Chicago ACORN, to defend Obama and invite him to train her staff.

As it were, Ms. Talbot was a key leader in ACORN’s storm on the Chicago City Council meeting on July 31, 1997. The storm consisted of 200 hundred ACORN members. Madeline Talbot was lead away in handcuffs along with five other ACORN members. She was charged with mob action and disorderly conduct.  Remember, this is the same woman who brought Obama into ACORN and whose staff he helped to train.

More important details of Barack Obama’s ties to ACORN can be found in an article by Toni Foulkes, published in the journal Social Policy entitled, “Case Study: Chicago — The Barack Obama Campaign.”  (Toni Foulkes, is a Chicago Acorn leader and a member of Acorn’s National Association Board.)  In the article, Foulkes talks about Obama’s role as the lead attorney in the case Acorn brought against the Illinois state government to implement the Motor Voter law there. Foulkes tells of Obama’s post-law school role as organizer of “Project VOTE” in 1992.  He makes it clear that this project was undertaken in direct partnership with Acorn. Foulkes then stresses Obama’s yearly service as a key figure in Acorn’s leadership-training seminars. Foulkes goes on to say Obama’s long service with Acorn led many members to serve as the volunteer shock troops of Obama’s early political campaigns. He continues on to say that Obama had personally helped train a new cadre of Chicago Acorn leaders. 

Here is the breakdown of ACORN’s voter rights tactics:

1.  Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise and help them vote, multiple times if possible.
2.  Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.
3.  Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards
4.  

 Obama and ACORN leaders had become “old friends” by the time Obama made his 2004 bid for the U.S. Senate. When you look closely, you can see ACORN’s signature on much of the legislation Senator Obama supported. The ACORN-friendly legislation includes living wage laws and banking practices. We know that living wage legislation drives businesses out of town. This means no businesses, no jobs. We know that banking practices legislation leads to loans being granted to people who would not otherwise qualify. This leads to default on loans which leads to banking collapse.

Follow the Money

Barack Obama served on the boards of two charitable foundations, the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation. According to the New York Times, Obama’s memberships on those foundation boards, “allowed him to help direct tens of millions of dollars in grants” to various liberal organizations, including Chicago Acorn, “whose endorsement Obama sought and won in his State Senate race.” Obama received ACORN’s endorsement for local campaigns and ultimately the presidency. In his pursuit of ACORN’s endorsement for president, Obama reminded ACORN officials of his long-standing ties to the group.

Modern Day ACORN

Today ACORN is involved in a wide array of activities, including housing rights, voting rights, illegal immigration and other issues. It is perhaps the largest radical group in the U.S. and has been cited for widespread criminal activity on many fronts.

THINK: On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. This legislation included the earmark of $8.5 BILLION for ACORN.  The corruption within ACORN has been exposed to America, yet President Obama says he isn’t paying much attention to it. President Obama will not say that he will sign legislation to cut-off spending to this corrupt organization. Why won’t the president take a stand against this organization whose corruption and illegal activities have been caught on tape? Obama is showing his loyalty to this group.

DO YOU TRUST THIS MAN? Do you trust the people he surrounds himself with?

Senate Votes 83 – 7 to Cut Off Funding to Acorn!

As the mainstream media ignores the ACORN corruption story, The United States Senate voted this morning 83 – 7 to cut off funding to ACORN.

The mainstream media refuses to cover the story, yet somehow Congress and the White House know what is happening in America! Here are the stats (as of 8:00am, 9/15/09) on the news coverage of the undercover videos that clearly define the corruption of the organization known as ACORN:

Your voice is being heard, America! Continue to stand up and shout for what you know is right!  We must be willing to make our voices heard. Americans cannot rely on the media to report the truth.

Question what you are hearing from the media.

Seek the facts behind the things that just don’t make sense to you.

Talk to your friends and encourage them to do the same.

ACORN Corruption Videos Keep on Coming!

They’ve done it again! You have to give it to these two young people who are not afraid to do what they need to do to expose the corruption of the organization know as ACORN. This group has VERY close ties to the White House and stands to gain billions of your tax payer dollars from the Stimulus Bill that President Obama passed this year.

You’ve already seen two videos that clearly show the corruption of two ACORN offices; one in Baltimore and one in the capitol city, Washington, D.C. Well, James O’Keefe and Hannah Guiles are back again! Here you will see a third video of exactly what is happening in the name of progress in this country!

Part 1

PART 2

 We’ve seen three separate videos on three separate days that indisputably show this organization as corrupt. They claim to be an organization who serves to help low and moderate income families. The methods they use are to encourage illegal acts, illegal immigration, sex crimes against minors, tax fraud and the list goes on.

 If you are having trouble understanding how these pieces fit together, WATCH THIS:

AND THIS:

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama promises to allow ACORN and SEIU partnership in shaping his agenda!

THINK: You go to work every day, trying to make an honest living. You do the best you can to provide for your family. You pay your taxes and give back to your community in ways that are meaningful to you and your family. Meanwhile, ACORN is funded with your hard earned money and the purpose of this organization seems to be nothing more than teaching people how they can cheat the system!

DO YOU TRUST THIS MAN? DO YOU TRUST THE PEOPLE HE SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH?

These two young people have put themselves out there to show America what is going on behind our backs! They should be praised for this investigative work! Instead, the mainstream media is slow (or refusing) to cover this story. If this young man and woman are willing to uncover this story, the least we can do is make sure everyone person we know hears it, too!  Please talk about this with your friends and neighbors. In order to effect change in this country, we have to be willing to expose the lies and corruption.

You have the TRUTH on your side!