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Palin Hits Obama on ACORN
October 17, 2008 1:51 PM
In West Chester, Ohio, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today attacked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for "fuzzing up" his relationship with the controversial group ACORN, which lobbies for low-income Americans and has been under fire for fraudulent voter registrations.
"Sen. Obama won't tell you the full truth about his tax increases, and now he's kinda fuzzing up his connections to ACORN," said Palin, of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now.
"Now, ACORN is under investigation for rampant voter fraud in thirteen states," Palin said, herself "fuzzing up" the difference between fraudulent voter registration forms and voter fraud, which is quite different.
Palin then detailed the myriad connections between Obama and the group. "Now, Obama says that his only involvement with ACORN was when he represented the group as a lawyer," she said. "But what about the training that he provided ACORN in the past and ACORN staff, and his role in past ACORN voter registration efforts? And then, there's the $200,000 that he got for ACORN when he was on the board of the Woods Fund. And the fact that ACORN endorsed him this year and they're working pretty hard on his behalf."
She also noted that "a front group for ACORN received over $800,000 from the Obama campaign."
"All of this would be a lot of baggage to drag into the Oval Office," Palin said. "And Americans are entitled to answers before Election Day ... John and I are calling on the Obama campaign to release communications it has had with this group and to do so immediately."
She ended her remarks by saying she knew Ohioans wouldn't "let them turn the Buckeye State into the Acorn State."
UPDATE: Obama spox Tommy Vietor writes: "We have not worked with ACORN at all in the general election. Rather than make these false, desperate attacks, Sen. McCain should release an economic plan that actually helps the middle class instead of giving billions in tax cuts to big corporations."
-- Jake Tapper and Imtiyaz Delawala
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"UPDATE: Obama spox Tommy Vietor writes: "We have not worked with ACORN at all in the general election."
Like HELL they haven't?
What about that $820,000 bonus they paid to Acorn's associate group?
It is remarkable how effective that Koolaid is!!!
You've even got Clinton swallowing the swill!
Posted by: egads! | Oct 17, 2008 7:17:53 PM
Anyone hear about the outrage of the mandatory flu shots for pre-schoolers in NJ? But, but... I thought more of the nation wants more government?? They're crying for it every day... give us Obama and national healthcare and tax cuts and and and...!... but DO NOT tell us we have to give our kids flu shots please? You guys are asking for it...................!........ that is IF he gets anything done that he promised, which he won't because he's too indecisive and weak. Even the stronger ones don't live up to their promises. So at least we have no worries there....
Posted by: msa123 | Oct 17, 2008 6:54:50 PM
John McCain Endorsements:
US Council for World Freedom
G. Gordon Liddy
Timmons
Posted by: Jwench | Oct 17, 2008 6:04:45 PM
So the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers has endorsed McCain.
He thrives on anger and chaos and therefore his choice was clear.
Posted by: Endorsement | Oct 17, 2008 5:57:19 PM
Ricky...that was fuzzing funny...
Posted by: Miki | Oct 17, 2008 5:49:43 PM
DO YOU REALLY WANT THIS WOMAN TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO JOHN MCCAIN? GOD FORBID IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ANYONE,,,HOWEVER THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
SARAH PALIN IS A JOKE...PRETTY..BUT A JOKE AND WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO SAY FOR MCCAIN....AN OUTREACH FOR ANYONE TO TRY AND BEAT BARACK OBAMA!
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE...A FEMALE WHO IS OBVIOUSLY PUSHED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO WIN..YET..A BLACK MAN WHO HAS MORE! INTELLIGENCE AND SKIN COLOR..AN AWESOME MAN WHO MUST FIGHT THE FACT THAT HE IS ALL OF THE ABOVE!
AND SO WE MUST FIGHT FOR BARACK OBAMA..IS HE MEASURING DRAPES? DO NOT THINK SO BECAUSE BARACK TAKES NOTHING FOR GRANTED! IS HE MEASURING HIMSELF? YES...HE IS PROBABLY WAITING FOR YOU OR I TO GIVE HIM ENTRY OR CREDIT...INTO HIS LIFESTYLE.. HERE WE ARE AGAIN WAITING FOR THE BLACK MAN TO TAKE OVER...HE WILL..I WILL BET MY WHITE SELF ON IT! GOD BLESS YOU BARACK OBAMA AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STES OF AMERICA!
Posted by: SUE DUVALL SMITH | Oct 17, 2008 5:48:45 PM
Please do not refer to Gov. Palin referring to parts of our country as "pro-American" as implying their are parts that are anti-American. In our part of the country she made a gaffe.
In the news media she misspoke. In her terminology she "fuzzed up." It is a pretty big "fuzz up." At least she did not "fuzz up" worse and name which parts are not pro-American.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 17, 2008 5:46:00 PM
Kathy, I have to show my drivers license when I vote. You have to have a valid drivers license or ID when voting in OH.
Posted by: Bea | Oct 17, 2008 5:45:31 PM
NOTE to Residents of the Lower 48.
When refering to wrong doing, like the laws the Alaska Legislature said Sarah Palin broke in dealing with her chief law enforcement officer, please use the proper verb as supplied by Sarah Palin in today's speech. Say simply, Governor Palin "fuzzed up." I have noticed she fuzzes up a lot. She is a big "fuzz up."
Posted by: ricky | Oct 17, 2008 5:41:16 PM
carpenter..keep your predictions to yourself. You obviously are in denial as to how our country got into this mess we are in. And McCain will continue with the same stupid policies as Bush. With an incompetent VP. McCain won't even let her talk to the media after the debates. She's nothing but a pawn used to spread McCains lies via rallies.
Posted by: Joe Railroader | Oct 17, 2008 5:40:41 PM
We should be required to show a drivers license, state id or passport to register and to vote. If we had to do that all of these issues would be irrelevant. We have to do all of these things to get on an airplane or to cash a check. This is a small inconvenience to insure that all voters are legally entitled to vote in the area in which they vote. ACORN is at the least sloppy and racking up huge costs for the states that have to deal with the crappy registrations that they submit. Some of their workers are felons...convicted of identity theft. At worst they are complicit in actual voter fraud...we've seen evidence of this in Ohio and NM during the primary.
More and more people are convinced that our election system is hopelessly flawed and we will not know who the true winner is. It doesn't make voters feel better when we see that 30,000 convicted felons are on the voter rolls in Florida and 5,000 of them voter illegally in the last election. It doesn't make voters feel better when we ssee the Secretary of State in Ohio admit that there are potentially 200,000 registrations that cannot be verified and that she has no intention of verifying them.
Posted by: Kathy Corey | Oct 17, 2008 5:40:03 PM
Now I understand that when Palin said she committed no violations of law or ethical conduct as Governor and asked us to read the report of the investigation, that she was asking us to read the "fuzzed ip" report of the Legislature, not the one they issued in English. The one in English said she broke the law. It cited it by number of the ection on ethical conduct she broke. But maybe the one where the fuzzed it up" did not say that.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 17, 2008 5:36:41 PM
ACCORN is getting a bad rap. To completely dismiss the good work they've done by misdeeds of a few. Most people criticizing ACCORN don't know anything about it. There's always deceit no matter what or where you are. It wasn't about buying votes, it's about people making money while not doing a job they were hired to do.ACCORN even contacted the proper authorities to report fraud form their own employees. Palin is just hoping people jump on her hate wagon instead of investigating the truth. The only fuzzy truth I see is coming out of her mouth.
Posted by: Miki | Oct 17, 2008 5:28:45 PM
Palin can not talk about Obama when she is the queen of corruption she she and some of the republicans are all about smear and fear,when was the last time they ran an ad that wasn't full of lies?she and McCain keep talking about Ayers but Ayers also worked with the repulicans on the same board as Obama,also McCain attended a meeting in which ACORN attened and gave them high praise,he speaks from both sides of his mouth.They are trying to grasp on to anything but the truth and that is how to help this economy,why are they having such a hard time realizing that people are hurting.Ayers has evidently been forgive by AMERICA for what he did way back when and Obama was a child so it is time for the republicans to get over it and get down to the brass tacks.And if they can't forget anything I know they haven't forgotten Cindy and John McCain's ties to the Keating Five.
Posted by: damehen | Oct 17, 2008 5:26:10 PM
Didn't Palin do some fuzzy things with her tax returns, like not including the per diems she received?
And wasn't McCain friendly with ACORN when he was pushing for immigration reform?
Posted by: cincyr | Oct 17, 2008 5:18:21 PM
RE Mack 1017 1645
Very few undecided voters are likely to be influenced by the Ayers scenario. I think a lot more would have concerns about the ACORN situation (if they understood it), however, after running around crying wolf on Ayers, ACORN is being discredited as another "cry of wolf".
Mack, I think you missed the point of th post.
Posted by: OneObservation | Oct 17, 2008 5:17:06 PM
On one of the late news programs last night, I happened to see a short piece on Senator Obama, who was at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City for some event, trying to mock Gov. Sarah Palin. He said, “I understand that if you look down the street from in front of the Waldorf-Astoria, you can see the Russian Tea Room”. However, all he did was once again demonstrate his ignorance.
The Waldorf-Astoria is on Park Ave. between East 48th and 49th Streets, while the Russian Tea Room is on West 57th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. There are at least 8 long city (avenue) blocks of tall buildings between the two looking uptown and just about 4 (street) blocks looking west. And it is a fairly long walk between the two. But in any case, there is no way the one can be seen from the other, which only serves to once again demonstrate Sen. Obama’s penchant for putting his foot in his mouth.
I know whereof I speak, since for a number of years I worked for IBM at 590 Madison Avenue on the corner of W. 57th Street, and it was because of all the tall buildings on all sides that it was always referred to as “The Grand Canyon”. Many a day after work I would walk across 57th to Park Ave., past the Russian Tea Room, and then down Park to Grand Central Terminal to catch the train home. Now THAT was a very long walk, and I recommend that Sen. Obama consider walking the same route before he makes the remark again, as it is quite untrue.
Posted by: Yavo Lem | Oct 17, 2008 5:14:51 PM
Sarah forgot that during the time of our country's largest financial crisis the Dems wanted to give ACORN 20% should the american taxpayer recover anything out of the 700B.
ACORN is totally responsible for the fraudulent registrations being filed by their employees. How is ACORN not responsible for their employees who they hire, train and supervise. ACORN is nothing more than an organized criminal enterprise.
Posted by: ubu1991 | Oct 17, 2008 5:13:36 PM
Mack,
So you think filling out a voter registration form with the name Mickey Mouse is deserving of the death penalty?
Really?
And by the way, do you really think Mickey Mouse would show up to actually vote????
Posted by: Hmmm | Oct 17, 2008 5:12:47 PM
There is no sleazier connection than McCain's to Karl Rove. After Rove robs him of his election chances in 2000 with pure slander McCain goes hat in hand to this slime-ball for help to win at all costs. McCains connections to Bush, Cheney and Rove bother Americans mush more than professor Ayers.
Posted by: Loki | Oct 17, 2008 4:51:48 PM
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