09-16-2009, 06:09 PM
$tevie wrote:
19 stories? How did they report the same thing 19 different ways in one day?
ACORN fascinates you because you are hoping you can make the "graft and corruption" stick to Obama in people's minds. And so does FOX. I am completely willing to believe that ACORN has serious problems in some, or even many, of their branch offices, but that doesn't require a Chicken Little approach nor a witch hunt for congress people that voted funding for them: if you are correct that the "liberal media" has refused to cover this, then how do you expect representatives to know what some ACORN local offices have been doing, by calling the Psychic Friends network? I truly regret any and all shady ACORN activities because I know that the right has been in a frenzy over the "terrifying" prospect of a powerful voting block of organized minorities, and has been working overtime to find a way to discredit them, and ACORN should not have played into their hands especially in such stupid ways. Not to mention the opportunity for white folks to say "pimp" "pimp" "pimp" and "prostitute" which is always fun for bigots.
Sometimes it's good to ferret out witches, $tevie. Especially when they are ripping off the tax payers. This is not a left or right thing, this is pure corruption within our government. I'd be very disappointed in a lot of Democrats if it was just pure partisan politics. Left or right, either you're for corruption or you're not.
Yes, the Democrats have the most to lose in a full investigation because they do draw a lot of support from ACORN and its affiliates. If you lay with dogs, you get up with fleas. It will be the Democrats who will take the biggest hit because they have sought the support of these renegade organizations and have consistently voted to fund them with our dollars.
Corruption is not confined to race so quit trying to play the race card. ACORN was founded by two white men. They devised the scheme that uses primarily poor black people and the working poor as pawns in their "get rich quick" plan.
The low level staff workers at ACORN are cannon fodder for the upper echelon management. Expendable. If the videos were, as claimed by ACORN, false, why were the staffers fired so quickly? Where's loyalty and innocent until proven guilty? Ha! ACORN will never sue over this because it would mean subpoenas and having to open their books and being subject to forensic audits. They're having enough trouble with ongoing investigations as it is.
If anything "sticks to Obama", then so be it. He can't deny his past connections with ACORN. He can't take back his books nor all the YouTube videos where he spoke about his early days of training ACORN employees or being ACORN's attorney.
If DOJ and the appropriate Congressional investigating committees do their job, the ACORN scandal will make Watergate look like child's play.