Obama's Protests Are Nuts

Senator Barack Obama has denied or minimized any connections he has with ACORN. But his protests are NOT truthful.What the heck is ACORN? Well it is more than a nutty seed that's for sure. ACORN is an acronym that stands for "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" and is reported to be a very radical left wing organization that was attempting to get a LARGE portion of the financial bailout money AND is reported to have ties to Obama. Three articles that are helpful in understanding ACORN are "Inside Obama’s Acorn," By Stanley Kurtz. Sol Stern’s 2003 City Journal article, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities.” and Steven Malanga’s “Acorn Squash.”

ACORN has been tied to several investigations of voter fraud in several states and is currently under investigation. Just last night it was reported on the news that ACORN offices were raided by law enforcement in Nevada regarding voter registration fraud charges.

The story gets a little complicated here, so hang in there with me because Obama is banking on your attention span being too short to tie the pieces together.

Obama sites his "experience" as a community organizer on his presidential resume. This "experience" included working hand in hand with ACORN and as a staff trainer for ACORN.

Obama also stresses his board membership on two "charitable" foundations, the Woods Fund (where he served with Bill Ayres) and the Joyce Foundation. During his board tenure, both of these foundations are reported to have given substantial sums of money to ACORN.

After training ACORN personnel, representing ACORN as an attorney, and diverting substantial sums of money to ACORN through charitable foundations, is it any surprise that ACORN has been an enthusiastic supporter of Obama?

ACORN leader, Tony Foulkes, takes credit for Obama's 2004 Senate victory. "And while many reports speak of Obama’s post-law school role organizing “Project VOTE” in 1992, Foulkes 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. . . Obama’s long service with Acorn led many members to serve as the volunteer shock troops of Obama’s early political campaigns — his initial 1996 State Senate campaign, and his failed bid for Congress in 2000 (Foulkes confuses the dates of these two campaigns.) With Obama having personally helped train a new cadre of Chicago Acorn leaders, by the time of Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, Obama and Acorn were “old friends,” says Foulkes." (Stanley Kurtz, Inside Obama's Acorn).