Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is misleading the public regarding the presidential candidate’s ties to a radical leftist organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and has been convicted in numerous, massive voter fraud scandals, Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, wrote October 12, 2008.
Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign Friday stepped up its efforts to draw attention to Obama’s alleged relationship with ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, holding a conference call in which McCain spokesman Rick Davis accused Obama of making “very inconsistent remarks about what his relationship with this organization is.”
In response to the increased focus on ACORN, the Obama campaign last week claimed on its “Fight the Smears” website the presidential candidate was “never an ACORN community organizer; ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee; ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.”
But these blanket statements are false and misleading.
In 1992, Obama was director of Project Vote in Chicago, which helped register 150,000 voters on the city’s South Side. Obama’s successful work was credited in multiple media reports with helping to elect Democratic Senator Carol Moseley Braun.
Obama’s campaign claims ACORN was “not part of” Project Vote, but the organization’s incorporation papers, obtained by WND, show Project Vote is a trademark name whose parent company is registered at the same New Orleans address in which ACORN and multiple ACORN affiliates are housed.
Obama himself previously connected Project Vote to ACORN.
“I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drives in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work,” Obama was quoted on his own campaign website as saying at an ACORN meeting, according to a post by official Obama website blogger Sam Graham-Felsen.
Clarifying the role of ACORN in Project Vote, Obama Spokesman Ben LaBolt told the New York Times this weekend Project Vote and ACORN were not as intertwined in 1992 as they are today, when a significant part of Project Vote’s revenues flow to ACORN and various of its affiliates as payment for services.
But LaBolt’s statement, which admits Project Vote and ACORN was intertwined on some level while Obama was director directly contradicts the Obama campaign’s “Fact Check” claim that ACORN was “not part” of Project Vote.
In a misleading statement, Obama’s site claims “ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee,” but it fails to mention Obama was an unpaid ACORN trainer, as WND first reported in August.
Lewis Goldberg, a spokesman for ACORN, confirmed Obama conducted two hour-long leadership training sessions for his organization in the late 1990s and said Obama was not paid for the work.
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Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.--Thomas Jefferson.
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And there is the video of Obama promising ACORN and other community organizations that they will help shape his Presidential agenda.
How much closer does it really have to get?
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/page/3/
scroll to the bottom of page for video.
Obama knows very well how to use the “system” to;
1. get rid of all of his opponents, or
2. work the same voter registration fraud to his own advantage and get elected.
CNN posted a Special Investigation, Obama Fighting Tactics, when Hillary was the front runner, that exposed exactly how Obama did both.
[...] in the action, but let’s face it, Obama is irrevocably tied to this radical organization. RBO: In a misleading statement, Obama’s site claims “ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, [...]