Posted on 10/09/2008 6:55:26 PM PDT by Red Steel
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's campaign distanced itself Thursday from its $800,000 payment linked to the liberal ACORN organization, which is under investigation in several states where it is suspected of filing fraudulent voter registrations.
Federal Election Commission reports show ACORN-affiliated Citizens Services Inc. got $832,598 from the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote work during the primaries. But those payments stopped in May and the Obama campaign says they should not be an election issue.
"This is going to be an historic election with unprecedented voter participation, and we are committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro said. "We support local officials in their efforts to investigate any fraudulent behavior and the full prosecution of any illegal activities."
Still, the contributions to Citizens Services draw the Obama campaign closer to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, and the growing voter-fraud scandal that this week spread to the battleground state of Ohio.
The elections board in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, is reviewing about 65,000 voter cards submitted by ACORN after flagging 50 cards filled out for duplicate names, fictitious addresses, noncitizens and recycled names and addresses of currently registered voters, said board spokesman Mike West.
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this could have legs. I had no idea that ACORN was actually on the Obama payroll for services.
Oh...OK.
There’s a nugget in the back of people’s minds that Obama is a huge risk to elect as President.
All of these shady associations and connections have to be brought out. One scandal after another, over and over until election day.
Make the American people so uneasy to vote for the guy that they either stay home or vote McCain.
If the AA community leaders (aka race hustlers) start to feel Obama may be going down, they will turn on him subtly and behind the scenes to help depress turnout so they can keep their race based scams going. In fact, they can now say how racist the American public REALLY is when they blew their chance to vote for a Kenyan. I mean African American.
So I guess McCain/Palin should not talk about this at campaign stops. Riiiight.
That is it, case closed (extreme sarcasm)
"It's not fa-a-a-a-a-i-i-r-r-r-r-r! This wasn't in the pla-a-a-an. Leave us alone, you mean racists!!"
Let’s see if I understand this.
Obama pays ACORN to get out the vote. And ACORN commits voter fraud and Obama won’t show his birth cert to prove he isn’t a fraud out to get votes.
How do we know they stopped paying them in May?
Hillary-ous!
Some intelligent and financially comfortable person needs to buy some prime time TV and eductae the American people on what Obama - and ACORN - really represent and how they are inextricably linked to each other.
And the dozens of other issues that would absolutely REPULSE real Americans.
now if mccain would just bat this ball out of the stadium!
Democrat Election Strategy
1. Grab as much illicit money as you can early in the campaign
2. Use that pile of money to build a solid lead
3. Use your leading poll numbers to raise 10x to 100x the illicit amount
4. Say the early illicit money is old news, shouldn’t be a campaign issue, it’s just a distraction
5. If necessary, make a non-apology apology and pay back the early illicit money
6. Now that you are a start and the nominee, go to #1 and repeat
How convenient to distance themselves now. It was only $800,000. /s
He is pathetic... he is now on his 4th story about Ayers! Lying just is so natural to Barack Hussein Obama.
Commies are scum. Utter scum.
How the sam hill do you distance yourself from $800K worth of payments????????
Obama pays ACORN to get out the vote. And ACORN commits voter fraud and Obama won’t show his birth cert to prove he isn’t a fraud out to get votes”””
Winner! Winner!
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