Posted on 10/12/2008 4:52:29 PM PDT by mathprof
ACORN President Maude Hurd released the following statement today in response to the McCain campaign’s new ad claiming that, among other things, ACORN is responsible for the mortgage crisis:
“For almost a decade, ACORN, a community organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country, has been fighting against the predatory lending practices that have robbed our members of their homes, destabilized neighborhoods, and roiled the global economy.”
“In his newest ad, John McCain’s campaign bizarrely claims, “ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we’re in today.” Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair terms from legitimate banks and has fought vigorously against predatory lenders who have ripped off families in our communities. These predatory loans caused the crisis.”
“For more than a decade, ACORN members have held protests, released reports, and advocated for regulations to protect homeowners from predatory lenders. ACORN organizers and volunteers have been working day and night to help victims of the GOP economic meltdown to save their homes from foreclosure. In fact, ACORN has brought class action lawsuits against several predatory lenders, and has lobbied the Federal Reserve and Congress in support of regulations against predatory lending. ACORN has even been successful in convincing many lenders to treat homeowners more fairly and help families be able to make their mortgage payments and save their homes.”
“Unfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown. If John McCain thinks that community organizers caused the foreclosure crisis, he knows even less about the economy than previously thought.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.foxnews.com ...
...sure cudda used that 20 billion eh Maude?
you have only to go to acorn’s website and listen to Hurd in the video to know what kind of people are running the show...
ask = ax
“Unfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown.
You WERE part of the regulation!! They TRIED to reform CRA you lying bastards!
This is what editorial writers will pick up on tomorrow. Excuse me while I puke.
“I’m Barack Obuma and I approved this “statement.”
Don’t let ACORN’s statement lead you away from the facts. Leftists always attack back by blaming someone else for their own actions.
This is to deflect away from their own culpability.
Let’s see, where to start.
“families in neighborhoods”? Right. ACORN has no interest in families or neighborhoods...more like thugs and dependents in crumbling high-rise apartments.
“working class”? Wouldn’t that refer to those who, while not living in luxury, nonetheless WORK to keep their independence and better their life? Last I checked, ACORN does nothing but secure handouts and “entitlements” for its supporters, ensuring they only become more reliant on ever-increasing benuhfits.
Getting welfare-pimp-politicians to FORCE institutions to loan money to those with a track record of not paying back loans was a disaster in the making. Turning around and using doublespeak terms like “predatory lending” to describe what they created is just an attempt to escape the blame now that the loans you forced through to people who didn’t qualify for them are coming due and, surprise surprise, they aren’t paying them.
What a bunch of double talk!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104020/posts
Everyone is out to destroy Palin - but it’s Obama’s past we should examine
The best article I’ve seen yet on Obama, ACORN, etc.
Sorry ACORN but there are congressional records that say just the opposite of what you say so “lair, liar your pants are on fire!”
I read that, and felt like I just stepped through the looking glass.
Have these people no shame? (a rhetorical question)
These lies are so over the top, yet it will be reported as truth, and the sheep will believe.
I’m ready to start... naw, won’t go there.
I’ll guess I’ll have to wait for the natural demise of the commie media.
Make signs to tape on inside of top or bottom of back window (w/o obstructing view) -- or inside back window of car
The only way Barack Obama will be elected President is for us to fail to tell enough voters.
The Post American World of Barack Obama
The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria
Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
Listen to this Interview of James Simpson, by Sandy Rios, Tuesday 9/30 - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL
From http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx
Simpson documents his research in his article, providing Web links. He provides a rough flow chart.
Further corroboration on Obama & The Cloward-Piven Strategy:
Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown, by James H. Walsh, former federal prosecutor.
On Barack Obama's Marxist connections in Chicago
Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of [Marxist] Socialist 'New Party' In 1996
On Alice Palmer, the South Side's Marxist State Senator, Who Hand Picked Barack Obama to Succeed Her
More on Obama's Marxist alliance with Radical Islamists:
And then there are... Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Pritzkers, and the "loose lips" of Charles Schumer and Harry Reid....
Get these breakthrough items out to everyone you know (or anything even more informative that comes up) -- voters, media, officials and staff of both parties, everyone. We have time if we act now.
I’m sorry to say that Sarah Palin was wrong about Barack Obama being a do-nothing ‘Community Organizer’.
He did plenty— he wrecked the world economy.
Nice work, Barry.
It’s now perfectly obvious by their own statement that ACORN is a dim outfit.
FBI is investigating ACORN. The horse is out of the barn. Everyone saw the phony registrations on nightly news shows. Voters aren’t going to believe this pile of merde.
I am issuing a statement to ACORN!
Well, not so much - it’s just my middle finger, if you must know.
Check out this crap
Data prove untrue charges that push for affordable housing caused crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103470/posts
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