I was wondering if any republicans know how the ACORN rumor about Obama was started?

[bwlobo]

Rumor, you say... oh, no.

Check out your facts a little better.
Barack Obama wasn't just the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac political contributions. He was also the senator from ACORN, the activist leader for risky "affirmative action" loans.

In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago's ACORN to run training sessions in "direct action." That's the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called "Ninja" loans — no income, no job, no assets — to people who couldn't afford them.

CRA was designed to increase minority homeownership. Whenever a bank wanted to grow or expand, ACORN would file complaints that it was not sufficiently sensitive to the needs of minorities in providing home loans. Agitators would then be unleashed.

Chicago's ACORN used Alinsky's tactics against institutions such as Bell Federal Savings and Loan and Avondale Federal Savings. In September 1992, the Chicago Tribune described the group's agenda as "affirmative action lending."

Obama also helped ACORN get funding. When he served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its activist agenda.

In 1995, Kurtz reports, Obama chaired the committee that increased funding of ACORN and other community organizers. The committee report boasted that the fund's "non-ideological" image "enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and governmental 'establishments' without undue risk of being accused of partisanship."

The CRA empowered regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority and distressed neighborhoods." It gave groups such as ACORN a license and a means to intimidate banks, claiming they were "redlining" poor and minority neighborhoods. ACORN employed its tactics in 1991 by taking over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA.

As a former White House staff economist writes in the American Thinker, Obama represented ACORN in a 1994 suit against redlining. ACORN was also a driving force behind a 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton administration that greatly expanded the CRA and helped spawn the current financial crisis.

Obama was the attorney representing ACORN in this effort. Last November, he told the group, "I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career." Indeed he has. Obama was and is fully aware of what ACORN was doing with the money and expertise he provided. The voters should be aware on Nov. 4 of the roles of both in creating the current crisis.

[RandyN]

You guys are so misinformed its crazy. You will believe anything you are told by Obama. The ACORN storis are true and to this day, Obama is still the subject of an investigation by Illinois authorities . Simply go to the Chicago Tribune and there are MASSIVE files on Obama linking him to voter intimidation, voter fraud, bribery, mob connections, ACORN , Rezko, Ayres, Wright, Khalidi, Monsour, Odinga and a whole lot more. Where Obama is concerned, there are just way too many sparks for there not to be a fire burning. Problem is you guys just follow this smoke and mirrors man without checking your facts. Dont sell out your Country, check the facts.

[DixieR]

You bots need to get an education and quit calling everything rumors.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3143234&maven_re ferralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/

Volunteers, including members of the Obama campaign, do much of the work. But a group called the Community Voters Project has been paying some of its canvassers based on how many registration forms they turn in.


Last week, Hampton police arrested three of those canvassers and charged them with voter fraud.

"These people involved were not meeting their quotas, so they started making up false information," said Cpl. Allison Good, a police spokeswoman. The city registrar's office and officials at the Community Voters Project noticed the discrepancies and contacted police, she said.

[jane_doe]

what rumor...?

[Yoit'sMe]

What rumor, he admits he worked there. That's what he means when he says he was a "community organizer", that he worked for ACORN.

[jerster]

NO RUMOR. Fact. Do some due diligence (study, research from MULTIPLE sources) and you will find the truth.

As of 8 October 2008:

* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.

* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.

* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Other truths you can research and DISCOVER:

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Make no doubt, there are bigots perpetuating exaggerations about the man - and he has supporters that, in total disregard to truth, will follow him. Raising questions is good, that means you are researching and discovering aspects which are not been fully vetted by the mainstream media. Respectfully questioning authority is always acceptable.

A truly thorough research into his background will bring up questions.

Experience. None. Chicago Politics. George W Bush had 2 terms as Texas Governor... Not a supporter of him, but he had more experience than Obama and you see the mistakes he caused. What will a professional politician with no experience do? He will trust his advisors... Like Bush trusted Cheney... and you see how well that worked.

Is he a Muslim? Probably not - yet in both of his books he writes that he attended a Catholic school and a questionably "Muslim" public school where he studied the Koran. The influence of the Catholic school was there and also aspects of Muslim ideology were there as well.

Why would he attend a church for 20 years where volitile points of view are accepted and studied rigorously? Does that mean he is racist? Like everyone, I am certain he feels more comfortable with certain views. What would the media do if John McCain attended an all-white church with volitile European centric minded points of view? If he is a Christian, would Jesus attend that church?

Friends, everyone has at least one friend. If only your pet dog, Rover. But in Chicago, your political friends and associates can make or break you... So, what is with William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Bernadette Dohrn, Nadhami Auchi, and many others? Now, look at your friends. Your friends are somewhat of a reflection of who you are. Doves generally associate with doves, lambs generally keep with lambs, and yes liberals generally associate with other liberals...

Your wife. Another reflection of who you are. Google "Michelle Obama Princeton Thesis" and you will find another reason why he takes heat. Her points of view are definitely ones to promote one race, hers, to the exclusion of others... it's in her paper. Should a First Lady have such a point of view. Yes, she was younger

[jerster]

NO RUMOR. Fact. Do some due diligence (study, research from MULTIPLE sources) and you will find the truth.

As of 8 October 2008:

* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.

* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.

* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Other truths you can research and DISCOVER:

Where there is smoke, there is fire. Make no doubt, there are bigots perpetuating exaggerations about the man - and he has supporters that, in total disregard to truth, will follow him. Raising questions is good, that means you are researching and discovering aspects which are not been fully vetted by the mainstream media. Respectfully questioning authority is always acceptable.

A truly thorough research into his background will bring up questions.

Experience. None. Chicago Politics. George W Bush had 2 terms as Texas Governor... Not a supporter of him, but he had more experience than Obama and you see the mistakes he caused. What will a professional politician with no experience do? He will trust his advisors... Like Bush trusted Cheney... and you see how well that worked.

Is he a Muslim? Probably not - yet in both of his books he writes that he attended a Catholic school and a questionably "Muslim" public school where he studied the Koran. The influence of the Catholic school was there and also aspects of Muslim ideology were there as well.

Why would he attend a church for 20 years where volitile points of view are accepted and studied rigorously? Does that mean he is racist? Like everyone, I am certain he feels more comfortable with certain views. What would the media do if John McCain attended an all-white church with volitile European centric minded points of view? If he is a Christian, would Jesus attend that church?

Friends, everyone has at least one friend. If only your pet dog, Rover. But in Chicago, your political friends and associates can make or break you... So, what is with William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Bernadette Dohrn, Nadhami Auchi, and many others? Now, look at your friends. Your friends are somewhat of a reflection of who you are. Doves generally associate with doves, lambs generally keep with lambs, and yes liberals generally associate with other liberals...

Your wife. Another reflection of who you are. Google "Michelle Obama Princeton Thesis" and you will find another reason why he takes heat. Her points of view are definitely ones to promote one race, hers, to the exclusion of others... it's in her paper. Should a First Lady have such a point of view. Yes, she was younger

[Java]

Not a rumor. Obama was a 'community organizer' for ACORN years ago, and as an attorney he taught ACORN leadership classes. ACORN was a big supporter in Obama's rise politics. ACORN is a multi-million big time operation. They were a political force in the community reinvestment act, which is how the subprime mortagage fiasco started. ACORN is close to Fannie and Freddie, and Raines, who siphoned $90 million from Fannie, is Obama's economic advisor. Obama is in that snake pit up to his neck, but his supporters and the media simply refuse to see it.

[MrseC]

OMG, this is not a rumor.