Obama & ACORN Raise Red Flag

Voters need to know about Barack Obama’s strong connection with ACORN, a left-wing organization that agitates for socialist style changes in America. ACORN’s goal (to make America a socialist state) and tactics (including voter fraud) have been exposed recently in the media, but few seem to be paying attention to the bad news. Obama and ACORN are both trying to play down their connection, but they are connected and it is scary.

In 1992, Barack Obama started his connection with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”) by directing Project Vote, a voter registration drive program organized by ACORN. (See: Hank De Zutter, Op-Ed, “What Makes Obama Run?” Chicago Reader, 12/8/95; “Obamacorn,” Investor’s Business Daily (“IBD”), 10/14/08, p. A10.) Afterwards, Obama continued his work for ACORN largely though teaching classes to ACORN’s future leaders. (“What Makes Obama Run?” Id.) He was specifically hired to teach ACORN’s staff and community organizers in “direct action,” using the confrontational and intimidating methods of Saul Alinsky. (See: “ACORN’s Senator,” Investor’s Business Daily, 10/1/08, p. A10.) Alinsky was a well-known Chicago-based socialist revolutionary. (Jerome R. Corsi, The Obama Nation, chapter 5, 2008.) These Alinsky methods included in-your-face protests in bank lobbies and bank managers’ homes to force the banks to make risky loans. (See: M. Jay Wells, “Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened,” www.americanthinker.com/, reprinted by IBD, 10/30/08, p1. This article sets forth a definitive analysis of the mortgage crisis from Roosevelt to the present.) For more on Saul Alinsky, see the end of this article.

ACORN used the Clinton amendments to Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act (the “CRA”) as an excuse to intimidate banks to make “Ninja” loans, standing for “no income, no job, no assets.” Obviously, the recipients of Ninja loans could not repay them. ACORN would unleash agitators using Alinsky in-your-face tactics to pressure banks into making these Ninja loans. ACORN was a driving force behind Clinton’s 1995 regulatory revisions that greatly increased the requirements of the CRA. ACORN also filed law suits under the CRA to prevent banks from expanding or merging, if ACORN thought the banks had not made enough minority loans to meet the requirements of the CRA as ACORN interpreted the law to its own satisfaction. Id.; see also, “Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened,” Id.

In 1995, Obama continued his association with ACORN by being part of a team of lawyers, who sued the State of Illinois for allegedly failing to comply with Clinton’s motor vehicle license voter registration law. (See, e.g. Mike Robinson, “Obama Got Start In Civil Rights Practice”, The Associated Press, 2/20/07.) Obama represented ACORN in a 1994 law suit against “red lining.” “ACORN’s Senator,” Id.

While serving on the Board of the Woods Fund with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, Obama frequently helped obtain grants for ACORN, which grants were available to assist ACORN fund its agitation activities. Id. ACORN received grants of $45,000 in 2000, $75,000 in 2001, and $70,000 in 2002 from the Woods Fund, while Obama served on its Board. (Donors Forum Website, ifs.donorsforum.org.) Obama’s Campaign paid ACORN’s subsidiary Citizens Services, Inc. $800,000, which the Campaign originally reported to the Federal Election Commission as polling, event staging and advance work, when it was actually “get-out-the-vote.” (David M. Brown, “Obama To Amend Report On $800,000 In Spending,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 8/22/08.)

Obama’s own words last November to ACORN sum up his long political association with 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 drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.’” “Obamacorn,” Id. In December 2007, Obama “’promised to implement ACORN’s agenda as president.’” Id. That same month Obama told the Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum that even before he was inaugurated, “’we’ll be calling all of you (community organizers) in to help us shape the agenda.’” Id. Obama pledged, “We’re gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.” Id.

Every true American should be afraid of that pledge. Combining ACORN’s left-wing social change agenda, its in-your-face intimidation tactics and its apparent willingness to be involved with voter registration fraud, with Obama’s far left-wing Socialist redistribution of wealth philosophy, will be dangerous to our free market system. (See, e. g. Investor’s Business Daily, Series “The Audacity of Socialism,” www.ibdeditorials.com), and search under Special Series for a multipart series on Obama’s Socialist Philosophy and his Socialist and Communist mentors.

Obama in the White House with Pelosi and Reid in charge of Congress will be dangerous to our economy and our National Defense. Socialism kills initiative. Obama and the Democrats don’t understand what makes America work and why we have been, up until now, the ‘last great hope of mankind’. McCain/Palin and the Republican Party are our only hope for the future of this great country.

Why aren’t voters paying attention? Please tell your friends and help them understand that our values and progress as a nation are at stake. The liberal press is pointing our country in the wrong direction. I’m amazed that many decent, thoughtful people don’t seem to understand economics and human nature. Don’t let them destroy the freedom and opportunities that made America the envy of the world.
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For more information on Saul Alinsky, who wrote several books including Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971) Random House, google him and/or see below:
Reprinted from www.americanthinker.com/:
“The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent "self-interest" in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.

In these methods, euphemistically labeled "community organizing," Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.”