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October 09, 2008

ACORN: We like you, too, Browning

In response to reports that Secretary of State Kurt Browning said he “generally likes” the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which registered more than 140,000 new voters this year alone in Florida, Orlando ACORN member Leroy Bell says: “We like Secretary of State Kurt Browning, too. We would like him even more if he would suspend the controversial ‘No-Match’ law that could prevent thousands of legitimate voters from getting on the rolls.”

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isn't this a repost from like 2 weeks ago?

ACORN would really LOVE him if he'd throw all the rule books away and allow illegal aliens, unregistered last-minute voters, and the dead to vote early and as often as they wanted!!!!!

After all, who cares about the integrity of the voting process as long as the ANNOINTED ONE wins!!!!

With all of this noise about Ayers and Obama "palling" together on the Annenberg Challenge, I have posed a question for two days to the right without any reply.

One more time....

Was Walter Annenberg, a Republican philanthropist and close friend of Ronald Reagan, a man that "palled with terrorists" because he was directly involved in bringing in Ayers?

If you say that about Obama, then you can even say it more about Annenberg because he hired Ayers.

I need answers, right wing spinners.

Where is Walter Annenberg today? Is he running for president?

No, but Ronald Reagan did. Good question Tom.

Still didn't answer my question. You claim that anyone who is crosses paths with Ayers is sympathetic to his radical views. I'm just asking if you feel that Walter Annenberg, a noble Republican philanthropist and great friend of Ronald Reagan, is guilty by association also.

Mrs. Annenberg is alive and she is a major contributor to the McCain campaign.

So answer my question, please.

Tom, it took the DEM anti-spin teams about 30 seconds to uncover just as many so-called associations with unsavory people invoving John McCain. MSNBC ran a good coverage of a few of them last night, like the friend and supporter of an abortion clinic bomber who sat next to McCain on one commitee. There is no actual substance to any of the claims; they are all more or less "hey, you were in the same room with so and so..." and then a bunch of out-of-context facts and innuendo to make it seem damning.

Except for Keating. That's historical. McCain, while in office, took "gifts" from a S&L and then used his political influence to try to hinder regulation of the S&L. He DID NOT know that the S&L was involved in fraudulent activity at that time, but it was still buying political influence. And McCain has admitted, on record, that it was bad judgement.

The old adage should be ammended: "People in glass houses should not throw stones; but if your house is already in fragments, what do you have to lose." (answer: respect, integrity)

It doesn't take a weatherman to see which way the wind blows...

OK, Tom, here is the answer....Annenberg is a philanthropic organization that gives money to people who apply for grants....Millions of people....The grant that Obama and Acorn applied for said it was for "education".....Actually it was for militant activism, posing as "education" (actually it is more like indoctrination)...The Annenberg philanthropic group does not monitor every group it gives money to....If people fill out an honest application for a grant, they get the money....THAT is why there is no direct connection for Annenberg's complicity in this scheme to use this money for liberal, socialistic indoctrination of children - all in the (lying) name of education

Well, Browning was a Democrat up unitl about 1996 or so. Not sure when he switched exactly. I am sure he still has some liberal thoughts. My guess is he only switched parties in order to keep the Republicans, who were gaining power in Pasco County at the time, from running someone against him for Supervisor of Elections, a job he had held since 1980.

I drink and serve the obama kool aid

freedom and research is to difficult for me

Bill Ayers GAVE OBAMA $50 MILLION from the grant he got from Annenberg to distribute for education. Where the bulk of it went, no one seems to know...But what can be accounted for went to this socialist indoctrination...
Children were told to "kill their parents" - among other things....Got kids, Tom?...Well hope they did not go to this school if you do..... (That is the tie between Ayers and Obama...If someone "in your neighborhood" gives you $50M, are you going to say that you are not good friends?....If so, I would like to be "not a good friend" of your neighbor.....)...Who do people give $50M to for "education"...? ...How about someone who supports YOUR definition of "education"....
Bill Ayers is trying to control and take over this country any way he can...and indoctrinating children is a very good way....Be afraid, be very afraid if Obama gets into the White House....He will be like Woodrow Wilson - who had citizens put in prison or killed if they spoke against him.....Obama will make Wilson look like Santa Claus.....He is a VERY dangerous man who surrounds himself with very dangerous people....

Tammy I cannot understan the truth you post here.

I like denial better

Tom, . it is "too" difficult not "to".....You confirm that less intelligent and educated people vote for Obama...And there ARE more stupid people in this country....How sad!

11:05, it's amazing that people don't take the time to research and read. When accusations of Obama surfaced, I was concerned also. But once you get the substance of the matter, it's just a diversion from the real issues that is tearing our country apart.

I don't know why I spend the time to refute these ridiculous slanders of a great American. But I find a bit of joy making the right wingers look like fools.

shaddup tammy

Tom, you cannot understand....You - by your own words- are confirming you inability to understand....And it is people like you - of lesser intellect - that are dragging down this country......

Tom,

You think Bill Ayers, Tony Rezcko, Rev Wright are great Americans too?

Birds of a feather flock together and you must be one of them.

How much is the Obama campaign paying you to sit on your computer and spread lies and half truths?

Tammy, you're a complete buffoon. The Annenberg Challenge was 49.2 MILLION dollar grant. Do you think that an organization gives that kind of money away to someone who "fills out an application" and not know who they're giving it to? Annenberg was fully aware who he gave 49.2 MILLION DOLLARS to! YOU'RE A FOOL! Maybe you should fill out an application to pay for your psychiatric care.

You continue to spin your nonsense while your Republican regime squeezes you into bankruptcy.

Each and every registration received through ACORN should be disqualified immediately.

They should also lose their 501(c)(3) status pronto and ALL government funding. It's bad enough the taxpayers have to support the ACLU but ACORN, too?

NEWSFLASH reported by Tammy!!

Citizens, rush to fill out your application for grants. There are rich Republicans ready to give out 49.2 MILLION DOLLLARS to anyone who applies!

No background check necessary.

It stings, doesn't it Tammy?

Tom

Hmmm.....so you are another obama supporter who can not handle facts? Wow, now THAT'S a surprise!

The only way obama can win the election is to count on enough stupid people to vote for him and to count on lots of lies and have people ignore facts. Thank you for your post which simply reinforces the ignorance and grade-school intellect of obama's supporters.

I wonder how well obama would fare if only people eligible to vote actually voted.

Why should any of us be surprised by voter fraud from a man and a party who have worked for years to undermine our representative republic.

When Obama is elected, this will only be the beginning of third world style elections we will have to endure

Tom how much does the obama campaign pay you for trash talking?

Obama's poll numbers are steadily creeping higher. What does this mean? McCain obviously lost the debate, despite what Fox News might say. And now his negative campaing is bearing fruit as well - lots of tired old disproven stories about Obama, but lot's of BRAND NEW dirt on McCain in response. And his mortgage buyback (aka Corporate Socialism) was quickly exposed as impractical, before it gave him even one second of bounce in the polls.

Verdict: Obama's got what it takes to win the Presidency and the policies that might just help everone out of this financial mess. McCain, on the other hand, is completely clueless, and his campaign team is totally inept.

11:40, I know the facts. You spin them. Obama worked on the Annenberg Challenge with Ayers. You think that they have similar views. I don't.

You cannot admit that Annenberg gave 49.2 MILLION DOLLARS to Ayers but it's the truth. I say Annenberg did not have the same views as Ayers. I can spin that relationship like the rest of you pea brains to say that they had similar views. But I'm smart enough to know that it's not true. Unfortunately, people like you and Tammy do not have the ability to think things rationally.

ACORN Planting the Seeds. Yes, they're planting the seeds of corruption in our campaign process. Just what we need more corruption in politics.

What I don't understand, is why these kinds of thug groups are allowed to register ANYBODY, especially after they are investigated for fraud. Suspend them until they can be proven 'clean'. If not, then corruption sets in.

It's nice to have Obama as one of their shyster lawyers, but Libs and Progressive could give a shite.

Tammy, did you find your 49.2 Million dollar giveaway yet? Keep looking, because all you have to do is fill out an application. Charity organizations don't really care who you are, just fill out the application.

YOU'RE A BUFFOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!

Oh, the agony of defeat for your feable mind.

Tom, I have better things to do...But need to help you out once again...The reason we are in the financial melt down we are in is as follows....I am not, unlike you, just going to say words - but will actually provide you with FACTS....I will type slowly so you can understand ....Fannie and Freddie were forced by Barnie Frank, Chuck Schumer, Chis Dodd and Andrew Cuomo (Mario's son) all Democrats - to give 52% of their loans to low income people who could not actually qualify for loans...Previously it had been 10% of their loans had to be low income people ..But these DEMOCRATS GUARANTEED the failure of Freddie and Fannie...I mean, what business would NOT fail if they had to GIVE AWAY 52% of their merchandise or services.... 18 TIMES Bush tried to get this practice STOPPED - he was called a racist and the DEMS just kept giving this money away...Now, MY MONEY has to bail out people who should not have been given these loans in the first place...But this "socialist giveaway" is how DEMOCRATS keep getting elected......

Obama gave $800,000 for Voter Fraud

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a grassroots political organization.

ACORN invited Obama to help train its staff. Moreover, Obama eventually would sit on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which gave a number of sizable grants to ACORN.

In April 2007 The Nation reported, “Today Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side [of Chicago].”

1) ACORN is the largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities.

2) ACORN is implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election.

In September 2008 the Board of Elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio accused ACORN's paid workers, who had been tasked with registering as many pro-Democrat voters as possible, of submitting fraudulent voter-registration cards.

According to the Board, ACORN workers had commonly turned in separate cards with duplicate names but different addresses or different birth dates. Other cards listed people living at an address that was not a residence.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney's office in Michigan indicated that it might prosecute ACORN for similar voter-registration scams in that state.

Obama and ACORN partnering in 'Voter Fraud' 'Change' and 'Hope' for America?

Tammy, I'm going to take the day off and enjoy this beautiful Florida sunshine. I can't wait to get together with friends tonight over a bottle of wine and tell them of your ridiculous comment. And most of them are Republicans. Even they will break their ribs laughing at that one. Thanks for the chuckles.

Ignorance is alive and well in the GOP.

it strains credulity that the more negative the information is concerning the dim's hero obamaniac, the more the polls indicate he is rising in the polls.

Despite all his associations with haters of america, despite the hatred his wife spews about america, despite his involvement with groups like acorn the pollsters are telling uis daily the race is over.

I doubt the race is over but the right needs to keep hammering away about who this fraud has aligned himself with over the years.

The very notion that he could keep company with these many haters and claim they had no influence on his thinking is a trip to fantasyland.

It is evident the the obama is a person of no real core beliefs but is a creation of those he has been influenced by. He has mastered the old clinton trick of telling each audience what they want to hear.

But the most shameful group in this whole sordid affair remains the media whop have taken sides and are nothing more than a full partner in getting the obama elected with no thought of the consequences

Thanks for thinking of me Tom...

And don't forget the difference between "to" "too" and "two" ...
I will laugh with my friends tonight about grown people who think they are so smart who do not know how to spell or the meaning of grammar school words ...

Tootle.....

OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA

He's not a U.S.citizen. He cannot be President.

Prove me wrong if you think otherwise.

ACORN was supposed to get TWENTY PER CENT!

That's 20% of the total bail out package!

Thank heaven that was stripped from the package!!!

Tom - Tammy is the Obtuse Norquista hiding under one of his many assumed IDs. You can tell by the smug hatred and selfishness - his hallmark. Enjoy your day off, Tom. Obama's trouncing McBogus in the polls, and the Norquista's little games are hardly worth responding to.

I thought this blog was about ACORN.

Tom, your comments and reasoning is foolish at best.

Tammy, is that your only comeback, my typos? You have really gone down the gutter of defeat. I do know how to spell the word, "buffoon". You recognize that word don't ya?

12:00, Obama was born in Hawaii, moron.

12:03, thanks fellow American patriot. I'm off to enjoy the wonderful day on the boat. Tammy, you have a great day also.

I couldn't understand why the Dems were so against voter ID, well it is obvious now, it would stop ACORN and Project Vote dead in their tracks.

It looks to me like the ACORN people are providing worthwhile services to the disenfranchized and folks who are not so politically well connected. I don't see why Obama helping them out is a bad thing. These must be some lies and spin I missed.

12:00, Obama was born in Hawaii, moron.

Prove it.

There is a federal lawsuit that says otherwise and Obama cannot produce a certified birth certificate.

http://www.obamacrimes.com/

(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/06/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] filed a Joint Motion for Protective Order to Stay Discovery Pending a Decision on the Motion to Dismiss (which was) filed on 09/24/08.

While legal, Berg stated he is “outraged as this is another attempt to hide the truth from the public; it is obvious that documents do not exist to prove that Obama is qualified to be President.” The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.

Their joint motion indicates a concerted effort to avoid the truth by attempting to delay the judicial process, although legal, by not resolving the issue presented: that is, whether Barack Obama meets the qualifications to be President.

It is obvious that Obama was born in Kenya and does not meet the “qualifications” to be President of the United States pursuant to our United States Constitution. Obama cannot produce a certified copy of his “Vault” [original long version] Birth Certificate from Hawaii because it does not exist.

Obama & DNC Hide Behind Legal Issues While Betraying Public in not Producing a Certified Copy of Obama’s “Vault” Birth Certificate and Oath of Allegiance

http://obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/22-obama-a-dnc-hide-behind-legal-issues-country-headed-to-a-constitutional-crisis

Certificate of Live Birth analysis - Part one
http://obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/17-certificate-of-live-birth-analysis-part-one

Posted by: | October 09, 2008 at 12:08

"These must be some lies and spin I missed."

Or facts you choose to deny because you are a spin doctor from the obama campaign.

Fix It!

Take the fraud out of the system.

1. You must go to your county registrar of voters with proof of citizenship and residence.

2. When these facts are confirmed you are issued a photo voter ID card.

3. The card will have a magnetic strip and a PIN number you give the card. At the polling place it is swiped and the fact that you've voted goes into a statewide system so that if you're a Democrat you don't vote more than once.

4. If you want to vote absentee you must supply your card number and PIN number when applying for an absentee ballot.

5. If you're too damn lazy to do this you don't deserve to vote.

A new poll reveals that the dead vote is going to Obama by a 9 to 1 margin.

Looks like I won't be voting for Obama OR Reagan this year.

Excuse me - Obama was born in Hawaii. But, even if he wasn't...his mother is a US citizen. He is a natural born citizen...he never had to be naturalized. The blood that flows through his veins is American - it is called Juis Sanguinus and that is how he derived his citizenship. Also, John McCain was born in Panama to citizen parents. If Obama had been born abroad, there would be a record of it at the US Embassy in Kenya when they had to apply for his birth certificate and his passport to come back to the US. Learn something about how citizenship and immigration work you idiots...www.uscis.gov.

The GOP and McCain are desperately trying to suppress the vote by unfairly attacking ACORN!

By the way, the last person who tried to do this (Alberto Gonzalez) ended up resigning because his partisan dirty tricks were uncovered.

Beware, mess with the ACORN and the clock starts ticking on your political career!!

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