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Posted By pc25 3 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Inside Obama’s Acorn
By their fruits ye shall know them.
What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.
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pc253 months, 1 week ago
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of course Obama wasn't aware of the money that Acorn received. The libs are trying to spin the money angle. It's not about the amount of money they received but what they were able to do with that money.
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REDSTATE EXCLUSIVE: A Review of ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis’s Rolodex Suggests Strong White House Ties - Erick’s blog - RedState
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/22/redstate...-
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hyperbola3 months, 1 week ago
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Ah my, more zioncon propaganda attacking little people for the benefit of corrupt corporations and oligarchs. Usual PC pimping again.
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The Democrats, Pfizer and Acorn
Who's the Pimp?
http://www.counterpunch.com/mokhiber09222009.html
Acorn is a poor people’s grassroots organization.
Earlier this month, some of it’s employees were caught on tape giving advice to two young right-wing activists posing as pimp and prostitute.
Pfizer is a wealthy and powerful multinational corporation.
Earlier this month, a Pfizer unit pled guilty to a felony in connection with a major health care fraud and paid $2.3 billion in fines.
So, if the Democratically controlled Congress were to vote to either:
a) strip federal funding from the grassroots group Acorn, or
b) ban corporate felon Pfizer from future government business
Which would it be?
Let me guess.
Last week, the Democratic controlled Congress voted to strip Acorn of its federal funding.
Why?
The vote came a day after the release of the latest video by the two activists who crisscrossed the country trying to get Acorn employees to help them in setting up a child-prostitution business.
In some Acorn offices, workers reported the two to the police.
In others, they sought to help the fake pimp and prostitute.
Fox and Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck and O’Reilly made it seem as if Acorn was a corporate felon. -
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hyperbola3 months, 1 week ago
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And reacting to the right-wing echo chamber, the House and Senate voted to end Acorn’s federal funding.
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Unclear whether such a move is Constitutional.
The Constitution prohibits bills of attainder.
That means Congress can’t punish individual organizations.
But putting that minor detail aside for a moment, let’s say Congress can punish.
Why bully the weak?
After all, a society rots from the head down.
Let’s chop at the top.
Let’s find a list of major corporate criminals who rip off the federal government.
And bar them from ever doing business with the federal government again.
Lo and behold, we have such a list right here.
A quick and dirty list from the annals of Taxpayers Against Fraud and the Corporate Crime Reporter:
Pfizer, Serono, Takeda-Abbott Pharmaceutical, Shering-Plough, Lilly, Abbott Labs, Cephalon, National Medical Enterprises, HCA, Gambro Health Care, Schering-Plough, Astra-Zeneca, Bayer, Purdue.
Major corporate criminals?
Check.
Convicted in a court of law?
Check.
Ripped off the federal government?
Check.
Paid fines that would keep Acorn in business until hell freezes over?
Check.
Which raises an obvious question for the members of Congress who voted overwhelmingly to strip Acorn of its federal funding:
Who’s the pimp?
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Wolfie20073 months, 1 week ago
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If Obama isn't aware of the $8.5 billion dollars in the Porkulus
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Stimulus slated to go to ACORN then he should be impeached for not paying attention to where our taxpayer dollars are going. Although, I don't believe he didn't know for a NY minute. ACORN is too important to Obama for anyone to believe this feigned indifference. -
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antibrainwasher3 months, 1 week ago
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Look, its a con fest, a good old fashion reach around starring the swiftboating propeller club of racist neocon tools.
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You cons give a trillion dollars a year to the richest 1 percenters in the largest economic redistribution of wealth from the middle and working to the richest, and now that's not good enough, you have to swiftboat a strawman organization for the poor and minorities.
Its just sick, you lemmings are sold identity politics, racism and paranoia by your billionaire media mogal masters that you get down on our knees for each day, licking their bleeding cyst in an act of abject loyality.
Make the rich richer is the only principle you possess, con brownshirts. And you aren't even aware your inherent racism and home schooled evangelical ignorance are being played like a banjo.-
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gwhiddon3 months, 1 week ago
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So your ambition in life is to get poorer?
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I'll give you my paypal address, send me your government check each month. I'd rather get richer so I can get a car.
As for the brownshirt statement - don't you mean the SEIU purple shirts, you know those thugs attacking townhall meetings>
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