hits the old nail right on the old head. On Sep 6, 6:34 am, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why Obama's Organizer Days Are A Big Joke > By MICHELLE MALKIN | Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 4:30 PM PT > > Rudy Giuliani had me in stitches during his red-meat keynote address at the > GOP convention. I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while > noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a "community organizer." > > I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: "I guess > a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you > have actual responsibilities." > > Team Obama was not amused. (Neither were the snarky left-wingers on cable TV > who are now allergic to sarcasm.) They don't get why we snicker when Obama > dons his Community Organizer cape. > > Apparently, the jibes rendered Obama's advisers sleepless. In a crack-of-dawn > e-mail to Obama's followers hours after Giuliani and Palin spoke, campaign > manager David Plouffe attempted to gin up faux outrage (and, more > importantly, donations) by claiming grave offense on the part of community > organizers everywhere. Fumed Plouffe: > > "Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience > as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades > ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when > the local steel plants closed. Let's clarify something for them right now. > Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch > politicians and their failed policies." > > Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church > basements and community centers across the country working to improve their > neighbors' lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Obama's brief > stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan nonprofits > qualifies as executive experience you can believe in. > > What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community > of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering > dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a > bludgeon. > > Obama's community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from > the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). > The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub "direct > actions"); Obama supporters have recounted his role in organizing an ambush > on a government planning meeting about a landfill project opposed by > Chicago's minority lobbies. > > With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades > of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state > and undermine the free market, as well as some that have been implicated in > perpetuating illegal immigration and voter fraud. > > The group continues to garner scrutiny from law enforcement. > > Last week, Milwaukee's top election official announced plans to seek criminal > investigations of 37 ACORN employees accused of offering gifts to sign up > voters (including prepaid gas cards and restaurant cards) or falsifying > driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on > voter registration cards. > > Last month, a New Mexico TV station reported on the child rapists, drug > offenders and forgery convicts on ACORN's payroll. In July, Pennsylvania > investigators asked the public for help in locating a fugitive named Luis R. > Torres-Serrano, who is accused "of submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter > registration forms he collected on behalf of the Association of Community > Organizations for Reform Now to county election officials." Also in July, a > massive, nearly $1 million embezzlement scheme by top ACORN officials was > exposed. > > ACORN's political arm endorsed Obama in February and has ramped up efforts to > register voters across the country. Meantime, completely ignored by the > mainstream commentariat and clean-election crusaders, the Obama campaign > admitted failing to report $800,000 in campaign payments to ACORN. They were > disguised as payments to a front group called "Citizen Services Inc." for > "advance work." > > Jim Terry, an official from the Consumer Rights League, a watchdog group that > monitors ACORN, noted: "ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing > convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their > own political gain. > > "Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting > scheme for Obama's political gain." With a wave of his magic wand, Obama > amended his Federal Election Commission forms to change the "advance work" to > "get-out-the-vote" work. > > Now, don't you dare challenge his commitment to following tax and election > laws. And don't you even think of entertaining the possibility that The One > exploited a nonprofit supposedly focused on helping low-income people for > political gain. He was just "organizing" his "community." 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