McCain-Palin Lies By Lloyd Hart You may have noticed over the last week the word acorn or to be more exact A.C.O.R.N. which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. I personally have known about this group for many years and nearly fell off my couch when I began to hear the accusations coming out of the McCain campaign that poor black people (A.C.O.R.N.) held a gun to Congress's head (cause black people, you know, they can get guns. (wink) ) and forced it to pass a law that forced rich white guys to stop redlining minority neighborhoods and to stop predatory lending practices in minority neighborhoods - a deliberate practice of banks not providing equal access to credit products like loans and mortgages at the same fare market value in terms of interest rates that the white folks recieved who were forced into the terrible exodus of white flight when they had to relocate to the suburbs when they were afraid their children might have sex with black folks if they lived next door to them and you know (wink) listened to their jazz music and smoked their marijuana.
Help! Poor black people are are causing the total collapse of the Global Economy! So, according to Senator John McCain and other Republicans, A.C.O.R.N. ruthlessly lobbied Congress to stop banks from redlining minority communities which somehow caused Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy bad loans from mortgage companies and banks who saw the future and were desperate to get rid of properties that would no longer be profitable once foreclosed on and because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought all those bad loans (and have an automatic government rescue program to their charters), that that somehow linked poor black people (A.C.O.R.N.) to the bringing down of Wall Street investment giants like Bear Stearns, A.I.G. and Lehman Brothers which then led to the total collapse of the global banking system and the single largest one week drop in the Dow Jones Industrial average in history? Wow, poor black people sure have come a long way since the time of slavery, to be able to do that. Now that's something. So Senator John McCain starts slamming A.C.O.R.N. for causing all the financial trouble at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then news reports began to role in that Vegas police had raided an A.C.O.R.N. office this week looking for evidence of fraudulent voter registration practices. Then there was another report on Friday from Indiana of a bunch of voter registration cards were filled out in the same hand writing. It was then that my intestines began to twist up in a knock which made it impossible for me to sleep. You see, what was happening to me was that I was beginning to transcend what the Jim Crow politicians inside the Republican Party were attempting to do. They were attempting to accuse poor black people of doing exactly what the Republican Party has been doing for years since it was taken over by the crazy crackers from the Jim Crow South who found themselves completely at home with the rich white guys from the north who had sold out reconstruction to segregation and Jim Crow ten years or so after the Civil War when Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act which removed federal troops from the streets within the defeated Southern states allowing the Klu Klux Klan to undo reconstruction and institute the corrupt and murderous practices of segregation and Jim Crow which deliberately and systematically took away the right to vote and the right to economic justice of black folks living in the affected communities. So it was nearly brain aneurysm material when I read what Florida Republican Congressman Tom Feeney had said the following on Friday: "This is destructive to democracy," he told Fox News Friday. "I believe Acorn has violated more Americans' civil rights to have their vote counted than any group since the KKK. It's an outrage." Along with other Republicans McCain, Feeney, and the party's talking heads all of a sudden started talking about A.C.O.R.N. at exactly the same time A.C.O.R.N. is raided in Vegas and the Indiana voter registration cards are suspect. It's as if they all recieved the same briefing memo from a single source. Now, A.C.O.R.N. has had it's own issues like the brother of it's founder has been accused of embezzling a million dollars from the organization which is what this group http://rottenacorn.com/ is attempting to paint the entire organization with. But the accusation is, that someone did something bad to A.C.O.R.N. not A.C.O.R.N. doing something bad to voters and besides that, the beneficial work that A.C.O.R.N. does at the community level far out weighs anything bad a couple of bad apples may have done or could do. Go to a black or minority community and ask folks about A.C.O.R.N.. You'll find what I found , a well like community organization http://www.acorn.org/ . As for the accusations of voter fraud absolutely nothing has been proven and the evidence that has surfaced in Indiana looks as though it was somebody taking advantage of a policy within A.C.O.R.N. itself of paying voter registration activists for every registration card handed in. A common practice and ocurrance in all parties running for office in the U.S.. In reality, it looks to me as though someone is attempting to get news stories of accusations to rise in the mainstream media perfectly timed for registration deadlines just weeks before the presidential and general election that would then justify in the Republican party's and now Senator John McCain's practice of voter caging where Republican party operatives have black voters pulled from the voting lines and then directly challenge their right to vote. This practice was used in 2004 presidential and of course can be attributed to an ongoing practice of voter disenfranchisement that dates back to the era of Jim Crow or more recently Electronic Jim Crow. Electronic Jim Crow if you haven't noticed, is a scandal that won't completely surface because the rich white guys that own the mainstream media and the Electronic Jim Crow Voting machine companies don't want Americans to realize that they have actually been living in a banana republic their whole lives. The rich white guys that own the mainstream media want Americans to continue to believe in American exceptionalism, which is the latest slogan from the McCain campaign - that America above all other nations on the earth is the most exceptional and therefore above international law and especially above international voting standards. Well, if it is true and America is above international law and especially above international voting standards,you know God given (wink) then maybe what the McCain campaign and the Republican Party is saying about poor black people is true, that only in America could poor black people by signing for loans and mortgages they must have known they could not afford, take advantage unsuspecting rich white guys who stood to radically profit by earning twice as much interest once those loans and mortgages matured a couple of years down the road, bring down the global economy. Yes. that must be it. Cause you know, black people steal things (wink). The final dirty trick of the McCain campaign was to link Senator Barrack Obama to A.C.O.R.N. by stating that Obama had something to do with A.C.O.R.N. in his community organizing days back in South Side of Chicago in a desperate attempt to create a narrative that because a black guy is running for president on the Democratic ticket that the poor black folks at A.C.O.R.N. and Senator Barrack Obama are in league to steal the election. Cause you know, black people steal things (wink). So, there we have it, Senator John McCain is deliberately racially profiling Senator Barrack Obama and A.C.O.R.N. as both being black. And lets not forget the link McCain made that Barrack Obama comes "out of the Chicago political machine" insinuating some naferious criminal political activity combined with the acusations against A.C.O.R.N. and you have a black crime wave attempting to steal the White House. Cause you know, black people steal things (wink). 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