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In at least the 80s and 90s, ACORN conducted squatting campaigns. From this 1997 recruiting email from Madeline Talbott, ACORN's Chicago-based National Field Director: We are moving families without housing into abandoned houses without families, a process known as squatting. The fight to make this legal and to get financial assistance to the squatters is on the cutting edge of the kind of struggles we will be involved with over the next few years. And, from ACORN's description of the Reagan Years (acorn.org/index.php?id=2752): Turning adversity into opportunity, ACORN launched a campaign to obtain affordable housing. Long before it became fashionable...

This ACORN nut fits my perception of Obama and his supporters perfectly. (VIDEO AT LINK) How in the heck anyone could vote for Obama is, to borrow a phrase, above my pay grade. And after listening to this clip from the Howard Stern radio show, I’m beginning to favor going back to requiring poll testing before people can vote: Good grief.

Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson Issues Open Letter to Nation's Sportsmen Regarding Obama's History in the Illinois Senate Last update: 1:06 a.m. EDT Oct. 15, 2008 CHICAGO, Oct 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following is the text of an open letter to the nation's hunters and sportsmen issued today by Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson: Fellow Sportsman, Hello, my name is Rich Pearson and I have been active in the firearm rights movement for over 40 years. For the past 15 years, I have served in the Illinois state capitol as the...

For the first time in history, an African American looks close to winning the presidency. Throughout his campaign, Sen. Barack Obama has faced a blunt question: Can he win enough white voters to win? It's a question that's as much about race as it is about electability. A recent study out of Stanford University suggests that racial prejudice is eroding as much as 6 percentage points from Senator Obama's support. One commentator has even suggested that white racism would be the only explanation for an Obama loss this November. But there's another facet to this story – and it could...

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On the eve of the Democratic convention, Trib colleague David M. Brown reported that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of ACORN for services the Democrat's campaign says it “mistakenly misrepresented” in finance reports. An Obama spokesman said then that the FEC reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects. The original FEC finance reports listed the ACORN underling activities as polling, advance work and staging major events.

If Obama wins then we have effectively turned control of our national defenses over to Code Pink. Our national treasury over to the Chicago mob. Our justice department to the Rainbow Coalition. Control of our elections to ACORN. Our national ministry of propaganda to HuffingtonPost, DailyKos and MoveOn (which admittedly would be an improvement over CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/NYT/WP/AP, et al). The IRS to Charlie Rangel. Banking/Finance to Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. Housing to Tony Rezco. The new Global Warming Department to Al Gore. The State Department to Clinton, Inc. Education to NOW. The selection of our judges to the ACLU. Homeland...

Barring an October surprise, the fall election has all but been decided. The next question on Wall Street is whom President Obama will install as Henry Paulson's successor as head of the Treasury Department. Though no decision has been made, the rumor is that the Obama camp has already reached out to its first choice. The eye-popper is that the potential pick -- Jamie Dimon -- has signaled an interest in the job. [snip] Dimon and the Democrats It wouldn't be a stretch to suggest Obama would simply be repaying a big campaign supporter. In the political world, Dimon hasn't...

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, if elected, should avoid the same mistakes in Afghanistan that the Soviets made more than 20 years ago, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said today. "I told Obama's people, 'Don't get your feet too far in Afghanistan,'" Murtha, an 18-term Democrat from Johnstown, said during a wide-ranging interview with the Tribune-Review. Obama has said he wants to send more troops to Afghanistan.

With potential conflicts of interest Vice Presidential Candidate Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney is alleged to have had a second affair. Mahoney, a 16th district Florida Congressman representing the Palm Beach area is accused by an aid of having a separate affair with a Martin County woman. Mahoney won his seat in 2006 while promising to return morals and family values to Washington. This was in the aftermath of the resignation of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley. ....

Sen. Barack Obama's views on life issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research mark him as not merely a pro-choice politician, but rather as the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket. Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress. Yet there are Catholics and Evangelicals-even self-identified pro-life Catholics and...

Education: The joint effort between Barack Obama and terrorist William Ayers to "reform" Chicago schools was a flop. After spending $160 million, Chicago's children were still being left behind.It was, and some say still is, his only claim to have executive experience qualifying him for high government office. "My experience previous to elected office equips me for the job," Obama said in a 2000 televised debate during a failed campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush. Of that experience, Obama said: "I have chaired major philanthropic efforts on the city, like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) that gave $50...

Ex-FBI Agents Outraged at Obama-Ayers Ties Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:46 AM By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size Former FBI agents who worked the Weather Underground case are angry about the longtime relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers, a leader of the domestic terrorist group who has admitted widespread bombings. “It outrages me to think that a person would be seeking the presidency of the United States and was close to an individual like Bill Ayers,” former agent Max Noel told Newsmax. Ayers said in his book that he participated in the bombing of New York City police headquarters...

The Obama campaign is now distancing itself from Acorn, claiming Mr. Obama never organized with it and has nothing to do with illegal voter registration. Yet it's disingenuous to channel cash into an operation with a history of fraud and then claim you're shocked to discover reports of fraud. As with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, Mr. Obama was happy to associate with Acorn when it suited his purposes. But now that he's on the brink of the Presidency, he wants to disavow his ties. The Justice Department needs to treat these fraud reports as something larger than a...

A few days ago I recounted in these pages a short history of the Weathermen, a domestic terrorist organization founded by Obama friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. I listed their many criminal acts and the warm welcome they received from the Chicago establishment, leaders of which were Mr. Ayers’ father, Thomas G. Ayers, former president of the local utility, and his friend, lawyer Howard Trienans of white shoe law firm Sidley Austin, when they emerged from the underground.   For those unfamiliar with the story, it must be shocking to learn that Ayers and Dohrn are not in prison,...

WASHINGTON — Even with the financial markets collapsing around the world in recent weeks, a little-known group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is suddenly at the heart of Republican presidential nominee John McCain's attacks on Democratic rival Barack Obama. But who - or what - is ACORN? Outside of political circles, the group is unlikely to be recognized. And why is the entire Republican Party, not just the McCain campaign, up in arms about the group? ACORN has been advocating for issues related to economic and social equity since its founding in 1970, but...

The Left, the Obama media, and the Messiah's campaign cry "personal attacks." Sarah Palin trivializes with phrases like "palling around with domestic terrorists." McCain wobbles from "liar" to" a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States," and back again. But Obama's associations are still an important, and in fact a fundamental issue for voters. Re ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Frank Marshal Davis, Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, Raila Odinga, and all of the assorted leftists and figures of ambiguous or veiled allegiance that form...

Barack Obama is shown with an edge against John McCain in a North Dakota presidential race that has narrowed to a statistical tie, according to a new Forum poll. The survey shows Obama squeaking past McCain, 45 percent to 43 percent, a lead that falls within the poll’s margin of error and therefore indicates a dead heat, according to political analysts. Still up for grabs: undecided voters, comprising 12 percent. “It’s a statistical tossup,” said Jim Danielson, co-director of the Public Affairs Institute at Minnesota State University Moorhead, which conducted the statewide telephone survey for The Forum. Pollsters contacted 606...

Democrat slimeball Tim Mahoney has made the news over his payoff to his mistress who was on the payroll. We heard the audio of her being fired by him. Well, imagine my surprise when I went to YouTube to hopefully find the audio of the conversation, and I found Tim Mahoney singing "Sexual Healing." Gee, what a coincidence. (Yes, I know, but that's pretty funny.) Perhaps we need to call his office and congratulate him for a nice performance on YouTube. Who knew he could sing? We know his mistress can sing. Washington, D.C. Office: 1541 Longworth House Office Building,...

Michael Savage states that Sen. Barack Obama Is running a "corrupt campaign," saying that white liberals "hate white people," repeated that Obama "won't produce his birth certificate," and laughed and said "Kenya is going to move to America" if Obama wins the election During the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage delivered the message to his audience that Sen. Barack Obama of running a "corrupt campaign," suggested that white liberals "hate white people," He said that Obama "won't produce his birth certificate," and joked "Kenya is going to move to America" if Obama wins the...

House Democratic leaders on Monday announced a broad economic recovery package aimed at the middle class that they say needs to be enacted in the wake of the Wall Street rescue bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a meeting of almost a dozen top House Democrats and about as many economists on Monday morning. She said the group coalesced around a general economic recovery package aimed at aiding states, extending unemployment insurance benefits, investing in transportation and infrastructure, and perhaps providing a new round of tax rebate checks. Pelosi said the package would be hammered out after various committees...

Perhaps when you see the Sara Silverman hateful video called the "The Great Schlep" You take the time to forward this video that was done by Sara Silverman a fews years earlier that makes fun of elderly people in a nursing home and then it ends with the Grandma in a coffin in a funeral home. Any Rabbi or Jewish organization like the "Jewish Council for Education and Research endorsing a Whore like Sara Silverman probably has no sense of compassion toward people in need. So be sure and send this link to your aging Bubbies and Zadies (Grandma's...

Florida Democrat Congressman Mahoney, Foley Replacement, Pays Mistress $121,000 in alleged bribe money. The Mistress originally sued for $1mil.

John, I used to register in Indiana as a Democrat, upon moving to Florida and not knowing the Political situation here< I registered as a NPA (No Party Affiliation) and just as I am getting ready to move to the conservative side, you drop the ball on what I believe conservatism is. I have watched you for years and appreciate your service to our cause and country. But within the last few weeks I have become concerned when the VP select for the Republican Party seems to be connecting with us more than the P Elect. What gives? I have...

Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below. McCain's letter -- signed by nineteen other senators -- said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]...operate in a safe and sound manner.[and]..More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail." Sen. Obama did not sign the letter, nor did any other Democrat.

Derrick Shepherd pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering this morning in federal court, a sharp turnaround for a feisty and defiant public official who last year accused the government of pursuing an indictment against him after he refused to give them dirt on other elected officials.

Obama has a history of incredibly poor judgment, which is blaringly evident all over this story. He has no control over his campaign financing, and he showed absolutely no tact or prescience in his dealings with Kenya. By choosing sides and speaking out on multiple occasions against the sitting government, Obama helped to propel Odinga’s career and to create a situation that exploded tragically on December 30, 2007. As one of the most, if not the most, recognizable political figures in the world and the defacto voice of America when he travels abroad, Obama bears, if unwittingly, at least a...

In the best tradition of Bill Clinton's famous declaration that the answer to the question of whether or not he was having an affair with Monica depended on "what the definition of is is," Obama was clearly splitting hairs and concealing the truth when he said that William Ayers was "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood." The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) released last week by the University of Illinois show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in...

Black Racists Recruited to Guide the Jihad By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 10, 2008 Black Muslim lawyer Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour recently made news when it was revealed that he was a patron of Barack Obama and recommended him for admission to Harvard Law School in 1988. Back in the 1960s, al-Mansour, whose “slave name” was then Don Warden, was deeply involved in Bay Area racial politics as founder of a group called the African American Association. A close personal adviser to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, al-Mansour helped the pair establish the Black Panther Party but later...

Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D) has ordered poll workers taking in early absentee ballots to bar Republican observers from scrutinizing the procedure. “I am a firm believer in a secret ballot,” Brunner said. “This can be better assured if there are no observers.” Ohio Republicans filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court challenging Brunner’s order. Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro characterized Brunner’s conception as “flawed beyond sensibility.” “The point of a secret ballot is to prevent government authorities spying on who the voter is voting for,” Petro said. “It doesn’t mean that the process of accepting...

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.

House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank has suggested that linking the banking crisis to the high-risk bank lending mandates of the Community Reinvestment Act and the "affordable" housing goals set by Congress for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes a Republican effort to scapegoat poor, minority households that took out such mortgages.Frank says such people are the victims, not the cause. He not only fails to acknowledge the role the government-sponsored mortgage giants played in the flight to unsafe lending. He also doesn't understand the wrongheadedness of government lending mandates for low-income neighborhoods: They tend to harm the prospects of...

Election '08: Obama says McCain won't raise the Ayers issue to his face. Well, there's one more debate, senator, and maybe you'd like John Murtaugh to ask the question: What did you know and when did you know it?It's almost certain that in the questions not selected by Tom Brokaw for the second presidential debate, there was at least one about William Ayers, whom Brokaw describes as a "school reformer" and not the Weather Underground leader who still doesn't regret bombing government buildings. The question was never asked and McCain never mentioned his name, even though the last question of...

Election '08: Why would a man linked with the Wall Street culture Barack Obama hates top his list for Treasury chief? Obama knows something many don't about billionaire Warren Buffett.Despite his storied investing prowess, Buffett is a liberal who sees eye-to-eye with Obama on economic policy. That's why he's contributed $4,600 to Obama's campaign — along with $28,500 to the DNC — and not a dime to John McCain or Republicans during this election cycle. During the Nashville debate, Obama put forth an ideological litmus for the Treasury job, a post that has taken on even more importance amid the...

WASHINGTON -- After forgoing character attacks during the second presidential debate, Republican John McCain sought Wednesday to sow doubt about Democrat Barack Obama's background and character. Obama, meanwhile, accused the McCain campaign of trying to "score cheap political points." Both candidates tried to play into voters' worries about the other with a mere four weeks to go before Election Day. McCain is perceived as being weak on the economy, and Obama continued a line of attack against the veteran senator for saying recently that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy were strong. McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah...

The single constant in the eternal election remains the media, whose activist role no one will seriously dispute. To point out the prevailing (with honorable exceptions) double standard of reporting so favorable to Mr. Obama by now feels superfluous -- much like talking about the weather. The same holds true for all those reports pointing to Mr. Obama's heroic status outside the United States -- not to mention the cascade of press analyses warning that if he fails to win election, the cause will surely be racism. None of this means that the media's role will go unremembered -- who...

Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.  Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called -- with a straight face -- "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The public is asked to believe Obama wrote Dreams From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant.  I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all.  Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf.  To put this in...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for a new $150 billion economic-stimulus package today and suggested Congress may need to act this year. "We have some harsh decisions to make. Some of them can't wait until January," she said in Colorado today after a tour of Denver Health Medical Center's pediatric emergency facilities. "What we can't wait for is a stimulus package," she said. "We may have to go back into session before the next Congress." Pelosi praised the Federal Reserve's decision this morning to lower a key interest rate but said more needs to be done quickly to reinvigorate the...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign disavowed an introduction here yesterday that included Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. William Platt, chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Party, twice referred to "Barack Hussein Obama," which other supporters of McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have used to link the Democratic candidate with Muslims. Obama is not a Muslim. McCain has disavowed the tactic, most recently when it was employed earlier this week. "We do not condone this inappropriate rhetoric which distracts from the real questions of judgment, character and experience that voters will base their decisions...

Tonight we talked to someone who works in the federal courts here in Chicago. The buzz in those corridors is that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case. Today, it was announced that ACORN is being investigated in 10 states. That’s one Hell of a coincidence. We asked why Fitzgerald would be involved in this, because he’s the prosecutor on the Tony Rezko case and we aren’t aware of ACORN being investigated in Illinois. We were told that ACORN was investigated in Illinois years ago, and it...

WASHINGTON -- How is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is passed off in the media now as an airhead? Yet her opponent -- long known as an airhead, a braggart and even a plagiarist -- now is passed off as a statesman? I have in mind Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pa., or wherever he now claims to hail from. In September, Gov. Palin sat before ABC's Charlie Gibson and CBS' Katie Couric and was asked...

SIOUX CITY -- Barack Obama's secret dangers include: 1. His infatuation with the U.N. He believes the U.N. is the solution to all the world’s problems and our sovereignty must be subjected to their control, then the world would become a heaven. 2. His desire to reduce our military strength and destroy all our nuclear weapons. Though our enemies amass nuclear weapons, he wants to diminish our strength. 3. His defense of the Treaty of the Seas. The treaty would grant the U.N. absolute control of 70 percent of the earth’s surface located under the oceans. They would control and...

Senator Joe Biden introduced as "Senator John McCain" at Democratic Rally in Florida. On purpose??????

The Democrat's rhetoric on taxes and health care is frightening people in the investing classes over what critics call 'wealth redistribution.' Investors this summer have been placing their bets on an Obama presidency, and for the most part that hasn't been good for the market. It's just that Obama's rhetoric on taxes and health care is scaring common wealthy people with large capital gains from investments made over the past decade, and a lot of them don't want to wait around to see whether it's just populist fluff that might be set aside once he takes office. Plus, the Democrats...

When John McCain’s campaign made it clear over the weekend that their stretch-run strategy would lean heavily on raising questions about Barack Obama’s personal history and past “associations,” Obama’s communications director provided a simple, almost indifferent reaction to The Washington Post: “This isn’t 1988.” Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee whose campaign was eviscerated that year by tactics ripped from the same playbook from which Mr. McCain now seems intent on borrowing, tends to agree. “Well, it happens every time,” the former Massachusetts governor said in an interview on the afternoon of Oct. 6 in his college office. “They’re desperate,...

Aren't charities refrained from getting involved in Politics? Makes me wonder if Obama has a Signed Agreement like Raila did with his Islamic Bros. Site also links to his Ramadan comment... "I want to convey my greetings to the American Muslim community on the Festival of Breaking the Fast that marks the end of Ramadan. Through fasting, prayer and charity, your observance this past month of the universal values of patience, generosity and caring for the less fortunate is an important reminder of the values that have helped make America great. As a nation, we must commit ourselves to that...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Republican Sen. John McCain used the second presidential debate to call for a $300 billion effort to help financially troubled homeowners stay in their homes, an attempt to counter an economic crisis that has largely benefited his rival, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. Under the Arizona lawmaker's plan, the government would buy the mortgages of homeowners who cannot afford their monthly payments to help prop up the troubled U.S. housing market. The campaign said it would be implemented using authority granted in the $700 billion rescue plan just passed by Congress. More on the Debate The plan would...

The non-partisan National Journal scores senators each year on the totality of their economic, defense and foreign policy votes to rate how “liberal� they are. Sen. Barack Obama has the highest score of all of the 100 senators. 1 Joe Biden is the eighth-highest scorer. To put it in perspective, both Obama and Biden scored far higher than the only self-described Socialist in the Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who had the 12th- highest score. 2 On practically every issue, Obama and Biden have political objectives that are radical and repugnant to most Americans. Obama voted against a bill that...

In the best tradition of Bill Clinton’s famous declaration that the answer to the question of whether or not he was having an affair with Monica depended on “what the definition of ‘is’ is,” Barack Obama was clearly splitting hairs and concealing the truth when he said that William Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience...