Did Obama's campaign really give almost a million dollars to ACORN?

Why would Obama give $800,000 to an Organization that has committed massive voter fraud especially in swing states?


Is it true that Obama used to work for ACORN?


Is it true that ACORN endorsed Obama?


Did Obama's campaign really give almost a million dollars to ACORN?
He's been doing that since he was a state Senator and they have, in return, been helping his advancement. Politics as usual; nothing new; they all do it and it is legal. He is being dishonest about packaging himself as a new kind of politician, though. If I were a liberal, I'd say he was a liar. Did Obama's campaign really give almost a million dollars to ACORN?
Obama also tried to earmark $100 million to ACORN in the original bailout bill. He didn't work for them...he TRAINED them. And yes, ACORN (via their ';bipartisan'; sister organization) endorsed him and contributed to his campaign.





For Burnt Bagel...it IS fact:


http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/10/10鈥?/a>





http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/200鈥?/a>





http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbc鈥?/a>
Here is another fact for your Arsenal. This afternoon, at 4:00 pm. The Board of Elections filed a motion against Obama and ACORN, demanding that Obama be disqualified in every State, that they have found voter fraud in. I know this, because my sister works in the Recorders Office. Just thought you might like to know.
Yes, but ACORN is not corrupt.





What happened? What are we hearing on FOX news and in spam emails?





What really happened is that ACORN had some bad employees who made some phony registrations.





These employees were caught. These employees were fired.





BUT LEGALLY- ACORN was forced to send them in, even if blatantly fraudulent. So ACORN flagged the fraudulent registrations so that they would be looked at.





And now ACORN is being looked at for fraud? ACORN did everything within its power. The fraudulent registrations don't matter, anyway. You can't vote without showing up with your ID. Even if those registrations made it in, no fraudulent vote would actually be made.








http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05鈥?/a>





http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/ac鈥?/a>





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03鈥?/a>





These are all smears embellished by Fox and other right-wing sources.





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';So Obama aides say he wasn't ';representing'; ACORN individually, but as part of a larger coalition. And as ties go, this one isn't particularly deep or damning. It also happens to be the only alleged tie raised on Fox this week that is incontestably true.';





On Friday, the Huffington Post debunked a series of charges made by conservative activists linking Sen. Barack Obama to the community organizing group ACORN. Since then, two additional charges have been flatly contradicted.





Appearing on Fox News last week, conservative media watcher Seton Motley described the ties between Obama and ACORN as follows:





';[Obama] was a lawyer for the organization. He then served his years as a trainer of activists for the organization. And when he was named chairman of the board by terrorist William Ayers to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, they funneled money to, amongst many other places, ACORN. So there is three stages of relationship with them.';





As the Huffington Post noted on Friday, the first accusation -- that Obama was a lawyer for ACORN -- is deceptively vague. In fact, Obama at one time represented a large coalition of groups that happened to include ACORN, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and a host of other entities. The legal work was in support of an uncontroversial ';Motor Voter'; law.





The second charge -- that Obama ';served his years as a trainer of activists'; for ACORN -- has now also been contradicted. According to writer Matthew Vadum, whom Motley has cited, ';in 1992, Obama took time off from his new job at Davis Miner to direct ACORN's voter mobilization arm, Project Vote, a hugely successful voter registration campaign... Time magazine described Project Vote in 2004 as 'a nonpartisan arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).'





In fact, an Obama campaign spokesman told the Huffington Post that Project Vote was not directly associated with ACORN until 1994, two years after Obama organized for the group. The campaign provided a statement from the Project Vote's executive director during the period of Obama's involvement. ';[I]t wasn't until after Mr. Obama's tenure had ended that it began to conduct projects more frequently with ACORN than with other community-based organizations,'; Sanford A Newman wrote to a letter to the Wall Street Journal.





Bertha Lewis, a senior organizer for ACORN, confirmed on Monday: ';Project Vote started registering voters in 1992. ACORN and Project Vote really began to work more closely together in 1994.';





The Obama campaign notes that the only on-record connection between Project Vote and ACORN dating from 1992 is the fact that ACORN's Executive Director, Steve Kest, was part of a forty-member national Project Vote advisory board. Other members of that panel Included Rep. John Lewis, Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, Former Rep. William H. Gray (D-PA), and the national presidents of the NEA, NOW, AFSCME, SEIU, UAW, IAFF, and the United Steelworkers.





A third claim made by Motley on Fox -- that Obama was appointed to the Annenberg Challenge ';by terrorist William Ayers'; -- appears to have been exposed as a smear by a Saturday report on Obama and Ayers published by the New York Times:





In March 1995, Mr. Obama became chairman of the six-member board that oversaw the distribution of grants in Chicago. Some bloggers have recently speculated that Mr. Ayers had engineered that post for him.








In fact, according to several people involved, Mr. Ayers played no role in Mr. Obama's appointment. Instead, it was suggested by Deborah Leff, then president of the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based group whose board Mr. Obama, a young lawyer, had joined the previous year. At a lunch with two other foundation heads, Patricia A. Graham of the Spencer Foundation and Adele Simmons of the MacArthur Foundation, Ms. Leff suggested that Mr. Obama would make a good board chairman, she said in an interview. Mr. Ayers was not present and had not suggested Mr. Obama, she said.





Over the weekend, Motley responded to the Huffington Post's original reporting, explaining that his decision not to respond to the Obama campaign's rebuttals stemmed from a concern over protecting his group's 501(c)3 non-profit status.





As ConWebWatch has noted, this excuse does not hold water. Non-profit groups like Motley's are forbidden from conducting specific electioneering activities; Motley is free to respond to inquiries from reporters about the factual accuracy of his statements.





In the meantime, several questions still remain about the broad, sweeping claims made by Motley on his F
See how you twist the truth?


It was 800 thousand and you said Million.


That automatically means your wrong, and the Democrats are right because you werent exactly right.


Chalk another one up for the Dems..Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...


Hoooooooooooooooo..


We got them Republicans..We got em !!!!


800 thousand and he said Million..Ha, ha


Incorrectly stating obamas record...


Thats the same as him giving nothing to ACORN..CORRECT?


INTELLIGENT DEMOCRATIC SUPPORTER...


Oops, he said almost didnt he...My bad...lol
yep.





http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20081004/pl鈥?/a>








http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/st鈥?/a>





http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignm鈥?/a>
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Yes this is all true. Isn't it amazing how nobody seems to care. Our only hope is that people start actually looking into Obama because as far as the media is concerned he can do no wrong.
Yes, all true and Obama did training for ACORN
true to pay for votes chicago style politics
YES, and he should be investigated! And all we hear is about Trooper gate, which is child's play compared to this scandal.
Yes to all





Burnt Beagel:





Acorn has admitted to voter fraud. That proof enough for you?
Yes it's all true!
You betcha! :)
I don't know but I'm still for Obama. I can't stop drinking my kool aid
Got any proof ACORN or anyone else committed voter registration fraud. OOOOOOPS, you guys could care less about facts. But I'll care to report this.





Andre C, since no ones voted, you're an idiot
Obama did not give any money to Acorn





Obama did not work for Acorn





Acorn is bi-partisan
so in extention, Bush supports obama?


ACORN=GOVERNMENT FUNDING=BUSH
more smear campaigns because the straight talk express' wheels have fallen off when it comes to America's future.