ACORN II: A Radical Takes Root

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Feb 17, 2012

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Barack Obama is not only the country’s first black president, but historically, he’s the first community organizer president.  As suggested in the previous article, when the richest and most powerful nation in the world allows an Alinsky-trained shakedown artist access to its Treasury, bad things happen.

It’s safe to say our president didn’t learn the fine arts of running a charity bake sale while working as a community organizer in Chicago. The sweet-talking Obama first cut his teeth as a radical foot soldier shlepping for the Developing Communities Project, an organization set-up to transform black churches into left-wing political organs. The task would require the impressive skill of being able to out-sermonize preachers and to devilishly tempt the faithful into trading heavenly worship for radical agitation.

While Obama was schmoozing sermonizers in the projects, among them the vulgar jeremiad-spewing Reverend Wright, he crossed paths with the militant Associations of Community Organizing for Reform Now (ACORN), a sprawling network of thousands of leftists. A bromance was born.

The amount of disinformation regarding Obama’s early years with ACORN is daunting.  Article after articledenies that Obama had any serious contact with ACORN, which was picked up as a ready-made meme by the same seedy outlets that shamelessly promoted Obama during his 2008 election campaign.

Pathetically, Obama’s own pilloried website “Fight the Smears” (the old “Attack Watch,” which is now the old “Truth Team“) brazenly claimed “Barack Obama never organized with ACORN.”  Understandable claim, given the formally de-funded ACORN’s scandalous record. But it is also untrue.

So what happened, if we might depart from the official narrative of the Ministry of Truth?  Obama’s biographyDreams from My Father states that he organized for Project Vote during the 1992 elections, which was aboon to the Democrat Party in the inner cities.  Project Vote is a separate organization from ACORN, but the two are closely related and worked side-by-side.  According to Matthew Vadum’s well-received bookSubversion Inc., in regards to the two groups, “Their staffs overlap, they share office space, and they share money.  Employees migrate between the two legally separate organizations constantly.”

What is Project Vote? Founded by lefty lawyer Sandy Newman, it was explicitly organized to register welfare and unemployment recipients to vote.  Yet another one of those inexplicably authorized, taxpayer-subsidized 501(c)3 charities, the group targets Democrat constituencies for voter registration in a way reminiscent of ACORN’s get-out-the-vote drives, but sans the in-your-face agitation.

Yet it wasn’t until after the 1992 elections that Barack Obama formally worked on behalf of ACORN.  This work was not limited to legally representing ACORN in a case regarding the implementation of Motor Voter laws in the State of Illinois. As investigative journalist Michelle Malkin notes, and according to ACORN,Obama trained its community organizers. He also sat on several boards that shoveled generous grants in ACORN’s direction.  In return, ACORN endorsed Obama, and its troops campaigned for him during elections.

Barack Obama’s history with Project Vote and the now-disbanded ACORN is both substantial and relevant.  While the ACORN shell group was supposedly cut off from federal funding, offshoots such as the New York Communities for Change, which backed the Occupy Wall Street movement, and Affordable Housing Centers of America, which Judicial Watch reported to have received federal funds in 2011, are still active and ready to do battle in the upcoming election for Barack Obama.

But the kind of voter fraud that led to ACORN’s disbanding cannot be traced to Obama, and Project Vote is not the same as ACORN, right? Not so fast. Of the 1.3 million registrants Project Vote submitted in 2008,400,000 were thrown out for being incomplete or fraudulent.  And Judicial Watch is now suing Project Vote for alleged collaboration with the indisputably corrupt Justice Department to aggressively push states for more “open” (i.e. more easily stolen) elections.

Bizarrely, Obama even had the temerity to name one of its 2012 campaign arms “Project Vote.”  As Politicodescribed its role:

President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign on Thursday announced “Project Vote,” a campaign-within-a-campaign that is aimed at increasing registration and participation among Democratic base constituencies — including young voters, seniors, African Americans and Hispanics, plus Native Americans and gay and lesbian voters.

And this overtly political “Project Vote” differs from the 501(c)3 “apolitical” Project Vote, how?

It should not be controversial at this point to claim that our fraudulent president worked with fraudulent organizations and will undoubtedly use fraudulent means in the upcoming elections.  The question is: what are Republicans, Independents, and nominal Democrats going to do about it?