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Why don’t Democrat voters and more independents have a problem with this picture? Are nearly half the voters of this country so keen on cheating, lying, and systematic corruption that they are willing to overlook Obama’s direct association with ACORN and nonetheless vote for him anyway? One has to hope that they are merely ignorant and not flatly immoral. If that is our optimistic case, then it is responsible citizens’ duty to make sure more voters are aware of Obama’s connections to ACORN, and what the organization was all about.
Democrat defenders will go to unimaginable lengths to try to shield him from any connection to ACORN’s record of voter fraud. This includes denying that Obama ever worked for ACORN, that ACORN’s alleged counts of voter fraud were anecdotal, and that he was either unaware of such voter fraud or could not have condoned it. These claims can be dismantled in reasonable fashion for anyone with an ounce of intellectual integrity and the initiative to verify and acknowledge them.
In the previous article, we relayed the often-overlooked information (at least by the mainstream media) that according to ACORN itself, Obama not only worked for the organization, but he helped to train its leaders at various workshops. This is important to bear in mind regarding the plausibility of the claim that Obama could not have known voter fraud was taking place. Given that these were Alinsky workshops, we should bear in mind what the radical mastermind Saul Alinsky had to say about such organizing.
Early on in Alinsky’s signature work Rules for Radicals, which has been used far and wide as a community organizing handbook, this is what the New Left mentor wrote:
“The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. … The real arena is corrupt and bloody.”
Doesn’t exactly sound like Obama was heading up a Boy Scout troop. And he wasn’t. As Sol Stern reported on ACORN’s famous belligerence, “ACORN has perfected an in-your-face strategy that works effectively at capturing public attention and winning adherents in cities.” The Alinsky connection to ACORN is not a red herring; the group’s methods fit the leftist tactician’s “rules” to a T, and a comparison of his work Rules for Radicals to ACORN’s activities easily bears that out.
But even if a left-wing outlet won’t go so far as to claim Obama never worked for ACORN, one might see the refrain that evidence pinning the group to voter fraud was merely anecdotal, circumstantial, or any other kind of qualifier to suggest the scale of fraud was limited, the cases scattered, or the hierarchy didn’t know about it. It is nearly inconceivable that ACORN routinely violated voter registration rules and this was incidental to its operating strategy; particularly since this was a supposed “non-profit” organization clearly in the tank for the Democrat Party.
The “anecdotal” examples, or what are sometimes referred to as “cases” when fitting a predictable pattern, are quite illustrative in and of themselves; but they do not comprise the only class of evidence. AsDiscovertheNetworks documents exhaustively, “The organization’s get-out-the-vote activists were implicated in schemes involving the falsification and destruction of registration forms, the forging of signatures, the registration of dead or non-existent people, the registration of the same individuals multiple times, and theregistration of convicted felons even in states where felons were ineligible to vote.” In 2008, of 1.3 million registrants submitted by ACORN and Project Vote (which Obama also worked for), 850,000 were thrown out for being improper or clearly fraudulent. Over a dozen states had cause to investigate ACORN for voter fraud, and at least 14 more carried out investigations just to be safe.
To provide some color to the mountain of evidence, a few examples should suffice. In Matthew Vadum’s book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (2011), the author provides the following examples of voter fraud:
· Kevin L. Clancy of Milwaukee pleaded guilty last week to participating “in a scheme to submit fraudulent voter registration applications. Clancy received a 10-month prison term for his crime. Clancy’s sentence will begin when he completes another sentence he is currently serving for armed robbery.”
· In Milwaukee, former ACORN worker Maria L. Miles, who worked with Clancy, pleaded guilty to “falsely procuring voter registration.”
· Also in Milwaukee, Frank Edmund Walton was convicted of “falsely procuring voter registration.”
· In Washington state, ex-ACORN canvasser Kendra Lynn Thill was convicted of voter registration fraud and given a 12-month deferred sentence.
· In Miami, Florida, former ACORN voter registration canvassers Maurice Childress, Kashawn John, Liltovia Rhodes, Carlos Torres, Evangeline Williams, Lilkevia Williams, and Richard Williams, were all convicted of “false swearing in an election.” All were sentenced to probation, community service, and forbidden to participate in political campaigns; Childress and Richard Williams were ordered to serve 72 days and 125 days in jail, respectively.
· Arrest warrants were issued for three other former ACORN canvassers in the Miami area who are apparently still at large.
· In Pennsylvania, former ACORN workers Alexis Givner, Mario Grisom, and Eric L. Jones, were convicted of voter registration fraud-related offenses. All three were sentenced to two years probation.
And there are many more cases (see video here). But the coup d’ grace to left-wing obfuscators’ claim that cases of ACORN-connected voter fraud are anecdotal came in a Nevada judge’s ruling against ACORN itself, in which he aptly called the organization “reprehensible” and ordered the group to pay the maximum fine allowed by law.
So could Obama have worked for ACORN in passing, directed funds to the group while sitting on the member of the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation, and trained its leaders without full knowledge of what the group was about? This is beyond unlikely. As Stanley Kurtz of National Review discusses and concludes in his piece, “Inside Obama’s ACORN”:
If Acorn is adept at creating a non-partisan, inside-game veneer for what is in fact an intensely radical, leftist, and politically partisan reality, so is Obama himself. This is hardly a coincidence: Obama helped train Acorn’s leaders in how to play this game. For the most part, Obama seems to have favored the political-insider strategy, yet it’s clear that he knew how to play the in-your-face “direct action” game as well. And surely during his many years of close association with Acorn, Obama had to know what the group was all about.
ACORN and Obama are both masters in using deception to veil their radical agendas, as Saul Alinsky’sRules for Radicals explicitly teaches. How long the left-wing’s game of obfuscation, sophistry, and denial can hide this from the American public is an important question whose answer depends largely on us. But no voter in the upcoming election should trust a political party whose leader is known to practice fraud and deception. It only stands to reason that one might also be getting deceived about one’s expectations of Obama, and the likely outcome of continuing to blindly follow the dangling carrot of “hope and change.”
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