Powered by Max Banner Ads As a presidential candidate, he frequently refers to his community organizing , asking supporters to treat his campaign as a social movement in which he is just “ an imperfect vessel of your hopes and dreams .” – The Nation April 3, 2007 This is a lengthy post but please bear with me I wanted to gather together all the data I could connecting Obama to ACORN through Project Vote. Trust me it gets better and better as it goes along. Contrary to his clai
[ Click image to enlarge. ] What will we learn on Letterman tonight about Obama that we didn’t already know? Yesterday’s blitz revealed that the President “didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.” The president offered that although he started his career in ACORN, did training videos for ACORN and his presidential campaign gave ACORN over $800,000 last tear, “…frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. Maybe Letterman will
WASHINGTON – Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help the poor in Arkansas and quickly went national, growing into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man it backed is the president. Oh yeah, it’s also the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp. And that last bit is just one of its problems. The organization praised for its Hurricane Katrina r
Track timeline of president’s ties to group immersed in scandals By Chelsea Schilling While ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties to the organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as “unacceptable.” But just how extensive are President Obama’s personal ties to ACORN? The following is a timeline outlining some of the purported connections between the president and ACORN throu
New York Post : “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career,” he told the group last November. Indeed, in the early ’90s, Obama was recruited by Talbott herself to run training sessions for ACORN activists. ACORN also got funding from two charities, the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation, when Obama served on their boards, and from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – the radical “education reform” outfit Obama ran from ‘95 to ‘99. Like thi
