Do you know any Obama History before the Senate?

Have you seen some of what he was doing before he was voted into the Senate?


For educational purposes for non-believers:


ACORN, Obama, and the Mortgage Mess





By Mona Charen





The financial markets were teetering on the edge of an abyss last week. The


secretary of the Treasury was literally on his knees begging the speaker of


the House not to sabotage the bailout bill. The crash of falling banks made


the earth tremble. The Republican presidential candidate suspended his


campaign to deal with the crisis. And amid all this, the Democrats in


Congress managed to find time to slip language into the bailout legislation


that would provide a dandy little slush fund for ACORN.





ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,


a busy hive of left-wing agitation and "direct action" that claims chapters


in 50 cities and 100,000 dues-paying members. ACORN is where Sixties


leftovers who couldn't get tenure at universities wound up. That the


bill-writing Democrats remembered their pet clients during such an emergency


speaks volumes. This attempted gift to ACORN (stripped out of the bill after


outraged howls from Republicans) demonstrates how little Democrats


understand about what caused the mess we're in.





ACORN does many things under the umbrella of "community organizing." They


agitate for higher minimum wages, attempt to thwart school reform, try to


unionize welfare workers (that is, those welfare recipients who are obliged


to work in exchange for benefits) and organize voter registration efforts


(always for Democrats, of course). Because they are on the side of


righteousness and justice, they aren't especially fastidious about their


methods. In 2006, for example, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters in


Washington. The only trouble was, with the exception of six, all of the


names submitted were fake. The secretary of state called it the "worst case


of election fraud in our state's history." As Fox News reported:





"The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle


public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms.


They made up names, addresses, and Social Security numbers and in some cases


plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work


making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke


marijuana and fill out the forms."





ACORN explained that this was an "isolated" incident, yet similar stories


have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado -- all swing


states, by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for voter fraud in a


number of states. (See %26lt;file:///\\www.rottenacorn.com%26gt; www.rottenacorn.com


.) Their philosophy seems to be that everyone deserves the right to vote,


whether legal or illegal, living or dead.





ACORN recognized very early the opportunity presented by the Community


Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. As Stanley Kurtz has reported, ACORN proudly


touted "affirmative action" lending and pressured banks to make subprime


loans. Madeline Talbott, a Chicago ACORN leader, boasted of "dragging banks


kicking and screaming" into dubious loans. And, as Sol Stern reported in


City Journal, ACORN also found a remunerative niche as an "advisor" to banks


seeking regulatory approval. "Thus we have J.P. Morgan %26amp; Co., the legatee of


the man who once symbolized for many all that was supposedly evil about


American capitalism, suddenly donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to


ACORN." Is this a great country or what? As conservative community activist


Robert Woodson put it, "The same corporations that pay ransom to Jesse


Jackson and Al Sharpton pay ransom to ACORN."





ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days.


Madeline Talbott hired him to train her staff -- the very people who would


later descend on Chicago's banks as CRA shakedown artists. The Democratic


nominee later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose


board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, ditto. Obama was


not just sympathetic -- he was an ACORN fellow traveler.





Now you could make the case that before 2008, well-intentioned people were


simply unaware of what their agitation on behalf of non-credit-worthy


borrowers could lead to. But now? With the whole financial world and


possibly the world economy trembling and cracking like a cement building in


an earthquake, Democrats continue to try to fund their friends at ACORN?


And, unashamed, they then trot out to the TV cameras to declare "the party


is over" for Wall Street (Nancy Pelosi)? The party should be over for the


Democrats who brought us to this pass. If Obama wins, it means hiring an


arsonist to fight a fire.


|||Oh he was doing plenty and not just smoking a joint.





Read his senate record that may shock you. A great number of his proposals are strictly for the blacks.





More here


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OBAMA =





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OBAMA/ BIDEN 2008!!! Victory by majority vote! or Electoral college!!!!!|||Thank you for this insightful article maybe next time you could just send a link to the page like 50 other people have with this same article.|||That's our boy... Obama.. the community organizer... and see what he organized... ha ha ha.





To the first poster.. you better care!|||Yes. There is so much more in addition to his ACORN involvement that the Liberal Media has been hiding. Thank God for FOX News!|||ACORN ACORN ACORN.... I don't care. Thank you!





Obama / Biden 08!!!!!!!!!!





"John McCain is NO Maverick." - Joe Biden|||Nice Avatar!|||Liberals don't care. They have "McSame" burned in their brains...





Facts don't mean S**T...|||Excuse me! What is your source? Do you have any idea how many college students and young people worked for Acorn, at minimum wage, merely to help others?





Hit the search engines, read American History, and U.S. government, and learn.





Mortgage mess? Do you have any idea which house fiduciary appropriations are supposed to start in (house or senate)? Do you know what the senate did on 9/29? Do you?





The senate added ~$150,000,000,000 to the infamous salvation bill...full of PORK...including wooden arrows, and tax incentives ... Leave it to our senate. Therefore, we must assume that a "bailout" wasn't necessary, all of this was just a game to get last minute obligations to lobbyists taken care of without a lot of public hoopla. Or else, how will our nation survive?





Check things out before you believe.





Remember to vote.





|||Thank you for truth! You get it, I get it, but why can't the liberals get it? They say misery loves company - I think liberals are very down and out people with little hope. Downtrodden, always serious %26amp; depressed.|||Try this one for size: Harvard Graduate with a JD and Law Review President; US Constitutional Scholar and Professor; Community Organizer; State Senator and US Senator; First DNC Minority to Lead Party; and a host of legislative bills that have benefited the State of Illinois as well as America. |||This coming from a greedy Real estate agent who cons people into believing they can afford a house that in actuality is way above their price range, this is why we are getting our houses foreclosed on us.|||So that was a QUESTION? It sounds more like a sermon. If you want to learn about Obama's career, look him up on Wikipedia. Meanwhile look up Sarah Palin and the town of Wasilla, Alaska too. Wiki gives you info and tries not to make judgments upon it. They cite their sources and indicate need for further citations upon statements, if they seem to need some referential backup.|||Yeah...he was a community organizer. In other words he organized the community to help make his millionaire friends, multi millionaires.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3YezuNu鈥?/a>||| They used ACORN in an attempt to flood the welfare system in this country as well, by doing this they where going to be assured those votes in future elections. If you read back Obama and his wife where both doing a lot of anti-white papers and again look at the radical church they belonged to. Although he claims he never heard any of those sermons. Must really be a heavy sleeper|||Face it, this is politics. There have been a lot of crap from both sides. Now your homework is to compile the exact same article on John McSame.