
When a young Barack Obama was first starting in his career as a “community organizer,” he caught the eye of Madeleine Talbot, the Chicago chapter head of ACORN. He serves at the Executive Director of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. Obama, Acorn & Their Starring Role in the Mortgage Crisisįrank Salvato Contributing Editor Frank Salvato is the managing editor for The New Media Journal. here in Chicago." ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post's Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud.Īt least Palin is trying to tell the truth about Obama. Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers," and its Project Vote - of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, "I started working as the director. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win.

Vote-Fraud-A-Go-Go Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party's mantra these days.

The New York Post counts 15 states where ACORN's been doing vote fraud. Next: FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions' Previous: McCain Spot Asks: 'Who Is Barack Obama?' I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." "And" - she paused and sighed - "I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. "These are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes - remember that's what Joe Biden had said. Palin went on to say that "Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's living room, and they've worked together on various projects in Chicago." Here, Palin began to connect the dots. "Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience. "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. "Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said. Many independent observers say Palin's allegations are a stretch Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.

It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama "pals around" with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. "So I was reading the New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack's friends from Chicago." "I knew you guys would react that way, okay," she continued. "I was reading my copy of the New York Times the other day," she said. And the person dishing out the roughest stuff at the moment is Sarah Palin. "Okay, so Florida, you know that you're going to have to hang onto your hats," Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this morning, "because from now until Election Day it may get kind of rough." (Chris O'Meara/Associated Press)ĬLEARWATER, Fla. Sarah Palin gestures during a campaign speech on Oct.
