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Obama forgetful that he was an attorney for ACORN
Obama "took great pains to act as if he barely
knew about ACORN. In fact, his association goes back almost 20 years.
President Obama not only was an attorney for ACORN, in but 1996 he listed
ACORN as first among his key supporters for his campaign for Illinois state
senate.
A Wall Street Journal writer has documented President Obama has a 20-year
history with ACORN, the now-beleaguered community-organizing enterprise that
was found by a team of undercover volunteers apparently willing to aid and
abet child prostitution and tax evasion.
But there's no explanation or elaboration coming from the White House, at
least now. Press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to give WND an opportunity
to ask about the links uncovered by writer John Fund.
Les Kinsolving, WND's reporter at the White House and one of the most-senior
reporters on the beat, wanted to ask: "The Wall Street Journal's John Fund
reports President Obama not only was an attorney for ACORN, in but 1996 he
listed ACORN as first among his key supporters for his campaign for Illinois
state senate. Does the president believe John Fund is inaccurate or unfair?"
Fund, in his recent column, commented on Obama's professed ignorance about
ACORN's recent troubles, including bills passed by the House and Senate to
cut off funding.
"It's not something I've followed closely," the president said.
Fund wrote that Obama "took great pains to act as if he barely knew about
ACORN. In fact, his association goes back almost 20 years."
"In 1991, he took time off from his law firm to run a voter-registration
drive for Project Vote, an ACORN partner that was soon fully absorbed under
the ACORN umbrella," Fund said. "The drive registered 135,000 voters and was
considered a major factor in the upset victory of Democrat Carol Moseley
Braun over incumbent Democratic Senator Alan Dixon in the 1992 Democratic
Senate primary."
Fund described how Obama's success "made him a hot commodity on the
community organizing circuit" and how he became "a top trainer at ACORN's
Chicago conferences."
"In 1995, he became ACORN's attorney, participating in a landmark case to
force the state of Illinois to implement the federal Motor Voter Law. That
law's loose voter registration requirements would later be exploited by
ACORN employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names," Fund
wrote.
"In 1996, Mr. Obama filled out a questionnaire listing key supporters for
his campaign for the Illinois Senate. He put ACORN first (it was not an
alphabetical list). In the U.S. Senate, Mr. Obama became the leading critic
of Voter ID laws, whose overturn was a top ACORN priority. In 2007, in a
speech to ACORN's leaders prior to their political arm's endorsement of his
presidential campaign, Mr. Obama was effusive: 'I've been fighting alongside
of ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an
elected official, when I ran Project Vote in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab
in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work,'" Fund wrote.
He also described how the Obama campaign a number of times has downplayed
the president's obvious connections, including the $832,000 Obama gave an
ACORN subsidiary for get-out-the-vote activities last year. The campaign
listed the expenses as "staging" and other services, "only correcting the
filings after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review revealed their true nature."
"Here's hoping White House reporters will press the president to clarify
just how much he really knows about Acorn and when he knew it," Fund wrote.
Posted: September 28, 2009
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://www.wnd.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111396
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