'We're Just Community Organizers, Just Like the President Used To Be'

At the current rate of progress and considering the number of ACORN bombshell videos still to come, Obama may be fortunate to even get a job as a community organizer once his term is up, which hopefully (mercifully) comes January 20, 2013.

There is a chance the latest scandals will convince Democrats that Acorn is too toxic a political partner. And President Barack Obama, who once ran a voter-registration program for an Acorn partner (Project Vote) and then worked for Acorn as a lawyer on key cases, has every incentive to distance himself further from the organization.

Former Acorn board members tell me the group has always been confident it will be protected. After the Nevada voter-registration fraud indictment last May, Bonnie Greathouse, Acorn's chief organizer in the state, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that "we've had bad publicity before" and survived. "People always come forward to our defense. We're just community organizers, just like the president used to be."

I don't quite see too many people rallying to their defense today, but no doubt the Democrats and their persons of hench will do the dirty work behind the scenes. It's tough letting go of that cash cow and all those illicit votes, after all.

Big Government seems to be holding off on Part II of today's latest installment, but Hot Air has more of the clips via Fox.

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Remember Those 1.3 Million New Voters? Uh, Never Mind

Stunning isn't it, that ACORN would lie about the number of "new voters" they registered? Remarkably, the New York Times is reporting this, though they go to great lengths to obfuscate the obvious efforts at voter fraud.

On Oct. 6, the community organizing group Acorn and an affiliated charity called Project Vote announced with jubilation that they had registered 1.3 million new voters. But it turns out the claim was a wild exaggeration, and the real number of newly registered voters nationwide is closer to 450,000, Project Vote’s executive director, Michael Slater, said in an interview.

The remainder are registered voters who were changing their address and roughly 400,000 that were rejected by election officials for a variety of reasons, including duplicate registrations, incomplete forms and fraudulent submissions from low-paid field workers trying to please their supervisors, Mr. Slater acknowledged.

In registration drives, it is common for a percentage of newly registered voters to be disqualified for various reasons, although experts say the percentage is higher when groups pay workers to gather registrations. But the disclosure on Thursday that 30 percent of Acorn’s registrations were faulty was described by Republicans as further proof of what they said was Acorn’s effort to tilt the election unfairly.

“We were wondering how many were Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse,” said Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. “The group is really tainted, and any work they do is suspect.”

Republicans had been prepared for months to make an issue of Acorn’s registration drive. A year ago, the party’s national committee anticipated the surge of new registrations by putting a map of the country on its Web site, labeled “You Can’t Make This Up! Vote Fraud.”

Democrats and officials with Acorn accuse Republicans of trying to manufacture a controversy to deflect attention from alleged voter suppression activities in several states. Election officials and experts say there is little chance that significant numbers of supporters of either party would actually try to vote through a fraudulent registration.

We have a disparity of 850,000 here and the Times wants us to believe there's no organized effort at voter fraud.

Naturally, they use the occasion to endorse the empty suit for president today, just as they reach junk status.

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