What Is ACORN?

This article is just absurd in its premise.

Acorn — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. We’ve written about them for years, but Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain’s campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn’s ties to Mr. Obama. It’s about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government.

Acorn uses various affiliated groups to agitate for “a living wage,” for “affordable housing,” for “tax justice” and union and environmental goals, as well as against school choice and welfare reform. It was a major contributor to the subprime meltdown by pushing lenders to make home loans on easy terms, conducting “strikes” against banks so they’d lower credit standards.

I bring this article from the WSJ into the fray because ACORN is being blamed for everything from voter fraud to the cause economic crisis.  We are dumbing down the people with crap like this.  By using trhe Republican mindset, according to what was reported in the above article, then Obama by association is responsible for the meltdown.  I was wondering how they could make that connection when I first heard it back a month ago.  Damn, this guilty by association cuts deep huh? (sarcasm intended).

Just to let everyone know, 2 years ago McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN thing and he praised the work the the organization was doing.  Now that he wants to be pres he finds them offensive.  John…John…the internet just keeps biting you in the ass…when will you ever learn?

2 thoughts on “What Is ACORN?

  1. For this posting to still be up, obviously you did not watch the news last night involving Acorn and housing for prostitution. This truly is a great community organization. Obviously there are no politicians left that have any decency or common sense left. Greed and power now rule in this country, and nobody cares.

    1. Hello Joe and welcome…..this post was from many months ago…..and I saw the 20 sec news bites on the story…..if true then those concerned should have been turned over to the police not some website for political gain….I see some firings have been done and to condemn a whole organization for the acts of a few is pretty un-American right? Unless of course you have a problem with the organization because they help the poor…if that is the case then I guess you must be a Republican.

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