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Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
Originally posted by Matt1951
Republican party leaders have decided Romney has too much criminal activity in his background to win the fall election. Team Obama is well aware of Romney misdeeds and will use this to full effect. Bush is popular in Florida which is a key swing state. Republican officials are letting Ron Paul win delegates, quietly assisting him. Jeb Bush is the only candidate they have who has a shot at winning the fall election. Sarah Palin? no way. Ron Paul? They fear him, although Paul would be the best candidate. Paul losing so many primaries to Romney would split the party if Paul were given the nomination. This is a smoke filled back room deal.
You can't be serious. A third Bush? All Obama's team would need to do would be to run adverts saying "Remember this guy's brother? The cretin who got us into Iraq? The idiot who let the economy fall to pieces? Want to take a risk and vote for another Bush?"
Originally posted by Matt1951
That is what I am hearing from Republican insiders in Indiana. Me, I am a Democrat. I can only watch in amazement.
Originally posted by blueorder
I am not a supporter of Romney, but clearly this agitation against him is racially based, because he is white.
The reasoning?
He is white
As this is the reasoning from many of Obama's defenders ( not that he is white, but black, well, half black at any rate)- this must be applied when any negative comments are made at Presidents and Presidential candidates
edit on 13-5-2012 by blueorder because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
Originally posted by blueorder
I am not a supporter of Romney, but clearly this agitation against him is racially based, because he is white.
The reasoning?
He is white
As this is the reasoning from many of Obama's defenders ( not that he is white, but black, well, half black at any rate)- this must be applied when any negative comments are made at Presidents and Presidential candidates
edit on 13-5-2012 by blueorder because: (no reason given)
No, it's because he's a Republican. A Mormon Republican who's changed positions so many times that his motherboard must be close to burning out, who is so rich that he can't connect any non-millionaire, a man who once put his freaking dog into a crate and then strapped it onto the roof of his car before driving to Canada (and he thinks that's a funny story, the moron) and who is in short a total and utter word-that-I-will-not-utter-in-public.
Originally posted by blueorder
I am not a supporter of Romney, but clearly this agitation against him is racially based, because he is white.
The reasoning?
He is white
As this is the reasoning from many of Obama's defenders ( not that he is white, but black, well, half black at any rate)- this must be applied when any negative comments are made at Presidents and Presidential candidates
edit on 13-5-2012 by blueorder because: (no reason given)
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"ACORN Will Shape My Agenda" -- Barack Obama
The same ACORN that is continually in trouble for voter fraud, the same ACORN that has pushed the subprime mortgage crisis that has destabilized our economy, is, in the words of Barack Obama, going to shape our national agenda.
Stanley Kurtz asks if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. ACORN is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because ACORN works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. ACORN likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.
Association Of Community Organizations For Reform Now
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), describes itself as a community-based organization that advocates for low and moderate income families by working on neighborhood safety, health care and other social issues.
ACORN was started in the 1970’s by radicals, George Wiley & Wade Rathke, with input from sociologists, Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven --- all of them are neo-Marxist ideologists.
ACORN has over 350,000 members and more than 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru. ACORN was founded in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado. Maude Hurd has been National President of ACORN since 1990.
ACORN is made up of several legally distinct parts including local non-profits, a national lobbying organization and the ACORN Housing Corporation. ACORN lies when it says it is non-partisan, and always aligned with the Democratic Party on policy.
ACORN is again up to its eyeballs if a formal program of voter registration fraud in their registration programs in a dozen battleground states, but in this election cycle, to a degree never before seen. This year, its voter registration efforts that have resulted in criminal investigations in a dozen states.
ACORN Luvs $$$$$
ACORN's real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill. According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), ACORN has been on the federal take since 1977. For instance, ACORN's American Institute for Social Justice claimed $240,000 in tax money between fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Its American Environmental Justice Project received 100% of its revenue from government grants in the same years. EPI estimates the ACORN Housing Corporation alone received some $16 million in federal dollars from 1997-2007. Only recently, Democrats tried and failed to stuff an "affordable housing" provision into the $700 billion bank rescue package that would have let politicians give even more to ACORN.
All this money gives ACORN the ability to pursue its other great hobby: electing liberals. ACORN is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the rolls. The big question is how many of these registrations are real.
ACORN’s Communist Manifesto
As a public service here is a copy of ACORN’s so-called People’s Platform, via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
As is noted, this version was updated in 1990, which is just two years before Obama began to work for them via Project Vote and as a trainer for the "power" seminars.
ACORN and Project Vote
ACORN and Project Vote are being investigated for widespread electoral crimes in America’s closely contended states -- potentially millions of fraudulent voter registrations and the destruction of those of Republican voters. The door is open for fraudulent votes and election theft.
They have driven intimidated citizens into early voting, telling them how to vote.
Obama has funneled $800,000 to ACORN for their 2008 General Election operations and then lied about it.
Obama organized Project Vote activities in Chicago, in 1992 and has trained ACORN operators.
Obama’s campaign in its Web site has tried to deny these facts.
Obama as ACORN’s lawyer, sued Illinois in 1993, to make voter registration laxer.
Obama as ACORN’s lawyer, sued Citibank in 1994 (Buycks-Roberson case, above), to force them into giving subprime loans to home buyers with poor credit ratings, setting the stage for the mortgage meltdown.
$800,000 For Their Voter Fraud Services
Flagrant Election Tampering , 50,000 Newly Registered Voters, Voter Fraud,
The Roots Of Today's Economic Crisis
"In a 1995 case known as Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank, Obama and his fellow attorneys charged that Citibank was making too few loans to black applicants
12,000,000 New Democrats
ACORN Eligible For $8.5 Billion
361 Entities Compose ACORN
Obama's 2011 Budget Allocates $4 Billion For ACORN
Originally posted by Surfrat
I will vote for anyone but Obama.
He has trashed America.
Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
Originally posted by Surfrat
I will vote for anyone but Obama.
He has trashed America.
I'm almost afraid to ask why you think this. Obama inherited a dreadful economic mess, he continued the bail-out, he helped save the American automobile industry, he abolished don't ask don't tell (getting a big 'hell yes!' from my wife) and he authorised the taking down of Osama bin Laden. Not too shabby if you ask me.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Yeah but the bailout of the multinational firms that cause this huge economic mess in the first place, in the order of 3+ trillions, is a huge stain on obama's shirt. It was a big # you to all the hard working american people!
He should have let those companies fail and give the money to the people directly. He should have also started an inquiry into 9-11 to find out WHO was behind 9-11 as I think it was a mossad and cia plot to cover-up the $2.3 trillion missing from the pentagon.
The clintons repealed the glass-steagel act which give great freedom to banks to act as investment firms.
Where the democrats sign off, the republicans pick up. BOTH PARTIES ARE CENTER PARTIES who work for BIG BUSINESS and WAR! Can you comprehend that?
Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
I'm afraid that it isn't as simple as that. A good example is AIG. It had to be bailed out because the company had sunk its tendrils into all kinds of places as it tried to become something more than it was - an insurance company. If it hadn't been bailed out then the economic damage would have been truly hideous. The fact is that these companies were run by rich idiots who listened to other idiots who thought that they understood modern high finance.
By the way the Republicans have long since ceased to be a centre party. They're running hard right into the long grass of lunacy.