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a I got my background at ZingerBug.com 17 Oct 2008 - OBAMA'S ACORN AND THE FBI WASHINGTON -- The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election. A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Justice Department regulations forbid discussing ongoing investigations particularly so close to an election. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, says it has registered 1.3 million young people, minorities and poor and working-class voters -- most of whom tend to be Democrats. Republican accusations about the group were raised during Wednesday's presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and GOP candidate John McCain. Some ACORN employees have been accused of submitting false voter registration forms -- including some signed `Mickey Mouse' or other fictitious characters. Those voter registration cards have become the focus of fraud investigations in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri and at least five other states. Election officials in Ohio and North Carolina also recently questioned the group's voter forms. ACORN has said the "vast majority" of its workers are conscientious, but some might have turned in duplicate applications or provided fake information to pad their pay. Workers caught submitting false information have been fired, ACORN officials say. ACORN says laws in a number of states require it to submit all registration cards it collects even dubious ones, so its workers segregate applications with missing, suspicious or false information and flag them so state election officials can quickly check them further. 17 Oct 2008 - Obama and ACORN: Relationship May Be More Extensive Than Candidate Says Twice in the last week, Barack Obama has said his relationship with ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- began and ended with legal work he did for the group in 1995. The Democratic presidential candidate made his remarks in an effort to distance himself from the low-income advocacy group, which is under investigation for voter fraud in several states. But that assertion is subject to debate. Obama conducted training sessions for ACORN workers a decade ago, and his campaign also recently paid an ACORN subsidiary for canvassing efforts. Plus his work with a group called Project Vote back in 1992 raises questions about whether he was involved with ACORN back then. Project Vote was one of Obama's earliest political successes. As director of Illinois Project Vote, Obama helped register 150,000 new voters in Chicago, and he was heralded for his efforts in local media. ACORN was also registering voters at that time, and its relationship with Project Vote casts some doubt on Obama's statement that his involvement with ACORN didn't begin until three years later. Obama's campaign Web site -- in a section called "Fight the Smears" that is devoted to shooting down harmful rumors about his candidacy -- states as "fact" that "ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992." The site also states, "Barack Obama never organized with ACORN." But accounts from the 1992 voter drive suggest the two groups were at least working alongside each other, if not together. A blogger for Obama's campaign Web site in February wrote: "When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer ... Senator Obama said, 'I come out of a grassroots organizing background. ... Even before I was an elected official, when I ran (the) Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.'" Also, Chicago ACORN organizer Toni Foulkes wrote in the 2003 edition of the journal Social Policy that the two groups were working to register voters when Obama led the effort in Illinois. She wrote that Obama and Project Vote made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win her Senate seat in 1992, and that "Project Vote delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them)." But ACORN spokesman Lewis Goldberg told FOXNews.com "there was no work done between Project Vote and ACORN" during the 1992 Chicago drive. "There was no financial intermingling," he added. Goldberg said the groups, rather, conducted "parallel" efforts to register voters. Asked about the 1992 project, the Obama campaign referred Fox News to a July letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal from Sanford Newman, who was director of Project Vote in 1992. Newman wrote that Obama worked for his organization, not ACORN, and that "it wasn't until after Mr. Obama's tenure had ended that it began to conduct projects more frequently with ACORN than with other community-based organizations." He wrote that Project Vote "remains a separate organization today." Goldberg also said the two organizations are still separate, even though they now work together on voter registration. On that issue, the two organizations seem to have maintained a close and open relationship in recent years. Project Vote announced last week that together with ACORN they registered over 1.3 million people to vote. Project Vote is listed on the ACORN Web site as one of many "allied organizations." The two organizations also share an office address in Arkansas and Washington, D.C. According to ACORN, the office-sharing is a cost-saving move done for "convenience." But as to Obama's statement that his ties to ACORN are contained to his legal work, it has already been widely reported that his campaign paid more than $800,000 to a group called Citizens Services Inc., an ACORN subsidiary, to "augment" Obama's grassroots organizing efforts in the Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania primaries. His campaign maintains those efforts were for getting voters to the polls and not for voter registration, which is the sticking point of ongoing ACORN probes. Goldberg also confirmed to FOXNews.com that Obama gave two training sessions over the course of three years in the late '90s. He said each session lasted an hour or less. Republicans say Obama can't deny his relationship with ACORN. "[Obama's] relationship with ACORN is well-established," said Republican National Committee spokesman Danny Diaz. "His comment is a fabrication." But Obama's carefully worded statement regarding ACORN training on his "Fight the Smears" site appears to be true. The statement says ACORN never "hired" Obama "as a trainer, organizer or any type of employee." And Goldberg said that, in fact, "Barack was not paid." Diaz noted that Obama changed his Web site to reflect the training sessions -- it previously said the Illinois senator was never an ACORN trainer. The word, "hired," was added later. 17 Oct 2008 - FOR ALL THE BLIND OBAMA SUPPORTERS Bless your frigging hearts. Good lord, why is it that all the Obama supporters cry race when someone questions his past, his experience, and his association with people he chose to be pals with. If the truth were known more people will vote for him because he is black and that is just as stupid as not voting for him because he is black. You know he is half white so he really isn't black. I'm supporting Mccain because this nation can't afford to elect a man just because he is black. The man has to many red flags around him. He can't deny the facts so he just doesn't answer questions. He is unfit to hold the most important office in the world. This is the United States not the United Nations and Obama is dangerous to this great country. If you are wealthy your man is going to spread your wealth around to all the rest of us if he should end up in the White House. I for one will take the wealth you once enjoyed and spend the hell out of it. Quit playing the fucking race card and try to defend Obama's Anti-American Rev. Wright, his terrorist pal Ayers, his convicted buddy Rescoe, Lewis "The Hate White People" Farakahn, his extremely close ties and business dealings with ACORN. Defend his general ignorance on foreign policy, and military policies. Are you people so desparate to elect this fool that your willing to screw up this country in a manner so bad that he will make George W. Bush look like a statesman and scholar? Give me a fucking break. The only color on The Annointed One's skin that I'm objecting to is that great damn big yellow streak that runs down his back every time his associatians and beliefs are put in front of him in the form of a question. PRESIDENT REAGAN PRESIDENT BUSH OBAMA WITH COMPUTER AGING TECHNOLOGY Poodwaddle.com You can email the author at capt_midnite2001@yahoo.com

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