California Conservative

Sometime last night, I got another Obama fundraising letter. after reading it, it’s safe to say that Obama’s audacity is still intact. Here’s what the fundraising letter said:

Friend –

Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people? With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing.

Our convention was different. We gave the stage to everyday Americans who hunger for change and stepped up to make phone calls, knock on doors, and raise money in small amounts in their communities.

You may have missed it, but we also showed the country a video with the faces and voices of those organizers, volunteers, and donors from every corner of the country.

The organizers that Sen. Obama is talking about have a name. That name is ACORN, the voter fraud specialists. ACORN is more than a little shy in terms of getting in front of a camera. Sen. Obama doesn’t want this connection publicized, either.

These aren’t “everyday Americans”; they’re radical activists. They’re convicted criminals, too:

But the most interesting news came out of Seattle, where on Thursday local prosecutors indicted seven workers for ACORN, a union-backed activist group that last year registered more than 540,000 low-income and minority voters nationwide and deployed more than 4,000 get-out-the-vote workers. The ACORN defendants stand accused of submitting phony forms in what Secretary of State Sam Reed says is the “worst case of voter-registration fraud in the history” of the state.

The list of “voters” registered in Washington state included former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, New York Times columnists Frank Rich and Tom Friedman, actress Katie Holmes and nonexistent people with nonsensical names such as Stormi Bays and Fruto Boy. The addresses used for the fake names were local homeless shelters. Given that the state doesn’t require the showing of any identification before voting, it is entirely possible people could have illegally voted using those names.

Here’s more from John Fund’s article:

Local officials refused to accept the registrations because they had been delivered after last year’s Oct. 7 registration deadline. Initially, ACORN officials demanded the registrations be accepted and threatened to sue King County (Seattle) officials if they were tossed out. But just after four ACORN registration workers were indicted in Kansas City, MO, on similar charges of fraud, the group reversed its position and said the registrations should be rejected. But by then, local election workers had had a reason to carefully scrutinize the forms and uncovered the fraud. Of the 1,805 names submitted by Acorn, only nine have been confirmed as valid, and another 34 are still being investigated. The rest–over 97%–were fake.

While I agree that ACORN does alot of doorknocking, they’re paid for doing that.

The bigger point to all this is that ACORN represents another sleazy ‘character’ that Sen. Obama has associated with. I’m wondering if Sen. Obama has relationships with normal people. I’d even settle for relationships with people that aren’t uconvicted criminals like Tony Rezko, racists like Jeremiah Wright, terrorists like William Ayers or fanatics like Father Pfleger.

Sen. Obama’s supporters would say that it isn’t fair to Sen. Obama to play the guilt by association game. I’d say that that’s nonsense, that it highlights Sen. Obama’s decisionmaking ability. Supporters who say Sen. Obama’s decisionmaking ability is offlimits don’t set the rules. We The People set them. What fair-minded person thinks that the potential leader of free world’s decisionmaking ability is offlimits?

The bottom line is that the Obama campaign is worried. I don’t think that they’re in full panic mode yet but I don’t think they’re far from it. This fundraising letter also says that they’re realizing that they aren’t in as good of financial shape as when they originally refused public funding.

Technorati Tags: Obama, Fundraising, ACORN, Voter Fraud, John Fund, GOTV, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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