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08-42 Digest
17 October 2008 Patriot Vol. 08 No. 42



Inside ACORN


The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) is an
organization that is tailor-made for Barack Obama. It is community
based, it is ultra-liberal, and it will do and say just about anything to
achieve its political ends. ACORN has drawn questions regarding its operating
practices since its inception in 1970, but now the 350,000-member (their
number) organization has been caught up in a nationwide scandal for its
illegal voter registration practices.


In recent weeks there have been myriad charges filed against the
organization from all around the country. In Las Vegas, ACORN offices
were raided after complaints over thousands of fraudulent registration
applications were submitted by ACORN workers and volunteers. The
Michigan Secretary of State is on record noting that ACORN submitted "a
sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications." Other states that
are taking action against ACORN include New Mexico, Ohio, Florida, North
Carolina, Missouri and Indiana: not coincidentally, these are all
battleground states. Furthermore, the FBI has opened an investigation
into the group.


The scope of the fraud clearly shows that it is a systematic campaign.


And it is no GOP witch-hunt as the knee-jerk leftist reaction fired off by
the media suggested in recent days. A look at just who is filing the
complaints and pressing the charges readily demonstrates that the
outrage is nonpartisan. These crimes are endemic to the organization as a
whole and undermine our republic. The ACORN organization must be held
accountable from top to bottom.


ACORN often hires urban poor and recently released felons to register
voters. In some cases, they don’t even pay minimum wage; yet another
example of the grand hypocrisy of the "mother" organization, but that’s
another can of worms. Only so many Democrats can be registered in any
given area, and when that limit is reached, ACORN’s minions sign up dead
people, the Dallas Cowboys’ offensive line and Mickey Mouse. Homeless
people are next, and since they stay in various places, they can vote
once for each non-home. Given the level of recidivism among felons, we can
only assume that ACORN’s felonious fellows do not experience a guilty
conscience for committing such a `chump' crime.


Millions of us `simple-minded' citizens wonder how an organization that
flouts our sacred right to vote and shamelessly works to undermine our
institutions can continue executing costly programs and "getting out the
vote." Who pays for it all? Answer: We do. Liberal politicians like
Barack Obama and his Demo colleagues benefit directly from ACORN’s antics, so,
of course, they’re going to ensure their public funding. And now Obama; who
has trained ACORN staffers, served as the organization’s lawyer, and
recently contributed an eye-popping $832,000 to its coffers; wants to
disavow their ties. As Bob Dole once asked, "Where’s the outrage?"


This week’s ‘Alpha Jackass’ award


"There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area." Rep.
John Murtha (D-PA), who, when not slandering our brave Marines,
apparently enjoys slandering his own constituents


From the Left: Who wrote Obama’s memoir?


Suspension of disbelief is defined as "the willingness of a person to
accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if... fantastic
or impossible." When it comes to Barack Obama, the American people have
been asked to suspend disbelief regarding a number of things, including:
Obama’s desire to bring people together despite his relationship with
"Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, who preaches divisiveness and hatred; and
Obama’s patriotism, despite his association with Weatherman terrorist
William Ayers. According to writer Jack Cashill, Obama’s authorship of
his much-celebrated memoir, Dreams From My Father, may be simply another
fiction.


Cashill points out Obama’s lack of published works before contracting to
write Dreams in 1990 at age 28. He did publish a few items: two poems in
a college magazine (which Obama himself admitted were "very bad"), and a
piece in the Harvard Law Review, referred to by Politco researchers as a
"fairly standard example of the genre."


Also telling is Obama’s inability to finish the Dreams manuscript on
time, despite being given a year and a large advance to do so. Then, suddenly,
the finished work appeared, and it demonstrated a level of literary
skill that Obama had never before displayed.


Cashill proceeds to explore the possibility that Bill Ayers wrote
Dreams.


In doing so, he offers several technical comparisons in writing style
and viewpoints to Ayers’ own memoir, Fugitive Days, right down to their
shared penchants for untruths, changed names and faulty timelines. But Ayers
is just a guy in Obama’s neighborhood. Right. Suspension of disbelief works
for a movie, for two hours; it won’t work for this country for four
years.


What the Palin probe really found


An Alaska state legislative investigator found in its final report of
the so-called trooper scandal that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in
trying to get State Trooper Michael Wooten fired. Democrat state senator and
ardent Obama supporter Hollis French oversaw the investigation and
insisted it be finished and released before Election Day. Predictably,
the Leftmedia and the anti-Palin attack dogs (but we repeat ourselves)
jumped on the abuse-of-power finding, but they do not wish to follow the facts
of the story to its logical conclusion. Let’s take a look at what happened.
Wooten had a record of violent behavior, drinking alcohol on the job,
illegal hunting, using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson and
threatening to kill a member of the Palin family. These were all valid reasons
to seek Wooten’s removal from the force, and Palin apparently told Public
Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan to fire him. Monegan refused and was in
turn fired by Palin.


The report also recognizes that it was within Palin’s right as governor
to fire Monegan, but the supposed problem that was raised by the report was
that Monegan’s removal came in part because he would not fire Wooten,
who was Palin’s sister’s ex-husband. The related history that Wooten shared
with the Palin family is immaterial, or at least it would be in a
non-election year. Look at the facts specifically. Wooten was a lousy
officer and had no business keeping his job with the kind of behavior he
displayed on numerous occasions. Monegan is responsible for the officers
under his command; if he cannot, or for some reason will not, discipline
them or remove them when necessary, then he is not doing his job and he
should be removed. Where exactly does the abuse of power charge come
from here? This report contains no recommendations for further action, so it
holds little real value except as a campaign weapon for the Democrats.


Another Democrat family man Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL) won Florida’s 16th
congressional seat in 2006 after Republican Mark Foley was booted for sending
lewd emails to teenage male pages in Congress. Foley became a national scandal
and the butt of more than a few jokes on late-night talk shows. His
disgraceful behavior, coming to light as it did just weeks before the 2006
mid-term elections, undoubtedly exacerbated Republican losses that year.

Mahoney, his successor, was presumably going to restore honor to the seat, but
we now learn that Mahoney is embroiled in a sex scandal of his own. He agreed
to pay $121,000 to a former mistress who worked on his staff, was fired,
and threatened to sue for wrongful termination. Additionally, as an
incentive to keep her from spilling the beans to his wife and his
constituents, he promised her a $50,000 per year job with Fletcher Rowley Chao
Riddle, the agency that handled his campaign advertising. The CEO of the firm,
Bill Fletcher, categorically denied any knowledge of the quid pro quo.
Furthermore, Mahoney was apparently engaged in more than one affair. His
mistress wanted to end the relationship upon finding this out, but
Mahoney threatened and fired her. "You work at my pleasure," he said in a
recorded phone conversation. "If you do the job that I think you should do,
you get to keep your job. Whenever I don’t feel like you’re doing your job,
then you lose your job." Just in case the message wasn’t clear, he added,
"And guess what? The only person that matters is, guess who? Me."


The issue for Democrats now is what to do with Mahoney. They are in a
quite similar position that Republicans faced with Foley. It is too
close to the election to get a replacement on the ballot, so the Demos could
run someone else under Mahoney’s name. However, Mahoney plans to stick it
out.


And Republican candidate Tom Rooney gains daily.


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