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Galen| 7.9.09 @ 7:33AM

Years ago my father said of limosene liberals " I never met a communist who treated his maid well."

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Melvin| 7.9.09 @ 8:19AM

This crap about, defending the poor, the party of the poor, the faith of the poor is nothing but pure dog squeeze and propaganda.
Unfortunately for the prodigies of government run education, they'll sit there like dumb sheeple and swallow every word.
For some reason the dumb masses fail to fathom that it is about the money, it always has been and always will be about the money.
ACORN is no different that any politician that eventually realizes, "Hey, this is a tremendous opportunity to skim off untraceable copious amounts of tax payer money."
It is getting to the point that doing the right thing, working forty or more hours a week is working us into the poor house. The problem is that we don't have the ability to skim money off the top like Community Organization and politicians do.

LogicalSC| 7.9.09 @ 8:41AM

Little different that Obama when given control of the 155 million dollars at the Annanberg Foundation for Chicago education, most of the funds went to his do-gooding liberal friends and their groups to help them grow their power.

It was shut down after only three years because so little of it went to the actual children of Southside Chicago and their education.

Look at other's around Obama, William Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright have all taken millions by using the plight of the poor in southside Chicago slums, they now all live with Obama in Hyde Park.

The people in the slums are even worse off but waiting for the next "messiah" to come thru to save them.

Tim| 7.9.09 @ 10:03AM

Obama did get one thing right.....very right!

You should never waste a crisis.

In similar fashion, we should not waste this golden opportunity to destroy Acorn and with it all of the wackos that profit from its illegal work.

If we capitalize on all of Acorn's criminal indictments and all of the truth that is coming out about this corrupt left orginization we should have nuetralized its reach by 2010 and certainly by 2012 and hence we will take this country back from the socialists who's only goal is and has been to infiltrate and take over the USA and the world.

Big J| 7.9.09 @ 10:19AM

Right on, Melvin.

"pure dog squeeze and propaganda" - I love it!

Hope you don't mind, but I'm stealing it.

:)

Robert Rosencrans| 7.9.09 @ 10:49AM

Selling out the poor has been the mainstream thesis of liberalism at least during the last 50 years.

Keeping them barefoot, pregnant and shoeless is an apt description of how liberals view the poor in this country.

When Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid dismissed a group of visitors at the Capital as "smelly tourists" it was a revealing glimpse of the contempt that the political liberal elite hold against most of normal America.

There's a lot of money in poverty and the liberals can't hold onto power if a majority of the population accumulates wealth and freedom.

That's why Obama has to make the population reliant on government with public health care and in fear of government with cap and trade.

Both are designed to keep the public barefoot, pregnant and down on the farm.

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What the hell did you say? In English, please... Reads like that other fella said "dog squeeze".

pher| 7.9.09 @ 11:18AM

The only correction I'd make to this otherwise accurate article on ACORN's involvement with Atlantic Yards is that Forest City Ranter never won the support of the Prospect Heights community. The paid supporters of the AY project are almost entirely drawn from neighborhoods a long way away from the project--for good reason. None of the project's immediate neighbors are interested in what promises to be decades of construction and condemnation blight.

Rafeal| 7.9.09 @ 11:54AM

ACORn got a number of city owned properties for their support of this deal, as well as the contested Atlantic developlment yards, including 672 east 136th street where they threwout dozens of residents after setting a fire, shameful

Michael Tomlinson| 7.9.09 @ 1:06PM

ACORN like all Democrat surrogates is committed to one thing power for themselves and their political masters (Obama, Reid, Pelosi, etc.). If they have to steal elections, which they and Democrats routinely do, they'll do it. If hurting the poor gets them what they want the poor are expendable. This is par for the course for all liberal Democrats and their minions.

Sadly, some Americans like to be abused and that's why they're Democrats. Don't forget the party of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation is now not only home of the rich, but the political victims of such bigotry and intolerance too. I guess it's hard to quit bowing and scraping to the Mas'a.

Angel| 7.9.09 @ 2:41PM

Liberals don't give a damn about anything but power. They'll sell their mother out to get what they want; they've already sold their souls a long time ago.

Marc Jeric| 7.10.09 @ 5:36AM

The following bears repeating. Obama's only "working experience" was: 1) as a community organizer; 2) as a lawyer for community organizers; and 3) as a law instructor for future lawyers for community organizers. The most important invention by VI Lenin that brought him to absolute power was the soviets - i.e. local community organizations controlled by the centralized Communist Party. This concept of local community organizations was perfected and applied to the American conditions by Davis, Ayers, and Alinsky - all 3 highly placed executives of the Communist Party USA and of course Obama's intimate teachers. His Kenyan father was also a revolutionary marxist. This country is not being socialized - it is much worse, it is being lulled into a communist state. With ACORN brown shirts in charge of the 2010 census, with their expertise in stealing the elections by voter fraud, and with $9 billion earmarked for them in the first stimulus bill, with many more billions to follow, we are in the middle of the communist coup d'etat.

David| 7.10.09 @ 10:08AM

It is incorrect to say that low inome aprtments will be destroyed. The low income tenants were moved out long before talk of Atlantic yards. Most of these buildings are way too expensive or regular working people to consider.

Anonymous| 7.12.09 @ 12:51PM

And George Soros (who owns and runs ACORN, the Deomcratic party, etc.) gives a damn about the poor how?

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It is incorrect to say that low inome aprtments will be destroyed. The low income tenants were moved out long before talk of Atlantic yards. Most of these buildings are way too expensive or regular working people to consider.

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Politics| 9.28.10 @ 6:37AM

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