The American Spectator : ACORN's Catholic Guardian

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ACORN's Catholic Guardian

By Matthew Vadum from the February 2010 issue

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President Obama's association with CCHD began years before he ran a voter drive for ACORN's Project Vote that helped get then-Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) elected. From 1985 to 1988 he ran the Developing Communities Project from an office located in Chicago's Holy Rosary Church.

"I got my start as a community organizer working with mostly Catholic parishes on the South Side of Chicago that were struggling because the steel plants had closed," Obama told Catholic Digest. CCHD "helped fund the project, and so very early on, my career was intertwined with the belief in social justice that is so strong in the Church."

Obama has said he "tried to apply the precepts of compassion and care for the vulnerable that are so central to Catholic teachings to my work [such as in] making health care a right for all Americans."

There's a reason CCHD is mocked as the "Catholic Campaign to Help Democrats."

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About the Author

Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

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