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Mr Decider| 3.17.09 @ 5:37PM

Go for it -- any slur or mis-representation is fair game. ACORN never "registered" people illegally, in fact they reported suspicious registrations on their own. Legally, they were obliged to accept any application, even from "mickey mouse" -- which is a good law to keep canvassers from picking and choosing which ones to throw out, like all those from one politica party or another.

Matthew Vadum| 3.17.09 @ 5:48PM

I see an ACORN apologist, dutifully regurgitating the Rathke/Lewis talking points, has surfaced. ACORN has a multidisciplinary approach to electoral fraud. See http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pubs.html?id=663. It has already been shown to be an accurate allegation. Case closed.

Starry Night| 3.17.09 @ 5:49PM

ACORN and the AFL/CIO are the enforcement arms of the democrat party: Hitler's Brownshirts of today.

PokeyJoe| 3.17.09 @ 11:21PM

Just let me know when we need to accept the charge of our U.S. Constitution to take up arms and forcefully overthrow this dictatorship government and replace it with one that will PROTECT our freedoms and liberties as dictated? (And btw, do NOT confuse liberty with liberal, their social & political definitions are as far removed from each other as the east and west.)

Die Rechte Ecke| 3.17.09 @ 11:30PM

Mr. Decider - love to see all of you liberal, sorry, er, "progressive," sorry, Communist "plants."
That wasn't even a good try.
We've done our research and conclude that you're not just a liar - but an ass.

Andrew| 3.18.09 @ 3:43AM

A couple of points.

1) You haven't done your research.

2) Yeah, ACORN underpaid some of its employees, and so these employees had incentives to register as many people as possible. Thus, some employees created fake registered voters, such as, say "Mickey Mouse." This happened a few hundred times.

3) Once again, for the MILLIONTH TIME... ACORN checked suspicious registrations, and was LEGALLY REQUIRED to turn them over. When they turned them over, they reported "Hey, yes; this name 'Mickey Mouse'" is suspicious.

4) And AGAIN; as said above -- we WANT this to be legally required, because we don't want a group to have the power to throw out registrations on their own... because such a power could be misused.

5) Really? Really? You think that's what us Democrats are into? Registering dead people? Really? You don't seriously believe that, do you? Some underpaid jerks tried to up their number of registrations. They were jerks. They sucked. The fake registrations were thrown out.

6) Even if this was a conspiracy, in order to make it work, "Mickey Mouse" would have to create a fake "Mickey Mouse" I.D. card, and show up with it at a polling place, and risk being arrested. He would have to do that to add a SINGLE VOTE for his candidate of choice. One additional vote out of 300 million. But say he voted in five different states; that's double voter fraud, risked five times, ten chances to go to jail... to add FIVE VOTES in a nationwide election. NO ONE WOULD EVER DO THIS.

6) Okay? Do you get it? Sorry, but I let a lot of stuff slide on these websites... but even taking that into account, this phony ACORN issue is just too ridiculous.

7) "Communist plants." Enough already. The accusation is hilarious. Have you ever, in your life, met an actual Communist? There aren't any. I think I met one once in my entire life, when I was nineteen, at a liberal arts college. I'm sure that he's not a communist anymore; he was freaking nineteen and an idiot, which is a major qualification for being a communist. Probably 0.1% of all Americans are Communists or Socialists. THERE JUST AREN'T ANY IN THE UNITED STATES. What were are actually called is "Democrats." There are a lot of us. You disagree with us. Deal with it.

8) Times suck for Republicans at the current moment. I understand that. Times weren't super fun for us Democrats over the past eight years. Suck it up and deal with it.

9) For the future of our country, we need to be able to talk to each other. And the Republican party has to decide what it stands for... and what it stands for should not be bizarre conspiracy theories about ACORN or the weird current meme of calling the other 51% of the country "Socialists." There are far more important thing to talk about than either of those things.

10) For the sake of the future of our country, we need to be able to talk to each other. So let's pull it together. That is all.

Jon Fraud Carry| 3.18.09 @ 6:00AM

ACORN is a criminal enterprise, they serve to illegally register non-existent voters so that Democrats can continue to steal elections.

stu.b.con| 3.18.09 @ 6:51AM

Hey Andrew, please take your "Obama's Snake Oil" sales pitch somewhere else! We are not fooled by the big lies you and your fellow fascists have and continue to spread. For the sake of our country there is no room for the fascist policies that Acorn and other various "liberal" like you, the decider, the interloper et al worship.
You attempt to advance your agenda following the Saul "the commie" Alinsky's rules for radicals rather than honestly in the arena of ideas.
Spare me your bleating, I see through you and all of your bull. Frankly, I might have more respect for you socialist bastards if you would only be honest about your intentions and tactics.
F off

Stu.b.con.is.an.ahole| 3.18.09 @ 9:52AM

Looks like Stu.b.con can't think or argue his way out of a wet paper bag!

kazman| 3.18.09 @ 10:23AM

The fool is the one who sees no evil, hears no evil, and speeks no evil, as in the case of Acorn. No matter how bad they do, they are never wrong. Peoples lives are tied up with ideological trends instead of morals. We need to see the truth about this now political organization. Acorn clearly has a political agenda rather than their primary objective of helping the less fortunate. They are power hungry and have been given opportunity with the election of Obama. Beware, they now have political power. Corruption will now be their game. Helping the less fortunate is their secondary objective.
It is important for people to know that there are many who do not like our country and our way of life and want to change it to fit their ideology that they obtained from college or learned from left wing propoganda. Yes, they are here in America.
Remember the principles that this country was founded and do not stray.

Jeremiah| 3.18.09 @ 12:39PM

The corrupt, lying, cheating, thieving democrats are never wrong because: THEY DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN. Vomit!

TexasLady| 3.18.09 @ 2:36PM

I feel sorry for those of you who believe that ACORN did not register people to vote illegally. You are living in a land of make believe. ACORN is full of crooks and they would have done anything to get their community organizer elected. There are criminal charges against them in multiple states.

Starry Night| 3.18.09 @ 2:46PM

The ACORN supporters know they are dirty--they're paid to lie on behalf of this vote-stealing organization.

Sewing Susie| 3.18.09 @ 8:57PM

No Communists in the US??? It is to laugh uproariously.

jo| 3.19.09 @ 9:54AM

Ah, yes: its a Big Scary ACORN Conspiracy, just as you've all suspected.

Too bad you didn't check your sources: Hamilton canvassed for ACORN for a month when he was 22... in 1979.

Get a life.

CH| 3.19.09 @ 12:59PM

ACORN judges now--that's really creepy. Thugs in the street and on the bench!

Olivia Cupant| 3.20.09 @ 6:22PM

For the gazillionth time, ACORN never actually registered anyone who did not exist. They told the election boards about suspicious voter registration cards and those people were never put on the rolls. Plus, I have never seen one iota of proof that anyone they may have illegally registered actually voted. This is in direct opposition to the actual proof that Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat, badly-dressed drug addict, that Dick Cheney and W ignored actual facts when they started a war in Iraq, and that Sarah Palin is a bloodthirsty, empty-headed twit.

tom| 3.23.09 @ 11:55AM

Typical Republican nutroot nonsense. Don't you get that America is fed up with y0ur crap?

Gregory of Yardale| 3.23.09 @ 11:56AM

Unfortunately for all the ACORN apologists, a former ACORN organizer is willing to testify about the group's racketeering and vote fraud operations.

Gregory of Yardale| 3.23.09 @ 12:04PM

After all, I expect as much honesty from ACORN as I do from The Service Employees Union.

Leftists know that decent people would never support their agenda if they knew the truth about it. So they have no choice but to lie, lie, lie...

Johnny| 3.23.09 @ 12:06PM

Why does anyone need an organization to help people register to vote anyway? Seriously, you walk down to the post office, fill out a form, and turn it in. Done. People who can't do something so simple probably shouldn't be trusted with the privilege of voting in the first place. If they are so lazy as not to register themselves to vote, what makes anyone think that they aren't too lazy to research candidates to make an informed decision on which candidate to vote for? Or, is that the point? My money is on the latter.

"Get out the ignorant vote". Scumbags and illegals who will pull any lever that has a (D) next to it are the only people ACORN is registering, imo.

beararms| 3.23.09 @ 12:08PM

PokyJoe,
I am ready and with you brother, I am loaded and I AM READY!!! Enough is enough with these lefty looneys, Hey lets start with this ACORN and work our way UP!!!

Patricia| 3.23.09 @ 12:29PM

Johnny, you said it well. If people can't figure out the incredibly easy process on their own, they should not be allowed to vote. My opinion, if you don't pay taxes, you can't vote.

BuckeyeSam| 3.23.09 @ 12:32PM

ACORN is a criminal organization that needs to be prosecuted under the RICO statute. It's a cancer that needs to be excised from our country.

Gregory of Yardale| 3.23.09 @ 12:56PM

My opinion, if you don't pay taxes, you can't vote.

My opinion, you should have to pay income taxes *and* pass a citizenship test. Which, considering the ignorance and stupidity of Obama voters would be very threatening to ACORN types.

Karen| 3.23.09 @ 2:30PM

To the truth deniers:

I wonder why if ACORN is so legite that they are under dozens of federal investigations in multiple states? And more importantly why the still receive taxpayer money today when from 1998 - 2008 they received $31 million dollars ,not including state and local.

americanLatina| 3.23.09 @ 3:38PM

Really? Acorn didn't break the law?

seattletimes.com has tons of articles...does it Matter? Well, yes, it does. 129 votes separated our governors race...and those votes kept appearing out of unlocked closets...green card voters...and NO criminal investigation was ever performed.

Nathan Bush| 3.23.09 @ 3:51PM

Hamilton worked for ACORN for ONE MONTH thirty years ago when he was a college studio! Conspiracy!!!

terkal| 3.23.09 @ 5:14PM

I REMEMBER KATRINA -
NAGIN COULDN'T GET ANY OF THOSE BUSES ROLLING IN A DISASTER, BUT THEY SURE NEVER HAD ANY TROUBLE WITH THOSE BUSES ON ELECTION DAY(S) !!!
LIBERALS HAVE THEIR PRIORITIES...
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terkal| 3.23.09 @ 5:42PM

from JOHNNY: "Get out the ignorant vote". Scumbags and illegals who will pull any lever that has a (D) next to it are the only people ACORN is registering, imo.

YES, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! IN THE OLD DAYS, THEY WERE REFERRED TO AS
"USEFUL IDIOTS". LET'S GET THEM BUSES ROLLIN! (just do a quick check underneath em first!).

Jasper| 3.23.09 @ 6:55PM

What's so sad is this is apparently this kind of issue is all that's left of the republican party.

Can't any of you geniuses comment on his judicial record, since as a judge, that would seem to be RELEVANT.

Instead the entire party has become like a bunch of trained monkeys - someone in the media yells "Acorn!!!" and that's all the useful idiots (nice description Terkal of the GOP base) need to come running out of the woodworks spewing their programmed talking points.

Do you all get paid to type this nonsense?

MarkJ| 3.23.09 @ 9:35PM

Jasper,

"Do you all get paid to type this nonsense?"

Nope. Conversely do you, for your part, get paid to totally ignore reality not to mention a well documented history of ACORN malfeasance that goes back to at least, oh say, when you were still a snot-nose "Pimpf"?

Well? And don't lie to us, because we'll know.

stefan| 3.24.09 @ 12:25AM

Hey guys, anything on David F. Hamilton besides the fact that he raised money for ACORN in 1979? Members of large organization commit criminal acts in the US -- just to pick an instance, the Catholic Church has had officers go to jail many many times for sex abuse, paid hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution and made a decade long effort to cover it up. All on the record. And who gave the Republican response to Obama last month? A Catholic! Somebody who has studied with the Catholic Church and supports it!

Guys, really, what sort of crazy guilt by association stuff do you fall for? Find something that did or said at least, not that he was in an organization with hundreds of thousands of members over the years, some of whom did criminal stuff for the organization.

Did you know that some postal workers steal mail? And Obama President of the US? The Postal Service is a Federal Agency...Obama is stealing your mail. ..

SRW1| 3.24.09 @ 7:16AM

Conclusion after looking through the comments:

Acorn sympatizers are fascist communists.

Feeling enlightened already.

fnord| 3.24.09 @ 7:31AM

"I am ready and with you brother, I am loaded and I AM READY!!! Enough is enough with these lefty looneys, Hey lets start with this ACORN and work our way UP!!!"

Fascinating, a call for an armed rebellion in the US, starting with shooting members of ACORN. I hope the Homeland Security Act is good enough to pick up your IP adress, "brother". What happened to all that jazz about supporting your nation through bad times as well as good? Oh, I forget, the Democrats are not real americans and so deserve to be shot. Right.

Listen, while y`all may disagree with the current president, he is the current president. Calls for an armed uprising seems a wee bit... insane? Treacherous? Stupid?

Shadow| 3.29.09 @ 7:20PM

Acorn is under indictment in 11 States and four of its workers have been found guilty of perjury in another State. It would do conservative Republicans to stay entirely quiet throughout any of these rather odd goings-on and allow the Democrats and other well-meaning liberals continue on with whatever it is they would like to accomplish. At the end of 2009, as congressional elections loom and Pres. Obama can no longer use the phrase 'we inherited', the American voters will take a long, hard look at what the majority Democrat congress has accomplished in FOUR YEARS (remember, the Democrats have had the majority for the past two years). Then they'll go to the polls. By then the Republicans may have gone back to their conservative roots, and if so, the Republicans who registered as Independents and accounted for the 7% majority that put the Democrats and Mr. Obama in control may return to the Republican party....but not until then. The Republican party became just as bad as the Democrat party over the past eight years, and unless it mends its ways, it's in big trouble. America longs for values and guidance, not handouts.

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