posted on October 15, 2008 01:40:31 PM new
As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus. He has a long association with them.
posted on October 15, 2008 01:56:08 PM new
Good catch coach, I can't believe McCain would associate with them. LOL - response from the "red" group?
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posted on October 15, 2008 02:32:15 PM new
Silence is the only thing you'll get from them, deichen. Unless, of course, there is some way they can blame Clinton.
Cheryl
Whitman said she and McCain share a philosophy of scaling back the role of government. a point of view partly shaped by her EBay experience. "The EBay model is very Republican in its essence -- it's about making a small number of rules and getting out of the way while not overtaxing the community," she said.
posted on October 15, 2008 02:51:27 PM new
It is disturbing that there are so many hinky registrations> I don't believe ACORN intended for it to happen, but performance-based compensation for registering voters spells trouble.
posted on October 15, 2008 03:23:40 PM new
That editorial is, as my 17 year old would put it, "a load".
Here's a part of a very good rebuttal:
Using what appears to be a McCain campaign memo verbatim, the WSJ editorial instead proceeded to run down the now-conventional list of past accusations lobbed at ACORN, most of which appear to be the work of a few individuals, not the organization itself. But the editorial then went on to emphasize the latest allegations. For example, the editorial cited claims made by Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land that the organization turned in fraudulent voter registration forms earlier this year.
What the Wall Street Journal op-ed failed to tell its readers is that Terri Lynn Land is a partisan Republican who co-chaired the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004. Further, WSJ editors ignored the fact that her recent accusations just so happened to have coincided with news accounts quoting Michigan Republican Party officials saying they would use a foreclosure list obtained from a McCain campaign donor to challenge minority voters in Democratic precincts on election day.
The Wall Street Journal also ignored the fact that Terri Lynn Land's partisan interference in the election has gone so far as to liberally interpret a Michigan state law, giving Republican Party operatives and lawyers increased power to arbitrarily challenge voters at the polls on election day.
The Wall Street Journal's editors refused to report that the ACLU just won a lawsuit against Terri Lynn Land forcing her to stop a massive voter purge of tens of thousands of voters in violation of federal voting rights laws. After the federal judge's decision ordering Land to stop the voter purges was handed down this week, ACLU staff counsel Meredith Bell-Platts told reporters, "As a result of the judge’s decision, fewer Michigan voters will be illegally purged and wrongly disfranchised – and that’s good for everyone."
Terri Lynn Land's status as a non-partisan enforcer of voting rights is as highly suspect as the WSJ editorial board's pretense at a non-biased view of this whole affair.
posted on October 15, 2008 04:37:05 PM new
Thanks, deichen and thanks Profe for a good rebuttal. What John McCain fails to realize is that most of the country knows how to use a computer and get on the internet. Fact checking is at our fingertips, but he still thinks he can put his spin on things and we'll all believe it is the truth. ACORN has a large number of people working for them, not every one is scrupulous. I believe, from what I have read, they go over every registration and flag the Mickey Mouse, Flash Gordon registrations--or any other suspicious registrations before sending them on.
[ edited by coach81938 on Oct 15, 2008 04:48 PM ]
posted on October 20, 2008 03:01:01 PM newWhat John McCain fails to realize is that most of the country knows how to use a computer and get on the internet. Fact checking is at our fingertips, but he still thinks he can put his spin on things and we'll all believe it is the truth.
How true! McCain needs to "get with" the ways of the modern world. I guess it doesn't really matter if he does, as he is going to lose!
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