ACORN is now subjected to perhaps the harshest treatment by a national US government in over 25 years for simply organizing poor working people against predatory lending practices by a corrupt, greedy and racist banking system that helped plunge America into the most deep-going recession since the 1930s. Aided and abetted by the loud, stentorian bellowing from the right-wing, Democrats have been placed on the defensive even as Republican wrong-doing gets a free pass.
Swept under the table is the fact that in the 2008 Presidential Elections the Republican McCain-Palin Campaign also took a swipe at ACORN putting out a web ad titled "ACORN, which carried the verbal endorsement of McCain.
The ad asked "Who is Barack Obama? A man with ˜a political baptism performed at warp speed.' Vast ambition. After college, he moved to Chicago. Became a community organizer. There, Obama met Madeleine Talbot, part of the Chicago branch of ACORN. He was so impressive that he was asked to train the ACORN staff.
Here at last is the crux of the Republican war against ACORN in "moderate Republican John McCain's own words: ACORN bullied banks, disrupted businesses, forced banks to issue risky home loans that ultimately caused the financial crisis. Have you ever heard such lunatic drivel? ACORN force banks? Is this organization the federal government? Disrupted businesses? Good lord! Now the same people with a fixed agenda " to get rid of ACORN so it can't mobilize poor people and get out the vote in the 2010 Congressional elections " have come up with novel new videos and "proof that this poor people's organization, funded by working people, is a significant threat to Americans.
So day after day in the mainstream media and in the hallowed halls of the US Congress an endless torrent of irresponsible gargoyles keep hurling the red meat of hate and slander to the least informed, most hate-filled cadres in an increasingly ignorant demographic consumed in the malice and stupidity that makes license holders money today as it eats the country up from the inside in the long term. Critical thinking is dead and buried. The age of ignorance has triumphed.
ACORN's "wrong-doing is the latest in a string of putrid lies and deceptions hatched and promoted by a rabid right-wing that wants us to believe that President Barack Obama will introduce death panels that will kill the elderly, that he was not born in America and is therefore not eligible to be president, and the warped, insane reasoning that the USA couldn't live without attacking and occupying Iraq (3 Trillion dollars later of taxpayers' money). Finally that former Republican vice-president nominee, Sarah Palin, is a genius who loves America. What a load of unadulterated crap.
But ACORN is not down and out. And the right-wing chorus that is now clucking about landing one punch should think twice. Lying although elevated to national policy levels brings only short term benefits. This new attack will only serve to energize and enrage ACORN's supporters and create a serious political backlash that can have very far reaching repercussions down the road. The history of ACORN is one of poor people struggling as David did against Goliath and we all know the end-result of that confrontation. History is on the side of ACORN.
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