ObamACORN?

(h/t to princess wears prada for the title)

Obama is a liar.  I’ve started several posts with that sentence, mainly becuase it is true, and he lies so often.   For some strange reason he seems to not like it.  He even had the nerve to complain about the fact that McCain has called him a liar as well.  But other than the fact that Obama thinks it is mean, what is wrong with calling him a liar, when he constantly lies?  In last night’s debate when confronted with lies, Obama’s reaction was to respond with “that’s not true”, which of course is in itself another lie. 

My Preciousss!!!

But I digress.  There was one topic he was willing to talk about. ACORN.  He wanted people to know that he has nothing to do with the group, or at the very least has had minimal contact with the group, long ago (gee, where have I heard that before).  But maybe finally somebody in the media is starting to check in on Obama’s claims rather than just blindly accepting his denials.  From Fox News (oh, and to those blowhard weenies–you know who you are– who have a problem with the sourcing on this blog; fair enough, foxnews or the nypost might not be exactly impartial, but I’ll bet you your 401K you can’t find me a reliable media source anywhere these days, so stick a cork in it).

 Twice in the last week, Barack Obama has said his relationship with ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — began and ended with legal work he did for the group in 1995. 

The Democratic presidential candidate made his remarks in an effort to distance himself from the low-income advocacy group, which is under investigation for voter fraud in several states. 

But that’s not exactly true, not even truthy.

Obama conducted training sessions for ACORN workers a decade ago, and his campaign also recently paid an ACORN subsidiary for canvassing efforts. 

Plus his work with a group called Project Vote back in 1992 raises questions about whether he was involved with ACORN back then. 

Project Vote was one of Obama’s earliest political successes. As director of Illinois Project Vote, Obama helped register 150,000 new voters in Chicago, and he was heralded for his efforts in local media. 

ACORN was also registering voters at that time, and its relationship with Project Vote casts some doubt on Obama’s statement that his involvement with ACORN didn’t begin until three years later. 

Obama’s campaign Web site — in a section called “Fight the Smears” that is devoted to shooting down harmful rumors about his candidacy — states as “fact” that “ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.” 

The site also states, “Barack Obama never organized with ACORN.” 

But accounts from the 1992 voter drive suggest the two groups were at least working alongside each other, if not together. 

A blogger for Obama’s campaign Web site in February wrote: “When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer … Senator Obama said, ‘I come out of a grassroots organizing background. … Even before I was an elected official, when I ran (the) Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.’” 

So once again, just as McCain pointed out last night about his pledge to accept public financing, Obama’s own words contradict what he says now about his relationship to ACORN.  Even when they do get truthy, it still smells like a big old fat lie:

But as to Obama’s statement that his ties to ACORN are contained to his legal work, it has already been widely reported that his campaign paid more than $800,000 to a group called Citizens Services Inc., an ACORN subsidiary, to “augment” Obama’s grassroots organizing efforts in the Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania primaries. 

His campaign maintains those efforts were for getting voters to the polls and not for voter registration, which is the sticking point of ongoing ACORN probes. 

Goldberg also confirmed to FOXNews.com that Obama gave two training sessions over the course of three years in the late ’90s. He said each session lasted an hour or less. 

Republicans say Obama can’t deny his relationship with ACORN. 

“[Obama's] relationship with ACORN is well-established,” said Republican National Committee spokesman Danny Diaz. “His comment is a fabrication.” 

But Obama’s carefully worded statement regarding ACORN training on his “Fight the Smears” site appears to be true. 

The statement says ACORN never “hired” Obama “as a trainer, organizer or any type of employee.” 

And Goldberg said that, in fact, “Barack was not paid.” 

Diaz noted that Obama changed his Web site to reflect the training sessions — it previously said the Illinois senator was never an ACORN trainer. The word, “hired,” was added later.

So they go from outright lying to parsing words to the point that all meaning is lost.  Is that the change we’ve been waiting for? 

So why is this so important?  Well, because ACORN is finding itself in the midst of one of the largest election fraud investigations in US history.

The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election. A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday.

A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam…

Some ACORN employees have been accused of submitting false voter registration forms — including some signed `Mickey Mouse’ or other fictitious characters.

Those voter registration cards have become the focus of fraud investigations in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri and at least five other states. Election officials in Ohio and North Carolina also recently questioned the group’s voter forms

Notice anything about those states (not mentioned are Michigan and Virginia, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, Pennsylvania)?   They all happen to be very close swing states.  Now a lot of people say this is a bunch of nonsense, and that it is typical Republican grandstanding about an organization that does a lot of good.  OK then, if that’s true, why is Barack Obama running away from them so fast that he feels he has to lie to the American people about his association with them?  I’d think he’d be proud of it.  Or maybe he’s started lying so much he doesn’t know when to tell the truth.  No matter what, I don’t think I trust him to be President of the United States.