Sen. Barack Obama ditched his normal languid cool today, punching back at Gov. Sarah Palin as he spoke with reporters in York, Pa, hotly defending his work as a community organizer. He said he assumes Palin "wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutinty. I've been through this for 19 months. She's been through it, what four days?"He is right. We republicans already live in organized communities. That's probably why we don't have to worry about 235 murders IN ONE SUMMER.Obama's hackles were clearly raised by Palin's dismissal of his community organizing --a response to his earlier dismissal of her record as a small-town mayor. "Why would that kind of work be ridiculed?" Obama said. "Who are they fighting for?" The idea that community organizing is not relevant to the presidency, he said, just shows why Republicans "are out of touch and don't get it."
I've got a question apparently missed by all the traditional media while vetting Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter.
Who actually paid Obama during this so called "community organizer" activity? Was it a non profit group? We already know that he has some affiliation with ACORN. Was that who paid him?
Where did his paychecks come from?
What was his primary mission? Was he providing free legal advice? During the convention, I must have missed all those testimonials of people who Obama helped doing this "community organizing". Who are these people?
Maybe the NY Times can pull one of their 100 reporters in Juneau and ask the same questions.
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“Community organizer” (more accurately, “political agitator”) in the 1980s, Obama rubbed elbows with radical groups Gamaliel and ACORN.
“Voters should know Obama’s record”
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/sep/03/voters-should-know-obamas-record/
Obama has “ties as a ‘community organizer’ to ACORN (America’s foremost proponent of voter registration fraud)”
“The Media Is Working Harder On Palin Than Obama”
http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/271167.asp
Cuyahoga board probes ACORN voter registration drive -Plain Dealer
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/cuyahoga_board_probes_voter_re.html
“ACORN stopped the registration efforts of the part-timers on Aug. 15... Kristopher Harsh, head organizer for the agency’s Cleveland office, said it is unlikely a full-fledged movement will resume before the Nov. 4 election. ACORN has submitted about 75,000 voter registration cards... Cuyahoga Board employees are unsure how many of the cards are fraudulent. But the voter registration department received so many suspicious cards that it began compiling a binder with evidence. The binder grew to be an inch-thick.”
NY Times - nearly $1 million embezzled from ACORN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
“Acorn, one of the country’s largest COMMUNITY ORGANIZING groups… chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board. (The brother of ACORN’s national chief organizer), embezzled, $948,607.50, carried as a loan on the books of Citizens Consulting Inc., which provides bookkeeping, accounting and other financial management services to ACORN and many of its affiliated entities."
“ACORN has now been connected to money laundering, misuse of taxpayer funds, embezzlement, voter fraud, wage and labor violations and safety complaints. ”
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/25/obama%E2%80%99s-acorn-a-leftist-social-reform-group-part-ii-2/
(ACORN Ohio issues below)
“ACORN/Citizen’s Services have wage and labor issues. The list of problems includes: minimum wage (remember ACORN wants a living wage of $12/hr for workers), overtime pay , break and mealtime pay, payroll-keeping and employee classification issues. These issues are in connection with Citizen Services Inc, which was contracted to do the Get-out-the-vote work for the Obama for President campaign.
The Ohio canvassers, 250 alone in Columbus, Ohio by and large worked more than 40 hours per week. Some canvassers reported working 20+ hours of overtime for which they were never paid. Others said they were never paid time and a half for working more than 10+ hours overtime. ACORN/CSI absolutely refused to pay any overtime. The canvassers have filed various complaints with the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Office.
ACORN is currently under investigation by a government inspector from the DOL’s Columbus Office. He is not only investigating the problems in Ohio but checking nationwide for similar incidences of wage and hour issues.
“Obama is using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. ”
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-pt-ii-obama-hid-800000-payment-to-acorn-through-citizen-services-inc/
“CSI has been the subject of a little-noticed complaint to the FEC by a Democrat who smelled something rotten going on between CSI, ACORN, and a left-wing 527, Communities Voting Together.”
We need a T-Shirt that says "I'm not unemployed, I'm a community organizer".
Andy
Now I'm, thinking I should have put that on my resume when I was applying for jobs out of school.
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