No wonder republicans are so obsessed with ACORN......

[Cheap_Trick]

THEY'RE FUCKING NUTS.

[realisticphish]

1. I was thinking "they have the brains of squirrels"

[BooBluePotion]

4. LOL :) nt

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Rupublicans are obsessed with ACORN because . . .

. . . while ACORN registers poor people to vote the late and unlamented Republican junta purged US Attorneys for failing to bring trumped up charges against those same people for registering to vote.

[underpants]

3. What does ACORN do?

They fight predatory loans
They fight to lower power bills-especially in the winter
AND
worst of all
They register poor people to vote

The first two represent a problem for people who they fight and guess who they give most of their money to.

The last counters a longstanding Republican program of not signing up voters and trying to block them or dissuade them from voting

[Jack Rabbit]

8. You're right, but it's still "worst" of all . . .

Please click here.

I would like Mr. O'Keefe to tell me why ACORN should held accountable for registering people to vote and why the Bush Junta DoJ should not be held accountable for trying to stop them from voting with trumped up prosecutions.

[bobbolink]

12. You hit the trifecta. BAAAD people, those Acornites!

This MUST be fought!

[butterfly77]

25. And the census..

[underpants]

27. Exactly

thanks

[blm]

5. If they can force an investigation of ACORN, shouldn't we TRY to force an investigation of FOX?

Seems NOW would be the right time to push that for Dems.

[bobbolink]

13. You're hoping the DEMS would do such a thing? You think they would actually care about

poor folk?

I'm afraid we're on our own on this, and we need to learn to organize.

What you are suggesting won't happen without us taking the LEAD.

[obliviously]

6. At this point in time Acorn

has done no favors for our President or the Democratic party! It is shameful and I will not defend them!

[sabrina 1]

9. I think you have that backwards, unless you don't mind

rightwingnuts smearing and lying about people and being rewarded for it. What is shameful is that Democrats just went along with the worst kind of smears, taking at face value, video that was questionable at the very least, without even asking for an investigation. Not everything is about politics.

[obliviously]

10. Then perhaps since you

have some sort of proof you should disprove them!

[bobbolink]

14. There are threads here that are assembling a LOT of proof.

But we wouldn't want to get in the way of your bias.

[obliviously]

15. You are making a lot of assumptions about me

I would hope your evidence is not the same! I just can't support under age hookers and tax evasion. I don't care who blew the whistle, we are not about that!

[Beaverhausen]

16. have you seen this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6595141

[obliviously]

17. President Obama wants them investigated

the truth and all evidence will come out!

[obliviously]

19. Just read it. The truth will come out in an investigation

but it is not looking good right now. It appears they have let the president down.

[bobbolink]

22. Thank you so much for being on top of this!

:loveya:

[sabrina 1]

24. Neither does ACORN

You need to read more about what has been revealed before coming to such a terrible conclusion about anyone.

No whistle was blown. A stunt was played by two students of Karl Rove's tactic's, one a graduate of Morton Blackwell's school of 'journalism'. They are currently in hiding from the press, now that their little stunt is being exposed. They have some real questions to answer about at least two of their heavily edited tapes, and the lies they told that no one threw them out. There are at least two police reports from ACORN workers who they called 'liars' until the police reports surfaced, and now they appear to be 'unavailable' to defend themselves, skipping a previously agreed-to interview with CNN, who, to their credit, began to look a little more deeply into this farce.

[Raineyb]

33. Well based on your unwillingness to allow facts to get in the way of a perfectly

lame argument, and your continuing to smear ACORN considering the facts that have come out I'd have to say that you certainly live up to your name. But that's not an assumption that's an observation.

[sabrina 1]

18. I just posted an OP with proof that they lied

about ACORN. They are currently hiding from the press as a result of these revelations.

Turborama and mzmolly have posted several excellent OPs with even more evidence of deception by Giles and O'Keefe as well as others. I suggest reading a few of them as there is plenty of evidence already available now, with the MSM also beginning to question this stunt, to require a thorough investigation and a handover of all their tapes to see just how much they were edited.

[bobbolink]

21. Thank you, sabrina, for all your efforts on this! It means so much to see people

really demanding answers on this--we are usually just invisible and vulnerable.

I really appreciate all you are doing! :pals:

[sabrina 1]

23. No problem bobbolink, I, thank you also,

I wish we had some power. But I'm sick and tired of watching these Rovian liars destroy everything that is good in this country.

Btw, I just called the Baltimore State Atty's office to encourage her to investigate these two as she said she would do in her press release.

The right are organizing to go after her, anad another DUer who called, said his call was the only one in support of her.

The communications # is 443-984-1121. They are very professional, just thanked me and said they would note the call.

I'm going to put up an Op asking people to call. Don't know what else to do and I'm afraid this will all die down, the little Rovian thugs will disappear for a while, as he did when caught cheating in college, and then return, maybe to run for office.

[bobbolink]

28. I want to call, also. I can't find your OP... can you please direct me to it, or give me the name

of the ATTY GEN in question, so I know who to ask for?

I completely agree that it's soooo important to make the calls that are in support. Usually all they get is the negative ones, and that really sux.

I want to make this call... please help me get the info!

THANKS!

[sabrina 1]

29. Here's the contact information

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy can be reached by email: [e-mail]
or by phone [phone].

When I called they gave me this number 443-984-1121 to call and I got right through to someone. I don't think they got many support calls, although I didn't ask.

Haven't had a chance to post an OP yet, maybe tomorrow because I know they are getting calls from the right ~

[bobbolink]

30. Thank you so much, sabrina! I've shared this with some others who will call or write,

and will ask them to pass it on to others.

We as progressives need to learn to THANK those who are doing the thankless tasks like this, especially when it comes to serving poor folk.

I really appreciate you bringing this to our attention. :pals:

[sabrina 1]

31. No problem and thanks for passing it on to others.

They win because they are organized. I don't know how we can stop this kind of thing, but when someone like this woman is willing to at least look at the issue, I agree, she should know that there are people who support her.

:pals: back at you! I will try to post an OP later or tomorrow asking people to call. Or if anyone else wants to do so, that would be great. I'll definitely rec it.

I've done a quick search to find out if there's been any sightings of O'Keefe and Giles, but haven't found anything ~ but then, I'm not very good at this ~ lol!

[bobbolink]

32. I called and was asked for my name and number so they can get back to me with the info.

I said that's OK, and gave it but that I didn't expect a busy person to take the time to call me back.

When I thanked the woman who took the call, I also said, "And thanks to the staff for all they are doing on this", and she really perked up and gave a very sincere "Thank you."

All in all, I feel good about calling, and really appreciate you doing the legwork to get this info!

Here's hoping.....!

:pals:

[Lagomorph]

7. So who ain't?

:crazy:

[11 Bravo]

11. Yet another textbook example of why the "unrec" feature is horseshit.

I won't rec the thread to get it back up because I don't believe it belongs on the greatest page. But why in the Billy Blue fuck should a thread describing Repugs as "nuts" wind up <0. Yet another example of how unrec encourages and empowers trolls.

[Cheap_Trick]

20. Didn't write it to get recs, unrecs or on the Greatest Page

It's my opinion.

Agree or disagree.

Doesn't matter one bit to me.

[Iris]

26. good one. n/t