ACORN “Thugs” behind Barack Obama
Is this what America has to look forward to before the General Election in November? Anyone that doesn’t “fall in line” with the Obama strategy machine? Anyone votingfor another candidate?
Is this what Barack Obama meant in his speech in Colorado when he said we needed a “Civil national security” force? In essenceThuggery?
By NancyA
Obama’s ACORN: A Leftist Social Reform GroupObama’s most questionable tie is to a leftist organization called ACORN. His connection to this group begins with a woman named Madeleine Talbot. She embraced Obama and taught him the ropes. He remained a part of this group’s training cadre. Obama taught leadership conferences for the group while working for Miner, Barnhill & Galland. His connections don’t end there. Obama actively sought and received the endorsement by ACORN for his local campaigns. He has now done the same in his bid for the USA presidency.
Some recent reports about their activities include the following things. They have disrupted and blocked activities within the Chicago City Council during living wage discussions. In Baltimore, MD, they burst into the scene of a private law dinner. They bussed four loads of protesters to the site of a mayor’s house, where they spewed profanities at the mayor and his family. And these are just the ones we know about. Their thuggery is over the line by far.
These are not their only questionable actions. In the past they have been tied to illegal voter registration in at least three states. These three states are Washington, Missouri, and North Carolina.
In Missouri, the voter fraud case was tied to at least one campaign, the senate campaign of Claire McCaskill.
In 2004, the Washington state Secretary of State described ACORN’s illegal activity as the “largest case of voter fraud in the state’s history”.
This is just the first layer of radicalism
In Chicago, where the largest organization exists, an ACORN member won a seat on the Board of Alderman as candidate of the leftist New Party
Once again, Madeleine Talbot, Obama’s ACORN mentor, reappears on our radar screens. It turns out Talbot was in some sense responsible for the attempted unsuccessful coup of the Chicago City Council meeting on the living wage issue in 1997. Two hundred ACORN supporters were present. While the actions did disrupt the meeting, six members were arrested that night, charged with “mob action and disorderly conduct.” Among those six was Talbot, Obama’s ACORN mentor.
I do believe by this time Obama was well aware of their tactics and understood them, maybe even teaching them in his leadership conferences.
It seems that in reality that Obama is ACORN’s way to overthrow the system from the inside. This jives with his words such as “I am for hope and change, I am for a new Washington, D.C.” While Axelrod coined the term “Hope and Change,” ACORN is fully behind Obama’s opportunity to overthrow our government, if you will, from the inside. They are not alone in their quest for this because it seems that the Service Employee’s International Union is one of ACORN’s strange bedfellows.
The extent of his ties is often dismissed. They are however covered in another article found in the journal Social Policy entitled “Case Study: Chicago - The Barack Obama Campaign” by Tom Foulkes. In this article, Foulkes claims that ACORN specifically sought out Obama’s representation in the “motor voter case,” remembering him from his pre-law days and his work with Talbot.He also trained many of the new volunteers and employees in Leadership Training Conferences even as he was working as a law professional.
This is only the beginning of his continued use and cooperation on the part of ACORN. Obama used them as volunteer “thugs” for his first bid for the Illinois state senate in 1996 and again in his failed 2000 bid for Congress. Obama doesn’t forget his old friends, many of his newly trained volunteers, and used them again in his 2004 successful bid for the United States Senate. By this time ACORN and Obama were like old friends.
ACORN as well as other groups were the recipients of foundation money from both the Woods Fund and Joyce Foundation. Why is this important? Obama sat on both boards. Through his board positions, he was able to assist in the funneling of many millions of dollars in grant money to various ultra-liberal organizations like Chicago’s ACORN.
Where does ACORN get the money for its never-empty war chest? Could it be they receive funding from someone like George Soros, who has poured millions into presidential campaigns like Obama and even Howard Dean, according to a blog piece at No Quarter, “Hitler and the New Democratic Party.”
According to Kurtz in his NRO article, while these questions about funding and partisanship are important, what is more troubling are Obama’s ties to ACORN, “arguably the most politically, radical, large-scale activist group in this country.” ACORN sneaked its first political insider on the Board of Alderman in Chicago as a “New Party” candidate elected to that board. As ACORN has managed to sneak its operatives within the system legally through elections, one would think that Obama is able to do the same. Why do we know this? Because Obama has trained many of their current leaders.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/05/obamas-acorn/Inside Obama’s Acorn
By Stanley KurtzRadical Obama
Important as these questions of funding and partisanship are, the larger point is that Obama’s ties to Acorn — arguably the most politically radical large-scale activist group in the country — are wide, deep, and longstanding. If Acorn is adept at creating a non-partisan, inside-game veneer for what is in fact an intensely radical, leftist, and politically partisan reality, so is Obama himself. This is hardly a coincidence: Obama helped train Acorn’s leaders in how to play this game. For the most part, Obama seems to have favored the political-insider strategy, yet it’s clear that he knew how to play the in-your-face “direct action” game as well. And surely during his many years of close association with Acorn, Obama had to know what the group was all about.http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=&w=Mw==
Clinton Supporters Receiving Death Threats From Obama Supporters
Spending the last hour doing searches into something written over at PUMA PAC, it is apparent that there is some concern about death threats from Barack Obama supporters against Hillary Clinton supporters.
For the record, I am a conservative that is backing John McCain. I was never a Hillary supporter and had much criticism for her up until about six months before the Democratic primaries ended where I developed a grudging respect for her ability to fight against the bias, the unfair news coverage and the general misogyny I saw leveled against her and her 18 million supporters. I might not agree with her policy stances, but that in no way takes away from the grudging admiration I came to have for her as a woman and a politician.
With that said…
There are number of Hillary Clinton supporters that refuse to vote for Barack Obama, some willing to sit out the election, others preparing to vote for John McCain and still others that continue their valiant battle to force a roll call vote in at the Democratic convention to be held in August, wanting her name to in nomination so the superdelegates actually have a choice to publicly state who they support.
All the Hillary supporters listed above are the subject of this post.
Many are reporting that they are receiving death threats from Barack Obama supporters and the list that PUMA PAC has published is still growing.
Senator Obama’s supporters asked Hillary Clinton to publicly distance herself from a long-time Hillraiser fundraiser and loyal supporter, Ricki Lieberman, who is working day and night to save our party from a landslide loss in November by highlighting the weaknesses of Obama the candidate. Senator Clinton promptly complied.
Perhaps we should ask Senator Obama to “distance” himself from his supporters who are threatening women who oppose him with death? What do YOU think HIS response will be?
THE OBAMA MOVEMENT’S CALL FOR DEATH TO WOMEN WHO OPPOSE HIM WATCH
So far, my list includes these women. If you have received threats of violence or death from Obama supporters because of your political activities or writing, or you know someone who has, please tell us in comments. Also send me an email at murphy@pumapac.org
* Riverdaughter of the Confluence
* Digby
* Diane at JSND
* Murphy at Puma PAC
* Paula Abeles
* Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
* Patsy, Soldier For Hillary
* Sugar from PA
* IP from Puma PAC
* Heidi Li of the Denver Group
One of those names on the list is Representative Sheila Jackson, a Democrat that refused to “fall in line” and back Barack Obama after the primaries were over.
In looking further into this, I found many other references to these death threats.
For example, on the Hillary Clinton Forum, there is a thread titled, ” I’m getting very disturbed by these death threats to Hillary supporters - should authorities be notified?”
In the following comments, there are people claiming they too have received death threats because of their continued support for Hillary and their opposition to Obama.
Doug Ross points out that there are others having the same problem.
Via Hillary’s My Girl08:
One evening I received a phone call another death threat and then shortly after my son came in and yelled fire. Someone set my tree on fire. The fire department said the fire was arson.
I do not know if Senator Obama realizes that his followers are giving death threats to all sorts of people. I do not know if Senator Obama realizes that he needs to keep his cultists under control. I am not afraid of Death Threats I have faced several in my life including some of my own making. I also battled cancer and I am in the middle of battling Obesity. These threats only make me more determined to stop this man he is dangerous and I am not afraid.
It would be very easy for Barack Obama to get in front of this and simply, publicly denounce those types of threats and let the weight of it fall to only those making the threats.
I am still going through the variety of sites and have not seen other specific examples, so to any Hillary Clinton supporters that have received death threats or any threat for that matter, please either forward the email, with the complete header to wakeupamerica.spree@gmail.com or simply copy and paste everything into the comment section of this post and I will add them as an update to the original piece.
Secondly, if you have been threatened offline, please describe those threats in the comment section.
Last but not least.
If you receive a threat offline, report it to the authorities immediately to make sure there is a public record and if the threats are made online, you should immediately contact your local FBI office, either by Internet Form or a phone call, both of which you can find here at the FBI contact page.
Barack Obama cannot be held directly responsible for the acts of some unhinged supporter(s), but he does need to publicly denounce those types of threats and he needs to do it fast.
[Update] A reader emails:
Riverdaughter at the Confluence also posted today (on the July 17th thread that SM77 started) that Brad, who was the husband of a PUMA and was going to film a documentary, was accosted by an Obama supporter. Here is her post:
riverdaughter
, on July 17th, 2008 at 7:13 pm Said: I just saw Brad about half an hour ago. He’s the independent filmmaker who shot Darragh and me in Princeton the other night. He said he was assaulted when he was in Princeton this afternoon. Some woman saw him talking to us and asked him what he has against Obama. He told her nothing, he just thought Hillary would have been better. But he’s not a PUMA. Then she deliberately knocked over his tripod and broke it and nearly broke the camera that was on it.
He was pissed.
Way to go, Barack. Train your thugs to beat up on poor defenseless camera equipment. Very expensive equipment BTW.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/07/clinton-supporters-receiving-death.html
Before you all jump on the “bandwagon”, I am an Independent voter that have friends from all political parties. This was mentioned to me in a friendly gathering and I decided that it was time to let America know what kind of tactics are being used as “strategy” in Obama’s campaign.
First, it was if you didn’t vote for Obama, you were a racist. Now if you don’t vote for Obama, you are intimidated and are exposed to intimidation tactics. Wow, it amazes me how one campaign is manipulating the outcome through mental propaganda. The ACORN and SEIU “groupies” being shipped to different venues to increase the “visual numbers” in crowds to make you think Obama has overwhelming support…..add to that the DSA (The Socialist Party of America), the PDA, the Democracy for America (founded by Howard Dean) and its supporters and voila a crowd of enormous proportions!
America are you getting this yet?
Where are all the MSM’s reports about this? The investigative journalists that do “Fair and equal” reporting? Oh yeah, they are following the Chosen one in his trip overseas……
America…..wake up!
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