Does America really want a change?

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Barack Obama:
Career First.
Country Second.
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Barack Obama:
Career First.
Country Second.
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how long you guys gonna work this ayers angle if hillary couldn't get it to stick you really think johnny mac and his ****ty run campaign are gonna get it to stick and as for country second career first look no further then johnny mac's VP selection ...............whose husband has ties to a party who has "no use for the lower 48" :puke: :puke:

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how long you guys gonna work this ayers angle if hillary couldn't get it to stick you really think johnny mac and his ****ty run campaign are gonna get it to stick and as for country second career first look no further then johnny mac's VP selection ...............whose husband has ties to a party who has "no use for the lower 48" :puke: :puke:

How long do I have to wait until you start your own thread? :thumbs:

[dananderson32]

How long do I have to wait until you start your own thread? :thumbs:

just trying to keep it fair and balanced for all

and another nice conservative turning out for obama

A Conservative for Obama | D Magazine - Dallas Fort Worth's Resource for City Guides, Daily Blogs, D Bests, and Restaurants

damn it you gotta hate when people with republican presidential blood come out and endorse obama

Susan Eisenhower - Why I'm Backing Obama - washingtonpost.com

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Barack Obama's Skeleton Closet!

#1-Obama was not born in the U.S.A./ not a U.S. citizen

Obama's Birth Certificate:

The ORIGINAL birth certificate of Obama has never been released, and the campaign refuses to release it.

The campaign has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website:

- The birth certificate doesn't have a raised seal.
- It isn't signed.
- No creases from folding are evident in the scanned version.
- In the zoomed-in view, there's a strange halo around the letters.
- The certificate number is blacked out.
- The date bleeding through from the back seems to say "2007," but the document wasn't released until 2008.
- The document is a "certification of birth," not a "certificate of birth."
- The document doesn't show father's full name!
- The document shows the father's race as: African?

Obama Crimes

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#2 Obama Was Born, Raised, Is a Muslim

-Obama was born to Generations of Muslims

-Obama was raised for years in Muslim Nations

-Obama attended Muslim schools, where he was registered as a Muslim

-Obama wants you to believe that his opportunistic conversion to Christianity after being born to generations of Muslims who raised him for years in Muslim nations where he attended Muslim schools has completely eliminated his Islamic Roots and changed his Muslim sympathies.

-Obama’s church of 20 years gave many awards to the radical, anti-white, pro-Islamic, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

-Obama has been praised and endorsed by the Islamic terrorist group Hamas

-Obama has been praised and endorsed by Palestinian Rashid Khalidi, who also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.

-Obama has praised and endorsed, in his autobiography, the founder first President of Nation of Islam President Malcom X

-Brother: Muslim ”Obama’s brother Roy opted for Islam over Christianity, as the Senator recounted in his book when describing his 1992 wedding. “The person who made me proudest of all,” Obama wrote, “was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.”Abongo “argues that the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.” He urged his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.

-Sister: Muslim In an interview with the New York Times, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, “I don’t want to deny Islam. I think it’s obviously very important that we have an understanding of Islam ... my brother has been a Christian for (only) 20 years.

-Father: Muslim Obama Sr. (Senior) was born in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya.

-Step Father: Muslim Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo ws a devout Muslim and Obama went to Mosque on Fridays with him.

-Mother: Muslim The evidence seems to quite clearly show that both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such.”

-Grandfather: lived for a time in Zanzibar, where he converted from Christianity to Islam. He was one of the first Muslim converts in his village.
Grandfather, for whom Obama was given the middle name, Hussein, was "fiercely devoted to Islam." He had at least 3 wives: Helima, who had no children, Akuma who gave birth to Sarah Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. and Auma Obama.

-Obama’s teachers and the principal from the 1970's: Obama actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his years at his school in Muslim Indonesia. “I remembered that he had studied “mengaji” (recitation of the Quran)” “The actual usage of the word ‘mengaji’ in Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. “Mengagi” is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To put it quite simply, ‘mengaji classes’ are not something that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes.”

-The Obama Campaign: told the LA Times he wasn’t a “practicing Muslim.” (3/14/2007).

- Obama states his "Muslim Faith". Obama acknowledged his Islamic Heritage Sunday, September 7, 2008 during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week", speaking of "My Muslim Faith".


The Obama File
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#3 Obama's association with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground.

-Despite having authored two autobiographies, Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

-The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.

-Documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago

- In early 1995, Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the "Collaborative," which shaped education policy.

-Obama has misrepresented his relationship with Ayers to the press and someone blocked access to the records detailing the workings of the group founded by Ayers and chaired by Obama.

The Real Barack Obama
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#4 Obama's relationship with Tony "slum landlord" Rezko

-They met in 1990. Obama was a student at Harvard Law School and got an unsolicited job offer from Rezko, then a low-income housing developer in Chicago. Obama turned it down.

-Obama took a job in 1993 with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that represents developers -- primarily not-for-profit groups -- building low-income housing with government funds.

-One of the firm's not-for-profit clients -- the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama's then-boss Allison Davis -- was partners with Rezko's company in a 1995 deal to convert an abandoned nursing home at 61st and Drexel into low-income apartments. Altogether, Obama spent 32 hours on the project, according to the firm. Only five hours of that came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, the firm says. The rest of the future senator's time was helping WPIC strike the deal with Rezko. Rezko's company, Rezmar Corp., also partnered with the firm's clients in four later deals -- none of which involved Obama, according to the firm. In each deal, Rezmar "made the decisions for the joint venture," says William Miceli, an attorney with the firm.

-In 1995, Obama began campaigning for a seat in the Illinois Senate. Among his earliest supporters: Rezko. Two Rezko companies donated a total of $2,000. Obama was elected in 1996 -- representing a district that included 11 of Rezko's 30 low-income housing projects.

-Rezko's low-income housing empire began crumbling in 2001, when his company stopped making mortgage payments on the old nursing home that had been converted into apartments. The state foreclosed on the building -- which was in Obama's Illinois Senate district.

-In 2003, Obama announced he was running for the U.S. Senate, and Rezko -- a member of his campaign finance committee -- held a lavish fund-raiser June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion.

-A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood -- a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million -- $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko's wife paid full price -- $625,000 -- for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko's wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it "boneheaded" because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.

-Eight months later -- in October 2006 -- Rezko was indicted on charges he solicited kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. Federal prosecutors maintain that $10,000 from the alleged kickback scheme was donated to Obama's run for the U.S. Senate. Obama has given the money to charity.

-Using his elected office and his clout, Obama helped Tony Rezko and other unscrupulous low-income housing developers obtain millions of dollars in state grants, tax credits, low-interest loans, and regulatory advantages.
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#5 Obama and Corruption in ACORN


-Obama and ACORN, Fellow Travelers. “ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days.

-Obama Formerly Represented ACORN, Taught Classes For Future Leaders Of ACORN

- Obama Worked As Executive Director Of ACORN’s Voter-Registration Arm, Project Vote.

-Obama Was Part Of Team Of Lawyers Who Represented ACORN In A Suit Against The State Of Illinois.

-ACORN's Political Action Committee Endorsed Obama.

-Obama's Campaign Paid Over $800,000 To ACORN For Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts

-Obama Praised ACORN For Being A Good Ally



The Real Barack Obama

BarackBook

Welcome to NOBAMA

NObama - Not Now, Not Ever

HELL NObama.
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MORE TRUTH, TO COME!

Obama's "A" List

Rev Wright
Tony Rezko
Michelle Obama
Louis Farrakhan
William Ayres
Bernadine Dorhn
Rashid Khalidi
Nadhmi Auchi
Frank Marshall Davis
Saul Alinsky
Kwame Kilpatrick
Rev Meeks
George Soros
Raila Odingo
Abongo Obama
Black Panthers
Ludacris
Jim Johnson
Franklin Raines
Ahmad Yousuf (Hamas)
Fidel, Raul Castro
Hugo Chavez
Daniel Ortega
Kim Jong Il
Al Mansour
Pfleiger Capers Funnye
Muhammad Hasa Chandoo
Wahid Hamid
Valerie Jarret
Robert Malley

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Batchelor: Rezko Is Talking
October 13, 2008

John Batchelor wrote October 11, 2008, on his blog:

Governor Corruption

News from Chicago now confirmed that convicted fixer and bagman Tony Rezko, 52, (left) of Wilmette, Illinois, has been talking with the prosecutors in order to negotate the best possible terms for his sentencing for corruption.

What this means is that the first great risk for an Obama Administration is that Tony Rezko knows what there is to know about the financing of Mr. Obama’s 2003-2004 U.S. Senate race and the continued moving of money into and out of the Obama campaign finance accounts from 2005-2006.

Tony Rezko also knows much of the way the Cook Country political machine worked with Mayor Richard Daley in order to finance and maintain the first and now second term administration of Governor Rod Blagojevich. Mr. Obama was a late comer to the way the Cook machine created and confirmed Mr. Blagojevich. Mr. Obama was fit into his role for the convenience and use of the governor and the mayor.

What I know to be accurate is that Mr. Obama was never invited to the inner circle; rather Mr. Obama was a beneficiary of the machine and one of its finest creations. Tony Rezko knows all this and more. Tony Rezko also knows how he surfaced, identified, arranged and purchased (or supervised the purchase of) the Hyde Park mansion (left) for Mr. and Mrs. Obama between January and June 2005 and continued to reorganize the property to the senator’s convenience.

President Grand Jury

And where are all the records for this? Not just in Tony Rezko’s head. His major business partner from the 1990s to December 2005 was the attorney Dan Mahru. Mr. Mahru started cooperating with the U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (left) from 2005 and is reported to have worn a wire as did one of his other associates. Mr. Mahru is now an obedient government witness who, during the recent Tony Rezko corruption trial, accused Tony Rezko of bribing the Iraqi CPA for a contract (another rat’s nest of double-dealing and dreams). More interesting now is that Mr. Mahru was in and out of Tony Rezko’s office in ‘05, while Tony Rezko was still conversing regularly, often many times a day, with Mr. Obama.

I also mention that the recent report from Chicago is that Tony Rezko is talking to the prosecutor about the money handling of the Chicago Broadway Bank under the control of the now State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias (right, middle). Senator Obama strikingly supported Mr. Giannoulias for election in November ‘06 against the wishes of the potent Illinois Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Giannoulias is now under great pressure because of the Rezko talking reports.

So is Governor Blagojevich (left), whose strange remarks last week about him and Mr. Obama were featured in another brilliant, pungent John Kass column in the Chicago Tribune.

All of this adds up to a telling of our story so far, and will speak to Rezko watcher Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times, on Sunday 12. There are so many players, and the subplots are so rich — remember the Purple Hotel of the Rezko trial? — that this will require time and layers of information. And with Mr. Obama headed mightily to the White House, it is fair to guess that, with Tony Rezko talking and talking into ‘09, we are about to be entertained by President Grand Jury.

[homedawg]

just trying to keep it fair and balanced for all

and another nice conservative turning out for obama

A Conservative for Obama | D Magazine - Dallas Fort Worth's Resource for City Guides, Daily Blogs, D Bests, and Restaurants

damn it you gotta hate when people with republican presidential blood come out and endorse obama

Susan Eisenhower - Why I'm Backing Obama - washingtonpost.com

Obama WTF

[dananderson32]

just pointing out a few republicans that have jumped the line :beerbang: :beerbang:

[dananderson32]

ahhhhhh theres that video ive been looking for

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[homedawg]

just pointing out a few republicans that have jumped the line :beerbang: :beerbang:

Whine (whining): To complain or protest in a childish fashion. :thumbs:


You must feel like a real man, smearing a woman! :beer2:

Last I checked, McCain was running for POTUS! :thumbs:

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[dananderson32]

Gallup Daily: Obama-McCain Gap Narrows

i better get out there in ohio damn race is too close

[dananderson32]

2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College

obama gonna win by 100+ electoral votes :beerbang: :beerbang: :beerbang:

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Obama website lies about ACORN ties

Campaign tries to distance senator from group convicted of voter fraud
By Aaron Klein
WorldNetDaily.com


JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is misleading the public
regarding the presidential candidate's ties to a radical leftist
organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and
has been convicted in numerous, massive voter fraud scandals.

Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign on Friday stepped up its
efforts to draw attention to Obama's alleged relationship with ACORN,
or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, holding
a conference call in which McCain spokesman Rick Davis accused Obama
of making "very inconsistent remarks about what his relationship with
this organization is."

In response to the increased focus on ACORN, the Obama campaign last
week claimed on its "Fight the Smears" website the presidential
candidate was "never an ACORN community organizer; ACORN never hired
Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee; ACORN was not
part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack
ran in 1992."

But these blanket statements are false and misleading.

In 1992, Obama was director of Project Vote in Chicago, which helped
register 150,000 voters on the city's South Side. Obama's successful
work was credited in multiple media reports with helping to elect
Democratic Senator Carol Moseley Braun.

Obama's campaign claims ACORN was "not part of" Project Vote, but the
organization's incorporation papers, obtained by WND, show Project
Vote is a trademark name whose parent company is registered at the
same New Orleans address in which ACORN and multiple ACORN affiliates
are housed.

Obama himself previously connected Project Vote to ACORN.

"I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire
career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote
voter registration drives in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the
middle of it, and we appreciate your work," Obama was quoted on his
own campaign website as saying at an ACORN meeting, according to a
post by official Obama website blogger Sam Graham-Felsen.

Clarifying the role of ACORN in Project Vote, Obama Spokesman Ben
LaBolt told the New York Times this weekend Project Vote and ACORN
were not as intertwined in 1992 as they are today, when a significant
part of Project Vote’s revenues flow to ACORN and various of its
affiliates as payment for services.

But LaBolt's statement, which admits Project Vote and ACORN was
intertwined on some level while Obama was director directly
contradicts the Obama campaign's "Fact Check" claim that ACORN was
"not part" of Project Vote.

In a misleading statement, Obama's site claims "ACORN never hired
Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee," but it fails
to mention Obama was an unpaid ACORN trainer, as WND first reported in
August.

Lewis Goldberg, a spokesman for ACORN, confirmed Obama conducted two
hour-long leadership training sessions for his organization in the
late 1990's and said Obama was not paid for the work.

Obama has deep ties to ACORN, including with Ayers

Although Obama has been downplaying his relationship with ACORN, the
presidential candidate has deep-seated ties to the radical group.

ACORN is very active in Obama's native Chicago, where in 1997, some
200 members attempted to storm a City Hall meeting, resulting in six
members being arrested, including Madeleine Talbot, ACORN's Chicago
director.

In the early 1990's Talbot invited Obama to help train ACORN
activists.

Obama and other Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit on behalf of ACORN,
forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal "motor-voter"
bill.

While Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago
nonprofit, it channeled millions of dollars to ACORN and affiliated
groups.

Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11,
2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama
received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and
2000.

He served on the Fund alongside William C. Ayers, an unrepentant
member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of
the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S.
Capitol in 1971.

Obama actively sought and received the endorsement by ACORN for his
local campaigns.

In the Social Policy Journal, Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN leader,
documents what he terms Obama's "long service" with ACORN, which he
said led many of the organization's members to help in voter campaigns
for Obama's early Chicago campaigns.

Foulkes said Obama and ACORN were "old friends."

As a state senator, Obama touted many of ACORN's lines.

National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz, who conducted a thorough
review of ACORN, wrote, "Sure enough, a bit of digging into Obama's
years in the Illinois State Senate indicates strong concern with
Acorn's signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the
introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage
and banking practices."

ACORN endorsed Obama's presidential campaign, an endorsement touted on
Obama's official website.

"What it came down to was that Senator Obama is the candidate who best
understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about like
stopping foreclosures, enacting fair and comprehensive immigration
reform, and building stronger and safer communities across America,"
said ACORN's Maude Hurd of the group's Obama endorsement

Cont.

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CONT.

Obama website lies about ACORN ties

Campaign tries to distance senator from group convicted of voter fraud

Campaign pays ACORN affiliate

WND reported in August Obama's campaign paid more than $800,000 in
services to Citizen Services Inc. (CSI), a nonprofit organization that
is an offshoot of ACORN.

According to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the
Tribune-Review, the Obama campaign paid CSI $832,598.29, from Feb. 25
to May 17, including $564,342.21 for "stage, lighting and sound." The
payments stood out since CSI does not offer services for stage,
lighting or sound.

The Obama campaign amended the FEC reports in August and September to
claim the payments to CSI were for get-out-the-vote efforts.

McCain spokesman Davis charged the original FEC filing was an effort
to "hide the fact" money was paid to ACORN, while FEC officials told
the media amended filings are common in major campaigns, including
fort large sums of money.

'ACORN may skew PA vote,' election integrity in doubt across country

Last Friday former state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman, a
Republican, said at a news conference she has no confidence in the
integrity of the electoral process in Pennsylvania as a result of what
she termed the extensive voter registration effort by ACORN.

"[There is] potential of massive voter fraud. ...I am not confident we
can get a fair election" on Nov. 4, said Newman, who retired from the
court in 2006.

Gleason announced ACORN and other groups had submitted 252,595 voter
registrations in Philadelphia, of which 57,435 were rejected, most of
them submitted by ACORN. She said the registrations had faulty Social
Security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, "clearly fraudulent"
signatures, addresses that did not exist and duplicate registrations.

Other key areas in PA had similar problems, Newman said.

A CBS news investigation showed similar problems across the nation.

The news organization said it talked to nearly two dozen ACORN workers
who all said they were pressured to increase their number of
registration cards to the point of copying names out of phone books,
signing up inmates, and registering the dead.

"Whether simple error or outright fraud, the charges surrounding ACORN
are already raising doubts about the integrity of the upcoming
election in key parts of the country," the CBS investigation
concluded.

Group promoting Obama has history of major voter fraud

Last July, ACORN settled what was described by the Washington
Secretary of State as the "largest case of voter fraud in the state's
history." Government prosecutors had filed felony charges against
seven ACORN workers, who ended up receiving jail time.

Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Hobbs said in the case the
workers had admitted filling out registration forms with names they
found in phone books. The ACORN canvassers filled out the forms while
sitting around a table at the downtown Seattle Public Library, Hobbs
said.

ACORN was also investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter
registrations in St. Louis. Nearly 1,500 fraudulent voter
registrations were identified in the case, which was tied to at least
one campaign, that of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Four ACORN workers
were indicted in the case.

Also in 2006, four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas
City, Mo., for voter-registration fraud after being caught, fired and
turned in by ACORN.

In January 2005, two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to
community service for submitting false voter registrations.

In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand
jury for submitting false voter-registration forms.

ACORN has been accused in multiple other voter fraud cases in other
states. Some investigations are still pending.

ACORN has been accused of financial improprieties.

The New York Times last month quoted ACORN officials admitting Dale
Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, embezzled nearly $1
million from ACORN and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and
2000. A small group of executives decided to keep the information from
almost all of the group's board members and not to alert law
enforcement, the Times reported.

ACORN is organized into more than 850 neighborhood chapters in over
100 cities across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Canada,
Mexico and Peru. The organization was born out of the American civil
rights movement of the 1960s.

ACORN strongly lobbies for gun control, leftist education policies,
and the regulation of banks, targeting the lending practices of major
financial institutions it sees as "predatory." It has a strong anti-
capitalism agenda.

National Review Online writer Kurtz wrote the organization's primary
goals are "municipal 'living wage' laws targeting 'big-box' stores
like Wal-Mart, rolling back welfare reform, and regulating banks –
efforts styled as combating 'predatory lending.'"

Sol Stern of the City Journal, who also wrote an extensive piece on
ACORN, stated the group's "radical agenda" occasionally broke through
to "undisguised authoritarian socialism."

He wrote ACORN works to drive big businesses out of cities and force
companies that want to move to obtain "exit visas."

Intrusive, radical protest tactics

ACORN protests have turned violent, at times as soon as the rallies
began. Some protests disrupted Federal Reserve hearings and busted
into closed city council meetings.

Stern noted that in 2003 Baltimore ACORN underlings piled garbage in
front of City Hall to protest lack of services in poor neighborhoods,
wielded huge inflated rubber sharks to disrupt a bankers' dinner, and
even staged a profanity-laced protest in front of the home of the
city's mayor, Martin O'Malley.

"They unloaded a busload of people shouting pretty ugly things and
scared the daylights out of my wife and kids," O'Malley told the
Baltimore Sun. "I thought it was a pretty cruddy thing to do."