The McCain camp thinks they can conflate black Obama with blacks involved with ACORN

[bigtree]

. . . and the blacks ACORN has been successful in registering.

It's obvious that McCain thinks he can score points suggesting a FALSE association of Barack Obama with the majority-black community organizing group. They tried their curious campaign against his community organizing earlier in the election and it faded away. The racists in his campaign think they have another chance to promote some negative image of Obama's association with a community-based organization that they want to represent as recruiting blacks and minorities who aren't qualified to vote.

It's all part of their "he's not like you" campaign which is working to make voters believe there's something sinister and unknown about Obama's motives and intentions. I happen to think it's an amazingly weak tactic, but I don't think the ineptness of their attempt makes it any less pernicious and vile.

The McCain campaign is revealing an almost archaic view of blacks as some sort of lawbreaking mob arrayed against the lawful white community. Their dubious gamble that there will be enough whites frightened by the prospect of black unity behind Obama to make a difference in his support is a projection of their own arrogant bias.

McCain and his opportunistic bigots are going to find themselves devastatingly isolated on election day as they continue to fish for hurrahs from the base of their republican rabble. In the meantime, Democrats shouldn't be drawn into shunning this very important organizing group who have been so instrumental in registering the neglected and exploited Americans in our communities.

ACORN, founded in 1970, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 175,000 member families organized into 850 neighborhood chapters in 80 cities across the country.

The republican party has it's own voter registration problems in 2004: Voters Outreach of America AKA America Votes, funded by the RNC had been reportedly engaging in voter suppression, a far more insidious act than a alleged handful of false registrations which have absolutely no chance of becoming actual votes.


from Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/13/15534/960

Nevada:
Voters Outreach of America AKA America Votes tears up Democratic voter registration forms in Nevada.

Oregon:
Company claiming affiliation with non-partisan 'America Votes' to register voters in Oregon was actually GOP consulting firm Sproul & Associates, Inc.

West Virginia and Pennsylvania:
Sproul & Associates AKA America Votes workers in WV and PA refused to register Kerry voters.

Oregon
Democrats in Oregon complained that canvassers for Arizona based Sproul & Associates had been pressuring residents to register as Republicans so that they could get paid.

Arizona
Arizona Nader campaign was assisted in its petition drive by an unlikely figure: the ultra-conservative former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, Nathan Sproul.


Does anyone know who the GOP is employing these days? And what does it take for the Democrats to get the reports of widespread voter suppression this election reported in the media alongside these unproven accusations against ACORN?

[dhpgetsit]

1. In many people's minds, they can.

These people only watch Faux, listen to Squealer Limbaugh, and vote for Cons.

ACORN got millions of registrations, not only for one party, and many of them were obviously phony. But ACORN was required to turn them all in.

Imagine how people would be screaming if ACORN was throwing voter registration cards out after screening them!

They flagged the suspicious ones and turned them all in as required. This does not mean the Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are going to walk into a polling place and vote. I suspect that the phony registrations were largely filled out by Cons who wanted to make ACORN look bad.

[ddeclue]

3. No actually a tiny percentage were phony.

Don't spread the right wing lie.

Doug D.

[sam sarrha]

13. acorn finds them and by law has to report them.. that is how the ReThugs found out.. and spunn it

[alsame]

2. The McCain campaign thinks they can convince people to

conflate Obama with anything said or done by any black person.

[Karenina]

4. Bingo!

[Stinky The Clown]

5. You're right ...... and no one around heer wants to talk about it because it acknowledges .........

..... the obvious about Obama ....... that he's (shhhhhhhhhh) ...... black.

[bigtree]

8. most folks here have decided that all issues of race are a distraction

. . . even defenses against the racism from the McCain campaign. They don't want to stir things up. I think the silence has the effect of sweeping the issue under the rug for the sake of politics. I happen to believe that the only way to deal with racism is to confront it head on.

But, then again, I've always tended to put EVERYTHING on the line whenever I've confronted it . . . That might not suit for presidential politics. Still, I do think that it's like everything else we do when we feel we're right. The outcome of our advocacy should reflect the measure of our righteousness. I guess I'm just projecting my own bias here.

[librechik]

6. Well, Obama is black. ACORN tries to help blacks.

That's enough of a connection for the Pukkkes.

(and all you racists know what we mean by "black...")


Sickening and desperate.

[fascisthunter]

7. Instead of trying to disassociate Obama from ACORN...

DUers should be calling this fraud BS for what it is and retaliate with the GOP's effort to steal elections by paying a fucking programmer to flip votes and by exposing the efforts by the GOP to suppress the vote!

[bigtree]

9. yep. It's clearly a reaction by McCainites to our lead in registration

I happen to believe that suppressing the vote is more effective than putting a fake name on a registration form.

[fascisthunter]

10. They Want to Discredit Our Numbers

This also keeps their base from giving up.

[rucky]

11. Why aren't we filing lawsuits?

[sam sarrha]

12. here is a link to the Acorn story... i heard that here in NC over 20,000 voters were registered in

in the last couple weeks with out of state Drivers License or just an SSI Card... no problem,

[bigtree]

14. a rumor about ACORN with no link??

thanks for playing :)

[sam sarrha]

15. sorry about link.. didnt take.... NC referance is not related to acorn. just state forms, was on npr

i got the feeling the NC odd registratioms could be out of state ReThugs cause of late we are supporting obama more and more

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/08/07/news/04fraud.txt

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6052342.html

sorry .. i have the flu and serious mind fog... just didnt finish the post

[KharmaTrain]

16. Speaking In Code...Blatant Racism

For months, Camp Gramps has been playing the "sinister black man" card...especially within his base. Hate radio has all but decided Obama is a Muslim and runs around with terrorists. There's nothing one can say or do that will change their minds...and it's red meat that Gramps needs to keep his flailing campaign from becoming irrelevant. While he can't come out and say the "n" word, the guilt and fear by association is the next best thing...a Rovian game that's worked to perfection with the hate radio crowd and wingnuts.

This was to be expected...almost every election the GOOP cries about Democrats loading the voter roles with "illegals"...and this ACORN card has long been in their deck. The game here is to demonize them and set a public meme before the truth comes out. It's more guilt by association with little but inuendo. It's to create a distraction and "uproar" that not only is designed to pump up the right wing and give them an excuse should Senator Obama go on to win...but also to scare voters who did register with ACORN to stay home.

And that gets to the core of the real voter games right now. The GOOP is caging across the country and ACORN will be their justification to challenge voters and results...try to make a mess out of the election. It's all they can do. They know that if all the newly registered Democrats show up, their corrupt party loses not just the White House, but a boatload of House and Senate seats.

Cheers...