Latest Far-Right Bogeyman: ACORN

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ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is the latest "association" of Barack Obama's that the far-right is trying to weigh Obama down with. ACORN is a get-out-the-vote organization, and it is true that they've had a few issues with counterfeit names on their voter registration forms.

What I'd like to know is, do other such organizations have the same sorts of problems? I'm guessing that they do, since you're sending out an army of people with clipboards--your sure to get some untrustworthy types on one side of the clipboard or the other. But tell me, if ACORN registered the entire Disney roster from Mickey Mouse to Goofy, what are the odds that those "people" are going to show up to vote?

So what is the issue here? I believe that it is a smokescreen by the right to distract from the very real, and very enormous voter suppression movement by Republicans. Particularly vote caging. In any event, it would seem that Barack Obama is not affiliated with ACORN in the first place.

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Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN

Discredited Republican voter-suppression guru Ken Blackwell is attacking Barack Obama with naked lies about his supposed connection to ACORN.

• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN community organizer.
• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
• Fact: ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Barack ran in 1992.

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