Post-American Presidency (41 page)

His success in that drive led to the election of Democrat senator Carol Moseley Braun, and made Obama “a hot commodity on the community organizing circuit. He became a top trainer at Acorn’s Chicago conferences. In 1995, he became Acorn’s attorney, participating in a landmark case to force the state of Illinois to implement the federal Motor Voter Law. That law’s loose voter registration requirements would later be exploited by Acorn employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names.”
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Through ACORN, Obama established numerous long-standing political associations. “He met people not just in the African-American community but in the progressive white community,” David Axelrod recalled. “The folks who funded Project Vote were some of the key progressive leaders.”
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At a December 2007 ACORN rally, Obama was effusive about the important role the organization would play when he became president: “Before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we’re going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We’re gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda of the next presidency of the United States of America.”
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And in February 2008, Obama acknowledged his personal debt to the organization:

In December 2009, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said he was certain that any investigation of ACORN would “lead to the White House.” King pointed out that “Obama has worked for ACORN, and he has been part and parcel of that—Project Vote in particular. That entire network is something the Chicago Organization that now sits in the White House knows a lot about.” King also noted a spectacular example of Obama administration hypocrisy: White House counsel Robert Bauer called last year for George W. Bush and John McCain to be investigated for “alleging that ACORN was promoting fraudulent voter registration activities.”
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Despite everything that is unsavory about the organization, however, the ostensibly nonpartisan ACORN really does indeed want people to register to vote—as long as they’re Democrats. Republican registrations go into the trash.

REGISTER AS MANY VOTERS AS YOU CAN—AS LONG AS THEY’RE DEMOCRATS

In February 2008, Fathiyyah Muhammad of Jacksonville, Florida, heard that ACORN was paying people three dollars for each voter they could register. ACORN paid her three dollars for each voter she registered, but Fathiyyah Muhammad says that the group threw out her votes and fired her when she brought them registrations of
Republican
voters.

Fathiyyah Muhammad voted for Obama. “I’m a Republican,” she
says, “and this was the first time that I voted for a Democrat since JFK.… I’m one of those rare birds, a black conservative Republican, and actually this is the black conservative capital of the country, Jacksonville, Florida.”

She is an entrepreneur and a great American: she makes custom hats for her businesses Bilal’s Custom Caps and Only in America. She and her husband, James, have made custom caps for politicians, sports heroes, musicians, and others. “America,” she says, “is the place you can live your dreams if you work at it.” She’s a can-do woman with a great American spirit, and when she saw what was breaking in the news about ACORN, she came forward; I interviewed her in October 2009.

“This is my first experience” with ACORN, Muhammad said. “This was before Obama got the nomination, long before then.… I heard about this group that was paying three dollars per person, to go out and to get people to sign up to vote. So I went over, I thought that well this is a good way to make some money because I know everybody, you know. I went over there and this guy signed me up and everything, and gave me my little pad, all this stuff.”

Muhammad went to the ACORN office in Jacksonville. There she encountered a young man speaking to a room of about twenty people. “He was telling us, you know, about his experience, he was from Brooklyn, he wasn’t from this area. He was just here recruiting people to register people to vote. They had a big office here, and I would say maybe about ten or twelve people at there.”

She went to work: “Well, I went out and got a lot of people, homeless people, but of course I signed everybody up as a Republican, and I would have put people had they been Democrats.” She was not forcing people to sign up as Republicans: “You could put down anything you wanted.” But when she got back to ACORN, a group leader was not pleased: “So I showed what I had, and he said, ‘No, no, you a fraud,
there can’t be any black Republicans,’ and oh, he just kind of hung me out to dry.… But of course their main aim was to register only Democrats. They’re not interested in registering Republicans.”

She saw ACORN officials in Jacksonville throw out the Republican registrations she made. “They just discarded those, they weren’t valid. All of the registrations… they just threw those out.” Yet she says that she is sure that the people she registered were actually going to vote: “Yes, they all were going to vote, I just didn’t want to get anybody just to get the three dollars, I wasn’t desperate for three dollars.”

ACORN did not honor its agreement to pay three dollars for each registered voter. “He took my papers,” says Muhammad, “didn’t pay me anything and I just left, I just figured that this is just another scam.… Everyone else got paid, all the other people got paid, but I didn’t. And I didn’t make a big deal about it, I just figured that it was another one of life’s experiences.”

Fathiyyah Muhammad didn’t know anything about ACORN at that time. She didn’t know that ACORN has been doing this for a long time. As far back as November 2006 the organization was indicted for some forty thousand illegal voter registrations, and that was before any of the recent revelations.

Looking back on it all, Fathiyyah Muhammad mused: “I can’t believe that they got away with it for so long.” And she wanted her story to be told: “How are you going to shine a light on the laundry if you don’t want to come out and say what happened?”
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Fathiyyah Muhammad was unafraid to shine that light. And her testimony was another nail in the coffin of the community organizers of ACORN and their stealth agenda. But ACORN, of course, still had powerful friends. And they had been in damage control mode for quite some time.

So was Barack Hussein Obama.

OBAMA LIED

As scandalous ACORN stories began to be virtually a daily news feature, the potential for Barack Obama to be seriously embarrassed—and even the possibility that his political career could be damaged—began to grow.

And so he lied.

During his presidential campaign, his Fight The Smears Web site contained a preposterous claim: “Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.” Yet Toni Foulkes, a leader in Chicago’s ACORN chapter, wrote an article in 2004 in which she spoke proudly about Obama’s role as an ACORN trainer, and emphasizes that Obama’s Project Vote activities were done in conjunction with ACORN.
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Representative King charged in November 2009 that Obama had appointed Robert Bauer to be White House counsel in order to gain his help in deflecting scrutiny away from Obama’s ties to ACORN: “Bauer’s hiring,” said King, “appears to be a tactical maneuver to strategically defend the White House exactly one week after Louisiana attorney general Buddy Caldwell raided ACORN’s national headquarters in New Orleans and seized paper records and computer hard drives that may lead to the White House.”

Bauer, incidentally, is married to former White House communications director Anita Dunn, who caused controversy in June 2009 when she called a murderous totalitarian communist, Mao Tse Tung, one of her “favorite political philosophers.”
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BRAZENING IT OUT

ACORN has received over $53 million in federal money—taxpayer money—since 1994.
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The feds gave ACORN $2.6 million in 2003 and 2004
just for the organization’s housing programs alone.
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And the stimulus package that the post-American president rammed through Congress in his first days in office contained the staggering sum of $5.2
billion
for ACORN.
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ACORN was eligible to receive the funds, but they declared bankruptcy and rebranded themselves so that they could masquerade as a different group and steal under a new name.
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But in late September 2009, after the prostitution video and other corruption scandals, ACORN lost its federal funding in a congressional vote that was not even close: in the Senate the vote was 85–11, and in the House it was 345–75.
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Around the same time, Barack Obama gave five interviews to the Sunday morning news shows, and only one interviewer bothered to ask him about ACORN. Obama’s answer? He brazened it out: “You know, if—frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.” And he downplayed the importance of the issue: “This is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.”
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Taking him at his word, what exactly
was
Obama paying attention to? Nationalizing a perfectly good private health-care system, the best in the world? Outreach to the
ummah
(the worldwide global Muslim community)? What was he paying attention to? Mounting a Department of Justice witch hunt, a persecution of CIA agents whose crime was keeping us safe from the worldwide jihad in the immediate aftermath of 9/11? What was he paying attention to? Ethnically cleansing Israel of the Jewish people? Or facilitating a nuclear Iran? Sanctioning Islamic law there and snuffing out the people marching for freedom in Iran? Lest we forget his priority of crushing democracy in Honduras.

Yet Barack Obama
was
ACORN. Remember, this was the same Barack Obama who said, in an address to ACORN in 2008, “I have been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire
career.” And Obama was still fighting alongside ACORN: after both the Senate and the House voted overwhelmingly to cut off ACORN’s federal funding, his post-American Justice Department found legal cover to continue giving taxpayer dollars to ACORN—and congressional Democrats shot down Republican attempts to stop this.
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This is madness.
ACORN’s massive voter fraud constitutes a coup on the American electoral system, a usurpation of the will of the people: government by the people and for the people made into a sham. It’s a government by the moochers and the looters, for the moochers and the looters, stolen from the good, hardworking Americans.

And worse, the American people sat by and let it happen. Obama’s presidency was not an accident of history. It was a very deliberate assault by the Hard Left on the foundation of the greatest country in human history.

If we purged the illegals, the dead, and the fraudulent whom ACORN has placed on the voting rolls, we would have honest leadership that reflected the real landscape of this great nation.

ACORN is a racketeering criminal organization whose specialty is sedition—overthrowing the good governance of this great nation. Why hasn’t it been stripped of its funding and rendered illegal like the Cosa Nostra? What’s the difference, except that the Mafia was patriotic?

Investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz, noting that Obama’s links to ACORN are “wide, deep, and longstanding,” draws the inescapable conclusion: “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.”

Intensely radical, leftist, and fanatically partisan: it was a profile of the post-American president.

OBAMA’S ENERGY POLICY, LIKE HIS
HEALTH-CARE POLICY, IS ABOUT BIG GOVERNMENT
CONTROL AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. OUR EN
ergy needs are easily solved. I’ll restate the obvious: drill, baby, drill. America has enormous resources that we deny to ourselves. Democrats, Leftists, and environmentalists have blocked development of new sources of energy; drilling for oil in Alaska, off the Florida coast, and anywhere else; the construction of new oil refineries; and the expanded use of clean nuclear energy and clean coal. In October 2009, the post-American Interior Department froze oil and gas development at sixty (out of a total of seventy-seven) drilling sites in Utah.
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Obama doesn’t seem to mind building “peaceful” nuclear plants in the oil-rich Islamic dictatorship in Iran, but he and his radical leftist cronies prohibit the building of new nuclear plants here. Instead of
fostering traditional American self-reliance, we depend on foreign oil, selling out our principles, our politics, and our foreign policy to our enemies.

Sarah Palin has counted the cost: “Think about how much of our trade deficit is fueled by the oil we import—sometimes as much as half of the total. Through this massive transfer of wealth, we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year that could be invested in our economy. Instead it goes to foreign countries, including some repressive regimes that use it to fund activities that threaten our security. Reliance on foreign sources of energy weakens America.” If not for the American dollar, the global jihad would be relegated to the cave from whence it came and where it belongs. In the largest transfer of wealth in human history, we are committing economic suicide while effectively funding a movement whose sole objective is establishing a worldwide caliphate that will impose upon societies the most brutal, misogynistic, antihuman ideology in history.