Beltway Snark

Ayers is so last weekend, this weekend it’s all about ACORN. We’ll start with the McCain web ad that was; it’s been mysteriously (not really) pulled off YouTube, here’s the transcript:

ANNCR: Who is Barack Obama? A man with “a political baptism performed at warp speed.” Vast ambition.

After college, he moved to Chicago. Became a community organizer. There, Obama met Madeleine Talbot, part of the Chicago branch of ACORN. He was so impressive that he was asked to train the ACORN staff.

What did ACORN in Chicago engage in? Bullying banks. Intimidation tactics. Disruption of business. ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans. The same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we’re in today.

No wonder Obama’s campaign is trying to distance him from the group, saying, “Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN.” But Obama’s ties to ACORN run long and deep. He taught classes for ACORN. They even endorsed him for President.

But now ACORN is in trouble.

REPORTER: There are at least 11 investigations across the country involving thousands of potentially fraudulent ACORN forms.

ANNCR: Massive voter fraud. And the Obama campaign paid more than $800,000 to an ACORN front for get out the vote efforts.

Pressuring banks to issue risky loans. Nationwide voter fraud.

Barack Obama. Bad judgment. Blind ambition. Too risky for America.

Good job pointing out the $800K. ACORN’s problems are getting worse in PA, the Allegheny County DA is looking into filing forgery charges (a felony) against ACORN for signing false names to registrations. We also get this nugget from ACORN Ohio about a 19 year old who registered to vote 72 times in exchange for booze and cigarettes provided by ACORN workers. No, it’s not the same guy who was interested in seeing Obama do his thug thizzle in the While House. Speaking of Ohio, ACORN and the Dems just got smacked down there for not properly validating the ID of those who register and vote on the same day.

Even CNN is getting on the fun, doing a pretty good investigative job here tracking down ACORN. Where they were with this story six months ago, I don’t know.

That isn’t the CNN I thought I knew. And Obama’s response? The same as his initial response to the Ayers questions; he’s claiming he had no involvement in ACORN whatsoever. Hey Obama, even CNN is hip to the fact that you indeed did work for them and have given them a very large sum of money. Not to mention the fact that most of your “community organizing” was done with ACORN. Oh yeah, Project Vote? That was you working with ACORN too!

And if McCain doesn’t take up Obama’s invitation to say it to his face Wednesday night I’m gonna find him and kick him in the nuts.

UPDATE – Found the ACORN ad.