"The majority of the problem (voter) applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees. ... In recent years, ACORN's voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud" (Detroit Free Press).
"ACORN chapters have worked individually and collectively to organize innovative grass-roots campaigns on a number of critical issues. While these victories have been documented in various publications, they have rarely been quantified in a way that demonstrates the scale of WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION [emphasis mine] ACORN has achieved" (from the ACORN website).
"Obama was part of a team of attorneys who represented the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in 1995 for failing to implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor and others to register as voters" (from Obama's website).
It's not too difficult to understand why the Obama campaign has been a bit, shall we say, testy when asked to detail Mr. Obama's "community organizer" background. It pretty much paints him as a one-trick-pony.
Not that they're ashamed of it. Quite the contrary! They have mainline media articles posted directly on their website bragging about it. But I guess the mainlining media reporters who could have assembled their collective brainpower and pieced this all together have been sent to Alaska, instead. There, they're too busy sifting through moose poop for dirt on Sarah Palin, McCain's vice presidential nominee.
Put another way, the mainlining media and the Obama campaign are frantically trying to demonstrate to voters that their candidate for president has more experience than does Mr. McCain's candidate for vice president.
Well, you can put lipstick on a community vote-fraud organizer – but he's still a ... you get the picture.
If you haven't noticed (those from Chicago, eastward, this means you), Sarah Palin's nomination has exposed the real divide between Americans. It's big city vs. small-town America.
The big media elite are all big-city boys and girls. The other 97 percent of the country is just the area that they fly over and where their airplane empties its lavatory – en route to another great city. Cities are, of course, the only places that matter. The rest is fly-over country.
Similarly, 97 percent of the mainlining media boys and girls have no doubt who should be the next president. Should it be the man who refused a free ride home from a communist prison when his captors found out he was "somebody"? Or should it be the affirmative action poster boy who got a free ride through Harvard because he was "anybody" in a politically correct group?
The media would have politely buried John McCain after the election, because he won their respect years ago by occasionally giving other Republicans a black eye. Apparently they didn't realize that his maverick tendencies apply to both parties.
McCain's selection of Sarah Palin – a rural state governor – provides solid evidence that he intends change. The Republican ticket is now the biggest threat to the Beltway elites, both political parties, and their media water boys and girls since Ronald Reagan ran for office.
Did ordinary people like Ronald Reagan? A news commentator covering the former president's final journey down a California freeway to his resting place was incredulous that traffic in BOTH directions on the freeway had stopped, people exited their cars and stood respectfully, waiting for his funeral procession to pass.
Yeah, ordinary people liked Ronald Reagan. And they had a way of showing it. And guess what? Lots of ordinary people like Sarah Palin, too.
Since the Democrats have already suggested a biblical analogy – that Obama is Jesus and Sarah is Pontius Pilate – let me suggest a rather different reading of the situation. This account comes from the book of Acts, which describes the formation of the early church. The entrenched authority of the day, the Jewish Sanhedrin, attempted to silence the Apostles, to the point of arresting and imprisoning them. At their trial, the most distinguished Jewish teacher, Gamaliel, advised against this course of action. Here's what he said:
"Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men. Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about 400 men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing. After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and led a band of people in revolt. He too was killed, and all his followers were scattered. Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God" (Acts 5:33-39).
The Democrats and media elites spent the past 12 years preparing the country for a Hillary Clinton presidency. It's just possible that God is going to use this election to rub their noses in it.