Bury, Please
Obama seeks special prosecutor for ACORN case. CNN:
The Obama campaign announced Friday that it is asking Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy.
Dannehy is also the special prosecutor recently appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firing scandal.
It’s the latest salvo in an escalating war over allegations of possible voter irregularities during the upcoming presidential election.
“What they’re actually about is the unprecedented effort to essentially sap the American people of confidence in the voting process,” Bob Bauer, the Obama campaign’s general counsel, said Friday on a conference call.
Bauer said partisan politics was behind Thursday’s leak from senior governmental officials about a preliminary FBI investigation into the voter registration activities of ACORN, the embattled community organizing group that has become the focus of Republican efforts to highlight possible fraud as the election approaches.
“ACORN is a tool for attacking voters,” Bauer said.
No kidding! But that tool is broken, and Bauer needs another tool. The tool he’s looking for is a shovel. Dig a big hole and bury this thing until after the election.
“We need to have these matters removed from the day-to-day department’s direct control and put into the special prosecutor’s independent hands,” Bauer told reporters Friday. “She should have responsibility for reviewing any and all matters involving allegations of fraud and suppression in this election.”
Topics: law & order, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:10 am Comments (6) on Saturday, October 18, 2008
6 Responses to “Bury, Please”
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October 18th, 2008 at 10:15 am
How about throwing all of ACORN into jail until after the elections? Better yet, throw out all of the registrations submitted by ACORN until after the elections.
Better yet, how about both?
October 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am
At least the word is getting out about ACORN and their activities. Those of us who have been paying attention have known about it for over four years, and knew about Obama’s connections with ACORN, going back to his community organizer days.
Obama: From a tiny ACORN grew…
October 18th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I agree that this is a thinly veiled ploy by Obama’s thugs to change the conversation by getting ACORN off of the front page. My biggest fear is that if he gets in to office, all of the investigations will be quashed and suppressed. He already has requested investigations of anybody who questions him. He will totally defang any opposition. The beginnings of thought control, which is what is truly advocating with all of his programs about supposed educational reform.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
So, you use ACORN to try to destroy people’s faith in the process, and when you get caught, you accuse the accusers of doing what you’re actually doing. But Obama’s not a socialist. I really need to read Rules for Radicals.
October 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Speaking of Alinsky, here’s a good primer site on what being a community organizer is all about:
http://www.nfg.org/cotb/39resourcesindex.htm
Note that Obama is mentioned several times by name in the last two documents listed at the bottom under “Evaluations.” One is from 1995, the other from 1996. These are excellent for highlighting the types of organizations Obama was embedded in, and how they used issues like education reform and housing to push their radical agenda, and how they ally with and help fund groups like ACORN. Lots and lots of credit given to Saul Alinsky, of course. I knew that his writings and techniques had become influential, but I was unaware of quite how much.
I really think that if many of the moderates who plan to vote for Obama had any idea of what being a “community organizer” really means, or understood the agendas and methods of the various organizations Obama worked for and/or served on the board for, they would be both shocked and appalled. But who will tell them? Nobody with a big enough megaphone, apparently.
October 18th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Keep in mind that several of the fired attorneys were removed because they were not willing to prosecute voter fraud in the 2004 elections. The Dems have since then been positioning this to undermine charges in the future about voter fraud. Talk about Alice in Wonderland!
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