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Didn’t that Obama guy teach ACORN tactics, hmmm?

My rant about Democrats use of non-profits is beginning to catch fire!

Steve Malanga has a piece in today’s Post that lays out a history of who Dems learned their deceitful ways.

Can anybody say, Saul Alinsky?

ACORN's fruits
Billions to help pols, not the poor
By STEVEN MALANGA

ACORN may be fading away, thanks to government restrictions on its funding in the wake of the scandal in which its counselors advised undercover journalists on how to evade the law. But this does nothing to change the environment that propelled the radical activist group to national power.

ACORN is part of a huge network of nonprofits that continues to promote a big-government agenda in cities across America using taxpayer money. That network is alive and well today, even if ACORN itself dies.

This movement's roots go back to the godfather of community organizing, Chicago's Saul Alinsky, who in the 1930s envisioned local grassroots groups in poor areas that would mobilize residents into politically powerful coalitions.

In the 1960s, the architects of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty decided to federalize the Alinksy model by sending billions of taxpayer dollars to community groups, with a vague notion that these would somehow "empower" residents in their neighborhoods and thus improve their lives.
Larry Seabrook: Indicted over sham non-profits

Instead, over time these nonprofits became the new political clubhouses in many areas -- and the activists who ran them became our next generation of politicians.

In New York, by the 1970s and '80s, the road to political office increasingly ran through taxpayer-funded nonprofits -- as politicians like Pedro Espada and Ramon Velez in The Bronx and Vito Lopez in Brooklyn used community groups as launching pads for political careers.

New York isn't unique. On Chicago's South Side, a young community organizer named Barack Obama launched a political career after heading up the Developing Communities Project, a social-service group that lived almost entirely off government grants.
Full article

Help Dems catch the non-profit wave to a jail cell near you!

Via New York Post

The Last Tradition

You know, it isn’t like I wake up in the morning saying, “Gee, I wonder if I can catch President Obama in a lie again.”

After all, if the president consistently told the truth whether it be about ObamaCare, his college records that he still won’t release, or not being at church whenever his former pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wight, said something outrageous, then my fingers can do something else besides having to point out that Obama’s nose is growing so large, Mexicans can use it to sneak across the border.

Gateway Pundit reports:
Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released this videoat CPAC of Barack Obama discussing his close partnership with ACORN.

Obama talked about his long relationship with ACORN privately in this video before the 2008 election.

One of Barack Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992.

He worked along side ACORN before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees.

He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN.

His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN in 2008 for voter registration efforts.

And, ACORN even canvassed for Obama in 2008

Don’t look for Andrea Mitchell or Chris Matthews to get to the bottom of this lack of transparency any time soon.

Via Gateway Pundit

Via Memeorandum

From The Last Tradition