From Jennifer Rubin @ Contentions:

Many of the McCain campaign memos put out for the media are less than elucidating and do not warrant mention. Today’s missive on ACORN is not one of those. In rather simple terms the long association between Barack Obama and this problem-plagued entity is explained. The memo reads in part:

As of today, ACORN is under investigation for fraudulent activities in at least 11 key battleground states and accused of wrongdoing in many others. According to election officials across the country, about 50% of ACORN’s voter registrations are fictitious. This week alone, ACORN offices in Nevada were raided by state officials – after the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys appeared registered to vote in Las Vegas – and in Connecticut, a seven-year-old child registered to vote as a 27-year-old.
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The relationship between Barack Obama and ACORN dates back to the early 1990s, well before the start of his political career. In 1992, Obama directed Project Vote – an arm of ACORN that also encouraged voter registration. Around the same time, Obama began teaching classes for “Future Leaders Identified by ACORN,” and according to an op-ed at the time, Obama continued his community organizing work largely through these classes.

Obama soon moved on from his role as a community organizer and became a trial attorney for ACORN. In 1995, Obama represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois for its supposed failure to implement a federal law designed to make voter registration easier, and thus increasing the likelihood of voter fraud. Obama also joined two well-known boards with strong ties to ACORN – the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation. Under Obama’s watch, the Chicago ACORN branch received thousands of dollars in grants from both organizations.

During this year’s Democrat primaries, Obama’s campaign paid $832,000 to Citizens Services, an ACORN-affiliated organization, for get-out-the-vote efforts. Sensing the need to distance itself from the controversial organization, however, Obama’s Federal Election Commission report mischaracterized this work as “staging and lighting.”

All of this should give voters pause. This isn’t ancient history and it isn’t “guilt by association.” It is a very problematic part of Obama’s political milieu, one that he worked in and helped fund (until 2002, when he left the Woods Fund). At some point he should be required to answer some basic questions: Did he know of ACORN’s fraudulent practices and when did he know of them? And does he approve of its hardball tactics and left-leaning agenda?

Here’s a clip of the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farakhan, in which he calls Barack Obama the Messiah (h/t WND):

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Many Conservatives were fired-up by the selection of Sarah Palin, then cooled down when the McCain campaign decided to hide her and then drop her into the jaws of the lib-media establishment. Now she’s been freed, but the McCain campaign has still found itself unable to launch an all-out attack on the legitimate questions surrounding Obama’s qualifications for leader of the free-world. While our lovely and courageous Sarah brings up Ayers and Rezko at her rallies, McCain decided not to bring them up at the last presidential debate (when it could have made the most impact).

Now, many Conservatives will argue that they were right to be wary of McCain from the beginning, and that some time spent in the wilderness will do a lot to revive the Conservative movement and cleanse the Republican party. Ross Douthat, writes about just this problem at The Atlantic, and why Conservatives should be careful what we wish for:

The convergence of an economic crisis and complete Democratic control of Washington should alarm even those conservatives eager to wash their hands of the GOP. The best reason for even the most disaffected right-winger to root for a McCain victory is simple: To the extent that much of the progressive agenda is a program in search of a crisis to justify its implementation, an election that delivers a liberal candidate who’s adored by the media to White House, gives him huge majorities in both houses of Congress, and presents him with a worldwide state of emergency in which to govern, has the potential to be not just another loss for conservatives, but a once-in-a-generation defeat.

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