Tuesday, October 14, 2008

A tax cut for 95% of the people when only 60% pay taxes?


It depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is.

One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families." He's even promising to cut taxes enough that the government's tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% -- which is lower than it is today.

It's a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he's also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of "tax cut..."

...[All the tax credits but one] would be "refundable," which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer -- a federal check -- from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this "welfare," or in George McGovern's 1972 campaign a "Demogrant." Mr. Obama's genius is to call it a tax cut.

Call it the new math, Bill Ayers-style.

Hat tips: Fausta and Larwyn

Monday, October 13, 2008

The secret scrapbook of Barry Soetoro Barack Obama


My early mentor "Frank" in Hawaii. Pity the neocons found out who it really was!

Here's my original registration at my first school in Jakarta, Indonesia. It has my old name (Barry Soetoro) with my religion listed as Islam. Go figure.

My grass roots organizing days, training ACORN (note: I don't condone trading crack cocaine for votes - "aggressive" voter registration: yes, crack: no).

At the beginning of my political career. I was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America's New Party and got a great endorsement from them. Stepping stones, baby, stepping stones! Of course, I still believe in wealth redistribution!

My first sugar daddy -- Tony Rezko -- in the early years. And to think I used to consider 250 grand a lot of dough!

The education guru, Bill Ayers! Thank goodness no one ever figured out that he named me the Chairman of the Annenberg Challenge before the political "coming out party" at his and Bernadine's house!

Here's me and Jimmy Hoffa (the son, silly, I was only 9 when his Dad disappeared!)

My spiritual mentor, Jeremiah, who always gets the crowd riled up! (Of course, I never heard any of it -- tee hee!)

Me and Michie at the Arab-American Action Network dinner with Ed Said (hey, he's no longer a member of the PLO, 'cause he's dead!)

Boy, this church newsletter caused me some problems! Jeremiah published this Hamas editorial and I heard no end of grief. Of course, no one in the real world knows I read it and empathize!

My buddy the Rev. James Meeks (I know he's a gay-basher, but he mixes a great martini!)

This is from my trip to Kenya in '96 where I supported my cousin Raila Odinga. He was also running for office. He's a great guy who wants to bring order back to the country (I know so because he signed this "Memorandum of Understanding" to bring Taliban-style Sharia law to Kenya)!

Two community organizers make good!

Back in the motherland!

Here's ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick -- he's in a bit of legal trouble, but I included this photo 'cuz it shows my favorite teleprompter.

I hate that b***h!

I LOVE THIS GUY!


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Okay, football fans: choose the play of the game


Papa B sent this one in.

A. Toomer hauls in a 38 yard prayer from Manning in the first half:



B. Plexico Burress hauls in the game winning TD with under a minute to go:



C. Bambi MacAfee signals for a left turn during the pregame show:



You got it. Papa B ain't exactly PC.

NeverFindOut.org -- Awesome!


Send the address of this site to everyone on your mailing list.

The site contains an awesome set of videos that explain the economic meltdown in terms simple enough for even MorOn.org to understand.

Click here to email your buds -- make it viral.

Hat tip: The famous JustADude

Home Listing


Well, this certainly looks like a lovely home.

Called Beechwoods, the 98-year-old stucco Colonial sits on more than an acre and has views of nearby Soapstone Valley National Park. Highlights include a family room with cathedral ceiling, a library, a movie theater, a recreation room, and an exercise room. The remodeled kitchen has granite countertops, a skylight, a SubZero refrigerator/freezer, and double Wolf ovens. Outside is a pool, a cabana, a shared tennis court, and a four-car garage.

The seller? One Franklin Raines, former head of Fannie Mae and current adviser (on housing policy) to the Obama campaign.

Raines pulled down a paltry $90 million in compensation while accounting fraud ran rampant at Fannie. Coincidentally, I'm sure, the cooked books triggered bonuses to Raines and other key Democratic operatives who controlled the GSE.


Who says crime doesn't pay, peons?

Related: The testimony that will have you screaming in anger. Hat tips: American Thinker and No Quarter.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Exclusive First Look: The Obama Cabinet


Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle just landed a doozy of a scoop. He was rifling through a dumpster at ACORN Obama campaign headquarters when he spotted the candidate's picks should he win the election.






Oh boy, this is gonna be great!

The new favicon is here! The new favicon is here!


Yep, I got me a new, shiny thingamabob called a "favicon". It's that high-techie little rectangle in the address bar.

Thanks to Dave S. for the suggestion, the prototype and the link to FavIconGenerator. Blogger users can also take advantage of the free FavIcon Labs, which will do double-duty by hosting the icons for you.

Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's Goddess of Vote Fraud


When even the Democratic press release digest known as The Columbus Dispatch expresses dismay at the Ohio Secretary of State's partisan antics, you know things have gotten really out of hand. Jennifer Brunner, whose business card reads "Goddess of Voter Registration Fraud" (or so I've heard), took a well-deserved bludgeoning in today's editorial.

...Brunner made a serious blunder by failing to give county elections boards the names of new voters whose registration records don't match state and federal data. She should comply with a federal court order to release the information within a week instead of appealing... In addition to discrediting herself, Brunner's attempt to withhold the data undermines the integrity of the election system.

...And the fact is that some registrations likely are illegitimate. Smith's ruling cited the questionable activity of ACORN, a group that has registered thousands of Ohioans... The Cuyahoga County Elections Board is investigating about 50 suspicious registrations collected by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Registration cards supplied by ACORN had duplicate names, which might indicate that paid canvassers shared names to reach their collection quotas.

...Brunner campaigned for office by promising to restore trust in the election system and in the secretary of state's office, but once again she is doing the opposite.

Looks to me like she's canvassing for a Deputy AG role, akin to Jamie Gorelick.

Obama campaign scrubs site to hide ACORN lies


Is that what he meant by "Change"? And does it worry any of the Obama supporters that the "Fight the Smears" website has to be scrubbed on a near-daily basis because the "smears" turn out to be true?

Here's the Google cache's copy of Barack Obama's official "Fight the Smears" website regarding the candidate's involvement with the vote-fraud specialists known as ACORN (currently being investigated in fifteen states).

Before: "• Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity."

Well, that was the website before Audacity of Hypocrisy located a vintage ACORN article online.

Let’s take a look at a quote from a 2004 article - Case Study: Chicago- The Barack Obama Campaign - written Toni Foulkes, a Chicago ACORN Leader, which was published in the journal Social Policy. Did we mention that Social Policy recently pulled this particular article from their website, while leaving links to all articles up?

Obama took the case, known as ACORN vs. Edgar (the name of the Republican governor at the time) and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5,000 of them).

Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends.

Not only does Foulkes boast of Obama’s ACORN leadership training, but also makes it clear that Obama’s post-law school organizing of “Project VOTE” in 1992 was undertaken in direct partnership with ACORN. The tie between Project VOTE and ACORN is also something that Obama and others have attempted to disprove in recent weeks as ACORN has come under fire for allegations of voter registration fraud.

As recently as March 2008, the Los Angeles Times also made reference to Barack Obama’s involvement with ACORN:

“At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.” (LA Times, March 2, 2008)

Well, that was quick. Look at the "Fight the Smears" site now.

After: "• Fact: ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee."

Get it? He wasn't "hired" as a "trainer". I guess he just did it for free. After all, it's for the children.

Isn't this, like, the 804th time the Obama campaign has had to scrub their "Fight the Smears" website? Someone needs to create a "FightTheSmearWatch.com" portal to keep track of all of the outrageous lies, fabrications, and gyroscope-quality spin these crackpots are foisting on an unsuspecting public.

Hat tips: Audacity of Hypocrisy and Charles Johnson.
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Does Barack Obama have any friends who AREN'T communists?


I ripped off Ragner at The Jawa Report. With any luck he won't sue me, strictly out of pity. His post is too good to excerpt in any significant way.

Question: Does Barack Obama Have Any Friends Who AREN'T Communists?

The news of Barack Obama's close relationship with Frank Marshall Davis has been around before, but it's important. Via Accuracy in Media:

[T]hrough Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just "Frank."

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member.

Aren't we seeing a pattern here? One interaction with one old communist isn't particularly troubling. A handful of sporadic interactions with a handful of radical left-wingers may not be particularly troubling. But a lifelong pattern of extended associations and alliances with scores of fringe, America-hating radicals is very, very troubling indeed.

Just to be clear:

It's not just that Barack Obama's father was a Marxist economist or that his mother Stanley came from radical far-left roots.

It's not just that Obama's childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a famous communist poet.

It's not just that Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor, counselor and spiritual mentor of 20 years is a racist, America-hating radical.

It's not just that Michael Phleger, Obama's other spiritual mentor is every bit as extreme as Wright.

It's not just that his wife Michelle has never been really that proud of America, or that she thinks this country is "mean".

It's not just that Obama refused to wear a flag, or that he refused to salute it during the national anthem.

It's not just that Obama's political and financial benefactor William Ayers is an unrepentant radical socialist terrorist.

It's not just that Bernadine Dohrn regrets that she didn't kill more people back in the 1960s.

It's not just that Alice Palmer, Obama's political mentor in Chicago, was a communist propagandist.

It's not just that Obama was a member of the radical socialist New Party or that he ran as a candidate for public office under their far-left platform.

It's not just that Obama was an agitator, trainer and attorney for the corrupt and radical-left ACORN.

None of these facts, by itself, tells you that much about Barack Obama. A reasonable person should, however, be able to look at this motley crew of left-wing communists and America-haters, realize that Barack Obama's rolodex is a veritable Who's Who of American Socialism, be very, very disturbed by that fact and ask some very probing questions about WHO Barack Obama is, WHAT he believes, and WHY this gang of radical America-haters considers Barack Obama such a good friend.

Change!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Obama in 2007: ACORN will shape my presidential agenda


Deepak Bhargava is a director of the Center for Community Change. Prior to joining the center, "Bhargava was the legislative director at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), where he gained broad experience in community reinvestment and housing finance issues."

Translated: Bhargava and ACORN helped set the stage for the subprime mortgage fiasco.

In any event, this video from 2007 captures Barack Obama's appearance at the Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum on 12/1/2007. Bhargava kicks off the evening and then gets Obama's introduction rolling.

When asked whether Obama would sit down with community organizers in the first 100 days of his presidency, the Senator from Illinois responded affirmatively.

"Yes, but let me even say efore I even get inaugurated, during the transition we'll be calling all of you [community organizers] in to help us shape the agenda."

"We're gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."

ACORN will drive the agenda? Of what? More vote fraud, law-breaking, lying and cheating?

Yes we can!

Update: Obama supporters are deserting over the ACORN scandals ("Say it ain't so, Barry")

Update II: Hillary Clinton supporters are sharing evidence for RICO case against Obama campaign

Update III: Stanley Kurtz at National Review:

"You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house." So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left “community organizers” called ACORN, for assistance. In retrospect, of course, encouraging customers like this to buy homes seems little short of madness... At the time, however, that 1995 Chicago newspaper article represented something of a triumph for Barack Obama...

Update IV: Stealing Pennsylvania: A Massive Fraud: "Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board" with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. "Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election."

Why Mom drinks


DW sent this one in.

A Mother passing by her son's bedroom was astonished to see that his bed was nicely made and everything was picked up.

Then she saw an envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow that was addressed to 'Mom'. With the worst premonition she opened the envelope with trembling hands and read the letter.

Dear Mom,

It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend because I wanted to avoid a scene with Dad and you.

I have been finding real passion with Stacy and she is so nice. But I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercings, tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes and the fact that she is much older than I am. But it's not only the passion...

Mom - she's pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children.

Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone. We'll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people that live nearby for cocaine and ecstasy. In the meantime we will pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so Stacy can get better. She deserves it. Don't worry Mom. I'm 15 and I know how to take care of myself. Someday I'm sure that we will be back to visit so that you can get to know your grandchildren.

Love,

Your Son Jon

P. S. Mom, none of the above is true. I'm over at Tommy's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the report card that's in my center desk drawer.

I love you.

Call me when it's safe to come home

1988: Michelle Obama and Bernadine Dohrn first cross paths


Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers has received much attention for his many ties to Barack Obama. And Obama's obfuscation (some would say coverup) of those ties have drawn further scrutiny. Ayers wife, Bernadine Dohrn, was another member of the Weatherman Organization and equally unrepentant. To this day the pair advocate the overthrow of the United States government and have been staunch supporters of Barack Obama since his early days in Chicago.

In 1988 Bernadine Dohrn and Michelle Obama appear to have crossed paths at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin. Both worked at the firm in the late 1980's.

I imagine this is how their first conversation might have gone.

Michelle: Bernadine? I'm Michelle, the new associate, nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you!

Bernadine: Michelle, so nice to meet you. Everything you heard, well, it's probably true -- and then some! (**giggles**)

Michelle: I heard you and your friends set off dozens of bombs and killed twelve cops! Is that true?

Bernadine: Yep! Hey... you're not wearing a wire, are you?

Michelle: Heck, no! Truth be told... I've never been proud of my country either!

Bernadine: Well, then, sister... in strictest confidence, I'm most disappointed with the "one that got away."

Michelle: What do you mean?

Bernadine: The big bomb we were building in 1970. That was the one that took out three of us.

Michelle: I heard about that! A monster bomb that accidentally blew up half a city block in Greenwich Village?

Bernadine: One and the same. We were going to drive that baby to an officer's dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey. We could've killed hundreds! That would have showed the war-lovers!

Michelle: What went wrong?

Bernadine: I heard that someone had a single wire out of place! A damn shame. Oh well, at least one good thing came out of that premature explosion.

Michelle: What's that?

Bernadine: Well, it did take out Diana, my husband Bill's old girlfriend. I was there to help console him, if you know what I mean (**winks**)

Michelle: Say, my boyfriend Barack and I aren't doing anything this weekend. Do you guys have plans?

Hijacked Iranian Ship: Dirty Bomb meant for Israel on Yom Kippur?


Shirat Devorah researched the various articles surrounding the recent Somali hijacking of an Iranian vessel and came to an ominous conclusion.

On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.

The MV Iran Deyanat is owned and operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) - a state-owned company [that] regularly falsifies shipping documents in order to hide the identity of end users, uses generic terms to describe shipments to avoid the attention of shipping authorities, and employs the use of cover entities to circumvent [UN] weapons proliferation [regulations].

[The hijacked ship] was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates - 50 onboard and 50 onshore. The Somali pirates attempted to inspect the ship's seven cargo containers but the containers were locked. The crew claimed that they did not have the "access codes" and could not open them. Pirates have stated they were unable to open the hold without causing extensive damage to the ship, and threatened to blow it up.... the pirates broke open one of the containers and discovered it to be filled with packets of what they said was “a powdery fine sandy soil” ....

Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore... ...At this writing, the MV Iran Deyanat is at anchor, watched closely by American, French and Russian naval units.

[Russian sources claim she] was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore.

Given the large number of deaths from the questing Somali pirates, it should be obvious that when the contents of the ship’s locked cargo containers finally descended onto the land, the death toll would be enormous. This ship was nothing more nor less than the long-anticipated Iranian attack on Israel.

Fox News interviewed an expert whose analysis would seem to confirm these conclusions:

Chemical experts say the reports sound inconsistent with chemical poisoning, but may reflect the effects of exposure to radiation.

"It's baffling," said Jonathan Tucker, a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "I'm not aware of any chemical agent that produces loss of hair within a few days. That's more suggestive of high levels of radioactive waste."

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Barack Obama: "The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree"


Where's Jimmah Carter when you need him to investigate fair elections?

The notorious group called ACORN has infected the voting process in at least fifteen states this year. It is under investigation in those states for submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registrations, a consistent theme for the group over the last several decades. It has organized more vote-fraud schemes than any other group in the history of the United States.

Who's funding ACORN?


Barack Obama's campaign, for starters, which reportedly gave it nearly a million dollars. Oh, and taxpayers are funding it as well through our beloved Democratic Congress. And Fannie Mae was (and perhaps is) a major contributor to ACORN too.

There are only a couple of isolated incidents of voter fraud involving ACORN


Ohio: "...People asked to register "10 to 15" times in Ohio... ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post’s Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud... Two voters told MacIntosh they had been dragooned by ACORN activists into registering several times - one reporting having signed up “10 to 15″ times... ACORN canvassers 'would ask me if I was registered,' he said. 'I’d say yes and they’d ask me to do it again...'"

North Carolina: "FBI raids ACORN offices in Nevada and North Carolina ...FBI has raided the offices of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Nevada and North Carolina, two states where Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck. ACORN has registered bogus voters in both states. The group’s voter-registration fraud is rampant, and authorities plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices to collect records..."

Nevada: "...state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote. A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud."

Pennsylvania: "...in Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala confirms an investigation of potential voter fraud involving ACORN... Currently the election bureau is reviewing some 45,000 new registration applications and Zappala says some of them have forged signatures of people who may or may not exist..."

Missouri: "...there is a long history and a number of close connections between ACORN and Senator Obama... [he has praised] ACORN and [given] $800,000 contribution to a subsidiary... In 2007, four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registration. In 2006, eight ACORN employees plead guilty..."

Washington: "In July last year, seven ACORN workers were charged with felonies in the largest voter fraud case ever in Washington state. Their enthusiasm for registering Democratic voters led them to submit more than 1,800 fraudulent voter registration forms, filled out from the telephone book. Five pled guilty. ACORN paid a fine."

Ohio: "After the smoke cleared in the 2004 Ohio presidential election, election officials reported that ACORN made a repeated practice of submitting large stacks of voter registration documents at the last minute, filled out months prior but held so late that any verification was impossible."

Also in Ohio: "ACORN workers were 'given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey.'"

  • Missouri - Officials now have to sift through hundreds of bogus applications submitted last August.
  • Connecticut - A criminal investigation has been opened into ACORN fraud.
  • Wisconsin - Registering convicted felons.
  • Ohio - ACORN tells Cuyahoga County’s election board that they can’t stop themselves from committing fraud.
  • Indiana - Over a thousand new applications from ACORN appear to investigators to be fraudulent, and that should be no surprise, since Indianapolis now has 105% of its population registered to vote.
There's really no pattern I can discern here. Just a couple o' coincidences.

You mean that ACORN?


The same ACORN that Obama served as a trainer for? The same ACORN given millions by he and Bill Ayers through the Woods Fund and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge?

The same ACORN that Obama's campaign was just caught lying about?


Obama's hilarious "Fight the Smears" campaign website plainly states:

Fact: Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.

Oops!

Gateway Pundit neatly busted Dear O'Leader in another "just a neighbor"-style fabrication. You've got to wonder how Obama's crack advisory staff keep their jobs.

Obama not only trained at ACORN, he worked with ACORN in the 1992 election, he was an ACORN lawyer and he was endorsed by ACORN... As Barack Obama says-- "The ACORN does not fall far from the tree."

Well, aside from all that, Obama had no relationship with ACORN whatsoever.

What a putz.

Update: Dan Riehl describes how ACORN helped Barack Obama win in 2006: Does this sound like the way a federally funded, non-partisan group should?

Update II: New York Post: 1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS -- 'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS':

A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws...

..."Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.