Michael Gaynor
Pathetic Weiner's biggest political problem: he wasn't Clinton or Obama
By Michael Gaynor
Weiner has to be thinking that if he was a Democrat president or presidential candidate, he would still be in office, or running, and being protected by the liberal media establishment.
Democrat attack dog Anthony Weiner finally announced that he would resign as a Congressman.
The Democrat powers had decided that Weiner had to resign for the sake of the Democrat Party and it was only a matter of time.
Ironically, former President Clinton and President Obama each let blatant liar Weiner know that he should go.
Weiner must have wondered, "Why me?"
After all, Clinton lied to the world about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and refused to resign, even after the DNA results on Lewinsky's blue dress were disclosed to him (in time for him to avoid perjury during his deposition).
Clinton's motto seems to be "Do as I say, not as I do."
Obama's too.
Obama won the 2008 presidential election by lying about the nature of his relationship with ACORN.
Obama during the last presidential debate:
"...with respect to ACORN, ACORN is a community organization. Apparently what they've done is they were paying people to go out and register folks, and apparently some of the people who were out there didn't really register people, they just filled out a bunch of names.
"It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved. The only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs.
"Now, the reason I think that it's important to just get these facts out is because the allegation that Senator McCain has continually made is that somehow my associations are troubling."
Obama was right...about the importance of facts.
McCain was right...about Obama having troubling associations. (More right than he apparently knows.)
Obama's statement — "My only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs." — is a lie, not a fact.
Yes, Obama represented ACORN in that lawsuit and the Clinton Justice Department predictably sided with ACORN.
But that was NOT Obama's only involvement with ACORN.
ACORN is the organization with which Obama was associated throughout his adult life, as organizer, trainer, lawyer, funder and political beneficiary...and Obama's Achilles' heel.
Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in "Planting Seeds of Disaster: ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party," reported:
"[In 1995], as a director at Chicago's Woods Fund, Obama was successfully pushing for a major expansion of assistance to ACORN, and sending still more money ACORN's way from his post as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Through both funding and personal-leadership training, Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we've recognized up to now, had a major role in precipitating the subprime crisis."
Mr. Kurtz traced Obama's ties to ACORN and the current financial crisis:
"I've already told the story of Obama's close ties to ACORN leader Madeline Talbott, who personally led Chicago ACORN's campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. Using provisions of a 1977 law called the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Chicago ACORN was able to delay and halt the efforts of banks to merge or expand until they had agreed to lower their credit standards — and to fill ACORN's coffers to finance 'counseling' operations.... This much we've known. Yet these local, CRA-based pressure-campaigns fit into a broader, more disturbing, and still under-appreciated national picture. Far more than we've recognized, ACORN's local, CRA-enabled pressure tactics served to entangle the financial system as a whole in the subprime mess. ACORN was no side-show. On the contrary, using CRA and ties to sympathetic congressional Democrats, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster.
"In one of the first book-length scholarly studies of ACORN, Organizing Urban America, Rutgers University political scientist Heidi Swarts describes this group, so dear to Barack Obama, as 'oppositional outlaws.' Swarts, a strong supporter of ACORN, has no qualms about stating that its members think of themselves as 'militants unafraid to confront the powers that be.' 'This identity as a uniquely militant organization,' says Swarts, 'is reinforced by contentious action.' ACORN protesters will break into private offices, show up at a banker's home to intimidate his family, or pour protesters into bank lobbies to scare away customers, all in an effort to force a lowering of credit standards for poor and minority customers. According to Swarts, long-term ACORN organizers 'tend to see the organization as a solitary vanguard of principled leftists...the only truly radical community organization.'"
It was the height of irony for Obama. "the Senator from ACORN," to benefit from the financial crisis that his kind of thinking created with his personal help as organizer, trainer. lawyer, funder and political supporter and win the Presidency.
As more people learn that Michele Bachmann has been a foster parent to 25 children as well as a mother of five, her support rises.
Conversely, Obama benefited from general unawareness of his relationship with ACORN.
Reporter Stephanie Strom ended an article innocuously titled "Obama, Acorn and Voter Registrtation" that appeared on page A13 of the October 10, 2008 issue of The New York Times:
"But according to Sam Graham-Felsen, who blogs on the Obama campaign's Web site, Mr. Obama himself linked his 1992 work to Acorn in a meeting with Acorn's leaders in November.
"Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drives in Illinois, Acorn was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work," Mr. Obama said, according to a post Mr. Graham-Felsen made in February.
Obama had continued: "Once I was elected, there wasn't a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn't right there with you. Since I've been in the United States Senate, I've been always a partner with ACORN as well. I've been fighting with ACORN, alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career."
That did NOT appear in the article.
Strom was ordered to "stand down" by "higher up" at The New York Times and did so instead of report what was feared to be "game changing" information from ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief before Election Day 2008.
Obama continued to lie effectively and won.
Glenn Beck reported on it in February 2010 (alas, long AFTER Obama was elected).
Excerpt from "Obama's ACORN Lie Exposed" (www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36789/):
GLENN: So we have the audio of him and we'll play it for you in a second. And then he was on with George Stephanopoulos and he you know, George Stephanopoulos said, you know, what's the deal with ACORN? Are you aware of this? And he said, I don't pay any attention to that stuff. Now we have some video of the president of the United States, verification of one of the most blatant lies I've ever seen where he looks right into the camera and tells you, "I was just, I did some attorney work for them, that's it." This now is apparently video from during the campaign where he was meeting with who we assume were ACORN officials because he's referring to ACORN as "You," and here's how he describes his relationship with ACORN.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I definitely welcome ACORN's input. You don't have to ask me about that. I'm going to call you even if you didn't ask me.
When I ran Project Vote, voter registration drive in Illinois, you know, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it. Once I was elected, there wasn't a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn't right there with you. Since I've been in the United States Senate, I've been always a partner with ACORN as well. I've been fighting with ACORN, alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.
Weiner has to be thinking that if he was a Democrat president or presidential candidate, he would still be in office, or running, and being protected by the liberal media establishment.
© Michael Gaynor
June 21, 2011
Weiner has to be thinking that if he was a Democrat president or presidential candidate, he would still be in office, or running, and being protected by the liberal media establishment.
Democrat attack dog Anthony Weiner finally announced that he would resign as a Congressman.
The Democrat powers had decided that Weiner had to resign for the sake of the Democrat Party and it was only a matter of time.
Ironically, former President Clinton and President Obama each let blatant liar Weiner know that he should go.
Weiner must have wondered, "Why me?"
After all, Clinton lied to the world about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and refused to resign, even after the DNA results on Lewinsky's blue dress were disclosed to him (in time for him to avoid perjury during his deposition).
Clinton's motto seems to be "Do as I say, not as I do."
Obama's too.
Obama won the 2008 presidential election by lying about the nature of his relationship with ACORN.
Obama during the last presidential debate:
"...with respect to ACORN, ACORN is a community organization. Apparently what they've done is they were paying people to go out and register folks, and apparently some of the people who were out there didn't really register people, they just filled out a bunch of names.
"It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved. The only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs.
"Now, the reason I think that it's important to just get these facts out is because the allegation that Senator McCain has continually made is that somehow my associations are troubling."
Obama was right...about the importance of facts.
McCain was right...about Obama having troubling associations. (More right than he apparently knows.)
Obama's statement — "My only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs." — is a lie, not a fact.
Yes, Obama represented ACORN in that lawsuit and the Clinton Justice Department predictably sided with ACORN.
But that was NOT Obama's only involvement with ACORN.
ACORN is the organization with which Obama was associated throughout his adult life, as organizer, trainer, lawyer, funder and political beneficiary...and Obama's Achilles' heel.
Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in "Planting Seeds of Disaster: ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party," reported:
"[In 1995], as a director at Chicago's Woods Fund, Obama was successfully pushing for a major expansion of assistance to ACORN, and sending still more money ACORN's way from his post as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Through both funding and personal-leadership training, Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we've recognized up to now, had a major role in precipitating the subprime crisis."
Mr. Kurtz traced Obama's ties to ACORN and the current financial crisis:
"I've already told the story of Obama's close ties to ACORN leader Madeline Talbott, who personally led Chicago ACORN's campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. Using provisions of a 1977 law called the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Chicago ACORN was able to delay and halt the efforts of banks to merge or expand until they had agreed to lower their credit standards — and to fill ACORN's coffers to finance 'counseling' operations.... This much we've known. Yet these local, CRA-based pressure-campaigns fit into a broader, more disturbing, and still under-appreciated national picture. Far more than we've recognized, ACORN's local, CRA-enabled pressure tactics served to entangle the financial system as a whole in the subprime mess. ACORN was no side-show. On the contrary, using CRA and ties to sympathetic congressional Democrats, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster.
"In one of the first book-length scholarly studies of ACORN, Organizing Urban America, Rutgers University political scientist Heidi Swarts describes this group, so dear to Barack Obama, as 'oppositional outlaws.' Swarts, a strong supporter of ACORN, has no qualms about stating that its members think of themselves as 'militants unafraid to confront the powers that be.' 'This identity as a uniquely militant organization,' says Swarts, 'is reinforced by contentious action.' ACORN protesters will break into private offices, show up at a banker's home to intimidate his family, or pour protesters into bank lobbies to scare away customers, all in an effort to force a lowering of credit standards for poor and minority customers. According to Swarts, long-term ACORN organizers 'tend to see the organization as a solitary vanguard of principled leftists...the only truly radical community organization.'"
It was the height of irony for Obama. "the Senator from ACORN," to benefit from the financial crisis that his kind of thinking created with his personal help as organizer, trainer. lawyer, funder and political supporter and win the Presidency.
As more people learn that Michele Bachmann has been a foster parent to 25 children as well as a mother of five, her support rises.
Conversely, Obama benefited from general unawareness of his relationship with ACORN.
Reporter Stephanie Strom ended an article innocuously titled "Obama, Acorn and Voter Registrtation" that appeared on page A13 of the October 10, 2008 issue of The New York Times:
"But according to Sam Graham-Felsen, who blogs on the Obama campaign's Web site, Mr. Obama himself linked his 1992 work to Acorn in a meeting with Acorn's leaders in November.
"Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drives in Illinois, Acorn was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work," Mr. Obama said, according to a post Mr. Graham-Felsen made in February.
Obama had continued: "Once I was elected, there wasn't a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn't right there with you. Since I've been in the United States Senate, I've been always a partner with ACORN as well. I've been fighting with ACORN, alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career."
That did NOT appear in the article.
Strom was ordered to "stand down" by "higher up" at The New York Times and did so instead of report what was feared to be "game changing" information from ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief before Election Day 2008.
Obama continued to lie effectively and won.
Glenn Beck reported on it in February 2010 (alas, long AFTER Obama was elected).
Excerpt from "Obama's ACORN Lie Exposed" (www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36789/):
GLENN: So we have the audio of him and we'll play it for you in a second. And then he was on with George Stephanopoulos and he you know, George Stephanopoulos said, you know, what's the deal with ACORN? Are you aware of this? And he said, I don't pay any attention to that stuff. Now we have some video of the president of the United States, verification of one of the most blatant lies I've ever seen where he looks right into the camera and tells you, "I was just, I did some attorney work for them, that's it." This now is apparently video from during the campaign where he was meeting with who we assume were ACORN officials because he's referring to ACORN as "You," and here's how he describes his relationship with ACORN.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I definitely welcome ACORN's input. You don't have to ask me about that. I'm going to call you even if you didn't ask me.
When I ran Project Vote, voter registration drive in Illinois, you know, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it. Once I was elected, there wasn't a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn't right there with you. Since I've been in the United States Senate, I've been always a partner with ACORN as well. I've been fighting with ACORN, alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.
Weiner has to be thinking that if he was a Democrat president or presidential candidate, he would still be in office, or running, and being protected by the liberal media establishment.
© Michael Gaynor
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