Folks really do want to know more about Obama and ACORN; here’s the Google Trends graph showing search volume for “obama acorn” over the past 30 days:
Google Search Trends: "obama acorn"
The top Google search results for this term include Foxnews, The National Review, and a mysterious publication called Spero News, which also asks:
Whatever else he may be, Barack Obama is not a stupid man. But just how deep does his Alinskyian training stain his soul?
Riii-iight. The Alinskyian connection. Finally someone is asking the important questions in this campaign!
Back to ACORN, a personal note: growing up in Chicagoland, my interactions with ACORN were confined to their fundraising on the El in the 80s. (I rode the train a lot). My impressions of the organization was that they were:
- black
- urban
- tough
- intellectual
Which makes it not at all surprising that this storyline is being raised: these obviously aren’t the characteristics that are going to help Obama win over working-class white voters. Here is ACORN’s statement in response to recent McCain ads:
For almost a decade, ACORN, a community organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country, has been fighting against the predatory lending practices that have robbed our members of their homes, destabilized neighborhoods, and roiled the global economy.
In his newest ad, John McCain’s campaign bizarrely claims, ‘ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we’re in today.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair term…
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