Posts Tagged ‘ACORN’

Obama, ACORN and financial collapse

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Barack Obama is ACORN and vice versa.

If we elect Obama, we will have financial crisis until the fascists take over.

Of course, Chicago Mayor Daley is pushing them and protecting them so they must be OK.

UPDATE: Here is more evidence (pdf file) that the underwriting corruption that began in the 1990s is the underlying cause of the financial meltdown. I see denials that the CRA and the forces of ACORN could have had that big an effect in the world economy. The answer is that the weakening of underwriting fed into a culture of debt manipulation already weakening the world economy for the past 50 years. We will be lucky to get out of this with the currency intact. The rise in gold price over the past three years was the warning that was ignored. Had McCain been elected in 2000 instead of Bush, we would have, hopefully, avoided some of the excesses of the Republican Congress the past few years as they lost their principles in an orgy of spending and influence peddling. One irony is that the man who replaced Mark Foley, poster boy for Republicans run amok, has his own sex scandal now.

Mark Twain had it about right. “There is no hereditary criminal class in the United States with the possible exception of Congress.”

American history, Obama style

Monday, May 26th, 2008

UPDATE: Here is more on ACORN and their agenda, and more on Obama’s association with it. We will learn a lot more about ACORN this fall. If we don’t, we are in serios trouble.

Victor Davis Hanson points out a feature of Obama’s speeches; they are about one narrow view of US history. The American system was not built by protesters and “community organizers.”

When I was a boy, I saw movies about “Young Tom Edison” and Paul Erlich. There was a sense that business was not immoral. The Depression gave new energy to the criticisms of the “Muckrakers” of the early 20th century but movies like “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” showed the world of business to be dull but worthy of a man’s time and energy. Now, we have dishonest movies like “Wall Street”, produced by the weird Oliver Stone and starring the execrable Charlie Sheen, that declares all of American economic life to be corrupt and unworthy.

It is no surprise that we now have a presidential candidate who has the same attitude toward the American economy. His views mesh well with ACORN, the radical group for which he worked as an organizer. This history, by an obscure group but pretty well footnoted, will be the focus of intense interest this fall. This is the most leftist politician since FDR dropped Henry Wallace as Vice-President in 1944. Wallace would run for president against Harry Truman in 1948 with communist party assistance. He’s back as Barack Obama 60 years later.

Arthur Schlessinger’s essay on Henry Wallace in 2000 could have been written about Barack Obama. He called him “a Perplexing and Indomitably Naive Public Servant.”