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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (426221)	10/14/2008 5:50:20 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572776

"ACORN has an ethical obligation to minimize the amount of voter registration fraud as much as possible." What makes you think they aren't?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (426221)	10/14/2008 11:49:21 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572776

>You had a good point until you added this sentence. The "So What?" defense is a weak cop-out. Huh? No. The point of bringing up ACORN is to try to say they are helping steal an election, right? So if the things they don't can't possibly do that, then why bring it up? >ACORN has an ethical obligation to minimize the amount of voter registration fraud as much as possible. That won't stop the Republican accusations (which are all politically motivated anyway), but it will at least make its supporters and allies less nervous. Forget ethical obligation... there's a financial obligation. If they're paying people who submit false registration forms (I still have yet to see evidence that a material number of those forms actually get registered), then they're wasting their money. >And that includes Barack Obama, who all but tossed ACORN under the bus with Wright, Ayers, and his own grandmother. You have a strange definition of "tossed under the bus." He used his grandmother to make a valid point about the relations between white people and black people (I've used my grandmother, RIP, in similar contexts about the relations between white Americans and Mexicans), and he told us about the extents of his relationships with Ayers and ACORN. Wright, yeah, he tossed him under the bus. But that's one. Happens in politics all the time. -Z