{"id":30635,"date":"2008-10-15T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:15:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:14","slug":"obama_throws_acorn_under_bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/15\/obama_throws_acorn_under_bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Throws ACORN Under Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Michelle (My Belle) Obama. They obviously let her out of the closet and they removed the duct tape. She\u2019s out there nevertheless under the radar in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at a campaign event. Here\u2019s a portion of what she said.<\/p>\n

MICHELLE: Every second between now and Election Day counts, and we\u2019re focusing pretty intensely on early voting, making sure that people are registered and that they understand that they can vote early and avoid long lines and take their time with their ballots. We don\u2019t want anybody to miss this opportunity. Vote early, and then if you vote early you also have some extra time — <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

MICHELLE: — to be a little neighborly and help your neighbors on Election Day. That\u2019s what we really want you to do! We want you working in the polls on Election Day. … We are going to make it as easy as possible for everyone, regardless of who you\u2019re going to vote for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, isn\u2019t this interesting? Michelle Obama… While her husband is backing away from ACORN, Michelle Obama\u2019s out there doing everything she can to convince people to go vote early. This early voting… You know the main thing that\u2019s wrong with early voting? Aside from the fraud and aside from the potential for all kinds of cheating, the main thing wrong with early voting is that things change. Things could change in the last three weeks before an election; things can change in the last weeks before an election, and remember some of this early voting is not absentee. I\u2019m not talking about absentee voting; I\u2019m talking about the phenomenon of early voting. This is another ACORN ploy that\u2019s designed to gum up the works, and here\u2019s Michelle out there advocating it. Another thing that strikes me about her tone here: ‘We want you to go out and be a little neighborly and help your neighbors on Election Day.\u2019<\/p>\n

It is obvious that these people on the Democrat side, from ACORN to Michelle, think their voters are so stupid that they don\u2019t know how to register themselves. They don\u2019t know how to get to the polling place on Election Day. They don\u2019t even have the knowledge that Election Day is Election Day! So people in the neighborhood have to ‘be neighborly\u2019 and run around and say, ‘Hey, did you go vote today? And then after you go vote, let\u2019s go monitor the polls.\u2019 What is it with this? ACORN is out there, ‘Well, we\u2019re just trying to register the poor.\u2019 Well, what makes the poor stupid? ‘We\u2019re just trying to register the indigent.\u2019 What makes them stupid? ‘Well, we\u2019re just out there, you know, we want people to be neighborly on Election Day. We want people to run around and get them to the polls.\u2019 Anybody who doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s an election day, stay home. Anybody that does not know that Election Day is Election Day, stay home! Here\u2019s Obama, by the way. He\u2019s in Toledo while what\u2019s-her-face, Michelle is in Fort Wayne, and he was talking to reporters yesterday, and said this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: They\u2019re not advising our campaign. We\u2019ve got s…uh, the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation, uhhh, in politics right now, and, uhhh, you know, we don\u2019t need ACORN\u2019s help.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘We don\u2019t need ACORN\u2019s help.\u2019 He\u2019s backing away from ACORN. ‘We don\u2019t need…\u2019 So he\u2019s thrown ACORN under the bus. Is there any room left under Obama\u2019s bus? Look at all the people he\u2019s thrown under that bus. Anyway, he\u2019s just trying to distance himself from them here. He\u2019s got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now. Let me ask you a question. If he\u2019s got the best voter registration turnout, volunteer operation, how the hell is his number-one aid group, ACORN, being investigated in 15 states? If he\u2019s got the best operation (we keep hearing about this great grassroots operation he\u2019s got, and you would think that he would have a very damned good grassroots operation in Ohio) how come during that little special window they had between September 29th and October 6th, where you could vote early — where now the secretary of state has been told by the Sixth Circuit, ‘You\u2019d better identify every one of those voters as legit, every one of those registered voters as legit. You\u2019ve got \u2019til Friday to do it\u2019 — how come the turnout was so small compared to what they all said the turnout would be? They were expecting thousands and thousands and thousands to show up in that little six-day window to vote early in Ohio, and a relative few did. Now is this just a sandbag? Is the Obama campaign sandbagging everybody to make everybody think that they don\u2019t have this kind of organization? Also, this is in Toledo yesterday, downplaying his relationship with ACORN.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: My relationship to ACORN is pretty straightforward. Uhhh, when — it\u2019s probably 13 years ago, uh, when I was still practicing law, uh, I represented ACORN, and my partner in that representation was the US Justice Department, uh, in having Illinois implement what was called the Motor Voter Law. That was my relationship and is my relationship to ACORN.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? A lawsuit? Practicing law, you represented ACORN. That\u2019s it? Let\u2019s go back to December 1, 2007. Des Moines, Iowa. At the Heartland Democrat Presidential Forum, Obama took questions from the moderator Katherine Hughes, who asked, ‘If elected president, would you agree in your first 100 days to meet with a delegation of representatives from these various community organizations, Campaign for Community Values? Could they count on you in your first 100 days to sit down with them?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Yes. But let me say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we\u2019re going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. (applause and screams) We\u2019re going to 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! Thank you, everybody. God bless yuh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s promising that ACORN will be in the room to help set the agenda. There are also other sound bites of Obama talking about ACORN in a positive way, I think from back in 2006 and other things. (interruption) Yeah, he gave them $800,000. He saw to it that ACORN got $800,000 in federal legislation along with Dick Durbin, the other senator from Illinois. He worked with them. He just didn\u2019t represent \u2019em in court. He worked with them. It\u2019s tough to say who taught who. Did ACORN teach Obama or did Obama teach ACORN? But it was part of his days as a community organizer, and now he\u2019s got it up on his website lying through his teeth that he never had anything to do with them. He\u2019s clearly worried about this, and Bill Ayers as well, coming up in the debate tonight and the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Paul in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello. Nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I should say mega dessert-eating dittos. I\u2019m in the middle of that. But, anyway, to the point I was told to keep to, in many respects McCain doesn\u2019t have to mention Ayers, but what he needs to do is tie Obama to ACORN, which is not hard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think he hasn\u2019t done it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t, either, but I\u2019ll bet you — McCain\u2019s a senator — I\u2019ll bet you at some point McCain\u2019s had something to do with them himself, either as a cosponsor of some piece of legislation, I\u2019ll bet you somewhere — this is the problem with electing somebody that comes from the business of legislating, they get in bed with everybody at one time or another when they have a long enough career and probably, who knows, I\u2019m just guessing. That\u2019s why Palin is doing it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. ‘Cause I read some stuff by Stanley Kurtz, I think you mentioned that on your show —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m talking to him after the program today, by the way, I\u2019m interviewing him for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter, but I think McCain can bring up voter fraud.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t have to mention ACORN. He can bring up voter fraud and cheating, and he can do it without mentioning ACORN.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what Stanley Kurtz\u2019s was saying Obama was doing as a community organizer. He was teaching people how to intimidate banks, you know, fill lobbies with all these folks and then scare banks into making these low-interest loans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There was an affiliate of ACORN that got $800 grand from the Obama campaign for voter turnout work during the Democrat primaries. It was in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and some other states. I think the name of the group is the Community Values Project, something I cited earlier today. All these various community organization groups really operate under the umbrella of ACORN. An affiliate at ACORN got $800 grand from the Obama campaign, and he\u2019s out there saying he doesn\u2019t need their help, he\u2019s backing away from ACORN. Let me expand on this. I mentioned this in the first hour of the program. Any pollster that does a registered voters poll — I want to expand on this here for just a bit — any pollster that calls on registered voters has ACORN illegally registered voters in the mix. This is another reason why these registered voter polls as opposed to likely voter polls are flawed and it\u2019s also why they\u2019re willingly used by the Drive-Bys. ACORN is paid to illegally register Democrat voters. You don\u2019t think ACORN\u2019s out there registering Republicans, do you? If you think that they are, change your ways. <\/p>\n

Some of the people who are registering are fictional people, but some are potential voters. Some of them have telephones at home. These are potential Democrat voters. ACORN doesn\u2019t register Republicans. That\u2019s not their mission, even though they take taxpayer dollars and say they are nonpartisan. So if you use a registered voter poll, it will almost always favor Democrats, since ACORN tirelessly lies, cheats, and bribes to get people signed up as Democrats. Registered voter polls can be used to make news because ACORN heavily influences the number of registered Democrats in any given state. And that news can be used to depress Republican voter turnout, which is what the New York Times poll today showing Obama with a 14-point lead is designed to do, depress you, make you mad, make you sit it out. Why bother to register voters indiscriminately? Because some will vote, some will answer their phone, and all will be used to pump up polls and pump up Democrats. ‘Hey, look at how many registered Democrat voters we have in this state,\u2019 say the pollsters. ‘We better weight this.\u2019 And some polls do sample more Democrats than Republicans. <\/p>\n

Now, what ACORN has done, just to hit you between the eyes here with ACORN, what ACORN has done is to help rig the electoral system from beginning to end. They have done this on a national basis for 30 years. They have done this at the direction of people like Obama who paid them this year $800,000 to do what he trained them to do: win elections for Democrats come hell or high water. He has not distanced himself from ACORN. He paid \u2019em $800 grand, a related group, an affiliate during the Democrat primaries. ACORN and their Democrat partners in crime have skewered registered voter numbers and cheapened their true meaning when sampled by pollsters as a result. And, by the way, the media could not be happier about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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