From the AP:
The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because regulatons forbid discussing ongoing investigations particularly so close to an election.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, says it has registered 1.3 million young people, minorities and poor and working-class voters  most of whom tend to be Democrats.
Thankfully, as Obama noted during last night’s debate, the only involvement the former community organizer has had to the sine qua non of community organizing, “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.”
So, like, whew! The One dodged a bullet there!
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update: Allah has more at Hot Air, including video of evidence of illegal voting surfacing in Ohio.
Comment by psycho... on 10/16 @ 11:54 am #
Good job, copy boy. Invisible.
Comment by Roberts Graves on 10/16 @ 11:57 am #
One can one say? The man is a Bullshitter Extraordinaire. If I looked better in a fedora and Dear Pappy weren’t around to notice, I might even endorse him for it.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 11:59 am #
Obama lies like a champion. He is absolutely shameless. He was born to be in politics.
Comment by thor on 10/16 @ 12:07 pm #
I stand firmly in ACORN’s corner. Even if they have acted a few zealous degrees beyond what befits their cause, power to the people, baby.
Melt the fuckin’ icons down and recycle that bronze while scrap prices are still somewhat historically high.
I believe in full equality.
I do not believe your accusations of unforgivable transgressions.
Set the captives free.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/16 @ 12:09 pm #
Do you also believe in Santa Claus?
Comment by urthshu on 10/16 @ 12:13 pm #
>>I believe in full equality.
So do I, but I mean it as full equality before the Law, not as full equality of outcome.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/16 @ 12:13 pm #
Not working for ACORN is one of the reasons I went to college. Also I wanted nice stuff.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 10/16 @ 12:15 pm #
Quit suppressing Mickey Mouse’s right to vote just because he’s black(and animated).
Comment by Carin on 10/16 @ 12:20 pm #
Knowing how to perform basic civil service duties (like registering to vote) was one of the reason I worked so hard to graduate from fifth grade.
If people don’t know how to do simple tasks like that, I don’t think they should vote.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/16 @ 12:24 pm #
“power to the people, baby.
Melt the fuckin’ icons down and recycle that bronze while scrap prices are still somewhat historically high.”
Good to see we have no reason to worry about radical socialism in the coming
reignadministration.Spoken like a true Leninist, thor. Feels good, don’t it? Like, all warm inside.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/16 @ 12:31 pm #
How many people can rattle off the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys?
Geez FBI, you may have to call in the crew from Murder She Wrote on this one.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/16 @ 12:32 pm #
Shit, dig Jake and the Fatman up and they’ll have it solved before Cannon’s 3 O’clock pastry break.
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Comment by TheGeezer on 10/16 @ 12:42 pm #
Mickey is black and white. I understand he’s a pretty cool tap dancer as well
Comment by Marco on 10/16 @ 12:47 pm #
The Watergate break-in was June ‘72, the indictments were September ‘72. And Nixon didn’t resign until August ‘74.
So how long will _this_ take?
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/16 @ 12:50 pm #
Too bad there aren’t many Elliot Ness types at the Bureau these days. Heck, many of them are recruited from the Ivy tower institutions anyway, they may think it’s, you know, no big deal…
I mean, Stevie Wonder could connect the dots on this one; except that he’s probably rootin’ for O! also…
Comment by JHoward on 10/16 @ 1:14 pm #
Not as full equality of O!pportunity. Outcomes shall be managed. Comrade.
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/16 @ 1:15 pm #
I loved that show. I think it was the first episode when he got into a fistfight and destroyed a diner. And he never got short of breath.
Comment by JHoward on 10/16 @ 1:16 pm #
By the way, in this economic downturn I’m thinking of cornering the market on copies of Gilliam’s Brazil for resale about this time next year, just in time for whatever’s left of the holidays.
Comment by JD on 10/16 @ 2:21 pm #
Outcomes will be pre-ordained, by Teh Messiah.
Comment by alppuccino on 10/16 @ 3:50 pm #
I think it was the first episode when he got into a fistfight and destroyed a diner. And he never got short of breath.
His catch phrase was “I’m gonna tear your throat out!”
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/16 @ 4:09 pm #
dallas cowboys-mac davis/nick nolte-danny WHITE-randy WHITE
billy WHITE shoes johns…no wait-he played 4 houston-a katrina flood victim i believe-re-located-so he can vote twice
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