Rush Limbaugh, EIBnet.com

 

RUSH: This is about ACORN. We have some bites here about ACORN and the Drive-Bys trying to suggest that McCain rallies are full of racists and violent protesters and so forth. Obama says that he had nothing to do with ACORN. His website says: I have nothing to do with ACORN; I never had anything to do with them. I may have known some people there, but ACORN is just some group down the street in the neighborhood that had a sign out that said "ACORN." I don't know anything about ACORN. Let's go December 1st, 2007, Heartland Democrat Presidential Forum.

 

Obama took questions from the moderator, Katherine Hughes. Katherine Hughes says, "If elected president would you agree in your first 100 days to meet with a delegation of representatives from these various community organizations, the Campaign for Community Values, and so forth, can they count on you in your first 100 days to sit down with them?" GO HERE FOR FULL TRANSCRIPT.

 

Cleveland Leader.com

 

While Barack Obama's connection with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has not gone entirely unreported, it has not been fully explained. Most media background pieces simply note Obama's involvement in a 1995 lawsuit on behalf of ACORN. Obama's own website, as well as most major media, fail to reveal the full depth and extent of his relationship with the organization.

 

Attempts to hide evidence of Obama's involvement with ACORN have included wiping the web clean of potentially damaging articles that had appeared, and were previously publicly accessible. Unfortunately, those behind the attempted cover-up failed to realize that in today's day and age, nothing disappears forever. There also exists another layer of the web, the hidden web, which is full of information included in proprietary scholarly databases where these very same "missing" articles can be easily uncovered. Read article.

 

Phyllis Schlafly, Townhall.com

 

The media are piling on against John McCain and some pundits are predicting it's all over, that Barack Obama has somehow won the election. As the old saying goes, it's not over until the fat lady sings, and it's high time for the fat lady to sing about Obama's scary agenda and the many reasons why it is too risky to elect him president.

 

We need to hear more about ACORN, the special-interest group that would like to steal this election by registering people who are not eligible to vote, such as registering ghost voters in Nevada under the names of the Dallas Cowboys. Obama's years of close association with ACORN need to be known to the public.

 

We should hear more about Obama's political friend William Ayers, the unrepentant bomber and Ward Churchill-type professor, who has a really scary plan to remake the curriculum of public schools in order to turn kids into radical socialists like himself. Obama helped deliver big bucks to Ayers' radical education project in Chicago.

 

Obama has already introduced one bill in the U.S. Senate called "Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act," which would implement Ayers' social-outcome notions, and another to teach kindergartners Al Gore's propaganda about climate change. Voters should be reminded that Obama has called for making "sure your child can speak Spanish." Read article.

 

Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com

  

Insiders of Sen. John McCain’s campaign tell Newsmax that McCain will hit this and other issues that resonate strongly with conservatives in the final debate with Sen. Barack Obama Wednesday.

 

“He’s going to pull out all the stops,” one insider told Newsmax. “Bill Ayers, ACORN, voter fraud, Obama’s funny money, the subprime implosion, the works. It’s time for Armageddon.”

 

In a speech in support of the legislation on the U.S. Senate floor on May 25, 2006, McCain warned that Freddie and Fannie urgently needed to be reformed or financial disaster would strike.

 

“For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . . . and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. [T]he GSEs need to be reformed without delay.” (GSE is jargon for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.)

 

Obama voted against the bill and has opposed all efforts to reform the way Freddie and Fannie did business in the three years he has been in the Senate.

 

In a Sept 17, 2007, speech to NASDAQ, Obama said, “Subprime lending started out as a good idea, helping Americans buy homes who previously couldn’t afford to.” Read article.

 

Andy Barr, Politico.com

 

Top national debate coaches say John McCain needs to make vast improvements if he wants to best Barack Obama in the final presidential debate on Wednesday — and based on his performance in the two debates held so far, they’re skeptical that the old dog is willing to learn any new tricks.

 

While Obama appeared “steady and consistent” in their encounters, McCain seemed “aimless,” said Emory University debate coach Melissa Maxy Wade.

 

McCain is in fact coached by one of the best in the county, even if that coaching hasn’t been evident in his performances.

 

McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rodgers confirmed that Brett O’Donnell, the former coach of Liberty University, is the Arizona senator’s “only debate coach,” though all of McCain’s senior policy advisers are involved in debate prep.

 

McCain, the debate experts said, has been making classic mistakes that could be fixed.

 

During both debates, the Arizona senator has struggled both to clearly argue his own point and to rebut those of his opponent, despite 16 primaries of his own to hone his performance.

 

“Part of the trick in coaching candidates is to have them get to the damn point,” Louden said. “Whatever you can say in five minutes, you can say better in 30 seconds.”

 

Harris agreed, adding that McCain has also done a poor job of pointing out weaknesses in Obama’s arguments. “He needs to characterize Obama’s arguments as platitudes rather than solutions,” he said, a tact Hillary Clinton frequently employed during the later primary debates. Read article.

 

Ken Blackwell, Townhall.com

 

Dear Mr. Schieffer:

 

You have an extraordinary opportunity that is rare in presidential politics. While every presidential debate is potentially pivotal, only rarely has one carried the potential that yours does to change the race in its closing days.

 

Both of the previous debates have been flawed. The first debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, but recent events led to the first half of the debate discussing the economy instead. The second debate was supposed to be a freewheeling townhall, but your colleague Tom Brokaw made it a stifling, over-structured affair that was anything but a townhall.

 

As much as anything, Mr. Brokaw’s choice of topics for the second debate robbed the American people of what was intended to be a look into the more personal and controversial aspects of the candidates. In that debate focusing on domestic policy, there was not a single question about the Supreme Court, gun control, abortion, gay marriage or immigration. It strains credulity to assert that of the more than 1,000 questions offered to Mr. Brokaw, he could not find any that spoke to these issues.

 

Such matters may not be of much concern to East Coast elites, but they are of profound importance to countless American voters. As surprising as it may be to pundits, literally millions of voters decide their vote solely on one of these hot-button issues.

 

Mr. Brokaw’s decision to avoid those topics has raised the suspicions of some, alleging that NBC was sheltering Barack Obama by blocking questions that backed Mr. Obama into a corner. Read article.

Media Ignore Farrakhan’s Endorsement of Obama - SEE VIDEO HERE.

Ronald Kessler, NewsMax.com

 

Imagine the media frenzy that would ensue if David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan endorsed John McCain for president. Yet Louis Farrakhan’s endorsement of Barack Obama has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media.

Speaking to a convention of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan not only declared his support for Obama, but also told his followers that Obama was the “Messiah.”

 

“You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said. “And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.”

 

Farrakhan compared Obama to Nation of Islam founder Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, whom Farrakhan says also had a white mother and black father .

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” Farrakhan said. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”

 

Incredibly, only Fox News and a few other news outlets have run Farrakhan’s endorsement. Farrakhan made the statement last February, but it only recently appeared on YouTube HERE.  Read article.

David Freddoso, NY Post.com

 

John McCain blew it. Barack Obama will win the election, and there may be nothing that McCain can do to stop it.

 

This isn't just what liberals are saying. It's what conservatives are thinking, and they're angry. Annoyed that this is exactly what they thought would happen when he squeaked out a win in the primaries. Frustrated that they kept their criticism of his campaign to a minimum for the sake of the party. Livid at what they consider McCain's sluggish efforts.

 

The feeling was perhaps best summed up by a man who appeared at a McCain-Palin event in Wisconsin: "It's time that you two are representing us, and we are mad."

 

The Right can only be depressed as they watch Obama buoyed by a world credit crisis and the deep unpopularity of a president who campaigned but never governed like a conservative. It's the perfect combination to make a president out of an inexperienced, far-left politician whose background provides a gold mine for any opposition researcher.   As chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an educational reform project that Ayers founded, Obama presided over a waste of $160 million in donors' money. The project, under his leadership, failed to improve student achievement in the 210 Chicago schools where it operated, according to the Annenberg Challenge's final report. And to this day, that project is Obama's only significant executive experience.

 

Obama's legislative leadership was similar, a case study in wasting other people's money. In Springfield, Obama wrote letters from his public position to get Rezko $14 million for his slum-development enterprise. Obama co-sponsored several pieces of housing legislation favorable to Rezko and other slum-developers, giving them hundreds of millions in subsidies and other tax and regulatory advantages. They in turn funneled money to Obama's campaigns and then let their buildings deteriorate, even turning off the heat on their tenants during the winter. By his own account, Obama never bothered to follow up on how the money was spent. Read article.

Michael Reagan, Human Events.com

 

To listen to the Obama spin-masters you’d think that the McCain campaign’s questioning of their candidate’s association with unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is a smear tactic falsely elevating a casual relationship between the two men into one where they worked together in promoting Ayers’ far-left goals.

 

Their reaction to the continuing revelations that disprove that claim is one of sheer panic -- and they have a good reason to be scared witless that any in-depth probe of what went on between the two comrades will reveal Obama’s true colors -- all of them dark red!

 

If the truth becomes better known -- and it will if the Ayers issue is doggedly pursued -- it will be clear that Obama was not only deeply immersed the fetid swamp of Chicago’s far-left political scene, but was from the very beginning of his career carefully groomed by the city’s socialist left to follow the path he’s on now in his quest for the presidency of the United States.

 

Obama and Bill Ayers were close associates for years, going back as far as 1995 if not earlier. According to CNN: “A review of board minutes and records by CNN show Obama crossed paths repeatedly with Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project. The Annenberg Foundation gave the project a $50 million grant to match local private funds to improve schools… Obama was asked to serve as the board chairman in 1995… For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including some projects advocated by Ayers ... The board, for example, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers' small schools project… The funding, according to records… CNN reviewed, came directly from the Annenberg foundation which Obama chaired. While working on the Annenberg project, Obama and Ayers also served together on a second charitable foundation, the Woods Fund.”

 

No wonder the Obama campaign wants the Ayers connection to be off-limits. Read article.

 

Wesley Pruden, Washington Times.com

 

Something odd is going on. The Obama campaign boasts of a landslide in the making even as his polling lead slips a point or two, and there's anger bordering on rage when John McCain and Sarah Palin raise questions about Barack Obama's judgment in his unexplored past in Chicago.

 

An investigation of ACORN, a cabal of "political activists" hired to register voters in the neighborhoods where few friends of John McCain abide has now spread to 10 states. Investigators discovered that the entire offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys had signed up to vote in Las Vegas, unless it turns out that someone forged their signatures to make a quota. The rules for this game were written in Chicago.

 

The senator's campaign only wants to talk about the economy, and who can blame him? Wall Street is tanking to uncharted depths, banking is at a standstill and fear stalks Main Street and all the avenues and boulevards running across it. But Sen. Obama wants certain questions about the economy, and how it got this way, declared off-limits. Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, declares questions about Franklin Raines, his stewardship of Fannie Mae and his relationship with the senator to be racist because both men "are African-American."

 

Sen. Obama, who has tried to avoid questions about his associations with shady Chicago figures, was asked again Thursday, this time by a television talking head, about William Ayers, the '60s terrorist and bomb-thrower with whom Republicans say he "palled around." Read article.

 

Editorial, NY Post.com

 

Ohio. Nevada. Connecticut. Indiana. Michigan. Missouri. New Mexico. North Carolina. Wisconsin.

 

That's the list of states where investigations are under way into allegations of fraud in the new-voter registrations collected by Barack Obama's preferred collection of "community organizers," the radical extremists of ACORN.

 

In some cases, however, ACORN is getting some high-placed help - from the (Democratic) state officials whose job should include uncovering voting fraud.

 

In Ohio, for example, a federal judge ruled that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is violating the law by refusing to allow county election boards to verify the identities of voters newly registered by ACORN.

 

"It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States," ruled Judge George Smith.

 

But Brunner - who's appointed an ACORN rep to one of her advisory committees - claims that the complaints are just "allegations that don't have any evidence to support them."

 

This despite the reports by The Post's Jeane MacIntosh, who in Ohio's Cuyahoga County found one 19-year-old who admitted he'd registered to vote 72 times with ACORN in return for cash and cigarettes - a felony in that state. Read article.

 

Rich Lowry, NRO.com

 

‘People were satisfied,” Barack Obama writes in his first memoir, Dreams From My Father, “so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.”

 

Such was Obama’s strategy as a high-school student for dealing with white people who might be discomfited by a young black man. In the closing weeks of the campaign, Obama has hewed to this long-ago operating procedure. If “the economy, stupid” was the de facto slogan of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, “no sudden moves” could be the motto of Obama’s.

 

The masterly execution of a political straddle is among Obama’s many talents. His second book, The Audacity of Hope, is devoted to the craft. As Time magazine writer Joe Klein noted at the time, he “counted no fewer than 50 instances of excruciatingly judicious on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-handedness.” So while the McCain campaign wants to revive the Obama of Dreams — an angry young man, lost until he finds a home in left-wing Chicago — Obama is presenting himself as the cautious candidate of the inaptly named Audacity. Read article.

 

Karl Rove, Online WSJ.com

 

Tuesday night's presidential debate was good entertainment. Both candidates were animated and loose throughout a wide-ranging discussion. Sen. Barack Obama did well in Sen. John McCain's favorite format. Mr. McCain was more focused and sharp than in the first debate, though the cameras above him made his balding pate more prominent.

 

Tom Brokaw was often a distraction: Did he really need over a hundred words -- including the name "Sherard Cowper-Coles" -- to ask about Afghanistan?

 

Mr. McCain's advocates were cheered by him advancing the theme that Mr. Obama lacks a record of accomplishment or bipartisanship in the Senate. Mr. McCain also described how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constituted "the match that started this forest fire" that's engulfed our economy, and nailed Mr. Obama and Democrats for being AWOL on GSE reform.

 

Mr. McCain was most effective on taxes and spending. He argued now is not the time to raise taxes and hit Mr. Obama's proposal to hike small business taxes: three out of four filers in the top 5% report small-business income. Mr. McCain called for a spending freeze and attacked earmarks, including Mr. Obama's $3 million for a Chicago planetarium's "overhead projector." Mr. Obama weakly replied earmarks were only $18 billion. Read article.

 

Ed Kaitz, American Thinker.com

 

Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, has unleashed the vicious attack on John McCain and Sarah Palin that we have been anticipating of late. After noting that McCain and Palin were "sowing the seeds of hatred and division" Lewis turns the screws even further by comparing the current Republican "toxic language" to the hostile climate George Wallace created in Alabama back in the early 60s:

 

"Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama."

 

Lewis claims that McCain and Palin are "playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all. They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better."

 

When a shocked McCain asked Obama to repudiate Lewis' remarks, Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Lewis' comments were mostly "on target:"

 

Well, where does one begin? Read article.

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