The McCain campaign is coming down hard on Acorn and Obama’s ties to it:
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Now the Wall Street Journal is jumping in:
As with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, Mr. Obama was happy to associate with Acorn when it suited his purposes. But now that he’s on the brink of the Presidency, he wants to disavow his ties.
Quite suspicious, that decision of Obama’s to try and distance himself from Acorn just as the presidential election nears. Here’s Obama on February 20, 2006, “telling immigration rights activists at a rally in Miami that they ‘are what makes America special.’ ACORN co-sponsored the rally, and its volunteers surround” him (starting at about 2:00):
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Oops, my mistake. I knew I should’ve watched the video in full before posting it. That’s John McCain lauding Acorn and others – the very group he’s now trying to disavow on the brink of the presidential election (via AMERICAblog):
A goldfish’s lifetime ago, Sen. John McCain was happy to accept the honors and acclamation of the Service Employees International Union, People for the American Way, UNITE HERE — and ACORN. Here he is, on Feb. 20, 2006, telling immigration rights activists at a rally in Miami that they “are what makes America special.” ACORN co-sponsored the rally, and its volunteers surround McCain, and while there’s no evidence that McCain ever formally teamed with the group, the video serves as a reminder that he did not mind being associated with them when the politics of the moment were different….
McCain had no trouble fraternizing with ACORN in 2006 when their political interests coincided with his. Now, his campaign is writing e-mails in his name bashing ACORN as a tool of the Obama machine.
