Obama Caught In Major ACORN Flip-Flop
Here at CPAC Scott Hennen and I interviewed Rep. Darrell Issa and we didn’t spend a lot of time on his recent report on ACORN because we were too busy asking him about his efforts to expose the white washing Kent Conrad’s Countrywide VIP loan scandal got from the Senate Ethics Committee.
But Issa’s revelations about ACORN are nothing short of startling, and include this massive flip-flop from Obama on his involvement with the group (the video of which Issa showed here at CPAC).
This is Obama speaking before his 2008 campaign, and before ACORN became a political liability:
“When I ran project vote, the voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it. Once I was elected there wasn’t a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn’t right there with you. Since I have been in the United States Senate I’ve been always a partner with ACORN as well. I’ve been fighting with ACORN, along side ACORN, on issues you care about my entire career.”
This is Obama speaking during the election, when ACORN was no longer convenient for him politically:
Reporter: Senator McCain today said there was voter fraud going on in the battleground states. ACORN has been tampering with America’s most precious right. There has to be a full investigation and he also said you need to disclose your full relationship with ACORN. I’m wondering if you have any reaction to Senator McCain’s charge?
Barack Obama: Well, first of all my relationship with ACORN is pretty straightforward. It’s probably 13 years ago when I was still practicing law, I represented ACORN and my partner in that investigation was the US Justice department in having Illinois implement what was called the motor voter law, to make sure people could go to DMV’s and driver license facilities to get registered. It wasn’t being implemented. That was my relationship and is my relationship to ACORN. There is an ACORN organization in Chicago. They’ve been active. As an elected offiical, I’ve had interactions with them. But, they’re not advising my campaign. We’ve got the best voter registration in politics right now and we don’t need ACORN’s help.
First Obama was right with ACORN. Partnered with them. Fighting with them side by side.
Then, when ACORN’s crimes and frauds were revealed, Obama was suddenly just their lawyer.
Convenient, no?
