And yes, he has a bracelet too!

HT - Ace

There's just one little problem: She's 11 years too young.

The Connecticut girl is 11 years too young - and nobody in her family knows how she ended up on a voter registration form submitted by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"She's registered to vote?" said a surprised Jerome Smith, O'jahnae's teenage brother. "She's too young to vote."

But that didn't stop someone from forging the child's signature on a voter registration card and giving her a fake birth date that upped her age to 27. The family told The Post a drug-addicted relative may have given the bogus card to ACORN.

Voter registration fraud complaints like these continue to mount for the group, already under scrutiny in 11 states where hundreds, if not thousands, of new registrations are being questioned.

ACORN volunteers have been found to register dead people and even put members of the Dallas Cowboys on Nevada lists.

Human Events offers this introduction:

Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below.

McCain's letter -- signed by nineteen other senators -- said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]...operate in a safe and sound manner.[and]..More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail."

Sen. Obama did not sign the letter, nor did any other Democrat.

A review of Federal Election Commission records back to 1989 reveals Obama in his three complete years in the Senate is the second largest recipient of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae campaign contributions, behind only Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the powerful chairman of the Senate banking committee. Dodd was first elected to the Senate in 1980.

According to OpenSecrets.com, from 1989 to 2008, Dodd received $165,400 in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac campaign contributions, including contributions from PACs and individuals, followed by Obama, who received $126,349 in such contributions since being elected to the Senate in 2004.

In contrast, McCain warned of the coming mortgage crisis as he pressed in 2005 for regulatory reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Here's what John McCain said on 25 May 2005, speaking to the Senate:

Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae's regulator reported that the company's quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were "illusions deliberately and systematically created" by the company's senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae's former chief executive officer, OFHEO's report shows that over half of Mr. Raines' compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.

The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator's examination of the company's accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.

For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac-known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs-and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO's report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO's report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.

I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.

I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.

Related: WND: "Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac execs now offering advice to Obama -
Senator's links to mortgage giants also include campaign contributions"

One does indeed have to suspect that McCain has never had his heart in the effort that's been needed to conduct a systematic and sustained effort to reveal Obama as the Leftist and a craven product of machine politics that he is and has been.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems... (edit - they've already been proven) ...I will not weaponize space... (edit - Chinese already well on the way to doing so and Iran promises to do the same) ...I will slow development of future combat systems... (edit - U.S. would be the only country to do so) ...and I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure the quadrennial defense review is not used to justify unnecessary spending... (edit - we don't have to use much imagination to know where this will lead) ...I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons... (edit - pigs will fly sooner than Russia, Iran, N. Korea, China, etc... do so) ...and to seek that goal, I will not develop nuclear weapons... (edit - see above - we'd be alone on that one too) ...I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material... (edit - we've done such a good job with N. Korea and Iran, right?) ...and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert... ...and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals... (edit - see all of the above)

ACORN and Friends (Community Organizers), Responsible For Voting Fraud and The Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis, Are Going To Be Shaping Policy For A Barack Obama Presidency.

Am I the only one that thinks its a really bad idea to have the very same people that were part and parcel of our nation's financial crisis to help shape our nation's agenda?

Make sure this gets passed around and bumped every single day until election night. I'll be surprised if it's not made to disappear well before then by the Obama camp. Just in case of such an event we've stored the video on our server.

Update: For confirmation of the segment (that Obama actually talked about enlistment of community activists during the transition into his administration) in the video check out this live blogging post of that date at "5:11" in to the post. Obama's comments are also substantiated in the last paragraph of this blog post at Radio Iowa - the Blog. There's absolutely no way that this video was "fudged" (my word not hers) as a news reporter suggested at my local Fox TV station, WTVT in Tampa.

10/12 0900 Update: Allah Pundit writes:

"According to the Center for Community Change, which co-sponsored the event, more than 3,000 people participated; I'm assuming ACORN was represented but I can't find a definitive list of all the groups in attendance. In any case, the event's agenda was necessarily broader than theirs. It is true that Deepak Bhargava, the current executive director of CCC, used to work as ACORN's legislative director, but unless I missed something, I don't even see the group listed as an official CCC partner."

"This link to the connections that the CCC has with all of its community organization friends, not to mention Leftist, Marxist, and generally radical activist groups."

These people have been pretty much all living in each other's pockets for the last forty years; by now they're more incestuous than a Faulkner novel.

PPS: You may want to have a chat with DNC mouthpiece Brad Woodhouse about what the phrase "There's no relationship here" actually means. Although I must say that the accelerated mushroom treatment that you've put the DNC through seems to have paid dividends: they repeat the Approved Points of Talk quite steadily. Electroshock? Drug cocktail? Forced memetic downloading?... oops, ignore that last one.

I was watching CNN this morning and they were showing clips of an interview they did with ACORN director Bertha Lewis and she blatantly lied by acting like Republicans only just now in the last month were starting to find these problems, implying that the only reason they were doing so was in an attempt to 'scare' voters. There's a pretty good write-up at The Politico website that lays waste to Lewis' argument, as the battles between the GOP and ACORN have gone on for decades.

HT - Ace

Related: ACORN gives GOP new line of attack (HT - Sister Toldjah) Uncovering more Obama ACORN connections

There we have it folks. McCain took the high road and came to Barack Obama's defense when someone accused Obama of not being a patriotic American, an Arab, and a generally scary individual.

The next day what does Obama do?

Fairly self-explanatory, and no I wouldn't and will not, much less vote for this empty suit with a shady background who is against almost every American principle that I fought for and my friends shed their blood for.

... then read the article at The American Thinker. I'm not going to express an opinion on what I think about this video and the article, other than to say that I do consider both, at the very least, to be interesting albeit I know nothing about the credibility of Philip Berg who comments in the video. According to the article at the above link, Berg is said to be a lifelong Democrat who has held political office and been a committeeman who has brought suit over what the article claims are "the real questions raised by the absence of a valid Obama birth certificate" (I know you're thinking "oh no, not another birth certificate story," but this has a wee bit of substance to it with a message, of sorts). As for whether or not I see this as a game changer, my answer is that I definitely do not.

Here's an excerpt from the TAT discussion about the video:

His narrative of the various questions Obama has refused to answer is devastating. Graphics and sound are well-deployed to avoid tedium as factual data is conveyed in a way that allows viewers to absorb it. When he contrasts Obama's behavior when challenged (use perfectly valid legal technicalities to delay) with John McCain's full disclosure of all documentary evidence under a similar challenge (remember the flap over his birth in the Panama Canal Zone? -- who raised those questions, anyway?), there is no doubt in a "viewer's mind" that there is something seriously wrong here.

[...] Here's why it's not. The circumstantial evidence for weirdness around this birth certificate is so great that legitimate questions arise -- questions anyone with common sense would ask. The answers to those questions can easily be provided. The Obama-Biden campaign can resolve this now with proof that Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen, as is mandated for presidential candidates anyway.

The job of a press is to ask questions which have a basis in fact. See for yourself the full chronology here. See whether you are certain there are no legitimate questions worth asking. I am asking the Obama campaign to resolve a factual question which they must already have covered in the vetting process. After all, Obama is running for president, and he is constitutionally ineligible to do so if he wasn't born on U.S. territory. Therefore it is legitimate to ask questions about it.

Update: Ed Morrissey shares my doubts.

"Google has not yet cached this page, so I am reposting Michael's excellent commentary so they will not vanish from memory when they, and Michael from Seattle, go under Obama's bus."

Since you cowards deleted the post, here it is again:

CURIOUS
By K from Portland, OR - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:11 am EDT
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There is so much talk within this campaign, by Biden, Obama and supporters, about the lies and comments coming from the McCain campaign regarding Ayres and Acorn. I have investigated both topics, and at this point have been unable to identify any lies out of the McCain camp. Indeed, there is a great deal of information tying Obama to Ayres, and to the corrupt company Acorn. Today the FBI announced raids on many Acorn offices - within Obama's target states. Since Obama has paid that company $800,000 to hire Acorn to register people in these same states, what are we to think about the connection between Obama and Acorn? What are we to think about the 'increases' in registration, when Directors of Elections in various states, and the FBI report hundreds of thousands false forms having been filed by Acorn (and they have been shown on the news).

We now have the problem of questioning 1) voter registration and actual voting in these states; 2) Obama's responses to criticism. And if we have to question all of that, then how can we take at face value anything this ticket says?

This is a campaign of change? From what? to What? This sounds like Chicago politics as usual. </blockquote></blockquote>I can't help but wonder how long the Obama campaign will allow it to remain. Team Obama is not known for their tolerance for opinions other than their own. In fact, i'm surprised that Michael Hunter isn't already being called a racist for disagreeing with the Obama campaign, after all, isn't that the Obama way?

Gee, what's the big deal with public school teachers campaigning for Obama? After all, taxpayers are already funneling millions and millions of dollars through ACORN channels for the Obama campaign, what's a few dollars more through the public schools for Obama?

On the other hand, damn, what's wrong with these people; have they no conscience, sense of responsibility, or an iota of professionalism? Once upon a time, many years ago before the Democratic party was taken over by the far-left and public school teachers didn't subscribe to the same educational theories as William Ayers, there was at least the appearance of proper decorum and common sense in our public school systems. That's obviously all out the window now.

And golly gee, there is that nagging little question: "Who owned Obama's home and who paid his taxes?"

Hmmm..., and there may be a wee bit of a common link in the story between the Giannoulia family, Rezko singing like a song bird in heat, and the messiah? Interesting.

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