Obama: We don’t need ACORN’s help

OREGON, Ohio — Barack Obama for the first time on Tuesday addressed the ACORN controversy that Republicans are seeking to attach to his campaign, minimizing the impact of alleged voter registration fraud linked to the activist group and stressing ACORN is not advising his campaign.

“We’ve got the best voter registration and turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now, and we don’t need ACORN’s help,” he told reporters at the secluded leafy resort outside Toledo where he is preparing for Wednesday’s debate.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which registers low-income and minority voters who tend to favor Democrats, is under siege for allegedly falsifying voter registrations, and Republicans have sought to taint Obama with the allegations.

Obama in the 1990s represented the group in a lawsuit, and on Tuesday, he said that “as an elected official, I’ve had interactions with” the Chicago branch of the group, which he said has “been active,” according to a pool report.

“But they are not advising our campaign,” stressed Obama, who himself worked as a community organizer in Chicago before attending law school

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14574.html

It makes me so mad that these hardworking, dedicated, wonderful people (the spokespeople and officers of Acorn) have to go on defense because of some baseless, savage attacks and asinine scorched-earth desperation bullshit Republicans have pulled out of their ass. All a smokescreen to divert attention from Republicans' chronic suppression of legal votes. Every last Republican spewing that crap should burn in hell.

ACORN!! Hire some people that care