{"id":6508,"date":"2008-10-13T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2008-10-15T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T17:02:15","slug":"mccain-hearts-acorn-was-keynote-speaker-at-groups-2006-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6508","title":{"rendered":"McCain Hearts ACORN! Was Keynote Speaker at Group’s 2006 Rally!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golly, for a group that’s committed so much “voter fraud” for so long (if you’re gullible enough to believe the lies<\/a> that RNC\/FNC has been telling you) it’s mighty strange that, as News One notes<\/a>, “McCain attended an ACORN convention just two years ago.”<\/p>\n

The once-honorable Republican’s campaign has even seen fit to produce a video smear ad<\/a>, attempting to tar Obama with “associations” with ACORN, and alleging the group has committed “massive voter fraud” to boot! (They’ve yet to produce any actual evidence for that, unfortunately.)<\/p>\n

But more than just attending the ACORN-sponsored February 2006 rally, ACORN confirms in a statement today<\/a> that McCain was actually the keynote speaker<\/i>!<\/p>\n

So now, they wonder, why it is that McCain seems to have “lost that loving feeling”?<\/p>\n

“It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans. Maybe it is out of desperation that Senator McCain has forgotten that he was for ACORN before he was against ACORN,” noted Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer of ACORN.<\/p>\n

“We expected Senator McCain to support our efforts to give voice to millions of Americans who have never participated in an election before,” she continued. “We are surprised at his efforts to vilify an organization that, until recently, he saw as an ally.”<\/p>\n

Hmmm…So, why was<\/i> John McCain “palling around with” an organization that “has violated more Americans’ civil rights to have their votes counted than any group since the KKK,” as described by noted Florida ‘vote-rigger’<\/a> and McCain surrogate Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Abramoff)? Or was Feeney speaking out of school? If so, we’ve yet to hear McCain condemning the outrageous remarks, or distancing himself from Feeney, the three time winner<\/a> of CREW’s “Most Corrupt Members of Congress” Award.<\/p>\n

Also, we can’t help but wonder, in regard to McCain’s meeting with ACORN, where he spoke on immigration reform, by the way…were there were any preconditions<\/i> before he agreed to meet with them?<\/p>\n

Special Coverage of the GOP’s ACORN “Voter Fraud” Scam right here…<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Now updated below with video of McCain’s appearance, when he tells the ACORN crowd: “What makes America special is what’s in this room tonight.”…<\/i><\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> Sharona of Voice of Americans 2008<\/a> sends us the following musical tribute to McCain’s change of heart about ACORN, followed by a local news report from his appearance at the ACORN immigration reform rally in Florida (note all of the folks with the red ACORN shirts on in the crowd shots)…<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 10\/14\/08:<\/b><\/i> Here’s a video (via Mark Ambinder at <\/i>The Atlantic<\/i><\/a>) of some of McCain’s actual speech to the ACORN group, in which he says “What makes America special is what’s in this room tonight. That’s what makes America special.”<\/p>\n

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Golly, for a group that’s committed so much “voter fraud” for so long (if you’re gullible enough to believe the lies that RNC\/FNC has been telling you) it’s mighty strange that, as News One notes, “McCain attended an ACORN convention just two years ago.” The once-honorable Republican’s campaign has even seen fit to produce a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,106,252,300,295,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn","category-election-fraud","category-john-mccain","category-republicans","category-rnc","category-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}