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Channeling clueless Charlie Gibson and Nancy Pelosi, President Obama is playing dumb about ACORN. Here’s what he said on 美国广播公司的本周 今天上午：
STEPHANOPOULOS: But have your — have some of your allies made it easier for — handed your opponents some ammunition, like ACORN, for example…
OBAMA: Well, look, the — you know, I think that — are there folks in the Democratic camp or on the left who haven’t — haven’t always operated in ways that I’d appreciate? Absolutely.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Congress said they should cut off all funding for ACORN.
OBAMA: Is — is — is…
STEPHANOPOULOS: … all funding for ACORN. Are you for that?
OBAMA: Is that true on the other side, as well? Of course that’s true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?
OBAMA: You know, it’s — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.
OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.
It strains credulity — no, it snaps credulity in half — to believe Obama “didn’t even know” that ACORN was “getting a whole lot of federal money” given his extensive legal services on behalf of the group and 训练 for its voter education arm, Project Vote. (Go re-read my column from June 2008, “The ACORN Obama knows,” and all the links for a refresher course.)
既然白宫支持调查，国会应该确保调查：
1) 奥巴马团队如何 通过前线组织“Citizen Services, Inc.”隐藏了向 ACORN 支付的 800,000 美元竞选款项。;
2）如何 奥巴马团队分享了捐赠者名单 与总统的旧雇主，ACORN 附属项目投票，一个 501(c)(3) 组织，禁止从事政治活动（总统先生，见 安妮塔·蒙克里夫);
3) 以及 Project Vote 和数百个实体如何将非营利、免税的资金与国家 ACORN 旗舰的政治运作混合在一起——如果奥巴马读到这个故事，他就会知道 纽约时报记者斯蒂芬妮·斯特罗姆去年 XNUMX 月的报道 在她之前 枪口 随着选举日的临近。
来吧。
