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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:25 PM Original message |
The trashing of ACORN. How the far right smashed help for the poor. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. ...with the help of cowardly and complicit Democrats. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Indeed. That was a cowardly decision. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Cowardly and self-defeating |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. And you notice the deafening outrage of "progressives"? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. True |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Yet, they can't understand why we poor folk get ANGRY. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Far too many were willing to jump on |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:22 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. Racist, yes, but more so Classist. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Note to Bill |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. . |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 07:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
33. This was most disturbing of all. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
7. They used the exact same tactics to steal the 2000 election! |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. In part because Democratic politicians allow it to happen. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 10:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. Al Sharpton stood out in the rain in front of the news and said it was wrong |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
8. K&R |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
12. K&R |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
14. The right doesn't want an anti-authoritarian left group organizing the poor and middle class. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Neither does the center right "leadership" in the Democratic party, from the looks of it |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Or most established progressive organizations |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Just telling it like it is- and not distorting matters to cover for the center right politicians |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. It was not even that radical. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. That's true if you're talking about ACORN Housing. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Heavens to Mergatroid! Alliances between poor and middleclass people! |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
19. It's a shame that's at counterpuke |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Oy vey. |
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TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I found the article when I was trying to find out what happened to the crook |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. ACORN was a fiasco for progressives |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Ummm, maybe because... WE HAVE NO SUPPORT. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
21. And I recall DUers going right along with it. |
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jotsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
28. And they're not done. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 07:45 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. They will never be done. |
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jotsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Compromised beings |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. You've nailed it. |
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jotsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Only everywhere you look! |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
29. We watched it happen, and it made me sick. From Rove's young protege to the MSM to Congress... |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 08:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. "when the powerful decide to bring you down,even just to show they can,no one will stand up for you" |
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raouldukelives (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
32. Pretty funny when 60 seconds of Fox News |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
35. K & R! |
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