Posté le Mercredi 1 octobre 2008 par lagrette
Plusieurs articles récents ont demontré le lien entre Obama et l’organisation ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
Stanley Kurtz avait un excellent article sur le sujet avant hier, repris aujourd’hui par Investors Business Daily .
En résumé, la succursale de ACORN à Chicago au début des années 90 a demandé à Obama ( qui était avocat dans le privé à l’époque) de former ses membres aux techniques d’intimidation « légales » pour forcer les banques à accorder des prèts aux plus défavorisés ( Les NINJA loans : No Income, No Job, no Assets) : occupation des lobbys des banques, de leurs drive through et manifestations devant les residences des banquiers entre autres… C’était pour imposer « affirmative action lending ». Plus tard, Obama a continué à aider ACORN en leur accordant des « Grants » des fondations qu’il dirigeait avec Bill Ayers : Le WOOD FUND et la ChicagoAnnenberg Challenge
Election ‘08: Barack Obama wasn’t just the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac political contributions. He was also the senator from ACORN, the activist leader for risky « affirmative action » loans.
Despite efforts to blame the rescue bill’s failure on the GOP, it should be remembered that 95 Democrats — some 40% of the Democratic Caucus — withheld support. Obama himself also deserves blame — not only for the bill’s failure, but also for the crisis it was designed to solve.
As the New York Times reports, « Aides to Mr. Obama said he had not directly reached out to try to sway any House Democrats who opposed the measure. » Is the reason the fact that the slush fund for ACORN in the original bill, siphoning off 20% of any future profits for such activist groups, was trimmed from the tree?
Obama, who once represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, was hired by the group to train its community organizers and staff in the methods and tactics of the late Saul Alinsky. ACORN would stage in-your-face protests in bank lobbies, drive-through lanes and even at bank managers’ homes to get them to issue risky loans in the inner city or face charges of racism.
In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago’s ACORN to run training sessions in « direct action. » That’s the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called « Ninja » loans — no income, no job, no assets — to people who couldn’t afford them.
CRA was designed to increase minority homeownership. Whenever a bank wanted to grow or expand, ACORN would file complaints that it was not sufficiently sensitive to the needs of minorities in providing home loans. Agitators would then be unleashed.
Chicago’s ACORN used Alinsky’s tactics against institutions such as Bell Federal Savings and Loan and Avondale Federal Savings. In September 1992, the Chicago Tribune described the group’s agenda as « affirmative action lending. »
Obama also helped ACORN get funding. When he served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its activist agenda.
In 1995, Kurtz reports, Obama chaired the committee that increased funding of ACORN and other community organizers. The committee report boasted that the fund’s « non-ideological » image « enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and governmental ‘establishments’ without undue risk of being accused of partisanship. »
The CRA empowered regulators to punish banks that failed to « meet the credit needs » of « low-income, minority and distressed neighborhoods. » It gave groups such as ACORN a license and a means to intimidate banks, claiming they were « redlining » poor and minority neighborhoods. ACORN employed its tactics in 1991 by taking over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA.
As a former White House staff economist writes in the American Thinker, Obama represented ACORN in a 1994 suit against redlining. ACORN was also a driving force behind a 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton administration that greatly expanded the CRA and helped spawn the current financial crisis.
Obama was the attorney representing ACORN in this effort. Last November, he told the group, « I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. » Indeed he has. Obama was and is fully aware of what ACORN was doing with the money and expertise he provided. The voters should be aware on Nov. 4 of the roles of both in creating the current crisis.
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8 réponses à “Obama, Acorn et les subprimes”
2 oct 08 à 07:31
Non, non, Ram Zenit, tu ne rêves pas. Ils sont réellement devenus fous :
1 oct 08 à 22:35
Je suis comme les internautes qui ont commente cette « confession »… C’est une satire, right ???
1 oct 08 à 22:29
Ca devient maladif !!
D’abord Al Gore, Pape de pseudo-science et Prophete de malheur
et maintenant Obama en Petit Jesus…..
Ils sont tous devenus fous?????!!!!!!!
(El Commendente Massimo, et Kim Il Song se roulent de rire ds leur lit d’hopital)
1 oct 08 à 21:11
Obama sur le Mont des Oliviers :
1 oct 08 à 20:28
Très bon post.
Je rebondis pour en donner un sur les 10 préoccupations concernant Obama :
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MzQ4YTY4YjQyMzRjYjA5MGZlNDBiZTkwYmEyODg5NTc
1 oct 08 à 20:06
Tiens un bon post internet sur la facon dont le NYT a traite du Chicago Annenberg Challenge et de Bill Ayers… IL y a aussi pas mal d’infos dans les commentaires .
1 oct 08 à 20:04
oui… et quand je me souviens que beaucoup disaient que ce qui etait bien sous Clinton, c’est que justement rien ne s’etait passe… Entre ces choses la, et le manque d’agressivite envers OBL, on peut dire qu’il a fait le lit d’epine sur lequel Bush s’est retrouve, ce cher Clinton !
1 oct 08 à 19:57
Plus je plonge dans cette affaire plus je me rends compte à quel point les années 90 ont été lamentable.
Tout cette décennie refait surface.
