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AP – President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp.
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Written by on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 in Latest News.
It’s time to get real about the Republican distraction de jour – the fantastic ACORN controversy.
The bottom line is this: if the same standard used to prevent ACORN from receiving federal contracts were applied to many large corporations — Boeing, financial institutions like AIG and CitiCorp, not to speak of private military contractors like Blackwater — they would all have been barred as federal contractors long ago. But instead of being blacklisted, many of them really received billions of taxpayer dollars to bail them out.
ACORN has worked for decades to organize a nationwide
Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back
Written by on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 in 443439.
AP – “Mad Men” and “30 Rock” led a pack of Emmy winners who successfully defended their titles at Sunday’s show, but the snappy ceremony and a star turn by host Neil Patrick Harris made the evening far from a rerun.
Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back
