In recent days, The Washington Post, The New York Times and other major news outlets have recounted the "troubled" history of the poor people's advocacy group ACORN, but left out the five-year anti-ACORN campaign led by White House adviser Karl Rove and other Republican operatives. Full Story »
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This is a somewhat rambling piece that is more opinion than news report. It argues that ACORN is being singled out for punishment because of the misdeeds of some specific underlings while the excesses of the Republican war on ACORN, including dismissal of US Attorneys by the Bush administration, have gone unpunished. Some other points are made along the way but overall the looseness of the piece diminishes its effectiveness.
Yet, while bending to Republican demands to speak out against a poor people’s group, Obama continued to resist the notion that powerful Republicans from the Bush administration deserved to be investigated for authorizing the use of torture against prisoners in the “war on terror.”
