OBAMA for PRESIDENT and Triskaidekaphobia ( Archived) (913)

I just heard that Obama wants to make government service mandatory for high school/college, etc...

Ttom? Anyone? Can you clarify????



Oh.. and the Communist Party of CT just endorsed him as their candidate.
Why is that,

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Do you have any idea where to find some of this information? I think kids and parents should know specifically what he means by "Mandatory Government Service." Would be nice to see all of his proposed policies in print somewhere...

Any clue?

What I find so annoying about the media is that we are not HEARING about this from anyone. Can you imagine the uproar if GWB had suggested this.

People are being deiliberately manipulated about this man and who he really is, and that is so dangerous in our current day and time. I mean, he's no ordinary democrat... he's a fr**king comunist!!! I never thought I would utter these words, but I would almost prefer Hillary after this!
(did I just say that???)

I think you did

Geeze! What does that tell ya?

MORE ACORN Community organizing!
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How do you register 60,000 new voters? One at a time.

At the Department of Motor Vehicles office on East Sahara Avenue last week, Ana Ramos was following Mike Wilson into the parking lot. The 24-year-old Wilson admitted he wasn't registered to vote, but didn't stop walking by Ramos and her clipboard.

Walking alongside him, Ramos bugged Wilson, told him it was easy to fill out the form, that this year's election was going to be important and it was the right thing to do. It would take only a minute, she said.

For Ramos, 22, a canvasser for the social advocacy group ACORN, it was another small victory. Signing up voters, not the $8 per hour she earns, is what makes it worth her while to spend the day in 100-plus-degree heat chasing people down, she says.

"It's time for a change," the Las Vegas audio engineer said after filling out the form. "I've been avoiding it for a long time. I might as well try and make a difference."



But as a day spent with canvassers showed, the new voters aren't lining up at the county building to register themselves. Rather, they're being aggressively recruited.

"We approach them. We bring the issue to them," said Chris Edwards, ACORN's Nevada field director. "We don't wait for them to come to us."

ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claims to have collected 60,000 new voter registrations in Clark County since February. The group, which works to promote the interests of lower-income people, is aiming for 100,000 by Labor Day.

Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said he has never seen such a deluge. "The biggest year we ever had was 2004. That year, we processed almost 300,000 (voter) applications -- 291,000, to be exact. We're running double that rate right now."

As of this point in 2004, the Clark County Election Department had received 81,000 applications; this year, it's 161,000, he said.

According to the Census, nationally about two-thirds of those eligible to vote -- U.S. citizens who are over 18 and have not had their voting rights revoked for a criminal conviction -- are registered; in Nevada, it's just 56 percent.

ACORN's canvassers, drawn from the ranks of the lower income themselves, work outside welfare offices, free clinics and downmarket stores.

ACORN's tactics are controversial.

The group has drawn accusations of voter fraud and criminal investigations in several states. Last year, authorities in Washington state brought felony charges against ACORN workers for filing false voter registrations.

Some ACORN workers pleaded guilty and went to jail, while the organization paid $25,000 and agreed to have its registration efforts monitored in a settlement with Washington state authorities.

Lomax said while he supports the goal of getting more people registered to vote, he sees rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 registrations ACORN turns in every week.

Lomax recommends voters check the Election Department's Web site at depts/election/ or call 455-VOTE (8683), to make sure their registration is in order and avoid problems when they go to vote.

Edwards, a former union organizer, dismissed the allegations of fraud as the politically motivated accusations of elites who feel threatened by the prospect of the proletariat storming the polls.

Edwards and the political organizers who work under him hold orientation sessions every afternoon at ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters, a threadbare suite in a threadbare building in the Commercial Center complex on Sahara east of the Strip.

On a recent afternoon, the room on Sahara held about 20 people, a down-and-out looking group drawn to the spot by fliers promising hourly work they could start right away. "WE GOT JOBS!!" the fliers blared.

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(will provide source, I forgot it )