ACORN's Response to McCain's Lies

kenmabmcc

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/ACORN-s-Response-to-McCain-by-David-S...son-081

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â€œFor more than a decade, ACORN members have held protests, released reports, and advocated for regulations to protect homeowners from predatory lenders. ACORN organizers and volunteers have been working day and night to help victims of the GOP economic meltdown to save their homes from foreclosure. In fact, ACORN has brought class action lawsuits against several predatory lenders, and has lobbied the Federal Reserve and Congress in support of regulations against predatory lending. ACORN has even been successful in convincing many lenders to treat homeowners more fairly and help families be able to make their mortgage payments and save their homes.â€

â€œUnfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown. If John McCain thinks that community organizers caused the foreclosure crisis, he knows even less about the economy than previously thought.â€

â€John McCain and the Republicans are desperately trying to shift the blame for the economic crisis they caused with a philosophy of deregulation and indifference to homeowners. All the grainy footage and creepy music in the world can't cancel out some simple, basic facts, and the facts about the economy are not on John McCain's side.â€

Palin/McCain, desperate again..
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xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3874

Nice try on their part, but they are the ones lying.

By the way, thanks for proving they're working to get Obama elected.

kenmabmcc

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3874

ACORN's response does not make McCain a liar. ACORN is lying - deregulation did not cause the problem, that's been proven already. It's what ACORN was encouraging that caused the problem - forcing banks to lend to people who couldn't afford the houses.

And their attempt to blame everything on Bush, McCain, and Republicans, despite proof that Democrats blocked reform that Bush and McCain both tried to push to prevent this, just proves once again that ACORN is working for Democrats like Obama.

Sgt Schultz · Joined: Dec 07, 2002 Posts: 6832 Location: St. Louis area

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3874

I did not say that ACORN caused the problem, Sgt. Schultz. I said it was what they were encouraging that caused the problem. ACORN lobbied heavily for banks to give the loans that you're saying were the problem. Banks are not stupid - they wouldn't give out those crappy loans unless they were forced to, and they were.

So I'll repeat - ACORN did not cause the problem. They did encourage the cause of the problem. Congress, ultimately, caused the problem.

My issue with this "reply" by ACORN is the assertion by Ken that McCain is lying simply because ACORN says he is, when in fact ACORN is lying when they try to say, as Ken highlighted, that Bush, McCain, and the Republicans caused this problem all by themselves, and that ACORN not only didn't even encourage the root of the problem, they allege that they tried to prevent it. ACORN's claim is demonstrably 100% false, and 100% partisan, and 100% an ad for Obama.

ejward · Joined: Jan 06, 2003 Posts: 6529

I can remember buying my house 15 years ago. They pre-approved us and told us we could affored twice as much as we ultimatly borrowed. Banks have been trying to stuff huge loans down the throats of people that can't afford them forever. This isn't new. I would not have been able to afford the payments on what the bank was trying to give us even though they said we could. I had an adjustable rate. Five years later, i would have been struggling to make the payments. Nobody was going to jump in to bail me out.

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3874

No one's bailing me out, either. I bought my house in 2005 - right at the peak of the housing bubble. The bank offered me way more than I could afford. I instead picked a house that I could afford, even though it doesn't meet my families needs. Now it's worth 20% less than I paid for it - where's my bailout?

Anyway, back on the topic, it still isn't solely the fault of Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. ACORN lied in the "defense" Ken quoted, not McCain.

kenmabmcc

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3874

Please flame bait someone else, Ken.

kenmabmcc

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3874

Ken, again, flame bait someone else. This was discussed in the other ACORN threads many times. If you want to be a jerk, though, have fun, keep up the good work.

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