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by drational Fri Oct 17, 2008
Per Josh Marshall:
The General Counsel of the Obama campaign is currently holding a media conference call to "Announce Major Action Taken Today To Address Illegal Conduct and Improprieties in the Sham "Anti-Fraud" Campaign Orchestrated By McCain-Palin and the RNC."
Remember Todd Graves getting replaced by Brad Schlozman in Missouri when Graves failed to aggressively prosecute ACORN in 2006?
Remember Attorney General Gonzales changing the DOJ rules on starting investigations before elections?
Remember FOX news harping on ACORN and "Voter Fraud" for the past week?
Now we come to the last ditch plan of the GOP to try to salvage this election for McCain. The AP announced yesterday the DOJ was orchestrating an FBI nationwide investigation of ACORN.
In past elections, the GOP would continue to push this issue unopposed up until the election, while their well-organized lawyers and superior finances kept the Democrats a step behind in the courts.
BUT NOT THIS TIME.
On the heels of today's Democratic Supreme Court Victory, Obama is bringing forth the clear link between the US Attorney Scandal and the present election shenanigans of the GOP, especially their use of the FBI to go after ACORN:
More Details at TPMmuckraker:
"With this voter fraud [investigation], we're seeing an unholy alliance of law enforcement and the ugliest form of partisan politics," Bob Bauer, an elections lawyer with the Obama camp, said on a conference call with reporters just now. Bauer compared the decision to launch the investigation with the US attorneys scandal, in which several US attorneys were fired for their unwillingess to pursue politically charged cases, including voter fraud, with sufficient aggression to satisfy the Bush administration.
Be sure to check out the 7 page Obama letter to Attorney General Mukasey- it is a work of art, and a strong attack on the GOP dirty tricks.
BE PROUD.
DEMOCRATS HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ORGANIZED, NOR PUSHED BACK SO HARD AGAINST GOP DIRTY TRICKS!!!!
Update:
The GOP will not give this up easily, as I believe vote suppression is their only hope of beating Obama next month. I would direct all readers to the superb coverage of vote suppression that Josh Marshall and the whole team over at TPM have done in the past 2 years. There is a lot of bacground to help you prepare to rebut the thugs out there.
Update 2:
One of the beautiful aspects of this move by Obama (IMHO) is that it brings the ugliness of the US Attorney scandal to fresh light in this election cycle.
The US Attorney scandal was ONLY moved forward because of Dem electoral victory in 2006, and it very much hurt Bush... He lost his Attorney General (Gonzo) and most of the top brass of the DOJ, as well as part of his legal/political team (Rove, Miers, Taylor). McCain was relatively unscathed by the scandal, but by making ACORN be a dominant part of his strategy, he is now subject to guilt by association with the vote suppression-obsessed republicans who directed the scandal.
As Marcy Wheeler summarizes the Obama letter:
Shorter Obama campaign: Republicans are already under criminal investigation for this stuff. Don't let them get away with the same kind of criminal conduct again.
In retrospect, I believe the Obama camp has been sitting on this move for weeks to let the GOP get deeper and deeper invested in crying "vote fraud".
Just brilliant.
Update #3
This issue was featured on MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olberman. None other than Bob Bauer, Barack's general counsel and the author of the Obama attack on GOP fraud, was present to define the facts. There is no doubt that the democrats are synched here.
Stay tuned folks, we got some live wires fighting for us.
