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Barack Obama Trained ACORN Staff In How To Intimidate Banks ...
Planting Seeds of Disaster - Stanley Kurtz - National Review Online
So yes ... Obama helped cause the financial crisis... A mess which he has the nerve to blame on Bush
Planting Seeds of Disaster - Stanley Kurtz - National Review Online
I’ve already told the story of Obama’s close ties to ACORN leader Madeline Talbott, who personally led Chicago ACORN’s campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. Using provisions of a 1977 law called the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Chicago ACORN was able to delay and halt the efforts of banks to merge or expand until they had agreed to lower their credit standards — and to fill ACORN’s coffers to finance “counseling” operations like the one touted in that Sun-Times article. This much we’ve known. Yet these local, CRA-based pressure-campaigns fit into a broader, more disturbing, and still under-appreciated national picture. Far more than we’ve recognized, ACORN’s local, CRA-enabled pressure tactics served to entangle the financial system as a whole in the subprime mess. ACORN was no side-show. On the contrary, using CRA and ties to sympathetic congressional Democrats, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster.
So yes ... Obama helped cause the financial crisis... A mess which he has the nerve to blame on Bush