The problem with that article is that Acorn is a large organization involved with at least a dozen different projects through various sub-groups and affiliates.
One part of the article talks about the American Institute for Social Justice and the next sentence the American Environmental Justice Project. Then the next talks about the Acorn Housing Corporation. They talk like it's one entity where it's really a bunch of them under the Acorn banner.
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Which brings us to Mr. Obama, who got his start as a Chicago "community organizer" at Acorn's side.
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And the side of anyone else that was working to help the poor.
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In 1992 he led voter registration efforts as the director of Project Vote, which included Acorn.
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"Included Acorn", but don't bother to tell us who or how many others it included.
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This past November, he lauded Acorn's leaders for being "smack dab in the middle" of that effort.
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I'm sure most people, including McCain, would praise any group that tried to get people involved and registered to vote.
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Mr. Obama also served as a lawyer for Acorn in 1995, in a case against Illinois to increase access to the polls.
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Obama, Acorn, and others, were fighting the same fight, so working together makes sense.
It's apparent that some of the people working on getting people registered to vote, are former Enron accountants, trying to bolster their performance with phony names. But that said, it doesn't mean that everything Acorn does, or the people that work with them, are tainted.