In my research on the subject, I've come to understand three points.

1) ACORN, although crooked in the way of registering nonexistant voters (understandably fucked up beyond belief), and supporting the subprime loans that were part of the cause of our current recession, is not that bad of an organization. I'd like to remind everyone that humans are easily corrupted, and that the cases of voter fraud are, for all we know, isolated incidents. Too little to draw a conclusion on the whole organization.

2) Barack Obama worked with, but NOT FOR, the group in Chicago, where they have not been accused of voter fraud.


3) The change in language on Obama's website was trying to clarify point number 2.

My conclusion: Some people within ACORN fucked up big. Obama has a very large chance of having never even spoken with any of the idiots who committed those crimes. Show me proof to the contrary, or evidence that Obama was hired by ACORN for anything except his powers as a lawyer, and I'll believe you.

Also mentioned, the whole Bill Ayers thing...

Ayers was a terrorist of sorts during the 60's and early 70's. Since then he has both been quoted as being repentent and unrepentent, and has disputed how he was quoted when interviewed a few years ago. The article that came out said he didn't regret setting bombs and wished they could have done more, but Ayers has said that his words were distorted. He claims what he really said was that he didn't regret trying to fight against the war and wished they could have done more to stop it.

What I'm getting at here is that the man hasn't committed a remotely terrorist act for 30 years, for fuck's sake. Don't you people believe in reconciliation? Fresh starts? Anything? Not only that, but the only connections between the two are campaign parties Ayers hosted in support of Obama. It's not like they were scheming world domination and terrorist attacks in the back of some dingy Chicago strip club.