Campaign Scandals

Two scandals have come to light, one for each campaign. The investigators in Alaska have concluded that Sarah Palin acted inappropriately in trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the State Police. However, it does not appear that the committee plans to pursue any criminal case against the Alaskan governor/Republican VP candidate. So there will be talk of lack of judgement, but no penalty for Palin to pay.

The other scandal revolves around ACORN, a citizens rights organization that is very involved with voters' registration. There are investigations in at least nine states where ACORN submitted registrations for people who are dead, do not exist or do not reside in the state. An ACORN office in Nevada submitted registration forms for all of the Dallas Cowboy football team. In a county in Indiana the registration board has thus far identified at least five thousand registration forms that are questionable. Many of these were filled out by the same individual.

Now it is not actually voter fraud, unless someone comes into vote claiming to be the person identified on the registration form. The problem with that is that in many states voters do not have to present i.d. The people manning the polls just see if the name given is on the rolls as a registered voter, hands over the ballot and the person proceeds to the voting booth. So, if the phony registrations are not caught it is quite possible that a lot of damage could be done to the voting process.

The Obama campaign gave ACORN $800,000.00 to assist with voter registration, probably because ACORN came out as an Obama supporter. Nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is that it appears that ACORN is using its position to attempt to swing the election.

Unfortunately, voter registration has ended in most states, so ACORN can not be ordered to suspend its activity. What should be done is that all registration forms nationwide that were submitted by ACORN should be set aside and investigated by a bi-partisan committee. If the abuse shown in Nevada and Indiana proved to be the norm, then all of ACORN should be brought up on criminal charges.

It is a sad commentary that during these troubled times in our country people are still just looking out for themselves. ACORN wanting to guarantee Obama's victory, I suppose to support their political agenda. Members of Congress adding $150 billion in pork to the bailout bill to keep their greedy fingers greased.

Honesty seems to be fading away on the American scene.

Be true to yourself, and watch the other guy very carefully.

Its Common sense.