IS OBAMA'S OCTOBER SURPRISE HIS PLANNED NOVEMBER SURPRISE?

All across the country, Obama's former community organization, ACORN, is being busted for voter fraud centering around fictitious voter registrations. On Tuesday, FBI agents raided ACORN's Nevada office after it was suspected that ACORN was creating fictitious voter registrations for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys. Yesterday, it was learned that Indianapolis, Indiana had registered 105% of its eligible voter population. Acorn just happens to have an office in that city. And that's just a drop in the bucket. Missouri officials are also investigating ACORN for voter fraud. And so are Indiana officials.

Recently reports have surfaced that Obama himself has given ACORN more than $800,000 during his campaign to "get out the vote". Contributions which Obama conveniently "forgot" to report. As reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:

Jim Terry, spokesman for a group that tracks ACORN, said Citizens Services Inc.'s involvement in the Obama campaign raises bigger questions.

"All of this just seems like an awful lot of money and time spent on political campaigning for an organization that purports to exist to help low-income consumers," said Terry, chief public advocate for Consumers Rights League, a Washington, D.C., advocacy outfit with a libertarian outlook.

"ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their own political gain," Terry claimed. "Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting scheme for Obama's political gain."

A Trib analysis of campaign finance reports showed Obama paid CSI for services that stood out as unusual. For example, CSI received payments of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI, the average amount the Obama campaign spent with other organizations was $558.82 per check on more than 1,200 entries classified as advance work.

Citizens Services Inc. is headquartered at the same address as ACORN's national headquarters in New Orleans. Citizens Services was established in December 2004 to "assist persons and organizations who advance the interests of low- and moderate-income people," according to paperwork filed in Louisiana. In a 2006 ACORN publication, Citizen Services Inc. is described as "ACORN's campaign services entity."

Accusations of voter fraud have followed ACORN's canvassing projects in about a dozen states. ACORN has dismissed the charges as politically motivated allegations from conservative groups, yet cases are pending and, in other cases, ACORN workers have entered guilty pleas. For example, three ACORN workers pleaded guilty to submitting phony voter registration forms in Washington, and eight ACORN employees pleaded guilty to federal election fraud in Missouri.

Michelle Malkin dug even deeper:

FEC reports show that from February-May 2008, Obama paid $832,598.29 to CSI.

The payments were for:

$310,441.20 25-FEB-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$160,689.40 27-FEB-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$98,451.20 29-FEB-08 TRAVEL/LODGING
$74,578.01 13-MAR-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$18,417.00 28-MAR-08 POLLING
$18,633.60 29-APR-08 STAGING, SOUND, LIGHTING
$63,000.00 29-APR-08 ADVANCE WORK
$105.84 02-MAY-08 LICENSE FEES
$105.84 02-MAY-08 LICENSE FEES
$75,000.00 17-MAY-08 ADVANCE WORK
$13,176.20 17-MAY-08 PER DIEM

Interesting services and payments for a nonprofit that supposedly does simple canvassing work on behalf of low-income people. And now, the Obama campaign is going to wave its magic wand and change those services to get-out-the-vote work? What the…?

It's just a matter of time before someone really gets to the bottom of this whole story. As revelations of ACORN's illegal activity continues to mount, it will be more publicly known of Obama's connection to the very community organization he once worked for and so generously donates to. And Obama's November voter fraud surprise could very well be his October surprise.

There is only one way this story makes it to the mainstream media. You have two pressure your local politicians to investigate. So do it!