Obama on George Stephanopoulos when asked about APORN (err) ACORN “it’s not really something I’ve followed closely” and doesn’t commit to cutting off federal funding!

Not all of the discussion on the Sunday talk shows that coward Obama appeared on where regarding ObamaCARE. During the Stephanopoulos interview on ABC the topic of Acorn, and their child prostitution company came up (briefly). ACORN of course received over $800,000 from Obama during his presidential campaign, has received over $54 from the government over the last 10 years or so, and was set to receive about $8.5 BILLION from the stimulus package this year. Obama also was an attorney for ACORN during the ’90s. Obama’s first big “community organizer” jobs involved ACORN in 1992. He has been working along side ACORN since before he became an elected official. Obama also trained ACORN employees. Theres also a famous soundbite of him now telling Acorn how they “will have a seat at the table” once he got electected. Yet somehow, he hasn’t followed the story closely. Well, if he watches ABC, CBS,NBC, or CNN, that actually might be believable since they hardly even mentioned it to begin with. Here’s a transcript of the interview via Gateway Pundit:

It was one of the most popular topics among the questions you submitted to me for my interview with President Obama – the controversy involving ACORN.

While the President said that ACORN “deserves to be investigated” in light of the “inappropriate” video that’s gone viral, he did not endorse recent votes in Congress to cut off federal funding for the community group.

Here’s our FULL exchange:

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?

OBAMA: You know, if — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.

OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?

OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

I’ll give Stephanopoulos a little credit here. He pushes Obama to answer the question: “If you force people to purchase health insurance, isn’t that a tax?”. Obama doesn’t like the challenge.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxomW3RqYY

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September 20, 2009 · Filed Under Acorn


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