{"id":3548,"date":"2008-10-27T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2008-10-27T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:00:34","slug":"not-one-single-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Not One Single Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Methinks Joe Biden meant that <em>literally<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/insidecover\/joe_biden_interview\/2008\/10\/26\/144312.html?utm_medium=RSS\">Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden did not tell the truth Thursday<\/a> when hit with tough questions about ACORN from a veteran journalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you embarrassed by the blatant attempt to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?\u201d said Orlando, Fla., WFTV anchor Barbara West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not embarrassed by it,\u201d Biden replied. \u201cWe are not tied to them. We have not paid them one single penny to register a single solitary voter . . . We register the voters ourselves, and so there is no relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Newsmax Fact Check shows that Obama has had a long relationship with the group, and the Obama campaign did indeed pay an ACORN subsidiary more than $800,000. The radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a multi-faced creature its founders spun off into about 100 separate legal entities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Obama\/Biden campaign doesn&#8217;t happen to deal in pennies. Dollars, yes. Pennies, no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methinks Joe Biden meant that literally. Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden did not tell the truth Thursday when hit with tough questions about ACORN from a veteran journalist. \u201cAren\u2019t you embarrassed by the blatant attempt to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}