Obama said he worked with ACORN only once. His “Fight The Smears” website even had a special page about ACORN.

Politifact even went after Karl Rove last fall for suggesting that Obama’s ties to ACORN were more extensive than he admitted.

As for Rove’s claim that Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN, yes, Obama once took on a case for ACORN. But Obama was never a staff attorney for ACORN. He did not do ongoing work for the organization. He handled one case along with two other attorneys. ACORN was one of several plaintiffs. And the U.S. Department of Justice sided with ACORN in the case. We think Rove’s comment suggests a deeper legal relationship between Obama and ACORN than actually existed. And so we rule Rove’s statement Half True.

And yet now, we have this…

Rumor has it that Obama is going to use his State of the Union address tomorrow night to announce a federal spending freeze. Isn’t that a bit like banning the hunting of an animal that’s already extinct?

President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, and for increases no greater than inflation after that, an initiative intended to signal his seriousness about cutting the budget deficit, administration officials said Monday.

The officials said the proposal would be a major component both of Mr. Obama’s State of the Union address on Wednesday and of the budget he will send to Congress on Monday for the fiscal year that begins in October.

The freeze would cover the agencies and programs for which Congress allocates specific budgets each year, including air traffic control, farm subsidies, education, nutrition and national parks.

Obama’s base is just thrilled with the idea.

Meanwhile over at Breitbart TV, they caught candidate Obama ridiculing candidate McCain for proposing…. The very same thing. Shocker!

It seems Obama supporters believed candidate Obama just said certain things to get elected but once in office would govern in lockstep with the likes of Markos Moulitsas and Code Pink.

Many Obama supporters were shocked when Obama didn’t swoop down on California and overturn Prop 8, even though he repeatedly said he was in favor of traditional marriage. “He’s just saying that”, they thought. “Once he’s in office, he’ll reveal his super-progressive position on everything.”

Now it’s happening again as Obama supporters begin to see the reality of what Obama will do in Afghanistan. FOX News is reporting that some members of Obama’s base are already preparing to protest.

“The anti-war left is turning on the president it helped put into office, launching a counteroffensive against President Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan.”

“Activist groups are joining liberal members of Congress in condemning the president’s expected announcement on Tuesday that he will order roughly 30,000 more troops to the war zone as part of an overhauled strategy to finish what President Bush started eight years ago. Some are urging him not to go through with it — though the strategy apparently is set in stone, with Obama having issued his final orders to his generals Sunday evening.”

I guess these angry Obama supporters weren’t listening to candidate Obama in July of 2008:

“Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday that United States needs to focus on Afghanistan in its battle against terrorism.”

“Obama said troop levels must increase in Afghanistan. “For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three,” he told CBS. “I think it’s very important that we unify command more effectively to coordinate our military activities.”

And maybe they didn’t read this tidbit in the NYT’s 2008 Election Guide:

“In Afghanistan, he has promised to ramp up the American military effort, particularly on the Pakistani border, and has said that if America received intelligence about suspected Qaeda operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he is prepared, as commander in chief, to act on it.”

They must have missed the speech candidate Obama gave in Richmond, Virginia in October of 2008:

“It’s time to heed the call from General McKiernan and others for more troops. That’s why I’d send at least two or three additional combat brigades to Afghanistan. We also need more training for Afghan Security forces, more non-military assistance to help Afghans develop alternatives to poppy farming, more safeguards to prevent corruption, and a new effort to crack down on cross-border terrorism. Only a comprehensive strategy that prioritizes Afghanistan and the fight against al Qaeda will succeed, and that’s the change I’ll bring to the White House.”

And I guess they didn’t see the Boston Globe piece on July 15, 2008 that pointed out how smart candidate Obama was to suggest Afghanistan should be the focus of the war on terror.

“Barack Obama and John McCain today offered diametrically opposite views of the war in Iraq, even as both called for sending thousands more US troops to Afghanistan.”

“Democrat Obama declared that the failed policy in Iraq — which he argued was never the central front in the war on terror — has distracted attention from the growing terrorist threat in Afghanistan and proves the need to withdraw from Iraq. “If another attack on our homeland comes, it will likely come from the same region where 9/11 was planned,” he said in a speech in Washington. “And yet today, we have five times more troops in Iraq than Afghanistan.”

Surely, Obama’s most ardent supporters caught this snippet from July 2008 on the World Socialist Web Site:

“Obama, who won the Democratic presidential primary by tapping into popular antiwar sentiment and exploiting his chief rival’s vote to authorize the Iraq war, has become the leading spokesman for an escalation of the war in Afghanistan and its possible extension into Pakistan, a policy which is gathering growing support within the political and military establishment.”

Candidate Obama traveled the country crying from the rooftops for an escalation of the war in Afghanistan. At every opportunity, he said he wanted to send more troops and said Afghanistan was the more important war which deserved America’s focus.

And now that he might send more troops to Afghanistan, his base is surprised?

They were OK when they thought Obama was just paying lip service on Afghanistan as a political maneuver during the campaign. They’re angry now that they realize maybe he was telling the truth all along.

NOTE: This method of screwing Ohio taxpayers only works if you’re a Democrat whose salary is paid by the people.

Step 1. Use your position, while on taxpayer funded time, to dig for dirt on a private citizen. The private citizen should be an innocent person who simply asks any question that makes your preferred candidate look bad.

Step 2. After using your resources to search private information on said citizen, get the info out to the nutroots in an effort to discredit and smear the innocent citizen. You can also do this on taxpayer funded state time.

Step 3. When said private citizen sues you, use your resources within the Democrat sleaze machine to have your legal defense fees paid for by the taxpayers. – You know… the very people you screwed in the first place.

Repeat as necessary.

American leftists are quick to cry foul when they see any combination of religion and politics on the conservative side, but it’s a different story if religion can be used to promote their agenda.

Case in point? Liberals recently held faith based “prayer vigils” in favor of ObamaCare at Senator Joe Lieberman’s house in Connecticut…

Talking Points Memo:

“A growing number Connecticut’s religious leaders are calling on Sen. Joe Lieberman to appeal to a higher power and change his mind about including a public option in a health care reform bill. Last night, hundreds of reform supporters from congregations across the state held a candlelight vigil outside Lieberman’s home in Stamford, CT.”

SEIU:

On Sunday, members of the Connecticut faith community staged a candlelight vigil outside Sen. Joe Lieberman’s home in Connecticut. The Stamford Advocate reported, “clergy from several religious dominations prayed in three languages outside the fourth-term senator’s home, surrounded by a crowd the Fire Marshal’s Office estimated to number nearly 500.”

My Left Nutmeg:

“This has to send a potent message to Lieberman. The symbolism is simply stunning. Rabbis protesting outside Joe Lieberman’s home in Stamford? Dan Malloy? Who thought they’d ever see this happening?”

Connecticut Bob:

“Over 500 clergy, parishioners, and residents attended a prayer vigil outside the Stamford home of Sen. Joe Lieberman last night to protest the senator’s promise to block a vote on health care reform.”

Huffington Post:

“More than 400 Connecticut residents, health care reform advocates, and clergy attended an evening prayer vigil that began at Senator Joe Lieberman’s Alma Mater, Stamford High School.”

This is a typical double standard which everyone remembers from the 2008 presidential election.

Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs were continually twisted into lies:

“Three months before she was thrust into the national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God. Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.”

Yet Obama’s documented radical religious connections were no problem at all:

“Of all the strange features of this presidential race, the tarnishing of Barack Obama has got to be the most ridiculous. First Obama was accused of anti-religious elitism. Then he was accused of identifying with the underclass anger of his spiritual mentor. Excuse me, but which is it? Start with Obama’s turbulent preacher. Yes, Jeremiah Wright says some disgraceful things. But can anyone explain how that changes Obama’s qualities as a candidate?”

You guys on the left have no business holding “prayer vigils” for ObamaCare or anything else for that matter.

Don’t think this will be forgotten when you’re thrown out of power.

Tick tick tick tick tick tick………

How quickly things “change.”

Via Freedom’s Lighthouse:

“Here is video from the Democratic Primary Debates with Hillary Clinton that shows then Candidate Barack Obama saying flatly that he would not support “mandates” that require people to buy Health Insurance. He even said Clinton’s plan would impose penalties on people who don’t buy health insurance, something he said he does not think is “helping those without health insurance.” Yet, the House Health Bill just passed – and pushed by Obama – does exactly that.”

Politico published an incredibly stupid piece today in which writers Meredith Shiner and Glenn Thrush ponder the GOP’s “women problem.”

The article suggests that Conservatives rejected NY-23 candidate Dede Scozzafava based on her gender.

“Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views — and not because she is a woman.”

Robert Stacy McCain, in top form as usual, called out Politico’s laughable hypocrisy:

“Why is it that only pro-choice liberals count as “women”? It’s as if Phyllis Schlafly, Bay Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and Michelle Malkin were un-persons.”

Let me add to that list, Conservative women such as S.E. Cupp, Andrea Tantaros, Monique Stewart, Amanda Carpenter and Mary Katherine Hamm.

I would also like to point you to a Politico article from June of 2009 where writer Jonathan Martin said of Governor Sarah Palin:

“Going forward, does she offer a conservative and charismatic face for a demoralized and star-less party? Or is she a loose cannon who should be consigned to the tabloids where she can reside in perpetuity with other flash-in-the-pan sensations?”

It’s interesting to note  that at the time of this writing, a quick scan of Politico’s “About Us” page shows that male staff members outnumber females by 69 to 40.

Conservatives know all too well, the horrors of misogyny and none of us will ever forget the way the left treated Sarah Palin or for that matter Hillary Clinton who was vilified by many in her own party until she no longer presented a threat to The One.

To this day, Sarah Palin and her family are regularly attacked by noted gynocolegist/obstetrician blogger Andrew Sullivan who is grossly obsessed with Governor Palin’s infant son, Trig.

Sullivan announced today that he is releasing a coffee table book called “The View From Your Window.”

The only photo that didn’t make it into the book is the view from Andrew Sullivan’s window. In an American Glob exclusive, we have obtained that photo and can share it with you now:

Finally, here’s further proof that Allahpundit likes me.

Lest there be any question… I like Robert Stacy McCain.

Former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin is starting a new organization called “Stand Up for Our Nation.”

The Wall Street Journal reports…

“Sarah Palin fans can expect to see a new Palin political organization surface as her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” hits the shelves next month.”

“There will be an announcement about it coming up,” Palin associate Tim Crawford said Wednesday.”

“The New York Post reported this week that Palin’s new group will be called “Stand Up For Our Nation.” (News Corp. owns both the Post and The Wall Street Journal as well as HarperCollins Publishers, publisher of Palin’s book.) Crawford, who is treasurer of Palin’s existing political-action committee, SarahPAC, refused to provide any details about the new organization’s purpose or structure.”

“But Palin supporters say the former Alaska governor and last year’s GOP vice presidential nominee is eager to keep the public’s attention, even as she rakes in big earnings.”

Do you remember Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention last fall?

Everything she predicted about Obama has come to pass…

Newsflash: You’re a day late and a dollar short.

Those of us who have been falsely accused of racism have known this all along but it is funny to see the AP ponder such a thing on the pages of MSNBC of all places.

One year ago, anyone who stood in Obama’s way was immediately labeled a racist. Now, after months and months of false accusations of racism, the left begins to ponder. Gee. Are we overusing our favorite political weapon?

“Everybody’s racist, it seems.”

“Republican Rep. Joe Wilson? Racist, because he shouted “You lie!” at the first black president. Health care protesters, affirmative action supporters? Racist. And Barack Obama? He’s the “Racist in Chief,” wrote a leader of the recent conservative protest in Washington.”

“But if everybody’s racist, is anyone?”

“The word is being sprayed in all directions, creating a hall of mirrors that is draining the scarlet R of its meaning and its power, turning it into more of a spitball than a stigma.”

This is a bit like warning someone 1,000 times not to touch a hot stove and then watching them touch it anyway after which they turn to you and indignantly announce “Hey, this stove is really hot!”

The Just One Minute blog reminds us of the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” analogy.

More at Memeorandum.

When the media, which refused to vet Barack Obama, sent an army of lawyers and reporters to Wasilla, Alaska 48 hours after Sarah Palin’s nomination as Vice President to dig for dirt on her, it was “journalism.”

When a self-described Communist indicts himself through his own words and actions, it’s a “vicious smear campaign from the right.”