This Sunday when President Obama was on the ABC leg of the full Ginsberg, he was asked a question about ACORN. You would think that, being the most intelligent human to ever hold the post of POTUS, he would have a good answer.
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.
Now, that’s a valid point. It isn’t the biggest issue facing the country. But let’s be realistic. You know he knows about the ACORN scandal. And even if he didn’t, you want me to believe that no one in his staff knows about it and thought to brief Obama on it before he went on five different Sunday morning talk shows.
That’s a bit hard to swallow.
The president knows, but didn’t want to get pulled into defending ACORN or get distracted from his agenda of selling a government health care overhaul.
And as far as defunding ACORN, I’ll believe that when I see it. Remember, he told them they would help set his White House agenda:
