Barack Obama Partisan Brute

On the heels of demonizing citizen Joe the Plumber for asking a question, the Obama campaign continues to outrage with a Big Brother approach to free speech. RCP Blog:

In response to the letter the Obama camp sent to the Justice Department, the McCain campaign has released this statement:

"After a week of shifting stories and clumsy corrections regarding Barack Obama's connections to ACORN, the Obama campaign resorted to their now-customary heavy handed tactic of attempting to criminalize political discourse. Today's outrageous letter to Attorney General Mukasey and Special Prosecutor Dannehy at the Justice Department asking for a special prosecutor to investigate Senator McCain and Governor Palin's public statements about ACORN's record of fraudulent voter registrations (including in this week's Presidential debate) is absurd. It is a typical time-worn Washington attempt to criminalize political differences. For someone who promises 'change,' it is certainly only more of the same.

The Tribune and Sun Times endorsed The One today for his supposed ability to bring us all together in a post-partisan manner. This is a naked display of the partisan brutishness of Barack Obama and his campaign, riding roughshod over free speech, robbing us of our right to a free and fair election with their creature ACORN.

UPDATE: Obama camp and ACORN share canvassers. Talking points? Sarah Palin in Indiana, brings up ACORN. Chicago Sun Times coverage, including this:

ACORN submitted 5,000 voter registration forms in northwest Indiana in recent weeks. About half of them appear to be fraudulent, local election officials say. They registered a “Jimmy Johns” to vote at the address of a Jimmy Johns restaurant in Crown Point. They registered Levy McIntosh to vote in Gary even though McIntosh passed away last year.

ACORN hired Gary residents for $8 an hour, and some just invented names, conceded Eric Weathersby, executive director of ACORN’s Northwest Indiana office. [snip]

“He said his only involvement [with ACORN] was when he represented them as them a lawyer,” Palin told her supporters. But as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama helped train members of the group — an acronym for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Obama’s critics have noted. McCain has noted that Obama and Bill Ayers, when they served on the board of the Woods foundation, voted to give the group $230,000.

Palin told the crowd Obama helped with ACORN voter registration drives and ACORN “seems to be working pretty hard on his campaign.”

In swing state Minnesota even the reliably liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune editorializes that ACORN's practices deserve scrutiny.