Michelle Malkin does a wonderful job of detailing some of the most noxious qualities of ACORN, the radical group with close connections to Barack Obama. ACORN, in my experience, consists of hard-left types who are utterly unprincipled, willing to break any law, manipulate any media, shut down any democratic process, in order to get what they want. And, they receive a lot of public money! The Democrats have very effectively managed to fund political groups from government coffers, and the Republicans let them get away with it.