Is there a difference between saying "ACORN should be investigated" and "the actions on the videotape should be investigated". Obama said the latter. TPM's crack journalistic team writes the former (but uses the arguably dishonest journalistic trick of putting the sentence's predicate in quotes while substituting their own subject outside the quotes).

Presumably an outside entity would have to investigate ACORN as a whole, while ACORN itself could investigate alleged misdeeds by some of it's employees. The difference, in fact, if not implication, seems big to me.

This is what the "right wing" does..they did it to Carter..(his "malaise" speech, his brother Billy, his rabbit hunting story..,etc) they did it to Clinton..with Whitewater, with travel gate, with implied murder and Hillary as a "Corporate Lawyer", called JFK, RFK, even MLK, "communists", "socialists", "fascists", "liberals" until one of their racist or bat-sh*t crazies were incited to step forward and assassinate them...and now they are pulling the same underhanded, sleazy tactics with Obama and his Administration...(except every one can SEE how different and "foreign looking" Obama is!) now, they are trying to connect him to some phony ACORN corruption scandal, that doesn't exist..they discredit, marginalize and smear with lies, half truths and innuendo..when the right-wing, the Republicans party say "the people" want their America back... its "code", for we will do anything...we will lie, we will trump up phony charges, generate hate and fear, play the race card, incite riots and mayhem...any thing...! to get "our" American back..the America where we rule..where Republicans control the White House and Congress..where we do as we please and no one can hold us accountable..they want their Republican controlled, authoritarian, country back..so they can get back to the business of creating an Oligarchical fascist Nation of a super-rich, ruling class bloodsuckers, sucking the middle class, and the poor (serf's and peasants) dry