Hot on the tail of an Obama Administration scandal supposedly caused by a lack of scrutiny, Obama admitted that he had not been following the unraveling ACORN controversy “that closely.” When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pressed Obama on Saturday if he agreed with the Senate and the House voting to strip ACORN of its federal funds, the President replied:

“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.”

Wait a sec. ACORN has gotten approximately $50 million from the federal government since the mid-nineties, and was eligible to get billions from the stimulus. Isn’t this the Obama that promised us “I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page” back in the debates?

Shouldn’t he care, then, if his hallmark stimulus package was going to fund an organization that is now probably going to be up for a RICO corruption investigation for assisting tax fraud, child prostitution, and sex trafficking? Hey, why not appoint an Accountability Czar to keep track of it!

Obama goes on to say that what happened in the videos “was in appropriate and deserves to be investigated,” but that “this is not the biggest issue facing the country.  It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to,” and is relieved when the subject is changed to the war in Afghanistan.

Michelle Malkin brings in three big questions about all of this, of which she calls “Obama playing dumb”:

1. How Team Obama hid its $800,000 campaign payment to ACORN through front group “Citizen Services, Inc.”
2. How Team Obama shared donor lists with the president’s old employer, ACORN affiliate Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, which is prohibited from engaging in political activity (Mr. President, meet Anita MonCrief)
3. And how Project Vote and hundreds of myriad entities intermingled non-profit, tax-exempt funding with the national ACORN flagship’s political operations — a buried story Obama would know about if he read NYTimes reporter Stephanie Strom’s report last October before she was muzzled as Election Day drew near.

Spicy!