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- hallelujah0
complainers about long cut and pastes, fuck off in advance
"It never ends. The Republican Party never gets tired of spraying its poison across the American political landscape.
So there was a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, telling Chris Matthews on MSNBC that the press should start investigating members of the House and Senate to determine which ones are “pro-America or anti-America.”
Can a rancid Congressional committee be far behind? Leave it to a right-wing Republican to long for those sunny, bygone days of political witch-hunting.
Ms. Bachmann’s demented desire (“I would love to see an exposé like that”) is of a piece with the G.O.P.’s unrelenting effort to demonize its opponents, to characterize them as beyond the pale, different from ordinary patriotic Americans — and not just different, but dangerous, and even evil.
But the party is not content to stop there. Even better than demonizing opponents is the more powerful and direct act of taking the vote away from their opponents’ supporters. The Republican Party has made strenuous efforts in recent years to prevent Democrats from voting, and to prevent their votes from being properly counted once they’ve been cast.
Which brings me to the phony Acorn scandal.
John McCain, who placed his principles in a blind trust once the presidential race heated up, warned the country during the presidential debate last week that Acorn, which has been registering people to vote by the hundreds of thousands, was “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history.”
It turns out that a tiny percentage of these new registrations are bogus, with some of them carrying ludicrous names like Mickey Mouse. Republicans have tried to turn this into a mighty oak of a scandal, with Mr. McCain thundering at the debate that it “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.”
Please. The Times put the matter in perspective when it said in an editorial that Acorn needs to be more careful with some aspects of its voter-registration process. It needs to do a better job selecting canvassers, among other things.
“But,” the editorial added, “for all of the McCain campaign’s manufactured fury about vote theft (and similar claims from the Republican Party over the years) there is virtually no evidence — anywhere in the country, going back many elections — of people showing up at the polls and voting when they are not entitled to.”
Two important points need to be made here. First, the reckless attempt by Senator McCain, Sarah Palin and others to fan this into a major scandal has made Acorn the target of vandals and a wave of hate calls and e-mail. Acorn staff members have been threatened and sickening, murderous comments have been made about supporters of Barack Obama. (Senator Obama had nothing to do with Acorn’s voter-registration drives.)
Second, when it comes to voting, the real threat to democracy is the nonstop campaign by the G.O.P. and its supporters to disenfranchise American citizens who have every right to cast a ballot. We saw this in 2000. We saw it in 2004. And we’re seeing it again now.
In Montana, the Republican Party challenged the registrations of thousands of legitimate voters based on change-of-address information available from the Post Office. These specious challenges were made — surprise, surprise — in Democratic districts. Answering the challenges would have been a wholly unnecessary hardship for the voters, many of whom were students or members of the armed forces.
In the face of widespread public criticism (even the Republican lieutenant governor weighed in), the party backed off.
That sort of thing is widespread. In one politically crucial state after another — in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, you name it — the G.O.P. has unleashed foot soldiers whose insidious mission is to make the voting process as difficult as possible — or, better yet, impossible — for citizens who are believed to favor Democrats.
For Senator McCain to flip reality on its head and point to an overwhelmingly legitimate voter-registration effort as a “threat to the fabric of democracy” is a breathtaking exercise in absurdity.
Miles Rapoport, a former Connecticut secretary of state who is now president of Demos, a public policy group, remarked on the irony of elected Republican officials deliberately attempting to thwart voting. Some years ago, he said, he “and all the other secretaries of state” would bemoan the lack of interest in voting, especially among the young and the poor.
Now, he said, with the explosion of voter registration and the heightened interest in the presidential campaign, you’d think officials “would welcome that, and encourage it, and even celebrate it.” Instead, he said, in so many cases, G.O.P. officials are “trying to pare down the lists.”"
- fuck offhallelujah
- Now look who's spouting propaganda. TheBlueOne? At least post the link.********
- http://www.nytimes.c…
for the lazy******** - I didn't post it because of who wrote it, but because of what it says and how it says ithallelujah
- hallelujah0
- "the idiots who rule america" by pulitzer prize winner chris hedgeshallelujah
- Just read the first couple paragraphs and it seems like a really good article. Have you read his book?tommyo
- Actually I guess he has many books. Thanks for posting the article.tommyo
- TheBlueOne0
Quote For Perspective:
"There are 10 to the 11th power stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
- Physicist Richard Feynman- And who's fault is this directly?********
- God********
- It's Carl Sagan's faultlocustsloth
- You tell me JazX...TheBlueOne
- Dunno... I would guess a number of different, dirty political figures could be blamed.********
- And who's fault is this directly?
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http://news.yahoo.com/election/2…
They have Obama winning at 344. Wow, those are some bold assumptions predictions. OH, PA, VA, FL and MO are the deciders from the looks of it.
- george bush is the deciderBonSeff
- Obama is going to win Ohio. Major upset.Mimio
- ha, dude used the word "decider" in a sentence, that is some pretty nice strategery you have there.DrBombay
- I believe nothing until the morning of Nov 5.TheBlueOne
- Oh come on, are we juding grammar at QBN now? pshhh... this place is a double negative haven.********
- cmon you used the word decider...DrBombay
- ukit0
Most of the polling sites have similar numbers. These are simply based off of the averages of state polls...
Obama 364 McCain 171
Obama 364 McCain 174
http://www.realclearpolitics.com…
Obama 364 McCain 174
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Obama 344 McCain 194
- project schjection. It only matters on NOv 4 and only if Supreme Court is under house arrest********
- I still refuse to believe anything until I hear McCain concede on my TV.TheBlueOne
- Scalia, its over, go home.********
- I agree with TheBlueOne. Once a candidate concedes, then I'll believe it. It took Gore, what a month nearly?********
- I won't believe it until I wake up Wednesday morning of the 5th.monkeyshine
- project schjection. It only matters on NOv 4 and only if Supreme Court is under house arrest
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- best idea coming from Country Club First********
- man they are dead in the water********
- God, this reeks of suckTheBlueOne
- "I Am Obama The President"TheBlueOne
- haha that's bad ... who the hell is running this campaign??tommyo
- best idea coming from Country Club First
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Where's Joementum when he needs it?
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politic…
Biden predicting the U.S. will be tested within six months if Obama wins.
WTF is wrong with this guy!? What is he Nostradamus? Predicting an international crisis for the least experienced candidate ever. That should help with the undecided voters.
- Why did you forget this bit of Bush fail that challenged him in the beginning of his presidency:
http://edition.cnn.c…
TheBlueOne - http://edition.cnn.c…TheBlueOne
- Shit always happens to challenge presidents. Fuck in the last six months what have we had?TheBlueOne
- Hurricane. Financial disaster. Georgian crisis.TheBlueOne
- The Gaffe Machine returnsMimio
- That's his stupid fault. He's a DRAMA Queen.********
- Oh man...Obama needs to just shut this guy up. He's supposed to just sit there and look experienced.tommyo
- Biden can't seem to stop shooting from the hip. I dunno' how he has stayed in power. Crying on stage?********
- Why did you forget this bit of Bush fail that challenged him in the beginning of his presidency:
- BattleAxe0
I herd Mc Cain wins
- And who told you this? A crowd of cattle?TheBlueOne
- http://www.instantri…TheBlueOne
- You probably heard that from Biden. Apparently he has a crystal ball of some sort.********
- I just like ruining endingsBattleAxe
- HA HA********
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- Meeklo0
I'm starting to fear that mc cain might win.
- ..and this is why you fail.TheBlueOne
- that's what the liberal media wants you to think to encourage turnout for OBAMAlackofcolor
- come crazy will be saying that eventually.lackofcolor
- It for sure doesn't hurt to be the underdog. Unless your Reagan or Clinton 2nd term.********
- Ramanisky20
no way grandpa-munster with his broken little t-rex hands is going to win ...
... no way
- That's kinda insulting to Al Lewis, god rest his soul.TheBlueOne
- sorry AlRamanisky2
- LOL! You b@stards...********
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If you can't stand up to this crowd, you have no business on the world stage.- Which one of these women did he have a reason to stand up to and not do it?locustsloth
- And when did Rosanne Barr go blonde?locustsloth
- Well, we already stood up to Hillary, didn't he?:Dukit
- We? Hillary is a Democrat my friend.********
- SO, if he's not an angry black man with a pimp hand then he's a little boy? Got it. Thanks for sharing the bullshit.TheBlueOne
- this cartoon makes no sensearthur
- i don't get itjanne76
- hallelujah0
who is that fucking stupid shit "artist"?
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How horrible it must be to wake every morning hating your country.- HAHAHAukit
- I don't hate my country, just stupid shits like youhallelujah
- Dude. Fuck you. If you insunuated I hated my country I'd deck you. So fuck off asshole. I really hate your shit.TheBlueOne
- Look at how angry you guys are. the rage...********
- Ugh. Block feature still isn't available?!calcium
- how does it feel to wake up hating yourself?danthon
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- ukit0
Has anyone voted yet?
