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-Election 2012
Pennsylvania Judge Bars Voter-ID Law for 2012 Election
A Pennsylvania judge's decision to bar the state from enforcing a Republican-backed requirement for voter photo-identification in the coming election may lead to confusion because poll workers can still ask for ID.
Not nearly as much "confusion" however, as that likely created by post-election legal challenges of voting outcomes in States with Voter ID.
Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson yesterday ruled
against the legislature and the will of the people
that while election officials can request an ID on Election Day, voters without one can cast ballots that will be counted. The enjoined law would have allowed voters without required ID to cast provisional ballots to be counted only if they returned with photo documentation within six days.
Now they may return and vote again, and again.
"While we're happy that voters in Pennsylvania will not be turned away if they do not have an ID, we are concerned that the ruling will allow election workers to ask for ID at the polls and this could cause confusion," Penda D. Hair, co-director for the advocacy group the Advancement Project, said in an e-mailed statement. "This injunction serves as a mere Band-Aid for the law's inherent problems, not an effective remedy."
Might as well just chuck the registration into the rubbish bin. With anonimity, who needs it now.
Pennsylvania is the third state, following Texas and Wisconsin, where courts
through judicial fiat
have rejected voter-ID laws passed by Republican-dominated legislatures since President Barack Obama's 2008 victory. Supporters of the laws say they're needed to prevent voter fraud. Opponents contend the measures are aimed at suppressing the votes of lower-income people and the elderly who may be more inclined to vote for Democrats.
I fear now more than ever, we have lost the Republic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2012 01:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tar. Feathers.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/03/2012 19:08 Comments || Top||

#2  ..to cast provisional ballots to be counted only if they returned with photo documentation within six days.

That's going to keep the ward heelers busy in Philadelphia having to make sure those people get back to all those precincts. Make them earn their graft.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/03/2012 20:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Early and often, I always say.
Posted by: Perfesser || 10/03/2012 21:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't know if Romney could have won Pennsylvania.
He sure won this debate.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/03/2012 22:34 Comments || Top||

#5  this might be a stupid question -- what if a 17yr old kid wants to vote in an election? If you can't ask him for ID how do you know he is 18 and eligible or a minor and not eligible?
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 10/03/2012 23:07 Comments || Top||


DNC scrambles to deflate Obama video before Daily Caller story published
The Democratic National Committee -- armed with the help of dismissive tweets from a variety of journalists -- scrambled Tuesday night to attack The Daily Caller for its videos of President B.O.'s controversial race comments in 2007 before the story was even published.

Using comments from news hounds speculating on TheDC's report, the Democrats quickly worked to dismiss the story it hadn't seen yet -- which was teased Tuesday afternoon on Sean Hannity's radio show and on the Drudge Report -- by calling it "lame."

At about 7:30 p.m. ET, the DNC Rapid Response team sent an email to news hounds titled "That was Lame," listing "instant reaction to the latest lame Drudge/Hannity desperation tactics."

The email merely included tweets from journalists -- before the story was published -- expressing skepticism and disinterest and the mistaken claim that the video had been published before.

The tweets used by the Democratic National Committee came from news hounds at organizations including Politico, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, New York Magazine and the Atlantic.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is lame about seeing O's true character?

Remember this great man said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evidently the O has not taken to heart the meaning of these words nor their intent to unify a nation.
Posted by: Whavish Jeamp2873 || 10/03/2012 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Alfred Nobel Peace Prize winners both. By the way, Alfred Nobel also invented dynamite.

“Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”
¯ Desmond Tutu
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2012 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA = THE Anti-Martin Luther King President of the United Devided States
Posted by: Percy Elmager9622 || 10/03/2012 1:47 Comments || Top||

#4  You know, physicist Richard Feynman refered to his Nobel Prize as "Alfred Nobel's OTHER mistake".
(direct quote)
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2012 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Bet they are on maximum turbo-twist trying to spin the racist comments and faux accent after last night. I just wish every Dem could see it--just don't know how when they have a lock on all the media the left views.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck 5095 || 10/03/2012 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Over at Belmont Club, the commenters on his mirroring post on this topic are speculating that the MSM will call for Romney to repudiate the video, on grounds that it is degrading the campaign.

Romney should refuse: This is to 0bama what the 47% tape is to Romney. BOTH were released by outlets independent of the campaigns. BOTH are videos of the candidates. BOTH are being offered as "the true character of the candidate". BOTH have gaps. The problem for 0bama's crew is that they have no idea how BAD 0bama is in the gap and so would fear another "joe the plumber" moment if they callled for release of the full video. In contrast, while Romney may not really remember what he said at that fundraiser, he knew he would NEVER have uttered a "joe the plumber"-class boner, and thus had no problems calling for the full video to be released. Mother Jones blinked, while the Daily Caller would LOVE to have the full tape.

I'm arguing that Romney should say "Your media had a video on me, and media supporting me has a video on your candidate. I support Free Speech, even speech that YOU don't agree with or YOU find embarassing to YOURSELVES."

The 0bama video is what the left fears the most: A SYMMETRIC RESPONSE. Tit for Tat. Punch back when hit. Like their fellow losers, the palestinians, they NEED a playing field tilted toward them and referees in their pocket to hold their own and have a chance of winning. Deny them those advantages, and they go down squalling "It's not fair!"

H*ll, when asked to repudiate it, he should point out the gap and call for the release of the full tape "to see everything before I make a judgment." Measured, Reasonable, Presidential.

Mitt's response will determine where my "playmoney" from the next paycheck goes.
Posted by: Ptah || 10/03/2012 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  I have no idea how many of you people were around for Carter and the start of the fake war with finger dude from Afghanistan and the group that has been destroying our country from within for better part of 50 years give or take but my hats off to all of you! What better than to USE a black man in the White House to get the blacks all stirred up and minority against majority through using class warfare and race, it’s been done everywhere BUTT nobody has ever used a black man and so many stupid ass white people before in all of history! The United States has no borders at all and who is killing agents minorities and illegals! These people don’t care about money they don’t even know how to make it, it is about control and power! All those stupid ass artists and the like only a matter of time, gays only a matter of time disabled only a matter of time! Food supply has been turned into a bio weapon why else do all of the countries troops need POWER drinks they never did before! It is the protein that is being compromised from plant to animal to human in the food chain taste difference was noticeable over 10 years ago in beef and meats rotting in less than a week in some cases!
What better than to groom a black man who is half white country club black man to undo the country and turn it upside down for a group of inbred white crackers with no souls and believe they have no souls watch them move and talk they can’t even respond correctly in conversation in any job title! They always try to project and talk down and dissuade from the truth and obfuscate all facts and bend it to their sick end! The fact that so many people can be fooled by so few is pathetic at best remember give the people what they DESIRE and leading them all around by the nose takes no effort at all! The kindness and political correctness is nothing more than an artificial mask they create to meet their goals and end game they have no souls what so ever!
Serbia the only currency was quote HARD CURRENCY and they all demanded German currency for pay offs and trade from the beginning the bank money was not from guns and oil what country in Europe now has all the money? Some of the very people who fought in World War 2 back up the theory of what these people really are and how they have all been duped and fooled like birth defected children born 3 cans short of a six pack! Anyways kids remember MONEY TALKS AND TALK IS CHEAP take it for what it is but remember life is priceless you have ALL BEEN FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED AND RE-FUCKED LIKE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! May you all find what it is you seek in your Alice In Wonder Land Fucked Up World and remember when it does hit the fan remember what you are fighting for the real War is In Country that would be The United States of America! Don’t believe the LIE! PEACE!
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 || 10/03/2012 13:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Die Fledermaus to report Chairface.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2012 13:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Angiting Snore1647 is a bot: he's repeated the same comment in another thread, and probably a few others I haven't looked at.
Posted by: Ptah || 10/03/2012 13:39 Comments || Top||


Obama's Other Race Speech
In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.

"The people down in New Orleans they don't care about as much!" Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims "part of the American family."

The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama's carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.
Video at link. But this is the real issue:
Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny. Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a "transcript" of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign. In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.
Posted by: lotp || 10/03/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public

Sounds to me that he is on some "substance" or is he an truely a undiagnosed "schizophrenic" with "megalomaniac" tendancies?

Posted by: Whavish Jeamp2873 || 10/03/2012 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be quite revealing, to those awakening from 4 years of a coma.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2012 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  The Great Uniter. [spit]
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2012 6:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I ask accused Pederast Harry Reid and Sooper Genius Joe Biden, was he "articulate and clean, light-skinned and no negro dialect, except when he wants one"?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2012 6:45 Comments || Top||

#5  "I speak jive".
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2012 8:49 Comments || Top||

#6  He didn't get that accent growing up in Indonesia and Hawaii. He learned that accent at the feet of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/03/2012 11:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Ya mean Obama is a racist? Who'd have known?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/03/2012 12:51 Comments || Top||

#8  I have no idea how many of you people were around for Carter and the start of the fake war with finger dude from Afghanistan and the group that has been destroying our country from within for better part of 50 years give or take but my hats off to all of you! What better than to USE a black man in the White House to get the blacks all stirred up and minority against majority through using class warfare and race, it’s been done everywhere BUTT nobody has ever used a black man and so many stupid ass white people before in all of history! The United States has no borders at all and who is killing agents minorities and illegals! These people don’t care about money they don’t even know how to make it, it is about control and power! All those stupid ass artists and the like only a matter of time, gays only a matter of time disabled only a matter of time! Food supply has been turned into a bio weapon why else do all of the countries troops need POWER drinks they never did before! It is the protein that is being compromised from plant to animal to human in the food chain taste difference was noticeable over 10 years ago in beef and meats rotting in less than a week in some cases!
What better than to groom a black man who is half white country club black man to undo the country and turn it upside down for a group of inbred white crackers with no souls and believe they have no souls watch them move and talk they can’t even respond correctly in conversation in any job title! They always try to project and talk down and dissuade from the truth and obfuscate all facts and bend it to their sick end! The fact that so many people can be fooled by so few is pathetic at best remember give the people what they DESIRE and leading them all around by the nose takes no effort at all! The kindness and political correctness is nothing more than an artificial mask they create to meet their goals and end game they have no souls what so ever!
Serbia the only currency was quote HARD CURRENCY and they all demanded German currency for pay offs and trade from the beginning the bank money was not from guns and oil what country in Europe now has all the money? Some of the very people who fought in World War 2 back up the theory of what these people really are and how they have all been duped and fooled like birth defected children born 3 cans short of a six pack! Anyways kids remember MONEY TALKS AND TALK IS CHEAP take it for what it is but remember life is priceless you have ALL BEEN FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED AND RE-FUCKED LIKE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! May you all find what it is you seek in your Alice In Wonder Land Fucked Up World and remember when it does hit the fan remember what you are fighting for the real War is In Country that would be The United States of America! Don’t believe the LIE! PEACE!
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 || 10/03/2012 13:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.”

Here's another videe the race and class warfare cards are played in the same hand.
Posted by: Beavis || 10/03/2012 15:09 Comments || Top||



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