Racists? – Obama and Holder

George Rebane

If someone utters purposive and calculated statements to incite and inflame racial antagonism, then calling such people racists would not be out of line with today’s sensibilities.  President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder clearly fall into that category, most recently in light of the speech the AG delivered to the Council of Black Churches on voter ID.

The big progressive lie is again dusted off and rolled out to tell America that requiring voters to properly identify themselves as US citizens, as required by a growing number of states, is discriminatory and inhibits minorities from exercising their voting franchise.  The evidence on voter IDs is overwhelmingly the opposite.   The number of minority voters always increases when voter ID laws are passed and enforced.  People want to vote in legitimate elections.

To suppose that American minorities overwhelmingly support voting by illegal aliens, the dear departed, and 'early and often' is to place them into a second class of ignorant and/or rogue citizens on the basis of their race.  But this is now the growing drumbeat of our first black President and his minions, especially when talking to black and Hispanic audiences.  These people play the race card at every opportunity, and leave a trail of it in the public record as wide as the Missouri – latest details here.

Comments

[Brad Croul]

This does sound strange, but from my own experience at the voting booth I can say that I don't think a person can just walk in and vote without any verification made before, or after, voting. That is what recounts are for. How does one prove I.D when voting by mail?

You have to make up your mind if you want big money, federal government programs, like a national I.D. department, or would rather that states figure out who is eligible to vote.

[George Rebane]

BradC 812am - I think the closest hewing to the Constitution would restrict voters to be US citizens whose other qualifications (e.g. no felony convictions) and methods of vetting ID (e.g. requiring picture ID, fingerprints, issuing agency,...) are left up to the several states.

[Michael Anderson]

The current California system of early registration, and then signature verification, works very well. No need to re-invent the wheel. I think a lot of the other states, especially in the south, have it wrong - photo IDs can also be faked. But they suffer from hundreds of years of racism, so their solutions will be different, and perhaps "best." How Texas and Florida do elections has nothing to do with how California and Arizona do elections.

[George Rebane]

From statewide poll watcher reports it turns out that signature verification in most California jurisdictions is done at the rate of four simultaneous signatures per second, with one point of concurrence required per signature, and the signature auto-confirmation machine set to its lowest sensitivity. But I am a strong proponent of states setting their own procedures for voting and vote counting.

[Todd Juvinall]

That South. Asking for a ID is so terrible. California had Watts and Rodney King, along with with Oakland and others, rioting and burning. Yeah, the South is racist. California, the land of non racists. Sheesh!