Violence predictably follows right-wing hysteria about ACORN
By David Neiwert Friday Oct 17, 2008 3:00pmJust as surely as night follows day, violence is being directed at ACORN offices and officials in the wake of the flood of right-wing demagoguery about its vote-gathering efforts:
An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.
Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division of the incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for the group.
Republicans, including presidential candidate John McCain, have verbally attacked the group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although they've provided little proof. It was disclosed Thursday that the FBI is examining whether thousands of fraudulent voter-registration applications submitted by some ACORN workers were part of a systematic effort or isolated incidents.
Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she "is going to have her life ended."
A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of "We know you get off work at 9," then uttered racial epithets, he said.
John McCain has played a leading role in whipping up this frenzy of hatred. In Wednesday's debate, he charged:
We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.
This is consistent with the hateful language being spewed from the right by the likes of Lou Dobbs, who has taken to routinely characterizing ACORN as a "radical left-wing activist group" as well as "a Democratic Party adjunct".
In fact, the hysteria's being generated across a broad spectrum of the Right, from Outer Malkinite Wingnuttia to Inside Beltway Villagers, from McCain and Palin to the frothiest freepers.
And we can see what's coming, too: We're being set up for a running yammer from the right after Obama wins questioning his legitimacy because of a supposedly "tainted" vote. Conspiracy theories and talking points from the right will circulate, driving up the temperature and feeding the right-wing populist frenzy.
And they're not even waiting until Election Day to begin.
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I seriously do not comprehend how Lou Dobbs can look his wife in the eye each day. He obviously doesn't respect the fact that she is a Latina.
I was really afraid of this. Inciting racism and hatred can only result in harm. This is truly disgraceful and a very sad day for America.
It's like Krystallnacht all over again.
Conveniently emphasizing voter fraud without explaining that it is voter registration fraud and what that implies. Nothing. It implies nothing.
As Amy Goodman writes "Mickey Mouse Won't Try To Vote".
I am petrified of what will happen on election night and the days thereafter. It is going to be one hell of a scary time.
They a coaxing a Genie out of a bottle and he may not go back in.
I think McCain sees it and goes through cognizant moments of clarity as to what he is doing...he tries to quell it but then loses it again and starts fanning the flames again.
Seems to me that ACORN can connect the violence directly to Palin and McCain. I believe this kind of act is a felony as is 'conspiracy to incite violence."
If that doesn't work, and the government is stupid enough to let this kind of thing slide these muthah fuckers better get ready because I for one am NOT going to be intimidated by a bunch of Nazi thug wannabes. And I venture to guess that I am not the only LIBERAL who believes in my right to bear arms.
Seems to me that ACORN can connect the violence directly to Palin and McCain. I believe this kind of act is a felony as is 'conspiracy to incite violence."
If that doesn't work, and the government is stupid enough to let this kind of thing slide these muthah fuckers better get ready because I for one am NOT going to be intimidated by a bunch of Nazi thug wannabes. And I venture to guess that I am not the only LIBERAL who believes in my right to bear arms.
Greatest threat to America since the the Third Riech and Al-Qaeda Combined.
Practice some mind control people. (Wingers)
Seriously the Acorn people aren't out to harm you and send you off to a homosexual training facility get a grip.
If only they could focus that
energy on helping the homeless.
http://www.filthyrichmond.com/2008/10/help-my...
"And we can see what's coming, too: We're being set up for a running yammer from the right after Obama wins questioning his legitimacy because of a supposedly "tainted" vote. Conspiracy theories and talking points from the right will circulate, driving up the temperature and feeding the right-wing populist frenzy."
Why should Dems care what the right wing nuts do after Obama becomes president? They break the law they go to jail. Do you think they gave a damn about what the left was doing these painful past 8 years with freaking moron as president?
I can imagine probably make the Right Wing Conspiracy that hounded Clinton his entire 8 years look tame by comparison.
From DAY ONE the right hounded Clinton and continued for 8 freaking years.
Obviously, Election 00 was a last desperate grasp for power that unfortunately worked.
American people must have been totally asleep. Or to busy to notice.
I really couldn't give a rat's ass about the right's hurt feelings.
I'm concerned about the people they're going to hurt when they lash out.
people on the left, Obama himself (god forbid!!) and others who are unAmerican because we don't see life through their very clouded glasses.
This is why we need Obama: an FDA with integrity and better healthcare so everyone can afford the meds they so desperately need.
I really want wingers to take a chill pill. It's the patriotic, pro american thing to do.
I can't decide whether we are truly a banana republic or a throw back to the Jim Crow era.
I think we're experiencing a little of each. This is certainly not the America I grew up in. Well, actually, I am seeing shades of things I barely remember during the civil rights era.
How far we have not come, sometimes.
But after the BIG WIN, I doubt very much that the right wing will be able to stir up any enthusiastic support in the witch hunt against ACORN.
If we couldn't get justice for the truth, how will they get it for a lie?
I would also like to see a bodyguard of citizens arranged for the opening and closing times of each Acorn office that gets a threat. I would happily go down to the barricades for these folks.
ACORN speaks for the poor and underpriveliged and won't let corporate America exploit them. Is it any wonder that Repubs and their Corporate masters will do everything they can to destroy it?
Regarding ACORN: McCain said it was "destroying the fabric of democracy" - but Slate explains how this fabricated controversy is covering up Republican voter suppression.
Investigate. Report.
http://www.slate.com/id/2202428/?
Why in the world is there not a more concerted effort to expose this ACORN "voter fraud" fraud for what it is: true fraud and a cover for the disenfranchisement of thousands that the Repugs are attempting to perpetrate?
In the last debate, McCain set himself up to be exposed by whipping this issue up to a frenzy. This is making a mountain out of a molehill and more. It is concerted fraud. And if the average "Joe" is explained in terms that they can understand, they'll realize that the Repugs are conning them, which will not only help the Dems in 2008, it might put this particular crap tactic to bed for future elections, as well.
I agree, it's a fraud to cover their unAmerican and criminal disenfranchisement they think they can get away with. I hope we see Olberman and Maddow talk about this point.
under the radar, like so many other issues and mountains made from molehills that start on the talk radio monopoly completely undetected by the Dem party (because it gives thinking people headaches) and then get passed to teh mainstream where they become important distractions. this crap couldn't happen if we still had a Fairness Doctrine or if progressives stated listening, callling complaining boycotting picketting their LOCAL talk stations and sponsors.
LA Times endorses Obama, (inspite of Jonah Goldberg)
. . . We need a leader who demonstrates thoughtful calm and grace under pressure, one not prone to volatile gesture or capricious pronouncement. We need a leader well-grounded in the intellectual and legal foundations of American freedom. Yet we ask that the same person also possess the spark and passion to inspire the best within us: creativity, generosity and a fierce defense of justice and liberty.
The Times without hesitation endorses Barack Obama for president.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorial...
John McCain distinguished himself through much of the Bush presidency by speaking out against reckless and self-defeating policies. He earned The Times' respect, and our endorsement in the California Republican primary, for his denunciation of torture, his readiness to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his willingness to buck his party on issues such as immigration reform. But the man known for his sense of honor and consistency has since announced that he wouldn't vote for his own immigration bill, and he redefined "torture" in such a disingenuous way as to nearly embrace what he once abhorred.
Indeed, the presidential campaign has rendered McCain nearly unrecognizable. His selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was, as a short-term political tactic, brilliant. It was also irresponsible, as Palin is the most unqualified vice presidential nominee of a major party in living memory. The decision calls into question just what kind of thinking -- if that's the appropriate word -- would drive the White House in a McCain presidency. Fortunately, the public has shown more discernment, and the early enthusiasm for Palin has given way to national ridicule of her candidacy and McCain's judgment.
Action begets reaction and the hatred which Palin and McCain have touched off is unforgivable. They are intent on plunging this country into another civil war.
Since their hate-filled, empty accusations against ACORN and Obama have now taken a turn for the criminal, it's time for the People of the United States to sue the McCain/Palin campaign for "criminally inciting violence" and hold them accountable for any injuries which occur.
This hate-stoking by these two irresponsible fools is going to result in serious problems in this country and perhaps even another civil war.
Americans are angry and very angry at them right now for what they're doing. McCain & Palin are regressing this country back to the days of "witch hunts (complete with her personal Witchdoctor Rev. Muthee) and riots. They have brought the people to a crescendo of anger at this point (both against Obama and against the two of them). There will be lashback by the american people.
I feel it's time for our law enforcement organizations to become vigilant during their terror rallies and file a "cease & desist" order against McCain and Palin or they will both be held personally responsible for any violence which occurs.
I don't remotely agree that another civil war it at hand. But I would expect some isolated violence and I sure agree that McCain should be held responsible if any perpetrators are proven to have been whipped up by his campaign's fires of hate and division.
I respected McCain back prior to this year. Little did I know what a monster he really is.
PERFECT EXCUSE for Bush to lay down martial law.
He won't dare.
I'm kinda torn on this - if the people turning in these phony registrations hadn't been all about the money - in other words, had been honest - this wouldn't be happening and there wouldn't be any ammo.
They could only vote once if they registered 100 times and if they register as Mickey Mouse the will be turned away at the polls. Smarten up people.
I understand the process and the difference. I'm simply stating there are consequences when people lie just to get a few bucks. Hasn't there been enough lying in the past eight years?
okay, I'll step down from my morality soapbox.
By law, they have to turn in all of the registrations, even the "joke" ones. It's doubtful if anyone would have been aware of the fraudulent ones if ACORN hadn't pointed them out so they could be deleted.
Voter registration fraud is an entirely different animal than actual "voter fraud". The illegal purging of voters closer than 90 days of an election is DEFINITELY VOTER FRAUD.
However, by the rules of ACORN, any and all registrations need to be turned in which results in a nominal payment to the person acquiring the voter registration.
Now, here's where the distinction lies: Dead people and phony people WILL DEFINITELY BE SHOWING UP AT THE PRECINCT TO VOTE, will they? So, voter registration fraud is one thing but these people will not affect the election one iota - because they do not exist.
The GOP of smoke & mirrors is actually attempting to rig this election by throwing up the ACORN smokescreen to villify Obama. Fact is, ACORN is non partisan so it goes without saying that this voter registration was also bipartisan - both republican and democrats out there getting fake registrations to earn a few bucks.
The illegal problem is what the GOP has been doing in swing states - illegally purging voters arbitrarily from the voting rolls. They were stopped by the Ohio Supreme Court and nailed for eliminating some 200,000 voters illegally. NOW THAT CONSTITUTES BONA FIDE CRIMINAL VOTER FRAUD.
ACORN is simply about "voter registration fraud" - it has nothing to do with the election because dead people won't be showing up to vote.
What the Republicans are doing is ELECTION FRAUD.
If it wasn't ACORN, they'd find something else to work people up over. The right is what they are and McCarthyism or Fascism or whatever you want to call it, will rear its ugly head everytime. Fact of life. Pity.
voter fraud gets swept under the rug?
Well most of the Big Media is owned and run by Right Wingers. With a couple guys who may feel a little tinge of guilt and regret on occasion but not often enough.
Not only is the mainstream media continuing to pimp for McCain and shove things under the rug, but they, too will find themselves in class action lawsuits when people realize that they've been lied to.
Our media is being scrutinized for their culpability in spinning the Bush propaganda and lies which have led to the war crimes of 5,000 of our innocent soldiers in Iraq. The media played the role of "propaganda megaphone" as you recall throughout Bush's lying spree.
They're doing it to the people again now. There are a few class actions lawsuits against some of the media biggies right now for "derelection of the duty of bringing us the truth" right now. More lawsuits will accrue as a result of the intentional disregard for factual information against the mainstream media.
This giant media lawsuit is being organized right now throughout the country. I'll try to post a few urls for you to jump on the bandwagon.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_...
GOP will back down and say okay okay we're sorry we made a mistake don't let this get out into the media sorry guys.
Then keep doing the same thing.
Haha this is such Hypocrisy coming from the Left considering the same was said after Gore lost the 2000 election..
Most of this what you refer to as hypocrisy is anyone who isn't a coward, bully, or con artist gop style are simply people reaching the end of their patience from 8 years of taunting as well as one month before an election waking up to find out 45% of their lifetime savings and investments have gone down the tubes because of a half assed ex baseball team owner who has never run a successful business in his life.
went to see W today !it was bullshit , if you go see it wear rubbers!
I'd like to hear it.
do tell, please.
Oliver Stone's film is satirical and critical but not scathing. Josh Brolin's empathetic portrayal of the president helps make for a pleasing, effective film.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-w1...
He won the popular vote and lost due to voter suppression in FL and the Supremes gave the election to Bush.
boy. Now that's quite a stretch there,Johnny. Please don't insult the intelligence of the good people here,please. Don't make yourself look like a fool. Just some advice.
Well, I suggest more people do as I did and donate to ACORN just to get back at them.
In fact, you can donate on behalf of someone else (as long as you have their name and an email), so I donated on Lou Dobbs' behalf. I suggest using Palin, McCain, the GOP, Dobbs, Hannity, O'Reilly, Glenn Beck... any of them that you feel like.
I really wish I could see Lou's face when he get the notice (well his show will, I doubt he'll ever see it, actually).
I'd never even heard of ACORN before McCain started badmouthing it.I sent them $50 dollars in McCain's name and had the thank you card sent to his campaign headquarters.Feel free to do the same.
Excellent Idea!
and here I thought McCain was referring to the size of his own genatalia?? Go figure.
When I heard this comment during the debate I knew it was the open shot of the RNC's plan to de-legitimize an Obama presidency should he win with constant drumbeat of lawsuits and claims of stolen election.
The irony is not delicious.
I have said this from the start, just as you or I would be ARRESTED if we stirred up hatred that resulted in physical or property damage, we would be held liable. The GOP knowing stir up and spread hatred that results so far in property damage and could very well enrage a fringe right-wing GOD n GUNS kinda 'merKan to attempt to assassinate Senator Obama. This is a VERY serious and dangerous thing in my book and they should be called out on it IMMEDIATELY!
You got it right. Your conclusion is accurate. Where the hell is our secret service and law enforcement at these hate rallies? Oops....one was in uniform - Sheriff Mike Scott - who is under investigation himself right now in Florida.
Americans are concluding all over this country that we have no obvious law enforcement in this country doing it's job anymore so I guess it's every man for himself.
They've been absent at all of these terror-inciting rallies of Sarah Palin and John McCain.
People no longer trust our law enforcement agencies since they've so obviously not done their job.
If it's anything like the 60s, the FBI, secret service, and law enforcement are probably involved in the targeting of ACORN, either actively or simply by allowing it to go on.
In "The End of America" Naomi Wolf takes a historical look at the rise of fascism, outlining the 10 steps necessary for a state to take control of individuals' lives:
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system.
5. Harass citizens' groups.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
7. Target key individuals.
8. Control the press.
9. Treat all political dissidents as traitors.
10. Suspend the rule of law.
You read about that kind of thing happening 45 years ago, but you never imagine it occurring in this decade...
The bigger the lie the more people tend to believe it. The GOP Mantra.
It looks like these demonic forces within have almost accomplished the total destruction of this democracy and will do so if McCain is elected.
We will descent into a fascist/military state and all of our rights and freedoms will be no more.
A vote for McCain is a vote for immediate Fascism.
Spread the word.
Tell me again who it is that pals around with terrorists.
Yeah I recall it was a former baseball team "owner" who never succeeded in business without bankrupting it who allowed the Bin Laden Family to leave the country after having grounded the entire U.S. Commercial Fleet on 911.
No doubt to protect them from his own voter base.
I believe we've witnessed this premise in the McCain Palin campaign over the past two weeks.
At what point does the individual calling another individual a "terrorist" become the very "terrorist" he is projecting by his own actions?
In attempting to cast Obama as "palling around with terrorists", McCain and Palin have actually now become the face of contemporary domestic terrorism themselves.
We reap what we sow. McCain/Palin are evidence of that.
I guess by his own definition, then, John McCain "pals around with terrorists", too??
Sarah and Todd Palin, believing in Volger's anti-american secession rhetoric (card carrying members of the AIP) would be the closest thing to a "domestic terrorist organization" as we have.
Could be they're referring to themselves????
McCain and Palin are as much a product of hyper consumption (the blow back) for not paying attention to whats going on and doing the right things to prevent tyranny from creeping in and attempting a takeover.
Tyranny doesn't spare anyone. No matter what form it assumes.
Republican accusations of ACORN voter fraud are distracting people from the Republicans' own well-documented vote theft in the last two presidential elections, which they're engaging in again via vote caging and vote blocking.
They're also succeeding in demonizing yet another very effective 60s-era social work organization. Just by repeated negative mention of the name ACORN, even people who consider themselves liberal will begin to shy away from the organization, the way they began to shy away from the word liberal during Bush Sr.'s presidency as a result of his sneering at the word.
And then there's the violence directed at the organization and its workers, which is a result in large part of the toxic effect of the right-wing hate shows that have been allowed to broadcast in the US since the early 90s. It's really time to end those shows.
http://www.gregpalast.com/sbyv/
to this exact moment in trying to bail his kid out of another jam.
Time to bail Junior out again.
Responsibility for shouting fire in a crowded theatre doesn't apply to Republicans.
This ruse was designed by the douchebags on the right to drown out any outrage on the left about conservative groups like YPM, which ARE committing voter fraud.
Americans know what the GOP did in 2004. We know they hacked the election with the help of soon-to-be indicted and disgraced supervisor of elections, Ohio, and Co-Chair of Bush/Cheney 04 - R. Kenneth Blackwell.
Kenneth Blackwell is even listed on one of Kucinich's articles of impeachment. Kenneth Blackwell will be going to jail in the near future. You see Kenneth Blackwell and the RNC had a webisite for their election....(there's an IT whistleblower now spilling the beans) who then diverted the election results from Ohio on election night into a server in the basement of a bank building owned by the RNC in Chatanooga, Tenn. How clever you say? Diabolically, illegally clever perhaps but will soon be putting Blackwell and Karl Rove along with others who co-conspired into prison for a very long time.
There is no doubt that they are working on this strategy again right now and the use of ACORN as a deflection to distract from their illegal voter purges nationwide which are TOTALLY ILLEGAL.
The only thing that can stop them and I heard rumblings of this tonight on CNN would be the use of "paper ballots" - once again.
Do not vote on a touch screen machine - demand a paper ballot when you vote.
I voted this morning using a paper ballot. Almost no waiting and it was done on a paper ballot. (Illinois)
My car now proudly displays two vote early bumper stickers, too.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.: You know, a lot of Europeans wonder, why are Americans so crazy? They keep reelecting this guy. Well, the answer is, we don’t. You know, they keep stealing these elections. And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/9/greg_pa...
Let 'em get violent. It's the excuse W will use to declare martial law and round the rest of us up. I will be waiting for the knock on my door and plan to meet it with a what it deserves. Be prepared to fight for your life, rights and country people.....
"We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."
Oh really? I think it's time we have a little moment to think about election fraud 2000 and the good 'ol Brooks Brothers Riot. Notice the picture featured at the bottom of this WaPo article and let's see where these assholes are now.
Miami 'Riot' Squad: Where Are They Now?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles...
Here's the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_...
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Republican_IT_c...
Read this and cringe. Mike Connell has been subpoenaed in this election tampering case in Ohio. I understand that in exchange for a lighter sentence as a co-conspirator, he's singing. He's taking down some people in very high places with him, too.
Stay informed about the things the GOP doesn't want you to know:
www.bradblog.com
www.blackboxvoting.com (they show these touch screen machines can be hacked in 90 seconds!)
they threw it out of court.
VICTORY
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5P2f-dgLB...
The Supremes ruled against the GOP today.
I for one am tired of this crap...we keep taking the high road and become a spineless party...Republicans can disenfranchise voters, block people from voting, intimidate people from voting, create voting laws that will discourage or make hardship for people to register/vote, robo call people during dinner time, break all kind of civil rights laws AND NOT A DAMN THING HAPPENS TO THEM! I'M TIRED OF THIS HIGH ROAD DEMOCRATIC CRAP. I'M TIRED OF RACIST BIGOTS GIVEN AIR TIME AND NO ONE DOES A DAMN THING ABOUT IT.
IM TIRED OF THIS ISH...GROW SOME BALLS PEOPLE..IM READY!
Roll of Shame 2008
Dobbs
Limbaugh
Hannity
Coulter
Malkin
Beck
Kristol
Davis
O'Reilly
Levin
Some, but by no means all, of the bigots who have blood on their hands.
Don't forget the MSM...CNN, just yesterday, said Obama has enough EVs to win...when we all knew that for weeks. What's their motive? Maybe it's just ratings, eh? NOT
Clearly somebody has carelessly left some of Goebbels's old propaganda manuals lying around the White House and GOP campaign offices.
Some people are just too impressionable.
Left over from grandpappy Bush, the Nazi supporter.
When we look back about the real culprits who have gotten this country into this "bush mess", we will find Katherine Harris, Supervisor of Elections in Florida who was in bed with Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who "rigged this election" for his brother.
I hope that neither Katherine Harris or Jebbie Bush sleep another full night's sleep as "personal culprits" (criminals actually) when people actually figure out what these two individuals have done to this country.
I like to imagine Jeb kicking his own ass every day for the rest of his life for getting his idiot brother elected. There will NEVER be another bush in the WH. Word to Jeb...Careful what you ask for....
The Christian Right has taken over the GOP and have used their pulpits to esteem the GOP to Diety level. The Christian Right Wing where I live have said, "we are ready to take up arms for the HOLY WAR against the liberal Democrats...on our own street if we need"
Sad to say, but this group believes anything their ministers, their denominational leaders, the Republican Party and their candidates say. They would never question anything they do or say, because it would be BLASPHEMY! In the depths of their hearts and souls the believe "if your not Republican your a demon sinner..and an enemy of God, the Nation and God."
I've been concerned that the nation would have another Civil disturbance...this time it will be the Republican Money men with the Chrisitan Right as their warriors. I'm afraid Palin, McCain and the GOP, with the economic fears, are setting the fires that will lead to the riots of the 60's.
A friend in the GOP told me the GOP has attorneys in 25 (Twenty Fivce) marginal and toose-ip states, ready to file law suits to prohibit Senator Obama from being able to count the electoral votes. This isn't going to sit well with those who elected him...and tension will intensiy.
And we send our Children to die in Iraq to establish a Democracy when the party who sent them there is gearing up to supress our own democracy.
Some people actually predicted what's occurring right now some two years ago. Bush's army (Blackwater) as well as an infantry division are positioned at strategic points in this country for precisely this reason: martial law.
They're using McCain and Palin as their "instigators" and if Obama wasn't the respectable individual he is and was lashing back, we would already be under total martial law right now.
I was alive during the riots of the 60's and I quake when I imagine this country having to revisit that lesson and suffer the fatalities and destruction that occurred back then. But as they say....if you don't get the lesson the first time, you will get it again and again, each time a little worse, until you fall to your knees in submission and learn what it's designed to teach you.
I'd love to believe that americans have learned those ugly lessons of division but the more I see the hatred being intentionally whipped up by McCain & Palin and see the reactions of their sick, wingnut extremists, I fear that we have not.
I guess we will see in two weeks time whether this country will regress back to those dark, dangerous days when no one will be safe on the streets of this country or not.
PBS's News Hour had a reasonable explaination of the ACORN issue tonight. They discussed the VERY SMALL chance of voter fraud resulting from the voter REGISTRATION padding perpetrated by a few bad apples (low-level employees)at ACORN. And discussed the more significant impact of voter suppression efforts by high level operatives within the Republican party.
Ballot Troubles Across U.S.
Judy Woodruff speaks with Douglas Chapin, director of ElectionLine.org, about the voting difficulties that might be encountered this election.
Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP-hired contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud...
You may be liberals, but you don't give enough of a shit to actually realise that this ACORN "scandal" has actually been resolved in front of the Judiciary Committee of Congress presided over by Sen. Patrick Leahy.
THERE IS NO SCANDAL BUT CONGRESS IS OUT OF SESSION !!
I am German and I know this. You are American and it is not that Liberals are brighter than the Republithugs - you are just less slothlike in your cognitive processes, which is not exactly a difference in kind.
Just look up the testimony of Bradley Schlozman.
The RED BOOK has been substituted by the BLUE BOOK.
Look up the last Gonzales hearing when he was asked by Sen. Feinstein about the new BLUE BOOK.
This is not rocket science folks - the Repugs are screwing you with your pants on. AGAIN.
But fuck you.
Classy retort... NOT!
I get tired of non-Americans coming here and telling us we're a bunch of dumb fucks.
I just returned from Germany with some of the most wonderful people I have worked with to date. This guy doesn't cut the mustard.
What an arrogant prick. I'm sure this is one site where a high number of readers/commenters not only watches C-Span, but also notices it's practically The Heritage Foundation/American Enterprise Institute tighty-righty channel.
I actually watched and listened to the Senate and House Judiciary Committee hearings - not the pathetic "Washington Journal".
I don't mind being disagreed with, but I can bet that you have not given enough of a shit about the perversion of your own Constitution to have a rational opinion.
But I take great issue with your presentation.
Calling people fucking American morons - after prefacing that you are from another country does nothing to make your point. I ignored virtually everything you said after your headline. Not that you want to make friends or influence people, but if I see something like that, I will do nothing but give you a big fuck you.