Friday, October 17, 2008

the "voter fraud" fraud

hi,

i've been busy/away for a week and im away for the next week which will make it tough to post. but there's been a lot of press about ACORN and Obama's ties to it, so I thought I'd post a link.

Voter fraud isn't real. At least, it isn't a real problem. Study after study has demonstrated that voter fraud is either completely, or mostly, a myth. It mostly serves as a clever front to enact widespread voter disenfranchisement and intimidation, 2 things that are a huge problem. Exaggerating a negligible fear in order to further one's political agenda....does that sound familiar? Don't buy into more of this GOP-sponsored bullshit. Slate sums it up pretty well.

And by the way, this Joe the Plumber nonsense is just that, nonsense. I'm sorry, but his claim to Obama that he was "planning on starting a small business making between 260 and 280 thousand dollars a year"...first of all, who exactly thinks of a business they are starting in terms of its yearly gross? Jesus. Make your plants a little less obvious. For example? Try to make sure that they're not related to Charles Keating. Oh, you should probably also make sure that he is a registered voter who doesn't owe back taxes. Oh yeah, and he probably shouldn't compare Obama to Sammy Davis, Jr.

I think Tina Fey said it best: "If [McCain/Palin] wins, I'm leaving Earth."

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