Yeah, when does the Department of Free Stuff start, my house payment is due! nm

• Way to go Bush! (sm) - Just the big bad
  • Oh please - get your facts straight - dee
    • Right. -and "Bush economy" was great for 6 years - until dems took over Congress anyway!.nm
      • Look up the # of filibusters and cloture - votes for this session
        • Dems are the real cause of Fannie and Freddie - chaos, but you will blame Bush for it all.nm
          • Nope - sm
            • Dems are right there on video few years ago saying - there was no problem with Freddie/Fannie!.nm
              • What really matters now is not - Just my thoughts
              • "A Few Years Ago" the pubs had the - majority in Congress
      • my post was not talking about the past - dee
  • You aint seen nothin yet. You will wish for Bush - once Obama is done with us.
    • Sour grapes from - sore losers nm
  • Amen! - CH
  • Amen! - Colleen Hutchison
  • Yeah, when does the Department of Free Stuff start, my house payment is due! nm - when
    • awesome - dept. of free stuff - count me in! nm
      • Don't forget about free broadband, free gas, free healthcare, hey they are "rights" now YIP - me2
  • DHL ruined Airborne all on their own. - Oh Please.
    • And you don't think this recession (soon to be depression)...(sm) - Just the big bad
      • When it comes to DHL? - Oh Please.
      • Tell that to the democratic congress - they are responsible - Just me
  • way to go democratic congress - woo hoo!! nm
  • Hmmmm, preparing for the economic challenges AHEAD... - sm
    • Thank you - New Englander
      • I agree, New Englander. Guess we know who to - point the finger at when country goes down tubes.
        • yep, and isn't funny how after obama won the election - nm

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Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel issued the following statement following the U.S. Department of Justice’s denial of preclearance of Georgia’s voter verification process

Atlanta - “The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.

“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.
 
“This process is critical to protecting the integrity of our elections. We have evidence that non-citizens have voted in past Georgia elections and that more than 2,100 individuals have attempted to register, yet still have questions regarding their citizenship. Further, the Inspector General’s office is investigating more than 30 cases of non-citizens casting ballots in Georgia elections, including the case of a Henry County non-citizen who registered to vote and cast ballots in 2004 and 2006.

“It is important to underscore that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote because of the verification process. Further, while DOJ argues that the process is somehow discriminatory, the historic voter turnout among Hispanic and African-American voters in the 2008 general elections clearly says otherwise.

“This decision provides a specific example of the inherently illogical and unfair nature of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. It is a sad day for the rights of our state and for the integrity of our elections. I remain committed to continuing the fight for citizenship verification. In the coming days, I will consider every option available to the state, including the possibility of legal action.”

Background:

As required by law and ordered by federal courts in October 2008, the eligibility of new applicants to register and vote is checked against the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) and Social Security Administration databases to ensure that individuals registering to vote report similar information. If information in these databases does not match information reported on the voter registration form, the applicant is asked to clarify the information. Additionally, if the applicant previously reported to DDS that he or she is not a U.S. citizen, that person is asked by a registrar to provide proof of citizenship.

Prior to the November 2008 General Election, Secretary Handel sent letters to 4,771 voter registration applicants whose records at DDS indicated they were not U.S. citizens, asking them to provide documentation of their citizenship. As of March 2009, 2,148 of these applicants still have chosen not to resolve the question about their U.S. citizenship.

In the November 2008 General Election, county election officials reported that 599 individuals cast a challenged ballot because the voter had previously indicated to DDS that he or she was not a United States citizen and had not resolved their status with county officials at the time of the election. Of those, 369 ballots were accepted because the voter provided documentation of their citizenship after the election; and 230 were rejected because the individual chose not to confirm his or her citizenship status.

On October 10, 2008, activist organizations including the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit to attempt to prevent Georgia from verifying the eligibility of applicants to register and vote in the November General Election, including whether those individuals were citizens of the United States.

On October 16, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Jack Camp denied the motion by MALDEF and ACLU; directed the State to continue the verification process; and acknowledged the State’s requirements to verify information under the Help America Vote Act. In his order, Judge Camp stated:

HAVA requires that Defendant Handel match information in the statewide voter registration database with information from the Georgia DDS and the SSA databases “to the extent necessary to enable each such official to verify the accuracy of the information provided on the applications for voter registration.”

Judge Camp also stated: ...

people can take anything out of context and do with it what they want; it still doesn't make it a McCain/Palin issue.

http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/elections/3723-mike-klonsky-obama-blogger.html

Mike Klonsky has had a blog on Obama's official website for a few months now (His first article is from February)...

Soooo who's Mike Klonsky?...

Maybe you'd like to see a little more from our Weatherman friend?...

Now either you believe that Obama complicitly allows this thing to happen on his blogs because of his association or you believe that their campaign site is run by such ignorant people that they unknowingly and freely let anyone who feels like blogging get their own page...

Of course, you could easily say "maybe Obama doesn't know anything about this loon and doesn't want anything to do with him!"...

tsk, tsk, tsk...Not so easy, my compadres...read on...

Co-founded?...

Wonder who co-founded it with him?...

Okaaaaayy...

So what does this have to do with Barack Obama?...

Well let's look at the grant support for this workshop...