Civil Rights Commission blasts decision to drop voter-intimidation case
posted at 2:53 pm on August 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The decision by the Department of Justice to drop charges against several members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation has come under fire from an unlikely source. The US Commission on Civil Rights demanded an explanation of their decision to back away from a case the DoJ had already won, and for which they had extensive evidence, including videotape. The chair openly wondered whether Attorney General Eric Holder would have made the same decision if the KKK had been involved:
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year’s election, saying the department has offered only “weak justifications.”
Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage “other hate groups” to act similarly at polling locations in the future.
Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.
“If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome,” he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.
“A single law, a single rule should be applied across the board. We are communicating with the department in hopes of gaining a better understanding of just what happened.”
If the White House and DoJ hoped this incident would quietly disappear, they are mistaken. The DoJ exists to enforce the law and prosecute violations of it. Few cases of voter intimidation are as clear-cut and egregious as that caught on tape during the presidential election in November, as the tape shows:
The civil right to vote without fear of intimidation and violence is so important that the Commission was created in reaction to a long history of violations of it. It’s literally their raison d’etre. As Reynolds notes, it matters not who intimidates whom; the federal government has the duty to enforce those laws regardless of who benefits from the intimidation. Otherwise, the rule of law means nothing.
Perhaps the Obama administration can blame Gregory Craig for this, too.
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Next time I’m at the polls to cast my vote, I plan on wearing my prez gump as joker tee-shirt.
hogfat on August 4, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Ah. I’ve been falling for so many of those lately. But, in my defense, I’ve been seeing more and more who weren’t kidding.
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM
guntotinglibertarian on August 4, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM
There’s a slash after the post; I noticed it right before I was about to respond to him. I think he’s being sarcastic.
Disturb the Universe on August 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Who is this, Stokely Carmichael?
Joe Pyne on August 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM
If I refused to talk to everyone here who has been rude to me, I’d end up talking to myself.
MarkTheGreat on August 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Tangential point… there is a local, self-described “black racist” who is pining for the “browning of America” thinking that blacks will join with the Hispanics to stick it to whitey…
He’s in for a rude awakening.
mankai on August 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Former Justice Department official and voting rights scholar Hans Von Spakovsky added: “I have never heard of the Department dismissing a case it has already won by default. They have…sent the message that hurling racial epithets and slurs at voters and intimidating and threatening voters at the polls is fine with the Holder Justice Department
Exactly. And to repeat: The harassment was aimed not just at voters, but at white poll workers trying to ensure a fair and lawful process in a city infamous for machine politics and street money pollution.
(via michellemalkin.com)
TN Mom on August 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Phew! I can smell those New Black Panther thugs even filtered through the vid!
pseudonominus on August 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Thanks. You’re probably right.
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Shut up, Mark!
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jk
Have a nice day! :-)
ladyingray on August 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM
And I am sure the MSM is all over this case….
d1carter on August 4, 2009 at 3:44 PM
If I refused to talk to everyone here who has been rude to me, I’d end up talking to myself.
MarkTheGreat on August 4, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Sometimes that is the best way to have a man to man conversation.
fourdeucer on August 4, 2009 at 3:44 PM
I do not even recall that the local police did ANYTHING to them at the time either. Cowards!!
God Lord, would I LOVE LOVE LOVE to have me some black panthers with billy clubs/ batons at my polling station next election. I might get a stern talking to by the po-po but those silly skinny panther losers would be rolling large to the hospital, no lights. Man, what a sweet self defense situation – amen!!
Ris4victory on August 4, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Furthermore, slavery was done by a bunch of people long dead and buried, to a bunch of people long dead and buried, and I don’t feel one iota of guilt about it.
Sugarbuzz on August 4, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Which is what the Republicans should be doing…they will never ever win the black vote, so they need to separate the minorities they can sway.
Asians, and Hispanics should be the target…let the democrats continue to abuse the black society, they seem to think it is okay to have inferior schools, and they seem to be okay on being told who to vote for, what jobs they can have…
right2bright on August 4, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I used to live in Philadelphia.
When the city elected John Street, its cretinous second black Mayor, he declared at his inaugaration, “The Bruddas and da Sistas are runnin’ the city now.”
Boy, were they ever. Second highest level of welfare dependency in the US. Number one in infant mortality. Number one or two in murder rate. One of the most politically-corrupt cites in America. Highest city income tax rate in America.
guntotinglibertarian on August 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Interesting. In what way? I’m from that area, too. I’m not seeing much of that, but I’m in a suburb. Could be different.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM
“This notion isn’t just ludicrous, it’s inherently racist. What about 400 years of slavery before the US became a Nation, and the 80 years after that for a total of 480 years of American slavery? And all those decades of Jim Crow, Uncle Tommin’, blacks acting white, and all that?/”
Wait, what?
400 years?
Let’s see, 1776 – 400 = 1376… over 100 years before Columbus. Really? Really?
I’m going to assume this is was a joke and move on.
WitchDoctor on August 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM
The irony? There is hardly a black person in the U.S. who would trade their place with their breatheren in Africa.
right2bright on August 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM
The matter doesn’t involve how fast those people might have left the scene, but rather they were there in the first place. Ever see the Rap video “Black in America”? I forget the band but the vid was prominent on MTV during a time in the 90s. It showed ‘black militants’ dressed in paramilitary garb–something liberals hate on (only, it seems) American soldiers.
You need a serious education, hon–ditch the politics and get your reasoning into full swing. I believe you can, assuming you’re not a ringer or an agent provocateur, here for fun and not a genuine exchange of ideas. The jury I’m with, so to speak, is still out.
You said that you found those men scary. So do I–just as I find extremists of any form. At least there’s hope for you. But I ask, honestly, why do you find them scary when you tend to post comments that tacitly support that kind of thing? You tried giving them an out, assuming they are some neighborhood watch. If you truly believed that, you wouldn’t have held any fear.
What does that tell you about cognitive dissonance among the Left or maybe you’re own head? (I already know the answer–you need only now to clear your head and come to a final conclusion no matter what it might be).
You tried being ‘fair’, saying the Klan thinks itself right. How sweet–you gave them an ‘out’! Being a Leftist who has a brain, I imagine you’re struggling. So, I wish to impose as a political conservative, that you ditch those notions of the Left. Socialism doesn’t work. Neither will the world of the KKK.
Use the brain that I know you have, and dump the idea of finding ‘reasons’ for what they believe. What they buy into isn’t our business. If we disagree with things like that, then we fight it–as individuals. No excuses. I’m a Constitutional constructionist, and people like the NBPP and KKK do not fit.
At this point, I oppose an armed rebellion against the United States because we still retain the right to vote as free Citizens. Long as the basic parts of the Constitution remain freely in place, armed rebellion is not necessary. But the instant this government tries removing the Second Amendment and many other things, all signals are off. Then I revert to Thomas Jefferson.
Stop making excuses for those people, Anna, who will exterminate your right to free speech just as fast as they’ll kill mine. You have a brain, but in my estimation you’re trying to hold to things you know while your mind is expanding. Go with the expansion.
I’ve read others here rip you to sh*t. I can see why, for things you posted, but I don’t agree with that way of doing things. So, I ask you use your brain while never losing your heart. I’m not trying to piss you off or devalue you, or anything like that. I’m simply offering ideas for you to consider.
Regards,
Liam in the liberal State of NY
Liam on August 4, 2009 at 3:49 PM
70,000 Liberians living in Philadelphia. 70,000 Somalians living in Minnesota.
Nuff said.
guntotinglibertarian on August 4, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Elsewhere in the Washington Times article:
Let’s be clear. The complaint wasn’t merely “dropped”; it was abandoned after it had been prosecuted to a default judgment against the defendants (after they refused to respond to the complaint) and after DOJ began preparing to impose sanctions against the defendants.
Outrageous and unbelievable. Or, an example of OJ-type justice the we learn to expect from Obama and Holder.
BuckeyeSam on August 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM
No, that was a horrible race card played, and I resented it terribly.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Oh, is he ever!
You should have heard the conversations in the Hispanic and Asian communities after the Rodney King riots, and the O.J. Simpson verdict. Blacks think Whites are racist? They haven’t a clue what the other groups think of them.
I know for a fact that Koreans/Chinese (I’m not sure about other Asians) won’t do business with Blacks, plus they think they are lazy. Most Korean/Chinese market owners get real nervous when they enter their stores, and they are well armed if they have a business in the Black community.
I don’t think it’s right, but it’s from years of having their stores vandalized, and their product shop lifted.
Joe Pyne on August 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM
What Klan? Gee, I haven’t seen a burning cross in my entire lifetime.
Why don’t you check under your bed for the boogieman, while you’re at it?
guntotinglibertarian on August 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM
While we didn’t have Black Panthers at the local polling station, apparently we did have some really obnoxious college hippies. Several of the guys in my neighborhood that fought in ‘Nam, Desert Storm, etc came back and told the rest of us they actually called them baby killers and were screaming at them they had blood on their hands thanks to fighting Bush’s illegitimate war.
Apparently it didn’t matter to them that all of my neighbors were long retired from service and none fought in the current war.
I think next election the whole bunch of us should all go together. Just for “security” purposes, you understand…
Sugarbuzz on August 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM
To be fair, she wasn’t the one who brought them up.
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Frankly, they wouldn’t have stopped me from voting, but then, I’m not easily intimidated.
I thought the stories from the primaries were actually terrible, a black eye on the Democratic party, and I’m still not going to vote Democrat unless the person is just far and above any other candidate. That’s a promise. I was a LOT more upset by the stories that came in from varying parts of Texas, for example. Even from WA state about the actual downright fraud. Tricks galore. And they did not even get their hands slapped.
I’ve worked the polls, so I know that sometimes, these stories get exaggerated. Someone gets their feathers ruffled and then you’re called about some minor incident that, frankly, was a fly in the ointment type deal.
But the consistency of the reports, the fact that it was clearly the same state to state, convinced me that the organization was, in fact, promoting voter intimidation and fraud.
I did not vote for Obama. I did not give him a pass on that. And I won’t vote for him. I may like public option, but you have to pick your top principles when voting, too.
This situation? I’d have to read more to see what really went on. I remember that they left peaceably and seemed to think they were doing the neighborhood a favor. Heaven only knows why the poll workers didn’t immediately stop it. I can guess.
When Chealsea dropped off donuts, she was scolded for walking inside the polling place before the polls even opened! :)
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM
And thanks, btw….makes exploring ideas a lot more relaxing.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Perhaps if the people in the video had gainful employment,
they wouldn’t have time to scare whitey.
elderberry on August 4, 2009 at 3:59 PM
I’m reporting this post to flag@whitehouse.gov
/joke
mike_NC9 on August 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM
AnninCA -
I work in the communities of Cerritos, Lakewood, Artesia, and Hawaiian Gardens, where all the colors of the rainbow live, and send their children to school. So, I get a pretty good cross-section of racial opinions.
I have also done a lot of work (sales mainly) in Compton and Lynwood. The Blacks I worked with knew the Koreans hated them, and many (not all) of the Koreans I talked to acknowledged it.
Joe Pyne on August 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM
The is a simple explanation for the adninstrations reluctance to go after the NBP. NBP & the SDS/Weather Underground are closely allied entities, going so so far as to team up in several bank robberies in the 70′s & 80′s to support their political activites.
SDS/Weather Underground’s members splintered off to form or insuate themselves into org’s that are prevalent today and are found in & around Obama.
For instance,
1, Wade & Dale Rathke who founded and ran ACORN.
2, Andy Stern, Mark Rudd & Todd Gitlin who make up the executive core of the SEIU.
3, Paul Booth who VP of operations at the AFSCME union.
4, Marilyn Katz who was Obama’s lead Chicago spokesperson for the campaign and was recently noted by Lynn Sweet of The Chicago Sun Times as being part of recent policy formation in the White House.
5, David Fenton of Fenton Communications who produced much of BHO’s campaign material and is doing much of the Volunteer for America campaign.
6, Steve Tappis & Tom Hayden major DNC functionaries and Obama donation bundlers ande campaign strategists.
&, Mike Klonsky & Carl Davidson who who with others above founded Progressives for Obama.
And this just the tip of the ice-berg! Others include but not limited to are,
Howie Machtlinger, Jim Jacobs, Arlene Bergman… oh hell withit suffice it say that if you track down a SDS/Weatherman today (I am doing so for a book) you have better than a 60/40 shot of tying them to Obama.
kKeep in mind that all of these people were directly involved in acts of sedition against the United States of America! And now they have the keys to the White House!
Archimedes on August 4, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Oh yeah, for sure. But Obama didn’t fare well with Asian-Americans.
I’m in Santa Clarita. We have a growing minority, but it’s really pretty laid back about stuff. I think the teens scrap.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lJtE7DzyTc&feature=related
Sugarbuzz on August 4, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Soon slavery will be taught in schools like the fairy tale of evolution. “Millions of years ago in America, the white man made a slave of the black man, and millions of slaves evolved into out present day half black resident.”
Jeff from WI on August 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lJtE7DzyTc&feature=related
Sugarbuzz on August 4, 2009 at 4:04 PM
R O F L M A O !!!!
Jeff from WI on August 4, 2009 at 4:07 PM
AnninCA -
Personal question; are you British?
I have never heard a native Californian, or long time U.S. citizen use the word “scrap” to describe a fight. If that was what you meant.
Santa Clarita is, what, nearly 85% White? You have no idea what it’s like down here. But, I am sure you are aware of the serious Black and Hispanic gang problems that are occurring in neighboring Palmdale and Lancaster, right? That problem will get to your folks in time as housing continues to dip.
Joe Pyne on August 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Big Sale Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLNKFT8-3Y&feature=related
Gotta love them Korean Shop Owners.
Jeff from WI on August 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I sometimes think the trolls here are just one person having a conversation with himself.
Buford Gooch on August 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Looks like OBAMA supporters.
Jeff from WI on August 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Personal question; are you British?
I have never heard a native Californian, or long time U.S. citizen use the word “scrap” to describe a fight. If that was what you meant.
Santa Clarita is, what, nearly 85% White? You have no idea what it’s like down here. But, I am sure you are aware of the serious Black and Hispanic gang problems that are occurring in neighboring Palmdale and Lancaster, right? That problem will get to your folks in time as housing continues to dip.
Joe Pyne on August 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM
As a former Californian I remember this phrase being used in this way commonly.
Archimedes on August 4, 2009 at 4:13 PM
So Chelsea got scolded? See–you’re nitpicking useless details. Maybe it wasn’t right, but things happen. And too much trivia makes a mess of things, like how libs enjoy throwing a topic off center to somehow justify themselves.
Conservative: Obama runs a corrupt Administration.
Lib: So did Bush, Washington, Jefferson, George III, and Nero. A-ha!
What went on is that first and foremost, on of those NBPP guys had a club–a weapon–at a polling place. Imagine the outrage had a Republican such a thing. Now, I’m all for Citizens carrying weapons but most states and municipalities outlaw it. Nothing more to say, here, hon. The guy went to a polling place armed. When I go vote, I have nothing on me that can be considered, by intent, a weapon. I and every other American citizen should be able to feel safe when he or she casts a vote.
Exaggerations happen, yes, but we have a video of the incident in question. And a conviction of the charges and specifications as allowed by local law, authorized by the people represented thereof. How that happened doesn’t matter; court decision was legally made according to the law.
Now, to be a smartass if you let me get away with this, is that the duly-convicted intimidators had only a club and the cops had guns. I’m just being a pain since you’re letting me get away with that for now, but I wonder if the militants had firepower would the outcome have been different? I prefer to hope not, really.
The bottom line as I see it is that no one should ever arrive armed to a polling place to cast a vote. If someone has a concealed-carry permit, he should leave his sidearm in the car or at home. A ‘neighborhood watch’ at a polling place is as bad, in my sight, as making blacks in the 50s and 60s take an IQ test to be able to exercise their right as American citizens. Police can and should handle safety at the polling place, and constables are often if not always present on Election Day.
There’s no excuse for those guys being where they were, and no excuse the JD threw out charges that were already ejudicated convictions.
Liam on August 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM
What is the possibility that this action reaches the White House? What if this was ordered by Obama himself? What laws could possibly have been violated if someone at the White House directed that the prosecution be abandoned?
High crimes & misdemeanors?
(Drops to one knee and begins praying)
turfmann on August 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM
That’s the part of the story I’ve not bothered to read about yet. Is it truly worth it?
I assume I agree with you. I also assume they got a free pass due to the political nature of the situation.
Fair? Nope. But heck, loads isn’t fair in life.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I agree. But I’ve worked in LA….Wilshire district…and done plenty of volunteer work in So. Central. I’m not clueless.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM
nope….jeeze, another word lost, eh?
It’s a great word.
AnninCA on August 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Does this mean it is OK to threaten and intimidate voters in a primary election?
MOHyder on August 4, 2009 at 4:28 PM
B.L.T.
baldilocks on August 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Actually, I think O’bama gave up caring what the Civil Rights Commission says long ago. After all, they came out in opposition to the Akaka Bill, which he and Biden both enthusiastically endorsed.
Del Dolemonte on August 4, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Probably, but it shouldn’t have any place in our justice system.
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Yep. The tit-for-tat has got end sometime.
baldilocks on August 4, 2009 at 4:38 PM
In any story I read, it wasn’t stated those two men should not have been there. But I draw from inference, according to history, citizenship, and comment sense.
In my view, no one needs or should desire to be at a polling place with a weapon. Unless the military is deployed, which I would find tyrannical, there is no need and a right citizen no matter his affiliation should be there bearing weapons even if concealed.
Far as I see, these guys were released for political reasons. I recall the Black Panthers of the 60s and 70s, and they’re basically Marxists. Toss in now, the fact the Justice Department under a black president released after criminal conviction a pair of black militants, and we have a wicked brew on the stove.
Forget motive. Sometimes appearances are everything. That’s not fair and, why much in life isn’t fair, why add to the awful list of unfairnesses in world? I say to stand up, call for what is right, and not go belly-up just because Cain slew Abel when Abel wasn’t looking.
Liam on August 4, 2009 at 4:39 PM
I often ask this: what if the US accedes to the wishes of some Hispanics who want us to give back California, Arizona, etc. to Mexico? When that new territory really morphs into to Mexico are they going to cross the new border looking for opportunities?
baldilocks on August 4, 2009 at 4:41 PM
He meant that the New Slavery was running Philly.
baldilocks on August 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Yes, they should, except whites can’t punish back. At least, that’s the view of the Left.
I was being sarcastic. If you do the math, slavery ‘started’ in America about 1376–when few on on the planet knew this continent existed. Add in the other 80 years I mentioned and the math come out to about 1295–when even fewer knew North America sat between Europe and China.
All sarcasm, hon.
Liam on August 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Thanks, dear. I missed the slash but caught it when another poster pointed it out up thread.
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Is Samir Shabazz the son of Malik Zulu Shabazz?
riverrat10k on August 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM
This is what happened for certain. Obamatons don’t believe in delegation.
Hello? Of course it shouldn’t.
It’s too late for ‘shouldn’t’ now, however. Black Liberation Theology inserted itself into our justice system when Obama got elected!
baldilocks on August 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM
No prob!
I have this fetish for the numbers the Left throws out(up?). What the Left counts on is people forgetting what they learned in grade school, as well as history professors teaching revised history.
It was said in the 80s that 100 million dead black slaves were thrown off the ships between Africa and America, and the sharks still follow those old ship routes. Doing the math, basically Africa was depopulated. And, too, sharks are so smart they followed the ship routes, then suddenly became so dumb that after 209 years they still look for food along a way that doesn’t supply anything more than fish?
The Left’s lies don’t bear out the history, and my fave game with libs is to point out the truth, using sarcasm and their own numbers against them. Then I sometimes have to buy them a beer to calm their nerves.
Regards,
Liam
Liam on August 4, 2009 at 4:55 PM
What a sweet person.
Esthier on August 4, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Sometimes, nothing is more fun than watching a lib come unglued. A beer often helps keeping them from going postal, with me as the first target.
Liam on August 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Those M-Fers show up at my polling place in their silly custumes, they’ll be in for an unpleasant surprise.
Jaibones on August 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Don’t ya know blacks can’t be racist? It’s kind of rule..
Star20 on August 4, 2009 at 5:17 PM
The racists are the people who want to turn concerned citizens like these two fine young men away from their duties at the polling place…
/sarc
Scrappy on August 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Next election cycle, I’m going sign up to be a poll watcher. Then, I’m going to drape myself in the Mexican flag and run off blacks. Not because they’re black. But because they’re not Mexicans.
Yep. I can get away with it because the Do(in)J has set precedence.
I can legally intimidate people. How cool is that!
madmonkphotog on August 4, 2009 at 6:04 PM
You think it was bad during this last election? Just wait and see what Obama and his thugs do in 2012 to keep their power. He will probably hire the black panthers to stand outside polling places anywhere he thinks he can scare people.
Susanboo on August 4, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Follow the money. Did the NBPP donate any campaign money to Obama? Better yet, lets check the backgrounds of some of the Czars or higher-ups in the Justice Dept. I have a feeling that there is a Black Panther or a relative of a NBP working in this administration.
mizflame98 on August 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTT.
DDT on August 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
That’s the nub of the isue right there, and this case exposes the Obama DoJ for its racialist views.
cruadin on August 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM
I don’t see what the big deal here is,,, just some youths who care a great deal about their community and wanting to get involved. So what if they’re wearing some military fatigues or whatever,, oh,, and carrying nightsticks,, and uh, well, standing out front
looking a little intimidatingexpressing some passion for their candidate. It’s just their culture you bunch of bigots!And now that they have been given the stamp of approval by the One himself,, they can be fruitful and multiply and express even more passion at even more voting districts and elections booths all across this great land!
JellyToast on August 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM
You can see which departments in the government Obama sees as the most powerful, and easily manipulated; The ones he has appointed a black person to head. All the rest are of minor significance, in his eyes.
Cybergeezer on August 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Ed, please don’t link to the print version of the newspaper article. Let our eyeballs see the ads which pay for it.
HotWeaver on August 4, 2009 at 9:29 PM
The video clearly shows why Holder didn’t want to get involved. No white people to prosecute. Nothing but the best for our 1st Affirmative Action President.
GarandFan on August 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I have a friend who used to own a rental property in the Allentown, PA inner city. He used to get so upset when the notion of racism coming from blacks was summarily dismissed by the media, as he told me that to a man, the first question coming from prospective black renters was “Are there many Hispanics in this neighborhood?”.
I’m also anxiously awaiting CNN’s barrage of “Hispanic in America Parts 1 and 2″, and “Asian in America Parts 1 and 2″. Think I have long to wait?
oldoldbabs on August 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM
There should be a ton of things like this on the DOJ desk.
Here in my city in New Jersey a Dem party official went to a nursing home (almost all Italians) and told them to sign over to absentee ballots instead. All the elderly showed up to vote since they never got those ballots and they had to waste alot of time trying to fix it. Why that was never pushed into the limelight I’ll never know, I mean we did just get 33 members of the Dem Party arrested for taking bribes, what are the odds they had something to do with rigging votes too.
Rbastid on August 5, 2009 at 1:02 AM
Hope and change every communist can believe in.
” My administration will transform America ”
Remember that sh*theads
bluegrass on August 5, 2009 at 8:37 AM
AnninCA:
I’m having trouble following your logic. Are you saying that since the New Black Panthers were only in front of the polling place for a little while, it’s no big deal? Then as long as only a few kids are barred at the school’s doors, or only a few blacks are forced to ride in the back of the bus, it’s OK?
I think Liam’s pegged it and you are struggling a bit. That’s good. We should all challenge our assumptions from time to time. I’ve noticed the Left rationalizes a lot, throwing out various hypotheticals when there’s something they need to excuse. Then they behave as if the hypothetical were fact. If just one voter or poll worker could have been intimidated, is that not sufficient to enforce the law?
JackOkie on August 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM
IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PROSTITUTE ADMINISTRATION
bluegrass on August 5, 2009 at 9:44 AM
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