Barb’s Blog

Wasn’t last night debates BORING? I was excited about it as I learned it was a town hall forum. Then I heard the “big newsman” got to filter all the questions. Then I knew, it was lost.

First of all to say, I love blogging. I know that I had to be pushed into it, but once I got into it, I really started to love it.

I was aware that when I started that there would be a certain element of posting stories the mainstream media wouldn’t. I don’t like politics and I don’t like politicians, but if the newspapers and news would just do their JOB, us in the blogsphere could relax a bit. Never did I realize the blantant slants and the overall inability to see that the truth got out than these morons in the press. Shame on them.

Fortunately, and should I say, so far, we aren’t living in China, and we are able to be citizen journalists without fear of arrest. So I will take this as a job that should be done, and just do it.

Apparently I am doing my job well enough that people are beginning to send me news stories I might be interested in sharing. such as this one about ACORN and voter fraud:

In July last year, seven ACORN workers were charged with felonies in the largest voter fraud case ever in Washington state. Their enthusiasm for registering Democratic voters led them to submit more than 1,800 fraudulent voter registration forms, filled out from the telephone book. Five pled guilty. ACORN paid a fine.

“This was an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls of King County,” said Dan Satterberg, King County prosecuting attorney.

After the smoke cleared in the 2004 Ohio presidential election, election officials reported that ACORN made a repeated practice of submitting large stacks of voter registration documents at the last minute, filled out months prior but held so late that any verification was impossible.

The Wall Street Journal wrote in that same 2004 Ohio election, an ACORN worker “was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey.”

The history of ACORN fraud and intimidation makes a long list. While Cynthia Tucker makes readers mad at mean Republicans trying to intimidate voters by asking them to show ID that proves who they are, ACORN is just one example that proves the need, for those of you who need proof.

I’m among all the rest who know instinctively that showing ID to prove who you are when you vote is not only the simplest form of common sense, it’s common courtesy to your fellow voters. If you need an ID, and if you aren’t so blinded by your rights that you can’t see your responsibilities, getting one before the election is pretty simple common sense, too.

What about Obama? His involvement with ACORN began in the early 1990s in training staff and providing legal representation. ACORN’s political action committee has endorsed him and is now working to support his campaign.

Is anyone really trying to see that we have fair and honest elections? I don’t think so.

Oh, and here is a story getting little airplay except on FOX via an ad by George McGovern on a different kind of voting scam.

In the ad McGovern says: “I’m concerned about a bill in Congress that would effectively eliminate an employee’s right to a private vote when deciding whether to join a union.

$30 million campaign to oppose Democratic-backed “card check” legislation that would eliminate the secret ballot process required to unionize workplaces.

The Employee Freedom Action Committee, will premiere its first major ad during the second presidential debate Tuesday evening to criticize the Democratic Party for supporting the legislation, titled “The Employee Free Choice Act.” It features Democratic heavyweight McGovern, who lectures his fellow party members for pushing the hurtful bill.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised to sign the legislation if he is elected president. He is a co-sponsor of the Senate “card check” bill that was narrowly defeated the bill in the summer of 2007, but if the Democrats gain more seats in November the bill’s chances of passing increases.

Why do I fear Obama? I fear if elected, freedoms and liberties go right down the toilet along with yours and mine tax dollars. I pray I’m wrong, if not, I will be the first to say, I told you so and THEY [journalist] didn’t.

 

 Sources:

AJC.com
TownHall.com