Posted on 04/08/2014 9:31:54 AM PDT by raptor22
Democracy: About 7 million Afghans turned out to vote in Saturday's presidential election, many proudly brandishing a photo ID that our Department of Justice claims is a symbol of racism and voter intimidation.
In perhaps the most ironic tweet of all time, former Obama adviser David Axelrod noted concerning Saturday's presidential election in Afghanistan: "Afghans defied threat of death to vote. Here's hoping that Americans vote in large (numbers) this fall, despite efforts to make voting harder."
Axelrod may not have noticed, but millions of Afghans also defied the threat of death when they lined up earlier to obtain the same photo voter IDs they could carry as they voted in an election that will produce the first peaceful transition of power in that beleaguered nation's history. Afghans proudly showed their photo voter IDs, just as President Obama did when he voted early in Chicago in the 2012 election.
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VOTER ID PING
Looks like 3rd world afghanees aren’t too stupid to have an ID.
I think it deserved mention, that AFTER the overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein, there was a FREE election in Iraq. A photo ID was, I believe, NOT required in order to vote, but the media and papers were absolutely ga-ga over the thousands of Iraqi voters who proudly held up fingers that were dipped in indelible ink AFTER they had cast their votes. Those dyed fingers could have marked the bearer with death.
The voters in Pakistan and Iraq proudly displayed a courage that is not allowed here. In the “modern” USA, the onerous burden of obtaining a photo ID, is deemed to violate one’s Constitutional rights.
Sadly, the election in Iraq didn’t turn out all that well.
How well did it turn out here?
Obama: Voter ID A Proud Symbol Of Freedom For Afghans... here in America..-not so much
Wow!
I sure would like to see the purple finger here in the USA. EVERYWHERE!
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