Posted on 10/22/2014 1:05:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Grab sound bite number six. This did not make news yesterday. But Barack Hussein O, the president of the United States, in another sound bite culled from the Al Sharpton Show, admitted that voter ID laws do not stop black people from voting.
Now, that just undercuts one of the primary premises of the Democrat Party. "Oh no, we can't have voter ID laws. Why, that's racist. That's stacking the decks against black people. You can't have voter ID laws. Black people are not gonna get voter IDs 'cause they know they're just gonna be identified so the state can hassle them. You can't do that. That's discrimination," or whatever else they say it is. Obama goes on the radio: No, no, voter ID, not that big a deal. Here's what he said.
OBAMA: Keep in mind that most of these laws are not preventing the overwhelming majority of folks who don't vote from voting. Most people do have an ID. Most people do have a driver's license. Most people can get to the polls. The bottom line is, if less than half of our folks vote, these laws aren't preventing the other half from not voting.
RUSH: Wait just a minute. Do you realize people at the upper levels of the Democrat Party, the Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultzes of the world hear this and scratch their head and say, "What is he doing to us?" Their whole premise in opposing voter ID laws is that it will prevent minorities from voting. The logic is absurd. There isn't any logic to it, but that doesn't matter. That's what they claim.
You have to have an ID for anything else. The idea that you have to show one to vote, it's just absurd, and the logic has always been this intimidates African-Americans because of the heritage, because of the history, the way blacks have been treated in this country, demanding that they show an ID, huh-uh, nonstarter. It will harm turnout. And here's Obama saying, no, it won't. Not sure I understand what he's doing here.
Look, the real reason that Democrats don't want voter ID law is so they can cheat. I mean, it's no more complicated than that. He's right. Everybody has an ID anyway. Most people have a driver's license. Most people have some kind of an ID, cash check, use credit card, what have you. He says this not stopping our people from voting. He's trying to get voters. He doesn't want 'em relying on excuses. He's trying to gin up voter turnout here. And he says, don't fall back on this voter ID business excuse. It's not a reason to keep you from voting. But it is very limiting if your objective is voter fraud.
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RUSH: Did you note in this last sound bite I played of Barack Hussein O, when he's talking to Sharpton, says, "Keep in mind, most of these laws are not preventing the overwhelming majority of folks who don't vote from voting." In other words, the voter ID laws are not why they aren't voting. Do you realize what a huge rug he's just pulled out from under the Democrat Party?
Now, I know it's not gonna have any life span. Nobody's gonna react to it. The Democrats are not gonna change anything. But for people who pay attention, the president has just undermined a very serious Democrat Party platform plank: anti-voter ID. He's just said it doesn't matter. And the people that did hear this, who can make TV commercials out of it, it's gonna matter down the road. The reason the Democrats don't want voter ID is 'cause that makes it really hard to cheat. That's the sole reason.
States that don't have voter ID, they're in there trying to prevent it from ever happening, and after they prevent it then they're in there and they're doing everything they can to gum up the works. They're doing everything they can to get away with voter fraud, taking advantage of the fact that people who don't have to show a photo ID. And Obama has just said, that's not why our people aren't voting. But that's my point. "Our people." He said, "Most people do have an ID. Most people do have a driver's license. Most people can get to the polls. The bottom line is, if less than half of our folks vote --" He's talking to Al Sharpton. He's talking about black people.
Can you imagine George W. Bush, in talking about the white vote, said "our folks"? Can you imagine, if any Republican did it? Can you imagine what the reaction would be? But here's Barack Hussein O, and he's talking about, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, if less than half of our folks vote, those laws aren't preventing the other half from not voting. No big deal, ho-hummer. In fact, we totally understand it, because they're so discriminated against, and they have a champion in the White House, except that they don't. Things have gotten worse for them in the past six years than anybody else, as a group.
Their unemployment rate is higher. Their economic circumstances are worse. Their net wealth, net worth is lower. The income gap, black America, is higher. I mean, there hasn't been any noticeable improvement and most things have gotten worse, the way things are measured. It doesn't matter in the real world. I'm just explaining it to you.
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Al Sharpton, not Al Franken.
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Yeah, one is a comedian and the other is a senator.
Tribal politics at its worst.
Øbola threw his white mama under the bus....again!
0bama makes a fool of Eric Holder. I love it!
Maybe because “our people” are rigged voting machines. No ID problem there.
Does he mean Marxists, Mooslims, Kenyans, or just Steaming Pant Loads in general?
I cannot imagine a white politician referring to “our people.” If that’s how 0vomit and notsosharpton think, they should take “their people” (those who think the same way) and move out.
I know and have also met black Conservatives who voted for this man twice.
Not a darn thing in common with the man’s politics but they voted for him twice. It staggers any kind of logic or reason.
I doubt it, but it would be fun to see someone ask the judge if he thinks he's smarter than Obama when he rules against what Obama just said.
-PJ
Heck, Colin Powell, who served in a Republican administration and was for a while the “great black hope”of Republicans, voted for him. Now why would a black supposed Republican, if not conservative, who would be presumed to be informed on the issues better than the average bear, vote for a man who supposedly had nothing in common with his own previously professed political principles, but did have race in common? The question answers itself.
Even Michelle Obama was surprised that he was re-elected. Going into the 2012 election home stretch, she thought they were on their way out.
There was vote fraud and it may have swayed the election (although so-called Republican voters staying home in favor of a second Obama term contributed a great deal as well).
“The bottom line is, if less than half of our folks vote, these laws aren’t preventing the other half from not voting.”
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The pathetic part is that is probably an accurate transcript of what he said, the laws aren’t PREVENTING the other half from NOT voting. It is becoming an American tradition to say the opposite of what you mean and not even realize that it is being done.
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