‘Jim Crawford’ Republicans

What a shameful column, an unnecessary attack on white americans and republicans in the face of a common sense proposal. Showing an ID to vote is just plain Common Sense. We have to show ID to get on a plane, to buy a beer, and even to get a Library Card .... amongst many other examples. Johnathan Alter needs to get out of the 60's stop making false comparisons to the Jim Crow days. What a disgrace.

It's nice to see that Jonathan Alter can not tell the whole truth. Almost all states already require you to have forms of identification. If you do not have a drivers license, state will issue you a state ID for free. Maybe if Mr. Alter would actually report the facts more people could be correctly informed. Nice job Newsweek. Little more fact checking please.

Just a tiny correction for two dog. The ideaology of the Republican party actually owes its birth to Alexander Hamilton, who was very anti-slavery. He gave birth to the laissez-faire economic policies which control the Republican party today and which ask us to suspend disbelief and proclaim the altruistic nature of big buisness and the super-rich. He alsosupported child labor. More to the point he was not in favor of franchising everyone. As with many framers he did not want a true republic and he openly worried about giving voting rights to the uneducated masses. White landowners, many believed were the only ones who should have that right. Furthermore, to deny historical fact and claim Republicans haven't used racial prejudice to own the South since LBJ " gave away the south" by advancing and signing civil rights legislation is just delusional. There was a reason Willie Horton was chosen in the first Bush's ad. Also this type of law affects all poor and down on their luck voters, the very type many framers feared. Race is normally irrelevant but in this election Obama will need a large African American turnout to overcome many deep racial fears all over the country, but largely in the south. I am southern and see this everyday, good people trying to rationalize not voting for the better candidate because he is black.

We can work against this if we are willing to work NOW for our future! knock those doors, ring those phones, and remind them to CHECK their voter registration. KNOW the laws that apply in your area, carry the voter rights phone numbers with you (call the state SOS or check the Obama site). ON E DAY, GET TO THE POLLS and vote ON PAPER, then either poll watch, work the polls (this often involves training ahead of time, again Secy of State), or at least stand outside and make it known that you can contact a voter rights group.

Take a camera with you (again, know your laws as someone will no doubt contest your videoing or photo taking), and RECORD it!

EACH ONE OF US has to do OUR PART to make sure the laws are enforced and the INTENT OF THE LAWS are met!!!

I always thought Jerry Springer and The Maury Show were fakes -- we couldn't possibly have people that stupid in this country.....after reading some of the comments, I'm afraid I was wrong. You people who claim to love America and hide behind the flag write some of the most racist things I've ever seen. I wonder how full of bravado you would be if you faced the people you lace with insults.

The Justice Department admonished Republican Jessie Helms in his 1996 campaign for civil rights violations after it mailed 125,000 fliers to heavily African American precincts warning that voters risked imprisonment if they cast ballots. So what else in new?

Why is Palin in Alaska on 9/11?
Why is Palin not at a 9/11 memorial service paying her respects?

It is bad judgment and unpatriotic for her to not be at a 9/11 service!

This article brings up an important issue, but is a little misleading. This is classism, not racism. It isn't (necessarily) more difficult for black people to vote, it is more difficult for POOR people to vote. True, minorities comprise a disproportionate number of people below the poverty level, but I don't think government cares about who is impoverished as long as there are lots of them.

Most of take for granted the relative ease with which we get things like IDs. Here in Va you need a pre-existing photo ID just to get a state ID if you're over 18 (aka voting age), and they just jacked up the cost of all DMV services. Even if you have your birth certificate, proof of residence, and a passport, and you somehow manage to leave work/ home for hours at a time, find out where the closest DMV is, and figure out how to get there, you will STILL have to pay roughly 20 (or half a days salary)!!!

It's discouraging to have to jump through such hoops before you can exercise your right to vote. I really don't imagine tons of illegal immigrants feeling so compelled to participate in the democratic process that they put the enormous amount of time, effort, and money into forging documents for the DMV.

SAUL ALINSKY - Obama was a deciple of Saul Alinksys methodical community organizer practices:

* SAUL ALINSKY (Marxist Liberal and famous criminologists - South Side of Chicago) - This was a man who captured the intrigue of Barack Obama in his early years as a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER in the South Side of Chicago. Upon moving to the South Side of Chicago, Obama ended up becoming a community organizer after answering an ad in the Employment area of the newspaper. He was first hired to work as Community Organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP), which focused on black city neighborhoods and later he worked for Woods Fund (the same company that Bill Ayers worked for back in the early 90s with Barack for about 8 yrs). Saul Alinsky was responsible for establishing the DCP and Woods Fund back then.
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BACKGROUND ON ALINSKY: Saul, in his early years, took on a well-known criminal investigator job in Chicago (which gave him direct access and a close connection to people of organized crime in the area). Through (what became to be) Sauls personal relationships with organized crime (mob bosses like Al Capone); and, given the field he was in, this man learned a whole new way of organizing people (e.g. a means of effectively manipulating people based on the tactics practiced by criminals of organized crime, essentially based on the use of intimidation and ridicule on at least one level or another.

Given Obamas interest in Saul Alinsky, he took a course on learning these Alinksy techniques (manipulation, intimidation, and overall people organization) which he mastered and then went ot to teach to others in awe of Saul Alinsky back then. Ever since that time of Obamas life he has been utilizing these methods (founded on organized crime techniques) eg. during his campaign run for the Illinois senate and US Senate, during the Primaries and into his current presidential run as we go into the final months leading to the GE. These techniques can be found in one of Saul Alinskys famous book s called: RULES FOR RADICALS.

The ALINSKY METHOD OF TECHNIQUES are based on people organization, manipulation, and intimidation that OBAMA, the OBAMA CAMP and OBAMABOTS continue to embrace and practice as we move through these last few months leading up to the GE: :

Techniques utilized::

* Personal ATTACKS

* Playing the RACE card

* Trying to play the GUILT trip

* Trying to make people feel GUILTY ABOUT SLAVERY when they had nothing to do with it

* Calling people that DO NOT AGREE with them STUPID. . .

* . . . and more.

ALL of the above things come right out of Saul Alinskys PLAYBOOK.

Non-Obama supporters . . Does all of the above sound very familiar in these blogs and being captured in the Mainstream Media since the bening of the Presidential race starting back in the Primaries . . ? Now we know why!!