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Home Front: Politix
Obama campaign gives up on White working class voters
Posted by: Frozen Al || 05/19/2012 12:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'working' is the keyword making it a shrinking political class.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/19/2012 19:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Obama's bin Laden leaks angered military
[Washington Examiner] When they published their revealing book last August about the nation's fight against terrorism, the authors, two New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
national security news hounds, immediately felt heat from the Pentagon for dishing too much operational info about the killing of the late Osama bin Laden.
... who abandoned all hope when he entered there...
"I was stopped by a very senior officer in the special operations community who basically wanted to rip my lungs out," said Thom Shanker, who co-authored "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda," with Eric Schmitt.

But, he revealed at a counter terrorism expo this week, the info came directly and officially from the White House, not some garbage can digging operation. "I said to him, 'Sir, that information came officially to us from the podium at the White House,'" Shanker said.

He added, "Your civilian leaders make choices about describing missions, perhaps for their own partisan political ends, perhaps to show the nation that their tax dollars are being spent well, but that's the way it is."

Shanker, an acclaimed Pentagon news hound and author, said he had a little advice for the unidentified officer: If you make general, "this is part of your new world."
Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Ah pissing off and endagering the people trained to kill people like Shanker in a vast variety of ways, and then giving them patronising advice.

That's modern journalism. Wonder how those newspaper sales are going?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/19/2012 13:10 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
O Fights Voter ID Laws
President Obama's reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November.

Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voters how to navigate a series of laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures imposing stricter identification requirements, limiting early voting and making it harder to organize voter-registration drives.

In 2011, more than 30 states debated changes to their voting laws. A dozen passed more restrictive rules requiring voters to present state-issued photo IDs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, although Democratic governors in four states vetoed them. Florida and Ohio cut the number of days for early voting by nearly half, and Florida lawmakers reversed rules that had made it easier for former felons to vote.

Voting rights groups and multiple-votes rights Democrats, meanwhile, have decried these measures as deliberate attempts to suppress voters and swing elections. They say there have been few cases of voter fraud, given the millions of ballots cast and compared to the high number of poor and minority voters who will be affected. Some of these groups have brought lawsuits against some of the new legislation.

Twenty-five percent of African American voters do not have a valid government-issued photo ID, compared with 8 percent of whites, according to a study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University's law school. The report also found that 15 percent of voters earning less than $35,000 per year do not have such an ID.
So they are driving without a license?
How do they cash their paychecks without ID?
But as governor of a critical swing state with a large swath of moderate voters, [Virginia Governor]McDonnell is cognizant of the possibility that the law may be seen as a vehicle for voter suppression. Earlier this year, he unsuccessfully lobbied fellow Republicans in the legislature to allow for a signature comparison for voters with no ID. And on Friday, he issued an executive order calling on the state elections board to issue a registration ID to all voters so that "on election day this year, every Virginia voter will have at least one valid ID."
I hope there is a limit of one to a customer.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/19/2012 13:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How hard is it to "navigate" showing your ID? Just pretend you are at the store buying a 40.
Posted by: crosspatch || 05/19/2012 14:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Republicans should write the legislature linking the ID needed to purchase self defence equipment and the ID needed to vote as both are constitutional rights, and deserve an equal level of check.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/19/2012 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  So what for what other things do you need an ID?

To:

Buy cigarettes, beer, rolling papers, and tobacco.
Obtain a driver's license.
Obtain utility services.
Fly or travel on public transportation.
Get a library card.
To obtain food stamps/welfare.
Make apply for a credit card.
To make large credit card purchases.
Obtain a car loan.
Obtain a house mortgage.
Apply for a job.
Open a bank account.
Respond to a police officer who flags you down for a traffic violation.
Be admitted to a hospital.
Get a marriage license.
Show ID to join the military.

If Obama says we shouldn't be required to obtain ID to vote, we also shouldn't be required to show ID to purchase a firearm and we shouldn't need a concealed carry permit to carry a firearm.




Posted by: JohnQC || 05/19/2012 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  The local grocery store cards everyone for beer and wine. I'm 63 and they card me. They also enter the age in the computer, so they are well-protected against claims of selling to minors.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/19/2012 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  The puppy blender had a article about nanny state Britain but it's crept up on you too!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/19/2012 17:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, the nanny state is creepy!
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/19/2012 18:25 Comments || Top||



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  20 Dead as Syrian Forces Fire on Huge Protests
Fri 2012-05-18
  Syrian opposition leader says he's ready to step down
Thu 2012-05-17
  13 More Killed as South Yemen Clashes Rage into 5th Day
Wed 2012-05-16
  Ghalioun Elected Chief of Syrian Opposition Coalition
Tue 2012-05-15
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Sun 2012-05-13
  Al Qaeda's Leader Encourages Somali Militants to persist the fight
Sat 2012-05-12
  Tens of Thousands of Protesters Defy Syrian Regime Gunfire, 13 Dead
Fri 2012-05-11
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Thu 2012-05-10
  Damascus bombings kill 40, wound 170: state TV
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  Annan Fears 'Civil War' Looming in Syria
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