KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The right to vote is the most basic right of citizenship, but voter registration is on an honor system. Voters simply check the box. I am a U.S. citizen. I meet the eligibility requirements of my state. Campaign workers often don’t check.

In Cleveland, Ohio, election officials are now double-checking more than 51,000 new voter registrations, admitted by community activist group Acorn last month. They noticed that some had the same names but different addresses. Hans Von Spakovsky studies election fraud at the Heritage Foundation and is a former member of the Federal Election Commission.

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: Acorn in previous elections has had dozens of its employees indicted and convicted of voter registration fraud. Here we are in the ’08 election and it’s already happening again.

PILGRIM: Acorn did not respond to our calls. Lori Minnite studies voter registration for Demos, a non-partisan policy organization.

LORI MINNITE, DEMOS: You’re putting an intermediary between the voter and election official. And mistakes can be made and the influence to get someone to sign.

PILGRIM: Curtis Gans, director of American University Center for the study of the American Electorate, has a solution.

CURTIS GANS, CTR. FOR STUDY OF AMERICAN ELECTORATE: We will have this dialogue every biennium until we do something that will end it and the thing that we can do that will end it is to create a biometric national I.D.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PILGRIM: Some states are taking precautions. The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld Indiana’s right to vote. Arizona, Lou, requires prove of citizenship. You know there is really no time to check these documents. Voter registration is open. There are eight states where you can vote and register on the exact same day.

DOBBS: It’s insane what has happened in this country in my opinion where there’s no requirement for proof of citizenship. It’s a pretty straightforward matter. We have made voting simply too easy for understandable civil rights concerns in some cases but until others, we have erred too far in making this great privilege of ours to vote simply — we’ve debased it in many cases.

PILGRIM: It’s very worrisome. It’s a right. But it’s the honor system is something that could be reexamined as we go forward.

DOBBS: All right. Kitty Pilgrim, thank you very much.

I don’t know what Bible lgm reads but they were money changers, not lenders (offerings and tithes were made in the local currency). The reason the Lord chased them out was they had turned a place of worship into a place of business.

Now we have those who chase religion out of all apsects of our lives because they are offended by open displays of faith — unless it is the peaceful faith of Islam or whatever happens to pass muster in Hollyweird.

IMHO, it is likely their own feelings of shame rather than being offended that causes them to protest loudly.

In response to the question “What is a community organizer” I offer what appeared in a recent Patriot Post:

“James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal notes that while Democrats are complaining about putting “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Obama, the community organizer, will be “no heartbeats away.” And Taranto still isn’t sure what a “community organizer” does. He asks, “Are we supposed to cast our eyes on the slums of Chicago, behold how well organized they are, and exclaim in wonder, ‘Wow, Barack Obama did that!’?”

After receiving an email from David Plouffe of the Obama campaign explaining, “Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies,” Taranto thinks he’s finally got the answer. “[C]ommunity organizing consists of helping elect Barack Obama president!” He concludes, “The community Barack Obama has organized is, in Plouffe’s own telling, the community of those who admire Barack Obama… He is mayor of Obamaville and aspires to be president of Barackistan.”

NOW I understand what they are and what they do!

On September 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

It bears repeating until the word gets out to the masses…Barack Obama wants a collective society. In case people don’t know what that is, the definition needs to be sent out far and wide. It is another name for socialism. They must think that changing the name will fool the commoners! Two quotes from a speech Obama gave in 2006 to a graduating class are indicative of his socialist leaning…”our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation” and “…to help perfect our collective dream as a nation”. Can anyone find more quotes of Obama’s with the word collective in them? We should compile a list!

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-disrespect-of-us-flag-at-invesco.html#comments

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/rud-roh-mccain-leads-obama-54-44-among.html#comments

On September 7th, 2008 at 9:40 pm, lgm said:
I doubt there are very many actual community organizers for McCain. Community organizers work for the less advantaged (in the tradition of the guy who chased money lenders out of the temple two thousand years ago). McCain is working for the more advantaged.

Humor must be explained to the left.

On September 7th, 2008 at 11:11 pm, rambler said:
Ever notice that the biggest whinners have no sense of humor; Gore, Kerry and Obama just aren’t funny.

Exactly.

On September 7th, 2008 at 9:55 pm, ajmontana said:
Image: Not a soul gives a flyin Carp what lgm thinks.

It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!

McCain/Palin 08′

A new twist to an old saying:

Those that can, do;

Those that can’t do, teach;

Those that can’t teach, community organize

There is nothing wrong with having people who are working in the communities for the betterment of the lives of those within those communities. I just happen to believe that continuing to encourage embittered people in their dependence and neediness instead of fostering independence and self-sufficiency is doing the WRONG thing, morally, spiritually, and ethically.