Question: When is asking for photo ID not racist?
Answer: Only when race card-playing Barack Obama, opponent of photo ID requirements at the voting booth, is worried about security at his Election Night party in Chicago.
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It couldn’t be a Secret Service thing, right?
Michelle,
Please remind everyone of the credentials process and security at the Democratic National Convention.
Hey Michelle, can you do something about the slavery and lawn jockey comments in the Rev. Wright thread? It’s starting to become an ugly theme.
I’ll show him my birth certificate if he’ll show me his.
Michelle, I have to agree with Mookie here. Some of that stuff is really a bit much.
Nope Obama did the same when he gave his speech in Denver. They all had to go through check going in but they needed ID to get in.
Obama only wants ID when he can make money off of it.
From an old post I did at the time
Agree. And it’s in the Sarah Palin thread too.
But what I’m wondering is if the Secret Service is making him do that. I know that both campaigns don’t allow signs, even though people bring them anyway. And if Daley is right about a million people, how are they going to check all of those IDs? Man, I’d hate having that job.
Which particular one would you like to see?
Which particular one would you like to see?
And in the demagogue thread.
Do party goers have to take a loyalty oath too?
Madame Hostess, re: Mookie said:
Hey Michelle, can you do something about … how ironic that they should look to you for censorship, like you were the government or something… methinks that they may have all the censorship they can deal with soon enough.
Please read what I posted Mookie. They people had to show ID JUST TO GET THEIR TICKETS. Obama was no where near the ticket outlets.
And they screened the people going into the stadium. Was no way a weapon could get in via someone not showing their ID.
Why is he worried about security? I thought he was The Messiah?
Oh…
No, I read what you posted. Is it possible that the Secret Service required that information? People were screened going into both conventions so wouldn’t the same rules apply to the speech outside? I understand that you’re talking about needing an ID to just pick up the tickets.
Social Services Benefits Card preferred… membership has it’s privileges.
ID! But that would mean that all the votes were by living citizens who are eligible to vote in the precinct. That would even exclude felons!!! How could Democrats ever win with stupid rules like that? I mean if you want legal Democracy, go to some country where they care. If you want to see the dead vote twice, and the felons voting all day, go to Venezuela..or Illinois, or Ohio, or Michigan.
Free forearm tattoos for Conservatives?
JUST KIDDING!!!
There was only one reason to do this
The below link and video explains it
Obama tickets have codes so that if they dont match voter IDs they can be deactivated so that people cant sell them to other people
Thanks for the link. I wonder what people were trying to get for them?
Why would the state dept be enabling foreign money to come into Obama’s campaign? Why is Canada and not The U.S. reporting on this?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5868
I was in that thread about Wright, methinks thou doest protest too much…. minimal innuendo at best and well handled by others there….. You sound like the little kid who squealed to teacher cuz you saw Billy pinch someone.
Then why I am not the only one who mentioned it?
Mookie and Aloha,
I joined this sight because I was hoping for some rationale discussions. I agree that we are getting a growing number of comments that I to have no time for.
If there is an Obama supporting liberal on this sight I want to engage them in a discussion on issues. Discussion is a good thing. I want to understand the basis for their opinions.
My mentor always reminded me that no opinon can be wrong because it is an opinion.
LGM, Watershed and others I have conversed with have differing opinions from mine. But their opinion does not justify my calling them a libtard, idiot, moron or some other personal insult. And I expect the same consideration when they think I am off-base.
So “dittos” to your wanting comments cleaned up.
Oh no(!) not this thread too.
I Googled “photo ID required” and got 152,000 hits.
Let’s see….
A photo ID is required to:
Enter a children’s hospital
Eat pancakes at IHOP (since retracted)
Get senior discount
Buy/rent video games
Attend the Jaycees Annual Conference
Buy a police uniforms
Get a Carnegie Mellon Library card
Enter a middle school as a visitor
Take hunter training classes
Become a Coal Mining Examiner
Take a GED test
Become a casino dealer
Read Jet Magazine at the library
Take a cruise
Claim cremation remains
^
^
^
Enter Obama’s election party
BUT … in some states a photo ID is NOT required to VOTE.
What is so wrong this this picture ? ? ?
Nope, Mooks, the SS can’t make a candidate do anything. If the SS had it’s way candidates would never leave home and they’d run a campaign solely via satellite interviews from there. But the candidate is the boss when it comes to his/her protection.
30 pcs of silver said:
Oh no(!) not this thread too.
yeah, I see your point but ask, is it worth censorship?
It’s too late. Some comments have already started disappearing.
ID is required not just for air travel, but also for beer, cigs and lottery tickets. I’m not put off by requiring ID at the polls or at Obama’s rally or even to service the copy machines at the Pentagon. I am put off by overtly racist comments.
I don’t usually agree with Mookie, but I wonder why some would risk their posting privleges to vent. Not worth it.
BSR
Back on topic:
When is asking for photo ID not racist”
Answer: when you are white, then you have to show DRivers license, birth certificate, medical records, college records, military records, employment records……
You don’t believe that for one minute Mookie. But go ahead and worship He Who Has Come. Perhaps they will find a job for you in the Party, one with a nice shiny uniform.
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The terms of use for this site are rather explicit. I believe what many posters are askiing for is enforcement of those terms. Can’t play by the rules… see ya.
bluesoc said:
It’s too late. Some comments have already started disappearing.
Oh well, we all read the terms of use…
askiingasking.Yawn. Already voted for McCain.
SO after Mickey Mouse votes 53 times without ID it’s not allowed to celebrate with the “man” it voted for? LAME-O
BSB, actually, if someone is racist I’d just as soon they make it public ASAP just so they can get booted ASAP. But I agree it’s wrong to abuse Michelle’s bandwidth to “come out” as a buffoon of any kind.
30 pcs of silver said:
The terms of use for this site are rather explicit.
I must admit that I don’t read every post, but I like to use the workplace standard, if it won’t clear HR then…
Oh well, what is the next thred?
Call me crazy but I just don’t see what the big deal is asking for ID. I think it’s a tad presumptuous of Obama planning his victory party but other than that..
BSB - if they’re carding you for beer, cigs and lottery you should be thankful they figure you look so young! (Unless you are youthful, of course.)
To cast my absentee ballot last week I not only had to show identification but had to provide a physical address. I do not know if showing identification will be required of persons casting ballots in the regular election here in Alaska. Of course Alaska is behind the times compared to the enlightened States as California, Ohio etc where even the dead vote!
Good rule of thumb.
Misscheryl said:
Call me crazy but I just don’t see what the big deal is asking for ID
Actually I think asking for ID is downright sane. In fact I support the call for a national ID.
I think the issue is that it is hypocritical to ask for ID at some times & oppose it at others (like when voting).
gotcha! Maybe after this election, ID will be a requirement to vote. I know dems won’t like it, but unless they can come up with a better plan to avoid voter fraud…
and they would want to do that because???
I believe it might be, but the Service normally likes at least six months to go over a guest list to vet the people on it. But they also would not have it in an open park at night either. That can and may very well cause way too many problems.
There are a great many good men and women in the Service, and I feel even more sorry for them now than I did when the Clinton’s cursed them and treated them like furniture. I could never do their jobs, but I still feel for them.
I have to wonder what that party may be like if McCain wins. Of course that has been taken care of already, so we all know Obama is going to be victorious, sadly.
well, they don’t of course, I was just trying to be nice…you know, give them the benefit of the doubt..never mind..
lol
So after they bus all those homeless people over to the voting booth, they’re going to bus them to a computer so they can sign up for their tickets to the celebration, right? He wouldn’t want to leave his thug-thizzlin brethren out of the fun would he?
And I noticed you can’t bring in chairs or strollers. So you mean to tell me that after I’ve spent weeks teaching my little crumb-munchers that crappy song on you-tube, I’m going to have to stand in the freezing cold and hold them for hours on end. They probably won’t even have porta-potties either.
If strollers aren’t allowed, what about wheelchairs? Or will the lame miraculously stand up at the gate and walk on in? Maybe Chuck will show up to be healed.
I know from personal experience what it feels like to be banned.
I believe in letting people say what they want to say unless/until they are:
1) exceedingly vulgar,
2) threatening, or
3) attempting to perform a “Denial of Service” attack.
The Dem’s plan IS voter fraud, Cheryl!
Hello - It’s not Censorship if MM removes posts. This is HER house and we agree when we sign up and post “A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.”
This is not a freedom of speech issue, it is a this-is-michell’s-blog-and-we-should-be-respectful issue.
I wouldn’t let anyone in my house made those kinds of comments. I’d show them the door. Why give the enemy more ammunition? It’s not just disrespectful, it’s STUPID.
How very racist of you to point that out, Michelle.
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Again, not a freedom of speech issue.
Joy, re: (a) off-topic; (b) libelous, defamatory, abusive, harassing, threatening, profane, pornographic, offensive, false, misleading, or which otherwise violates or encourages others to violate these terms of use or any law, including intellectual property laws
Awwww come on! I work in advertising, that might as well be my resume!
We have to show picture ID here in Georgia to vote. When the law went into effect a lot of people (Dhims) raised a big stink about it, but it stands. I think it should be imperative in all states.
I also think you should be required to show your most recent 1040 (or other tax form) to vote . . . but that’s another story. It just makes me mad that people who don’t pay income taxes are allowed to vote to steal my money for themselves.
brooklyn red -
Good grief, what line of work are you in? Nice comeback!
BR - Duh, just saw the advertising part! My bad…
Wow! A friend just sent me this video link.
“Hail Hitler. Hail Obama.”
Photo ID requirement for Dems parties Ok.
Photo ID to prove your identity, and to secure your right to vote, in order maintain the sovereignty of the nation = racist? We have gone to hell in a handbasket which is woven with stupidity.
On October 28th, 2008 at 11:00 pm, Little Ma said:
Agreed to a point. I’d prefer that there be no income tax at all.
The country did perfectly well without it for a very long time. If it weren’t for redistribution of wealth, corruption, social security, bailout plans, and all the rest, we could still do perfectly well without. A national flat tax, fair tax, tarrifs, or other consumption based taxes would be just as well and far less intrusive.
Problem solved on people voting who don’t pay taxes.
Well, Mohammad Atta had what? 5 or 6 drivers licences… maybe a photo ID is not the way to go…
I don’t think its racist to be asked for ID. I had to show ID to two people today to get my concealed carry permit… and we are all the same color!
Privacy is a delusion. If you have a credit card or a cell phone they know where you are. Google can find your house in milliseconds and show you a nice picture of it… and that’s only the public satellite photos. Biometrics are everywhere and growing. A law was just passed in England that all police departments will have fingerprint scanners, the size of an ipod. If you are stopped for any reason; traffic, too loud in a bar, etc. Your prints will be scanned and checked against a database. Not too many people are going to be asking cops for directions in England!
When I handed in my permit application, the sheriff said “just wait a moment… you’re ok… permit will be mailed to you in…” In the 30 seconds I was standing there, he checked two state and two federal databases and cleared me.
In the old days, everyone you came in contact with knew you and could vouch for you (or condemn you) and that was important for you to get along in the world. Later, we had Notary Publics who were persons known to be of good character and established that you were who you claimed to be. Now, we gather electronically and call ourselves Klaatu so we can be someone else.
Things may change under the Obama plan. Then, I think that if the government is coming to get you and they go to the neighbor’s house by mistake, the “government agent” will say “close enough” and take the neighbor.
While a valid point, that is not the argument that the Dems use to denigrate Voter ID laws. We all know the left does not like idea of ID because said requirement makes it so much more difficult to perpetrate fraud.
Klaatu said:
Privacy is a delusion. If you have a credit card or a cell phone they know where you are.
Well once in a while when I get bored I fedex my cell phone around the world, just for a goof
On October 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm, Mookie said:
See #409. Maybe I gave it a half-way decent turn at the end.
I’m not at all thrilled by what I call the “Carlos Mencia” style of humor which is all the rage today. It is practiced primarily by pop-culture media liberals who are too lazy to develop humor about the true human condition, and would rather just do a riff on a stereotype of some sort or another.
It has no place in any serious discussion that centers upon what conservativism should be concerned with over all else: the preservation and promotion of individual human freedom.
Jokes about friend chicken, lawn jockeys and all the rest diminishes the struggle against the slavery of collectivism, and leaves us all the more vulnerable to its devices.
travlinman said:
We all know the left does not like idea of ID because said requirement makes it so much more difficult to perpetrate fraud.
Yeah, but only cause they are out of power… if in power, GSP chips, tattoos, retinal scans, thumb prints, DNA data basses, whatever…
Sounds rather familiar.
On October 28th, 2008 at 11:33 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:
The trick is to never be the neighbor.
At 11:13 pm, FilmLadd said:
You’re absolutely right! A Fair Tax would solve a multitude of problems. I didn’t want to go into the subject too deeply — OT, you know.
“And so . . . . . perchance to dream.” Good night.
Simply awesome.
That is funny. It won’t help me though. I don’t have any neighbors as ugly as me, for the ‘Re-edukation Squad’ to mistake for me, when they come to retrieve me for my sin of doubting and resisting the new order of ‘change’.
Please don’t anyone mention that ‘armed resistance’ will be futile. You know the goons will come armed anyway! When they do come for ol’ trav, I may just have a little sumpthin’, sumpthin’ for them to think about when they get here.
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Ummm…the one from Kenya.
I support a national law that requires a state ID be present when voting. Also all states must follow the same rules when issuing ID.
Answer: Asking for a photo ID is not racist.
Addendum: An explanation of said answer should be unnecessary.
I have to show my driver’s license when I use my Macy’s card!
They want to make sure it’s me using it, and not some thief. And people complain about using ID to vote once every couple of years, and once every 4 years for a presidential election?
Yeah, let’s see BHO’s REAL birth certificate, not that phony COLB posted on his web site. He was born in Kenya but has fraudulently claimed to be born in Honolulu. He’s ineligible to be POTUS, but is so deeply mixed up in this conspiracy that all he can hope for is for all his crooked Dem lawyers to keep piling on the motions that keep the real records from being revealed to his fawning followers. Of course they probably have no clue what the Constitution says regarding natural born citizenship, since all they learned in the worthless public school system was self-esteem.
An ACORN speaker in that video also says that “THEY” (Republicans) prevent voters from voting by “creating difficult requirements to prove you are a citizen”.
Cameo appearance by Silky near the end.
Actually Keith Ellison has sponcered a bill to remove all voter ID from Federal elections.
It couldnt pass before in a GOP Congress look for it to come back soon.
Hype-ocrite.
This guy really needs to get a grip on his elitism. Celebrity worship comes to an end - hopefully on election day.
ID? 12 million illegals gotta vote somewhere. And in 2012 they will!
1 million liberals in Grant Park at night with ID’s can’t be a bad thing. Will make it easier for the Chicago Police to book them. I think we will take our daughter to Shedd Aquarium one last time while it is still there…
The South Bend-South Shore stopped the consumption of alcohol on their train just last month in preparation for this disaster-in-the-making. The hippies won’t be able to front load on the way to the coronation/defeat riots!
12 million…estimate way too low…it’s more like 20-30 million….
I would love to see a flat tax on EVERY penny a person makes from 1 dollar a year to a billion dollars a year. Make it one rate so everybody pays into the system.
Little ma, #58, I’ve been voting for 52 years, and now that I’m retired and don’t pay taxes, you want me to lose my voting privaleges?
I voted early yesterday. They didn’t ask to see my ID or voter registration card. They asked for my name and birth date. That was all.
Truly scary stuff. There was absolutely nothing preventing someone who knows my name & birth date (not exactly difficult information to find) from voting in my place before I got there.
But jokes are sometimes the first chip in the armor. Remember that the White European Male was not instantly denigrated to his current position of “font of all evil and stupidity” immediately. First came the jokes. We were bad dancers, stiff stodgy workaday morons who smoked a pipe and listened to Mantovani. Either that or we were blue collar jerks who beat our wives and said Shudddap you meathead dere! The other side found out they could make us amusing, then they realized they could enslave us.
These few small jokes are just a testing of the waters, people realizing they won’t die if they stop seeing blacks as a protected class of people who are far superior to eeeevil Whitey. After the jokes comes the serious work of Truth. That will be our salvation from Marxism. If we are not allowed to see the truth, we are already in the Stalinist prison camp that Obama has prepared for us.
Well, here’s the problem with a voter ID; it will have the voter’s picture on it. So, when the African American comes to vote, the election official will request to see the ID, look at the picture and say, “AH-HA! You’re BLACK! I caught you! You can’t vote here!” As you can see, IDs are clearly racist.
Another bailout?
the police in england are using fingerprints for roadside traffic stops, why not for voting roles? the aclu has no argument that the cost of putting your finger on a screen costs too much for the poor. and it positively rids the system of double voting and voting by unauthorized voters (illegal aliens, convicts,) while still offering the legal adult a vote which is their right.
Beyond un-F’ing-believable.
But sadly, of course, it’s really not.
Thank you, American electorate, for tanking this country down the commode with your abject ignorance & stupidity.
I had to show 6 different things to transfer my driver’s license from one state to another and these clowns don’t want people to show an ID going to the polls? I guess voter fraud is only a problem if it works against their guy!
Just goes to show how much trouble Barack is in without the dead vote.
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Wow.
Truer words were ne’er spake.
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