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To: KLP who wrote (276567)	10/25/2008 3:17:33 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	12 Recommendations Respond to of 793840

Thomas Sowell: If Ronald Reagan had attempted to run for president of the United States as a liberal, the media would have been all over him. His support for Barry Goldwater would have been in the headlines and in editorial denunciations across the country. No way would he have been able to get away with using soothing words to suggest that he and Barry Goldwater were like ships that passed in the night. If Barack Obama had run as what he has always been, rather than as what he has never been, then we could simply cast our votes based on whether or not we agree with what he has always stood for. Some people take solace from the fact that Senator Obama has verbally shifted position on some issues, like drilling for oil or gun control, since this is supposed to show that he is “pragmatic” rather than ideological. But political zig-zags show no such moderation as some seem to assume. Lenin zig-zagged and so did Hitler. Zig-zags may show no more than that someone is playing the public for fools. Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well. article.nationalreview.com

To: KLP who wrote (276567)	10/25/2008 11:25:16 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

DEMOCRAT OFFICIAL IN VIRGINIA THROWING OUT MILITARY BALLOTS Filed under: 2008 By Joel L (Email) @ 7:30 am This story is why I hate having to use an absentee ballot when I am deployed. Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law — then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling — requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but also the current address of the witness. The McCain campaign said there’s not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said the federal document was changed in recent years and the space for the witness address was removed. But the Virginia law hasn’t changed. In case you think the Democrat official in this story is just doing his job check out this story about how Virginia officials are loosening Virginia election laws to help college students vote. This makes me mad as hell. Some low level Democrat bureaucrat is throwing out the ballots of deployed servicemen and women on a ridiculous technicality while other Virginia bureaucrats are cutting legal corners help college students vote. It is not like this hasn’t happened before. Yet another reason I hate the Democrat Party. It does everything it can to suppress the voice of those that defend this country. southernappeal.org