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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (73127)	5/30/2012 3:28:58 PM
From: John	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

In the dishonest article below, racist U.S. Attorney General Holder charges that "the 'sacred' right to vote [for minorities] is under assault nationwide." Why won't anyone in the media ask him to clearly define how the right of minorities to vote is under assault? Is it because we are all required to confirm who we are, and that we are registered to vote, and that we are U.S. citizens? I have to do that as a White man and my wife has to do that as a White woman. Why is it "racism" to ask a Black or Hispanic man/woman to do the same? Isn't the truth actually that voting fraud is rampant in the Black and Hispanic communities, and Racist Holder doesn't want that exposed any more than it already has been exposed? Isn't it true that he knows without the millions of fraudulent votes from minorities, his boss, Muslim Soetoro, could lose in 2012? Damnit, I am sick of this perpetual bull$hit and the media shoveling it!!! Asking Black and Hispanics for voter identification is NOT racism!!! Whites are carded the same as Blacks and Browns!!! -nfg- --- Holder to black leaders: 'Sacred' right to vote under attack politico.com excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder told a council of African American church leaders Wednesday that the "sacred" right to vote is under assault nationwide, with federal lawsuits and at least a dozen state laws that could weaken — or block — minority access to the ballot box this fall. Forty-seven years after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, "overt and subtle forms of discrimination still exists," Holder said in a speech before the Council of Black Churches. The twin factors of lingering bias and systematic assaults from the right, he said, means that "for the first time in our [lifetimes], we are failing to live up to one of our most noble ideals" - the right to equal access to the vote. The brief speech was a call to arms for the black church, which since the days of the civil rights movement has been active in fighting for equal voting right for minorities. Holder, who was warmly received by the audience, told them his office is "aggressively" taking on the task of protecting that right, including challenging several state lawsuits that would overturn key provisions of the Voting Rights Act involving redistricting in Southern states and strict new voter I'd laws that could keep minorities, the elderly and young people of all races from casting ballots in the 2012 election - which analysts expect will be decided by a narrow margin. Ensuring that everyone who is qualified can vote "is one of our highest priorities," Holder told the council, adding that during his watch the Justice Department has taken on more than 100 cases involving voting within the past year, "a record number." Since President Bush re-authorized the Section 5 provision of the Voting Rights Act, which requires some Southern states to get federal approval before making broad changes to laws involving voting, "it has consistently come under attack by those who say it is no longer needed." Holder also rejected conservatives' contention that making it easier to vote invites fraud, a key argument in calling for tougher voter I'd laws. Recalling that protesters and faith leaders faced violence and death to gain that right during the 1960s civil rights movement, Holder called on black churches to mobilize as an ally of the Justice Department, informing the larger community and pushing back against restrictive proposals. "We have to honor the generations that took extraordinary risks" to guarantee equal access to the polls, Holder said. The nation has made tremendous progress, he added, but "this fight must go on."