Stealing an Election

The election grows near and the noise from both sides is ramping up. But I think the thing that bothers me the most is that, once again the same strategy rears its ugly head, Voter suppression and the accusations of voter fraud. Voter fraud for this argument is one person trying to either voter more than once or trying to get many to vote more than once under false information ie. Hi my name is “Joe the Plumber” and I would like to vote please. Now imagine trying to throw an election like this. You’d have to be successful at a number of different points in the registration process with thousands of different identities and then have them actually go to the polling places and vote to have even the slightest impact.

Then there is election fraud. Election fraud is the wholesale manipulation of a voting segment. Literally 1000’s of votes and/or voter registrations being either altered or rejected in a single instance. Like say a recount being stopped, or stuffing the ballot box electronically on a voting machine without paper confirmation or throwing out tallies that don’t fit your particular desired outcome, or soldiers overseas being “caged” or for that matter people from a single demographic being targeted by either caging or under servicing of polling places, which would demand that certain people stand in line for hours in order to cast their vote. Not a very democratic thing to do if that population is an hourly work force. Laugh if you like; there is evidence of all these things happening over the last 8 years.

What does it say about your party when one of its primary strategies is to actually suppress voter turn out?? How is this supporting democracy??


In case you haven’t heard Lance is back. And back with Bruyneel at Astana. Contador was unsurprising less than thrilled, but Lance is Claim cancer awareness as his motivation. He’s already confirmed for the Tour Down Under, and the Giro. Could be interesting. My biggest concern/objection to this is simple, its time for someone else to get the attention. The US has more than one cyclist and more than one cycling team. I’m tired of Lance. And clean going forward doesn’t say anything about the past. Was he clean?? Who knows. All I know is that virtually everyone he competed against over that time has been busted for one thing or another, including a good number of ex postal/discovery riders.



T minus 88 days

Not So Fast Fucktard

Ok my bad. John McCain doesnt have a soul so much as a moment of regret. John McCain and his shit machine have carried on their hate spewing tour of darkness. John's moment of " Mr Obama is a good family man" seems to have been an apparition. He has returned to his "we cant help what our rally goers do and say" line of crap. Bullshit John McCain. You know full well that you and your "VP" prospect are inciting hate and hate speech. And you also know that if you wanted to, you could put an end to it. Way to put "America First".

T minus 95 days

When the going gets ugly the ugly get going.

Why is it even remotely acceptable by anyone ,with more than a second grade education (anyone remember the golden rule), connected with the McCain campaign or the Repugnacan party to not step forward and stand up to the hate vitriol and violence that has gripped the conservative base at the latest campaign stops?? Calling someone “inexperienced”, misguided, wrong, hell even a crook is one thing, but to allow your rally attendees to actively call for the death of a US senator and presidential candidate is beyond the scope of reason, taste, civility, or even basic acceptable conduct. This is how the Nazi party came to power. Mind you I’m not calling John McCain or the repugnacans around him Nazi’s, but I am saying that they should be letting people know that this is wrong on such a basic level.

And why is it that so many fucktards (my new favorite word) think that the middle name “Hussein” makes the man a terrorist? I understand that the right wing paranoia machine put it out there, and I’m not asking them to disavow their own rumor. What I don’t understand is why they continue to think there is any, any,any truth in this at all. If there was any sort truth to it then wouldn’t be naming our kids Wayne.

Ok so I wrote this on Fri while on dispatch. Later Fri Evening comes around with the news that John McCain himself is correcting his rally-goers. Saying that Barak Obama is not a socialist, a terrorist or an Arab. He is; in fact a good family man. John McCain has a soul and spoiled my rant

Bastard.

T minus 98 days