Specifically, the National Museum of the American Indian. Fascinating, maddening, enlightening, racist and anti-racist, historical and anti-historical discussion among the Comments, too!
Speaking as a controverted Nanticoke (who doesn’t qualify for Indian Assn. membership at this time AFAIK) who also likes his Irish background too, the U.S. Metis Identity movement looks more and more appealing….
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s nickname for overlong lines at polling places. I seem to remember allegations that these were sometimes engineered in Ohio in ’04 by Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell in Democratic precincts, by assigning them busted voting machines….
Watch out for these and many others. Ignore them, even!
…at Huffington Post, the NEW “most trusted name in news”!!!
…is not at all a serious problem in this country on a national scale, and never has been. Hype about it is a mere Republican and/or racist / bigoted scare tactic, ‘red meat,’ or worse: a way to take away our rights and freedoms, suppress votes, not to mention waste taxpayer dollars “investigating” it and setting up complicated systems to “prevent” it, which work like polar bear repellant: “Haven’t seen one around here in years. It must be working!”
Is this unprecedented?!! Even the corrupt Supremes threw the case out unanimously, ie, even the Republican ones, yet the Bushies aren’t taking No for an answer. Is this a case of “How many legions has the Supreme Court”? Will they have to send over a unit of U.S. Marshals to inhibit the White House from abetting the theft of this election? Take command of the Secret Service? Do they have the stones?!
Unbelievable but true in this day and age, the harassers learned nothing from the ’50s and ’60s except that Southern Democrats were done with that sort of thing. Really desperate. They show their true colors … and I haven’t heard McSame/Failin’ disavow them. IIUC this kind of harassment is a crime, a violation of voters’ civil, legal, constitutional, and human rights … and the police do nothing — just like the cops who it seems were complicit in helping suppress turnout in 2000 and ’04 by blocking streets near polling places in Black neighborhoods, etc.
What could be scarier?: The idea that these people seek to enforce their belief that “Sundays are for church, not voting,” on the rest of us — by mob-rule yet! There is no legally-established religion in the United States, and hasn’t been since before the Civil War. People are free to make of Sundays or any other day of the week what they will as long as it’s legal.
Speaking of disavowals, I had forgotten that McCain “pals around with” wannabe-terrorist G. Gordon Liddy (text-search his name among the Comments on the linked page).
“Yup, Yup,” it’s clear what Repugs mean when they talk about democracy and “traditional values”: Jim Crow, exclusion of people of color, or rather, of anybody who disagrees with them. Just like the “Founding Fathers” did! McCain is even willing to lie — or didn’t know, either way, it’s profoundly disturbing in a wannabe-President — about the scheduling of the last innings of the World Series, on which he chooses to attack Obama. “You betcha, doggone it!”
…according to several stories I read on my phone while IBS’ing in a supermarket bathroom last night. (On a related note, Donna Brazile tells it like it is!)
And the Repugs have so little confidence in their Indiana Jim Crow voter-i.d. law that they want to play judicial games now? Disingenuous. “Dishonorable.”
But PLEASE, don’t let them suppress your vote. Go. Vote. Take or borrow a cell phone. If they try to make trouble for you, go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/vpcreport and tell the Obama campaign about it IMMEDIATELY. UPDATED Sun 2 November: And/Or call the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition — http://www.866ourvote.org/ — toll-free at 1-866-OUR-VOTE, and/or use their website to report “glitches.” Call the number for you LOCAL Democratic Party in the phone book and tell them. Call the local TV and radio news departments. If you have a liberal radio talk show in your market, call them too.
I swear, the Democrats better not leave GOP shenanigans to the Greens and Libertarians THIS time!
They charge Democrats and our supporters are stealing the election, and sue us? That’s rich, and a classic case of misdirection, like sleight-of-hand magicians, considering McCain and the Republicans are publicly in the process of trying to prevent millions of us Democrats, poor, people of color, students, Blue-Staters, city residents, etc., from voting — AND privately, most assuredly rigging the e-voting machines or e-counting machines for good measure. These are all repeats from 2000 and 2004, and possibly ’02 and ’06 too.
Lately we’re hearing that racist voters might lie to pollsters about their willingness, or not, to vote for Obama, excusing a discrepancy between pre-election surveys and the reported results or exit polls. Is the re-surfacing of talk about this “Bradley Effect” preparing us for another stealth coup d’etat? Nevermind that there might not have even been a Bradley Effect! Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, a Black man, ran for Governor of California in 1982, and led going into Election Day, but lost, inspiring this Bradley Effect theory. But some analysts I’ve read (I can’t locate where now) say that since both his lead and his defeat were within the polls’ margin of error, the Effect may be an illusion. So beware allegations of an Obama Effect in coming weeks before and after Election Day! It’ll be like in Ohio in ’04, when we were told that Republican voters intentionally lied to pollsters or refused to respond, producing the “glitch” that seemed to say W. carried that State’s election results, and the whole enchilada. Was John Kerry Black?!?!?!
(Reminds me of the line in The Commitments about a Dublin, Ireland, soul band: “The Irish are the Blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the Blacks of Ireland. Northsiders are the Blacks of Dublin. So say it loud: I’m Black and I’m proud!“)
GOP dirty tricks are once again in high gear. “There you go again!”
American Red Tory 