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Repubs Will "Challenge" Obama Victory

Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-10-10 15:10.

By Mark Crispin Miller

As predicted (here and elsewhere), the Republicans are using their huge propaganda apparatus to accuse the Democrats of planning to steal this election. To anyone who knows what's actually been going on these last eight years, the charge is laughable -- or would be, if it weren't so dangerous.

It's dangerous because so many of our fellow-citizens still haven't learned the facts about the stolen races in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006, or about the GOP's long preparations to subvert the next election, too. Such facts are still unknown because the press has not reported them, nor have most leading Democrats even acknowledged them. That silence has now made it very easy for the GOP to pose as victims of election fraud and vote suppression -- and thereby to suppress more votes, and perpetrate an even greater fraud this time around.

What the party's done thus far is use the myth of Democratic "voter fraud" not just to cloud the issue, but to justify the passage of Jim Crow legislation, like the photo ID law in Indiana, the birth certificate requirement in Pima County, Arizona, and other measures meant to disenfranchise Democratic/Independent voters by the tens of thousands.

And now the party plans to push that strategy to its ultimate expression: an effort to undo a Democratic victory on Election Day.

On Wednesday, Investor's Business Daily posted an editorial, "Is ACORN Stealing The Election?" The tease: "ELECTION FRAUD: A radical group Barack Obama used to work for is committing voter-registration fraud in several states, ahead of the election. What does Obama know about this scam?"

The whole piece is a tissue of such shrill crapola, which it would take much precious time to blow away. Suffice it to say (one more time) that ACORN has, all along, been scrupulous in its observance of the laws (necessarily, since every move they make is under hostile scrutiny); and that the outfit has prevailed in every lawsuit brought against them by the GOP. As noted earlier, moreover, these recent ACORN "scandals" are a load of rubbish, patently contrived for propaganda purposes. In short, there's nothing there, as any rational observer will discover right away.

But the GOP is not engaged in rational debate or honest inquiry, but dealing in sensational canards, so as to lay the groundwork for another stolen race--just as in Florida eight years ago, when Bush/Cheney's men deployed exaggerations, lies and livid buzzwords (and a telling moment of mob violence) to subvert the true result
of that election and install themselves in power. The strategy for this election is laid out explicitly in the last paragraph of the Investor's Business Daily editorial:

"McCain would be wise to start preparing a challenge to voter registration rolls should he lose the race in a close contest. He'd be crazy not to contest the results in light of these events."

And so we would be crazy to allow the GOP to play that trick on us again. It's therefore time to set the record straight: about what Bush & Co. has done to our elections in this century, and what they're doing now (the Democrats, as usual, colluding in such evil by just sitting there). Only by aggressively exposing the Big Lie that the Republicans are pushing can we keep them from reversing their quite possible defeat on this Election Day--a loss that they apparently foresee, or they would not be getting ready to "contest" it.

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Republicans Chomping At The Bit To Get Obama

Submitted by LanceCiepiela on Fri, 2008-10-10 19:37.

NOT ONLY will Republicans challenge an Obama win, going all the way to the Supremes if necessary, the Republicans will also quickly move to investigate Obama's very first day on earth, and proceed to impeach him or obstruct his every intiative, having won back a majority for the 111th Republican Congress, or even with a minority they will conspire against Obama. Of course, McSame can do no wrong for a 111th Republican Congress.

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Live and learn

Submitted by 4Peace on Fri, 2008-10-10 23:33.

I talked with a friend today who volunteers for the Obama campaign. She had never heard of caging or vote suppression. I fear all her volunteering will be for naught if vote theft wins the day.
4Peace

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Neither of the two parties are good for this country

Submitted by afijamesy2k on Sat, 2008-10-11 01:18.

Both will them will bring us to more destruction.

No More Two Party dictatorship.
http://www.baldwin08.com

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There is hope!

Submitted by alkeng on Sat, 2008-10-11 12:44.

It is truly gratifying to realize that there are people who realize that the Republicans and the Democrats are two sides of the same disastrous coin. Only a mass movement to third party candidates can stop the rape of the American people for the benefit of corporations that now rule us. We have four choices in this coming election: Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. Pick the one you like best. They are not "spoilers". They are our only hope for true change! My choice is Ralph Nader, but CLEARLY, Obama and McCain are NOT A CHOICE if you want change.

Al K.

www.votenader.org

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