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The Democratic Parties race baiting season has officially begun with Al Sharpton's national action network conference. Remember, if you disagree with any of the Democratic Parties failed policies that you are a racist.
Rev. Al Sharpton kicks off annual National Action Network conference | theGrio
Yes, gearing up to plant the seeds of hatred and anger to prepare the base for November.
A fed-up Attorney General Eric Holder is accusing congressional critics of launching "unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive" attacks on him and the Obama administration.
During a speech to the National Action Network, a group founded by Rev. Al Sharpton, in New York on Wednesday lauding the organization's effort to advance racial equality, a heated Holder went a little off-script.
"Forget about me [specifically]. Look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee," Holder told the crowd. "What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment
New York (AFP) - President Barack Obama warned Friday that Republicans were suppressing the right of African Americans to vote in a way not seen in 50 years.
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In unusually sharp language, the president accused his political opponents of using the threat of voter fraud as a ruse to deprive Americans of a fundamental right.
"The stark, simple truth is this," Obama said at the annual convention of the National Action Network, a civil rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton, a prominent community leader.
"The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago."
Democrats accuse Republican state and local legislatures across the United States of seeking to limit early voting and of introducing punitive identity checks to cut into the core Democratic vote.
Obama argued that such efforts were unnecessary because vote fraud was not widespread and said that in effect, they deprived African Americans of rights to equality that many had died to secure.
"Fifty years ago we put laws in place because of enormous struggles to vindicate that idea, to make our democracy truly mean something," Obama said.
"That makes it wrong to pass laws that make it harder for any eligible citizen to vote.
"It's a fact, this recent effort to restrict the vote has not been led by both parties. It's been led by the Republican Party."
Republicans argue that stricter requirements to prove the identify of voters are necessary to protecting the integrity of US elections.
But Democrats counter that such measures discriminate against minority voters and the less well off who disproportionately vote Democrat.
Obama's call came ahead of mid-term elections in November in which Republicans are eyeing big gains and may take back the Senate for the final two years of the current president's term.
Democratic voters are traditionally more loathe than Republicans to turn out in mid-term elections.
And Obama's core constituency of African American, Hispanic and younger voters are also seen as less likely to vote without the president on the ballot.
Obama's fiery speech came a day after he traveled to Texas to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act which abolished racial discrimination -- at the library dedicated to president Lyndon Johnson who piloted it through Congress.
Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh !
"I'm the attorney general of the United States, and the opposition party is oppositioning me !!!!!
Newsflash Holder !!
There has always been fighting, stonewalling, disrespecting, from the opposing party !!
The reason it's worse today is because this country is more divided than it's been since the Civil War !!
And regardless of which party is in power, it's going to be this way for many more years, and your fucking race has little or nothing to do with it you moron !
Yup that is what they do best, divide and conquer.The Democratic Parties race baiting season has officially begun with Al Sharpton's national action network conference. Remember, if you disagree with any of the Democratic Parties failed policies that you are a racist.
Rev. Al Sharpton kicks off annual National Action Network conference | theGrio
Yes, gearing up to plant the seeds of hatred and anger to prepare the base for November.
When I want to catch a fish, I use fish bait.
The fish are stupid. They can be caught over and over again. They take the bait every time.
..good point
