Monday, June 12, 2006

The Fix, Being In, Finally Reaches The Mainstream

Bob Herbert in the Times:
No one has been able to prove that the election in Ohio was hijacked. But whenever it is closely scrutinized, the range of problems and dirty tricks that come to light is shocking. What's not shocking, of course, is that every glitch and every foul-up in Ohio, every arbitrary new rule and regulation, somehow favored Bush.
And this is, what, a year & a half later?

6 comments:

Naahm Deplume said...

I do believe that many of the measures, such as anti-fraud measures, favor Bush. I cannot believe that the Dems want to publicly state that they rely on fraudulent voting to stay in power. They do, of course, and have admitted such on occasion, but to argue against reasonable anti-fraud measures (using the familiar shibboleth of racism, which now is the Democratic version of 9/11) is short-sited and wrong. And yet they persist.

Barking Up Trees said...

i do not give a whit, naahm, what "the dems" state or do not... this isn't about them...
the issue, fortified by anecdotal evidence, and underscored with myriad documentation (read thebradblog.com for a while) in the last year & a half, indicates beyond any reasonable doubt that ohio was another theft by a quite facist military industrial complex, arguably far worse than florida in 2000 (which is saying a whole lot, my friend!!)...
and i strongly, though wearily, dispute the prospect of "racism" as the so-called shibboleth for "dems" (try a rebuttal ONCE without useing the word, would you?)...
again, the issue here is the **death of our democracy**, and even apologists for corporate corruption and callous anti-civil libertarianism should be, like, fucking worried, no matter how articulate their self-indulgent and repetitively bad arguments are...
respectfully submitted...

Naahm Deplume said...

Okay, then how about supporting wholesale voter reform that protects the integrity of the process, including I.D. requirements? When that one got trotted out in PA and GA, the left went nuts (won't say why). Yet, it seems to be exactly the type of measure you should support if you want to prevent future Ohios and Floridas. Do I hear a Yea?

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