WSJ columnist: Obama tainted speech about a voting rights protest by talking about...voting rights

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From The Mouths Of Racists... @WSJ columnist: Obama tainted Selma speech by complaining about voter suppression http://ow.ly/K4lEq #p2

Conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel on Sunday asserted that President Barack Obama had made a mistake by talking about voter ID during his speech in Selma over the weekend.

“Right now, in 2015, fifty years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote,” the president said at an event commemorating the events of “Bloody Sunday.”

“As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed. Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood and sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, stands weakened, its future subject to partisan rancor,” Obama pointed out. “If every new voter suppression law was struck down today, we’d still have one of the lowest voting rates among free peoples.”

Strassel: “It’s like George said about the narrative. One of the unfortunate things about the speech he gave in Selma, and most of it was great, he actually made really good points, he was very rousing. But he just felt compelled and he had to throw in this argument that there’s still a big problem because of voter ID laws across the country.”


read/watch: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/wsj-columnist-obama-tainted-selma-speech-complaining-about-voter-suppression/

[chillfactor]

1. what a conservative ditz Strassel is....

there IS still a big problem with "voter ID laws across the country"....what planet does this nutcase columnist live on? She certainly does not live on Mother Earth

Grammar errors corrected

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Jesus on a pogo stick.

[Panich52]

3. "This is your willful ignorance on steroids"

[safeinOhio]

4. Right to vote laws,

Our counter to the term "Right to Work laws".

[Fred Sanders]

5. Fascists hate voting as much as they hate Jesus.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Fuck this guy.

[Wella]

7. For many conservatives the voter ID laws are not about African Americans but undocumented immigrants

Maybe that's why this author had such a disconnect.

[malaise]

8. This is known as

'disconnect on steroids'.

What a fucking moron.

[VWolf]

11. Or as I like to say:

"A special kind of stupid"

[malaise]

12. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Agreed

[Botany]

9. Voter ID laws are about suppressing the vote and not about stopping voter fraud.

Strassel: "But he just felt compelled and he had to throw in this argument that
there’s still a big problem because of voter ID laws across the country.”

In 2014 31 states GOP Sec. of States used a software program to look for people voting
twice across state lines and that was done to suppress the vote of Democrats and
voter IDs were part of that program.

[MADem]

10. Uh oh...was he saying things "above his station" or something on those lines?

Where do they buy their designer robes and pointy hats, I gotta wonder? What's "unfortunate" is that we live in a world where racists can say shit like that and not feel even a twinge of shame, or doubt, or fear that their words will have repercussions.

[Spazito]

13. Ignorance, either wilful or otherwise, is a key prerequisite of the hiring policy...

in all of Murdoch's media outlets. This is a prime example.

[mmonk]

14. The crazy zone.

[DhhD]

15. Blind (Journalist) leading the blind. Obama was standing right beside the Voting Rights Act

Monument, during his perfect speech.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. It is a racist meme, and everbody knows it

It is a weak argument, entirely unsupported by facts.

The facts are that there were never more than a handful of cases of voter fraud in any election; also, it is counter-intuitive to think that an illegal alien, who is in this country to work at any job he can find and send the money back home, would risk drawing attention to himself by attempting to vote in an election. On the other hand, it isn't at all counter-intuitive to suppose that Republicans would want to discourage Democratic Party constituencies from voting. The burden of proof is on those who support this legislation to prove it is necessary, and they have not done so.

Of course, I could be wrong. I have been before. Nevertheless, simply to state that any illegal alien could vote in any election is an assertion is not proof that there is a problem and should not be accepted by representatives of the liberal point of view on any Sunday morning talk show. The counterattack begins with the assertion that far more American citizens are deprived of the right to vote by these measures than illegal votes are prevented from being cast.

[lewebley3]

17. Coporation med is Racist, and working for GOP KKK, Obama speech wonderful!!!!!

Obama speech was just perfect, the GOP racist is really getting sick alone with is media WsJ

[valerief]

18. What do you expect from a MurdochMouth? nt

[Protalker]

20. Boss Murdock pays her salary

I watched Sheldon Adelson the puppeteer orchestrate the Nintenyahoo speech and no doubt author the letter 47 senators who kiss his ring signed off on.

[Bartlet]

19. She's an idiot

Voter restriction laws have been passed in several states, the fact that this dullard doesn't understand that demonstrates how incompetent she is.

[DallasNE]

21. Truth To Power Hurts

Leave it to a Murdoch rag to cry foul. The sickness called racism is on the comeback, just like measles and for the same reason; too many parents failed to immunize their children against the illness and so a new outbreaks take place. Strassel is one of those parents that refuses to immunize making her part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

[hopemountain]

22. ....

speechless.

[heaven05]

23. kimberly

voting and civil rights is why we were there in the first place. Duh!!!!!

[GoneFishin]

24. What a right-wing moron.

[SansACause]

25. 2014 elections had the lowest turnout since WW II

And it was 75% white. The voter ID plan is working exactly as it was intended.

[spanone]

26. wall street urinal

owned and scented by rupert murdoch.

[samsingh]

27. wsj has become fox

it means nothing

[radicalliberal]

28. So, when have conservatives ever supported voting rights in the last 50 years?

The answer to this question is painfully obvious.

[olegramps]

29. It is simple. The Republican Party has been hijacked by facists.

In stead of Jews being the scapegoat, their scapegoats are Blacks and Latinos. Like the Nazis, they hate gays and lesbians and if given the latitude would jail or gas them. Like the Nazis they claim to be Christians fighting against the ungodly who have taken over the country. They worship money and the industrial state and would gladly welcome a dictatorship. Schools main objective should be indoctrination and they would ban sex education especially in regard to any tolerance of homosexuality. Like the Nazis the despise unions and would ban them. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck. I can only hope that the nation has the fortitude to realize it is heading down a dangerous road.