White House rebukes online petitioners calling for presidential election recount

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Hill

The White House responded on Wednesday to official petitions demanding a recount of President Obama's 2012 reelection by urging his political opponents to "work with your fellow citizens to help tackle the challenges that we can all agree our country faces."

"You don't have to support President Obama or his vision for this country," the White House says in the response. "But you have to acknowledge that all Americans, even those with whom you disagree, have the right to help to set our nation's course."

The posting by an unnamed administration official also says that petitioners were wrong to charge electoral fraud. Protestors had argued that in at least one Ohio county, President Obama captured 108 percent of the registered voters.

"In fact there isn't a county in Ohio that came anywhere close to reporting more total votes than it had registered voters," the White House said. "Across the state, the county-by-county percentage of voter turnout based on registration ranged from 53 percent to 79 percent. The statewide average was 71 percent."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/309147-white-house-rebukes-petitioners-calling-for-recount-after-obamas-re-election

[zbdent]

1. BUT ... BUT ... BUT ...

the "liberally-biased media" called anybody who questioned Dumbya's halting the recounts as "sore losers".

My, how things change. Guess these petitioners are "patriotic Americans", according to the L.B.M. ...

[GoCubsGo]

5. Funny how that works, eh?

I think the WH is being way too nice here. They should have used the standard 2000 reply: You lost. Get over it. And may I add, "Now, grow the fuck up."

[24601]

6. My recollection is that the the "Sore-Loserman" signs (wordplay on "Gore-Lieberman") popped up

primarily between the November election and the Bush v. Gore decision. At that point, everything was being hotly contested.

By contrast, the 2012 election isn't contested.

[zbdent]

7. Weird how those who called him (one half of the 2000 Dem ticket) "Loserman"

now embrace him as the "turncoat" Dem ...

[24601]

8. And many here who embraced him as the #2 on the 2000 ticket now spit on the ground

at the mention of his name.

[zbdent]

9. You wanna see weird ...

watch how many RWers now calling for Snowden's head embrace him if Obama is convicted in an Impeachment trial embrace Snowden ...

[24601]

10. Woah there. What's the linkage of Snowden to Presidential impeachment? To start with, what is the

High Crime/Misdemeanor Charge?

Forger about passing it, the House is not going to even vote on any Articles of Impeachment. And if by some bizarre series of events, it did, what's the path to the 2/3 vote in the Senate for conviction?

And what linkage between Snowden and the President are you suggesting? This thread seemed to go way off topic.

[zbdent]

11. Ironic that I'm reading how you can't seem to figure out how Rs would turn anything into

impeachment process (and with today's "liberally-biased media", the exponentially more rabid than just promoting an impeachment on a BJ, and thus Snowden's "revelations of Obama&quot ...

as an advertisement above the messages asks "Should Obama be Impeached?" for various "scandals", including the NSA debacle.

[24601]

13. Acknowledging that Impeachment is inherently a political process, not a legal one, who is out there

talking it up?

An impeachable offense is whatever the House says it is. Conviction, removal from office and disqualification from future office, requires 2/3 of the Senate and no President has met that bar.

But recent news about NSA programs revealed that it was authorized by legislation and approved by the FISA court.

What "impeachable offense" are/were you referring to?

[Coyotl]

2. The planted the false seed in fertile imaginations, and that's MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

if you are planting seeds in very small minds

[marshall]

3. They need to close down that online petition thing the White House has going

I don't know who came up with the idea, bit it sure attracts the crazies.

Send it the way of the equally misbegotten [e-mail].

[davidpdx]

12. I tend to agree, it has been more of a waste of time and a platform for lunacy

Ideas for new kooky petitions:

Admit to the American people that George W. Bush was abducted and abused by aliens

Bring Micheal Jackson and Elvis back to life and have them tour together

Annex Canada as the 51st-63rd states

Ban Fox Television, deport the Murdoch's, use their buildings for homeless shelters

Put Mitch McConnell in a water dunking tank for a month and let people try to get him wet

Have a punting contest with the balls belonging to John Bohner

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Facts don't matter to these idiots....

All they know is nobody on their bowling team voted for the black guy.