Black Sox Dynasty. I like the sound of that!

Now, about your thread: You don’t usually get this much action from trolls. Maybe they’re restless. This business with Joe the Plumber has gotten a lot of them stirred up. I regard that as evidence of Joe’s impact.

Finally, the press doesn’t have to ask what the Obama campaign wants them to do any more than my dog has to ask whether I want her to accompany me for a walk, and for much the same reason. Perhaps I’ll name my next dog “Press.”

From a card-carrying member of the right-wing cabal.

Well I have flushed out the truth and it stinks to high heaven.

Dr. Lumplevin

Over the past decade a significant number of news reports, commissioned government studies and court cases have found repeated cases of voter suppression, nearly all by Republicans. One critical example was when (two years after the fact) Florida determined that Katherine Harris had “erred” in purging over 57,000 voters (most African-American and thus presumed more likely to vote for Democrats) from the registration lists thus denying tens of thousands the right to vote in the critical 2000 election. While this is but one example, many others can be cited. In nearly every case it has been part of a Republican strategy, carried out by elected officials abusing their positions, to advance the interests of their party by subverting the right of citizens to freely vote. All told hundreds of thousands of voters have been affected by this strategy.

ACORN voter registration efforts have regularly resulted in fraudulent registrations being submitted although ACORN flags many of these themselves and most are caught before the names enter the registration lists. In the past two years, throughout the entire country, there have been roughly 150 confirmed cases of votes cast due to fraudulent registrations. For Republicans to make this a cause given their record for voter suppression is, at best, myopic and, at worst, hubristic cynicism on grand scale.

If the issue is to allow free and fair elections with as many citizens who wish to vote being given every opportunity to become registered and cast ballots, then one should not only demand scrupulous review of new registrations (especially those submitted by ACORN) but also demand that suppression efforts cease because these are the greater and most wide spread voting abuses taking place.

If, however, the issue were simply to win elections by any means available, fair or foul, I’d say the Republicans have done a far better job in the election fraud department to assure their victories than the Democrats.

And, as a final point, please note that I have never belonged to a political party and believe both major parties to be creatures of the same elite, serving the interests of global big business rather the American people.