Obama Blocks Texas Voter ID Law

plaidvillain wrote: More lies and willful ignorance from the right on this one. The issue is not simply about having ID, but about having acceptable ID, which to the bigots on tthe right means: ID which is current, with no errors, reflecting the citizen's current address. Republicans know lower income folks, students and elderly have a higher likelihood of moving, changing addresses, more frequently, and therefore may not have an updated ID. This gives Republicans the opportunity to limit the numbers of voters - which is their only hope of winning any nationwide election!…minimize the voice of the true majority. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with fighting voter fraud (fiction), and everything to do with fighting the demographics Reps know are more likely to vote against them. I register to vote - that's all the "proof" necessary. Additional ID requirements are onerous and redundant...completely unnecessary, but I understand why Reps feel they need more govt, more legislation, more control - because they're afraid.

Just because you don't think you're a bigot doesn't mean anything - your actions reveal the truth and hatred within you. And no, I will not be tolerant of your intolerance.

*edit* actually, I am tolerant of your intolerance. I respect your freedom to be willful idiots and to have hateful opinions of all that you fear...but I will fight your efforts to have YOUR fears control OUR society.

In Colorado you must notify the DMV of your address change within 10 days. Even the "lower income folks, students and elderly" must comply with this law. And they DO comply with this law. I do not know of anyone taking to the streets to say that this is oppressive and is meant to deny to these people the privelege to drive.

Seems that this would not create more burden to these people if it applied to the extremely important right to vote. Does it?

(And does this discussion require that those with opposing points of view are liars, bigots, and idiots? Really?)

Arlen wrote:
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In Colorado you must notify the DMV of your address change within 10 days. Even the "lower income folks, students and elderly" must comply with this law. And they DO comply with this law. I do not know of anyone taking to the streets to say that this is oppressive and is meant to deny to these people the privelege to drive.

Seems that this would not create more burden to these people if it applied to the extremely important right to vote. Does it?

(And does this discussion require that those with opposing points of view are liars, bigots, and idiots? Really?)

It sure does. That's the lefts way of trying to shut down a debate or conversation. Call someone a bigot or a racist now a days is similar to the tactic the right used over 50 years ago, calling anyone they disagreed with a communist. PlaidVillain has a history of reverting to the bigot argument when he is loosing an argument.

And it is a tactic that is quickly becoming a millstone around the lefts neck. This recent incident with Zimmerman in Florida, the media and the left have been forced to call Zimmerman a "white Hispanic" because a racist or bigoted minority doesn't fit their agenda. And then you get Obama (the white black) jumping into the narrative, trying to stir up racial divisions. No different than PlaidVillain. The left is acting from the same playbook.

This Texas law is for EVERYONE. So sorry PlaidVillain, you can't play the bigot card. And Arlen is right. I don't hear anyone complaining about the requirements for having a drivers license.

Did someone really call him white Hispanic?

CritiKalbILL wrote: Did someone really call him white Hispanic?

Martin, 17 and unarmed, was shot dead on February 26 after Zimmerman, 28, a white Hispanic neighborhood watch captain, believed the young man walking through the gated community in a "hoodie" hooded sweatshirt looked suspicious. Zimmerman followed him and an altercation ensued.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/ ... CU20120324

Yup. And Obama (the white black) is playing racial divisions games with this incident.

You sure it wasn't a white Hispanic neighborhood?

White Hispanic and Latino Americans are citizens and residents of the United States who are racially White and ethnically Hispanic or Latino.

In the 2010 United States Census, 50.5 million Americans (16.3% of the total population) listed themselves as ethnically Hispanic or Latino. Of those, 53.0% (26.7 million) self-identified as racially white.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hisp ... _Americans