UPDATE: After reading the entire law and the Obama campaign efforts, the story has taken a slightly different turn. I won’t delete this post since my integrity forbids me from hiding my mistakes, but owning them. The Obama campaign is not seeking to suppress the military vote…this time. It was easy for me to jump on that bandwagon since the Obama Justice Department has refused to enforce laws meant to assist overseas troops’ voting rights. When states failed to get ballots out to troops on time during the 2010 election, Holder refused to sue those them. So, when I initially read these reports it fit with the Obama narrative.
However, now that I am more informed and educated, the reality is that the campaign is suing to give EVERYONE the same voting opportunities as the troops. In essence, the suit is designed to give non-military voters an extra three days to vote in early voting. This means that liberals will be able to cast at least ten more votes per person.
By suing to have this law changed, the Obama campaign and DNC are basically saying that the sacrifices troops make that resulted in the need for the three additional dates is no more important than the sacrifices of every other citizen.
There’s a saying that goes, “when everyone is special, no one is special.”
Since President Obama began his 2012 reelection campaign back in January 2009, my inbox has been inundated with emails from the administration touting all the great things it has done for our troops. Program after program after program geared towards helping troops. Everything from the First Lady’s “Joining Forces” initiative to the launch of the redesigned Transition Assistance Program for troops leaving the service. Many are saying that the military vote could be the deciding factor in several key states.
The campaign even sent out a link to this Huffington Post op-ed written by Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau, who, according to the byline wrote it as a Major in the National Guard:
To help veterans find jobs when they get home, President Obama signed into law two tax credits that encourage businesses to hire unemployed veterans and wounded warriors.
A record number of veterans are entering the VA health system, so President Obama has significantly boosted the Veterans Affairs budget to ensure that veterans receive timely access to the highest-quality benefits and services. And though he knew it would be difficult, he’s making sure the VA eliminates the backlog by 2015.
Often times, it’s easy for a politician – on both sides of the aisle – to claim their overwhelming support for our nation’s fighting troops. It’s not hard to throw money at a perceived problem and say that something is being done.
If you really want to know whether a candidate supports the troops, one simply needs to observe their actions.
On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state’s law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is “arbitrary” with “no discernible rational basis.”
Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military are given three extra days to do so. While the Democrats may see this as “arbitrary” and having “no discernible rational basis,” I think it is entirely reasonable given the demands on servicemen and women’s time and their obligations to their sworn duty.
While our Justice Department is working so hard to ensure that states can’t prevent the illegal immigrant vote, our troops’ votes are being sold down the river.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of any government agency or military unit. Quoted facts belong to their respective authors.
Please look into this matter further, as it is not what you think it is.
Please read this blog, all the way to the end, where the story is corrected, and the author issues regret for their error:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/obama_campaign_sues_to_restrict_voting_by_military.html
The addendum:
There’s no simply justification for Ohio to shorten the advance voting period for anyone, when you consider the extreme difficulty that some people experienced trying to exercise their constitutional right to vote there during the 2004 election. In 2004, there were Ohioans waiting in line to vote for as long as 10 hours. Unacceptably long election day lines and unacceptably long waiting times were reported from numerous Ohio polling places. The extended early voting period helped to correct that.
Apparently some see the correction as a problem to be corrected.
But they aren’t trying to shorten the voter times…they are trying to lengthen voter times for everyone. “The suit seeks to restore 3 extra days of early voting for all Ohioans.”
What could be bad about that? :o(
It takes dead people longer to get to the voting booth!
My open letter to Americans who are still thinking of voting for Obama in November
http://networkedblogs.com/x76Q9
@JoeKidd: I don’t know what is more pathetic, him doing this or his sheep making excuses for him doing it.
To make sure ALL military votes are counted, there should be a law that says the vote isn’t final until ALL military votes are in. This would help prevent the liberal states from send the military votes out as late as they can in hopes of them not getting back in time.
I understand that you dislike Obama, but please stick to the facts when tearing him apart. This military vote suppression claim is completely FALSE.
“Romney tells a lie so blatant and offensive that it raises questions anew about the candidate’s character and what standards of decency he’s prepared to abandon to advance his ambitions.”
Full article here:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/06/13144744-romney-gets-caught-lying-about-obama-military-voters?lite
And another article–
“A representative of Obama’s campaign – Obama for America Veterans and Military Family Vote Director Rob Diamond – responded with a statement on Saturday.
“Mitt Romney and his campaign have completely fabricated a claim that the Obama campaign is trying to restrict military voting in Ohio,” Diamond said. “In fact, the opposite is true: the Obama campaign filed a lawsuit to make sure every Ohioan, including military members and their families, has early voting rights over the last weekend prior to the election. The case filed with the court could not be clearer on this point.””
Read the full story here:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/04/romney-campaign-jabs-at-obama-over-voting-rights-suit/
Obama has shown whose side he’s on.
Some of us just have blinders on……
Obama handed over Ali Mussa Daqduq, to Iraqi officials last December.
Supposedly this was so that the Iraqi government could send the man who led the 2007 plot that killed, kidnapped and tortured American military officers to America for trial.
Several members of congress pointed out to Obama that it would be the same as freeing him.
And they were right.
So, how’d that work out for us?
There were ”extradition” hearings where the Iraqi central criminal court took ”evidence.”
The Iraqi central criminal court ordered that he be freed immediately.
He has been absolved of all crime!
@Nikki Howard: A few points. If you ever want to make a point that I’m going to pay attention to, don’t quote anything by Rachel Madcow. In exchange, I promise never to quote Sean Hannity. Second, I know that the liberal attention span is shorter than a Black Cat firecracker, but please try to keep up. If you read my update, I specifically say the my original post was false, but I chose to keep this post up instead of hide my mistake.
That is all.
@Nan G: I trained at FT Bragg with these civil affairs officers. They were trying to assist Karbola rebuild their city. They were at a meeting when the Iranians dove up in Iraqi like vehicles wearing Iraqi uniforms and captured and killed the civil affairs officers. Now we are going to allow him to be turned loose!
Maybe it is time to go after George Soros for insider trading in Brazilian oil stocks! He only cleared several $billion on that deal after Obama invested US dollars in those oil fields!
JoeKidd
this is an outrage indeed from OBAMA, to force himself Into such mourning family.
to such large destruction of the best of this NATION. WHICH HAPPENED FOLLOWING
THE BINLADEN EXECUTION ORDER BY OBAMA,
OF COURSE IT’S RELATED. THANK YOU FOR GIVING THE LINK TO EXPLAIN HOW MUCH
HE WILL GO TO USE ANY CHANCE REGARDLESS OF THE PAIN THOSE FAMILY SUFFERED. THAT’S WHO HE IS, AND THE PEOPLE ARE NOT PROUD OF THAT PRESIDENT.
BEST TO YOU
Nikki Howard
you got it upside down, not surprising coming from your side, the liars is vulgarly on your side,
it is well known here and all over by now.
you can try your pitch on ignorant but not here.
the promises where all lies, now we know and MITT ROMNEY IS NOT A LIAR LIKE OBAMA
AND HIS GROUP,
@Greg:
Yes there is:
Allowing a small group of people, namely active duty military, three extra days to vote is not as burdensome to the system. Basically, if Obama gets his way and the suit is upheld, no one will get those three extra days because the State will not be able to process the votes in time. So in essence, Obama is taking those days away from the military.
@Aqua: An example of conservative-think.
@CJ: I doubt if losing your attention is vital. If you check it out some time—objectively—Rachel Maddow is much more credible than Sean Hannity.
THE MILITARY VOTES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTES OF THIS NATION,
EACH ONE OF THEM SHOULD CAST THEIR VOTE,AND BE COUNTED.
WHY IS THAT? WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE THE GUARDIANS OF THIS NATION,
BECAUSE THEY PUT THEIR LIFE IN DANGER,
FIGHTING FOR THE FREEDOM OF THIS NATION TO VOTE,
BECAUSE MANY HAVE EARNED THE FIRST VOTES,
BECAUSE MANY HAVE LEFT A BODY PIECE ON THE LAND OF ENEMIES,
BECAUSE MANY HAVE SPILL THEIR BLOOD FOR ALL AMERICANS TO CAST THEIR VOTES,
DON’T ANY ONE SHORTEN THEIR TIME TO VOTE, DON’T ANYONE MESS WITH THAT,
It takes the left-wing to correct the misunderstanding of the Right, and the lies of Mitt Romney:
Here’s a shortened version:
http://www.cps-news.com/2012/08/06/the-short-and-simple-facts-on-the-obama-ohio-military-voting-controversy/
@Liberal1 (objectivity):
Thank you. Keeping my head out of my rear-end allows much better clarity. You should try it sometime.
Liberal1[objectivity]
why do you think the VETERANS ARE NOT MILITARY,
THEY ARE, AND OBAMA LET THE OHIO PEOPLE UNDER THAT CONFUSE LIE THAT
THE VETS ARE NOT MILITARY BECAUSE THEY ARE WOUNDED AND RECEIVING THE NEEDED CARE,
ONCE A MILITARY, ALWAYS A MILITARY,
ONCE A LIAR, ALWAYS A LIAR, TRYING TO CONFUSE PEOPLE WITH TWISTED WORDS
how’s that new name, OBAMA CALLED ROMNEY,
ROMNEY HOOD
AND ROMNEY ANSWERED CALL HIM OBAMALOONEY.
AH AH AH, MITT IS CATCHING UP WITH THEM.
THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT, IT TAKE TWO TO PLAY THEIR GAME.
The headline still lies……….stick with what you do best.
Why are lies so easily believed and then spread by “certain” people?
@Brian Miller: The headline only lies to those with an attention span of a liberal. In the grand scheme of things, it’s still true. By giving the general populace the same opportunities of the troops (or even moreso considering military schedules and the fact that we can’t exactly choose our day to day schedules), the suit does indeed suppress the military vote by adding more voters to the “special” dates.
I’m not sure what you mean by “certain” people. Is that a racist comment?
@CJ:
If the headline is the truth, why the “retraction”?
Certain people refers to morons and the easily led, hint hint.
“So, when I initially read these reports it fit with the Obama narrative. ”
Typical right-wing intellect, creates a fiction, spreads the lie, born in his imagination, and then blames it all on Obama. No, the narrative is all yours, own your mistake.
@Brian Miller: I didn’t give a retraction. I gave an update. There is nothing fictitious about this Commander-In-Chief’s disdain of the military. He has gutted our forces, tied our hands behind our backs in Afghanistan, and has sought over and over again to increase the medical costs of our troops fighting and being wounded or dying in combat.
So, there’s no “typical right-wing intellect” unless reality is intellect. There is no fiction here. There is no lie. The only imagination are those that thing the President cares about us.
As for owning my mistake, that is why this post is still readable. Don’t talk to me about integrity or honor. I have more of it in the pinky nail clipping I just removed than you will ever hold a candle to.
“Don’t talk to me about integrity or honor. I have more of it in the pinky nail clipping I just removed than you will ever hold a candle to. ”
Sure, a stranger on the internet and you know me so well, seek therapy. Stick to your narrative, blame Obama.
Oh yeah, I never mentioned honor or integrity………more narrative made up in your own head……reality really seems to allude you.
Brian Miller
call CJ SR, AND BE EVER POLITE, HE IS ONE AMONG THE HEROS, UNTOUCH BY YOUR ARROGANCE, HE IS WAY HIGHER THAN YOU, WHICH YOU ARE JUST AN IGNORANT PASSING BY,
GET A LIFE.
@Brian Miller: “Stick to your narrative, blame Obama.” Oops, sorry. I forgot we’re still in the blame Bush era, right? Obama isn’t to blame for his own policies.
@ilovebeeswarzone:
Even the blogger, CJ, has said that his original opening post was false. There’s no need to dissolve into name calling.
@CJ:
There’s no need to be rude, or disrespectful. I don’t believe I was towards you. Indeed, I did not see that you had updated the entire blog. Thank you for your research into the matter.
I find it appalling how folks can be so scathing and just plain Mean to one another. I understand that these are emotional issues; and everyone is perfectly entitled to their opinions, but to slice your fellow man up and serve him for lunch just because his opinion differs from yours…well, how is that helpful?
How are we ever going to learn anything from each other if we are so busy calling each other names, and insisting that we are RIGHT, and we are the ONLY ones that are RIGHT, and therefore all others must be WRONG.
:0(
We are all in the same boat here; all Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, whether Military or Civilian…
Where is the love? Where is the empathy for your fellow man?
Nikki HOWARD
THE OHIO STATE KNOW WHY THEY WANT THE VOTES DONE THEIR WAY,
AND THIS IS THEIR STATE DECISIONS, WHICH IS THEIR BUSYNESS,
THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO IT AS THEY CHOOSE,
SO WHY DOES OBAMA GET HIS NOSE MIX IN THE STATE’S AFFAIR,
HE ALWAYS DOES IT, IS IN THERE ANYTHING ELSE HE CAN WORK AT
LIKE MAKING IT EASY TO THE BUSYNESS AND GET THE JOBS FOR THE PEOPLE,
AND REDUCE THE DEBT HE CAUSE TO RISE OVER THE CEILING,
CAN HE JUST DO HIS OWN JOB, INSTEAD OF SUING THE STATES DECISIONS WHO KNOW BETTER HOW TO RUN THEIR STATES,
OBAMA FORCES THE STATES TO SPEND MONEY ON LAWYERS SO TO DEFEND THEIR STATES AGAINST THE FEDERAL INTRUSION.
@Nikki Howard: Feel free to show me where I’ve been rude – though that won’t change anything I’ve said. If you feel disrespected, you probably shouldn’t be having grown up conversations. I don’t recall calling you any names.
“Where is the love? Where is the empathy for your fellow man?” I KNEW IT!! I’ve been saying all along that Rachel Madcow was really a man! How could I have doubted myself?
Yes, Rachel Maddow is more of a man than you, but so is my little kitten. You have sexual issues also, it’s just not the black man you’re afraid of, but women also? Of course, what a Big Man, such honor and integrity. Also a liar, as this article indicates.
@ilovebeeswarzone:
SHOUTING MAKES YOU LOOK CRAZY
@Brian Miller: CJ’s decorated service to his country is well documented. While he won’t bring it up, I will. How many American lives have you saved by rushing through enemy fire armed with only an M-9 and hand grenade in order to take out a squad of Iraqis who had your fellow Soldiers pinned down? We will wait for your answer.
Brian Miller
according to your 35, you look crazyer than I,
AND IF YOU JUDGE PEOPLE LIKE IT IT’S EVEN WORSE.
@Brian Miller: “Yes, Rachel Maddow is more of a man than you.” And Chuck Norris. I don’t think there are any actual men more manly than Madcow. You sure got me there. As for your kitten, that’s actually news to me. I thought your specialty was gerbils.
Rachel Maddow’s high school yearbook photo
If you want a painted face, bleach blond hair, high heels, breast implants, and a unintimidating IQ, stick to FOX.
Rachael Maddow, gerbils, Chuck Norris, M-9s…………whatever, run with it.
Back to the article you wrote.
This article was and is a lie.
…..and if the enemy fire story is as truthfull as this article, well…….
It is a lie. I’ve actually never even been to Iraq. No one has. It was all a very elaborate hoax, much like the holocaust.
Brian Miller
you did not see the sign? it’s ORKIN
@ilovebeeswarzone: #22
The word Romney used was Obamaloney, not Obamalooney. It is referring to “baloney,” a type of cold cut used to make sandwiches. One way of calling a person a liar is to say, “You are full of baloney.” I don’t know how it started. It could have started from the fact that baloney (and all cold cuts) are not made of meat. The meat is cut off of the animal, then, everything that can be scraped off is use to make the cold cuts and hot dogs.
Smorgasbord
hi,
thank’s for the info on both OBAMALONEY, AND FULL OF BALONEY,
I did put an extra[ o ] yes, it came by itself and jumped in,
bye
my computer ALGORISMES ARE PLAYING TRICKS ON ME,
I must disciplined them to not argue with me
@Brian Miller: The cop out was anticipated. Given CJ’s status in the military blogosphere, if his service was a lie as you suggest, it would have been challenged a long time ago. As such, you have now demeaned the service of a Veteran without offering any proof. Totally unacceptable. As for his “lie”, he “manned up” and corrected his initial post by devoting two paragraphs retracting his initial comments. Questioning his manhood is thus a joke. You couldn’t hold a candle to him or any other Vet for that matter.
@CJ:
*smh* This is a sad group. This hate in all of your hearts will end up consuming you.
Of course you know that you have insulted me. Now you are trying to bait me. Sorry, I’m not going to bite. No argumentum ad hominem for me.
@Nikki Howard: I have no hate in my heart, but you would know more about it than I do, so I defer judgment. And since you can’t show where I offended you, I won’t pull out the cat o’ nine tails and begin whipping myself with it for penance. I do appreciate the empty accusations though. They keep me thinking.
CJ
forgive those Rikki Howard, and Brian Miller, they are so pityful
and they look miserable just by the way they want to protect OBAMA.
it’s obvious, and they cannot find nothing good and achieving about their guy,
someday they will feel so despicable to have come here and insult a HERO WALKING TALL
IN HIS AMERICA CHANGED FOR THE WORSE AND DONE A DEVASTATING JOB BY TWISTING THE YOUNG MIND WITH THEIR PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOL FROM DAYCARE TO UNIVERSITY,
MAKING SOME LIKE THOSE TWO DUMBO FOR LIFE.
WE MUST FEEL SORRY FOR THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. BUT THEY HAVE THE ORDER FROM OBAMA TO ATTACK THE CONSERVATIVES.
I wonder how much OBAMAgive them,
and I wonder if they know that money come from the people they attack just now
Retraction or not? Who can say? Instead of sticking to the article and it’s lie, you now act as if doubting you is the same as doubting that Iraq exists. CJ mans up by double-downing on the lie- “I didn’t give a retraction. I gave an update. There is nothing fictitious about this Commander-In-Chief’s disdain of the military.” The fiction is what you wrote and think about reality, that’s the issue
While another vet says about CJs update, “As for his “lie”, he “manned up” and corrected his initial post by devoting two paragraphs retracting his initial comments.”
Retraction or update, gutting the military, suing to increase voting rights, whatever, facts and reality have no place with you. Now go on about m-9s, or Iraq, or Bush, or whereever you need to take this to get the focus off your article.
I’m no fan of Obama’s but I do like to remain reality-based.
@Brian Miller:The comment about his service in Iraq had nothing to do with the article and everything to do with your comments in #35. If it wasn’t for that post, the only one I would have made here would have been my #6. At last count, 15 military service organizations have come out to oppose this lawsuit. That should say something. Now if you don’t believe he has sought to cut troop strengths, raise health care costs for military personnel, cut GI Bill benefits, and change the retirement system for military personnel, then it is you who is not grounded in reality because those of us who either served or are still serving have experienced it. It has been hashed out on numerous threads here before.