In today's column, contumelious liberal columnist Joel Connelly interviews Democrat presidential contender John Edwards:
Edwards described as "deeply troublesome" the sudden firing of eight U.S. attorneys -- including John McKay in Seattle -- with unfolding evidence of political and ideological motives.Edwards' accusation of minority voter suppression isn't as hysterical as it seems -- there is one minority whose votes the Republicans wish to suppress -- the minority which votes more than once or votes when not legally eligible to vote. But I can understand why Connelly would tirade against suppressing the votes of ineligible voters! Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 30, 2007 04:04 PM | Email This"It's clear the decisions to fire were based purely on political motivation," Edwards said. "Part of that motivation was their decision not to prosecute so-called 'voter fraud,' which is a code word for voter suppression.
"What they really want to do is to suppress turnout by Democrats and (minority voters) at the polls. Is that justice?"
The Rs need to learn from the Ds. They are too polite and proper.
You see, you tell a lie often enough and sincerely enough and you can get away with murder. That is the D strategy- just reread this Edwards thing, a Clinton tirade or any number of lies the Ds are putting out.
Come on, Edwards, read up on the Wolfowitz thing. While we are at it, read up on the Gonzales things.
And while we are at it, why do you guys, Breck boy, want to continue a corrupt election system? Why do you want people to have the right to register on election day?
Posted by: swatter on April 30, 2007 04:14 PMTrue, but the R's use it too. I don't think lying through your teeth to achieve your end goal is party exclusive. Richard Nixon was really good at lying till he got caught.
why do you have such an obsessively big house? i love capitalism & bless your success, but dont have a double standard with me, you fake.
how many homeless have you sponsored in tent cities on YOUR OWN land? why? security guards shag them off? do you open your house up to charity? do you house illegal aliens to help the poor? & support them?
do you & your kind feel any guilt for ruining the medical profession & professionals with rampant excessive lawsuits? having doctors second guessing themselves at every turn? & taking extra useless tests just to cover their arses?
dont lecture me, Johnny E. YOU are part of the problem. sue sue sue. no sensiblities. "it's not my money, man!" yes--it IS!
no responsibilities for behavior. government & juries pay all. works for all except anyone digging into YOUR PERSONAL nest egg, eh?
Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on April 30, 2007 04:35 PMcato, I can tell you one thing today for free- a Republican today is not the same as a Republican 35 years ago, and a Democrat today would be considered a socialist/communist 35 years ago. You guys have lowered the bar.
Comment on the blasted article. Is Edwards a liar and allowed to get away with it or what?
Posted by: swatter on April 30, 2007 04:43 PMThe Piper
Posted by: Piper Scott on April 30, 2007 05:20 PMEdwards and the rest of these phonies most certainly would like to keep folks ignorant of the very real history of voter suppression in the South by their own party.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on April 30, 2007 05:33 PMJohn Edwards isn't a capitalist; he's a trial attorney. The one is a creator of wealth, while the other is a leech who sucks it away from the creator.
Keep this distinction in mind...there will be a test later...
The Piper
Posted by: Piper Scott on April 30, 2007 05:34 PMBush HIRED these guys and also fired them.
So, if you think they're so great, shouldn't you be praising Bush for hiring them in the first place? I mean, if these fired guys are so great, then Bush must have been a genius to hire them.
And then, since Bush is a genius, he must have had a good reason for firing them.
Or, if you think they're not that good, then Bush must be a genius for firing those not-so-good attorneys.
Once again, Dum-O-Crat Defeatists are illogical.
Oh well, one person voting twice in Washington State is far worse than 92,000 legitimate voters being kicked off the rolls by caging lists right?
God if only the Supreme Court did not appoint the lying chimp, and let the recount conclude. America would have billions less enemies, and billions more people committed to ending jihadist terror, instead of wanting to see our arrogant asses attacked.
Posted by: Facts on April 30, 2007 05:56 PMImagine. Someone that thought the Iraq war was only gonna cost us taxpayers 3 billion dollars being put in charge of a bank.
Only in bushworld.
By the way. What John Edwards flushes down the toilet every morning would make a better president than the top 3 GOP candidates put together.
Posted by: Facts on April 30, 2007 06:11 PMIf that was true the mainstream media would have been all over it. As far as I know that's just another Democrat lie that has not been substantiated.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on April 30, 2007 06:23 PMAs far as the comment "arrogant asses attacked" I was referring to Bush's my way or the highway attitude, along with his unwillingness to use any diplomacy at any level with anyone.
"You are either with us or you are with the terrorists" language is along the same lines of arrogance that is truly offensive to many people.
I will help you out a little here. There are actually people on this planet that don't think it is America's right to lie about 3rd world dictators, and directly, or indirectly kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people that get in the way of the expansion of our empire.
Many people after witnessing the carnage in Iraq nightly on their televisions understand the death and destruction is 100% Bush, and his supporter's fault. We are responsible for their security, and we blew it from before the beginning in every way possible. By the way, I am no Saddam fan, but there is a difference between him killing his own people, and through total incompetence on our part, allowing them to kill each other openly, and on a daily basis.
Just remember the American People are too squeamish to view the blasted apart bodies, the victims of the suicide bombers, or the IED's. Believe me, the rest of the word gets to see the decapitated bodies, and the tortured torsos.
Heck, Americans can't even view the flag draped coffins returning by the dozens every week.
I know very few understand the true meaning of the term "blowback", but there are a few people on this planet that don't think god is George Bush.
Posted by: Facts on April 30, 2007 06:54 PMIf you are trying to say that the mainstream media slants to the right, you probably should seek professional help.
Sane and mentally competent people can see through that, but the unhinged left (~25% of the population of this country & maybe 40% of King County) secular progressives (retrogressives) buy his bull crap. Those sickos who do IMHO, want to see this country lose its tradition and become more like Cuba or Venezuela.
Posted by: KS on April 30, 2007 07:32 PMTo democrats, vote fraud seems to be a right. sorry, it isn't! Clean elections are a right. Lazy, look-the-other-way attorneys aren't.
Posted by: Michele on April 30, 2007 07:49 PMOnly a deeply troublesome person like Connelly could write sanctimoniously about protecting voters, and also allow his own property to be used as the residence address for people that don't live in WA, but would like to vote her and influence the outcome of our elections.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 30, 2007 09:38 PMWhen people like yourself lie about Wolfowitz and claim a scandal at World Bank, W.s current job, you get called on it. Instead of admitting a lie and moving on, you ascerbate it by trying to circumvent the discussion by discussing something or the other the guy did in a previous job.
And so, the lie gets perpetuated. So now, the Breck boy can nonchalantly make these lies without blinking and his audience believes what he says. In this case, Connely.
Fiction, point is that I, too, thought there was a scandal there but after reading the various reports, it is obvious the guy is being setup by the people he is demanding accountability from for World Bank loans.
So, instead of praising the guy for trying to get a handle on corruption, you ridicule the guy for some trumped up charge and fall for the lie being perpetuated.
Is it any wonder people think Democrats and Socialists are destroying the country?
Posted by: swatter on May 1, 2007 07:06 AMWhat I would have loved t see Bush do is every time a D squawked about the firings, fire another, particular ones that Ds had sponsored.
Posted by: JCM on May 1, 2007 07:32 AMThey should have been fired.
Everyone now sees it.
The Defeat-O-Crats once again dig their own grave, and Harry "run away" Reid has the shovel.
Posted by: John Bailo on May 1, 2007 09:41 AMLying is a fact of life in politics and by no means is it exclusive to the Dem's.
Ummm....yeah no the Republican Party would ever hire someone to jam the phones lines to stop people from getting rides to the voting booth. Never.
Give me a freaking break, both sides play dirty. The GOP is just as dirty and corrupt as the Dem's.
One thing I have come to understand about these mouth running libs is that they cannot be reasoned with. The only thing that they are good for is being used as an example to those who have not figured out the left yet.
They engage in smear tactics continually. They assasinate peoples characters with impunity. They get away with things that no centrist or right of center person would ever get away with.
They eat their own when they stray from the party line, remember Joe Lieberman anybody?
When you actually get one to admit that one of their previously held points of view is incorrect, the following day they will invariably be back to the same conclusion as though you had never convinced them of anything.
Once they start to lose the argument, they change topics without ever really answering your question. You can repeat the question till your blue in the face and they won't answer.
They have no problem using foul language with you, but if you do with them, they all of a sudden get pious on you.
I'm sick of the double standard of the left. Being nice to them is a waste of time. They are the enemy of freedom and the American dream.
Yeah, go on, hold yourself to a higher standard. It changes nothing. This is war, and war is ugly. Time to fight.
Posted by: REBEL on May 1, 2007 10:15 AMUh Huh, and Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth was what, a focus group? How about when the GOP ran the smear campaign against McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary? God forbid the chosen one (Bush) actually loose the primary in an important southern state.
Like I said, both sides play dirty. Welcome to the state of modern politics. What a sad state of affairs it's become.
I'm still waitting see the CIA guy who gave him his hat. No really!
I remember what he said AFTER he came back from NAM. My guess you were to young or not around at all.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on May 1, 2007 11:35 AMAs far as I can tell the stuff the swift boaters said was true. They didn't make anything up or blow it out of proportion like the lefty media does. They didn't have the support of most of the media either.
Can't say I know much about the 2000 S Carolina primary. I'm no Bush lover, however, in the last election nobody was very worthy especially the choices the Dem's offered. It was a real nose holder.
Posted by: REBEL on May 1, 2007 12:12 PMYes, I was too young...didn't come of age till well after Nam was over.
One of his primary claims in the article is that any effort to follow the law in such a way that would restrict someone's ability to vote was meant to suppress legitimate voters.
So if don't fill out your voter registration card correctly, and so you have to fix it before you can vote (which you can do at the polls), then you were a Democrat whose right to vote was being suppressed by the Republicans. Even if you did vote.
If you did not vote for a certain number of years and the Democrats in charge of your election office purged your record and notified you, according to state law, then you were a Democrat whose right to vote was being suppresed by the Republicans. Even if you reregistered and did vote.
This is the kind of nonsense you see from the left, and it is as predictable as it is sad. My brother-in-law's father-in-law was a civil rights activist in Mississippi in the 60s. He fought for the right of blacks to be properly represented. He was one of two at-large delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democrat Party to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. He is a lifelong Democrat. And he tells me that voting by mail and not requiring identification and not puring the rolls and so on are some of the easiest methods to exploit to commit voter fraud. That is true voter suppression: having any election without integrity, without rules, without checks.
But if you try to have a good election with integrity, the left accuses you of being racist and trying to suppress votes. Even if you have a scar on your face, courtesy of the KKK, because of your civil rights activism in the 60s.
It's enough to make you want to spit.
Oh, and while I am at it, thanks to our state's county auditors who unanimously (according to SnoCo's Auditor, Carolyn Diepenbrock) fought to defeat election day voter registration.
Election integrity is not a partisan issue. But you wouldn't know it based on the rhetoric and policies of many (thankfully, not all, but in WA, far too many) Democrats, who do everything they can to demolish all traces of the integrity of our election systems.