Intern season on The Last Word is rapidly coming to a close (too rapidly if you ask us). Fortunately, our viewers got a chance to meet two of them last night on the show. Jessica Ferrer, per Last Word tradition, helped us tease what was coming up next:
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And Kelly Wilkinson joined a panel with NBC News correspondent Mara Schiavocampo and New York Times columnist Charles Blow to discuss voter suppression in Pennsylvania, and how her college ID will not be valid at a voting booth until she gets a sticker showing the ID's expiration date:
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We thought they were wonderful.
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Typical of Lawrence to only have people who agree with him on the show!
You need photo ID for all goverment transactions, to join a gym or club, even to buy some cough medicine. Yet the liberals think people should be able to vote without photo ID!
This notion that it is disenfranchisement of minorites is racist. The liberals must think minorites are too stupid to get a photo ID. What about disenfranchisement of people in the military? Democratic states have a history of sending absentee ballots to troops overseas too late for them to be counted because they know people in the military vote overwelmingly Republican!
This is about Democrats wanting to steal the 2012 election!
I'm sure you must be a lean machine sitting around on the internet making stupid, useless comments. Seeing as you don't even know how to spell Bryn Mawr College even the way it is pronounced, you must really have no clue as to what it is all about. Judging by your comment, you must have no clue what any institution of higher learning is about. Instead of being a jealous, miserable fool with absolutely nothing useful or educated to say, go pop a Cymbalta to cope with your failure and lack of intelligence. You will be a much more useful citizen when you learn to shut your stupid mouth.
Now you are deleted. You will never hold any significance.
Angela - You remind me of Obama and his contempt for business people. His dismissive "you didn't build that" remark toward people of talent and individual initiative and your "You will never hold any significance" is the result of the culture of affirmative action.
It reminded me of the comments and attitudes of people like him: the so-called "multicultural" affirmative-action students I met in college.
These are people who, like Obama, earned little except a greased skid because of the color of their skin. The faculty and other students knew it. And the affirmative action students knew that everyone knew it.
Obama knows he didn't have what it took to get into Columbia, and he didn't have what it took to get into Harvard Law. If Obama had great grades, his transcripts would be in a full-page ad in the New York Times.
Obama became president of the Harvard Law Review without ever having an article published in it, a status that separated him from every other HLR president who preceded him. Obama didn't possess the skills to be on the HLR, let alone to be the review's president.
If you grow up in an environment where nearly everyone around you competed and worked hard to get where they are and you didn't, the way you defend against the inevitable ensuing feelings of inadequacy is to create a psychological rationale that no one, absolutely no one, got anywhere except with help from government.
Your spiteful response to Kieth proves it!
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Sully obviously if you had an original thought in your head, you would
realize this is about voter suppression by republicans to influence/steal the
election. They said so on video. Or weren't you watching that in between
watching Fox News and Rush. In the US we have very low voter turnout, amongst the lowest in the Democratic world In the absence of voter fraud, ( and there have been no such incidents in PA in 12 years) why on earth would we want make it harder for people to vote? What are you afraid of? Democracy?
Keith - you are obviously a person who is a wanna be who can't stand to have an intelligent woman state her case. You would never get in to a school as good as Bryn
Mawr, never mind last there through a class. You can't even spell the name
correctly. The best you can do is attack her physical characteristics? She is
a beautiful intelligent woman, something you will never have with an attitude
like that.
As for contraceptives , please use them. One of you is more than enough.
Yeah right Phil - the Republicans stated on video they were only doing it to steal the election. You are so ignorant! Typical for a liberal.
The arguement that this is voter suppression of minorities is racist and a red herring.
How about the Al Franken election that was stolen by Democrats or the voter fraud that got Harry "the war is lost" Reid reelected when polls showed him down by 15 points before the election.
I'm all for people exercising their right to vote. What I am against is stolen elections. Why are you afraid of more secure elections?
The Democrats should make a commercial with that Republican who admitted that they passed the law to suppress votes to help Romney win. Just play that over and over again in all these states that have passed these laws.
As to the way the Romney campaign is taking the president's comments out of contest, the president does not need to respond, just play the clip where Gingrich states point blank that Romney is lying. Just play that over and over again, anybody out there listening PLEASE. It's so frustrating to watch these people get away with these lies over and over again.
Phil - so you'd rather have the ambulance at the base of the cliff than the guardrail at the top. Let's wait until enough swing-state illegals vote (since most will vote for BO), THEN when we MIGHT grudgingly admit there is a problem, we might try to address it - just like we are addressing illegal immigration.
how is the ID requirement at the airport less discriminatory than the ID requirement to vote?
how is the ID requirement to buy Sudafed less discriminatory than the ID requirement to vote?
how is the ID requirement to get a driver's license less discriminatory than the ID requirement to vote?
how is the ID requirement to go to MEchelle Obama's book signing less discriminatory than the ID requirement to vote?
I'm not asking which of this activities are rights vs priviledges, I am asking only how one ID requirement is more discriminatory then they are.
What the liberal media never talks about is voter suppression of military members
Democratic states have a history of voter suppression of military members. They do that by habitually sending absentee ballots to military members overseas too late for them to count. They do this because they know the military votes overwhelmingly Republican!
Sullyman - my comment has nothing to do with my "contempt for business people". Nowhere in my remark do I criticize people for having talent or individual initiative. My comment was to point out the fact that it is pointless, mean, and cheap to insult someone on their appearance and say something as disgusting as he did. There are far better ways I could think of to state your political view without having to call someone fat or to "use contraceptives while they are putting out on campus." When someone feels the need to say something horrible like that, they are probably quite miserable. So yes, someone who brings nothing but negativity to the table, will never hold significance.
As for voter fraud, NO voter fraud has been reported or proven before in past elections. So why all of a sudden the fear? Are we seriously comparing ID requirement in the airport to ID requirement in elections. Please, you sound like you have half a brain. Those requirements are set in place to ensure people's safety. ID requirement to buy Sudafed is to make sure the amount of Sudafed one single individual is buying per month is not enough to make Crystal Meth. Not discriminatory. ID requirement to get a driver's license is common sense. ID requirement in an airport is to make sure the person boarding the flight is the person who bought the ticket. Not discriminatory. ID requirement needed to vote, A RIGHT, requires money and inconveniences people in urban areas and students. People who also happen to vote mostly democrat. Hmm?? Since when does someone wake up in the morning and decide they are going to vote using someone else's name? People just don't do that. So why would a student?
You're right, you can be a talented individual and become successful without the help of the government. However not every person is an exceptional, lucky individual. There are some things that every person should have access to, like health care and higher education. We need the government for at least that. I've worked hard and competed to get where I am, and I certainly didn't skid into it for being "multicultural", because I am not. But even I need financial aid to be able to continue my success. I don't know many 20 yr olds who have $50,000 growing on a money tree in their backyard to pay for school. I don't think it would be right if i was expected to have that in order to become educated and give back to my country using my "talent and individual initiative".
Guess you missed the bru ha ha over Acorn's proven voter fraud in delivering huge numbers of newly registered voters that were made up names in many cases, or felons, or non citizens (probably with fake IDs or stolen IDs), or dead and buried peoples names for the 2008 election, Angela. And that "community organizing" group so closely associated with Obama and the Chicago political bosses has actually been supported in the past with federal tax players dollars to do that, besides getting money directly from the Obama campaign.
Guess you wern't around, Anglela, for the 1960 election when in Illinois the Chicago political bosses saw to it that there was enough "walking around" money on the street to get every scuttle bum and felon and nerdowell from the streets to go and vote for a few dollars to help defeat the down state vote in Illinois that was going for the Nixon-Lodge presidential ticket and thereby gave the Illinois electoral votes to Kennedy-Johnson, and also the Countiies in Texas that were known to have voted the cemetary inhabitants to secure that states electoral votes went to Kennedy-Johnson, It was widely known after that very close election, and well reported fact in the newspapers and on TV media newsshow, including the well respected Walter Kronkite of CBS news, and Edward R Murrow Show.
Elections are much too important to allow for this...and if people can't do a basic simple thing like getting an appropriate ID to show who they are, then why should the registrars trying to maintain the validity of the vote bow to political parties need to pack as many voters into the polls in a rush on election day, winning their cause by hook or by crook (litterally, as in the case of the felons voting). If the party's wnat to develop their voter support in the months before the elections, than use that money to transport their marks to the proper office and obtain their IDs; seems a simple enough sollution. Thats a much better use of the $200 million that the Obama campaign has already blown on mostly negative falsehood filled attack adds on Mr. Romney's business background, his business ethics, and his personal character, isn't it, Angela?
The ACORN accusations were nothing more than reinvented Joe McCarthy "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party" tactics.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/10/acorn-accusations/
But so far ACORN itself has not been officially charged with any fraud. Aside from the heated charges and counter-charges, no evidence has yet surfaced to show that the ACORN employees who submitted fraudulent registration forms intended to pave the way for illegal voting. Rather, they were trying to get paid by ACORN for doing no work. Dan Satterberg, the Republican prosecuting attorney in King County, Wash., where the largest ACORN case to date was prosecuted, said that the indicted ACORN employees were shirking responsibility, not plotting election fraud.
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_voter_fraud_claims_are_p.html
Undeterred by the lack of evidence, Republicans nationwide have repeatedly made serious headline-grabbing allegations against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the group widely known as ACORN.
However, an independent investigation of ACORN by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger found no criminal wrongdoing by the organization, and a report released by the Congressional Research Service shortly before Christmas says it couldn’t find any instances in which questionable people registered to vote by ACORN showed up at the polls on Election Day.
Federal subsidies are now cUTt off to ACORN after their hands were caught in the cookie jar in the run up to the 2008 election packing the registered voter rolls for Obama and the Democrat Party in their voter registration drives across the nation, and their misdeeds with federal grant monies as uncovered by undercover journalists. But the Obama campaign is still funding them, you can bet on that, Cab Driver.
The fact the heads up calls in the press by Secretaries of State and local registrars as to all the irregularities in ACORN'S voter registration drives alerted to the attempts to pack the vote in 2008 for Obama keping the fraudulent votes to a minimum, hence no harm, no foul is the verdict. But their federal funding is gone, and that is a good thing from the stink of it, Cab Driver. I don't see a lot of difference between ACORN today and yesterday from the Wobblies unionists and Communist/Socialist movements in our country of the 19th Century.
I guess they found my lauguage to salty? Deleted? That's a first.
Someone must be out to sooth the sensibilities of the intern at MSNBC who is complaining about her ID not being acceptable to pass thru to the polling booths on November 6th in Pennslyvainia. Instead of all Boo hoo hooing, and complaining about that, why not put the energy to getting off your duffus and getting a expiration date sticker for you college ID, or better yet, go get a governnent issues photo ID sometime in the next 100 days before the election. Last I looked, its summer time, and I think you that intern can take a day off from her unpaid internships at this notorious Obama promoting and right to vote for everybody, whether they are citizens, felons, immigrants (both legal and illegal), and/or of legal voting age.
The interns are trying to gain points from MSNBC. People kiss*** to get a good evaluation. It all come down to "what can I gain" if I say this? It's all business!