[BadKosh]

DRUDGE: MICHELLE CAMPAIGNED INSIDE POLLING PLACE?

From Drudge Report:

First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated Illinois law -- when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place!

The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote.

After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key.

She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.

"She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said.

According to a pool reporter from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES at the scene, the conversation took place INSIDE the voting center, not far from the booths.

Illinois state law -- Sec. 17-29 (a) -- states: "No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place [or] within 100 feet of any polling place."

A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT that Mrs. Obama -- a Harvard-educated lawyer -- may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.

"You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS ELECTIONEERING

When questioned about the brazen nature of Mrs. Obama's campaigning, press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the action.

"I don't think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband's agenda," Gibbs smiled.

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So are we to believe she's stupid? Clueless? I'm sure if Palin had done the same thing, the leftist press would be all over it.

Add this to NY state and Illinois both violating the MOVE act, it looks like they don't are how bogus they are making the elections.

[olePigeon]

I heard she muttered a curse word while in Virginia.

[The Final Dakar]

In before Ort

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

I heard she muttered a curse word while in Virginia.

I don't think so. Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general, would have been all over that. He also has a thing against nipples, so watch out, people with nipples.

[hyteckit]

All I see on drudge report is a big ad for GOLD!

[ort888]

That's it. The entire political process is now void. Hand over all three branches of the government to the Republicans.

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

In before Ort

Crap.

[hyteckit]

Telling a voter to vote near a voting booth about the importance of voting.

OH NOES!

Ban those 'I Voted' stickers!

[BadKosh]

Those cars in Illinois have 2-3 "I Voted" stickers per car! LOL

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Those cars in Illinois have 2-3 "I Voted" stickers per car! LOL

They come free with tombstones, too.

[SpaceMonkey]

It's unfortunate that Dennis the Electrician doesn't have quite the same ring to it as Joe the Plumber.

[BadKosh]

So most of you don't care that our military is being screwed out of the voting process by NY, Ill, Fla etc? I guess if it was you........

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT that Mrs. Obama -- a Harvard-educated lawyer -- may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.

As we're told time and time again (and your local IRS agent will be delighted to prove should your return be a cent underweight), "ignorance of the law is no excuse".

Book her, Danno.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey 

It's unfortunate that Dennis the Electrician doesn't have quite the same ring to it as Joe the Plumber.

Shocking.

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

So most of you don't care that our military is being screwed out of the voting process by NY, Ill, Fla etc? I guess if it was you........

No, most of just don't really care to actually discuss stuff with you. Don't misconstrue lack of discussion for agreement or disagreemtent.

[andi*pandi]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

Book her, Danno.

Once you get past the updated theme, the new version is just kind of boring. I keep falling asleep.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

Once you get past the updated theme, the new version is just kind of boring. I keep falling asleep.

I refuse to watch it on the grounds that nobody can be as cool as Jack Lord. So I've been watching the old ones instead. Therefore, I had my old-school Steve McGarrett voice on while I typed that.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

No, most of just don't really care to actually discuss stuff with you. Don't misconstrue lack of discussion for agreement or disagreemtent.

Mm hmm.

[sek929]

Throw her in jail and let her work on those guns of hers.

[CreepDogg]

I dunno. They seem to have corrected the problem. When I went to vote yesterday, she was there. When I went to vote today, she was gone. I'm guessing she'll still be gone when I go vote tomorrow.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by CreepDogg 

I dunno. They seem to have corrected the problem. When I went to vote yesterday, she was there. When I went to vote today, she was gone. I'm guessing she'll still be gone when I go vote tomorrow.

That's because she's moved on to voting in DC.

Book her NOW.

-t

[Captain Obvious]

There's "vote for Whitey in Illinois" stickers being given out too
She should sport one of those

[ironknee]

dumb hicks

[ebuddy]

I'm going with "meh" on this one. It's not going to gain traction because it has to dig pretty deeply into "how many feet from the polling place" she actually was and is likely a non-story because it is a non-issue.

I mean... IMO.

[Dork.]

We obviously need to impeach her.

[besson3c]

Did she have their commie dog Bo with her?

[Gee-Man]

I'll see your trivial rightwing-outrage-of-the-week and raise you one of our own:

Watch Sarah Palin desecrate a US flag!

According to extant law, "The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature."

OMG! Did Sarah Palin just break the law? Arrest this woman immediately!








For those slower folks out there, I actually don't give a crap about nontroversies like this. We can go around doing this all day - invent some stupid fake controversy about Michelle Obama one day, followed by one about Sarah Palin the next, and on and on and on. The fact that people like BadKosh fall for this stuff when there are more important things to worry about is truly sad.

[besson3c]

I think my favorite nontroversy of all time was the flag pin thing.

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

I think my favorite nontroversy of all time was the flag pin thing.

Those kinds of things make people a better candidate and representative. He should thank them for the fashion advice.

[besson3c]

Now that's one strong looking flag pin! He must reallllyyy love America!

[stupendousman]

I vote "meh" too. Illegal? Sure. So is jaywalking. I'm not going to cry if neither is strictly enforced when it's clear that the violator wasn't intending to do something that would violate the law, and given the circumstances it was a quick, isolated incident not likely to really have any effect.

It's not like she was standing outside, acting menacing with baseball bats or anything. I'm sure she would have been arrested had that been the case.

Seriuosly though, small potatoes....

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Now that's one strong looking flag pin! He must reallllyyy love America!

Obviously photoshopped.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by stupendousman 

I vote "meh" too. Illegal? Sure. So is jaywalking. I'm not going to cry if neither is strictly enforced when it's clear that the violator wasn't intending to do something that would violate the law, and given the circumstances it was a quick, isolated incident not likely to really have any effect.

It's not like she was standing outside, acting menacing with baseball bats or anything. I'm sure she would have been arrested had that been the case.

Seriuosly though, small potatoes....

When stupendousman says this this is most definitely a nontroversry...

What say you on the issue of flag pins?

[BadKosh]

Does that flag have 57 stars on it?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Does that flag have 57 stars on it?

What is this about? You've alluded to this a few times, but what was the gaffe exactly? Another fun nontroversy?

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Does that flag have 57 stars on it?

He would have said "50" but unfortunately all the zeros were found to be missing. Later they were found out you stole them all and put them in his name.

[sek929]

At first I didn't know where that was going, but the payoff was worth it.

[Gee-Man]

Originally Posted by ebuddy 

Those kinds of things make people a better candidate and representative. He should thank them for the fashion advice.

I actually agree with ebuddy on this one. Obama's original stated reason for not wearing a flag pin was that he didn't want to be the typical politician who wraps himself in the symbols of patriotism, all the while being totally disrespectful of the meaning of those symbols. He said he'd rather love his country and not worry about the symbols, rather than put stock in the symbols themselves.

Whether you like Obama or not, this was a perfectly defensible position. There are a lot of politians, on both sides of the ideological fence, who wrap themselves in the flag as a substitute for actual patriotism. This phenomena is not in question. Problem is, I think there are some people who either a) willfully or unintentionally misinterpreted his position to claim that he was against patriotism in general, i.e. "Obama hates America!", which is the exact opposite of what he was saying, or b) feel so strongly about the symbols of patriotism that it didn't matter whether his position was defensible or not, they hated the idea of somebody not wearing a flag pin on purpose.

Obama wisely realized the simple fact that although his position is defensible, it doesn't matter - it's just a freakin' flag pin. If it makes people feel proud that their candidate is an American, there's no harm in wearing one, especially if you don't wear it for the same reasons as all those other obnoxious politicians wear one. If you are striving to represent everybody as President of the United States, you need to be sensitive to symbolic things like this, as long as they're not offensive or obtrusive. So now he wears the flag pin at all times.

I hated the over-the-top nature of this nontroversy as much as any lefty, but for some of the more thoughtful critics on the right, I think Obama responded correctly to the core of their criticism and did the right thing.

For all the right's hyperventilating about how much of a rigid ideologue Obama supposedly is (a theory which quickly falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny), this example provides a small yet instructive real-world counter example to all that - in the real world, Obama turns out to be willing to bend to almost any reasonable request, almost to a fault. This "on one hand, on the other hand" nature runs deep in the guy - I have to laugh every time I see a panicked righty freak out about how deeply "partisan" Obama is, and wonder how they manage to even live outside the same reality the rest of us are living in.

[stupendousman]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

What is this about? You've alluded to this a few times, but what was the gaffe exactly? Another fun nontroversy?

Obama once referred to this country's "57 states" in a speech.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by stupendousman 

Obama once referred to this country's "57 states" in a speech.

Ahhh... So, naturally some have said that he either actually thinks that there are 57 states, or else this is enough to make the argument that on the whole he is a poor speaker?

[BadKosh]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

What is this about? You've alluded to this a few times, but what was the gaffe exactly? Another fun nontroversy?

Look it up! Jeez. The gaps in your knowledge are amazing. 57 states or 57 Islamic countries, whats the difference.

[BadKosh]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

He would have said "50" but unfortunately all the zeros were found to be missing. Later they were found out you stole them all and put them in his name.

Proof again you libs have no sense of humor.

[BadKosh]

And as far as Obama omissions, he forgot part of the US Constitution that referred to a higher being. 3 times in the last month. Gotta wonder.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey 

Obviously photoshopped.

Obviously.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Look it up! Jeez. The gaps in your knowledge are amazing. 57 states or 57 Islamic countries, whats the difference.

That's not knowledge. It's obsession over a non-issue, just like the people harping on "nuke-u-ler," "misunderestimated," etc.

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Proof again you libs have no sense of humor.

Irony!1!!

[Laminar]

Also, LIBS AND DEMS! Woooo!

[OAW]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

And as far as Obama omissions, he forgot part of the US Constitution that referred to a higher being. 3 times in the last month. Gotta wonder.

Seeing as how the US Constitution makes no mention of "God" or a "higher being" whatsoever I think we "gotta wonder" WTF you are talking about?

OAW

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Proof again you libs have no sense of humor.

*speechless*

[BadKosh]

Here's one source


(CNSNews.com) – For the second time in little over a month, President Barack Obama stripped the word "Creator" from the Declaration of Independence when giving a speech.

"As wonderful as this land is here in the United States, as much as we have been blessed by the bounty of this magnificent continent that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, what makes this place special is not something physical. It has to do with this idea that was started by 13 colonies that decided to throw off the yoke of an empire and said, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’” Obama said in Monday's speech. [Emphasis added.]

The Declaration of Independence actually says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” [Emphasis added.]

When asked why the president did not use the words "endowed by their Creator" in his Monday speech, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters on Tuesday, "I haven't seen the comments, Lester. But I can assure you the president believes in the Declaration of Independence.”

Obama Strips the 'Creator' from Declaration of Independence -- Again | CNSnews.com

[besson3c]

How DARE he paraphase and in doing so not give full props to the generic creator!

BadKosh, you're a riot! Please don't ever leave this board Abe style... I think you are Abe 2.0!

[CreepDogg]

Wait, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are the same document? When the hell did THAT happen?

[Snow-i]

Well, We're trying to cut costs and save some paper...so now...its the US Constlaration of Indelligiance. Oh, and we threw the pledge of allegiance in there too.