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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;You should have to have a photo ID to vote. This is common sense and should be the bare minimum, in my opinion,to have a voice in elections.&lt;/em&gt;

Are you off your meds?  How many times do I have to tell you that I agree with this?
&lt;em&gt;
You are a rude and stupid person who would rather call people â€œracistsâ€ on an internet forum than show somebody how the proposed law is racist. 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 25, 2006 @ 10:40 pm &lt;/em&gt;

All though my I.Q. qualifies me for Mensa, it doesn&#039;t take a rocket scientist to see that your comment was racist.  Tough if you don&#039;t like it, but YOU made the comment, and the dictionary doesn&#039;t lie.  

Maybe thinking before you speak is in order?

I don&#039;t think the law is racist.  But &lt;strong&gt;you &lt;/strong&gt;most definitely are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>You should have to have a photo ID to vote. This is common sense and should be the bare minimum, in my opinion,to have a voice in elections.</em></p>
<p>Are you off your meds?  How many times do I have to tell you that I agree with this?<br />
<em><br />
You are a rude and stupid person who would rather call people â€œracistsâ€ on an internet forum than show somebody how the proposed law is racist. </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 25, 2006 @ 10:40 pm </em></p>
<p>All though my I.Q. qualifies me for Mensa, it doesn&#8217;t take a rocket scientist to see that your comment was racist.  Tough if you don&#8217;t like it, but YOU made the comment, and the dictionary doesn&#8217;t lie.  </p>
<p>Maybe thinking before you speak is in order?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the law is racist.  But <strong>you </strong>most definitely are.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=458502', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Griggs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Griggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You should have to have a photo ID to vote. This is common sense and should be the bare minimum, in my opinion,to have a voice in elections.

The rule is NOT based on skin color as EVERYONE needs to have a photo ID and not just black.

BLACKS are causing a ruckus, not whites, therefore I amadressing the BLACK problem in my comments about this stupid article. I don&#039;t see how requiring ALL people to have a photo ID is racist and NONE of your ignorant and predictible name calling has shown me the answer.

You are a rude and stupid person who would rather call people &quot;racists&quot; on an internet forum than show somebody how the proposed law is racist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should have to have a photo ID to vote. This is common sense and should be the bare minimum, in my opinion,to have a voice in elections.</p>
<p>The rule is NOT based on skin color as EVERYONE needs to have a photo ID and not just black.</p>
<p>BLACKS are causing a ruckus, not whites, therefore I amadressing the BLACK problem in my comments about this stupid article. I don&#8217;t see how requiring ALL people to have a photo ID is racist and NONE of your ignorant and predictible name calling has shown me the answer.</p>
<p>You are a rude and stupid person who would rather call people &#8220;racists&#8221; on an internet forum than show somebody how the proposed law is racist.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=458345', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Then why are you doing it? Idiot. I am not racist. I am tired of overly PC bullshit. This article is stupid and ill informing - as are you. Good day moron. 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 3:20 pm &lt;/em&gt;


You said:

&lt;strong&gt;Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way. 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 11:43 am &lt;/strong&gt;

The definition of racism is:

&lt;strong&gt;racÂ·ism &lt;/strong&gt;   
n. 

The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 

&lt;em&gt;Discrimination or prejudice based on race.  &lt;/em&gt;

Yep, you qualify.

And if nit-picking my typographical errors is the best you can do - you&#039;re a pathetic debater as well.  Grow a brain.  The problem isn&#039;t black skin but elected representatives who tell you that it&#039;s the black voter you should hate, while they are robbing us blind.  You&#039;re blaming the wrong people, and our country is falling apart.  It would be laughable if it weren&#039;t so tragic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Then why are you doing it? Idiot. I am not racist. I am tired of overly PC bullshit. This article is stupid and ill informing &#8211; as are you. Good day moron. </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 3:20 pm </em></p>
<p>You said:</p>
<p><strong>Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way. </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 11:43 am </strong></p>
<p>The definition of racism is:</p>
<p><strong>racÂ·ism </strong><br />
n. </p>
<p>The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. </p>
<p><em>Discrimination or prejudice based on race.  </em></p>
<p>Yep, you qualify.</p>
<p>And if nit-picking my typographical errors is the best you can do &#8211; you&#8217;re a pathetic debater as well.  Grow a brain.  The problem isn&#8217;t black skin but elected representatives who tell you that it&#8217;s the black voter you should hate, while they are robbing us blind.  You&#8217;re blaming the wrong people, and our country is falling apart.  It would be laughable if it weren&#8217;t so tragic.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=458024', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Griggs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Griggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like your creative spelling of &quot;hypocrisy&quot; as well brainiac.

Let me try and give you another example since you seem so ignorant.

I for one enjoy people to be clean around me. I do not like smelling body odor or bad breath, etc. If I wanted to pass a law thatsaid people needed to shower once a dayand brush their teeth, you would have black people saying it was racist because poor black people don&#039;t have running water. that&#039;s stupid because one thing has nothing to do with the other.

I don&#039;t like homeless bums, panhandlers, or muggers either but that doesn&#039;t mean I don&#039;t like black people just because those sub-species of criminal are predominantly black.

Only immature, self loathing morons conclude that everyone who disagrees with them is a racist. It&#039;s the easy way out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like your creative spelling of &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; as well brainiac.</p>
<p>Let me try and give you another example since you seem so ignorant.</p>
<p>I for one enjoy people to be clean around me. I do not like smelling body odor or bad breath, etc. If I wanted to pass a law thatsaid people needed to shower once a dayand brush their teeth, you would have black people saying it was racist because poor black people don&#8217;t have running water. that&#8217;s stupid because one thing has nothing to do with the other.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like homeless bums, panhandlers, or muggers either but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t like black people just because those sub-species of criminal are predominantly black.</p>
<p>Only immature, self loathing morons conclude that everyone who disagrees with them is a racist. It&#8217;s the easy way out.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457287', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Griggs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Griggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Then why are you doing it? Idiot. I am not racist. I am tired of overly PC bullshit. This article is stupid and ill informing - as are you. Good day moron.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Then why are you doing it? Idiot. I am not racist. I am tired of overly PC bullshit. This article is stupid and ill informing &#8211; as are you. Good day moron.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457282', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
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		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Racist Moron. 

Comment by unbelievable 

Did you ever date a black guy?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Racist Moron. </p>
<p>Comment by unbelievable </p>
<p>Did you ever date a black guy?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457275', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;It seems that black people translate â€œYou must have a photo IDâ€ into â€œWhite people hate black people.â€ I donâ€™t know how or why but that is stupid. Itâ€™s not like they are saying ONLY black people have to use photo ID and white people donâ€™t have to. Come on. Stop bitching. 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 2:23 pm &lt;/em&gt;

You said:

Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way. 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 11:43 am 

I was pointing out that you&#039;re a racist who was bitching about people bitching.  That&#039;s not bitching.  It&#039;s calling you out on your hate mongering and hypocracy.

I happen to agree on the issue of requiring i.d.s to vote, which I said so above.  

And, before you accuse me again, I&#039;m not a Democrat.  I detest both political parties.  As well as anyone who stereo-types and then whines like a four year old about them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>It seems that black people translate â€œYou must have a photo IDâ€ into â€œWhite people hate black people.â€ I donâ€™t know how or why but that is stupid. Itâ€™s not like they are saying ONLY black people have to use photo ID and white people donâ€™t have to. Come on. Stop bitching. </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 2:23 pm </em></p>
<p>You said:</p>
<p>Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way. </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 11:43 am </p>
<p>I was pointing out that you&#8217;re a racist who was bitching about people bitching.  That&#8217;s not bitching.  It&#8217;s calling you out on your hate mongering and hypocracy.</p>
<p>I happen to agree on the issue of requiring i.d.s to vote, which I said so above.  </p>
<p>And, before you accuse me again, I&#8217;m not a Democrat.  I detest both political parties.  As well as anyone who stereo-types and then whines like a four year old about them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457268', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Griggs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Griggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t &quot;blame&quot; anyone. I&#039;m reporting a problem that is prevelant in the black community. It&#039;s human nature to want your candidate to win and when you only make up about 10.5% of the US population I am guessing it is tempting to try and beat the system. That&#039;s fine until you commit voter fruad (a criminal act). Requiring a photo ID is NOT racist. That&#039;s my only point. Argue my tone, language, or whatever but the bottomline is that requiring a photo ID is justified, even if it only happened once.

It seems that black people translate &quot;You must have a photo ID&quot; into &quot;White people hate black people.&quot; I don&#039;t know how or why but that is stupid. It&#039;s not like they are saying ONLY black people have to use photo ID and white people don&#039;t have to. Come on. Stop bitching.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t &#8220;blame&#8221; anyone. I&#8217;m reporting a problem that is prevelant in the black community. It&#8217;s human nature to want your candidate to win and when you only make up about 10.5% of the US population I am guessing it is tempting to try and beat the system. That&#8217;s fine until you commit voter fruad (a criminal act). Requiring a photo ID is NOT racist. That&#8217;s my only point. Argue my tone, language, or whatever but the bottomline is that requiring a photo ID is justified, even if it only happened once.</p>
<p>It seems that black people translate &#8220;You must have a photo ID&#8221; into &#8220;White people hate black people.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know how or why but that is stupid. It&#8217;s not like they are saying ONLY black people have to use photo ID and white people don&#8217;t have to. Come on. Stop bitching.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457221', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Now in Georgia you can just show up and vote - no ID is required. Duh! Thatâ€™s pretty dumb way to be â€œfair and accurateâ€ wouldnâ€™t you say you whiny democrat? 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 1:23 pm &lt;/em&gt;

I live in Georgia.  There was a news reporter who did an expose in which she was able to vote at several precincts throughout the day.  When she went to vote for real at her own, she had been tagged and not allowed to vote.  That was several years ago.  It was just appalling then as it is now.  But to blame the black population for this is just flat out ignorant.  Nothing gets solved that way, and frequently, it&#039;s how wars get waged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Now in Georgia you can just show up and vote &#8211; no ID is required. Duh! Thatâ€™s pretty dumb way to be â€œfair and accurateâ€ wouldnâ€™t you say you whiny democrat? </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 1:23 pm </em></p>
<p>I live in Georgia.  There was a news reporter who did an expose in which she was able to vote at several precincts throughout the day.  When she went to vote for real at her own, she had been tagged and not allowed to vote.  That was several years ago.  It was just appalling then as it is now.  But to blame the black population for this is just flat out ignorant.  Nothing gets solved that way, and frequently, it&#8217;s how wars get waged.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457207', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Terrible Article</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terrible Article</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is so stupid. the author of the article is an idiot. Requiring picture identification to vote is not racist in any way,shape or form. Most bank cards come with picture ID now as all driver&#039;s licenses and state ID cards already do. There is nothing &quot;racist&quot; about trying to make people don&#039;t vote multiple times. This is a non-issue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is so stupid. the author of the article is an idiot. Requiring picture identification to vote is not racist in any way,shape or form. Most bank cards come with picture ID now as all driver&#8217;s licenses and state ID cards already do. There is nothing &#8220;racist&#8221; about trying to make people don&#8217;t vote multiple times. This is a non-issue.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457179', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Griggs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Griggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not bitching about anything. I&#039;m explaining. This initiative (already on the books in most states) was started because BLACK politicians were rigging elections by VOTER FRAUD. THAT is why they are requiring PHOTO IDs.

Now in Georgia you can just show up and vote - no ID is required. Duh! That&#039;s pretty dumb way to be &quot;fair and accurate&quot; wouldn&#039;t you say you whiny democrat?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not bitching about anything. I&#8217;m explaining. This initiative (already on the books in most states) was started because BLACK politicians were rigging elections by VOTER FRAUD. THAT is why they are requiring PHOTO IDs.</p>
<p>Now in Georgia you can just show up and vote &#8211; no ID is required. Duh! That&#8217;s pretty dumb way to be &#8220;fair and accurate&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t you say you whiny democrat?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457164', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way. 

Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 11:43 am &lt;/em&gt;

You&#039;ve met every one to be able to stereotype them all like that?  If not, your argument isn&#039;t valid.

Second of all, you&#039;re bitching and moaning rather than doing things the &#039;right way&#039; (whatever nonsense that means).  Doesn&#039;t this make you mad at yourself?

Racist Moron.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way. </p>
<p>Comment by David Griggs â€” February 24, 2006 @ 11:43 am </em></p>
<p>You&#8217;ve met every one to be able to stereotype them all like that?  If not, your argument isn&#8217;t valid.</p>
<p>Second of all, you&#8217;re bitching and moaning rather than doing things the &#8216;right way&#8217; (whatever nonsense that means).  Doesn&#8217;t this make you mad at yourself?</p>
<p>Racist Moron.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457081', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Griggs</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Griggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Black people are infamous in the south at getting high voter turnout. It&#039;s the whole rebel-rouser initiative. There were some votes in the 1990&#039;s in Georgia and Alabame where there were more black votes cast than the number of black citizens. That&#039;s corruption. Asking for a picture ID should be the MINIMUM theydo in order to vote. I say fingerprint people and do retinal scans, otherwise they&#039;ll bitch and moan about the Florida elections with Bush/Gore. Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Black people are infamous in the south at getting high voter turnout. It&#8217;s the whole rebel-rouser initiative. There were some votes in the 1990&#8217;s in Georgia and Alabame where there were more black votes cast than the number of black citizens. That&#8217;s corruption. Asking for a picture ID should be the MINIMUM theydo in order to vote. I say fingerprint people and do retinal scans, otherwise they&#8217;ll bitch and moan about the Florida elections with Bush/Gore. Fucking black people would rather bitch and moan than do things the right way.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457041', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: J-Dog</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/21/the-department-of-disenfranchisement/comment-page-3/#comment-457038</link>
		<dc:creator>J-Dog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I live in Georgia and this article is ill informed and racist in nature. The reason the state wants people to show a picture ID (like the majority of other states) is that black politicians were paying and busing black voters to different polligng stations tocast multiple ballots. This happened a few years back when Cynthia McKinney was trying to get her district redrawn so that she could keep winning. There was one black lady interviewed on TV who said she had voted 12 times for one candidate, many of the votes at the same locations. I guess she wore a disguise. How ridiculous is it to say that requiring a photo ID to vote is racist? That&#039;s just stupid. The real problem is that increased real estate values and tax bases are driving the blacks out of the city and now for the first time since the 1960&#039;s Atlanta is a majority white city. The blacks are mad sothey raise a stink. Pitiful.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live in Georgia and this article is ill informed and racist in nature. The reason the state wants people to show a picture ID (like the majority of other states) is that black politicians were paying and busing black voters to different polligng stations tocast multiple ballots. This happened a few years back when Cynthia McKinney was trying to get her district redrawn so that she could keep winning. There was one black lady interviewed on TV who said she had voted 12 times for one candidate, many of the votes at the same locations. I guess she wore a disguise. How ridiculous is it to say that requiring a photo ID to vote is racist? That&#8217;s just stupid. The real problem is that increased real estate values and tax bases are driving the blacks out of the city and now for the first time since the 1960&#8217;s Atlanta is a majority white city. The blacks are mad sothey raise a stink. Pitiful.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=457038', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/21/the-department-of-disenfranchisement/comment-page-3/#comment-456903</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the most unfathomable thing to me, as an englishman now resident in the USA and living in Memphis. i just do not understand why this great country has so many racists, and worse, racists who are in a position to influence the law-making, as in this Georgia case.

answers please, from racists and non-racists alike. 

Comment by kingfelix

You&#039;re rather quick to throw down the racist card aren&#039;t you? But let&#039;s face it, there are some people in this country too f&#039;ing stupid to be allowed to vote. Why should some crack whore with fifteen bastard children be allowed to vote herself more welfare funds? Why should her vote cancel out mine?  Is that racist or is that eminently practical? As an Englishman you should have more sense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the most unfathomable thing to me, as an englishman now resident in the USA and living in Memphis. i just do not understand why this great country has so many racists, and worse, racists who are in a position to influence the law-making, as in this Georgia case.</p>
<p>answers please, from racists and non-racists alike. </p>
<p>Comment by kingfelix</p>
<p>You&#8217;re rather quick to throw down the racist card aren&#8217;t you? But let&#8217;s face it, there are some people in this country too f&#8217;ing stupid to be allowed to vote. Why should some crack whore with fifteen bastard children be allowed to vote herself more welfare funds? Why should her vote cancel out mine?  Is that racist or is that eminently practical? As an Englishman you should have more sense.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=456903', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/21/the-department-of-disenfranchisement/comment-page-3/#comment-455818</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Antagonist, Iâ€™m perfectly willing to believe that there may be some other possibly legitimate explanation for this apparently racist and discriminatory voter disenfranchisement scheme. 

Comment by peachkfc

How could there be a legitimate reason for it if it is a racist and discriminatory voter disenfranchisement scheme?

Your mind is made up. Because it&#039;s the South of course it&#039;s racist. So what? Under my plan the welfare queens and others living off the tit of my tax dollars aren&#039;t going to get to vote anyway. That takes care of the racial problem because everybody knows(and are quick to point out) that there are more white folk on the dole than black folk. See how easy that is to become racially inclusive at the stroke of a pen? Damn I&#039;m good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Antagonist, Iâ€™m perfectly willing to believe that there may be some other possibly legitimate explanation for this apparently racist and discriminatory voter disenfranchisement scheme. </p>
<p>Comment by peachkfc</p>
<p>How could there be a legitimate reason for it if it is a racist and discriminatory voter disenfranchisement scheme?</p>
<p>Your mind is made up. Because it&#8217;s the South of course it&#8217;s racist. So what? Under my plan the welfare queens and others living off the tit of my tax dollars aren&#8217;t going to get to vote anyway. That takes care of the racial problem because everybody knows(and are quick to point out) that there are more white folk on the dole than black folk. See how easy that is to become racially inclusive at the stroke of a pen? Damn I&#8217;m good.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=455818', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: peachkfc</title>
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		<dc:creator>peachkfc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#119:

Antagonist, I&#039;m perfectly willing to believe that there may be some other possibly legitimate explanation for this apparently racist and discriminatory voter disenfranchisement scheme.  However, neither you nor anybody else has come forward with one.  At this point, I&#039;m not making a judgment on whether Georgia is intentionally trying to disenfranchise large numbers of poor, black, presumably Democratic voters, although based on some of the statements made by Georgia officials, it certainly seems that way.  Be that as it may, however, under Federal Civil Rights law, (and I&#039;m greatly simplifying and paraphrasing here, so don&#039;t jump down my throat if this is not perfectly phrased) if the program has an apparently discriminatory effect, even if it is arguably unintentional, the burden is on the State of Georgia to show that either there really isn&#039;t any discriminatory effect or that the apparently discriminatory effect is the innocent or inadvertent result of some neccessary part of the way the prgram is set up.  That may still not be enough to get them off the hook, but I haven&#039;t heard anybody make even a stab at trying to explain that, one, the program does not, in fact, result in discrimination or that, two, any possible discrimination is the unintentional effect of some necessary aaspect of the program.  In fact, I still haven&#039;t heard any explanation at all from Georgia except that this is the way is, so shut up and get over it (or words to that effect.)  Your sole argument seems to be that those who oppose this program as it has been set up only think it&#039;s racist because it was set up by Republicans, so therefore our complaints must be dismissed out of hand.  That is an empty and useless argument that doesn&#039;t advance your position in any way at all.  You&#039;ve got to do better than that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#119:</p>
<p>Antagonist, I&#8217;m perfectly willing to believe that there may be some other possibly legitimate explanation for this apparently racist and discriminatory voter disenfranchisement scheme.  However, neither you nor anybody else has come forward with one.  At this point, I&#8217;m not making a judgment on whether Georgia is intentionally trying to disenfranchise large numbers of poor, black, presumably Democratic voters, although based on some of the statements made by Georgia officials, it certainly seems that way.  Be that as it may, however, under Federal Civil Rights law, (and I&#8217;m greatly simplifying and paraphrasing here, so don&#8217;t jump down my throat if this is not perfectly phrased) if the program has an apparently discriminatory effect, even if it is arguably unintentional, the burden is on the State of Georgia to show that either there really isn&#8217;t any discriminatory effect or that the apparently discriminatory effect is the innocent or inadvertent result of some neccessary part of the way the prgram is set up.  That may still not be enough to get them off the hook, but I haven&#8217;t heard anybody make even a stab at trying to explain that, one, the program does not, in fact, result in discrimination or that, two, any possible discrimination is the unintentional effect of some necessary aaspect of the program.  In fact, I still haven&#8217;t heard any explanation at all from Georgia except that this is the way is, so shut up and get over it (or words to that effect.)  Your sole argument seems to be that those who oppose this program as it has been set up only think it&#8217;s racist because it was set up by Republicans, so therefore our complaints must be dismissed out of hand.  That is an empty and useless argument that doesn&#8217;t advance your position in any way at all.  You&#8217;ve got to do better than that.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=455751', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: realist67</title>
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		<dc:creator>realist67</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I AM A MAN

I AM A MAN

I AM A MAN 

I AM A MAN!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I AM A MAN</p>
<p>I AM A MAN</p>
<p>I AM A MAN </p>
<p>I AM A MAN!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=455608', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cyra Brown</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cyra Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, if everyone who has ever cashed a gov. check are out, anyone who has ever cashed a tax refund check- BUH-BUY! Guess that just leaves ummm, well, hmmmm.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if everyone who has ever cashed a gov. check are out, anyone who has ever cashed a tax refund check- BUH-BUY! Guess that just leaves ummm, well, hmmmm&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=455584', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Clif</title>
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		<dc:creator>Clif</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come on IRI tell me why these people who are a citizen of this country that cashes a government check of any kind would be allowed to vote. Period. You know the soldiers and the veterans of the military, you are so wise to know it all............nyet</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come on IRI tell me why these people who are a citizen of this country that cashes a government check of any kind would be allowed to vote. Period. You know the soldiers and the veterans of the military, you are so wise to know it all&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;nyet<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=455483', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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