I don't know all the information about the voter intimidation suit

that the Obama administration tossed out. I will say this. When people are posting Michelle Malkin links to prove some misguided point, it's getting ridiculous.

The nursing home where the incident happened is in a black neighborhood. I don't think many people in that area needed to be intimidated into voting for the current President. :eyes:

Before the RW talking points start getting pushed here, we may want to gather a little more information. I just talked to a friend from that area who is searching for articles but thinks she remembers that the nut they are showing with the stick wasn't even an Obama supporter! He's some nutjob.

Also, what the hell was Fox doing there filming if it wasn't just to stir some shit? Why wasn't the guy arrested on the spot?

In 2005, when I lived in Detroit, the GOP sent many people into predominantly black area's to harass people. Was it a misguided attempt to get rid of some McCain people dispatched to harass the folks voting? What the hell were they doing there? Why would this guy need to intimidate black people on November 4th. Something stinks.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Panther_vs_Obama.html



I'd been a bit skeptical of the reports that the Black Panthers were out intimidating voters on Obama's behalf, largely because the precinct is in the city's northern 14th Ward, which went (.pdf) overwhelmingly -- more than 95% -- for John Kerry in 2004. You don't typically intimidate your own voters.

But a reader sends over a link to clinch the deal: The Panther in question appears to be one King Shamir Shabazz -- and he's no Obama supporter.

" is a puppet on a string. I don't support no black man running for white politics. I will not vote for who will be the next slavemaster," he told the Philadelphia Daily News a few days ago, one of the least crazy things he said amid some straightforwardly racist riffs.

The video is a little grainy, but it sure looks a lot like him, down to the position of the button on his beret. And it's not like there are actually a whole lot of Panthers around these days.

So what was he doing there with his nightstick? Trying to intimidate Obama voters? Just hanging around? There isn't actually any evidence that he tried to chase away any of the ward's (overwhelmingly black) voters.

UPDATE: A reader, defending the honor of the original Black Panther Party, notes that this is the New Black Panther Party, which isn't directly connected to the original group.

shouldn't he have been arrested if he was yelling at people and brandishing a stick outside a voting place and wouldn't stop. Who cares who he was supporting.

listen to Fox and Michelle Malkin's spin to figure it out. I didn't read anywhere that he was yelling at people, but if he was, why did the police drive by and do nothing. According to one report he was asked to leave and did. What's the real story?

I'll tell you what it's not....He wasn't dispatched by Obama and Acorn to intimidate voters. :eyes:

So you can just imagine the shock and HORROR of two, count'em, TWO of them showing up at ONE voting station in Philadelphia (which went for Obama in a landslide) and the ensuing panic that set into the good folks of Philly and quickly spread nation-wide.

When Fox reported this story on election day, I laughed. Out loud.

I'm trying to picture the FOX news staff drawing straws for who has to go cover that story...

voter intimidation in a black neighborhood, by a black person, but there would be no victims...

Then we have snowdays pushing michelle malkin? WTF?

Where are the victims of the intimidation? LOL!

the RW and racists pushing this shit are so transparent!

Yep, Obama still has over 300EV

Former RFK aide Bartle Bull rallies for John McCain Saturday in Manhattan.


In blistering remarks to a Saturday morning rally, former Robert F. Kennedy aide Bartle Bull embraced Republican John McCain for president, hurled Barack Obama under the bus, and then backed it slowly over the Democratic nominee.

“America needs a president who is grounded in patriotism, not drowning in ambition,” Bull told a crowd of 150 gathered in Lower Manhattan. “I have used that sentence many times in the last three months, and not once — never once — have I been asked which candidate is which.”

The lifelong activist and former Village Voice publisher presented his impeccable liberal-Democrat credentials.

“I had the privilege of serving as Robert F. Kennedy’s New York campaign manager when he ran for president in 1968,” Bull explained. “I was arrested as a civil-rights lawyer in Mississippi, and I campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment. But in honest conscience, I cannot support the Democratic ticket in this campaign.”

Bull aimed at his target and charged like a longhorn.

“Character in the White House should be more important than charisma on the campaign trail,” Bull declared. “Barack Obama does not want to ‘change’ America. Barack Obama wants a different country.”

Turning to Obama’s financial agenda, Bull minced no words.

“Obama’s notion of economic fairness is pure Karl Marx,” Bull said, “plus a pocketful of Chicago-style ‘community organization.’”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWNmZDQ4MWE2OTFkOGZlMThmZDJkMWNhNDdhY2UzMWI%3D

Was it ambition, bitterness that he didn't go anywhere in the party, or pure greed that made him turn against the people he once supported so vigorously?

President Obama's economic policies are tame compared to those of the current President. This guy knows that so it has to be one of the above.

little information about this guy, that doesn't come from himself. This paragon of the civil rights movement doesn't even rate a Wiki entry. He's a footnote on his son's Wiki page, a son who shares the same name as his father.

Combined they generate almost 17,000 Google returns. That's with both of them (father & son) being published fictional authors, and the son being a journalist.


I think the only people who consider Bartle Bull to be a "longtime civil rights activist" are Bartle Bull and the right-wingers.

The Village Voice is not very impressed with their former owner.


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/11/bartles_bull_ol.php

which was started by a campaign that I find it hard to forgive and continued by its most extreme supporters. They call the 70 million who voted for Barack Obama "Obots", I refer to them as bigotbots, they know themselves as some relation of wildcats, it may be some form of cougar. ;-)

The GOP are actually NOT therefore the only ones guilty on this issue. They are joined by a bunch of bitter bigots who they now associate with. They have been running with this story on their various hate sites and have been trying to link this incident with ACORNS involvement with the Census.

Here is just one of the attempts of the Right Bigoted Rev Amy attempting to link the two stories.

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/05/30/what-an-acorn-spokesman-lied-and-justice-not-served/

There are many more examples.

These stories owe more to attempts to cast doubt on the election wins of Barack Obama than ACORN themselves. A group who have been much maligned as a result of these attempts, their haters have accused them of everything from voter fraud to being responsible for the recession.

I think some folks have never been near the projects, and that they can't understand how invested in this election people were.
And some think that "paramilitary gear" is spooky!



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7757001

And I stand by my interpretation.

There was no case against them, dropping charges was the right thing to do.

The Rethugs were and are remain a Party of voter intimidation. They took this on their own to send a message not this time. It may not have been wise, but with continued reports that voting lines in Democratic areas stretched back for 4 hours it should be obvious to see why they thought it was necessary.

story being pushed here, especially when I googled it and nothing but racist garbage came up!

By DU members?

I mean, fine, I guess a stick is a weapon, and I guess the attire may be too easily associated with the scary pictures of black panthers of the old days, dudes carried shotguns in public in Oakland!

But it smacks of unreasonable fear by people who don't spend much time in the poor parts of big cities.

The guy with the stick was a friend of a poll watcher, and was escorted away by police.

Both guys were very calm in the way they spoke, if anyone watched the video.

And both were, I think, doing what they thought was their duty, to make voters feel comfortable and protected in going to vote (I doubt many white people were going to that polling place) so who would they be intimidating?

I was waiting for this case to be posted, thanks for the OP!

:loveya:

I guess I was too busy celebrating to notice the story when it first happened. Once this was posted...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8442033

I knew something was wrong. Once I googled it, nothing but racist craziness came up. Once I read fox was on the scene, I knew it was a big set up. Thanks for your post!!

This type of shit sounds too convenient.

here about Intimidation to vote for Obama?!!

:wtf: