FiredUpDem did an excellent post earlier (
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8442313) on how much this story stank.
There was no evidence of voter intimidation. There are no links to the Obama campaign. It is not as though the two "panthers" are wearing Obama stickers. They were in an area that polled 95% for Kerry in 2004.
It does not stop the bigots from jumping into their sheets and having their race-baiting fun.
The Right if you are White Reverend Amy Siksind was only too keen to don her white sheet, linking this story to ACORN (of course), Bailouts, The Census, The Dept. of Justice (Obama), General Motors & Chrysler, The Obama Administration, Obama Comrades, Uppity Woman, Voter Fraud, Voting & Voting Rights and the stimulus tax package. Wow two supposed "new black panthers" could have such a wild field of influence.
In its article on this, the bigot drools, "Golly, I am just SO surprised, aren’t you? I just never expected that Obama’s Justice Department would let these three men who were engaging in extreme voter intimidation off!! Ahem. Who am I kidding? Of course I did. I’m just surprised it didn’t happen sooner…"
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/05/30/what-an-acorn-spokesman-lied-and-justice-not-served/It is interesting to note how many more there repeat the term "golly". Of course not used in any racist context. No of course not. Of course almost all of the other PUMA sites have now come out with same mantra. One such example
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/racism-pure-and-simple/Faux News of course jumps sets about pouring petrol on their cross with this article
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/29/charges-black-panthers-dropped-obama/The headline itself is quite telling. Of course this is the same Fox News that has previously said that the President should not get involved with Prosecutions. The Of comments on this story are unsurprisingly racist.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/29/charges-black-panthers-dropped-obama/comments/This story owes nothing to the New Panthers. Watch how dirty racists will twist this story into yet another attack on Acorn. How the stories of "voter intimidation" and "caucus intimidation" will rear their head again. However listen carefully to the video - the Election Clerk makes clear that these "Panthers" were NOT intimidating voters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFOKnJ0oXYYThere was no case to answer; there could have been no prosecution. The DOJ acted properly when deciding a case that had been referred to them, according to Faux themselves in the last few days of the Bush administration.
Those claiming race bias are doing it for one reason only. Dirty bigots already have one political death on their hand, their Rethug colleagues have the blood of an illegal war on theirs, how many more do they want?