Fw: OBAMA STOPS OVERSEAS MILITARY VOTES

OBAMA IS THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN.

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>>I just forwarded this to twenty thousand people,,
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>>>This is a national disgrace to our military and to our Country. Good enough to
>>>die for America, but not good enough to vote.

Today, Fox News' Megyn Kelly reports that the OBAMA Dept of Justice under Eric holder,
has allowed a deadline for the military men and women overseas to receive their absentee ballots and cast their votes ................to expire.
They had more than 6 months to approve the sending of the ballots.
BUT THEY DID NOTHING AND LET THE DEADLINE COME

This will stop 2,800,000 votes from being cast in the November election.
Military votes ... nearly all of which are anti-OBAMA.

THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE
THIS IS FRAUD
THIS IS CORRUPT
THIS IS OBAMA

SEND THIS TO ALL YOU KNOW>
STOP OBAMA --SAVE AMERICA

VOTE THESE BUMS OUT OF OFFICE

This is such a classic example of why I started this blog. It is so obviously false that nobody could possibly believe it and endorse it, unless they were utterly blinded by contempt for Obama. Anyone who would stop for just a second to think about it should immediately realize that elections are run by counties, not by the feds. Absentee ballots are sent out by local County Recorders. So even if the evil-fantasy-Obama of kunservative feverish imaginations wanted to stop the military from voting, he would have to enlist the County Recorders from every county in the country into his evil conspiracy. That's just ludicrous on the face of it.

If you thought about it a bit more, you might wonder things like: IS the military vote "nearly all anti-Obama"? and do we really have 2.8 MILLION soldiers overseas? A few clicks on Google will tell you the answers: NO and NO. While we can't know exactly how servicemembers voted, there are records of donations made by servicemembers during the 2008 election, which ran 6-to-1 in Obama's favor. Another analysis looked at military communities and observed significant Democratic shifts from 2004 to 2008. As one ABC News pollster said about the military's supposed pro-conservative bias, "data suggest you could drive a Humvee through the holes in the conventional wisdom on the subject".

As to troop numbers, anyone paying much attention to current affairs knows we're down to about 50,000 troops still in Iraq, and not quite 100,000 in Afghanistan. We have some fair numbers in other places like Germany, Japan, and Korea, but certainly nothing like 2.8 million. It turns out the total number of active duty personnel in all the armed forces totals about 1.4 million, with about 300,000 of those stationed abroad. So I guess whoever made up this slander didn't think it was sufficiently dramatic enough without ridiculously inflating the number as well.

As there is often some remote grain of truth behind these things, I wondered what it might be, so I chased down the Fox News story being alluded to. Apparently, there was some new federal legislation last year passed in response to concerns about military absentee ballots not getting in on time in the 2008 election. The new legislation requires that counties send out absentee ballots to servicemembers at least 45 days before any election. Sounds reasonable enough on the surface, except that in many states, the ballots are not always finalized that far in advance. It seems there was some trouble in a few counties in a few states complying with the new law. In response to this, the federal Department of Justice is suing some of those counties to force their compliance. And that's what Fox News reported. So not only was Eric Holder not behind some nefarious conspiracy to prevent the servicemembers from getting their ballots, but he's been enforcing the federal law against the counties who were not complying. So, to whoever made up this ludicrous slander against Obama and Holder: don't let the facts get in the way of your twisted imagination.