Ken Berwitz

Are President Obama and his disgraceful toady sock-puppet of an Attorney General, eric holder, intentionally trying to invent a race war to get Mr. Obama re-elected?

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski seem to think so.  And they have plenty of evidence to back it up.  

Here are a few excerpts from their commentary at dailycaller.com. See for yourself:

Eric Holder’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an all-out war on voter-ID laws and other measures designed to safeguard the electoral process. Although Holder’s actions are purportedly to prevent African-Americans from being disenfranchised, the reality is that they serve the crass political purpose of ensuring that Holder’s boss gets re-elected next year.

 

The clearest example of this trend is through voter-ID laws.

 

Such laws combat voter fraud that we see on Election Day, especially in certain parts of the nation.

 

It’s not cynical to say this. The 12 or so battleground states that will decide the 2012 presidential election suggest Obama’s re-election strategy. These states include Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri. All of these states have large African-American populations.

 

The African-American community has a staggeringly high unemployment rate under President Obama. So black Americans will not vote for this president because of any prosperity he’s brought to that community. Instead, he has to gin up their votes by painting a picture of racial conflict in which he — and the governmental agency dealing with such things, DOJ — is their champion.

 

This is also seen in Holder’s incessant playing of the race card. First he says we’re a nation of cowards about race. Now that he’s on the ropes for DOJ’s scandalous Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, he has the audacity to say that he and President Obama are being attacked in part because they’re both African-Americans.

 

Voting is a fundamental right.  But there is another voting right. It is the right not to have your legal vote diluted by fraudulent votes. As we explain in our Yale Law & Policy Review article “The Other Voting Right,” every invalid vote cancels out one valid vote. Each such cancellation undermines our democratic republic and reduces the legitimacy of election results.  

Is that what Mr. Obama and holder are up to?  Trying to get Black citizens to forget how completely this administration has failed them by concocting a phony "issue" and pretending there is racism involved? 

What an ugly, cynical, dishonest strategy.  How insulting to Black voters.  How insulting to their intelligence and powers of comprehension.  And, lamentably, for some people you can bet that it is going to work. 

Let's hope most are smart enough not to buy what Mr. Obama and holder apparently are selling.