Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has raised the interest in the presidential election this year. Too bad he has not openly and repeatedly condemned the rogue acts of some of his supporters, in the hopes of establishing a respectful and peaceful campaign. Openly and repeatedly should be emphasized, because Obama has a tendency to express gentle admonishments that soon vaporize as soon as they are uttered. Then again, perhaps Obama deserves some credit for the acts of his supporters since he himself was the one who proclaimed, “I want you to argue with them, get in their face.”
Welcome to “Anyone can complain against you, but you have no recourse when the Secret Service wants to question you a la Gestapo style!” Seems like an Obama volunteer campaign worker was miffed sufficiently to complain against a woman she called on the phone. Most people might understand a short response when they have just returned home from the emergency room with their child. But not this Obama volunteer. Somewhere along the conversation, after the woman had said Obama was a Socialist and the volunteer would do best to find better use of her time than take up hers on the telephone, the Secret Service was called with a reported complaint of a death threat against Obama. The dialogue that follows on this radio interview is fascinating as to the extent a complaint can be taken against an innocent person expressing their views, guaranteed by the First Amendment, which another can decry and turn into a malicious act. The woman’s interest in filing a counter-complaint was met with the news the local Obama Texas campaign office headquarters had been conveniently closed and moved to Virginia in the interim, when the woman was in the process of pursuing action.
FBI is now on a national ACORN investigation on voter registration fraud relating to the presidential race. So many incidents across the county caputured their attention. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has been vigorously registering voters across the country, about 1.3 million so far, mostly young, poor, minority, and working class. This demographic tends to be Democratic. And this has raised the concern of the Republicans.
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