Johnny E. Mahaffey The Novelist Portent
August 19, 2013

[drawing of Obama with an IOU sign on a chain around his neck]

OBAMA'S RACE CARD, AGAIN.

Having a president that's half African/half Caucasian, and maybe even American, seemed to many a good idea -- or else they wouldn't have funneled the needed millions into his race to buy voters.

Yeah, I said it, "buy" voters.

Because that's how it works here in the Capitalist U.S., a run for president entails a drag race/dog and pony show to see which "candidate" has the most of, the loudest, and the shiniest ads. Voters like shiny things. And Obama happens to have a really shiny platinum race card he's been flashing -- a lot -- lately.

He wants to continue giving "special" treatment to what they're considering "minority" voters. Now keep in mind race is not the issue of these minority voters, what makes them minority is that make up a percentage of U.S. voters that are unable, or unwilling, to prove who they are at the time of casting vote. They scream discrimination because they're being asked to prove that they are an actual living breathing American voter.

Now remember Obama failed to produce a birth certificate for himself -- instead he procured a "certificate of birth", which as Donald Trump said, is something you can buy for a dog, and means absolutely nothing in comparison to what we call a birth certificate.

It's as Stephen L. Carter (Bloomberg.com) said, "President Obama lives in a bubble... and it's high time we burst it." Carter proposed bringing back the levee, what Lincoln called, "my public-opinion baths", and claimed they were "renovating and invigorating to my perceptions." It was Hoover that killed the traditional day for levee, opting to spend the day in Florida instead.

Bring that day and more like it back, let normal people talk face-to-face with the "President" elect and remind him he's just that, an elected employee to the public.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TAKES ON U.S. SUPREME COURT
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court cut the Obama administration's death grip on Texas voting laws, and while one big stubby Obama finger was peeled back by a moral win -- the remaining hand tries still, to hold desperately on.

The ruling struck down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an antiquated thing drowning in post-race-war distress. In its day the law was needed, but, today is not then, and laws must be changed and updated with the times. Witches are no longer burned, the church has been kicked out of the court house, and voters must show a valid form of identification. An ID is required for practically EVERYTHING. It's 2013; not 1965!

There's no excuse.

IDEAS THAT MAKE SENSE ARE CONTAGIOUS

It's going to be very interesting when someone from the millennial generation gets into Obama's shoes (and the rest of the government).

We see changes in the world already due to those born at or around 1980. North Carolina has joined Texas in requiring voters to be who they say they are, and real people. It's commonsense, not "racist". It takes a racist to even suggest it's racist -- they feel that because they can't get special treatment, or a get-out-of-jail-free card, that they're being unfairly treated, but in truth they are being fairly treated and just can't hack it. Pull out the ID, that's all that's being asked. You do it at the bank; at the Great and Powerful WalMart; everywhere almost daily. Asking voters to do it is not voter "suppression" -- it's voter verification.

We are in the age of identity theft, are we not?

OBAMA'S LOSS OF VOTE NUMBERS

Obama's interest in the "minority" vote is not without reason, as at a certain level he used it to his advantage. Data in North Carolina showed that had the ID checks been in place in 2012, Obama's own percentage of voters, 48.3, would've actually been an even 48.0 instead. His little 0.3 percent, was for some reason or another, without proper ID. This doesn't sound like much, but add it up for a whole nation, using his NC percentage, 0.3 -- becomes a 15 percent plus. That's unacceptable. Even if we're generous and cut it in half, it's still unacceptable. Any percent should not be allowed.

And this is just on Obama's side. Both sides are guilty.

They're not asking IDs of just one group, or one party, they're asking IDs of all voters, period. It's that simple, and race is not a factor; but the racist want to make it an issue. There are issues of race in the world, but sometimes, when people only think they are victims of some bias, they themselves become the racist by pointing their finger at innocent people that aren't even basing any of their decisions on race. It happens all the time, a form of "reverse" racism -- when a minority points fingers, and pulls out cards, when all it really is, is they're not getting their way or their "special" treatment.

The millennial generation is a lot more race friendly, plus they have many other updated beliefs that the current government is in dire need of with fresh eyes. Fresh eyes, and fresh ideas, like having to show an ID to vote -- not to mention legal pot, gay marriage, and many many other new things to come in the new world. Wasn't one of Obama's sayings, "Change"? Well, why's he standing in its way?

Toss that old '60s race card in the river and move on with life.

POSSIBLE RESOLUTION

Why can't we get a president with a nice Ph.D. in Business? The U.S. is run like a company -- so why not a good non-politically-tied business person, man or woman? A little dash of government, psychology, some economics, and more. A resume to run U.S.A. Inc.

Doesn't such a person exist?