Weekly Update for Elected Officials: Oct. 17, 2008

Supreme Court Sides With Dems On Ohio Voting Case
By Zachary Roth - October 17, 2008, 11:59AM
In a ruling late this morning, the Supreme Court sided with Ohio’s Democratic Secretary of State, who’s in a dispute with the state GOP over voting.

Reports the AP:

The justices on Friday OVERRULED a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don’t match records in other government databases.

The ruling could make it easier to vote for thousands of Ohioans whose voter registration information did not match up with other government records~~~~~~~~~TPM~~~~~~NOTE: Now Joe the Plumber(whose name was misspelled on Ohio voting rolls)can vote! And ,countless individuals ( including WalMart moms and shoppers) who have been evicted from their homes, now have a better chance at democracy.

Presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was visiting a
primary school and he visited one of the classes.

They were in the middle of a discussion related to words
and their
meanings. The teacher asked the presidential candidate if
he would like to lead the discussion on the word ‘tragedy’.

So our illustrious democrat presidential candidate, Barack
Hussein Obama, asked the class for an
example of a ‘tragedy’.

One little boy stood up and offered: ‘If my best
friend, who lives on a
farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him
and kills him, that would be a tragedy.

‘No,’ said Barack Hussein Obama?, ‘that would
be an accident.’

A little girl raised her hand: ‘If a school bus
carrying 50 children drove
over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.’

‘I’m afraid not,’ explained Barack Hussein
Obama . ‘That’s what we would call great loss.’

The room went silent. No other children volunteered.

Barack Hussein Obama searched the room. ‘Isn’t
there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?’

Finally at the back of the room, Little Johnny raised his
hand. In a quiet voice he said: ‘If the plane carrying you and
Mrs.Barack Hussein Obama was struck by a
‘friendly fire’ missile and blown to smithereens
that would be a tragedy.’

‘Fantastic!’ exclaimed Barack Hussein Obama .
‘That’s right. And can you tell me why that
would be tragedy?’

‘Well,’ says the boy, ‘It has to be a tragedy,
because it certainly
wouldn’t be a great loss… and it probably
wouldn’t be an accident either.

*~*Its not how many years you have lived, but how you lived in the years.*~*