Obama Tells Voters to 'Take the Day Off' Work

 Why?

It doesn't take all day to vote.

If you're only casting one ballot, that is.

Comments

[Patriotic Voter]

It DOES take hours and hours to vote, especially where patriots are known to be the majority standing in line! You insult your fellow countrymen, who bring water, food, and makeshift shelter to their polling places so they can stand in line for 3 or more hours just to exercise their constitutional rights! Many DO INDEED have to take off work in order to vote! We make that sacrifice to help keep this nation safe and free! You make us all look bad when you imply that voter suppression isn't real. Get informed, get with the program and stop dismissing the struggle of voting patriots everywhere.

[Gina Cobb responds: Oh, give me a break. You are not fooling anyone. It has NEVER taken me more than 5-10 minutes at a polling place, not including travel time. Instead of waiting 3 hours (which has rarely if ever happened anywhere), try early voting or absentee ballot votling.

The issue in this election isn't voter suppression. It's voters and imaginary voters whom ACORN and other fraudulent groups registered to vote 5, 10, or 70 times, as documented by Secretaries of State in numerous states.

It DOES take a long time to finish voting if you are trying to vote at 2, 3, or 5 different polling places under names ACORN previously registered fraudulently.

And as far as bringing food, water, and makeshift shelter to a polling place, who are you kidding? For the poll workers and election monitors, maybe. Nobody else should be there that long unless they are up to mischief.

Employers are required by law to give you time off to vote, if you can't vote before or after work. That's not the issue here. The issue is taking off an entire 8-hour work day. Are you trying to tell me that lines at polling places are 8 hours long? They aren't, "patriotic voter."

And if you are this unconcerned about enabling voter fraud, simply because you think it helps your candidate this time, I have a real problem with you, and you are no patriot. "One person, one vote" is the bedrock of our democracy. Lose that, and we are a thug-ocracy, and we will soon deserve what we will get -- if we go down this path of allowing election fraud to decide which leader are chosen, before long we will live about as poorly as Mexico or Cuba or Venezuela - Gina Cobb]

[btenney]

If I don't need you at work on tuesday, I damned sure don't need you the rest of the week.