Bush's head of the Voting Rights section of DOJ believes that measures that disadvantage elderly voters help black voters because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do; they die first".
Seriously, WTF?
Actually it's not that big a deal -- most of them lose their voting rights anyway, after being convicted of a felony.
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at October 19, 2007 01:51 PMAnd c'mon, everybody knows that blacks vote late because they have to sleep all day after smoking refer all night.
Posted by: froz gobo at October 19, 2007 02:20 PMRelax. It's just another part of the ongoing Republican plan to kill the federal government by destroying any semblance of competence or integrity in it.
Posted by: shpx.ohfu at October 19, 2007 06:38 PMWell, come on Apo. I bet none of those people have ever *seen* an old black person.
Posted by: bitchphd at October 20, 2007 01:40 AMsmoking refer
Sounds like a good way for semioticians to relax.
Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at October 20, 2007 05:16 PMwhat a horse's ass. But I can believe he's highly well thought of in the current government cluster f@ck.
Posted by: dragonet2 at October 21, 2007 01:26 AM"minorities don't become elderly the way white people do; they die first".
Fortunately they managed to kill the microphones before Tanner completed the sentence "...at least, that's certainly how it happened in New Orleans".
Posted by: ajay at October 22, 2007 11:09 AM