Opinion Talk

By steve

April 30, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

It amazes me the love/ hate relationship you liberals have with the Supreme Court. You love them when they give away the right to an abortion or gay sodomy but you hate them when they actually enforce the law such as in Bush v. Gore or in the recent Indiana case about voter I.D. You can’t have it both ways Cynthia.

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

It amazes me that Cynthia Tucker has a job. She is a racist and hates whitey. Everything she writes about has a race issue to it. Cynthia, you need to actually read the constitution. There is NO RIGHT TO VOTE! Not there. I have a copy and I have read it over and over again. Voter ID does not keep anyone down. The only people suppressed are illegal aliens and dead people. Hmmm. Sounds like a good idea to me. Cynthia should really take her racist butt over to huffingtonpost and write for that hypocrite.

By HHB

April 30, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Amen, Steve. You hit the nail on the head. Has anyone noticed that all Cynthia ever does is call Republicans and conservatives names? i.e. knuckle draggers, mossbacks, neanderthals, bigots, racists, etc. She never makes any salient or intelligent points, just rehashes her liberal dogma, and NEVER offers any solutions unless it’s “get the government to do it.”

By Bob Bales

April 30, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

It also amazes me that someone on the editorial staff can’t read or maybe it’s comprehend. Please read the amendments you reference. No where does the Constitution grant the right to vote in a federal election. These amendments do protect the ‘right to vote’ IF granted by an individual State. Statements like yours just help to keep the citizens ignorant. Is it asking to much to have you do research on your topic. I guess that’s why you are on the Opinion page and not a real journalist.

By Gandalf, the Grey

April 30, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Cynthia, quit your job at the AJC and go out and get these little old ladies ID cards. How many of these little old ladies do you know? How many people don’t have ID’s? YOU help them get them. A lot of illegals don’t have ID’s. Should they vote too? I guess they have the same rights as US citizens?

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude— Nothing in here about do not need ID’s…. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. As far as I know, woman can get ID’s here in Georgia…. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. as far as I know, 18 year olds can get an ID in the fine state of Georgia…

So, as usual, you have no case. You ignorantly point out amendments XV, XIX and XXVI with no clue as to what they say. RACE we are all human, COLOR varies among the human species, PREVIOUS CONDITIONS FO SERVITUDE no former slaves alive as far as I can tell. SEX woman vote here…OVER 18, they vote.

No constitutional case, not POLL TAX, though bringing on a literacy test wouldn’t be a bad idea….

I wish you would go to some other paper, or run as Cynthia McCooCoo’s running mate, now that’s an idea…..

By Eric

April 30, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

I didn’t realize only black people and women are required to show ID to vote, and that white males don’t have to do the same.

By thecouch

April 30, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

Ultra -conservatives and fringe activists..

Wow!! Liberal partisanship thick enough to cut with a knife.

Hey Cynthia.., life is much better without all this bottled up hate that keeps expunging itself through your editorials.., ya know.

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Eric, Cynthia sees everything in color. She should go listen to MLK speeches. She’s the exact opposite of what he preached as far as race goes. Jesse and AL see things the same way she does. Just yesterday Al said that Obama is grandstanding in front of white people. Racist? I think so. I’ve never read an article without a race tone to it that she’s written.

Cynthia, Who are these so-called suppressed voters? Where are they and how come they can’t pay $10 for an ID? The poorest of poor in this country eat better than the poorest of poor in Africa. A country, I might add, that you’ve NEVER BEEN TO.

By Gandalf, the Grey

April 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

In my precinct they don’t require white males to be alive, a citizen or have an ID to vote. Dead black woman do require one.

By HHB

April 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Like other liberals she always brings up unproven accusations as fact. The reason Rehnquist was confirmed in 1986 was because he didn’t do what he was accused of doing, but she brings it up like it was “overlooked.” He couldn’t have been confirmed if the Democrat Senators hadn’t voted to do it. Just like Clarence Thomas.

By Michael Matthews

April 30, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Speaking of voting rights; why on earth is there still a Voting Rights Act for African Americans? I have heard nothing about this in the media. I think it was glossed over when the act came up for renewal. My question is; why is it still an Act? One in which can be repealed. In 2008 we still have to wait for our voting right to become LAW. And of course we are all equal! The right would have us believe that there is no need for affirmative action, no need for certain groups to recognize their own plight by suggesting that they have been treated unfairly, all the while history is revealing all of the scars of injustice heaped upon that group. I’ve been subjected to hatred and prejudice in the past but I’ve never allowed those incidents to define me and how I approach life.

By Michael Matthews

April 30, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Speaking of voting rights; why on earth is there still a Voting Rights Act for African Americans? I have heard nothing about this in the media. I think it was glossed over when the act came up for renewal. My question is; why is it still an Act? One in which can be repealed. In 2008 we still have to wait for our voting right to become LAW. And of course we are all equal! The right would have us believe that there is no need for affirmative action, no need for certain groups to recognize their own plight by suggesting that they have been treated unfairly, all the while history is revealing all of the scars of injustice heaped upon that group. I’ve been subjected to hatred and prejudice in the past but I’ve never allowed those incidents to define me and how I approach life.

By demwit

April 30, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

If voting is a right,

Then why did that dumb@ss liberal judge tell me I just lost my privilege to vote when he convicted me of those felonies!!??

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

demwit, Please re-read your comment. You’ve answered your own question. It’s a privilege and not a right. Have fun in prison and keep your soap off the floor.

By Copyleft

April 30, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Careful, Cynthia… you’re touching on one of Boortz’s favorite talking points.

He, like most conservative-fascists, HATES the idea of democracy. He’d much prefer that voting be restricted to white male landowners, as the Founding Fathers clearly intended!

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Copyleft, We’re a republic not a democracy. And no, we’re not fascists. Keep playing the race card when there isn’t any proof to back it up.

For all you Clayton County grads. Here is the difference between a democracy and a republic. BIG DIFFERENCE.

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

The problem with liberals like Copyleft and Cynthia is that they never have facts to back up their claims. It’s either all Bush’s fault or some evil conservative’s fault. People like them live in a world of victim mentality. When a black person kills some person it’s always whiteys fault for keeping him down. If a black man impregnates a woman and has 15 kids with her and takes off it is always someone else’s fault. AM I racist for telling it like it is? NOPE! Just making an observation.

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Copyleft, Don’t believe me about being a republic then here is 100% evidence.

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Notice that it says REPUBLIC!

By RealityKing

April 30, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Now now people, have some respect for the elderly. As old as Cynthia is now, it’s only natural for her to worry about these types of unseen problems..

By Winston Smith

April 30, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

The amendments listed refer to “Citizens” which would logically require that voters produce proof of citizenship. Citizens right to vote is not guaranteed, just that if there is eligibility to vote that it will not be conditional on the basis of Race, Gender etc. Cynthia’s contention that there is a right regardless of age is plain ludicrous. If that was fact, my 8 year old would be voting. How did Cynthia get to this position? Oh…forget it.

By lfhlkn

April 30, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

me thinks ms. cindy has been sitting rev. wright’s church pews for the past 20 yrs. but unlike b.h. obama, she has been listening

By Bob

April 30, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Cynthia,

Intelligent people (who tend not to be Democrats) understand that there is no RIGHT to vote in FEDERAL elections for President and/or Vice President. The Constitution states that each STATE chooses its electors for federal elections. There is no provision that a citizen of the United States has a right to vote for President.

However, if States choose through their constitution to allow voting, then the States may not implement a poll tax, us race, religion or sheer stupidity to infringe on that right.

Cynthia, please go to school and learn about the U.S. Constitution. It is journalists like you that have caused the death of the “mainstream” media. For because of you, I only subscribe to the Sunday AJC so I can get the comics, as nothing else in the AJC is of any journalist value.

By Big Daddy

April 30, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

It irritates me that there is always so much bitterness on this blog and that everything always ends up being about race. Addressing the voter ID law, I don’t see how anyone with any common sense at all can have even the slightest problem with law. So people have to show ID in order to vote. Big deal. You have to show ID to buy cigarettes, alcohol, to get on a plane, to drive a car, etc. You can’t function in today’s world without an ID. What is so outrageous about requiring people to show evidence of who they are, and that they are eligible to vote, before doing so. Big deal! Get over it! I believe this is a good and valid law that only serves to protect the legitimacy of our fair and democratic process.

By Hampton

April 30, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Cynthia Tucker is a complete boob. She is a liberal that writes about topics she knows nothing about and appears to have little if any educational background. She needs to be replaced with someone that is not a racist or a hater. Unfortunately, ignorance is contangious and Cynthia is trying to spread it.

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Big Daddy, Ask Ms. Tucker why she writes articles along racial lines. It’s always about old white southern laws or racist whitey president bush. She’s written about Voter ID being discriminatory against poor black people when no such thing exists. It’s how she keeps her job.

By Jerry

April 30, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

I have to present a picture ID when I cash a check. Is not voting more important than merely cashing a check in America? Obviously not to some people.

By Kevin

April 30, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

I do not think that it is unreasonable to ask people to display a photo ID that proves who they are when they wish to vote. Since no one has defined the percentage of people who are disenfranchised because they have no photo ID, I would think political parties would make sure they provide local resources to make sure voters can obtain this identification.

I think it is revealing that the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case could not produce one example where someone could not vote because they did not have a voter ID.

By Charles

April 30, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

Ms. Tucker has given us all (yet again) another fine example of her ignorance of the laws of our land. It truly amazes me that a major newspaper (well, the AJC is a dinosaur in terms of today’s media) would want someone speaking for them who makes her decisions on feelings rather than fact. To Ms. Tucker she sees nothing wrong with an illegal alien voting in our elections (the root of her argument). It’s people like her who weaken our Republic (yes Ms. Tucker that’s what the Founders wanted us to have - not a Democracy).

God help Cynthia if the Superdelegates make Hillary the Democratic Party nominee. She might look like Regan in ‘The Exorcist’!

By bubbatech02

April 30, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

good job cynthia on trying to maintain the welfare state.

“We want handouts, not jobs. Jobs require work, whereas handouts just require us to vote democrat.”

By David

April 30, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Please, Cynthia, explain to me what the problem is with this law. Nobody is being discriminated against. Requiring voters to simple prove who they are and that they are entitled to vote preserves the integrity of the voting process. How is anybody being suppressed? The state agreed to give free IDs to people who wished to get one so they could vote.

Personally, if someone is too lazy to take the initiative to do something as simple as get an ID card, I don’t want them voting in the first place.

By Larry

April 30, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

While I agree with Cynthia on some of her details, I disagree with her conclusion. That is, we should try to eliminate or at least try to reduce voter fraud in this country. She chooses to use the example of Rehnquist being accused of this and that in Arizona but fails to mention the accusations by many of dead people voting in Chicago; e.g., in 1960 Presidential election. Procuring a photo id does not require a driver’s license; one can be gotten by many other means, which may entail less work than actually voting. So, in short, it is not too much to ask to ensure that only those eligible to vote, vote only one time and those not eligible, not at all.

By TheNaplesMan

April 30, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

The AJC can’t understand why circulation continues to decline. Liberal Cynthia and the rest of the editorial staff and reporters only report liberal views. Guess what? People are tired of reading only one point-of-view. With Cynthia in her ivory tower, don’t expect any changes.

By Copyleft

April 30, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Good job, TheLies! I was WAITING for someone to trot out Boortz’s other favorite screed: “Democracy doesn’t exist! We should never mention the word democracy in polite company! Democracy bad, bad, bad! We’re a REPUBLIC, durnit!”

Typical red-herring distraction tactic, since a republic IS a form of democracy. But it never fails with the talknazi crowd: they always trot out this screed to distract from the issue at hand.

You’ve got no “facts,” TheLies—just a bunch of smug, bigoted opinions you WISH were fact. The FACT is, this hysteria is over a non-existent problem, designed to intimidate minorities and distract from the much more legitimate threat to our electoral process: voting computers with no paper trail and no independent code verification.

Don’t hear much about THAT from the Diebold-funded right-wing media, do ya? (snicker)

By asian doctor

April 30, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

shame on you cynthia.

you are only concerned about blacks and illegals.

i came to america to work hard, become succesful and have a better future but am disgusted to see people like you and mr wright still play out 200 years of discrimnation,play race politics.

fact is you guys(inner city people) dont want to improve,get a education and get a job. most of your people have babies out of wedlock,50% of aa males are in prison at sometime of their life.you all want a handout.

some blacks may buy your stupid ideas but majority of whites asians and hispanics dont agree with you.

i am surprised ajc has you on staff.

this is best country in world if you want to work hard.

stop speaking up for welfare people,panhandlers and druggies in downtown atlanta.

SLAVERY IS IN THE MIND

By David

April 30, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

TheNaplesMan, I couldn’t agree more. There is a reason why I don’t subscribe to or buy this paper. A newspaper’s job should be to report real news in the local community, state, nation, and world. Instead, we get a bunch of fringe elements spouting their out of the mainstream opinions and running stories that serve only to back their view. Then they proceed to waste even more paper by running more than their share of celebrity garbage that belongs on Entertainment Tonight. Sorry, but I refuse to pay for this tripe. Less “journalism”, more “reporting”, please.

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

CopyMarxist, You should not have attended a Clayton County school because your knowledge of America is very hack-like. I’m sure you get your history lessons from Keith Olbermann. We are a republic. Look at the pledge, moron. It’s right there for all to see and recite. You keep bringing up Bush and the 2000 election. That’s what this boils down to. You can’t even think without throwing out a “Bush lied we all died” slogan.

Question: How does voter ID suppress people? Who is too poor they can’t get a free ID? Or a $10 license? How is Boortz a nazi? Last time I checked he never gassed any Jews.

By mike

April 30, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Cynthia- I am a moderate Republican who no longer lives in Georgia. I often find myself leaning left on fiscal issues and leaning right on social issues, so know that before reading my comments.

1) Your column failed to address the reason that people like me (white male republican) desire voter ID laws. It has nothing to do with suppressing the vote of low income or minority voters. I imagine that you will never believe that because most of my African American friends don’t believe it either. What I and many other want is justice, nothing more and nothing less. You state that there are no reports of voter fraud. Are you kidding me? I know of college students in Atlanta who voted over 10 times in the same election pretending to be other people including friends/family who they knew would not vote. Worse yet, people who aren’t even citizens of our country are allowed to walk into any precinct, pretend to be someone else, and very very easily cast a vote since officials have no way to determine who they are. If you don’t think this kind of thing happens frequently, then I suggest you think about this issue more deeply. It happens and it happens alot.

2) You failed to make a logical argument about how voter ID laws disenfranchise anyone. You, as do most Democrats, frequently suggest, “not everyone has a drivers license.” C’mon Cynthia, you know good well that those aren’t required to vote. The state of Georgia provides free ID cards that can be used to vote in any election statewide. How do free voter ID cards disenfranchise minorities? If the right to vote is as treasured as you say it is, then don’t you think the government has already bent over backwards enough to ensure that its easy enough for everyone? What else could the government do to make it easier for minorities to vote? I’d seriously like to know your ideas here.

3) I am fairly positive that if the racial/economic alignment here were reversed, your opinion would also be different. Your opinions reek of racial/political agendas that distort what should be your goal and my goal. The goal is justice and fairness for all, nothing more and nothing less.

By bratt

April 30, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Hey everyone , Cynthia went to Spelman . It’a a diploma mill for BAPs .

By Crafty

April 30, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Copyleft, Who and where are these suppressed voters? I’m still waiting on Cynthia to tell me where they live. And, you are typical mindless liberal who spews hate. Calling someone a nazi because they disagree with you is childish. My ten year old is smarter than you. Then again, so are monkeys.

By R_U_KIDDING

April 30, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Do you think we should have to have a license to drive? Isn’t that a hardship that we have to pay for? Should we have ID laws to purchase alcohol? I can’t believe that you use the argument “There have been no reports of fraudulent voters showing up at the polls pretending to be somebody else”, you must really be lost. How are you using an indefensible argument like that? If you don’t need ID to vote how do you know if there is fraud? If you don’t ask for ID at the liquor store you can claim that every body is 21. Does that make every body 21? The law will give government ID at NO CHARGE so how is that making it hard on people?

By Copyleft

April 30, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

Crafty: Nice lecture on name-calling… in between your name-calling, of course! (snicker)

By Crafty

April 30, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Copyleft, Are you as blind as you are ignorant? I never name called. I just said that monkeys were smarter than you. Don’t see any name calling there.

Now, please explain how voter ID suppresses poor people. And, where are these people? Can you do that or are you going to continue calling me a nazi.

By Marcus

April 30, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

I enjoyed the article, it is purely opinion after all, that appears to be driven by emotion, rather than statistical data. The lady could write about the interrelation ship between mules and turnips and make it an interesting read. My o2

By GA_Tiger Fan

April 30, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Cynthia Tucker as usual puts out a racist assessment of the courts opinion that was fair and just. If people can get out to vote, they can get out to obtain a photo ID. THERE IS NO DISENFRANCHISEMENT…PERIOD. END OF STORY. QUIT CRYING OVER NOTHING.

By scrat

April 30, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

By Ms. Tucker’s reasoning, I would expect her to argue that even registering to vote is an undue burden. Why not just arrange to issue a free ID when a person registers to vote (if they don’t already have a driver’s license)? Wasn’t the “Motor Voter” act supposed to make it easier to register to vote? Well, now let’s also do the reverse.

By JoseyWells

April 30, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

Well, does the food stamp credit card count for voter I.D.? I know all the poor black people have one. It is amazing how she can see voter rights in those ammendments but does not see My 2nd Amendment rights.

By William

April 30, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Typical Tucker. She see’s conspiracy and racism where it doesn’t exist. Why is that? Oh I know, its because she’s a racist herself.

Reality to Tucker: The 60’s were over 40 years ago. There are no more conspiracies by the government against black people any longer. You need to actually get back to being a journalist and not a undercover bigot who has delusions of government conspiracies.

By Ken

April 30, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Cynthia -

Seriously, it is not funny or acceptable that a Pulitzer prize winning journalist does not know that there is not a fundamental right to vote in the Constitution. You should be ashamed. This article(from a progressive law professor!) should help you in your understanding:

Right to Vote?

I am waiting for your retraction…

By Tom

April 30, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Cynthia actually believes the Voter ID things is a way for white people to keep black people from voting???? Why not say that whitey wants to keep black people from buying alcohol?? Or renting a car?? Or getting a checking account?? or going to a strip club?? or buying Sudafed?? or driving a car?? or any of a host of things that already require a drivers license or other form of id?

It’s obvious to me that racism is still alive and well. Either the requirement of any ID for ANYTHING is racist in itself, or maybe someone else is showing a little racist nature in shouting racist in a courtroom…

By ColorBlind

April 30, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

I’m having a hard time deciphering the difference between Cynthia McKinney and Cynthia Tucker. Both live in Atlanta, are black, hate white people and blame Bush for their problems. Are you two sisters by birth? I mean really, what alien family raised you two? I’ve only read hate whitey articles from this hack writer. Remember, the Pulitzer is usually given to Anti-American writers.

By Mike

April 30, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

What nonsense. Ms Tucker provides no evidence whatsover that anyone is claiming that “there is NO right to vote in the U.S. Constitution.”

As usual, she doesn’t agree with someone’s policy position, so she feels the need to demonize them by exagerating their points beyond reason.

In the course of doing so she accuses others of “whining” and being “partisan”. What a hypocrite.

By Ms. Tucker

April 30, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Colorblind - I have yet to attain Ms. McKinney’s stature yet. I haven’t hit a police officer …. yet.

By James Johnson

April 30, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

No right to vote? If the shoe were on the other foot and millions white were intimidated on voting it would be right. If it’s not a right it’s a privilege. If it’s a privilege it can be taken away. So are we saying that we can’t tell people with out reason they cannot vote? Voting is generally left up to the states. This is why for years in certain colonies people that didn’t own proper could not vote. People that were a member of the correct church could not vote. Then only white men could vote. No women, not people of color. If its a privilege and not a right, then why should there be a need to open it up to other people? Why can’t we only let people we WANT to vote, have that privilege?

By Colorblind

April 30, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this

Ms. Tucker, Glad to see you respond. No, you have not hit a police officer. I hope you never have to. I was a bit harsh only because too many people keep playing the race card when the race card should not be played. Yes, there is still racism in this country but it isn’t all white people’s fault. I have many black and white friends and we never talk about race because we are too busy paying bills, working and hanging out. I do think that you are a good writer but I have read a lot of your articles on race issues. Not all white people are bad.

By The Truth

April 30, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

James Johnson, Why do you and others continue to live in the past? Who today is being oppressed? How does voter ID suppress people? It’s free?

By Hans Apology

April 30, 2008 8:30 PM | Link to this

CNN just reported that superdelegate Cynthia McKinney came out for Obama today……

By Sam what am

April 30, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

Why didn’t Cynthia write about the seven ACORN voter registrars who were convicted of turning in hundreds of totally fictitious registrations?

By bj

April 30, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this

Those of you who insist on using the argument that the U.S. is a Republic rather than a Democracy might be well served to consult a dictionary. Such as Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. 30 Apr. 2008, which defines a Republic as: “A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth.”

This same dictionary defines Democracy as: “Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic”

Even so, neither definition (necessarily) means that the “whole body of the people” will elect the Chief of State by popular vote.

By JOE V.

April 30, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this

WELL IT IS TO MY KNOWLEDGE THAT I AM A “FRINGE ACTIVIST” ! YOU REALLY ARE A “FOOL” ! WHY SHOULD PEOPLE NOT BE REQUIRED TO PROVE WHO THEY ARE WHEN THEY SIGN UP TO VOTE? WHEN YOU GO TO CASH A CHECK DON’T THEY ASK FOR SOME I.D.? ARE YOU UPSET BY THAT ? I DON’T THINK SO !DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY COMMON SENSE? NO, I DON’T THINK SO ,JUST MORE “RACE”BATING” BY A RACIST!

By Other key issues at hand

April 30, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this

Cynthia — please focus your efforts (and column) on issues at hand which affect us now, i.e., Clayton County, generational perpetuation of welfare “entitlement” and abuse by certain segments of our population, continued decline of Atlanta’s public school system due to lowest common denominator teaching (and M to M), and dysfunctional local governments.

Most of these problems are due to a lemming suicide behaviour in a certain demographic segment of our society where people go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with usually dangerous or fatal consequences.

By Jonny

April 30, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this

If the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments do not give a constitutional right to vote, how can the 2nd Amendment give the right to bear arms? After all, if convicted of a felony you cannot legally bear arms.

At least I’m consistent. I believe there is a constitutionally protected right to vote just as there is a constitutionally protected right to bear arms. You people are lemmings, empty heads that take orders from Boortz without doing your own research.

The holding of Bush v Gore is not what Boortz claims. Read the 24th Amendment, read Harper v Board of Electors. Read the case law, you idiots. And while you are at it, I’d like another ice tea. Be nice and I’ll leave a nice tip.

By He Hate Me

April 30, 2008 11:16 PM | Link to this

Wow ! That was an article? Or was that scribble on her beverage napkin while she was stumbling from a closed door Clayton County school board meeting ?

My dog’s crap is worth more than Cyntia Tucker’s articles.

By bj

April 30, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this

In an earlier article, Ms. Tucker states that her father “didn’t want his children to grow up embittered.” Since I have no way of knowing, I can only hope that, for her siblings at least, her father’s wishes were granted. But, as indicated by the content of her columns, for at least one offspring, her father’s wish was in vain.

By zeke

April 30, 2008 11:59 PM | Link to this

These should be the requirements to be able to vote:

Must be able to read, write and comprhend English!

Must have a valid government issued ID!

You must own property in order to vote on property taxes!

If you receive any form of subsudy, you shall not vote on anything regarding increses in taxes to pay them! Social security, medicare, medicaid, etc.!

By Brian

May 1, 2008 12:07 AM | Link to this

Typical Cynthia Tucker article. The AJC needs to can her. She has no clue what she speaks about most of the time.

By Charles

May 1, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this

I guess BJ is another victim of government education. Let me try to educate you! Government by popular representation (Democracy) means the popular vote is used to decide the winner. You must have missed that day in school when the Electoral College was discussed (hence, we are a Republic). But, like most bed-wetting Liberals they don’t recognize this as the law of the land (the 2000 Presidential Election).

It’s quite sad when someone quotes something from a dictionary and can’t even decipher what they’ve quoted. Pathetic …….

By Believer

May 1, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this

Ms. Tucker,

Try using a pen name for a fictional southern white male in his 30s or 40s and you’ll get rid of this particular set of “fans”. Unfortunately, there will be another set of “fans” to replace them.

By Ed

May 1, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

Even though I don’t think her outlandish editorial deserves a response, I have two comments: 1) Judging by the responses to her articles, it’s no wonder she seldom invites comments in the blogosphere. 2) She hasn’t got a clue!

By bj

May 3, 2008 12:24 AM | Link to this

Hey Charles! Did you ever learn to read? Please get someone to read for you the last quoted text in my comment. It’s straight from the dictionary and is the dictionary’s definition of “democracy.” The last two words define a democracy as “a republic.” Perhaps I should put it on a sign post; I’m sure that would make you more comfortable while you argue. On the other hand, my guess is that you’re not too uncomfortable arguing with a dictionary. And I’d bet that you start arguing before you’ve finished reading the definition. Oops! My bad. I assumed for a moment that you can read!