WANNA-BE EURO ELITISTS FOR OBAMA
An organization called Vote From Abroad…..released the above video, featuring Gweneth Paltrow, a few days ago…..the video not only encourages Americans abroad to vote….but it tells them to vote Obama…….as if there is no other choice (well….there isn’t for out-of-touch, trust-fund-holding, talent-lacking, over-rated, out-of-work actresses…..like Miss Paltrow)
For those who forgot…..here are a few quotes from Gwen…..she provided these, in an interview with a Portuguese newspaper, in 2006……..(article HERE)
“I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner”
“I like living here because I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,”
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August 5, 2008 at 3:14 am
Paltrow owes Americans everything she has been given. BTW, Coldplays new album blows!
August 5, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Paltrow blows and she knows it!
August 5, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Am I the only one who likes being a superpower? They have alot of culture clash problems in Europe because they like being walked over on. But I’m sure Paltrow doesn’t speak to real working class Brits. And yes, Coldplay totally sucks!
August 5, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Typical liberal elitist b.s. Liberals have to be told who to vote for. And Paltrow’s pretty weak minded. She fails to remember that it was her home country who fought back the Germans in WWII. Just think, Paltrow would have had to have learned German to hold a conversation in the UK had the Nazis won. ELITISM at its purest form.
August 5, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Disenfranchising Our Overseas Troops
Nearly 500,000 Americans are abroad, defending our freedom as members of our armed forces. In standing their post and protecting the rest of us back home, they make enormous sacrifices. They live in tiny compartments aboard submarines and in tents on the gritty desert. They spend months, even years, away from their families. Some give up their lives in service of their nation.
Thanks to these brave men and women, those of us back home will head to our local polling places this November and exercise our foremost right — the right to vote.
But in an unconscionable systemic failure, too many of the men and women in our military will find it difficult to cast their vote and more difficult to have it counted, even though they are defending that right far from home.
Members of the military who are posted abroad must vote by absentee ballot in the state where they last lived before shipping out. Every state has a system for distributing and counting these absentee ballots, and these systems feature a wide range of rules and requirements.
Usually, the process works something like this: A soldier abroad fills out an application for an absentee ballot and sends it to his local election official. The official processes the application and mails a ballot to the soldier a few weeks before the election. Once he receives it, the soldier must fill out his ballot and return it to the election official. Usually, it must arrive by Election Day. In some states, it may arrive up to two weeks later as long as it was postmarked or signed prior to Election Day. A few states even require that absentee voters have the signature on their ballot notarized — a difficult task when voting from a temporary camp in Iraq.
Needless to say, problems abound. The most critical of these is the shameful condition of the military postal system. Mail from the United States to overseas military posts usually takes about three weeks. Aside from being a disgraceful disservice to the troops, the lengthy delivery period for international military mail poses major problems for soldiers trying to vote because some states do not even distribute ballots until 30 days before Election Day. This makes it virtually impossible for the overseas military voter to fill out the ballot and have it back to the proper election authority on time.
There are other problems: during the Florida recount after the 2000 Presidential election, many localities had trouble determining the date of postmark on military absentee ballots. The dates were frequently illegible for one reason or another, so local election officials simply discarded the ballots. Many military ballots were not signed or notarized. Again, hundreds and perhaps thousands of military votes were excluded. These problems only came to light in Florida as a result of the intense scrutiny prompted by various recounts, but the same sorts of difficulties permeate electoral systems across the country.
After the debacle in 2000, the federal government mandated some absentee voting reforms, but they don’t go far enough.
In a recent letter to President Bush, Theresa M. Petrone, a Democratic member of Chicago’s Board of Elections, predicted that thousands of military absentee ballots would once again go uncounted. Petrone asked that the federal government force states to count absentee ballots until 14 days after the election, provided that the ballot was signed by Election Day. But this would require federal legislation, and there’s little chance of any legislative fix passing Congress in time. Also, Petrone’s proposal would do nothing to address the problems with the military postal service.
According to the Associated Press, 30 percent of military voters who requested absentee ballots in 2000 did not receive them in time to have their vote counted. In 2000, roughly 250,000 military voters applied to vote absentee. Now, with hundreds of thousands of additional troops posted in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, the number of military personnel interested in voting absentee is expected to soar. Nearly 350,000 applications had already been requested as of mid-July.
The men and women protecting our nation deserve to have their votes counted, even if it means enduring a couple of weeks of uncertainty in tightly contested states.
It is incumbent on the Department of Defense (DOD) and the various state election authorities to ensure that they are. DOD has already pledged that all military absentee ballots will be returned to the states via Express Mail at no cost to the troops, and this will help to some degree. But the other fundamental problem remains with the states. There is absolutely no reason that ballots cannot be mailed to overseas voters sooner than 30 days before an election. Except in one or two states with very late primaries, the ballots are settled. The states could, if they wished, begin mailing the ballots sooner. At the same time, the states could, if they wished, extend their counting deadlines to ensure that military absentee ballots are counted. Both of these steps should be taken quickly, in time to safeguard this fall’s election.
Longer term fixes are needed, too. First, DOD must reform the reprehensible military postal system. Second, states must codify sound but accommodating requirements for military absentee voters.
For now, we owe it to our men and women in uniform to see that their right to vote is protected, just as they protect our rights, including our right to make the trip to our polling place, through their service. We should all be ashamed if there is even the slightest doubt that the votes of our men and women in uniform could somehow be cast aside through a series of problems of our own making.
August 6, 2008 at 5:08 am
One foot in the door & one foot out, sitting on the fence, waiting to make our Country closer to the country they prefer.
August 6, 2008 at 11:40 am
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August 7, 2008 at 1:54 am
Why do we keep supporting actresses, wanna be presidents and wanna be first lady. If we stop supporting them they can go abroad and make a living in another country. They can take their America hating pastors and America hating comrades with them. I’m sure the Queen would be happy to have Rev. Wright scream God D___ England at the top of his lungs. Surely we are an idiotic society when we not only tolerate these imbecils but we give them money and such. Since we do have free speech and we can’t stop the America haters from hating America the least we can do is vote and get everyone to vote for the true America loving patriot, John McCain! Hillary 2012!
August 7, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Well, then Gwyneth should stay in England, if she likes it so much and give up her American citizenship. After all, who would want to be associated with a bunch of un-intelligent citizens like us stupid Americans? How completely disgusting she said that. Happily, I’ve never been a fan of hers and won’t buy or see any of her movies or her hubby’s music.
She is just a typical leftist Hollywood elitist living overseas and bashing America but still thinking she has the right to say anything at all about us.
August 8, 2008 at 2:08 am
[...] (h/t Rumproast and some adult retarded children) [...]
August 8, 2008 at 2:45 am
I’m very disappointed with Ms. Paltrow. I missed her quotes from 2006 but I won’t forget them now. I agree she should drop her US citizenship and trade it in on her preferred UK. Good luck with all that. I won’t be buying anymore Coldplay.
August 17, 2008 at 7:29 pm
He has lots of Americans overseas data which his campaign actively searched for in the Berlin crowd. They worked thru it registering voters all the time. I fear massive Voter Fraud in overseas ballots…..