Code Pink could be red alert that election’s not in the bag for Obama

Code Pink could be a red alert that Tuesday’s presidential election is not in the bag for Barack Hussein Obama. Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin is part of a coalition seeking an 11th hour request for UN international election observers to monitor Election Day votes. Could it be that Obama’s radical supporters are worried that ACORN voter fraud has not guaranteed Obama a win? Just five days before votes are cast in Election ’08, Medea is part of Coalition of U.S. “pro-democracy” organizations petitioning members of the Economic and social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations for international election observers for Tuesday’s presidential elections. Indeed the very next day after Obama’s $4-million television infomercial, Medea and other activists were visiting the U.S. Embassies of ECOSOC member nations, including New Zealand, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, France, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

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Today coalition members plan to visit ECOSOC offices in New York City to “request election observers to document violations of American voting rights, to guarantee the election results are tabulated accurately, and to bring the force of international law to the United States to guarantee the human rights of American citizens.” Why did they wait until today to send their SOS to the United Nations? They submitted the petition now, they said, in order to place their request on record ahead of the coming Election Day. For all of its lofty packaging, sicing the UN on the US seems to be a last-minute and even a desperate political strategy. “The international community came to the aid of past American movements for civil rights, free speech, and independence. We are asking for the same support today. U.S. elections remain undemocratic and rife with voting rights violations, and international election observers are needed,” said Ben Manski, executive director of the pro-democracy group, Liberty Tree. The petition, which patently ignores ACORN voter fraud points instead to international covenants, conventions and the Declaration for Human Rights itself as a basis for supporting the right of U.S. citizens to freely choose their president and their right to seek international assistance. “The petition points to an often overlooked history of voting rights violations that culminated in the challenged U.S. Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Many of these voting rights violations were clearly racially based and directly contravene the U.S.’s signature on the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination.” “If nothing else, they must document and expose to the rest of the world—that we cannot guarantee our voting rights, nor even enough integrity in our complicated and partisan system that the 2008 Presidential election will have integrity, integrity which both the elections of 2000 and 2004 clearly lacked,” states Grace Ross, 2006 Gubernatorial Candidate and long-time human rights activist, who spearheaded a request for UN election observers before the 2004 Presidential Elections. Kevin Zeese of TruVote warns, “Problems with voting and registration of voters are being reported in many parts of the United States. We have had two questionable and problem-ridden presidential elections in 2000 and 2004. Americans are losing faith in their democracy and international observers are needed to provide an independent, official review of what is occurring.” Grace Ross explains: “Hundreds of US based organizations have participated in exposing what happened in 2000 and 2004, sued various bodies of government, fought for legislative remedies, have monitored election changes since and are now organizing extensively to educate voters and put various local protections in place as best they can.” “Suppose the upcoming processes are as tainted as the last ones?” concluded Ms. Ross. “Many fought for domestic solutions last time, all of those failed—and we are no closer to protecting our voting rights this time. Where then can we turn except to ask the international community to stop these human rights violations in the U.S.?” Meanwhile, the coalition may have unwittingly provided the first sign of hope that even with the lion’s share of mainstream media support, and even with ACORN voter fraud under investigation in 14 states, it is not certain that Obama is going to win Tuesday’s election. A sign of the times....

Small Business Owner dilemma...solved

Subject: Small Business Owner Dear Fellow Business Owners, As a business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next president, and that my taxes and fees will go up in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Customer will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about 8-10%. I will also have to lay off six of my employees. This really bothered me as I believe we are family here and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled thru the parking lot and found eight Obama bumper stickers on my employee’s cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know. Mark R. McGrath