An enterprising Rutgers student who was at the White House as part of a college journalism program asked President Obama if he would do a one-on-one interview with the Rutgers student newspaper, and Obama said yes, and it happened, and if I’m not mistaken, the interview involves breaking news in the form of Obama, for the first time ever, endorsing the idea that Election Day should be a holiday in order to help improve turnout.
Obama and the Rutgers [Daily Targum newspaper] journalist, Dan Corey, then go on to have a substantive discussion of a number of issues, including voting. Here’s their exchange on that subject:
THE TARGUM: You have pointed out many times that voter turnout in the United States is very low, especially compared to other developed nations. But in many other countries, the government automatically registers voters and holds elections on days that are weekend days or national holidays. Do you think it’s time for the U.S. to follow their lead?
BARACK OBAMA: The single most dramatic political change that could occur in this country—and the best way for us to relieve the frustrations that people feel around the political process—would be if we had greater participation that was more reflective of the day-to-day concerns that people have.
Obama has previously endorsed the idea of mandatory voting but never, as far as I can tell, said he supports the movement to make Election Day a holiday—an idea that is also backed by Bernie Sanders, who introduced an election-holiday bill in 2015.
Mandatory voting seems right in line with Communist and Socialist countries with which Obama seems to sympathize. Of course the outcome is predetermined in those countries, as perhaps Obama thinks should be the case here.
Obama and Democrats are big on creating national holidays because it makes workers feel beholden to the party for giving them something “for free,” which in truth costs employers hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production and wages. Democrat legislators never consider that since they are, in general, anti-business and believe that businesses can afford to give up one more day for free. It is also not certain that workers would use the day to go vote instead of vacationing or taking it easy. The fact that it is so easy to submit an absentee ballot, to vote online, or to vote before or after work house suggests that those who do not vote are simply not interested in voting. And if they are not interested in making the effort to vote through these other mechanisms, perhaps they should not vote in the first place since they are probably not prepared.
Obama is as corrupt a president as we have ever had, and this is one more example of his ultimate goal in virtually everything he does, which is to advance the political power and control of government and the Democrat party. He is not a statesman, nor a patriot, and he is certainly not interested in the well-being of the people at large. Obama is the ultimate partisan, willing to bring this country to its knees in order to collect and exercise power, and the end of his presidency cannot come soon enough. Rest assured, however, that he has several tricks and abuses of power that he still plans on rolling out before that day.
Source: slate.com
That’s the name of the game, bring brain dead, uninformed, low intells, to vote democratic
Obama belongs behind bars !!!
So sorry of a man. He hates America.
He is nothing but a loser and crook and should be in jail he is not fit to serve as anything
SICK & illegal!
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