Betraying The Oath Of Office - Con't

There are many many instances where Republicans are trying to supress the vote. They claim that Democrats are doing the same thing. But that isn't true. Democrats have been caught trying to get people registered, valid people. Republicans have been caught trashing democratic registrations and paying people to collect Republican registrations, but not Democratic ones.

In Detroit, when a Republican legislator got caught red handed explicity talking about the need to "suppress the Detroit vote", he was required to resign from the state Bush-Cheney campaign.

In Joe Conason's recent (10/29/04) article, "Supreme Injustice", he describes how judge William Rehnquist as a young lawyer, illegally challenged black and latino voters in Arizona to persuade them not to vote.

By not speaking out about cases where voters rights are compromised, the President has again not lived up to his oath of office.

Joe Conason concludes his article as follows:
If George W. Bush believed his own rhetoric about "freedom on the march," he would not permit these offenses to be committed in his name. If he believed what he says about "compassionate conservatism," he would not fear the judgment of the people he claims to care about. If he believed in the God-given rights that he talks about so often, he would speak out to discourage those who seek to intimidate the weak and the poor from exercising their only power in this country.