Photo ID Required To…..
… Attend Obama’s planned victory rally in Chicago. No, really. The head of the party that screeches and whines about requiring voters to prove identity is now demanding that people who got the “free” tickets prove who they are with photo identification. However, the attached “plus one” tickets to allow a ticket holder to bring a friend have no restrictions. So people are cheerfully offering to trade them.
The Obama campaign has done its best to prevent sales of the free tickets by requiring supporters who managed to sign up for the 65,000 passes to show photo identification.
But there is no name attached to the “plus one” part of the ticket which allows ticket-holders to bring a friend, and scores of people are capitalizing on their luck.
Sam Cooper offered his extra ticket on the online website Craigslist to anyone willing to hand over the keys to “an old running car for my son.”
“I have a teenage son who’ll need a car soon, as long as the car you have is in running condition and is not a complete clunker, we can do business,” the ad said.
Reached by AFP on Monday evening, Cooper said he has had a number of interesting offers — including “very polite offers of sex” which he had no interest in — but hasn’t decided who to give the ticket to yet.
One could make a few rather good jokes here using the word “screwed” but we here at Blue Crab Boulevard do try to keep things somewhat civil.
Nonetheless, it is a bit hard to reconcile the screeching howls from the left on the ID/voting thing with the ID/get to see The One thing. Just another blatant act of hypocrisy from Obama.
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By Americaneocon, November 3, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
Obama’s own staffers are voting in multiple states…
Change we can believe… yeah right!
By martian, November 4, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
“Just another blatant act of hypocrisy from Obama.”
There have been so many, who’ll notice one more?