Obama Promotes Mandatory Voting for Every US Citizen and Here’s the Response from Social Media
By Josh Lederman. They say the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes. President Barack Obama wants to add one more: voting.
Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting in the U.S. while speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday. Asked about the corrosive influence of money in U.S. elections, Obama digressed into the related topic of voting rights and said the U.S. should be making it easier — not harder— for people to vote.
Just ask Australia, where citizens have no choice but to vote, the president said.
“If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country,” Obama said, calling it potentially transformative. Not only that, Obama said, but universal voting would “counteract money more than anything.” (Read more from “Obama Talks Mandatory Voting and Here’s the Response from Social Media” HERE)
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Oops! Social Media Users Point out the Biggest Hypocrisy Behind Obama’s ‘Mandatory Voting’ Idea
By Nicole Haas. Social media users are responding in force to President Obama’s latest idea for a new policy – a policy that would essentially force votes from an electorate that thinks so little of the Democratic process that they don’t bother to show up on their own.
His self-described, “potentially transformative” idea of imposing “mandatory voting” comes after a string of upsetting election losses for his party – which suffered from a combination of bad voter turnout and worse Obama policies.
Perhaps it was Tuesday’s win of Obama’s nemesis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that prompted him to speak his tyrannical desires when he addressed a Cleveland civic group Wednesday.
Whatever the trigger was, patriots on Twitter lost no time in calling out Obama’s stinging hypocrisy on mandatory voting. (Read more from this story HERE)
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