Oct 07 2008
Is It True?
When I was a little boy my father taught me how to play chess. I don’t believe he ever let me win (because I never won). This fact doesn’t make me feel angry, bad, or bitter. My father’s intentions, and we have discussed them as adults, were to make me strong, make me try harder, to help me avoid giving up, and to not be a victim. There’s no shame in losing as long as you tried your best and didn’t give up.
Cheating was unacceptable by your opponent and unacceptable for me to use as a tactic. It’s a hollow victory, meaningless, and shameful. I’d rather not play.
I don’t need false victories, I need to know that in order to win I need to be the best one on the field—using skills, experience, and my mind. I don’t need to be the biggest body in the fight to be the victor.
It’s not the size of the man in the fight, but the size of the fight in the man…
I’ve never liked playing a game that I am let to win nor felt victory by cheating. I’d rather lose knowing I tried, I’d rather not play, if the field is not level…
I only have two sources for this story (one reporting and the second reporting on it) Isn’t it outrageous? Is this what it has come to? I don’t think I want to play anymore…
CLEVELAND — Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.
The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state’s elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.
Republicans have argued that the window could lead to widespread voter fraud because officials wouldn’t have an opportunity to verify registration information before ballots were cast.
Among the volunteers were Yori Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer of the Upper West Side, who got married last week and decided to spend their honeymoon shepherding voters to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Early today, Stadlin’s van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.
“I never voted before,” Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. “Without this service, I would have had no way to get here.”
More of the same from Slublog: Push Polled
Nice! Voter Fraud Raid
Las Vegas headquarters of ACORN, nation’s largest low-income activist group, raided by Nevada officials suspecting voter fraud — including using names of Dallas Cowboys…
ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe
by Oskar Garcia
Nevada authorities seized records Tuesday from a group they accused of submitting fraudulent voter-registration forms — including for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
“Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won’t be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4,” said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team.
By Michelle Malkin: The ACORN/Obama thug thizzle; new: Ohio grills ACORN workers
I filed the column before authorities had released those outrageous details of how “lazy crackheads” at a local prison climbed up the ACORN ladder. In other new developments, the Cuyahoga County Election Board has just grilled ACORN members suspected of more fraud:
In one case, a Cleveland resident was registered to vote three times in a single day, listing two different addresses…The man’s registration was submitted to the Board of Elections by ACORN. The board discussed several other cases of multiple registrations at their meeting. ACORN was involved in each case, although not for all entries by the same individuals…Board Member Robert Frost said the group failed to follow guidelines in its own manual to turn over suspected voter fraud to law enforcement to investigate. Election officials subpoenaed three voters to appear before the Board next week to explain their multiple registrations.
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