Joe Biden Boosts Voting Rights ... As If Historical Democrat Opposition To Voting And Other Minority Constitutional Civil Rights Never Happened

I was amused by the MSNBC article today, "On MLK Day, Biden Boosts Voting Rights", for two reasons.

First, Democrats historically opposed(!) voting rights for minorities and it was Republicans who historically created and passed such legislation close to 100%. Democrats were still voting in big numbers against voting rights acts less than 60 years ago ... on the 1957 Voting Rights Act for example. It wasn't until the 1960's that Democrats began supporting voting rights in a significant way. And it wasn't until the 2007 Voting Rights Act that Democrats finally caught up with Republicans in the percentage of votes supporting it. Now they talk as if they're the ones who invented this civil right (and others). Go figure.

Second, what far too many uninformed Americans don't know is that Democrat opposition to minorities' constitutional civil rights wasn't limited to the area of voting rights. Contrary to their 'leadership' claim on the party website history page they historically opposed all major constitutional minority rights efforts. It was Republicans who created and passed the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments to the Constitution. Democrats opposed them all, nearly 100% in most cases. They defeated Women's Voting Rights bills three times until the 19th Amendment was finally passed by a Republican-controlled congress. And it was Democrats who filibustered(!) against and had twice the percentage of no votes (as Republicans) on MLK's landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Which makes Vice President Biden's support of voting rights on MLK day as ironic as it is welcome.

Here are a couple of references regarding the truth of this matter if you're interested:
Kevin Williamson's 2012 article.
My historical summary.

The Truth About The Unemployment Numbers. It's Not What You Hear From The Media

President Obama once again bragged about his economic policies having created 8 million jobs. Sounds good, eh? Problem is, over 10 million Americans have given up looking for work during his terms in office. Even a child in elementary school can do the math. That's a net decrease in employment of 2 million Americans on Obama's watch!

How come the unemployment rate has dropped under 7% during Obama's terms in office? Because 10 million Americans have given up looking for work. The 'unemployment rate' can decrease due to either net jobs added or people leaving the workforce and therefore no longer being counted as unemployed. (Ref. The Truth ...)

The truth is, if there were as many people in the workforce or looking for work now as there were in 2007 the unemployment rate today would be over 11%. Indeed, the labor utilization rate (the percentage of Americans employed or looking for work) is 63% ... a 34-year low! The employment picture hasn't been this bad since President Carter's policies did pretty much the same thing. (Ref. The Truth ...)

Making matters even worse is that a large percentage of jobs created by Obama's policies have been part-time. For example, through the first seven months of last year 77% of jobs created were part-time! That leads to what's called 'underemployment'. Factor in underemployment and the unemployment rate is 14.3% and it continues increasing. (Ref. The Truth ...)

Another truth the Media and this Administration don't want to talk about is that most of the real (ie, good-paying full-time) jobs were created in Republican-led states via Republican pro-growth policies. Democrat policies at the national and state levels had nothing to do with that and instead have been killing jobs all across our country.

Read The Truth: America's Unemployment Stats They Don't Want You To Know for the above information and even more really bad news that I haven't shared here.