President Obama gets ID’d while early voting in Chicago

President Barack Obama was the victim of a racist scheme to stop the first African American President from voting for himself in Chicago yesterday. Upon arriving at his local polling place to early vote, the President was asked by an election official to see his ID before receiving his ballot.

Granted, the election official was black and she was just following Illinois law, which requires Illinoians wishing to take advantage of early voting, including the President, to show ID. But don’t they know he is? He’s the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. How DARE they ask him for ID! RACISM!

Just kidding.

Anyone who saw the video can see for themselves that none of those things are true. The President was procedurally asked for his ID, which he provided in good nature, telling the poll worker, “Now ignore the fact that there’s no gray hair in that picture.”

After Obama was done voting the poll worker took an extra long look at Obama’s driver’s license just for kicks.

See, now that wasn’t so dreadful after all, was it?

(h/t Buzzfeed Politics):

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By /// October 26, 2012
Francesca Chambers About Francesca Chambers

Francesca is the Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard. She is also a contributor to The Washington Examiner.

Francesca is a veteran of several political campaigns and political organizations. She has also worked in new media and communications at The Leadership Institute, at the Republican National Committee and on Capitol Hill. She has been featured as a speaker at Leadership Institute, Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit," the State Policy Network's annual conference and CPAC, in addition to appearing as a regular guest on the "Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann on Russia Today.

She has also appeared on ABC's "Nightline", PBS' 'NewsHour', PBS' "To the Contrary", MSNBC, CNN, on TheBlazeTV (aka Glenn Beck TV) and had radio segments on Take Action News with David Shuster, NPR and "The Michael Koolidge Show."

In 2012 she was named to the DC GOP's first ever "35 under 35" list.

Francesca graduated from the University of Kansas with BAs in Political Science and Journalism. At KU she was an editor of the University Daily Kansan and an active member of Student Senate.

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