"Sen. Barack Obama on Friday demanded the Justice Department fire one of its officials over remarks made about elderly minorities not aging like white Americans, because they die first. Pointing to comments made by Voting Section Chief John Tanner at a Los Angeles event earlier this month, Obama called the language "erroneous, offensive, and dangerous." ....It seems that Tanner is Left-leaning but even Left-leaning officials are not allowed to speak the truth about minority life expectations, apparently.
In a letter directed to Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler, Obama on Friday pointed to one portion of Tanner's comments as evidence that voter ID restrictions "do not disenfranchise minorities, and in fact they actually benefit minorities." "Our society is such that minorities don't become elderly the way white people do; they die first," Tanner said.
"There are inequities in health care," Tanner continued. "There are a variety of inequities in this country. And so anything that disproportionately impacts the elderly has the opposite impact on minorities; just the math is such as that."
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Mr. Obama would do well to repair the policies of his church before throwing stones at others.
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