Southern Bread

So we can finally cut out all the talk of Obama being post-partisan. In a crystal clear example of partisan thuggery, Obama and Eric Holder have stomped all over the rights of a North Carolina town and said they can’t remove party labels from their ballots:

KINSTON, N.C. | Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.

The Justice Department’s ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their “candidates of choice” – identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.

–Ben Conery, Wash. Times

Pardon my french, but what the hell makes the Federal Government, and especially the executive branch think that they have any jurisdiction over the elections of a small town in North Carolina. I haven’t seen such a clear violation of state sovereignty in a long, long time. And beyond that, I hope this finally puts a stop to all the ridiculous nonsense about Obama being post-partisan. If Obama’s post-partisan then Dick Cheney is anti-war.