President Obama Hits The GOP, Takes His Voting Rights Message To The People

Using Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference as a platform, President Obama slammed the GOP for their recent voter restricting efforts.

pres obama NANOn Friday, President Obama appeared at the White House to announce the resignation of Secretary of  the Health and Human Services Department, Kathleen Sebelius. You’d think healthcare would be on his mind all day. Instead, hours later, he was talking about voting rights at the National Action Network annual conference.

The conference, an event hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton’s civil rights organization, was certainly an appropriate place to broach the topic. And the way he used his speech to present the topic is actually one that will extend beyond the Sheraton ballroom where he delivered it.

“I thought we settled this 50 years ago,” the President said at one point, making sure to tie the recent

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