Welcome to the Age of Obama… where brandishing weapons at polling locations on election day is perfectly acceptable… if you’re supporting the right candidate.

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

And as a reminder of what this case was about, and what the Obama Justice Department apparently considers appropriate polling location conduct:

Here’s an affidavit from one eyewitness, who at one time was a civil rights lawyer and activist in the 1960s.

For example, I heard the shorter man make a statement directed toward a white poll observer that “you are about to be ruled by a black man, cracker.”

Honestly, I’m less worried about these militant morons playing dress-up on election day than I am about them possibly spitting in my hamburger when I come through the McDonalds drive-thru. I wonder if the short dude was Hope or Change.