One of the most moronic series of events I’ve ever seen. Barack Obama’s team held a press conference today, in which they announced that they are seeking an injunction to block tactics that a left-wing publication is claiming the Michigan GOP will use.

But James Carabelli, chairman of the Macomb County Republican Party, said Thursday it was all a fabrication — that he never told a reporter the GOP plans to use poll challengers to block residents with foreclosed homes from voting in November…

An article in the Michigan Messenger, a left-leaning political news Web site, appeared Wednesday titled: “Lose your house, lose your vote.” In it, reporter Eartha Jane Melzer quoted Carabelli discussing the Macomb County Republican Party’s plans for Election Day.

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” the quote attributed to him reads.

Carabelli, however, told The Detroit News on Thursday that “I never said anything even close to that. We won’t be doing voter challenges on foreclosures, and we’ve never had a plan to do it.”

Michigan Messenger is a nonprofit funded by a variety of liberal organizations, according to The Detriot News. The only evidence that the Michigan GOP will use those tactics is the Michigan Messenger’s claim that Carabelli told a liberal organization about GOP strategy for November. Do Party chairs usually go around telling left-wing publications about the Party’s blackhat tactics?

Jobs with Justice organizer Bill Bryce issued a statement of his own, saying: “First they stole our homes and now they are trying to steal our votes. We won’t stand for it.”

“They” stole your homes? WTF are you even talking about, Bryce? The Michigan GOP stole your homes? Good Lord.

No one can explain to me how such a tactic would be effective or, again, why a GOP chair would be telling a liberal publication about blackhat tactics.

If the goal is to disenfranchise black voters — as suggested in a headline on the Michigan Messenger Web site — using foreclosure lists wouldn’t make much sense, according to one community activist. More than 91 percent of the population is white, while African-Americans make up 2.7 percent and Asian/Pacific Islanders make up 2.1 percent…

Foreclosure could make a voter ineligible in a precinct if he or she has moved to a location outside the area more than 60 days prior. But a list of foreclosures would not necessarily provide poll watchers with all the information they need. Someone who has been foreclosed on may still be living in the home or they might have relocated to another residence inside the same voting district.

That’s one of several reasons Republican officials at the state level believe the Michigan Messenger article is off-base.

Ya think?