Obama: Our Democracy Will Fall Apart If We Treat Elections This Way Moving Forward

EXCERPT:

OBAMA: “So, you imagine the Super Bowl and, you know, the game’s going on and touchdowns are supposed to be worth six points with the extra point, unless you go for two, and field goals are worth three points, and you’re keeping score the whole time, and there are refs and so forth, and at the end of the game a team’s won and somebody says, 'No! Field goals aren’t worth three,' or 'That wasn’t really a touchdown.'"
COLBERT: "Hugo Chavez kept blocking the field goal from the grave!"
OBAMA: "We’ve all been watching. And I guess if you had — the other people just refused to acknowledge it and you had half the league say, 'We’re not sure it’s true,' you would have a similar controversy. But when that starts happening, the game itself breaks down, and in this case it’s not a game, it's our democracy, our democracy starts falling apart. Imagine if, going forward, every single election is treated this way at every level. Imagine if Democrats start acting this way."