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Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/8/2010 9:39:07 PM   
jlf1961


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Status: offline 		former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. said in his speech to the Tea Party Convention that President Obama won because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote."

He continued to say, "People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House."

The literacy tests of which he spoke about during his speech this week were actually once used in our country's history in South to prevent blacks from voting.

The problem with such tests are that they are illegal in the US, and most adults could not pass them given the lack in depth civics courses in the American school system.

All in all, he was applauded for his comments which have racial overtones in American history, as recent as 1965 in fact.

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/8/2010 9:40:09 PM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/8/2010 11:37:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tancredo said something racist? I'm shocked, shocked.

Tea Party convention goers applauded a racist speech? I'm shocked, shocked.

I'll just go count my winnings now.

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/8/2010 11:56:11 PM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 3:18:59 AM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 5:30:09 AM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 5:41:12 AM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 5:57:31 AM   
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Did you make most of that up, or just pull it from a source so ridiculous you're too embarrassed to include a link.


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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. said in his speech to the Tea Party Convention that President Obama won because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote."

He continued to say, "People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House."

The literacy tests of which he spoke about during his speech this week were actually once used in our country's history in South to prevent blacks from voting.

The problem with such tests are that they are illegal in the US, and most adults could not pass them given the lack in depth civics courses in the American school system.

All in all, he was applauded for his comments which have racial overtones in American history, as recent as 1965 in fact.


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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 5:59:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

You know, if conservatives really want to require people to pass an intelligence test in order to be eligible to vote, I say go ahead - make my day. Goodbye Tea Party, hello 3 generations of unopposed Democratic governence.



You beat me to it.

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:00:33 AM   
Sanity


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This is kind of funny. First poor julia the victim Lib says,

quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Jim Crow all over again... the bastards


Then her friend the hateful Nazi "kill all the Republicans" Lib says,

quote:

ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

You know, if conservatives really want to require people to pass an intelligence test in order to be eligible to vote, I say go ahead - make my day. Goodbye Tea Party, hello 3 generations of unopposed Democratic governence.



What are the odds that the victim Lib's gonna call the Nazi Lib a bastard for saying the exact same thing Tom Tancredo was alleged to have said.

?


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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:28:33 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Sanity


Did you make most of that up, or just pull it from a source so ridiculous you're too embarrassed to include a link.


quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. said in his speech to the Tea Party Convention that President Obama won because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote."

He continued to say, "People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House."

The literacy tests of which he spoke about during his speech this week were actually once used in our country's history in South to prevent blacks from voting.

The problem with such tests are that they are illegal in the US, and most adults could not pass them given the lack in depth civics courses in the American school system.

All in all, he was applauded for his comments which have racial overtones in American history, as recent as 1965 in fact.




Here is your link, as you requested Full Article

Considering how well the statements were covered on cspan, and have brought up discussions on some of the news networks, I really didnt think anyone would have actually missed it.

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:37:46 AM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:51:10 AM   
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Rush did not cover it, so to Sanity it is not news 



Oh, CUSSED!!! Nice .

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:54:48 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Sanity


This is kind of funny. First poor julia the victim Lib says,

quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Jim Crow all over again... the bastards


Then her friend the hateful Nazi "kill all the Republicans" Lib says,

quote:

ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

You know, if conservatives really want to require people to pass an intelligence test in order to be eligible to vote, I say go ahead - make my day. Goodbye Tea Party, hello 3 generations of unopposed Democratic governence.



What are the odds that the victim Lib's gonna call the Nazi Lib a bastard for saying the exact same thing Tom Tancredo was alleged to have said.

?




Alleged?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-7hlUgCIXo

Hardly alleged

Same idiot who claimed waterboarding was not torture and that all non-christians should leave the US. THIS is your national Tea Party people.

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:58:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, this rather concerns me, because the bulk of the Tea Party folks couldn't pass that sort of test.

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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 6:59:54 AM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 7:06:09 AM   
Sanity


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LOL, well if Madcow says it it must be true... 

Just joking. In reality, Liberals also call for literacy testing to much applause (see the Nazi Lib's post above for just one example of this). And one person saying it isn't "the national tea party people" as you say, its one person.

Not like you'd ever let facts get in the way of your belief system though...


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Alleged?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-7hlUgCIXo

Hardly alleged

Same idiot who claimed waterboarding was not torture and that all non-christians should leave the US. THIS is your national Tea Party people.


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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 7:08:00 AM   
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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 7:14:00 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Sanity


This is kind of funny. First poor julia the victim Lib says,

quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Jim Crow all over again... the bastards


Then her friend the hateful Nazi "kill all the Republicans" Lib says,

quote:

ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda

You know, if conservatives really want to require people to pass an intelligence test in order to be eligible to vote, I say go ahead - make my day. Goodbye Tea Party, hello 3 generations of unopposed Democratic governence.



What are the odds that the victim Lib's gonna call the Nazi Lib a bastard for saying the exact same thing Tom Tancredo was alleged to have said.

?



Oh Sanity... projecting your inner bile on liberals again..... It is all so Freudian


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RE: Tea Party speaker calls for voter literacy tests - 2/9/2010 7:16:56 AM   
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quote:

Tom Tancredo,
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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Did you make most of that up, or just pull it from a source so ridiculous you're too embarrassed to include a link.


quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. said in his speech to the Tea Party Convention that President Obama won because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote."

He continued to say, "People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House."

The literacy tests of which he spoke about during his speech this week were actually once used in our country's history in South to prevent blacks from voting.

The problem with such tests are that they are illegal in the US, and most adults could not pass them given the lack in depth civics courses in the American school system.

All in all, he was applauded for his comments which have racial overtones in American history, as recent as 1965 in fact.



Snipped from the Washington Post
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/02/tom_tancredo_and_right-wing_co.html

quote:

Here is Tancredo’s opening: First, we should have a “civics literacy test” before people are allowed to vote. Second, “People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.” Convention organizer Judson Phillips helpfully explained that "Tancredo doesn't feel like a lot of people who supported Barack Obama understand the basics of this country."






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