Originally Posted By Sport Goofy Not surprisingly, the opening speaker thought that we should go back to the days of Jim Crow and require a "literacy test" for people to vote. <a href="http://rawstory.com/2010/02/tea-party-opening-speaker-suggests-blacks-voting/" target="_blank">http://rawstory.com/2010/02/te...-voting/</a>
Originally Posted By Mr X Wow. Doesn't he realize that would eliminate about 90% of the people he's addressing!?
Originally Posted By andyll He's from my district. I even voted for him once. He actually can be amusing when on the local radio shows. But there is no doubt there's a twinge of racism in him. To a certain degree I think he's outragous because he likes to be in the stoplight.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>because he likes to be in the stoplight.<< Better red than dead, I guess. :-D
Originally Posted By Mr X ***But there is no doubt there's a twinge of racism in him.*** A twinge, eh? That's like saying I have a twinge of liberalism in my opinions.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones The less biased story is here. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/tea-party-fireworks-speaker-tom-tancredo-rips-mccain/story?id=9751718" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/WN/tea-p...=9751718</a> His intent sounds like he wanted to imply that people who voted for Obama were stupid and did not understand government, not that blacks shouldn't vote. The idea is stupid, but don't twist their words and stoop to their level. Their premise fails on its own merit and nobody needs to twist them to make them look worse than they are.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***His intent sounds like he wanted to imply that people who voted for Obama were stupid and did not understand government, not that blacks shouldn't vote.*** You missed the boat, big time. First of all, there's a difference between "stupid" and "undereducated". That'd be point number one. Lots of stupid people vote. But who, in particular, might be undereducated as a group? Yeah...that'd be minorities. And that's exactly the reason they tried the "voting test" crap back in the 50's-60's, to make sure the undereducated folks who might have some issues with spelling and/or completing voting forms or whatever were banned from voting...
Originally Posted By Mr X ***he wanted to imply that people who voted for Obama were stupid and did not understand government*** Are you implying that it's okay to ban "stupid people" and "people who don't understand government" from voting? Note his big finish, where he implies that "they" (that'd be a strong majority of American voters by the way) unknowingly elected a Socialist Nutcase into the White House (and he made it very clear...could he have said HUSSEIN any louder!? Racist piece of crap!).
Originally Posted By DAR <<Are you implying that it's okay to ban "stupid people">> Well................
Originally Posted By Mr X ***<<Are you implying that it's okay to ban "stupid people">> Well................*** Okay then, DAR. I regret to inform you that you are no longer eligible to vote in the state of Wisconsin, per recent stupidity laws profered forthwith, and with the authority of the governor of Wisconsin and the state constitution from which authority is vested. YOU, are the weakest link. Sorry DAR.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< And that's exactly the reason they tried the "voting test" crap back in the 50's-60's, to make sure the undereducated folks who might have some issues with spelling and/or completing voting forms or whatever were banned from voting... >>> It was well before then that this was going on. Attempts to do this began almost immediately after the Civil War was over and blacks became citizens. It's interesting that the notion of keeping the "uneducated" people in the South from voting by way of a literacy test caused an unanticipated number of whites from being excluded as well, thus the original "grandfather clause" was created (i.e. if your grandfather could vote, than so can you regardless of any literacy test). Of course, the irony that in order for the good of the nation, we must keep stupid people from voting, yet we have to devise ways around the stupid test for our own supporters, was lost on them. Much like the irony of the person quoted earlier in this thread that thinks that people that voted for Obama were stupid, yet seems to think that the middle name given to the President when he was born, in completely different world circumstances, has any relevance at all on things today.
