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Posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010 In a speech that was perhaps shockingly predictable, Republican congressman Tom Tancredo suggested in his opening speech at the Tea Party convention that old school literacy tests should be brought back to prevent people like President Obama from ever being elected again. Such tests, outlawed by the 1965 voting rights act, were notorious for disenfranchising black and other minority voters.http://rawstory.com/2010/02/tea-party-opening-speaker-suggests-blacks-voting/ Ah the Tea Party, where they party like its 1899. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 20:54:42 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. You should watch Arianna Cuntington on MSNBC complaining about Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emanuel. If an active elected official had used the word "retard" or "retarded", then Cuntington would have a valid argument.Do you interpret "Take our country back", as a call to white people get out and vote before tenemos que hablar espanol? Kind of a rallying cry? Is that how you see it? Giving Palin $100,000 to speak was a big mistake. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sat Feb 6 20:56:34 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 20:54:42 2010. She didn't take the money sans her expenses |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 6 20:57:53 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. I'm completely in favor of it. By requiring simple literacy on the part of voters, the republican party is done. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 20:59:32 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Train Dude on Sat Feb 6 20:56:34 2010. Well, I still don't want her around right now. She quit her job, wrote a book, and took a job with Fox News. I believe the Tea Party denied Michael Steele a chance to speak at one of their earlier rallies, so it does not look good that she gets to be the star tonight. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 21:04:00 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 6 20:57:53 2010. The Democrats would not do much better either. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 6 21:28:36 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 21:04:00 2010. I say ... that's a joke, son ...
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Feb 6 21:32:24 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 20:59:32 2010. I believe the Tea Party denied Michael Steele a chance to speak at one of their earlier rallies,Michael Steele is not held in high regard by tea partiers, as are many high GOP officials. Again, the Tea Party is not a GOP organization. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:14 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. The title of this thread is ironic. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:14 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. The title of this thread is ironic. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:39 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:14 2010. I guess that was the point... |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:55 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:14 2010. Double post! |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Feb 6 21:34:55 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010.  |
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Posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sat Feb 6 22:20:01 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 21:34:55 2010. You know Easy you're our Tom Foolerer in here.You can easily take both sides in any argument! You alright! EaSy does it! |
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Posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 6 22:28:45 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Feb 6 21:04:00 2010. Be careful what you ask for. The teabaggers would come in dead last. 
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 6 22:32:51 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sat Feb 6 22:20:01 2010. ??have you ever met easy in person Mr Mabstoa ? well i have on several occasions and he is a very nice person ! you should get to know easy 1st before you judge him ahem |
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Posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 6 22:34:24 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Feb 6 21:32:24 2010. The "tea party" is not *any* sort of an organization. This "convention" is the brain (SIC) child of some profiteers. They only got 500+ to pay up. That's barely enough cash to rent the room. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 22:38:49 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sat Feb 6 22:20:01 2010. !!!!;) |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 22:41:08 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 6 22:32:51 2010. Thanks Salaam. Mabstoa is just having fun. He's cool. |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 6 22:51:32 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 22:41:08 2010. yea easy !at 1st he is cool then look out ........... |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Feb 6 22:55:34 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 6 22:34:24 2010. Perhaps it was the advertising ...
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Posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sat Feb 6 22:59:42 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 6 22:51:32 2010. Is that what you think of me Brother from Mosque #7?Don't you travel, from the East? |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 6 23:00:38 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sat Feb 6 22:59:42 2010. now you were a muslim in mosque #7 ?when proof proff |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Sat Feb 6 23:15:46 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. If they put literacy tests back in order to be eligible to vote, texas would fall into the democrats hands... |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 23:19:46 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. They should put geography tests instead. Ask people to find DC, Ohio, and Wyoming on a map. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Feb 6 23:57:16 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Feb 6 21:34:55 2010. What do you expect from The Raw Story? |
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Posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sun Feb 7 00:03:41 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Feb 6 23:00:38 2010. 1993I still have my my Quran. The Meanings of the Glorious Quran by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sun Feb 7 00:05:56 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Mr Mabstoa on Sun Feb 7 00:03:41 2010. i have the muhammad ali version / and yusef ali versions |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 7 00:07:24 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sun Feb 7 00:05:56 2010. how old were you when you changed your name to salaam allah? |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 7 00:09:03 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. How can the Huffington Post write a story about an "Honor Killing" in Turkey and not mention religion? |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sun Feb 7 00:09:40 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 7 00:07:24 2010. i was 29 in 1980 when i changed my name from john shabazz tosalaam al wali al haqq wahid allah |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 7 00:10:59 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. Haha, The Raw Story aka The Left Story. I see they (and others) inserted a comma that should not be there, in between the words "civics" and "literacy". The other leftist sites (Democratic Underground, Think Progress, Media Matters, Arianna's website) are all on fire over the "civics literacy test"; and one of those sites did have a suggestion that I agree with (from the comments section), that politicians themselves ought to be subject to testing of their civics literacy.Besides, being tested on one's civics literacy can be dangerous, because one can have knowledge of the system while using said knowledge to subvert the system; therefore, you'd have far-rightists or far-leftists voting for candidates that would turn the country in a truly radical direction. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 7 00:12:03 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 7 00:09:03 2010. Aw c'mon. You know that people like that regard leftist "news" reporting to be beyond reproach . . . |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Feb 7 00:25:49 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Easy on Sat Feb 6 23:19:46 2010. And their own location. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 00:30:51 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Feb 7 00:25:49 2010. Yes, that too! |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Feb 7 00:31:14 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by ClearAspect on Sat Feb 6 23:15:46 2010. Not to mention Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and etc. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 7 00:36:44 2010, in response to Re: Tancredo says institute "civics literacy" tests to vote, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 7 00:10:59 2010. Yep ... best to get one's literacy from truly CREDIBLE sources ... "We'll be right back after this message from Jesus ..." :) |
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Posted by Dave on Sun Feb 7 07:12:22 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by bingbong on Sat Feb 6 22:28:45 2010. I was expecting Unca Kevin to say that was a Republican fat cat.... *g* |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 08:53:25 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. the survey results of those who voted for him were predictable. and embarrassing.Forget literacy, how about remembering how many branches of government there are or even how to spell democrat. |
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Posted by bingbong on Sun Feb 7 08:55:33 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by WillD on Sun Feb 7 00:31:14 2010. Yep. :-) |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 09:12:48 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by bingbong on Sun Feb 7 08:55:33 2010. On the bright side, NY and Mass would no longer have any reps. Finally no more rangel and schumer messing everything up.Homeschooled kids always win the spelling bees, and I can't find a letter written in any type of english coming from those states since I've been doing my present job for a while. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 09:16:44 2010, in response to Re: Tancredo says institute "civics literacy" tests to vote, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 7 00:10:59 2010. 60 min always makes the suggestion that there should be tests to vote. Have never seen a controversy yet.I'll feature one full of white people this time for our sensative posters. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Feb 7 09:40:23 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 08:53:25 2010. I suppose you can cite these surveys---and prove that these people were not acting. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 09:53:46 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Feb 7 09:40:23 2010. I'd suggest you can do you're own at the mall, however, I have no proof or citation that you have the mental capacity to administer such a test.Considering the amount of times you've asked for a source of a story when the source and/or link was the first line. To be terse, as you don't understand how to read the format of print news, why waste my time citing things I can hear on the street and everybody knows? |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Sun Feb 7 10:29:06 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 09:53:46 2010. The reason why I have asked for a source is because the original claim is based on something that can't be proven...such as is the case here.In addition, it's unconstitutional to require a literacy test. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Feb 7 12:03:53 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Feb 6 23:57:16 2010. Originality? |
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Posted by chicagomotorman on Sun Feb 7 12:11:46 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. I don't necessarily agree with Tom Tancredo with everything he says. I do agree with and appreciate his stance on illegal immigration. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Feb 7 12:19:41 2010, in response to Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Jersey Mike on Sat Feb 6 20:02:55 2010. I would support the ban being repealed if states would administer a uniform test. Because we all know that the business of elections is infected with partisanship, I have no confidence that would in fact happen. You'd just have the dominant party cutting down its enemies at the polls.Also, to the extent that the charge that President Obama was elected by elites and upper class folk is correct, it should be recalled that those individuals tend to have higher IQs and thus to be better test takers, so Mr. Tancredo would be quite wrong. All that said, it was an amazingly stupid thing for Mr. Tancredo to say. So much for the organizers of this Tea Party convention who said that they'd eliminate the 'crazies' - they missed one, and he shot them all in the foot. |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Sun Feb 7 13:27:41 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Feb 7 09:12:48 2010. You don't count the NY Times |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 7 15:58:06 2010, in response to Re: Tea Party Sayz Bring Back Litteracy Tests to Vote, posted by Dave on Sun Feb 7 07:12:22 2010. Sometimes, they just write themselves. Talk to the hand ... :)
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