Posted on 02/04/2010 11:01:00 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo Suggests 'Civics, Literacy Test' Would Have Foiled Obama's Election; High-Priced National 'Tea Party' Convention Stirs Debate Among Factions.
BY STEVEN PORTNOY & JOHN BERMAN
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 4, 2010.
The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and "the cult of multiculturalism," asserting that Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."
The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama."
Tancredo did not stop at the Democratic president -- ripping McCain, R-Ariz., the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, for shaping up to be a repeat of "Bush 1 and Bush 2."
"Thank God John McCain lost the election," he said, voicing his belief that McCain would have presided over big budgets and lacked a tough stand against immigration.
Tancredo served 10 years in the House of Representatives and made a name for himself with his ardent opposition to immigration. He believes the 2008 election served to galvanize the right.
"This is our country," he told the crowd. "Let's take it back."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Remember the run on banks about Sept. 15, 2008, money market freeze, and the closed door Congressional briefing.
(Remember, too, that the “main stream” media sort of missed the story about the freeze and run, preferring to play politics.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354820/posts
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/09/fdic-and-bank-run-scare.html
I meant to ping y’all to my post 122
Yep!
But when you combine your Palin flips with this Tancredo comment, it makes you look pretty bad.
What you’re doing in this attack on Tancredo is to completely ignore the principle (his points on the cult of multiculturalism) while attacking the person.
Straight from Alinsky. You wouldn’t hide from that if it were your general motive, would you?
“Tancredo said he’s not endorsing McCain, just “supporting” his general election candidacy.
And what’s the difference? “The distinction is that one implies a little more enthusiasm,” Tancredo said.”
If you learned how to read then you would have discovered that I know Tom, and have known him for many years.
I still like him, but would not support him for any further public office.
Straight from Alinsky. You wouldn’t hide from that if it were your general motive, would you?
All I can say to this is that you're a moron.
No, Alinsky is a moron because he advocated a moronic agenda. He was a leftist. The ideology which denies rational thought.
As for this thread—when a conservative like Tancredo speaks against rinos, other conservatives take note and support him. Fakers try to distract.
Do you know Tom personally? I do. He helped start the homeschool movement here in Colorado. He's been a friend for many, many years.
However, he has gradually changed over the years in his political efforts. The culmination was his support of Bush's $700 billion TARP (a.k.a stimulus) bailout bill.
You like to talk about "rational" thought alot, which is probably where you get your reasonisfaith username.
Ayn Rand is not God. Rationalism is for fools. You prove my point.
Rational thought in general, not any specific kind as attributed to Rand or anyone else.
God gave us reason. Through reason we conduct our lives, every one of us, since the very beginning.
I was merely pointing out the fact that leftists have chosen to deny themselves access to the substance of logic itself, while fraudulently hijacking its form.
What part don't you understand?
The international banks have frozen credit.
Credit is the same as money (with regards to the M1 money supply).
Less credit means less M1 money in our economy.
Less M1 money creates enormous deflationary pressure.
The Federal government is trying to get people to take on new debt through by using incentive programs (cash for clunkers, first-time homebuyers, etc).
The Federal government just announced a $3.8 trillion dollar budget proposal.
All of the Federal government spending, and the spending they're trying to entice the citizenry into, is for the sole purpose of trying to counteract the international bank caused credit destruction.
If the Federal government stops creating vast amounts of new debt then our econoomy will immediately spiral into a major depression.
There was nothing contradictory about my original statement.
Here are the remarks:
That's true...I did write that.
And???
I was wrong in doing so. Yes, of all the Presidential candidates in the running, all of the men were doing what was right in their own eyes. However, there were righteous Christian men that could have run - and should have, instead of having a woman fight their battles for them.
The Bible teaches that the Palin's have some family issues that need to be worked on instead of putting any focus on politics right now.
This is not an attack on Sarah Palin. It's a challenge to Christian men.
How do you explain to someone that Social Security guarantee's you about a 1%-2% return on your money? (Actually, the Congress could vote to cut your bennies if they wanted to). How do you count on that for retirement? Even before Obama, Medicare was some $800 billion in deficit every year.
It might help you in the classroom to get the students to read and discuss the Constitution, then take several programs and spending programs and ask them to give chapter and verse in the Constitution that allows the Feds to do that with our money. You may have to slap them down on "General Welfare" or the "Commerce clause" because the Dems have used those as catch all phrases for decades. If you could just get a few to discover the government has been ignoring their oaths for years, we may turn out some real citizens instead of Bolsheviks.
It's only Keynesian if you believe that this solution will work.
It won't. It only makes our economic problems much worse.
Our Marxist government does believe it will work - or rather, they are deathly afraid of the citizen response when everybody truly figures out the charade that our government has been playing for decades.
We need to stop having our money based on debt. This means getting rid of the Fed and having the US Treasury issue our currency (if we desire to have a national currency).
If the Treasury issued our money, new money would still be created whenever someone takes out a loan.
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