Tea Party Fireworks: Speaker Rips McCain, Obama, 'Cult of Multiculturalism' (Tancredo slams McCain)

ABC News ^ | 2010-02-04

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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."

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Ok, now you have totally confused me. Do you, or do you not believe what you wrote:

If the Federal government stops creating vast amounts of new debt then our econoomy will immediately spiral into a major depression.

Your original post (#117) reads as if you believe that line.
Your subsequent posts seem to say that you don't believe it.

Perhaps this would have been a better phrasing:

The current administration believes that if it stops creating vast amounts of new debt then our econoomy will immediately spiral into a major depression. They are wrong.

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Yes, I believe that the nation will spiral into a deep depression if the Federal government stops spending like a drunken sailor.

No, I do not believe that this is the proper solution to the problem. It kicks the can down the road and makes the ultimate prolem worse.

In other words, Keynes was very, very wrong.