It's not racist. If you can't read well enough on the issues to make an informed vote, you're canceling out the vote of someone who can read well enough to be properly informed. It has nothing to do with skin color.
Yeah you stupid commie liberals. . . Advocating jim crow era voting restraints isn't racist. its like you think the constitution protects everyone or something.
These damn hispanic pieces of shit need to get out of my damn country!!!
Thank god for the Republicans they have been able to destroy these hispanic rats dreams of taking from the white man and living off the hard work of whites!!
No more handouts for lazy BLACKS and spics off the back of the white man's hard work!!
Nothing at all racist about his speech . . . just saying it like it is . . . the current president is a socialist - and there should be a civics exam / passing grade requirement for the privilege to vote. Cheers.
I don't see anything racist about this speach. If you can't read English you shouldn't be able to vote. If anything, it's racist to suggest that other races can't read. If I was Hispanic, I wouldn't want illiterates voting, nor would I appreciate you insinuating that I can't read because of my race.
If you are denied the right to vote then you should not have to pay taxes. Zero taxes for people who cant vote since they dont have a stake in this country. If that has been stripped from them then they should pay zero taxes.
is it REALLY that racist to assume he's talking mainly about non-whites being illiterate? do you REALLY think he believes illiterate white people voted in masses for Obama? I think they voted yellow and went with whatever had an R next to it. And not speaking English? How is that not racist against everyone who doesn't speak English and lives well in a country with NO official language?
Oh, the truth just HURTS you ignorant liberal, anti-American commies, doesn't it? No one cares about your dumb race card anymore. The more you use it, the more you prove that you've lost the debate. next...
Apparently the YouTuber that posted this video thinks black and brown people are all a bunch of illiterates, hence literacy laws are necessarily aimed at THEM. Who is the real racist here? LMFAO!
Why do these race whiners only point the finger of blame in one direction? What about all these Mexican groups pushing THEIR racial agenda in the immigration debate? Where is the white equivalent of LA RAZA getting visits by presidents and presidential candidates at their conventions?
The US has no national language. Also if anyone cannot see that this politician is making references to minorities than you are a completely horrible person. Read your history books about how voting was legalized for African American men but they had to take literacy tests in order to vote. Even poor white men were locked out of the voting privilege. Please read about what happen after the Reconstruction Era people before you start siding with this man here.
Where is the racism again?? Seriously, are we really scraping bottom of the barrel stuff to make us feel good and satisified that we have proven to ourselves that Tea Party participants are scum of the earth based on 42 seconds on pretty non inflammatory speech by someone who lives in a country whose national language IS english?
I agree, If we had a test the Repub party would be out of business since the stock and trade is to use the masses of uninformed people to support policies of a small wealthy class. If you recall from the demographic maps the states with the populations of higher educated residents lean liberal.
@SteelMartini I have seen gallup polls that lean democratic after 8 years of Bush but none that lean liberal? The Liberal democrats have chased many democrats away to register as Independants, just as RINO Republicans have. The deciding votes lean on Independants & with liberal administration that has continued the unpopular policies of Bush it doesn't look good for democrats!
@joe035 I think if you look at the record and policies of past republican presidents, say Nixon or Reagan, they would look like RINOs to today's conservatives. The country has been steadily drifting right over the years to the point where Palin almost seems normal in the conservative mix.
@SteelMartini Justice Stevens claimed the same thing. I think to excuse his behavior as a biased judge. Liberals today are a perversion of what they once were so perhaps it isn't so much people are going to the right as they are just running like hell to get away from liberals, proggressives or whatever they want to call themselves.
@joe035 Just look at Nixon or Reagans records. We are being taken over by corporations, they are gaining more power over the state and private sector. We are becoming a fascist state.
@SteelMartini that is just as insane. We are not becoming a fascist state, we are a corporate state where the rich control the government and we've been like this since we were formed 234 years ago. It's just that now Corporations have considerably more power than they have ever had and with the latest supreme court decision, they own our country. These Tea Party morons whine about welfare, social security and medicare when they should be at Fox News' main office shitting on their heads.
@jesuspuncher Is the definition of fascism a corporate and government merger?
Most people in the government come from and return to the corporate world. I view them as modern day kingdoms or fiefdoms in which behind today's corporations are a very few persons or famalies, the richest 1%. CEOs and Execs are the members of the Kings court.
@SteelMartini it's the other way around, fascism is government control of business not business controlling the government. Business has controlled our government since it's inception, the rich are our Lords and Dukes but now the corporations have too much power and they must be put in check.
@jesuspuncher Actually I think it's a merger. In Dr. Lawrence Britt's "The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism", #9 says: "Corporate power is protected. The industrial and business aristrocracy of a fascist nation are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. " Exactly what we have here. BTW this video is spot on. Tancredo is a racist pig and a fascist. #3 exposes him for what a lying bastard he is.
I see no racism at all in this video. Whether you like or dislike what Tom is saying is another thing that does not mean racism. People who hate the tea party movement want to see them as racists. Just because they don't like Obama, does not mean their racists. Gosh I am so sick of hearing racism racism. Get over it.
@cccrh They cannot combat the truth, so there best chance of saving face is to discredit it. Most of these liberals don't even look into our financial mess other then what liberal media informs them of. We got a Federal tax break this year, but there spending money we don't have & our unfunded obligations to SSI & babyboomers are coming due with NO GOVT preperations.
Nothing wrong with this speech. All his points are true. If you were not a medical professional would you go into a hospital and vote for who should be the supervising doctor?? Of course not. they would all say " who are you to vote when you don't know the ins and outs of this hospital"? Or go to Mexico and vote if you didn't speak Spanish and understand what each candidate was standing for??? And if you haven't noticed Obama is a socialist bent on wrecking America.
What is racist about that. I am white and had to prove I could read before I could register to vote. Too much political correctnes BS The damn socialists and their lies.
That's not entirely true. You may not be aware of this, but Senator Everett Dirksen, a Republican Senator of Illinois actually wrote the Civil Rights Act. All you ever heard was that Lyndon Johnson signed it. Well, that's true. But he signed it into law, and yet, history shows that his motives were politically driven as opposed to morally inspired. But this always seems to happen. Republicans do something good and Dems get the credit because they are in the position to do so..
RWC - You know some dumb people. Almost everyone I know is literate...and some voted from Obama and others for McCain. Since you claim you can read and seem to cite history, why don't you read the US constitution and tell me where it says citizenship rights require a literacy test? And if people you know don't know how to read, write, spell - be a gracious and patriotic citizen...volunteer your time to make them more literate...
The point Tancredo was trying to make is that those completely ignorant of our history and how this country works put Obama in the White House. Nobody said anything about race. BTW, Democrat politicians did that to blacks back then (do the research for yourself and you'll find this out for yourself), and also remember, this is not the 1950's. What he was saying was true. Most of the people I know who voted for Obama cannot even spell correctly or make complete sentences... and they're white too.
Because almost all Tea Party members are white the great majority of their ancestors came from Europe, with a large percentage from Continental Europe, & those could not read English. The U.S. never imposed an English literacy test on them as a requirement to vote, but their Tea Party descendants applauded Tancredo's anti-immigrant rant which was also shamefully reminiscent of the Jim Crow era of the South which used literacy tests to prevent most blacks from voting.
he is referring to Mexicans not speaking the language and blacks being illiterate and voting for that black president. The funniest thing about his civics test ideal is that 100% of the Teabagger and Birther crowd would fail ANY test, they are all blithering idiots.
@joe035 The Tea Party is about how mad these old white people are about having a black president and having to pay taxes. In the most recent poll of Tea Party members, 98% did not know that under Obama their taxes went down, 100% thought that America had the highest taxes of economically development nations when in actually the US has the second lowest. Basically these people are Fox News stooges that know nothing but like being mad for the cameras.
@jesuspuncher Who took the poll? Federal income taxes did go down, but the signs I saw were in relation to deficit spending, creation of more govt programs & bank bailouts. It's interesting that it started under Bush to Big to Fail & continues under Obama? The only black guy I've seen beaten up & called names was by SEIU thugs. You don't think 65 trillion in UNFUNDED SSI/Medicaire obligations or a billion a day in interest on debt warrants criticism?
@joe035 The poll was done at the big tea party rally . Of course government spending should be scrutinized but you and your teabagger little brains have no idea what you are talking about . Social Security is owed trillions from the US government because all the surpluses were loaned to the US government. Social Security is fine in it's current form for another 40 years. It's wasted money on the military industrial complex that is bankrupting this country both financially and morally.
@jesuspuncher Gallup?, Rasmussen? I've seen no poll, sounds more like liberal propaganda? PROVE IT! LBJ a democrat put SSI into a general fund! SSI was supposed to be a VOLUNTARY program under FDR! Dems eliminated the SSI tax deduction! Dems under Clinton tax SSI annuities! Jimmy Carter made funds available to immigrants age 65 who never paid into it! Obama has DONE NOTHING to save it. Liberals say Repubs want to take SSI away, when there the ones who destroyed it! Prove me wrong??
@joe035 Really? you cant take 2 seconds and type " Tea Party Poll Taxes" into google? Only 2% of these retards thought taxes went down and their big bitch is TAXES. Moron, you know nothing, you are completely misinformed with Fox News Propaganda. When you are as dumb as you are, you shouldn't speak or voice your opinion because at least when you keep your stupid mouth shut, people will not be certain of your blithering idiocy. Politics is not a game of "My side is always right". Grow up moron.
@jesuspuncher LOL I asked for an UNBIASED poll, not the liberal spin machine you call CBS.Thanks for proving my point about liberal propaganda! I'm the moron yet you cannot offer me anything viable to defend your arguements. Just vague generalizations, Reference me where Social Security is fine in its current form for another 40 years?? The truth is what should matter, so prove me wrong.
@joe035 Retard, ANY poll I quote is in your eyes biased and from this magical "liberal media". You are an idiot and any report even from the CBO will be in your eyes made up from liberal evildoers. You do not understand that your source of information is misinformation so you think you are right when you are 100% wrong. Nothing will change your idiot mind because facts and reality are not part of your Fox News fantasyland. You are too stupid to vote, please don't.
@jesuspuncher Google CBS bias!! You'll find plenty of sources! Again I ask you for a credible poll? You're the one who can't provide facts & you call me dumb? PROVE the Tea Party is a racist movement & not about fiscal responsibility? I'm still waiting, show me the facts! Show me how SSI is fine for 40 years, you can't & just wasting my time. Well at least anyone who has read your responses can see you for the FOOL you are.
@joe035 CBS bias is only percieved by the whackado morons like yourself. Go to the CBO website and that they say Social Security is fine until at least 2050. I know, I know.... The CBO has liberal bias, your neighbor's dog has liberal bias, the stars in the sky have liberal bias. You see liberal bias in everything that doesn't conform to your fox news world. You are an idiot and this is a waste of time since all you do is whine your practiced rhetoric. Do not vote, you are too stupid.
@jesuspuncher Orszag admitted his numbers were wrong, off by 2.2 trillion & said deficit spending wouldn't start until 2019. You're living in a fairytale if you think SSI is sustainable & has 40 years! Look for current information, if the truth is even more important to you then the illusion of being right. Your arrogance, & shortsided views & inability to support your arguements with unbiased sources defines you for what you are a fool.
The only one that has openly used the race card is Obama during the campaign. Then as President when he accused a white police officer of "behaving stupidly" when it was the other way around. When Tancredo never mentions any race but you statists all hear something different I believe it demonstrates exactly who is the racist.
Come on Betty,just what racist comments has the President(the first President ELECTED in accordance with the Constitution since Bill Clinton)made?Remember,"Thou shall not lie."
Name one racist comment by Obama. He wrote and memorized a 30 min. speech about race relations overnight. That's how sensitive he is on the issue. The wrong thing about what Tancredo said is that historically reading comprehension tests were used in this country to suppress the vote of minorities. We are trying to evolve as a people and it is people like Tancredo that are holding us back.
Racist comments from the President?I haven't heard any calls from the President(not even ones couched in coded language like Tancredo's)to discrimante or disenfranchise white people.Perhaps you could provide the specific examples.
Tom's trying to say he's not racist by stressing it was a "civics literacy"test he was talking about.You know maybe he just wants prospective voters to interpret a section of the Constitution,like they used to do down south in places like Alabama and Georgia before the Civil Rights Act stopped them from keeping the uneducated from voting.
Listen to the tea partyers ***squeal in delight*** when Tancredo suggests a "literacy test" be a qualification to vote. Only thing missing was the sheets.
When you brand youself this or that, it just proves that your all the more biased and likely to follow the ideology of that party...rather than form your own opinion. So unfortunately your "research" is most likely the source of your continued ignorance, but here is a tip: dont inform yourself with the "facts" espoused by the side you already agree with.
It looks like this guy forgot that he was congressman and he did not do anything to change the constitution and now he is complaining about what it is on the constitution.
Matt 23:31-33 "Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?"
tancredo is a desperate joke, reduced to fabrication and appealing to an even lower common denominator than the audence he had during his failed presidential bid. The only thing men like him do well is bring his supporters out from under their rocks so they can be stomped with the other vermin.
Obama was put in the White House by people of every age and race, including several largely Republican states and districts. There are plenty of ignorant white people who can't spell either and to spew this kind of ignorance and hatred is exactly why the Republicans can't attract the younger generation. I applaud Megan McCain for being one of the few Republicans to speak out against this blatant, disgusting racism.
Obama was put in the White House by people of every age and race, including several largely Republican states and districts. There are plenty of ignorant white people who can't spell either and to spew this kind of ignorance and hatred is exactly why the Republicans can't attract the younger generation. I applaud Megan McCain for being one of the few Republicans to speak out against this blatant, disgusting racism.
@1776iscoming Yes, I believe you, you base your hatred on the black half of him and not the white. Oh, and the Muslim part of him even though he's not muslim but since you found a group of fellow morons to be traitors to the United States with you, you think you are justified in anything you brainless assholes do.Get the fuck out my country if you can't stand living with a black man as president and shut your ignorant lying ass with your propaganda from fox news.
Kid, more than likely, you have never served your country, just like your "president". I have, I deployed, I'll say what I want, when I want. I've done more in my 33 years on this planet than the college professor has in his 50 or so.
Kid? Little coward bitch liar, I served in the Air Force in Desert Storm, I am 7 years older than you and my IQ is at least double yours, more likely triple. You are a little retarded moron that knows nothing except to run your mouth like a traitor. Eat it up loser, A BLACK MAN IS SLEEPING IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND HAVING SEX WITH HIS BLACK WIFE!!!!
Dont be ignorant...think for yourself instead of accepting this pathetic human being's perverted truth's. You have absolutely no idea about how this world, and our society within it works...you never will if you keep accepting stupid opinions as fact. I feel sorry for you as well.
@yesyou dude u r totally wrong about white culture in matter fact in scientific research the oldest bones were found in africa which means our ancestors were all african trust me Ps: look up research dumb fuck
this guy is a fukin retard hes fukin a grown ass man making a dumbass speech who fukin manipulates grown adults into his belief thats fukin sad the rebulicans will so far be a dying breed to the point where they cant rise above anymore and from this speech further generations will relize that the rebulicans r racist Ps: im only 14 excuse my language
Tom Tancredo a product of imigration himself (both his grand parents) want to bring back literacy test for blacks and Mexicans. Tom tancredo who supported the Vietnam war, but when it was time for his punk ass to go, claimed depression and got out of it. I'll tell you what tom fucking tancredo, Why don't you try taking it. Remember this, the same coward PUNK YOU WERE THEN, is the same coward you are now, PUNK.
I feel sorry for our country. How can such an ignorant person hold such power and influence. It is this particular type of ignorance that errodes away the people's faith in in their own humanity and of their fellow man.
It's funny that the states crying about socialism are the same states that receive the most from the gov but pay the least. Texan and Californian tax payers are subsidizing the rest of the sorry ass nation. Screw these Tea Bagging crackers.
Exactly! Cut government spending. Stop big government. Get the government out of the health care business. But don't cut my Social Security benefits. Don't cut my Medicare.
Obviously there needs to be some kind of requirement to vote - the idea is that people who have a stake in the nation are the one's who should have the chance to vote - b/c voting in effect is ruling. So you think it's a good idea to give people the right to RULE us who don't even speak English? This has nothing to do with racism, it is just common sense. And give me and example of another country with such a liberal voting policy that allow people who are BARELY citizens the right to vote.
@dlc208 Watchout silly booty. I judge you too stupid to vote. How about that. In fact, if there were a literacy test today, no teabagger would qualify. No such thing as "barely a citizen. You are either a citizen or you're not. We don't have "barely citizens". You flunked.
Barely means: by very little, hardly. When a immigrant takes the oath, they become full citizens. They are not hardly or by very little a citizen. They are all the way citizens. So when you start your crap about "you know what i meant by" know the meanings of the words you use. Using the words "barely citizens" only confirm your intent to place a large group of people below you. Now that's an old racist mentality.
Look - all he is saying is that citizenship and the power to vote need to be protected and held in hi regard. I ask you this - what country in this world (other than Canada, which has many of the same problems we do) allows huge #s of citizens who are immigrants and can barely speak the language to vote??
Hey dickhead, why all of a sudden when a black man becomes president now we need to revamp the voting process? This motherfucker is a racist and you fucking know it. For over 200 years of pencil dicked white cracker presidents this was never an issue, now all of a sudden a spear chucker is in the whtie house obviously the system is flawed? Get the fuck outta here.
OsAndOnes - your comments show your own ignorance. "pencil dicked white cracker presidents" - and you are calling Tancredo the racist? Explain that. Second, if you knew anything about this, Tancredo and many others have been saying these things long before Obama was even a presidential candidate. Tancredo slammed Bush in the Republican primary debates on these issues, just watch them on youtube if you don't believe me. So how can you say it is b/c of Obama?
Look asshole, I dont try to deny my racism . Not too meniton, my racist views are like a mild case of genital herpes, it only flares up when aggravated. And you know what else dlc208? Im not a fucking policy maker of this country, this piece of shit and that idiot hillbilly cunt Sarah Palin are however.The people of America deserve better leaders than the hundreds of years of white racist elitist rule with their hidden agendas and cruel intentions
Yeah kiddo, it has nothing to do with him being half black. You voted for a college professor, who may or may not be legally qualified to hold the office, because Tina Fey and your phys. ed. teacher thought he was cool. Jokes on you kid, you're going to be paying his debt off for a long time.
@1776iscoming You are an idiot, I am not calling you names, I am stating a fact based on your incredibly stupid and ignorant statements. Obama was born in the United States, he provided the Hawaiian Birth Certificate, there are also birth announcements from 2 separate Hawaiian Newspapers. You people have no basis for continuing your childish cries that he wasn't born in the United States. This is 100% your hatred of a black man being President. Take your treason and go back to 1776 you bigot
This literally makes me sick to my stomach. How people like this can receive any credibilty is beyond me. You do not have to know how to read to be a US citizen, and every citizen above the age of 18 has the CONSTITUTIAL right to vote. We got rid of literacy tests in the United States because the tests, like many IQ tests, did not so much test literacy as ask questions that were geared to white culture. If you don't understand the racism, google "Voting Rights Act of 1965"
Maybe it's because "white culture" is what created this country. I know it bothers people like you, but it's a fact. It's ironic that as there are fewer and fewer whites in this country, the country continues to tank. Now, someone like you who probably loves listing statistics about how proud they are to have a "diverse" population, should see a pattern there. Don't get me wrong. There are dumb fuck whites too, but this country was created by white culture. Accept it.
Cool irrelevant historical (obvious) tidbit, but nothing you've stated even begins to resembles a compelling argument for perpetuating discriminatory policy. Also, your insinuation of a casual link between a diminishing white majority and our country "tanking" is hilarious, especially since you couch in an a misguided statistical appeal. In fact, someone who places authority in statistics would be totally unmoved by your comment, since it demonstrates no understanding in that regard.
These former Native American lands, were in the west , part of Mexico and the back breaking labor it took to carve out the wilderness was done by African slaves who earned their citizenship a thousand times over. ........ facts.
Bullshit, all these teabagger cocksuckers and presenters with their 100% white audiences know exactly who hes talking about when he says "people that cant even spell vote"...And another thing, so what if a person cant spell the word Vote, A. hes still a fucking citizen of this country and will be affected by the outcome of an election, so his voice should be heard. You elitist rich white yuppie cocksucking pricks, you think just because someone doesnt have your education he shouldnt count?
i didn't hear the whole speech so i can't really comment if it was racist or not. but from what i heard. he was making fun of immigrants who sitll voted??
whitout lending too much credibility to nuts like this guy, we progressives should confront and rebuke them at every turn. It's not demeaning for us to stoop to their level of ignorance if the alternative is to leave their lies and fabricartions uncontested
today there is no excuse not to be able to read. I am sure more people like that voted for Obama
utubecenseorstruth 1 month ago
It's not racist. If you can't read well enough on the issues to make an informed vote, you're canceling out the vote of someone who can read well enough to be properly informed. It has nothing to do with skin color.
decline2state 6 months ago
Yeah you stupid commie liberals. . . Advocating jim crow era voting restraints isn't racist. its like you think the constitution protects everyone or something.
cupcakePLUR 9 months ago
Come mierda.
revmario 11 months ago
All racist going to hell
loverboydevante 1 year ago
this is the most trashy, disgusting video i have ever seen in my life. ignorant fuckers. all of you.
TaniaAngelinaSabri 1 year ago
Don't you love modern day Liberals? Now its "racist" to speak the truth......Simply amazing.
He was talking about illegal immigrants and illiterate blacks who speak "ebonics" & he's 100% correct!
fuklibs 1 year ago
These damn hispanic pieces of shit need to get out of my damn country!!!
Thank god for the Republicans they have been able to destroy these hispanic rats dreams of taking from the white man and living off the hard work of whites!!
No more handouts for lazy BLACKS and spics off the back of the white man's hard work!!
gohomewetback1 1 year ago
Nothing at all racist about his speech . . . just saying it like it is . . . the current president is a socialist - and there should be a civics exam / passing grade requirement for the privilege to vote. Cheers.
photon1138 1 year ago
Pretend that I'm really as dumb as you think that anyone who'd disagree with you would be, and explain the words "socialism" and "socialist" to me.
gotch09 1 year ago
I don't see anything racist about this speach. If you can't read English you shouldn't be able to vote. If anything, it's racist to suggest that other races can't read. If I was Hispanic, I wouldn't want illiterates voting, nor would I appreciate you insinuating that I can't read because of my race.
gaagaagoogoo 1 year ago 4
If you are denied the right to vote then you should not have to pay taxes. Zero taxes for people who cant vote since they dont have a stake in this country. If that has been stripped from them then they should pay zero taxes.
TheCaliCapitalist 1 year ago
is it REALLY that racist to assume he's talking mainly about non-whites being illiterate? do you REALLY think he believes illiterate white people voted in masses for Obama? I think they voted yellow and went with whatever had an R next to it. And not speaking English? How is that not racist against everyone who doesn't speak English and lives well in a country with NO official language?
jackandzackie 1 year ago
Why is the Truth "racist"?
Is it for the same reason that the Truth is "Anti-Semitic"?
CelticSouthland 1 year ago
Oh, the truth just HURTS you ignorant liberal, anti-American commies, doesn't it? No one cares about your dumb race card anymore. The more you use it, the more you prove that you've lost the debate. next...
AnBon74 1 year ago
@AnBon74 all i read was "im racist, proud of it, lets move along"
erik4727 8 months ago
Apparently the YouTuber that posted this video thinks black and brown people are all a bunch of illiterates, hence literacy laws are necessarily aimed at THEM. Who is the real racist here? LMFAO!
AnalgesicBalm 1 year ago
Why do these race whiners only point the finger of blame in one direction? What about all these Mexican groups pushing THEIR racial agenda in the immigration debate? Where is the white equivalent of LA RAZA getting visits by presidents and presidential candidates at their conventions?
AnalgesicBalm 1 year ago
@AnalgesicBalm Here you are. And look at the 200 comments below you. There you are, this is your meeting.
erik4727 8 months ago
I didn't hear one racial comment on this video. I will keep spamming this video until you have the title changed or the video removed completely!
MattTSteiner 1 year ago
The US has no national language. Also if anyone cannot see that this politician is making references to minorities than you are a completely horrible person. Read your history books about how voting was legalized for African American men but they had to take literacy tests in order to vote. Even poor white men were locked out of the voting privilege. Please read about what happen after the Reconstruction Era people before you start siding with this man here.
erickadw1 1 year ago
Where is the racism again?? Seriously, are we really scraping bottom of the barrel stuff to make us feel good and satisified that we have proven to ourselves that Tea Party participants are scum of the earth based on 42 seconds on pretty non inflammatory speech by someone who lives in a country whose national language IS english?
Just sayin...
Lucidfreedom 1 year ago
I agree, If we had a test the Repub party would be out of business since the stock and trade is to use the masses of uninformed people to support policies of a small wealthy class. If you recall from the demographic maps the states with the populations of higher educated residents lean liberal.
SteelMartini 1 year ago
@SteelMartini I have seen gallup polls that lean democratic after 8 years of Bush but none that lean liberal? The Liberal democrats have chased many democrats away to register as Independants, just as RINO Republicans have. The deciding votes lean on Independants & with liberal administration that has continued the unpopular policies of Bush it doesn't look good for democrats!
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 I think if you look at the record and policies of past republican presidents, say Nixon or Reagan, they would look like RINOs to today's conservatives. The country has been steadily drifting right over the years to the point where Palin almost seems normal in the conservative mix.
SteelMartini 1 year ago
@SteelMartini Justice Stevens claimed the same thing. I think to excuse his behavior as a biased judge. Liberals today are a perversion of what they once were so perhaps it isn't so much people are going to the right as they are just running like hell to get away from liberals, proggressives or whatever they want to call themselves.
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 Just look at Nixon or Reagans records. We are being taken over by corporations, they are gaining more power over the state and private sector. We are becoming a fascist state.
SteelMartini 1 year ago
@SteelMartini that is just as insane. We are not becoming a fascist state, we are a corporate state where the rich control the government and we've been like this since we were formed 234 years ago. It's just that now Corporations have considerably more power than they have ever had and with the latest supreme court decision, they own our country. These Tea Party morons whine about welfare, social security and medicare when they should be at Fox News' main office shitting on their heads.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher Is the definition of fascism a corporate and government merger?
Most people in the government come from and return to the corporate world. I view them as modern day kingdoms or fiefdoms in which behind today's corporations are a very few persons or famalies, the richest 1%. CEOs and Execs are the members of the Kings court.
SteelMartini 1 year ago
@SteelMartini it's the other way around, fascism is government control of business not business controlling the government. Business has controlled our government since it's inception, the rich are our Lords and Dukes but now the corporations have too much power and they must be put in check.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher Actually I think it's a merger. In Dr. Lawrence Britt's "The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism", #9 says: "Corporate power is protected. The industrial and business aristrocracy of a fascist nation are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. " Exactly what we have here. BTW this video is spot on. Tancredo is a racist pig and a fascist. #3 exposes him for what a lying bastard he is.
73849309378 1 year ago
I see no racism at all in this video. Whether you like or dislike what Tom is saying is another thing that does not mean racism. People who hate the tea party movement want to see them as racists. Just because they don't like Obama, does not mean their racists. Gosh I am so sick of hearing racism racism. Get over it.
cccrh 1 year ago
@cccrh They cannot combat the truth, so there best chance of saving face is to discredit it. Most of these liberals don't even look into our financial mess other then what liberal media informs them of. We got a Federal tax break this year, but there spending money we don't have & our unfunded obligations to SSI & babyboomers are coming due with NO GOVT preperations.
joe035 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with this speech. All his points are true. If you were not a medical professional would you go into a hospital and vote for who should be the supervising doctor?? Of course not. they would all say " who are you to vote when you don't know the ins and outs of this hospital"? Or go to Mexico and vote if you didn't speak Spanish and understand what each candidate was standing for??? And if you haven't noticed Obama is a socialist bent on wrecking America.
hdtybhik 1 year ago
He hate blacks, latins and gays, jews and he a real fool
hubiesemos 1 year ago
How would he explain Bush then.
ShaolinRZAGZA85 1 year ago
View my Free Thinking Lessons - Message To My People. The channel is TStheEducator. Black leaders--or lack of--is the focal topic..
TStheEducator 1 year ago
What is racist about that. I am white and had to prove I could read before I could register to vote. Too much political correctnes BS The damn socialists and their lies.
bubumarms 2 years ago
That's not entirely true. You may not be aware of this, but Senator Everett Dirksen, a Republican Senator of Illinois actually wrote the Civil Rights Act. All you ever heard was that Lyndon Johnson signed it. Well, that's true. But he signed it into law, and yet, history shows that his motives were politically driven as opposed to morally inspired. But this always seems to happen. Republicans do something good and Dems get the credit because they are in the position to do so..
RWCPROD80 2 years ago
RWC - You know some dumb people. Almost everyone I know is literate...and some voted from Obama and others for McCain. Since you claim you can read and seem to cite history, why don't you read the US constitution and tell me where it says citizenship rights require a literacy test? And if people you know don't know how to read, write, spell - be a gracious and patriotic citizen...volunteer your time to make them more literate...
SKA19590705 2 years ago
The point Tancredo was trying to make is that those completely ignorant of our history and how this country works put Obama in the White House. Nobody said anything about race. BTW, Democrat politicians did that to blacks back then (do the research for yourself and you'll find this out for yourself), and also remember, this is not the 1950's. What he was saying was true. Most of the people I know who voted for Obama cannot even spell correctly or make complete sentences... and they're white too.
RWCPROD80 2 years ago
What a divisive azzhole, this us vs, them politics is killing these country.
Croozer 2 years ago
LoneTinaja 2 years ago 2
wow...just...wow...
MississippiBlueDog 2 years ago
What's so racist about what he said?? Stop making problems when there are none there.
ziggrl 2 years ago
he is referring to Mexicans not speaking the language and blacks being illiterate and voting for that black president. The funniest thing about his civics test ideal is that 100% of the Teabagger and Birther crowd would fail ANY test, they are all blithering idiots.
jesuspuncher 2 years ago 8
@jesuspuncher What do you think the Tea Party is about?
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 The Tea Party is about how mad these old white people are about having a black president and having to pay taxes. In the most recent poll of Tea Party members, 98% did not know that under Obama their taxes went down, 100% thought that America had the highest taxes of economically development nations when in actually the US has the second lowest. Basically these people are Fox News stooges that know nothing but like being mad for the cameras.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher Who took the poll? Federal income taxes did go down, but the signs I saw were in relation to deficit spending, creation of more govt programs & bank bailouts. It's interesting that it started under Bush to Big to Fail & continues under Obama? The only black guy I've seen beaten up & called names was by SEIU thugs. You don't think 65 trillion in UNFUNDED SSI/Medicaire obligations or a billion a day in interest on debt warrants criticism?
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 The poll was done at the big tea party rally . Of course government spending should be scrutinized but you and your teabagger little brains have no idea what you are talking about . Social Security is owed trillions from the US government because all the surpluses were loaned to the US government. Social Security is fine in it's current form for another 40 years. It's wasted money on the military industrial complex that is bankrupting this country both financially and morally.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher Gallup?, Rasmussen? I've seen no poll, sounds more like liberal propaganda? PROVE IT! LBJ a democrat put SSI into a general fund! SSI was supposed to be a VOLUNTARY program under FDR! Dems eliminated the SSI tax deduction! Dems under Clinton tax SSI annuities! Jimmy Carter made funds available to immigrants age 65 who never paid into it! Obama has DONE NOTHING to save it. Liberals say Repubs want to take SSI away, when there the ones who destroyed it! Prove me wrong??
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 Really? you cant take 2 seconds and type " Tea Party Poll Taxes" into google? Only 2% of these retards thought taxes went down and their big bitch is TAXES. Moron, you know nothing, you are completely misinformed with Fox News Propaganda. When you are as dumb as you are, you shouldn't speak or voice your opinion because at least when you keep your stupid mouth shut, people will not be certain of your blithering idiocy. Politics is not a game of "My side is always right". Grow up moron.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher LOL I asked for an UNBIASED poll, not the liberal spin machine you call CBS.Thanks for proving my point about liberal propaganda! I'm the moron yet you cannot offer me anything viable to defend your arguements. Just vague generalizations, Reference me where Social Security is fine in its current form for another 40 years?? The truth is what should matter, so prove me wrong.
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 Retard, ANY poll I quote is in your eyes biased and from this magical "liberal media". You are an idiot and any report even from the CBO will be in your eyes made up from liberal evildoers. You do not understand that your source of information is misinformation so you think you are right when you are 100% wrong. Nothing will change your idiot mind because facts and reality are not part of your Fox News fantasyland. You are too stupid to vote, please don't.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher Google CBS bias!! You'll find plenty of sources! Again I ask you for a credible poll? You're the one who can't provide facts & you call me dumb? PROVE the Tea Party is a racist movement & not about fiscal responsibility? I'm still waiting, show me the facts! Show me how SSI is fine for 40 years, you can't & just wasting my time. Well at least anyone who has read your responses can see you for the FOOL you are.
joe035 1 year ago
@joe035 CBS bias is only percieved by the whackado morons like yourself. Go to the CBO website and that they say Social Security is fine until at least 2050. I know, I know.... The CBO has liberal bias, your neighbor's dog has liberal bias, the stars in the sky have liberal bias. You see liberal bias in everything that doesn't conform to your fox news world. You are an idiot and this is a waste of time since all you do is whine your practiced rhetoric. Do not vote, you are too stupid.
jesuspuncher 1 year ago
@jesuspuncher Orszag admitted his numbers were wrong, off by 2.2 trillion & said deficit spending wouldn't start until 2019. You're living in a fairytale if you think SSI is sustainable & has 40 years! Look for current information, if the truth is even more important to you then the illusion of being right. Your arrogance, & shortsided views & inability to support your arguements with unbiased sources defines you for what you are a fool.
joe035 1 year ago
you can't truly be such a moron. I hope you're kidding.
fistfullofhope 2 years ago
The only one that has openly used the race card is Obama during the campaign. Then as President when he accused a white police officer of "behaving stupidly" when it was the other way around. When Tancredo never mentions any race but you statists all hear something different I believe it demonstrates exactly who is the racist.
tarmangani 2 years ago
Come on Betty,just what racist comments has the President(the first President ELECTED in accordance with the Constitution since Bill Clinton)made?Remember,"Thou shall not lie."
johndgray1 2 years ago
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What is racism? How about Obama's church which gave Farakkhan a lifetime achievement award? You fucking leftie hyprocrites.
TheLibBuster 2 years ago 2
Name one racist comment by Obama. He wrote and memorized a 30 min. speech about race relations overnight. That's how sensitive he is on the issue. The wrong thing about what Tancredo said is that historically reading comprehension tests were used in this country to suppress the vote of minorities. We are trying to evolve as a people and it is people like Tancredo that are holding us back.
tombeardman 2 years ago
Go fuck your german shepherd again you toothless hillbilly cunt.
0sAndOnes 2 years ago
Classic white devil grin at .12 seconds. Everybody in that goddamn room knew what he was smirking about.
0sAndOnes 2 years ago
If we'd had a literacy test for candidates Shrub's name would have never made it onto the ballot.
johndgray1 2 years ago 2
nice
tombeardman 2 years ago
Racist comments from the President?I haven't heard any calls from the President(not even ones couched in coded language like Tancredo's)to discrimante or disenfranchise white people.Perhaps you could provide the specific examples.
johndgray1 2 years ago
Tom's trying to say he's not racist by stressing it was a "civics literacy"test he was talking about.You know maybe he just wants prospective voters to interpret a section of the Constitution,like they used to do down south in places like Alabama and Georgia before the Civil Rights Act stopped them from keeping the uneducated from voting.
johndgray1 2 years ago
I would love to see the look on his face with a .45 in his cocksucking faggot mouth.
0sAndOnes 2 years ago
"... A committed socialist ideologue--name is Barack HUSSEIN Obama."
Any intelligent commentary given on this statement would merely dilute its idiocy with undeserved consideration. Xenophobic demagogue.
FriendOfPhilo 2 years ago 3
Listen to the tea partyers ***squeal in delight*** when Tancredo suggests a "literacy test" be a qualification to vote. Only thing missing was the sheets.
MrTruthpatrol 2 years ago
MrTruth,
And, don't forget the hoods.
timparcival 2 years ago
When you brand youself this or that, it just proves that your all the more biased and likely to follow the ideology of that party...rather than form your own opinion. So unfortunately your "research" is most likely the source of your continued ignorance, but here is a tip: dont inform yourself with the "facts" espoused by the side you already agree with.
etheangel2220 2 years ago
There's nothing inherently racist about his speech. Xenophobic, yes, but racist, no.
RestrictedAccess 2 years ago
And sure that when your grandparents arrived in this country they spoke very good English.
I thought that in Italy they speak Italian not English.
lubime10 2 years ago 3
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lubime10 2 years ago
um....i think the word you were looking for there was hypocrites. Hippocrates was the father of modern medicine.
geblackiv 2 years ago
@dlc208
It looks like this guy forgot that he was congressman and he did not do anything to change the constitution and now he is complaining about what it is on the constitution.
Matt 23:31-33 "Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?"
lubime10 2 years ago
Tom Tancredo has inspired a new republican hate word: "rebumblington"
It's not copyrighted. Use it freely to help us destroy the once formidable party known as republican.
callouschristian 2 years ago 2
tancredo is a desperate joke, reduced to fabrication and appealing to an even lower common denominator than the audence he had during his failed presidential bid. The only thing men like him do well is bring his supporters out from under their rocks so they can be stomped with the other vermin.
callouschristian 2 years ago
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Obama was put in the White House by people of every age and race, including several largely Republican states and districts. There are plenty of ignorant white people who can't spell either and to spew this kind of ignorance and hatred is exactly why the Republicans can't attract the younger generation. I applaud Megan McCain for being one of the few Republicans to speak out against this blatant, disgusting racism.
PsyD2be 2 years ago
Obama was put in the White House by people of every age and race, including several largely Republican states and districts. There are plenty of ignorant white people who can't spell either and to spew this kind of ignorance and hatred is exactly why the Republicans can't attract the younger generation. I applaud Megan McCain for being one of the few Republicans to speak out against this blatant, disgusting racism.
PsyD2be 2 years ago
Every time you pass gas you pollute the country and our youth. So close your mouth.
replyform 2 years ago
Thanks Tom, you opened ....and closed down the tea party!
dullsvillain 2 years ago 2
Tancredo is like most idiots in the Tea Party. They hate that a black man is president and want him out immediately.
jesuspuncher 2 years ago
He's as much white as he is black, has nothing to do with race.
1776iscoming 2 years ago
@1776iscoming Yes, I believe you, you base your hatred on the black half of him and not the white. Oh, and the Muslim part of him even though he's not muslim but since you found a group of fellow morons to be traitors to the United States with you, you think you are justified in anything you brainless assholes do.Get the fuck out my country if you can't stand living with a black man as president and shut your ignorant lying ass with your propaganda from fox news.
jesuspuncher 2 years ago
Kid, more than likely, you have never served your country, just like your "president". I have, I deployed, I'll say what I want, when I want. I've done more in my 33 years on this planet than the college professor has in his 50 or so.
1776iscoming 2 years ago
Kid? Little coward bitch liar, I served in the Air Force in Desert Storm, I am 7 years older than you and my IQ is at least double yours, more likely triple. You are a little retarded moron that knows nothing except to run your mouth like a traitor. Eat it up loser, A BLACK MAN IS SLEEPING IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND HAVING SEX WITH HIS BLACK WIFE!!!!
jesuspuncher 2 years ago
Dont be ignorant...think for yourself instead of accepting this pathetic human being's perverted truth's. You have absolutely no idea about how this world, and our society within it works...you never will if you keep accepting stupid opinions as fact. I feel sorry for you as well.
etheangel2220 2 years ago
@yesyou dude u r totally wrong about white culture in matter fact in scientific research the oldest bones were found in africa which means our ancestors were all african trust me Ps: look up research dumb fuck
ThePride16 2 years ago
this guy is a fukin retard hes fukin a grown ass man making a dumbass speech who fukin manipulates grown adults into his belief thats fukin sad the rebulicans will so far be a dying breed to the point where they cant rise above anymore and from this speech further generations will relize that the rebulicans r racist Ps: im only 14 excuse my language
ThePride16 2 years ago 2
Tom Tancredo a product of imigration himself (both his grand parents) want to bring back literacy test for blacks and Mexicans. Tom tancredo who supported the Vietnam war, but when it was time for his punk ass to go, claimed depression and got out of it. I'll tell you what tom fucking tancredo, Why don't you try taking it. Remember this, the same coward PUNK YOU WERE THEN, is the same coward you are now, PUNK.
replyform 2 years ago
I feel sorry for our country. How can such an ignorant person hold such power and influence. It is this particular type of ignorance that errodes away the people's faith in in their own humanity and of their fellow man.
etheangel2220 2 years ago
It's funny that the states crying about socialism are the same states that receive the most from the gov but pay the least. Texan and Californian tax payers are subsidizing the rest of the sorry ass nation. Screw these Tea Bagging crackers.
histick54 2 years ago
Exactly! Cut government spending. Stop big government. Get the government out of the health care business. But don't cut my Social Security benefits. Don't cut my Medicare.
RalphNelson 2 years ago
Obviously there needs to be some kind of requirement to vote - the idea is that people who have a stake in the nation are the one's who should have the chance to vote - b/c voting in effect is ruling. So you think it's a good idea to give people the right to RULE us who don't even speak English? This has nothing to do with racism, it is just common sense. And give me and example of another country with such a liberal voting policy that allow people who are BARELY citizens the right to vote.
dlc208 2 years ago
ok? are u a retard this guy is implementing what Jim Crow advocated! wow. no wonder u have thumbs down
cedillosstudios 2 years ago
@dlc208 Watchout silly booty. I judge you too stupid to vote. How about that. In fact, if there were a literacy test today, no teabagger would qualify. No such thing as "barely a citizen. You are either a citizen or you're not. We don't have "barely citizens". You flunked.
replyform 2 years ago
ok you know what i meant by "barely citizens". And if there was a literacy test, you would obviously fail as well.
dlc208 2 years ago
Barely means: by very little, hardly. When a immigrant takes the oath, they become full citizens. They are not hardly or by very little a citizen. They are all the way citizens. So when you start your crap about "you know what i meant by" know the meanings of the words you use. Using the words "barely citizens" only confirm your intent to place a large group of people below you. Now that's an old racist mentality.
replyform 2 years ago 3
Look - all he is saying is that citizenship and the power to vote need to be protected and held in hi regard. I ask you this - what country in this world (other than Canada, which has many of the same problems we do) allows huge #s of citizens who are immigrants and can barely speak the language to vote??
dlc208 2 years ago
Hey dickhead, why all of a sudden when a black man becomes president now we need to revamp the voting process? This motherfucker is a racist and you fucking know it. For over 200 years of pencil dicked white cracker presidents this was never an issue, now all of a sudden a spear chucker is in the whtie house obviously the system is flawed? Get the fuck outta here.
0sAndOnes 2 years ago
OsAndOnes - your comments show your own ignorance. "pencil dicked white cracker presidents" - and you are calling Tancredo the racist? Explain that. Second, if you knew anything about this, Tancredo and many others have been saying these things long before Obama was even a presidential candidate. Tancredo slammed Bush in the Republican primary debates on these issues, just watch them on youtube if you don't believe me. So how can you say it is b/c of Obama?
dlc208 2 years ago
Look asshole, I dont try to deny my racism . Not too meniton, my racist views are like a mild case of genital herpes, it only flares up when aggravated. And you know what else dlc208? Im not a fucking policy maker of this country, this piece of shit and that idiot hillbilly cunt Sarah Palin are however.The people of America deserve better leaders than the hundreds of years of white racist elitist rule with their hidden agendas and cruel intentions
0sAndOnes 2 years ago
Yeah kiddo, it has nothing to do with him being half black. You voted for a college professor, who may or may not be legally qualified to hold the office, because Tina Fey and your phys. ed. teacher thought he was cool. Jokes on you kid, you're going to be paying his debt off for a long time.
1776iscoming 2 years ago
@1776iscoming You are an idiot, I am not calling you names, I am stating a fact based on your incredibly stupid and ignorant statements. Obama was born in the United States, he provided the Hawaiian Birth Certificate, there are also birth announcements from 2 separate Hawaiian Newspapers. You people have no basis for continuing your childish cries that he wasn't born in the United States. This is 100% your hatred of a black man being President. Take your treason and go back to 1776 you bigot
jesuspuncher 2 years ago 2
dude ur awesome obama rocks ya
ThePride16 1 year ago
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dlc208 2 years ago
This literally makes me sick to my stomach. How people like this can receive any credibilty is beyond me. You do not have to know how to read to be a US citizen, and every citizen above the age of 18 has the CONSTITUTIAL right to vote. We got rid of literacy tests in the United States because the tests, like many IQ tests, did not so much test literacy as ask questions that were geared to white culture. If you don't understand the racism, google "Voting Rights Act of 1965"
lennabug 2 years ago
@lennabug
Maybe it's because "white culture" is what created this country. I know it bothers people like you, but it's a fact. It's ironic that as there are fewer and fewer whites in this country, the country continues to tank. Now, someone like you who probably loves listing statistics about how proud they are to have a "diverse" population, should see a pattern there. Don't get me wrong. There are dumb fuck whites too, but this country was created by white culture. Accept it.
YesYou123333 2 years ago
@YesYou
Cool irrelevant historical (obvious) tidbit, but nothing you've stated even begins to resembles a compelling argument for perpetuating discriminatory policy. Also, your insinuation of a casual link between a diminishing white majority and our country "tanking" is hilarious, especially since you couch in an a misguided statistical appeal. In fact, someone who places authority in statistics would be totally unmoved by your comment, since it demonstrates no understanding in that regard.
shro0my0 2 years ago
@YesYou123333
These former Native American lands, were in the west , part of Mexico and the back breaking labor it took to carve out the wilderness was done by African slaves who earned their citizenship a thousand times over. ........ facts.
dullsvillain 2 years ago
No one is saying that black Americans should not be citizens or not be allowed to vote.
dlc208 2 years ago
Bullshit, all these teabagger cocksuckers and presenters with their 100% white audiences know exactly who hes talking about when he says "people that cant even spell vote"...And another thing, so what if a person cant spell the word Vote, A. hes still a fucking citizen of this country and will be affected by the outcome of an election, so his voice should be heard. You elitist rich white yuppie cocksucking pricks, you think just because someone doesnt have your education he shouldnt count?
0sAndOnes 2 years ago
i didn't hear the whole speech so i can't really comment if it was racist or not. but from what i heard. he was making fun of immigrants who sitll voted??
DeefexNYC 2 years ago
whitout lending too much credibility to nuts like this guy, we progressives should confront and rebuke them at every turn. It's not demeaning for us to stoop to their level of ignorance if the alternative is to leave their lies and fabricartions uncontested
hottpoker 2 years ago
Tancredo and the Teabaggers are Traitorous Racists.
IF they don't like our country or our President, they should get the hell out!
BloggerWoman 2 years ago
What's racist about saying that Obama voters can't spell "vote" or say it in english? That's not racist.
BGleaves123 2 years ago
OK just wondering where we are supposed to go?
dlc208 2 years ago
@Fluzi1
Nice dumb-ass comment, nigger. There's a good example of literary prowess.
mightisright 2 years ago
Blah blah, keep playing the race card, see how well that works out for you Dems in 2010 :)
bucs2921 2 years ago