February 05, 2010 11:02 PM UTC

Tom Tancredo at the "Tea Party" Convention

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• by: Colorado Pols

A headline that can only end badly, cue Media Matters:

And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word “vote,” or say it in English, put a committed socialist idealogue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Presumably, he means all sixty-nine million, four hundred fifty-seven thousand of you. And didn’t we try a “civics literacy test” in this country during the Jim Crow era? We read in history class that didn’t work out so well, but Tancredo has gotten nostalgic for ‘the good old days’ before.