The Next Step

 

1. Well, the debates are over.

   No they aren’t. We still have one VP debate and two more bouts between Bush and Kerry.

   Posted by Macker       10/01/2004  at  08:17 AM  



2. For all intents and purposes they are.  This was probably the most important one.  It set the tone.  No one cares about the VP debates as we will not choose a President based on his VP selection or how he debates.  The VP does not call the shots, as it were.

   The point being, test everyone who wants to vote!  We have to weed out the idiots.

   Posted by Vilmar       10/01/2004  at  08:20 AM  



3. I have been saying for years, that if you suck on the government teat for handouts, welfare, food stamps, etc, then you DO NOT get to vote. Period.

   I would go so far as to say that EVERYONE that wants to vote must take a short civics test, who’s the president, who is your congresscritter, who is your senator, who is the governor, small things like that, if you get 3 out of say 8 questions wrong, then you are too clueless to vote.

   If you don’t have enough knowledge to know who the people are that you were supposed to have voted for, then you are too clueless to vote now.

   Posted by Jaguar       10/01/2004  at  12:47 PM  



4. I agree with Jaquar on that one needs earned income to vote. You need to take the test in English too. Written test, unless they have a disability that precludes that (double arm amputee or CP, etc.)

   I still got a problem with the more votes based on income tax, cause some of the richest and heaviest taxpayers are flameing moonbat’s extrodinaire ( the Kennedy’s and Mrs.Ketchup come to mind). Seems once they get there billion they figure they can be generous with my 5 figure salary. Sounds good in principal,I just feel it may be shooting ourselves in the foot.

   If anybody deserves an extra vote I would give it to individuals who had honorable discharges from the armed forces.

   Posted by Ric       10/01/2004  at  02:06 PM  



5. GAHHH!!! Can you PLEASE tell me what the hieght of the candidates has to do with their Presidential potential?!?!?!?!?!  I watched about half of the debate in my government class today and the teacher kept making comments about the height difference between Bush and Kerry.  WHY!  Yes, Kerry is taller....SO WHAT!!  It doesn’t help that my gov’t teacher has a student teacher helping him this trimester and Mr. Robertson (student teacher) is teaching this unit and he is OBVIOUSLY a liberal...gah!  So PLEASE tell me why it matters that Bush isn’t as freakishly tall as Kerry.  ‘Cause I’m a little baffled here myself.

   Posted by NefariousFerret       10/01/2004  at  05:54 PM  



6. We used to have literacy tests for voting in this country in some states.  Guess which states.  Guess who got hosed by them (it wasn’t the illiterate).  If you can’t guess, or don’t remember, see http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_a.htm for an explanation by the Department of Justice.

   Posted by johnwcowan       10/01/2004  at  06:02 PM  



7. Well it was true that Blacks carried most of the burden on this prior to the 1965 Voters Rights Act. It is also true they had the largest illiteracy rate (still is true).

   Trust me I was raised in the south and white trash were just as discouraged from registering to vote. But that was then, and there’s nothing you can do about it that will change history.

   This is now, we no longer have seperate schools and education in this country is denied no citizen (even in the evil State of Florida). I don’t think demonsrtation of a few facts like who is your congressman, senator and VP is such a burden.

   We naturalise citizens everyday in this country who must take a harder test than that, and in English.

   I don’t think a voters test is asking so much…

   Posted by Ric       10/01/2004  at  08:02 PM  



8. The reason the literacy test was banned is not that it was unjust a priori, but that it was (and would be, if revived) extremely subject to manipulation by the powers that be, who are capable of doing quite enough harm already with the voter-exclusion laws that still remain on the books.

   Posted by johnwcowan       10/01/2004  at  08:38 PM  



9. The debates are not over- there will be 2 more, one of which will be held here in St. Louis, at Washington University, a most popular debate venue in the past.........

   Posted by Dottie       10/01/2004  at  08:46 PM  

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