Heard on the radio today....

[demgurl]

I was searching up and down the dial of talk radio and came across this one guy who just blew my mind. I could not make out his name but the things he was talking about was were outlandish.

The guy was talking about Kerry and how Kerry had been saying I was wrong that people were being phoned and told they could not vote if they had received a parking ticket. The host went on to say that if you were stupid enough to believe that, you were too stupid to vote. He said too many people are allowed to vote anyway and there should be just a select group of people allowed to do so. He went off on a list of things you should have to know in order to vote....the president, vice-president, your senator as well as congressmen, etc.....

The guy went to say that more people should be called and told outlandish things such as you could not vote if you were behind on child support and some other things as well.

On one hand I think the guy is nuts and I would never back up such suggestions. On the other hand, we are the 'educated liberal elite'. I should think that such ideas would work in our favor and get rid of a majority of the rethugs. I hate to agree with someone on the right but this one suggestion could work in our favor.

P.S. This is more to inform you of suggestions of the RW and I am not, by any stretch of the imagination serious. This is all tongue in cheek.

[zapp]

1. Sounds like Neal Bortz

He's a real piece of work that guy....loves sucking up to *

[libodem]

2. Smacks of literacy tests at polls

I don't like it. It's classiest and racist.

[Frances]

4. That was my thought too

I had a friend whose mother (white) volunteered to help mark literacy tests back in the 50s. She discovered to her horror that the examiner put a small w in the upper right hand corner of whites taking the test. Those tests passed automatically. If there wasn't a w, then the test failed.

I feel ancient because I had to take a literacy test when I first registered to vote in Alabama in the 60s. I remember asking the examiner if I had passed. He looked at me like I was crazy. I was white and so of course I passed!

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Yep

If a rich white guy walked in would they make him take a test? What about an old black lady? Or a Mexican? Asshole.

[Carolab]

3. If you're going to start doing this

you're going to have to require people to take parental training before they have kids, or marital training before they get married.