Columnist: Registering Poor To Vote 'Like Handing Out Burglary Tools To Criminals'

[mod mom]

Columnist: Registering Poor To Vote 'Like Handing Out Burglary Tools To Criminals'
Ryan J. Reilly | September 2, 2011, 10:40AM


Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum is just going to come right out and say it: registering the poor to vote is un-American and "like handing out burglary tools to criminals."

"It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote," Vadum, the author of a book published by World Net Daily that attacks the now-defunct community organizing group ACORN, writes in a column for the American Thinker.

"Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor," Vadum writes. "It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money. It's about raw so-called social justice. It's about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers."


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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/columnist_registering_poor_to_vote_like_handing_out_burglary_tools_to_criminals.php?ref=fpa

This sentiment makes me SICK TO MY STOMACH!

[villager]

1. The rich and their hand puppets -- projecting again, as ever

n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. OMG! I'm speechless

[trumad]

3. I would love 5 minutes alone with this guy in a locked room.

Id have no problem in giving him a beat down!

[mod mom]

5. Normally I am a civil individual but I would have no problem spitting in his face.

I only wish karma was a certain thing.

[hifiguy]

7. Not even a locked room.

He gets a one second start. I get this:

[FiveGoodMen]

18. Oh, I LIKE the way you think!

:toast:

[librechik]

4. God, what America was that guy born in?

oh, yeah, it's the one i seem to find myself in today somehow. Not the same America I grew up in.

[durablend]

6. No doubt wants the country back to...

When only those that owned property (and were male and WHITE) could vote. Y'know...the people that matter.

[woo me with science]

8. I hope you saw this Jon Stewart segment, also.

Great comedy, but it will make your blood boil.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1857083&mesg_id=1857083

They are not even hiding their contempt for the poor anymore.

[Denninmi]

9. A real slap in the face to those who have died to ensure the right to vote.

These people are unreal.

[mod mom]

11. I'm sure this cretin would have been one of the murderers.

[WDIM]

10. Lets go back to only property owners being able to vote!

That is a great idea! (sarcasm)

The ideals of our founders (note not what our founders actually did)was people treating each other equally, justly, and fairly. It was communities taking care of all those in the community. It was for prosperity and freedom for all! Again they were Ideals they still to this day have not been realized.

This is what our founding fathers wanted our government to do. This is the promise and contract our government has made with the people.

"establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty"

This is what our Government must do for all of us! Yes, even the poor....

[Vogon_Glory]

12. We Knew That Was The Right-Wing Voting Fraud Sub-Text All Along

We progressives knew that discouraging the poor from voting was the right-wing sub-text for their "voting fraud" campaign all along. It's so flamingly obvious that even moderates who pay attention can see it. Of course the lazy, the clueless, the inattentive, and also of course the corporate news media are going to ignore the likes of Vadum coming out and BLATANTLY saying why the Radical Right doesn't want poor people and minorities to vote.

Another story about the REAL right-wing game plan, destined to be trimmed to a single two-sentence paragraph and buried on the back pages of the remaining daily newspapers--if it's even in print at all.

:argh:

:dem:

[life long demo]

13. Didn't one of these republicons recommend that only property

owners have the right to vote. It certainly looks like they are on their way. I wonder if they will have an income qualification test. Say only those who own houses worth half a million can vote?

[Blue Meany]

14. If the non-productive part of the population were kept from voting,..

it would doom the Republican party. The "idle rich" are the biggest burden to the productive economy. Perhaps we should force them to do community service before they are allowed to vote.

[toddwv]

15. The culmination of a decades-long agenda to est. an oligarchy.

I've been hearing the "not everyone deserves the right to vote" meme for quite some time now.

Money = Freedom of Speech
Corporations = People
Voting /= A Right

Add to this the right-wing's campaign to disenfranchise as many voters as possible.

Won't be long now. I wonder which group they will declare doesn't have the right to be citizens of the US first?

[mod mom]

19. sometimes I wonder if this is how virtuous Germans felt just before hitler's rise.

[Blue Meany]

20. One that consistently votes democratic: African-Americans n/t

[DirkGently]

16. Excellent. We need this kind of self-defeating honesty from the right.

[theaocp]

17. Nonproductive, huh?

WTF does this guy produce? Drivel? Dime-a-dozen, motherfucker. Dime-a-dozen. I'll take him on with Robert Baratheon's fucking warhammer.

[hifiguy]

21. Kick

:kick:

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

22. Saw the phrase"World Net Daily", and promptly stopped reading

Probably the most dishonest and least reputable "news" source on the internet. They employ idiots like Jerome Corsi who has now slandered TWO consecutive Democratic nominees for president as well as one Democratic president. The owner is a wack-job who is of Arab descent but has convinced himself that he is actually a white, evangelical southerner, and so he writes all kinds of vile stuff about gays and Muslims.

[Brigid]

23. Ebenezer Scrooge, is thst you?

This is :wow:

[dembotoz]

24. maybe an iq test to vote--those under say 60--sorry no ballot -- would eliminate most off

the current republican candidate


by the way i am not serious........