Read/React: Tom Tancredo on Obama Election

Tom Tancredo knows why Barack Obama was elected and he told the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last nightThe opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and β€œthe cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because β€œwe do not have a civics, literacy test before…

Tom Tancredo knows why Barack Obama was elected and he told the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last night

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and β€œthe cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because β€œwe do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”

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The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America β€œput a committed socialist ideologue in the White House … Barack Hussein Obama."

As Think Progress notes, Tancredo words are…interesting considering the fact that for years, literacy tests were used to exclude Blacks from the voting pool.

Rebuttal?

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