Comments on: Colorado state lawmaker calls migrant workers ‘illiterate peasants.’ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:23:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Duck U. Fuhbya http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4929858 Duck U. Fuhbya Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:25:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4929858 Life-long Democrat.....I have NEVER voted Republican. But, on at least immigration, I totally agree with Bruce. We are supposed to pick the 'brightest and best' from the immigration applicants. Build a loooooong and High Wall!!!! Life-long Democrat…..I have NEVER voted Republican. But, on at least immigration, I totally agree with Bruce. We are supposed to pick the ‘brightest and best’ from the immigration
applicants. Build a loooooong and High Wall!!!!

]]> By: Nashoba nowa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4924206 Nashoba nowa Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:53:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4924206 Sickening Indeed ............... Sickening Indeed ……………

]]> By: OICUR2 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4924144 OICUR2 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:34:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4924144 <strong>I HATE RACIST!</strong> I HATE RACIST!

]]> By: southrnbelle http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923866 southrnbelle Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:32:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923866 Let's just hope the fine people of Colorado send this knuckle scraper packing in November. Let’s just hope the fine people of Colorado send this knuckle scraper packing in November.

]]> By: singe_101 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923796 singe_101 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:34:04 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923796 <blockquote>vat694848 Says: McCain-Bruce “08? Dream Ticket??</blockquote> Pure gold, I laughed heartily. They'll have their desert moat soon enough, against the "peasants." Meanwhile the dollar goes down and so many people work in the service industry on computers pushing numbers around. Menial work is tough but at least stuff gets done.

vat694848 Says:

McCain-Bruce “08? Dream Ticket??

Pure gold, I laughed heartily.

They’ll have their desert moat soon enough, against the “peasants.”

Meanwhile the dollar goes down and so many people work in the service industry on computers pushing numbers around. Menial work is tough but at least stuff gets done.

]]> By: Max-1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923778 Max-1 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:33:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923778 . Ahh... The ignorant Elite, Colorado State Rep. Douglas Bruce(R), speaks... . .

Ahh…
The ignorant Elite, Colorado State Rep. Douglas Bruce(R), speaks…

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]]> By: vat694848 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923770 vat694848 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:14:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923770 McCain-Bruce "08" Dream Ticket?? McCain-Bruce “08″ Dream Ticket??

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923768 pete Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:11:32 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923768 Wow. An intellectual match for Michele Bachmann. I think they could get together and produce children who would be too stupid to breathe. Wow. An intellectual match for Michele Bachmann. I think they could get together and produce children who would be too stupid to breathe.

]]> By: COProgressive http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923726 COProgressive Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:23:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923726 Bruce is a small time Tommy "I'll protect the border from them mexi....errrr terrorist" Tancrado. Both suffer from the little man syndrome. They are both all mouth, no brains, and people still vote for them. It must have something to do with the <strong>"R"</strong> after their names. Only illiterate peasant repuglicans would vote for them, they are told just vote for the guy with the <strong>"R"</strong>. <strong>"Suppose you were a heartless bastard, and suppose you were a CONSERVATIVE, but, .....I repeat myself." --Mark Twain </strong> Bruce is a small time Tommy “I’ll protect the border from them mexi….errrr terrorist” Tancrado. Both suffer from the little man syndrome. They are both all mouth, no brains, and people still vote for them. It must have something to do with the “R” after their names. Only illiterate peasant repuglicans would vote for them, they are told just vote for the guy with the “R”.

“Suppose you were a heartless bastard, and suppose you were a CONSERVATIVE, but, …..I repeat myself.” –Mark Twain

]]> By: Freedom Rebel http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923718 Freedom Rebel Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:01:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923718 #20 Jim Wolf359 Says: From what I saw on the news tonight it may not stop at an ethics investigation for Bruce. Apparently, the State GOP maybe about to push the panic button. I was glad to hear that Rep. Terrance Carroll, D-Denver said it might prompt an ethics investigation. But what other course does the State GOP have to stop or get rid of Douglas Bruce?? I'm curious... #20 Jim Wolf359 Says:

From what I saw on the news tonight it may not stop at an ethics investigation for Bruce. Apparently, the State GOP maybe about to push the panic button.

I was glad to hear that Rep. Terrance Carroll, D-Denver said it might prompt an ethics investigation. But what other course does the State GOP have to stop or get rid of Douglas Bruce?? I’m curious…

]]> By: vat694848 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923716 vat694848 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:00:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923716 sorry about the inapprotiate adjective sorry about the inapprotiate adjective

]]> By: sacopenapa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923714 sacopenapa Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:58:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923714 <strong><em>“We don’t need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in the state of Colorado”</em></strong> ...Well, that is what you get after your federal government supported all military coups in Latin America. Those general just sold Latin america's resorces to giant international corporation. Many of which, North Americans. So, after decades of this abuse and exploitation, not to mention TORTURE (via School of The Americas, USA). we have this over population without any hope what so ever to have minimal decency, flooding your country... Instead supporting the latest movement toawrds social reforms, The United States continue to support Colobia's criminal president Uribe. While Chavez, who wants to place some of the oil revenues in very needed social areas, the War Criminals in Washington tried a boched coup and continue to call him a 'terrorist'. So, you will continue to get your masses of migrants. Until your government is restore to decency and starts to thing Globaly withou its criminal military complex. May the Force be with you! “We don’t need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in the state of Colorado”

…Well, that is what you get after your federal government supported all military coups in Latin America. Those general just sold Latin america’s resorces to giant international corporation. Many of which, North Americans. So, after decades of this abuse and exploitation, not to mention TORTURE (via School of The Americas, USA). we have this over population without any hope what so ever to have minimal decency, flooding your country… Instead supporting the latest movement toawrds social reforms, The United States continue to support Colobia’s criminal president Uribe. While Chavez, who wants to place some of the oil revenues in very needed social areas, the War Criminals in Washington tried a boched coup and continue to call him a ‘terrorist’. So, you will continue to get your masses of migrants. Until your government is restore to decency and starts to thing Globaly withou its criminal military complex. May the Force be with you!

]]> By: pbg http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923698 pbg Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:39:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923698 WEll, let's take a test: Take one of those illiterate peasants and Douglas Bruce and hand them a passage of Calderón and give them a little quiz on it. I'll bet cash money that the Representative loudly protests his God-given right to be illiterate. Ultima razon de reges. WEll, let’s take a test: Take one of those illiterate peasants and Douglas Bruce and hand them a passage of Calderón and give them a little quiz on it.

I’ll bet cash money that the Representative loudly protests his God-given right to be illiterate.

Ultima razon de reges.

]]> By: tombaker http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923682 tombaker Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:21:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923682 sik fux. that's about all that can be said of it. jefferson's ghost will surely haunt all their children. sik fux. that’s about all that can be said of it. jefferson’s ghost will surely haunt all their children.

]]> By: Steve Balboni http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923658 Steve Balboni Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:43:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923658 <em>Wonder where he got his book larnin’?</em> Pomona College and USC Law http://www.douglasbruce.com/ He's also the architect of TABOR here in Colorado. Wonder where he got his book larnin’?

Pomona College and USC Law

http://www.douglasbruce.com/

He’s also the architect of TABOR here in Colorado.

]]> By: TXProgressive http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923654 TXProgressive Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:37:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923654 It sounds like Mr. Bruce checked his live brain cells and maturity at the door - but he did manage to bring his bigotry along. Disgraceful. It sounds like Mr. Bruce checked his live brain cells and maturity at the door – but he did manage to bring his bigotry along. Disgraceful.

]]> By: Shayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923642 Shayne Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:23:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923642 We'd be hard pressed to find an "illiterate peasant" more ignorant that this guy. We’d be hard pressed to find an “illiterate peasant” more ignorant that this guy.

]]> By: The Republic of Stupidity http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923630 The Republic of Stupidity Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:17:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923630 Oh gosh... a clever troll has snuck in thru an open door. Time ta flag, flag, 'n flag again! Oh gosh… a clever troll has snuck in thru an open door.

Time ta flag, flag, ‘n flag again!

]]> By: Immigration2008DotCom http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923626 Immigration2008DotCom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:15:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923626 19: It's not just McCain that wants to bring something like those days back, but everyone who supports illegal immigration. The latter group includes ThinkProgress itself. 19: It’s not just McCain that wants to bring something like those days back, but everyone who supports illegal immigration. The latter group includes ThinkProgress itself.

]]> By: Jim Wolf359 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/comment-page-1/#comment-4923618 Jim Wolf359 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:07:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/colorado-state-lawmaker-calls-migrant-workers-illiterate-peasants/#comment-4923618 From what I saw on the news tonight it may not stop at an ethics investigation for Bruce. Apparently, the State GOP maybe about to push the panic button. From what I saw on the news tonight it may not stop at an ethics investigation for Bruce. Apparently, the State GOP maybe about to push the panic button.

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