March 26, 2010
Engineering the New Electorate
Voting is so central to the American system that three of the last five amendments to our Constitution deal with it (Amendments 23, 24 and 26). Amendment 26, for instance, extends the vote to eighteen-year-olds.But the American political Left (a.k.a. progressives) wants to extend the vote well beyond American teenage citizens. In the hope of creating instant Democrat voters, Al Gore's Citizenship USA program rammed through grants of citizenship by waiving qualifications. At WorldNetDaily in 2001, Kenneth R. Timmerman reported: Citizenship USA was an initiative of Vice President Al Gore that was ostensibly part of his National Performance Review to "reinvent" government. Internal White House memos, obtained by the House Judiciary Committee in 1997, showed that the vice president was well aware that the effort could be perceived as a "pro-Democrat voter mill."On March 28, 1996, White House aide Doug Farbrother e-mailed Gore detailing his efforts to get INS to waive...(Read Full Article)




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