This isn't so much a call for action but more a public service announcement, dedicated to my friend Kat on account of her being an actual historian ...
From potential GOP candidate Michele Bachmann, or as I like to think of her, Crazypants Bachmann:
In a [2011] address to the group Iowans for Tax Relief, Bachmann praises the Founding Fathers for their commitment to…diversity: "It didn't matter the color of their skin, it didn't matter their language, it didn't matter their economic status, it didn't matter whether they descended from known royalty or whether they were of a higher class or a lower class, it made no difference. Once you got here [to the United States] you were all the same. Isn't that remarkable?"
In the same interview, she praises the Founders for working so hard to abolish slavery: "We know there was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. We know that was an evil and it was scourge and a blot and a stain upon our history. But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
from "Michele Bachmann Said What!?" by Tim Murphy on Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/michele-bachmann-greatest-hits?page=3
I think that CB here could use a course in U.S. History, or at least a viewing of 1776 ...
From potential GOP candidate Michele Bachmann, or as I like to think of her, Crazypants Bachmann:
In a [2011] address to the group Iowans for Tax Relief, Bachmann praises the Founding Fathers for their commitment to…diversity: "It didn't matter the color of their skin, it didn't matter their language, it didn't matter their economic status, it didn't matter whether they descended from known royalty or whether they were of a higher class or a lower class, it made no difference. Once you got here [to the United States] you were all the same. Isn't that remarkable?"
In the same interview, she praises the Founders for working so hard to abolish slavery: "We know there was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. We know that was an evil and it was scourge and a blot and a stain upon our history. But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
from "Michele Bachmann Said What!?" by Tim Murphy on Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/michele-bachmann-greatest-hits?page=3
I think that CB here could use a course in U.S. History, or at least a viewing of 1776 ...
In case you missed Sarah Palin's recent retelling of Paul Revere's ride, Bachmann is not the only Tea Party darling with a tenuous grasp on the patriots they claim to emulate: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/sarah-palin-paul-revere-wikipedia_n_871795.html
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