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Politics & Legal > Michele Bachman Can't Get History Facts Straight
 

Michele Bachman Can't Get History Facts Straight

These tea party candidates just amaze me.  Sarah Palin still can't recall what magazines she reads nor can her husband Todd; but Michele Bachman is even worse.  
She thought the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at Concord, New Hampshire; then she labeled John Quincy Adams as one of the original founding fathers.
When George Stepanopoulas corrected her on GMA concerning John Quincy Adams, she still argued that he was a founding father who vigorously opposed slavery and helped abolish it.   John Q. was only a boy; that would be his father, Michelle, who was one of the founding fathers.
John Q. did vehemently oppose slavery as a Congressman some thirty years later;  but Congress actually threatened to censure him for arguing against it on the Floor, since that issue was still another fifty some years away from becoming a national point of contention.  

And, GET THIS! According to at least one source, her followers actually went into Wikipedia yesterday and altered his website to reflect that he was one of the founding fathers.  (See https://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/quincy.png )
I just checked Wikipedia.  If it was as the source shows it, it has since been deleted.  I did, however, find this, which, I questioned.
"Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his deeply conservative[2] and ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values.
Here's the caveat:  the Democratic-Republican party,  which John Q. favored and which eventually morphed into the Republican Party,  was the party of the liberals--not the conservatives until fairly recently.
The South was strongly Democratic up to and including the election of JFK, who put LBJ on the ticket to carry the Southern Democratic states.  
So to place "republican values" and "deeply conservative" in the same sentence is an oxymoron at the very least; and completely erroneous at best.
That is the reason the South was strongly Democratic for the first hundred and fifty years.  Lincoln, who was a Republican,  did not carry any Southern states in the election of 1860 because of the slavery issue. 
And I believe we would all agree that the abolition of slavery would have to be regarded as a liberal issue, since it is the granddaddy of all Civil Rights points of contention.
Here's what upsets me!  The two women we have making a run are both a couple of morons.  That bothers me as a woman. At least KNOW your history and what magazines you read if you are going to go public as a candidate for ANY public office.
You are making the rest of us women look really stupid!


posted on June 29, 2011 7:02 AM ()

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He is still listed as a "Founding Father" on Wikipedia if that is the search term you use. I think a refresher in American and World history should be required for anyone seeking national office. I wonder how they would score on a history test?
comment by dragonflyby on July 4, 2011 11:29 AM ()
As a noted Republican source stated, "The statements made by the candidate were not meant to be factual." LOL LOL LMAO. I think the President would have no problem running against Bachmann.
comment by jondude on June 30, 2011 6:29 AM ()
RIGHT!!!However, since everything that comes out of a Republican's mouth is distorted, I can believe that as easily as some of the other garbage they have put out there.
reply by redimpala on June 30, 2011 8:47 AM ()
The Republican men running for pres are just as bad/ignorant. Some of the stuff coming out of Newt's mouth and others (plus non-candidate Huckabee), are beyond the pale. I've quit watching MSNBC because I get too riled up. (But I love Rachel, et. al.)
comment by solitaire on June 30, 2011 4:55 AM ()
The Republican candidates are all a bunch of losers. Now, Rick Perry of Texas is making Presidential noises. He's just as bad as the rest, but he's good looking. I can already see the women swooning over him.
reply by redimpala on June 30, 2011 8:49 AM ()
Maybe she will cite Thomas Jefferson...he not only had slaves but slept
with them too. Who knows what those two women will come up with. Unfortunately, they are both fairly attractive and right now we have a
governor in their league.
comment by elderjane on June 29, 2011 5:16 PM ()
I may have to run for President just to show to the world that there are still women out there who actually learned their American history lessons in grade school. This is just deplorable.
reply by redimpala on June 29, 2011 6:31 PM ()
We are such a silly country any more.
comment by troutbend on June 29, 2011 5:15 PM ()
I think "sickening" might be a better word.
reply by redimpala on June 29, 2011 6:32 PM ()
Do not care for the woman and she is going nowhere.Just as scary at Palin
comment by fredo on June 29, 2011 10:14 AM ()
She is. Neither one has enough sense to make one sane person between them. And I agree. She's going NOWHERE!
reply by redimpala on June 29, 2011 12:47 PM ()
Come on--do you really expect 'politicians' any politician to check the facts? And I love it when people run to defend her!!!!
comment by greatmartin on June 29, 2011 8:00 AM ()
This is basic American history that I learned in grade school. And to think people are willing to defend her and rewrite history to do it. Sickening.
reply by redimpala on June 29, 2011 9:05 AM ()

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