Hardball: Tweety hitting Bachman on her slavery history that the founding fathers

[LiberalFighter]

worked to eliminate it.

[Diamonique]

1. Where on earth did she get that from?

That woman is nuckin futs!

[LiberalFighter]

3. I'm wondering what schools she attended.

And if the schools weren't the fault then what was she doing during class time and studying?

[obxhead]

6. I had to go and look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

Anoka high school:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoka_High_School

Oral Roberts University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Roberts_University

Oral Roberts University (ORU), based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Charismatic Christian, comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3,790 students from 49 U.S. states along with a significant number of international students from 70 countries.<3><4> Founded in 1963, the university is named for its late founder, evangelist Oral Roberts, and is the largest Charismatic Christian university in the world.<5><6>

[riverwalker]

7. she was also Gretchen Carlson's nanny

in Anoka (gretchen is on Faux)
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/10/28/ohmagawd_michele_bachmann_was_gretchen_carlsons_babysitter.php

[sasha031]

2. her ignorance is amazing,

[Nancy Waterman]

4. Gibbs' response was great

He used her ignorance to call for an improvement in education!

[sasha031]

5. lol, I saw that

[mikiturner]

9. What was this on?

[ShadowLiberal]

8. What exactly did she say on slavery?

If she said what you imply by the title, that the founding fathers worked to eliminate slavery, that isn't entirely false.

For a while the United States was on the path of slowly eliminating slavery overtime, from banning importing slaves to America 20 years after the constitution was written, to banning slavery in certain US territories long before they were ever ready to become a state, such as the area that became Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Do you think that the south that succeeded from the United States would have ever stood for completely banning slavery from even having a chance to develop in a United States territory, even if it was so far north?

For a while slavery was slowly dying out, because it just wasn't profitable enough. A number of our founding fathers who owned slaves, such as Thomas Jefferson, were losing money with their slave plantations. Jefferson may have started rich, but he was flat broke by the time he died. Washington was consistently losing money with his slave plantation until he switched from growing just tobacco (I think it was tobacco, either that or cotton) to a mix of other crops.

The thing that reversed the trend of slavery slowly dying out was the cotton gin, it suddenly made growing cotton extremely profitable, and far easier when it came to harvesting it.