Bachmann (how clueless?) 'Founding Fathers Worked Tirelessly Until Slavery Was No More In USA'

[kpete]

Bachmann: America Was Founded On Diversity
Jillian Rayfield | January 24, 2011, 11:39AM

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) had an interesting take this weekend on America's first European settlers, who she said "had different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions."

"How unique in all of the world, that one nation that was the resting point from people groups all across the world," she said. "It didn't matter the color of their skin, it didn't matter their language, it didn't matter their economic status."

"Once you got here, we were all the same. Isn't that remarkable?" she asked.

Speaking at an Iowans For Tax Relief event, Bachmann (R-MN) also noted how slavery was a "scourge" on American history, but added that "we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."

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[flakey_foont]

1. and they all lived happily ever after

The End

[Canuckistanian]

5. LOL

Yeah, that about sums up the mentality.

[toddwv]

35. Lol, what a simpleton!

So much is wrong with that speech. Bachmann should put down her "Conservatives Guide to the Constitution, The Way We Want It." and read a bit of history.

<*>Let's see slavery has already been mentioned.

<*>Then there was the little thing about only white MEN who landowners being permitted to vote for the first 100 years of our country.

<*>The brutal purging of the Native Americans.

<*>And, of course, events like the "Bible Riots" where sects of Christianity fought other sects of Christianity.

[madaboutharry]

2. They all lived to be 175 years old, isn't that remarkable!

[somone]

3. Where did she learn arithmetic?

Oral Roberts University taught her well

[OHdem10]

4. This revisionist history may not even please some of her followers.

[Deep13]

6. Even her idiot audience knows that isn't true. nt

[Champion Jack]

7. The stupid.....it burns

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. The Founding Fathers had been dead for decades

by the time slavery was abolished. And some of them, notably Washington and Jefferson, owned slaves. Bachmann either doesn't know history or is intentionally ignoring it.

But then, she's a moron.

[louis-t]

9. Often-Wrong Bachmann.

Ole crazy eyes does it again.

[MilesColtrane]

10. "Once you got here, we were all the same"

"And the happy, little natives who were already here were nice enough to either die off, move away, or accept Jesus so that we wouldn't have to kill them."

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Uh, huh?

One just doesn't even know where to start, does one? :crazy:

[Skidmore]

12. This woman is a member of that broader Cult of Sublime Ignorance which believes

that there were dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden and other such scientifically rigourous ideas.

[ejpoeta]

13. i guess it's good for her that no actual slaves are still alive to tell her just how

not all the same we were. fuckin bitch. wtf!

[LynneSin]

14. Didn't most of the founding fathers OWN slaves?

I know Jefferson had them and according to legend he sired a few kids with one of them.

[GodlessBiker]

15. I'm sure they also worked tirelessly to ensure that women weren't treated as chattel.

[LeftinOH]

16. Does anyone ever confront her and ask for to prove her bullshit? She couldn't, anyway.

[HughBeaumont]

24. I think any question that starts with "Does anyone ever confront " when it comes to Repubs . . .

. . . yeah, that answer would be NO.

Which is why you get this:

[Sal Minella]

17. The mind just boggles.

For years I was hoping women would get into politics more, and now we've got Palin and Bachmann, and I guess the Greeks were right -- when the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers.

[Bunny]

18. Why, Minnesota? Why?

I mean, I have no room to speak since PA just sent Pat Toomey (R-Batshit Crazy) to the Senate, but for god sake. It's not possible for anyone to be as dumb as she is and still get elected to a national office.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

21. It totally is possible the 6th disctrict.

Gerrymandered to hell, that one is. It's specifically designed to brush against the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, where you get all the anti-tax idiots who complain that their commute into the metro area every day takes soooooo looonnnnng but have voted for anti-light rail idiots for years.

So it's no wonder that Bachmann can get these whiners voting for her. Until that district gets un-gerrymandered, the DFL (Democrat-Farmer-Labor party) will never get the 6th.

[qb]

33. There is an inexplicable disconnect. A door-knocker in her district told me

that most people he spoke to agreed with Tarryl Clark's platform, but chose to vote for Bachmann because they "like" her.
:banghead:

[Blue Owl]

19. oh god

please just make it stop, the stupid has become unbearable.

[Erose999]

20. It was the slaves who worked tirelessly. Bachmann is full of shit as usual. See also

her comment about how the "Founding Fathers" having diverse backgrounds:

"had different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions" etc.

You know how those people are? Immigrants. People with different religions. People who don't speak English as their primary language. The very same people Bachmann and the Tea Party agenda are seeking to disenfranchise and marginalize with their SB1070/no teaching the "minority experience" agenda.

[xxqqqzme]

22. At one time I thought people

living in Minnesota and Wisconsin were thoughtful, intelligent people (I know Wisconsin was McCarthy's home state). Progressive and Populist political parties loom large in their histories. So how does Feingold get defeated and bachmann, a clearly unbalanced, poorly educated, willfully ignorant of US history politician, remain in Congress?

[MineralMan]

23. What a moron. A lot of the founders owned slaves, for pete's sake.

Bachmann is not a serious person. She's a cartoon.

[HughBeaumont]

25. Speaking of which . . .

[Gormy Cuss]

26. It's not just slavery where she errs. Skin color, language, economic status: Check.

Good Lord. Did she learn history from the movies?

[HughBeaumont]

27. Yep.

[Crankie Avalon]

28. This would be shameful enough from a high school student trying to answer an essay during a...

...blue book exam. That someone who actually gets to be a U.S. Representative is this confused about American history is terrifying.

[HopeHoops]

29. The dumbfuckery boggles the mind.

[Dappleganger]

30. Walt Disney himself couldn't have scripted a better story.

[Smashcut]

31. That fuckin' moron

SHE has POWER? In our GOVERNMENT?

REALLY???

[Yavin4]

32. Suddenly, Sarah Palin Looks Smarter

Or should I say "smarterer".

[bullwinkle428]

34. And people wonder why Politifact created a whole new category

for her lies?