AlphaCrab
Beach Fanatic
Gosh, On our high school field trip from New Jersey to Monticello in high school we were taught one version of American history as it involved the scourge of slavery. The factual one.
...Now, 2011, that nutty Tea Partier, Sarah Palin's little sister, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, has rolled out a squeaky clean "new" version for the school children of America!. It is kind of like Fox News--History and facts don't matter any more--meet the "new" Conservative Party!!
...sad state of affairs.....
...Now, 2011, that nutty Tea Partier, Sarah Palin's little sister, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, has rolled out a squeaky clean "new" version for the school children of America!. It is kind of like Fox News--History and facts don't matter any more--meet the "new" Conservative Party!!
"Is there a history tutor in the house? 'Cause Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, needs one bad. The Tea Party fave said that "the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States....Men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."
True, J.Q. Adams didn't rest before slavery ended...he died. Or maybe he was just taking a dirt nap.
As for a few other points from the rest of Bachmann's Bizarro U.S. History Class, Thomas Jefferson -- who wrote that all men are created equal -- owned slaves. And perhaps did more than own them. George "Father of the Country" Washington owned human property, too...."
True, J.Q. Adams didn't rest before slavery ended...he died. Or maybe he was just taking a dirt nap.
As for a few other points from the rest of Bachmann's Bizarro U.S. History Class, Thomas Jefferson -- who wrote that all men are created equal -- owned slaves. And perhaps did more than own them. George "Father of the Country" Washington owned human property, too...."
...sad state of affairs.....
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