Michele Bachmann's 'absolutely amazing' view of history

[woo me with science]

On edit. This is from January 2011. Kinda goes with Paul Revere.



http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/01/michele_bachmanns_absolutely_a.html

Michele Bachmann's 'absolutely amazing' view of history
By Jonathan Capehart

While others are swearing off a certain former politician from a rather large non-contiguous state in the west, I have vowed to start paying more attention to one Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). She is the ideological twin of the aforereferenced person who was the 2008 vice presidential nominee. And she apparently harbors presidential ambitions that many ascribe to the one whose name has yet to be used.

Bachmann spoke at an Iowans for Tax Relief event over the weekend (Jan 2011) and she blipped my radar with this musing on the early settlers, who "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. 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? It's absolutely remarkable."

Bachmann also earned my raised eyebrow with her musings on slavery -- a "scourge" -- and the founding fathers, who she said "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."

"I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."

Talking Points Memo corrected Bachmann's history lesson by pointing out that Adams wasn't one of the founders and that he died 15 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. Perhaps she was thinking of John Adams, the second president of the United States, who is different from John Quincy Adams, the new nation's sixth president. And let's just forget about that whole three-fifths compromise thing in Article 1, Section 2, paragraph 3 of the Constitution that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of figuring out how many representatives would be apportioned to each state.

Sure, Bachmann noted that "we weren't perfect," but her myopic view of history reminds me of Haley Barbour's recent reminiscences of the Civil Rights era. They say he's thinking of running for president, too. But neither he nor Bachmann will get very far if they don't deal more clearly and honestly with the nation's more troubling past.

[Peacetrain]

1. The talking heads were all saying how she won the debate last night because of low

expectations.

So sad that the other side, thinks they have won, when their canidate is only half misinformed instead of totally misinformed.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. That is such a pathetic argument

If she gets the GOP nomination and carries a single state, will she get to be president because she exceeded expectations?

In the words of Savielly Tartakover, doctors of laws, bon vivant, member of the French Resistance and a leading chess master during the first half of teh twentieth century:

Moral victories don't count.

[ClarkUSA]

3. MSM are GOP toesuckers. They always fact-checked Obama's debate comments yet there's none here.