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To: SiouxPal who wrote (203356)	1/25/2011 11:36:23 PM
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (203356)	1/26/2011 1:17:21 AM
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The Founding Fathers Ended Slavery (so says Michele Bachmann). sfgate.com And they kept dinosaurs in their gardens so as to keep the weeds in check. ===================== 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. Oh, yeah, and that Constitution that Bachmann waves around, it established that a slave counted as 3/5ths of a human being. The provision was inserted into the document as a political compromise -- except it compromised human dignity. Where did Michele make her comments: Before an anti-tax group in Iowa. Yup, she's testing the presidential waters. Here is Michele...in her own words. And CNN's Anderson Cooper schooling her afterwards. Sal Russo -- the Tea Party Express czar -- just put on his sacrificial lamb hat and went on "Hardball" to defend the indefensible. Ouch. Double-ouch. We almost turned away -- and not in the way we usually do. Hey, Sal: Bachmann owes you lunch for taking one for the team here. Maybe a week of lunches. Forget watching the State of the Union: We're watching Bachmann's rebuttal via the Tea Party Express here.