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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (34322)	6/30/2011 1:40:36 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36917

she said founders and forebears. like I said Slavery was outlawed in 6 states/colonies before the Constitution was signed

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (34322)	6/30/2011 2:03:06 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

The best argument that what Bachmann said about JQ Adams was an untruth, would be that he wasn't really a founding father. However, she didn't call him a founding father. The word she used was "forebears". And I think he definitely qualifies as a forebear. But he certainly was anti-slavery and worked tirelessly to end it: Adams was elected a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to do so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency. Animated by his growing revulsion against slavery,[4] Adams became a leading opponent of the Slave Power and argued that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Adams predicted the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, but said that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave insurrections.[5] en.wikipedia.org However, JQ Adams' father, John Adams wrote the Declaration of Rights for Massachusetts which essentially abolished slavery in that state. John Adams was definitely one of the founding fathers. There were many founding fathers. And many of them did work to end slavery. Many did not. I would say that Bachmann's statements about everyone being treated equal, regardless color of skin or ancestry once they came to the U.S. was...ahem....not based in reality.