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Cardinal Fang · Senior Member

RE: Represenative Bachmann's Speech Last Friday

hayden · Senior Member

All good points, CF.

I think the ultimate irony is that she said America has upheld its liberty for 21 generations, and she doesn't want this to be the generation which doesn't pass the torch on. Yet she is also the one who said that members of Congress should be examined for whether they were anti-American or not.

Cardinal Fang · Senior Member

Yes, those two quotes were indeed from that recent speech.

Her law degree is from Oral Roberts, whose ailing law school was closed the year after she got her degree. She also has a LLM from William & Mary in tax law, but maybe she actually knows something about tax law.

But even her high school history teacher should be recoiling in horror every time she speaks. "It didn’t matter the color of their skin. it didn’t matter their language, it didn’t matter their economic status. " What??? Does she know anything about anything?

I guess in Bachmannland no slaves were ever brought to the United States and No Irish Need Apply signs never existed.

Perhaps more relevant to Congresswoman Bachmann, in Bachmannland no one was hostile to the huge wave of Germans who immigrated to her Upper Midwest in the mid 1800s; no one objected to the many public schools which taught in German. My mother must be lying about the anti-German sentiment she and her family experienced when she was a girl between the two World Wars, because Bachmann assures me it didn't happen.

hayden · Senior Member

Oral Roberts law school ?? Forget her BA from Winona State and OR law school - she apparently didn't graduate 3rd grade.

Cartera · Guru

BigG - she just got her LL.M. at William and Mary. I take solace in that. Maybe she knows tax better than history or con law. She got her law degree from Oral Roberts.

BigG · Guru

I think those two quotes are from the same speech and that is the one I was referencing.

William and Mary Law School must cringe every time the woman speaks.

Being ignorant of history is one thing. Excusable for lack or opportunity or even concentration on other subjects.

Just making stuff up or being confused as to facts you think you know is chilling.
A person like that is able to rationalize ANYTHING.

This is way beyond Sarah Palin.

Perhaps Represenative Bachmann is actually a clever ploy to make Sarah Palin seem learned and credible?

Cardinal Fang · Senior Member

I didn't know the one you meant, but here are a couple of excerpts from the fathomlessly ignorant Congresswoman's speech:

[speaking of people who came to America:]It didn’t matter the color of their skin. it didn’t matter their language, it didn’t matter their economic status. it didn’t matter whether they descended from know royalty or are of a higher class or a lower class. it made no difference, once you got here, we were all the same.

We know that was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. We know that was an evil and a block and a stain upon our history. But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the united states. and i think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our fore-bearers who worked tirelessly, men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.

We know these alleged facts? Whadaya mean we, white woman?

Abyss · Senior Member

She is an idiot. But really I'm not sure she's worse than the Lawyer-in-Chief.

BigG · Guru

You know the one I mean.

I didn't know any of the Founding Fathers lived that long.

There is a point at which ignorance becomes appalling.

This is what we have to go up against the Chinese?