FLUNKING HISTORY

" . . . the very founders that wrote those documents (the constitution) 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 . . . "

-- bat-shit crazy, tea-bagging Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) on slavery, and how she seems to think that it was the founding fathers who worked to abolish it.

3, 2, 1, here I go.

(inhale)

Actually, Ms. Bachmann, John Quincy Adams was resting quite comfortably, since he died in 1848. It wasn't until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, that the tireless work to end slavery began. Mr. Lincoln continued on to work for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery (1865). You also seem blithely unaware of the section in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3) known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, which basically states that slaves only counted as "three-fifths human."

(exhale)

Thanks a lot, Minnesota. This is the best you could come up with?