You would think this is pretty much a no-brainer…well, you would be wrong. Michele Bachmann seems to think that the institution of slavery is just where she should rest her presidency-seeking laurels…endorsing it, creating make believe people who fought to end it, you know, just all around bastardizing American History and offending a large part of the nation with racist statements and all around stupidity. Yes, indeed, this is the way to win votes in this country. Let’s discuss the tenets of slavery…erroneously!
Last week Michele Bachmann was the first to sign The Marriage Vow, a two-page document of warm monkey dung created by an organization called FAMiLY Leader (i.e. militia of insane people) who have made it their personal mission to demonize, marginalize, and just spread a lot of batshit inane fuckery amongst their brethren. Participants were asked to swear off adultery, pornos, homosexuality, and Sharia Islam, and according to Crasstalk, whatever other “insane blood-oaths” the people who thought this up could dream of. Including this little gem they removed after the world did a collective spit-take and pointed the finger of racist hooliganism at band-of-idiots, FAMiLY Leader.
“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”
So what you’re saying is slavery in 1860 is preferable to being an African-American today because slave children were brought up in two-parent households? Really? Two-parent households, eh? Well, it is my understanding that family displacement was rampant during slavery and that women, men, AND children were separated and sold to various plantations because it was economically feasible for slave owners. Slaves were not considered people much less families. Slave marriages were not recognized. Offspring were considered automatic property. Slaves were chattel, a commodity, and a possession to do with whatever the slave master wanted. There was little to no interest in preserving the African-American family unless it outright benefited the slave owner. What this statement does is proliferate the long repeated yet, shunned and antiquated notion that “Slavery was good for the slaves. That slaves ultimately benefited from enslavement, and that there is something positive to be gleaned from the institution, and conversely, that African-American children are much worse off today being raised by single parents.” Which is a gross bastardization of the truth and so racist in sentiment that it boggles the mind.
Even Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Survivor person, talking nonsensical shout-box, thinks this whole marriage vow thing could be the “nail in the coffin” for Bachmann’s campaign. And when a veritable idiot calls you an idiot…yes, well, writing meet wall.
Hey Michele, you should know that no one forgets when you stand up for slavery while attempting some sort of finger-wagging about family values and morality. You see, Bachmann, it’s kind of incongruous much like most of your statements, even more so than that one gaffe-a-palooza you made about the Founding Fathers. Remember that? We do! Seriously, though, do you even read? Like ever?
In a gaffe that was just a golden trough of gurgling mouth diarrhea. A little over a week ago while visiting Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday program, wherein he called her a flake and then later apologized, she made some crazy-cockamamie comment about how the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to ban slavery. Yes, folks, those founding fathers…slave owners abounded…those guys.
George Stephanopoulos interviewed her on Good Morning America to let her clean up her statement In which she did not. According to the Business Insider…
Stephanopoulos pointed out that the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were written about 80-100 years before slavery was banned, Bachmann defended herself. “Slavery was a bad thing,” she reiterated, “and founding father John Quincy Adams was against it.”
Stephanopolos pointed out that John Quincy Adams was not a founding father. Then he gave up.
Here’s the interview in all its hilarity. Please watch Stephanopoulos’ face as he asked the questions. I think it takes all he has not to laugh and call her an idiot to her face, and some of the dumbfounded pauses she lapses into are priceless.
So what do you think, Michele? Is slavery a good platform for this upcoming election. I’d say no, but you know, do what you think is best.
