From The Huffington Post:
During an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was given an opportunity to set the record straight with regard to comments she made earlier this year lauding the nation's Founding Fathers for working "tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
Read the full transcript here.


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By: NubianPrince on 7/05/2011 9:47AM
...How soon they forget bugs...
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By: Phoebe Black on 6/29/2011 4:45AM
Michele Bachmann needs to go somewere and keep her mouth shut, first whe comments on how Barack Obama is letting people down, which in not true by my standards, now this,how long will she keep putting her foot in her mouth, I guess forever.
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By: Judy on 6/29/2011 6:41AM
The bottom line is that she would be far better in our White House then what we now have there. 97% of America is very disapointed with this rougue president. America wants leadership. Not racist victim wannabe nonsense, grand speechs and endless golf games. Most all Americans agree with the Tea Party except for their rabid Anti-Union views.
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By: tanya on 6/29/2011 9:03AM
OK.... so you mean to tell me 97% almost 100% of the entire American popultation is unhappy with president obama so that leaves 3% that are happy with his work... what polls are you reading even george w bush had more supporters at his lowest point than this so called poll that hates president obama if your are going to list polls why not also list your source
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By: brownbreadnbutter on 6/30/2011 12:15PM
@ judy get over yourshelf.
The bottom line is-- the made up polls like the ones you speak of--- are only taken at faux cable network and other pollster who co-sign to the polls offered thru the Faux Cable network. WHO DOESN'T KNOW THIS? We ain't buying the kool aid you people are selling as tea.
You're the same poster who said that america is sick of Oprah Winfrey and you were glad she was gone- nope, you and your kind of PPL are sick of a successful billionairness who happens to be an AMERICAN BLACK WOMAN, that's you problem. If she was white, blue and blond your sentiment wouldn't be the same. You just can't stand to see a successful african americans can ya? If we look like we aren't educated, doing jobs that you wouldn't do, living poor or anything else negative-you PPl are happy. And as the tea party says, "YOU betcha!" You PPl need to see struggling blacks to make yourshelf feel better being white. (you people are getting more mentally retarded & ridiculous the longer the sun rise & shine)
Yet, Oprah has 133+ million email/twitters members(and its growing more each day) who are logged on to her network daily. How do I know? Because I'm on her personal network and she will discuss such issues daily on her network and anything else she choses to discuss. And one thing she mention was--the amount of PPL onto her email/twitter network since she closed the Oprah Winfry show. 133 million signed up immediately to her network. So with 133+ million as part of Oprah's network, doesn't sound like America is sick of her, only the godless racist morons who are jealous of Oprah's success are sick of her.
Furthermore, Ms. Winfrey's sucess is only going to become larger than the last 25 years.
So what's the slang saying the right wing/tea party say- You Betcha!
Again, we have PPL such as Judy, right out LIEING about america, as often as the right wing believers do and their counter-part negro who co-signs.
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By: Rene on 7/04/2011 7:26PM
Judy >>>>> did you have your head in a hole when Bush was in office? Sounds like you did, and just as you mentioned 95% of americans don't agree with Obama I think you have your figures wrong. No your wonderful teabaggers want to try and hurt all working people, so you go ahead and keep on believing in them. If the teabaggers win the Koch brothers and people like them will have you all looking like complete fools when they put the person they want in the white house. The new class will be the "Working Poor", so keep on listening to Bachman and the teabaggers they have something waiting for all of you teabaggin fools.
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By: acura2010 on 6/29/2011 10:04AM
Enough with all these politicians! Bachman & Palin are opportunists who baited the KKK hellraisers and they fell in the web. These are cunning white women and Hillary too playing on black voters for their egos. Not none of these politicians will be honest because they are controlled by Corporate money. American households get your personal "house" in order. Don't matter what race you are, poor whites, blacks, and latinos, we are door mat!
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By: Stud on 6/29/2011 11:52AM
As an African American, the all-out attacks on Michele Bachmann to protect Barack Obama, a man who could not care or do less for Black America sickens me.
George Stephanopolous, once a partisan hack who betrayed President Clinton now carries the water for President Obama because they speak the same language: Ivy League elite, who don't care about ordinary Americans, obsessed with their own celebrity.
There are MORE Founding Fathers than George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. There were abolitionists who fought tirelessly to end slavery. Frederick Douglass comes to mind, so does Garrison. What about Josiah Wedgwood? Thurgood Marshall, for the purposes of Black America and racial equality can be considered a Founding Father.
William Wilberforce, stood in the face of ignorance and presented a bill to abolish slavery every year he lived to try, until Parliment did so in 1833. He refused to give up.
History books wrongly credit Abraham Lincoln with the title de-facto leader of the abolitionist movement in America.
There is no reason to savagely attack Michele Bachmann for the ignorance of America's past. Children across America are still taught the myths of early American history that we were.
Bachmann is TRYING to reach out to Black America. President Obama, supposedly a black man, ignores Black America wholesale. Once Obama got what he wanted (votes and legitimacy to win the Dem primary) he left.
Yet the calvacade of cartoonish "black" figures like Cornell Belcher, Roland Martin, Donna Brazille and Al Sharpton continue to make us look foolish by taking their blind devotion to Obama public, while ordinary black people are wasting away on city streets and dirt roads in rural communities.
Until Black America can come to grips with ignorance, and rise above it, arrogant liars like Obama will exploit our people for personal gain and leave us worse than he found us. Michele Bachmann is a foster mom to 23 children, and has walked the walk. Women face worse discrimination and insults on a daily basis than we often do as black people. Look at the attacks on her here!
Give someone else a chance to help Black America. President Obama isn't qualified.
Donald Edmond, Esq.
Washington D.C.
http://twitter.com/edmondesq
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By: brownbreadnbutter on 6/30/2011 1:16PM
Well for me, I'm certainly not going to beleive a person like Senator Bachmann when if factual she doesn't KNOW 5th grade American History. It is my belief that she like others in her party only want to see a single black female on with a baby and no husband as a reason to recruit black americans as status que and nothing else. these are the people who wnat to CUT funding to our education system and teachers salary, but not corporate tax cuts.
I could care less if you are african american or not...if you are...or if you support tea party Senator Bachmann for president, and no I'm not a democract.
When this nation speaks of founding fathers, these are the primary names associated(minus the delegates).
As for specific people, the Founding generation included: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Thomas Paine, Roger Sherman, John Jay, James Wilson, and Gouvernor Morris.
Most of these men had slaves as profit owning HUMANS. Who DID NOT work tirelessly to end this nation's slave trade, why would they? There was no benefit for them to do so, they were livng fat on the hog, doing NOTHING but buying and selling slaves and letting the slave to do all the labor, in which these founding father profitted from, by stealing from their slaves which would effect the (slave-family)for generations to come and still has to this very day.
America PROMISED after emanupaction each free slave would receive (40 acres and mule) and america hasn't KEPT its promise. Instead as share cropper some free slaves were discouraged to read, beaten by the Klan, if they wanted to better their families, learn to read, the Klan separated black american family from family by killing them and their love ones forever.
I hate to be a stickler for reality, but when the Declaration of Independence was signed, John Quincy Adams was a 9-year-old boy. And to use his personal beliefs as Bachmann did, as evidence that the Founding Fathers 'worked tirelessly to end slavery' is simply absurd on its face. Even if there were a few "anti-slavery advocates" among the Founders, it's "a gross distortion" to pretend they collectively made any concerted effort to end the practice. "For goodness’ sake, three of the most significant Founders, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, were all the LARGER of the slave owners.
Adams, who became the sixth president of the United States, may not have signed our "founding documents, as a bona fide "member of the Founding generation." And more than a few other Founders worked to undermine it, George Mason and Alexander Hamilton, for example. Also, while Jefferson's guilt of slavery paragraph was struck from the Declaration of Independence, but OWN more slaves and sired slave children by a slave female- that document's "crucial recognition of God-given unalienable rights that belonged to all human beings," plus hard-won compromises in the Constitution, "unleashed a process that would eventually destroy the institution of slavery by the next generation."
The fairest characterization of the Founding Fathers' view on slavery seems to be that they tolerated it." More accurately, they kicked the problem to the next generation...of course they would while the profits kept rolling in for the slave owners and his family of generation to come.
What they obviously did not do is work "tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States." Even John Quincy Adams was dead by the time that happened.
Why are we even having this fight about the TRUTH when its more than shelf evident? Which is an embellishment of the truth. Because it matters, Bachmann tends to "treat the Constitution as though Madison came down from the mountain with the document inscribed on stone tablets by the finger of God," and quote it "as though it is holy writ," with the Founders playing the role of "prophets." That has huge social and policy consequences. Slavery obviously stains "the immaculate conception of America" preached by Bachmann and other Constitutional originalists.
So in my vision is to return the U.S. to the 1770s, you have to find a way to argue that slavery was not inherent in the Founding Fathers' idealogy.. and not to eventually END it,
Furthmore, we haven't mentioned the Civil War in all this, have we?
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By: Rene on 7/04/2011 7:35PM
Obviously your not black and probably republican. Stop trying to convince black people to listen to the republican party! They are the biggest joke going! Stop!
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