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"I'm actually even more than just an Iowan," Bachmann told her Hawkeye
audience last week. "I'm a 7th generation Iowan. Our family goes back
to the 1850s to the first pioneers that came to Iowa from Sognfjord,
Norway."
According
to a breathless Chris Rodda of OpEdNews, although Bachmann
was born in Iowa, and although her family did come from Norway in the
1850s, her family made stops in Quebec, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas
before retreating to Iowa and then only four generations ago.
Those of
us who have followed the Obama family saga have to marvel at the
potentially terminal myopia of people like Pinto and Rodda.
Their guy
built his candidacy on the shifting sands of a family lie, not from
four generations back or seven, but from this one, Obama's own. [full]
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I offer
as a side dish to that American
Thinker article this. Some of you have seen it before -
it's the (Feb 1, 2011) video where
Chris Matthews is joined by Howard Fineman and David Corn in a
discussion of the Right's plan to deny Obama's reelection.
What's important about this video has nothing to do with the subject
matter. It's a textbook manifestation of how the left frames arguments
with false predicates, twisted truths, and ad hominem attack on the
opponent. It's all here.
Matthews begins with Arizona (the
tenderloin of American politics, says Fineman) legislation that would require presidential
candidates to present a long form birth certificate in order to get on
their ballot. It has to show the hospital, the attending
physician, etc." Posits Matthews; "Can
something like this become law?"
From the get-go then, a common sense requirement (who can
possibly disagree on the merits?) is reduced to an unconstitutional
dirty trick. Even though Matthews later admits that Obama
"probably doesn't have the long form birth certificate," that's okay
-- because he earlier set the predicate that we're in an era of electronic record
keeping, which includes birth certificates ( shows green .jpeg) like
Obama has.
You could do a thesis on controlling the public debate using this
video. If you do, I defy you to get through it without using the
name Alois Shickelgruber (ahem) in the process.
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I bet if they dug a little deeper, they would find out Bachman's family had visited a majority of the other 57 states as well.
ReplyDeleteH the Comet
Looks like the mfcs press is about to launch the Wasilla Strike Force on Michelle Bachmann.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it they've been doing up until now?
ReplyDeleteI am a 6th generation American descended from Norwegian Immigrants who once they reached the North American continent made brief stops in Quebec, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Dakota, Iowa and eventually back to Dakota again where they settled and stayed. My family considers ourselves to be 6th generation South Dakotans. That is where the first five generations lived, raised children, died and were buried.
ReplyDeleteNotice I didn't say born. Many of my ancestors were born in Iowa and Minnesota even though they lived their whole lives in South Dakota.
We didn't change our state of residence every time an ancestor went on vacation or just happened to be with relatives in another state when their baby was born.
Morons!
So amazing that they can trace her family history back seven generations, yet they still haven't found Barry's birth certificate.
ReplyDeleteI know...I'm preaching to the choir, but it had to be said.
Excellent point Mike! I like that multi-generational American timber. It's good wood. Can't make shit out of that nasty foreign pressed "wood".
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