Posted on 03/12/2011 9:38:34 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s suggestion Saturday that the Revolutionary War began in Concord, N.H., rather than Lexington and Concord, Mass., marks the third time in recent months that the potential GOP presidential hopeful has committed a puzzling gaffe about history and current affairs.
Making her first trek to New Hampshire as a 2012 prospect, Bachmann told a GOP crowd in Manchester: “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord.”
The Revolutionary War began, not in New Hampshire’s capital, but in the famous two towns more than 50 miles away in Massachusetts.
For Bachmann, who leads the House Tea Party caucus and champions a return to the Constitution, to get such basic facts wrong about the country’s birth is revealing.
Her comment wasn’t just an off-hand reference that she inserted in her remarks. At a fundraiser Friday night on the New Hampshire Seacoast, Bachmann said almost the exact same thing
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Bachmann playing off to her web camera instead of direct eye contact to the networks camera was a more minor WTF moment, as Sarah Palin might describe.
I seem to recall....
Obama: "I have now been in 57 states, [?] I think one one left to go...one left to go.. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to.. even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it"
Biden: "Stand up Chuck!..Oh God love ya, what am I talking about!! Stand up for Chuck!! Good to see ya buddy!!"
What matters is her prudent applications of government, in all 57 States.
Politicians are wise to have their stump speeches fact-checked before making them. (With the literacy level of the average public-schooled intern it still might go bad.)
The Revolutionary War began, not in New Hampshire’s capital, but in the famous two towns more than 50 miles away in Massachusetts.
Big deal. The sad fact of things is that 9 of 10 Americans would not recognize this as a mistake. There is only local impact on this gaff.
Once you’re the incumbant it doesn’t matter how many gaffes you make.
Once you’re the incumbent it doesn’t matter how many gaffes you make.
If you are a good Democrat, it doesn’t matter what gaffes you make and how many. Only Repulicans are held to strict standards in this regard.
These asswipe morons at the politico are drooling Hussein cultists...because any fair, objective CHECK on the gaffe meter would show the Kenyan Communist knows less about some basic facts than Michele Bachmann on any given subject.
Naval Corpsemen, the effects of capital gains taxes, and the 3000% percent raise, are the first examples that come to mind of the verbal idiocy displayed by the man-child occupant of the top of the executive branch.
But the “journalists” at the politico obviously have their noses buried so far up Hussein’s backside, they can’t hear him speak.
I wonder who filled in little Jonathan and Kendra about Concord and Lexington. I doubt they even knew about those two towns until someone pointed out Michelle’s mistake to them.
Yes, they are by the liberal media.
For republicans or democrats, when they see a candidate in the primaries known to make gaffes it should be a red flag. Last thing we want to see is for a gaffe making nominee going up against a gaffe making incumbent.
Mrs. Clinton stumping in Maine as a Democratic candidate made me laugh when she said that when she drove by the Maine mills inactive, they should get up and running [words to that effect]... they should be burning wood- with all the trees in Maine. It was in her speech in Lewiston, Maine; but never reported. I could just picture little Leprechaun laborers lugging logs to an enormous wood fired furnace all day long..for what purpose?
And supporting those brave corpsemen!
only makes politico seem PETTY and SMALL!
Concord NH is kind of close to Lexington MA.
Not that close but... Whatnot, when you are talking to the retarded.
I have been on the Concord green many times. I can walk from my house to where a band of 200 men mustered and walked 16 miles to fight that day at Concord MA. Most of them never survived the war.
If you are living in a housing project in Manchester NH, any Concord may as well be on Mars... Just get out and vote in November. There are rides available for you too...
It would be refreshing if a pol knew American history intimately enough to stir local crowds by speaking to their unique American inheritance. I would want a Pennsylvania speech to rally the community to the sacrifices of Valley Forge, a Texas crowd to the Alamo, an Hawaiian crowd to Pearl Harbor, etc. For somebody conversant with, and passionate about our history, those types of things are straight from the heart.
Ah...but in New England voters of a more adult age with roots in the same..take pride in the history of our 13 colonies [and still fly the flag on the 4th] as so we are often related to the early founders, governors, Tories, etc. Maine was an exclave of Massachusetts until 1820.
Now once I spoke to a customer service person [and not India] and she asked if New England was in Europe..so...lol will give you that.
Plus, remember you can't fool a 5th grader!!
Is Aunt Zeituni allowed to vote?
Newt's strong suit..to bad his other suits are soiled.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.