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I have concerns about Bachmann’s relationship with John Eidsmoe. He was one of her law professors at ORU. She helped with one of his books. She has said he is one of her biggest influences (literally a mentor to her). He has also been disinvited from speaking at several tea party rallys recently, becuase it has come to light that he is linked to several racists organizations.

Which racist organizations is he linked to?

Eidsmoe actually publicly stated that he despises recism. However, he is personally sympathetic to the rights of states to secede ( defending the right of Alabama for instance to secede ).

He believes that Jefferson Davis understood the constitution better than Abe Lincoln.

This issue alone is going to come back and haunt Bachmann were she to be the nominee.

She will be asked the question : “Do you favor the right of any state to secede from the USA?”

Now I’d like to listen to her answer to that question.

Here is a video of John Eidsmoe at an “Alabama Secession Day” celebration.

http://cwmemory.com/2010/02/21/remembering-alabamas-secession-and-lincoln-bin-laden/

Note the person Pat Godwin who appears in the video. She is the organizer of the Alabama Secession Day event, and has this in her background:

In 2000 she erected a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forest in Selma, AL. One of the guys that founded the KKK.

She’s described by a local newspaper as “a known Selma White Supremacist”

http://greenecountydemocrat.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/selma-al-city-council-president-pro-tem-cecil-williamson-accused-of-being-white-supremacist-and-secessionist/

The same Particia Godwin wrote the article below:

http://www.gulftel.com/firstfreedom/68.htm

Some qouotes from the article (I do not recommend opening this at work).

“The Civil Rights movement is not just a Birmingham/Selma/Montgomery, Alabama problem. It is a universal problem.”

“...I witnessed the trash that came here in 1965. In 1965, and for a few years thereafter, the people of Selma, Alabama were willing to tell the truth about this “Mother of All Orgies”… but now, the scalawag/carpetbaggers see $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in the civil rights movement! They don’t even realize they are aiding and abetting the ultimate goal of the One World Order – to brown AmeriKa and annihilate our Anglo-Celtic-European culture!”

The link at the bottom of the page links to this site:

“Nation of Aryans Against Commie Putrefaction”

If you’ll take the time to do some searches on both Godwin and Eidsmoe you’ll notice their names appear together a lot. In particular, he speaks at a lot of “confederate” or “southern” events where she is listed as one of the organizers, and this seems to go back a number of years.

I’m not sure the “I hate racism, but I’ll speak to anybody” cover will work in this instance when the “speak to anybody” is a pattern of repeately speaking to these kinds of groups over a several year period.

We have to unseat Obama. The one, single mistake we can’t make is setting him up to play the race care one, last time. We have several good candidates that could beat Obama (I’m convinced that even Ron Paul could bet Obama in a head-to-head matchup this time around). No single candidate is so valuable that we can’t do without them. If someone has a potential fatal flaw that might hand the win to Obama, then we need to look at it pretty hard.