Anyone think that Palin explained to Piper that George Washington had slaves to help him w/the farm?

[Empowerer]

"When Piper laid the wreath at George Washington’s tomb this afternoon, I wished that every American school student could be here to see and feel the spirit of our nation’s first father. Even Piper was able to grasp the significance of being in the presence of our first President – who had such diverse interests – when she told me later “how hard he must have worked to keep that farm going!”

I wonder if Gov. Palin bothered to educate her daughter about the fact that George Washington had plenty of help "keeping that farm going." It was called slavery.

Of course, that would run counter to her insistence that we have to return to the America of days gone by when everything was so much better for everyone - except, of course, those slaves who helped Washington and countless other slaveholders "keep their farms going."

[LiberalFighter]

1. What is this laid the wreath thing?

[Raschel]

4. And what's with the "American school student"? She is such a doofus.

[warrior1]

7. caught that too

who the fuck does she think she is?

[golfguru]

2. Visit to Mt. Vernon was the highlight

of my trip to Washington DC. It is an impressive place!
And they have preserved everything just like when George lived there.

[Raschel]

3. Did you know that George also had real teeth in his dentures. They were teeth from his slaves.

Saw it on the history channel.

[Igel]

8. Perhaps.

But Greenwood, the guy who made them, made more than just Washington's dentures. In most he used teeth he extracted from patients. No word on who his patients were, or if pulled the teeth from slaves' mouths.

Greenwood was in New York City, which had a reasonable slave population at the time.

History Channel likes speculation--they like to keep their viewship up, after all--and on occasion will suggest something, not mention any other alternative, and let the viewer infer something that is possible but not probable.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Silly you, why let facts get in the way. That is the republican way.

[tanyev]

6. They were African volunteers!

Stephen Colbert last night. :rofl:


http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/387919/may-31-2011/sarah-palin-s-bus-tour?xrs=share_copy

[Ikonoklast]

9. Washington had his slaves muck out a swamp in the coldest Virginia winter in living memory.

Men, women, and children in water dragging out brush in below-freezing weather while the usually indomitable Washington found too cold to ride out and inspect, which was very unusual for him as he was very hands-on in the running of his estate.

[Diamonique]

10. Washington couldn't have had any slaves.

Bachman says the founding fathers got rid of slavery.

[jmowreader]

11. Bachmann calls it volunteerism