re: #13 The Ghost of a Flea

Um, you’re glossing over detail to make your point. Rep. Bachmann said that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly to end slavery.” When questioned about this statement, she specified that she was referring to John Quincy Adams. When further questioned, she insisted that the 8-year-old Adams was very active at the time of the Revolutionary War.

Well, he was active, just not in politics. To quote cracked.com:

With his father away from home most of the time busying himself with the rebel cause, Adams, at age eight, was the man of the house. As if ensuring the safety and prosperity of an entire house before you even hit puberty isn’t daunting enough, Adams had to do it all during a fucking war. He, in fact, often talked about watching the battle of Bunker Hill from his front porch, constantly worried about being, as he wrote in his diary, “butchered in cold blood, or taken and carried…as hostages by any foraging or marauding detachment of British soldiers.” Remember when you were eight and you worried about missing Pokemon? Yeah. If you’re feeling, perhaps, a little wet right now, it’s because the ghost of an eight year old John Quincy Adams is pissing all over you as you read this.

Now, to be fair, Abigail was actually running things…but it can’t have been a picnic, either.