Palin was in Boston for just a few hours, enough to spend about 30 minutes visiting three iconic Revolutionary War sites…
She said she was “getting goose bumps’’ from all the history she was glimpsing in Boston…
Hailing Paul Revere after visiting Old North Church in the North End, she said he had warned that the British were coming to make sure “we were going to be secure and free, and we were going to be armed…’’
“You’ve got to know a lot about our past in order to know how to proceed successfully into the future,’’ she said.”
Cassi Creek: 3 historic sites, 30 minutes tour time. Obviously, she’s not “glimpsing” enough to get it right. She seems to believe that the 2nd Amendment was in existence in 1775. The NRA must be so proud of her! She’s only off by 14 years.
She obviously failed to properly read and understand Longfellow’s work that opens,” Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”
Given her religious fundamentalism, I wonder if she needs to be disabused of the thought that Revere and his fellow patriots may have kept stables of riding dinosaurs. She certainly has never assimilated the concept of separation of church and state.
“In Boston today, meeting with supporters and other curious elements. She is also chatting about how meaningful being in such a historic region is to her on her One Nation tour. Of course, this means Sarah Palin is talking about history, and CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin, who was covering the story this afternoon, could barely contain her contempt as Palin described Paul Revere “sending those warning shots and bells” to tell Americans that “the British weren’t taking away our arms.”
Palin strung together an off-the-cuff explanation of the famed Midnight Ride for those listening that seemed to involve a ton of noise, bells, gunfire, and a warning that the British were out to take away Americans’ as-yet-nonexistent Second Amendment rights, which Baldwin couldn’t help but react to with deer-in-the-headlights confusion. “History lesson from Sarah Palin on the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” she deadpanned.
Palin’s version wasn’t exactly the official History Channel rendition of the tale, and she delivered it in a somewhat stumbling fashion, but the thing about the Midnight Ride is that it is precisely the sort of historic event where everyone seems to have it wrong. For one, Revere didn’t warn the British were out to take anyone’s arms, as he didn’t yell out “the British are coming!”, as the myth goes. He had to be quiet to not let the British know that he knew (sorry, but no bells either) they were coming– to seize weapons stores, actually– and history notes that his warning was likely something far less epic-sounding, like “the Regulars are coming.”
Cassi Creek:
I would be horribly embarrassed to be so poorly acquainted with the early history of this nation. I would be even more embarrassed to set so poor an example for my children. To be contemplating a campaign for election as President of this nation and to have less knowledge of its history than many non-citizens is shameful. Her every utterance displays her lack of education and her lack of concern for education. She is a walking commercial for literacy testing of candidates for public office.
It is a safe bet that Ms. Palin has never successfully completed an American history course at any level of our educational system. She is evidently inadequate in English grammar and composition. I’ve not seen her attempt at spelling other than “refudiate” but I have no reason to believe that she paid any more attention to spelling than to any other subject.
If the GOP would insist that she declare her intentions and take part in the scheduled debates she would quickly demonstrate her complete lack of competency. She needs to be dragged out from her Fox News powder puff interviews and forced to compete in a real arena. Despite her belief, the rest of the world’s nations will not care that she is a fundamentalist, anti-education, working mother, former beauty pageant loser. The diplomats and leaders of the industrialized world would quickly chew her up, spit her out, and laugh as she once more quit in the face of a job that actually demands more than innuendo and lies.
Her misinformation tour has done nothing to improve awareness of American history in either she and her children or in her fans. It is simply another swindle to milk money out of those fans while she enjoys living a privileged life and simultaneously accusing political opponents of being elitists.
Someone give her a dozen roses and a banner to wear across her chest that reads “Ms Informed” Perhaps she’ll delude herself about that as well and finally go home.
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