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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Ben Franklin is watching me and expecting me to repeal ObamaCare"
Not an EXACT quote, but she HAD to bring the "founding fathers" into it. She HAD to.
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"Ben Franklin is watching me and expecting me to repeal ObamaCare" (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Jan 2012
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Maybe it was really Ben Franklin and not God that told her to run for President.
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2012
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arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)1. Does she have ANY CLUE what Franklin did in his spare time?
Does she not know about his involvement in the Hellfire Club and all the orgies?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. More know-nothing blithering from an idiot.
If she had actually READ anything of Franklin's, she would shut up.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)3. I don't see how these clowns think they can speak for the founding fathers
and Ben Franklin! hey, Bachmann do you know what he liked to do in his spare time? Not exactly your family values type of founding father!
unblock
(52,113 posts)4. "go fly a kite" is the obvious retort....
sinkingfeeling
(51,434 posts)5. Maybe it was really Ben Franklin and not God that told her to run for President.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)6. He was reported to have had a wicked sense of humor.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)11. And a sharp eye for the ladies.
Little known fact about Benjamin Franklin: He invented the bi-focal Doggy Sunglasses.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)7. If Ben Franklin knew her
he'd have tied her to his kite.
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)8. Ah yes, Franklin, a student of the Enlightenment, speaker of 6 languages, who hung out in France...
And was also a Liberal.
rug
(82,333 posts)9. "If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
1749 Almanack.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)10. Maybe she meant the Ben Franklin dime store/craft store chain?
The big wigs over at Ben Franklin HQ are strong-arming her on this one.