Sarah Palin doubles down on Paul Revere history lesson.

burdturglersays...

Any question she can't answer is a "gotcha" type of question.

Do you read any newspapers? GOTCHA!
Do you know that Africa is a continent? GOTCHA!
Do you know what the vice president's job is? GOTCHA!

Trancecoachsays...

"Yippee yo, you know this kid? I said I didn't but I know he did."

And in Paul Revere's own words,

"It began," he writes, when "it was observed, that a number of [British] Soldiers were marching towards the bottom of the Common. About 10 o'Clock, Dr. Warren Sent in great haste for me, and beged that I would imediately Set off for Lexington, where Messrs. Hancock & Adams were, and acquaint them of the Movement, and that it was thought they were the objets."

And then he offers this account of being captured and telling the British that there was a militia waiting for them:

"I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back, and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from, & what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up."

[All copy "as is" except the bold, which we inserted to highlight the line.]

The Associated Press adds that "Revere was probably bluffing the soldiers about the size of any advancing militia, since he had no way of knowing, according to Joel J. Miller, author of The Revolutionary Paul Revere. And while he made bells, Revere would never have rung any on that famous night because the Redcoats were under orders to round up people just like him. 'He was riding off as quickly and as quietly as possible,' Miller said. 'Paul Revere did not want the Redcoats to know of his mission at all.' "

Indeed, Revere says elsewhere in the letter that "it was then a common opinion, that there was a Traytor in the provincial Congress, & that [Gen.] Gage was posessed of all their Secrets."

ulysses1904says...

She always sounds to me like a grade-school teacher speaking. It's hard to explain but I never hear any detail about anything from her mouth, just big vague terms. It's like a grade-school kid might believe she has foreign policy experience just because part of Alaska is right next to part of Russia but nobody whose brain has developed would think that. Everything she says has this "Dick and Jane" simplicity to it.

VoodooVsays...

>> ^ulysses1904:

She always sounds to me like a grade-school teacher speaking. It's hard to explain but I never hear any detail about anything from her mouth, just big vague terms. It's like a grade-school kid might believe she has foreign policy experience just because part of Alaska is right next to part of Russia but nobody whose brain has developed would think that. Everything she says has this "Dick and Jane" simplicity to it.


So it's perfect for America then?

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