New Rule: Presidential Candidates Should Not Make Stuff Up

If they enact that rule, no candidate would have anything to say.

Love the video and my heart beams at the intelligence of this young man,more power to ya!

I wish we would have had that rule in 2008...

Gives one hope for sure. Google Michelle Bachman's reading list. Good work by the Christian Science Monitor on the influences on some of her most controversial statements. She apparently does believe what she says and there are several groups that also promote these alternate universal history's of everything. Free speech is guaranteed but fraud.......

Good on this 18 year old young man! Some of our youth are paying attention! How refreshing. He's pro-science and he's smart enough to know the bible doesn't cut it. Keep up the great work repealcreationism! We need you now more than ever.

There is hope, here he is!!!

Ms Bachmann like most of the far right want to impose there morals upon all the country.

No scientist doubts evolution, but there are too many gaps in the fossil records to trace human evolution back to the "source", so there IS controversy, just nowhere near the amount or type of controversy Bachman would like you to believe.
Kudos for calling her out though she doesn't seem to be nice to the youngin's, so if you need some back up, just let me know (I can hit girls and not get in as much trouble as a male would).

Smart kid and a quick study, good post.

Maybe she's confusing the Nobel Prize with the Templeton Prize- or a Discovery Institute grant...

This kid is smarter than your average Republican.
Loved it as it tells the truth.

A woman on Al Sharpton, said they will both say negative things about each other, even if they aren't true. She said it as though, it's okay. No one should accept that type of behavior from politicians. If it's not true, they should not be able to say it.

It's time to stop moving along to the wrongs. Maybe we can force them to be honest. No one should be afforded the luxury of a lie. The cost is too high.

Trust is earned. How can we trust someone who says things, which are not true? Why should we vote for someone who hasn't 'earned' our trust?

Can you imagine the GOP debates? Absolute silence. What could they say if they couldn't lie?

If politicians lie we should wash their mouth with lye soap (LOL). good post

Good Post! Keep up the good work. Polititions need to talk about how to help our country instead of making stuff up.

And while on the subject, corporations should not just make up these wedge issue candidates. Great post!

repealcreationism: THANK YOU - an excellent post, very well done.

A breath of fresh air. To be anti-science is to be anti-life. We can surely have a belief without losing our perspective. Keep up the good work and stay in their faces.

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for not making me lose my faith in this generation!!!!!
You are awesome. Keep up the great work!

A good read here: Terry Gross of Fresh Air interview with Ryan Lizza. Aired on NPR August 9, 2011.

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=139084313

Excerpts from transcript:

"GROSS: So, do you think that Michele Bachmann subscribes to the view that you say Francis Schaeffer eventually subscribed to, which is that Christians are biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns?

Mr. LIZZA: She's never said that specifically, but if you look at her history, if you look at the first time she actually got involved with politics, and that is when she started a charter school in her local town of Stillwater, Minnesota -it was only a six or seven-month experiment. She got together with some parents. They started a publicly funded charter school, signed a charter that said that they were not allowed in any way to include a sectarian religious agenda at this school. And they very quickly violated that and built the school around a Christian sectarian agenda, to the point where parents started - where parents who were told that this was a school for at-risk kids became very alarmed because their children were being taught creationism, and famously, they were not allowed to watch the movie "Aladdin" because it involved magic. And, you know, and on and on and on. And were - eventually the school district stepped in and warned them they were going to lose their charter because they were violating it. And eventually Bachmann and another person who were spearheading this were forced off the board and forced off the leadership of that school."

"GROSS: And one of the books I was really surprised to read about, which I hadn't heard of before, is a biography of Robert E. Lee written by J. Steven Wilkins published in 1997. Part of it has to do with slavery. And I want to read a paragraph that you quote.

Slavery as it operated in the pervasively Christian society, which was the old South, was not an adversarial relationship founded upon racial animosity. In fact, it bred on the whole not contempt, but over time mutual respect. This produced a mutual esteem of the sort that always results when men give themselves to a common cause. The credit for this startling reality must go to the Christian faith. The unity and companionship that existed between the races in the South prior to the war was the fruit of a common faith.

Mr. LIZZA: So this one sort of blew me away, because you have to ask yourself -and first of all, let me just point out why this book is relevant. For a number of years, Michele Bachmann's personal website had a list of books that she recommended people read and it was called Michele's Must-Read List. And so I was looking over the list and noticed this biography of Lee by Wilkins. Never heard of Wilkins. Started looking into who he was, and frankly couldn't believe that she was recommending this book.

Wilkins, he's done something very unique. He's combined a Christian conservatism with neo-Confederate views and developed what is known as the theological war thesis. And this is an idea that holds the best way to understand the Civil War is actually to see it in religious terms, and that the South was an Orthodox Christian nation attacked by the godless North and that what was really lost after the Civil War was one of the pinnacles of Christian society.

And this, what I discovered is that this insane view of the Civil War has been successfully injected into some of the Christian home-schooling movement curriculums with the help of this guy Wilkins. And my guess - I don't know this for sure because I didn't get to ask Michele Bachmann - my guess is that this is how she probably encountered Wilkins at some point. Because she's not from the South. There's no history of her being interested in Southern heritage or anything else. And so I'm assuming that that's how she was introduced to it.

Either way, she recommended this book on her website for a number of years. It is an objectively pro-slavery book and to me one of the most startling things I learned about her in the reporting of this piece. "

good video.
we should all live by that rule of not making stuff up.

Great piece of work! Stay after it. You got the mojo. :-)

Good work, kid. Keep fighting for your right to hear the truth from our "leaders". I am often bewildered about made up statistics thrown out for public consumption by the politicians that seem to fly in the face of reality. Has Michele responded with the name of a single Nobel winner who will state that they believe in creationism? I doubt you'll ever get an answer, but good job anyway.