The thing that surprises me is how many people DON’T know this is true. I was lucky I guess to learn this in elementary school, but I have heard many revisionist tales. Why? Why do people care enough to try to change history?

Al Franken said it, not me.

Oh and that’s a great reason to cite it.

Al Frankin picked one of those two parties that you despise so much.

So did Ron Paul.

Both are idiots and dangerous, as is anyone who cites their drivel.

I vote for people who stand for liberty, through strength, and less government waste. People who don’t want to redistribute wealth to lackeys an morons who don’t want to work for anything.

People who are students of the constitution and history, and know that more government = more tyranny, without exception.

Al Franken said it, not me.

I am quite well informed. I understand how the current two-party system we embrace is a complete farce. Democrats and Republicans kiss the behinds of the corporate world and are beholden to them. Obama, Bush, McCain are all of the same mold.

I think the “real story” should include the following.

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia 1607, first representative government created 1619. Due to conditions in the colony the people traded copper and iron tools for food with the natives. Not exactly a good use of capital investment but it kept people alive.

Mayflower lands in 1620. It was supposed to land in the established Virginia area but detours north in what became Massachusetts. Since it did not land where it was contracted several shipmates declare themselves free of the obligations. The Mayflower Compact is created to try and hold them to the religious separatists. The signatories were not in the majority.

Lincoln create a national day and ties it to Plymouth in Massachusetts instead of the Virginia colonists since it was in the north.

In 1939 FDR changes the day at the urging of retailers and it causes an uproar. Thanksgiving is moved up a week to provide more shopping days between the holidays.

Rugby reader quotes Ben Franklin;

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Kender retors with a more fitting quote for the times from Thomas Jefferson:

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”

–Thomas Jefferson

So you’re telling me that Al Franken has the maturity level of a third grader?

I’m shocked.

I’m from North Dakota, not Minnesota. However, I agree with Al Franken. And Ron Paul. And Ralph Nader.

“Rugby Reader” pretty much tipped me off to your geography.

But saying that you agree with Ron Paul and Al Franken tells me that you must not know what at least one of those two guys stands for. One is for limited government, and one isn’t.

Sounds like you need to spend a little more time informing yourself.