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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 08:59 AM
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Michele Bachmann's Child Army
Source: Mother Jones


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Over the last week of the campaign, nearly six-dozen home-schooled students, some flown in from out of state, joined the Bachmann campaign, knocking on doors, sending out mailers, and making thousands of phone calls. The kids, all between the ages of 12 and 19, were members of GenJ Student Action Team, part of a national organization called Generation Joshua, which trains home-schooled students to become political activists. When the votes were counted, Bachmann held on to her seat in a squeaker—and she credited her child army with pushing her over to the top.


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Now, as Bachmann sets her sights on the Republican presidential nomination, that same youth brigade could be her secret weapon. Over the last decade, Bachmann, who home-schooled her five biological children, has developed strong ties to state and national home-school organizations. In March, she joined fellow presidential candidates Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and businessman Herman Cain at a conference organized by the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE) in Des Moines. And in 2009, she addressed Generation Joshua's national iGovern conference in Washington, DC.


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In courting home-schoolers, Bachmann isn't simply sticking with her principles; she's following the same blueprint that propelled former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to a surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses three years ago. Huckabee, whose 2008 campaign was guided by Bachmann's top strategist Ed Rollins, used the state's home-school network as a base of support at a time when he was cash-strapped and mostly unknown.


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Farris is the former president of Patrick Henry College, the Virginia institution that aspires to be the "Evangelical Ivy," preparing the nation's brightest home-schooled students (whom the school is geared toward) for careers in public service. Through the efforts of Farris and others, home-schoolers have attained levels of political influence disproportionate to their small numbers. A 2003 study (PDF) funded by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) suggested that home-schooled 18- to 24-year-olds are 14 times more likely to have worked for a political campaign and more than three times as likely to have voted as non-home-schooled students.



Read more: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/michele-bachmann-home-school-fundraising

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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 09:00 AM
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1. Bachman Youth...
how scary
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 09:04 AM
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2. I wonder how many were females?
And went across state lines without their parents?
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 09:05 AM
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3. Information about "Generation Joshua"
Edited on Tue Jul-19-11 09:08 AM by woo me with science
http://www.generationjoshua.org/dnn/About/tabid/244/Default.aspx

"The Vision of Generation Joshua is to assist parents to raise up the next generation of Christian leaders and citizens, equipped to positively influence the political processes of today and tomorrow.

To accomplish these goals, Generation Joshua provides training opportunities for teenagers. Our goal is to use these opportunities to challenge teens to stand up for what is right, to grow in their own beliefs, and to learn about how they can make a difference in their communities and nation.

At Generation Joshua, we believe that real leaders must stand for their beliefs. Many of today’s “leaders” do not actually want to lead; they just want to be the top person in charge. That is not leadership, it is celebrity. True leaders want to lead people to make a difference and to stand up for what is right. And that first requires the leader to have a core set of beliefs upon which to act.

Our goal at Generation Joshua is to cultivate leaders and to equip them to use their beliefs to influence the political process. All of our programs either challenge youth to strengthen their beliefs, or give youth the opportunity to put their beliefs into action.
We know that not every person is called to enter the political arena, but every person should be a leader who is willing to stand up for what is right, where ever they are called to serve. To that end, Generation Joshua exists.

We, as Christians, are called to be good stewards of our family, our community, and our nation. Generation Joshua provides opportunities for youth to be good stewards in their communities (through our club program) and in our nation (through our Student Action Teams).

Generation Joshua wants America to be a perpetual city on a hill, a beacon of biblical hope to the world around us. We seek to inspire every one of our members with faith in God and a hope of what America can become as we equip Christian citizens and leaders to impact our nation for Christ and for His glory.

Stay strong and courageous,

William A. Estrada, Esq.
Director of Generation Joshua
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 09:08 AM
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4. Home schooled w migraines?
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 09:37 AM
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5. Another example of projection
Republicans, and I'm sure Bachmann was part of it, were aghast at some school kids singing a song for Obama that they started rumors about re-educations camps, etc.

Looks like the children army is Michele's.

TlalocW
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 10:00 AM
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6. *sigh* How long until the arrival of the broad brush with which to paint homeschoolers?
5...4...3...
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MedicalAdmin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 01:51 PM
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9. How about a tiny BRUSH.
THOSE homeschooler's are nuts.
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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 06:26 PM
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10. I have known two homeschooling families...
neither were/are of the evangelical variety.

The kids, for the most part, are thriving and are socially well-adjusted.
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Tyrs WolfDaemon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 11:59 AM
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7. She is scary and shouldn't be allowed near children
I can see her leading a modern witch hunt yelling,
"They eat your babies! We must burn them at the stake!",
as her battle cry. :scared:

That would be a perfect example of blaming a group for the same things you yourself do.
I wouldn't put it past her to eat babies. Are we sure that all of her foster kids are accounted for? :tinfoilhat:


Seriously though, her hypocrisy (hypo-CRAP-sy) is beyond belief, although it is becoming standard fare for most pols, but especially Repubs and TeaPees.
She probably goes to the home-schoolers with the message:
"The government has no business telling us how or what to teach our children."

She would easily follow that up by telling them that they must work harder get the government to:
Dictate who can marry whom
What god you must pray to and what church to give money to
etc.
The damage this woman can and will inflict on the young of this nation will drag us not into a new depression but a new dark-ages.
She probably teaches her kids to pray and work for the apocalypse to come.

May her political career crash and burn so that she can go home, be subservient to her husband and most importantly,
stop pushing her evil on the American people.


She and her ilk make my migraines worse.:banghead:
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HappyMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-11 12:17 PM
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8. Very, very creepy.
:scared:

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