High School Student Challenges Michele Bachmann

There are few candidates that play as fast and loose with facts as Rep. Michele Bachmann. She either doesn't care what the facts are or is one of the most clueless politicians in either party. She has accused the president of approving only one deep-water drilling permits (even though there have been many approvals and currently drilling in the Gulf is at an all-time high). She has accused Rep. Pelosi of having a $100,000 liquor bill on government airplanes (not even close to true). She has said the only information a person has to give the census is the number of people living in the home (a lie that would get listeners in trouble with the law). She has even said the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in New Hampshire (while history tells us it was Massachusetts).

These are just a few of her gaffes (or lies). There are many more. Finally one 10th grader has had enough. Amy Myers, a high school sophomore from Cherry Hill (New Jersey), has challenged the congresswoman to either a "debate" or a "fact test". Here is the text of the letter she sent to Bachmann:

Dear Representative Bachmann,

My name is Amy Myers. I am a Cherry Hill, New Jersey sophomore attending Cherry Hill High School East. As a typical high school student, I have found quite a few of your statements regarding The Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and general U.S. civics matters to be factually incorrect, inaccurately applied or grossly distorted. The frequency and scope of these comments prompted me to write this letter.

Though I am not in your home district, or even your home state, you are a United States Representative of some prominence who is subject to national media coverage. News outlets and websites across this country profile your causes and viewpoints on a regular basis. As one of a handful of women in Congress, you hold a distinct privilege and responsibility to better represent your gender nationally. The statements you make help to serve an injustice to not only the position of Congresswoman, but women everywhere. Though politically expedient, incorrect comments cast a shadow on your person and by unfortunate proxy, both your supporters and detractors alike often generalize this shadow to women as a whole.

Rep. Bachmann, the frequent inability you have shown to accurately and factually present even the most basic information about the United States led me to submit the follow challenge, pitting my public education against your advanced legal education:

I, Amy Myers, do hereby challenge Representative Michele Bachmann to a Public Forum Debate and/or Fact Test on The Constitution of the United States, United States History and United States Civics.

Hopefully, we will be able to meet for such an event, as it would prove to be enlightening.

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Sincerely yours,

Amy Myers

I would love to see such a contest, and my money would definitely be on the Miss Myers. But Bachmann would never agree. She knows she would be outclassed and humiliated.