resurgent america and brought it alive. that speech was about the future, about the american future. it was a gung ho, early 1960s type declaration of can do. we have solved the seemingly unsolvable, we can do it again. i remember those very words, by the way. jfk delivered them right across the street from here at the american university. last night the spirit was alive again, with education and research and smart investment, we can drive our country right past our global rivals like china, just like we flew past the russians on the way to the moon. plus rewriting history. we want to look at michele bachmann's dangerous and nonsensical claim that the founding fathers themselves eradicated slavery, yes, a member of the united states congress who has no basic grasp the american history. but i also think there's something here that's dangerous, a strain of thought in kind of a know-nothing right-wing movement, scrubbing the founding fathers of any flaws so the right wing can claim them and the constitution to be infallible and their cause to be the new absolute truth.