Michele Bachmann Thanks Supporter Who Says He'd Rather Vote For Charles Manson Than Barack Obama

        Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) thanked an Iowa radio show listener who said he'd rather vote for Charles Manson than President Barack Obama.
        Bachmann appeared on Des Moines-based WHO Radio with Simon Conway, a conservative radio show, on September 26 for an interview and to take questions from listeners. One caller told Bachmann that he had attended several rallies and thanked her for signing a t-shirt. After the host asked him to ask a question, he said that the president was a "walking nightmare" who was "blowing up our country."
"I would vote for Charles Manson before this guy," he said. "But I’m pulling for you big time, all the way, go Michele!"
        "Thank you for saying that," she replied.
        This is not the first time Bachmann has not stood up to a supporter who made outlandish statements.
Following the Sept. 12 CNN/Tea Party Express debate, Bachmann told the story of a woman who come up to her and said the HPV vaccine caused her daughter to become mentally retarded. There is no medical evidence to support the claim, but Bachmann defended repeating the woman's story in subsequent interviews.
        The New York Times reported that such statements are part of a pattern, writing, "People close to the campaign, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mrs. Bachmann is often influenced by the last person she speaks with on an issue rather than maintaining discipline in communicating a message."
         courtesy, the grio.com

         This was the first thing I heard when my radio alarm went off this morning. She hates our President that much that it would be a compliment in preferring a bat-shit crazy serial killer over him?   For real?  I don't even know what to say.

Oops, I meant happy Deathday!

Clueless Bachmann Wishes Presley A Happy Birthday

“We played you a lit­tle bit of ‘Promised Land’ when we pulled up. You can’t do bet­ter than Elvis Pres­ley, and we thought we would cel­e­brate his birth­day as we get started cel­e­brat­ing tak­ing our coun­try back to work!”

That was Bachmann’s open­ing state­ment in Spar­tan­burg, S.C yes­ter­day, as she addressed the crowd gath­ered at one of her pres­i­den­tial cam­paign events. The prob­lem with her cel­e­brat­ing Presley’s birth­day yes­ter­day was a lit­tle fact that hap­pened to be that August 16th was the day Pres­ley died. Elvis Pres­ley was actu­ally born on Jan­u­ary 8th.

But have no fear, this is Michele Bach­mann after all. What would really be sur­pris­ing would be if she even knew what day of the week it was!


Carry on Michele, do you!

WTF??

Bachmann Believes Black People Were Better Off During  Slavery?       

GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has signed a conservative pledge called "The Marriage Vow -- A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family." It's not surprising that it's anti-abortion, anti-same sex marriage and anti-divorce. But one particular piece has everyone up in arms over the idea that she and other signatories think that black people were better off during slavery:

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President.
Do Bachmann and others who signed the pledge actually think we were better off without freedom and with all of the other emotional and physical horrors that accompanied being enslaved? We don't know, quite honestly doubt they care, and don't believe that's actually the point (and the very accuracy of the statement -- including whether living arrangements during slavery are what we'd consider "two-parent households" -- is a whole different conversation).

What's actually disturbing here is the total willingness to invoke slavery -- as well as the current state of the black family -- to serve as a cheap emotional hook to promote a conservative agenda that has nothing more to do with African Americans than it does with anyone else (not unlike the infamous "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb" billboards).
So while Bachmann and others who sign this pledge will score points with racists who like the dig at black people as well as conservatives who like the underlying political ideology of "The Marriage Vow," the rest of us should focus not so much on what they believe about the state of the African-American family but on what they're willing to say about it to serve their own political ambitions.

  --courtesy  eurweb.com


oh yeah, they had it good back then.

You could spin anything into a positive if you are twisted enough and willing to  ignore the truth..