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Todd457 Wrote: Jul 06, 2011 4:01 PM
The Democrats are the friend of anybody who will give them the upperhand. I love Andrew Breibart comments.
Todd457 Wrote: Jul 06, 2011 4:01 PM
The Democrats are the friend of anybody who will give them the upperhand. I love Andrew Breibart comments.
Frank1845 Wrote: Jul 06, 2011 3:51 PM
Dr. Bachmann’s influence on his wife is an article of faith within the family.

“He is her godly husband,” said Peter Bachmann, Dr. Bachmann’s oldest brother, who lives on the family dairy farm across the eastern border in Wisconsin. “The husband is to be the head of the wife, according to God.” It is a philosophy that Michele Bachmann echoed to congregants of the the Living Word Christian Center in 2006, when she stated that she pursued her degree in tax law only because her husband had told her to. “The Lord says: Be submissive, wives. You are to be submissive to your husbands,” she said.

Now, I know that some of you will find some way of turning this into something ugly. I expect it. But I want to know if any of you can...
Chris546 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 8:26 PM
WOW, how much are you Liberal JERK OFFS getting paid to spend your day here????
James Butler Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 8:24 PM
RW, Jefwry, let the fun begin...

Obama sayings:
if we passed the stimulus, unemployment would not go over 8%.

the war in Libya would be over in days not weeks.

General MacArthur bowed to Emperor Hirihito when the latter came aboard the USS Missouri and signed surrender documents.

24 May 2011 was 24 May 2008.

Medal of Honour winner, Jared Monti, was alive.

military medics are a “corpsemen.”

his parents met at the Selma March in 1965 and conceived him, even though he was born 4 years before Selma.

that there are “57 or 58 states.”

that a Kansas tornado in May 2007 killed 10,000 people.

that Afghans speak Arabic.

that Iran was a "tiny" country that "did not pose a serious threat to the US."

that he could see the “unbroken...
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 11:02 PM
I'm not sure what your point is. How are President Obama's gaffes comparable to Michele Bachmann's calculated lies?
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right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 8:03 PM
God, I hope Bachmann goes the distance in these primaries. It will be God's best gift to the Dems since sarah Palin.
James Butler Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 8:20 PM
ROFLOL...
Said the marxists in the crowd...
right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 7:50 PM
Gee, SW, I wish that the pro-Bachmann site that you copied here (you really should give credit to the writer) had bothered to mention

1. Bachmann's comprehension and plans for the global-economic environment, and what she thinks about the powers and responsibilities of the IMF.

2. Her positions on the inter-relatedness of middle east transformations in terms of how they affect each other, and the role of tribalism in the arena of culural-political solutions

3. Her position on Darfur, and the Chinese role in petroleum explorations as it affects the genocide that is occuring there, along with the position the Chinese are taking globally to control natural energy sources.

4. Her understanding of the history of the American economy...
right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 7:54 PM
Maybe she could also explain what position we should take in regards to the Greek implosion, in the sense that it will affect the Euro banking economy, and ultimately resonate in our own.

Perhaps she could explain it.
right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 7:57 PM
Why doesn't she address this issue?: Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in solar output, in the Earth’s orbit, and in greenhouse gas levels. They also show that in the past, large changes in climate have happened very quickly, geologically-speaking: in tens of years, not in millions or even thousands.

what would her position be on this issue, and if she still refutes that it is happening, perhaps she could provide us with her geologic/ biochemistry explanation.
justin53 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 5:48 PM
I was greatly disappointed in the Tea Party Candidates that were voted into office this last election with only a few exceptions. I will not vote for any Republican or Democrat that votes against individual freedom and liberty granted to us by God and confirmed through the Constitution and Bill Of Rights. Bachmann voted to extend the PATRIOT Act which is an attempt by the elite to take the rights of a blessed and free people and replace it with a cursed Orwellian nightmare state and if you don’t think so just wait the level of tyranny is slowly but surely expanding. I do not understand the arrogance of politicians in this country today who think in their infinite wisdom they are smarter than our founding fathers and can subvert...
Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:28 PM
Andrew Breitbart analyzes? Now that's comedy!
Beth165 Wrote: Jul 11, 2011 11:06 AM
Andrew is insightful in his perspectives, and incisive in his analysis. He performs a fraudectomy on the leftist dogma. So the hypocrites scream or shoot their ridiculous darts of ridicule. He must have his armor on to operate here. I'll have to call him Dr. Andrew.
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:58 PM
For Herman who said that my referring to Obama as a "mongrel" was racist. Well, dear sir, he called himself and black people that very thing. So I guess he is a double racist, hmmmmm?

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Obama Calls Blacks ‘Mongrel People’ (mongrel is a type of dog)
Thursday, July 29, 2010


U.S. president Barack Obama appeared on ‘The View’ and promptly stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when he referred to blacks as “a sort of mongrel people.”

For those who aren’t familiar with the term: a mongrel is a type of dog that is considered undesirable among breeders because its breed can not easily be determined.

It is highly insulting to refer to human beings as mongrels.

President Obama waded into the...
Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 3:56 PM
The President used the term in a lighthearted self-deprecating fashion, and the audience took it as such.

For you to repeat it, out of context, is using it inappropriately. In my opinion, you were using it disparagingly, which I find racist.

Also, learn to use the reply button. It would make your point a little more clear and make it easier for folks to follow the thread.
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:07 PM
Your opinion, my opinion -night and day - guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, Hermie old boy.
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:08 PM
In fact, if I had to say so, the president's statement that day was probably the first time in his life that he was speaking the truth about himself.
Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:12 PM
So, based on your 4:07 post, you think that you did NOT use it disparagingly?
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:28 PM
Whether I had called him a dog, cur, mongrel or bi!ch (if a woman), all of the references do not imply "racist", you idiot. That is what is so sad about you liberals, you try to make everything into an object of "racism". That boat sailed long ago. And if I call him a Jive Turkey, do yourself the favor of looking up the urban meaning that phrase, friend. It also does not pertain to "racism"

Definitions:

Cur - a mongrel or inferior dog; a surly or cowardly fellow

Mongrel - an individual or dog resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds or strains; one of unknown ancestry (crossbreed); a cross between types of persons or things
bruce130 Wrote: Jul 06, 2011 12:07 PM
Really; Nothing worth debating has ever been resolved.
bruce130 Wrote: Jul 06, 2011 12:11 PM
Oh. Almost forgot to mention. Ron Paul. He makes any of the other candidates irrelevant. Including Michele.
right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 7:40 PM
I'm still praying for you, SW.

Every day.
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:34 PM
Michelle Bachmann definitely has more going for her than the Doofus-in-Chief Obummer who hides his records and other details about his life. I would far rather vote for an open book than for the lying, dishonest mongrel that we have in the White House presently.
SWGAL
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Queen of the Tea Party
The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann
Matthew Continetti
July 4 - July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40


If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to shoot Michele Bachmann. He escorted her to the third floor rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where he positioned a large orange...
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:34 PM
The experience has never left her mind. “If you consider what it was like in 1948,” she said, “and literally watch flowers bloom in a desert over time—I don’t know if any nation has paralleled the rise of Israel since 1948.” A member of Christians United for Israel, she’s one of Israel’s strongest supporters in Congress. One Jewish Minnesota Republican has told me of speeches at local Republican Jewish Coalition events where Bachmann has brought cheering audiences to their feet.

When she returned to the States, Michele enrolled at a community college near Anoka. Money was tight. She’d often work three jobs—school bus driver, restaurant hostess, all sorts of things. The following summer she went to Alaska, where she worked for an uncle...
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:35 PM
“People saw that something was changing in our country,” Bachmann said. “For the first time a state supreme court, in Massachusetts, had ordered its legislature to pass a law conforming with the views of those who sat on the court.” Bachmann’s amendment never passed the legislature. But it did make her more prominent and controversial. Local columnists ridiculed her. There were calls for a boycott of Stillwater businesses. A group of Democratic activists started the “Dump Bachmann” blog. The site became the place where one could find every last Bachmann speech, letter, and article—even pictures of her car.

Things got a little weird. In April 2005, when gay rights activists rallied in front of the state capitol in St. Paul, a local...
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:36 PM
On the last Thursday of October 2009, the House Democrats unveiled their health care bill. The House Republicans met to discuss it. The message from leadership was that the bill was going to pass. There was nothing Republicans could do to stop it. Several members stood up and said the GOP couldn’t simply accept defeat. Yet the meeting adjourned without resolution. Most congressmen left for the weekend.

Rep. Steve King had been out pheasant hunting the week before with decorated war hero Colonel Bud Day. They’d talked about health care. Day urged King to call a rally outside the Capitol building. Jam the Capitol, Day said. Surround it. If you do that, he went on, the Democrats won’t be able to pass the bill.

King related this...
bruce130 Wrote: Jul 06, 2011 12:15 PM
Shoot Gal; Buckwheat has more going for him than Obamao. I think you should take a leave of absence from posting for a while and go write a novel, that no one will read either.
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:29 PM
"She plays the outside game, using media appearances to further the right’s agenda."

And if that requires chronic lying, well, so be it. It's all part of the game of appealing to conservatives, who swoon at lies. They don't really want the truth, but rather a story that supports their prejudices. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
annfan6 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 3:54 PM
You're a fool, jeffrey. Every post is further proof that you are a consumate dullard, unable to think and reason.
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:57 PM
If you insist. So you're ok with the real Michele Bachmann, who lies to suit her purposes, the one who rails against farm subsidies, while gladly taking them? The Michele Bachmann who has no legislative accomplishments in her current job, but wants you and me to vote for her to be president?
right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 8:00 PM
Every post you write consists of nothing but name-calling, because you cannot refute or demonstrate another point of view with any degree of cogent dialague.
right winged Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 7:59 PM
They want anything that looks like evidence to support their myths and slogan-style ideas.
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:27 PM
"The Hardball incident was a classic example of the risks inherent in the outside game. The more prominent you are as a political figure, the more likely you are to make gaffes or statements that offend the media’s sensibilities. Even Bachmann’s greatest fans would admit that sometimes her mouth runs ahead of her internal censor. She’s said that Iran had a secret plan to partition Iraq. She’s used Michael Barone’s phrase “gangster government” to describe the Obama administration.

She gave a speech where she said that, under the Democrats’ health care reforms, “if you are a grandmother with Parkinson’s or a child with cerebral palsy, watch out.” She gave another speech where she said, “What we have to today is make a covenant, slit our...
Ted456 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:26 PM
I wonder if Michelle Bachmann is also a threat the Republican Party? The Reagan "big tent" would might be much smaller if she continues to attack RINOs.

However, if she does not attack RINOs, doesn't she defacto support them?

Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:38 PM
Doesn't matter. Her peers can't stand her nonsensical ramblings and severe twisting of the facts. Dems have nothing to worry about. She'll never get the nomination. Jon Stewart and his staff could put together a whole hour on her zombie-like declarations and paranoid religious delusions and the Repub flock will only see her saucer sized eyes and be hypnotized. Together, like a zombie army, they will march to their defeat starving for brains and wondering where it all went wrong.
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 5:51 PM
Amen! What is it with Republicans? The more you lie to them, the more they like you! It seems very sick and twisted to me. It's frightening to ponder just how deep this strain of masochism is among conservative voters. What's more frightening is the level of support Michele Bachmann appears to have!
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:17 PM
Michelle Bachmann definitely has more going for her than the Doofus-in-Chief Obummer who hides his records and other details about his life. I would far rather vote for an open book than for the lying, dishonest mongrel that we have in the White House presently.
SWGAL
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Queen of the Tea Party
The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann
Matthew Continetti
July 4 - July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40


If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to shoot Michele Bachmann. He escorted her to the third floor rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where he positioned a large...
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:19 PM
The experience has never left her mind. “If you consider what it was like in 1948,” she said, “and literally watch flowers bloom in a desert over time—I don’t know if any nation has paralleled the rise of Israel since 1948.” A member of Christians United for Israel, she’s one of Israel’s strongest supporters in Congress. One Jewish Minnesota Republican has told me of speeches at local Republican Jewish Coalition events where Bachmann has brought cheering audiences to their feet.

When she returned to the States, Michele enrolled at a community college near Anoka. Money was tight. She’d often work three jobs—school bus driver, restaurant hostess, all sorts of things. The following summer she went to Alaska, where she worked for an uncle...
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:19 PM
“People saw that something was changing in our country,” Bachmann said. “For the first time a state supreme court, in Massachusetts, had ordered its legislature to pass a law conforming with the views of those who sat on the court.” Bachmann’s amendment never passed the legislature. But it did make her more prominent and controversial. Local columnists ridiculed her. There were calls for a boycott of Stillwater businesses. A group of Democratic activists started the “Dump Bachmann” blog. The site became the place where one could find every last Bachmann speech, letter, and article—even pictures of her car.

Things got a little weird. In April 2005, when gay rights activists rallied in front of the state capitol in St. Paul, a local...
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:20 PM
On the last Thursday of October 2009, the House Democrats unveiled their health care bill. The House Republicans met to discuss it. The message from leadership was that the bill was going to pass. There was nothing Republicans could do to stop it. Several members stood up and said the GOP couldn’t simply accept defeat. Yet the meeting adjourned without resolution. Most congressmen left for the weekend.

Rep. Steve King had been out pheasant hunting the week before with decorated war hero Colonel Bud Day. They’d talked about health care. Day urged King to call a rally outside the Capitol building. Jam the Capitol, Day said. Surround it. If you do that, he went on, the Democrats won’t be able to pass the bill.

King related this...
Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:43 PM
Nice use of the word mongrel you ridiculous racist.
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 2:37 PM
If I know right, Obummer referred to himself as a dog - and mongrel is another word for a dog, as is cur. Can't stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen, poor Herman.
Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 3:59 PM
There's no heat, sweetie. You used the term in a disparaging way. That makes it a racist comment, in my opinion.
Southwest Gal NM Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:07 PM
Your opinion, my opinion -night and day - guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, Hermie old boy.
Herman18 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 4:15 PM
Nah. I'm correct. Your comment was racist.
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:05 PM
Bachmann's efforts to merge the small government crowd with the big-government-in-personal-life crowd were again on full display this weekend, as she praised New York's marriage equality vote as an example of states' rights, while continuing to advocate a constitutional amendment that would take away the right of states to expand marriage equality.

Bachmann illustrates the odd brew that has created the Tea Party - the energy of social conservatives papered over with the money of pro-corporate conservatives, mixed up with a new rhetoric that combines the two issues. Her ability to be at home in both worlds makes her an unexpected powerhouse of a candidate...but one whose prominence should continue to be troubling to the American people.

Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:04 PM
In an illustration of both sides of the conservative movement merging in the Tea Party, Bachmann invited right-wing pseudo historian David Barton, who believes that Jesus opposed the minimum wage and the progressive income tax - and who Bachmann calls a "national treasure" -- to speak to Congress about the Constitution. Like Barton, Bachmann deftly frames the anti-tax, pro-corporate ideology of fiscal conservatives in the moral language of social conservatives. At a Religious Right conference last month, she called the national debt an "immoral burden on future generations" and lamented that "many are discouraged from marriage by an underperforming economy." She is also fond of invoking the Founding Fathers to make her point about any...
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:02 PM
In the State Senate, she spearheaded the effort to pass a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. "The immediate consequence, if gay marriage goes through," Bachmann said , "is that K-12 little children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal, natural and perhaps they should try it." She has also referred to homosexuality as "personal enslavement" and a "sexual identity disorder." Bachmann also promoted the claim that gays and lesbians recruit children, maintaining that her mission to block LGBT rights "is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children."

Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 1:01 PM
A former state legislator who built her career fighting reproductive choice and gay rights, Bachmann continues to ally herself with far-right groups in her home state and to push her extreme ideology in Congress. As a Minnesota state senator, she was known for her radical anti-choice, anti-gay and anti-evolution campaigns. She cosponsored a measure to give "14th Amendment protections to an embryo or fetus," similar to the extreme and likely unconstitutional fetal "personhood" amendments that have been rejected by even very conservative state legislatures in recent months. She has since endorsed one such measure in Ohio, which would ban abortions after the "heartbeat" of a fetus is detected. She cosponsored legislation to undermine the...
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 12:56 PM
"Publicly, Bachmann has objected strongly to federal farm payments.

When she voted against the 2008 farm bill, a 307-billion package that would govern federal agriculture policy for five years, Bachmann declared that it was "loaded with unbelievably outrageous pork and subsidies for agricultural business and ethanol growers." She was one of two nays cast by Minnesota's eight-member delegation.

Just a year later, however, Bachmann wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, praising the federal government for helping prop up the prices of pig products and dairy by directly buying the commodities, a move that benefited her constituents.

"I would encourage you to take any additional steps necessary to prevent further deterioration of...
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 12:35 PM
Her public statements are inconsistent with her personal history.

“I don’t need government to be successful,” she proudly told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in fall 2009 when he asked why she inspired such ire among liberal critics.

Yet despite her broadsides against “socialized medicine,” Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, applied for public funds for his counseling clinic, Bachmann & Associates. Since 2006, he has received nearly 30,000, according to Minnesota state records. The bulk of the money — 24,041 — came in the form of grants from the state Department of Human Services to train staff how to deal with clients suffering from chemical dependency and mental illness. That program was financed in part by the federal government.

And...
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 12:33 PM
Context matters a lot when you use numbers. In this case, Bachmann creates a false impression by using figures from a half-century ago without adjusting for inflation or other factors.

So, 31 cents in 1961 actually translates to about 2.25 in today’s dollars. That’s still cheaper than a gallon of gas today — about 3.64 nationwide — but not 10 times cheaper.

There’s a similar problem with Bachmann’s reference to 300 billion in national debt. That sounds puny compared to today’s 14 trillion in debt, but the right way to measure debt is as a percentage of the gross domestic product, which is the broadest measure of the nation’s economy.

According to the historical tables of the White House budget office (table 7.1), 300 billion was 55...
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 12:17 PM
BACHMANN: "One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office." — Comment to a conservative conference in Iowa in March.

THE FACTS: The Obama administration issued more than 200 new drilling permits before the Gulf oil spill alone. Over the past year, since new safety standards were imposed, the administration has issued more than 60 shallow-water drilling permits. Since the deep water moratorium was lifted in October, nine new wells have been approved.
George1162 Wrote: Jul 08, 2011 3:56 PM
What color crayons did you use on the math test?
Jeffrey484 Wrote: Jul 05, 2011 12:16 PM
BACHMANN: "It's ironic and sad that the president released all of the oil from the strategic oil reserve. ... There's only a limited amount of oil that we have in the strategic oil reserve. It's there for emergencies." — On CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

THE FACTS: Obama did not empty all the oil from the strategic reserve, as Bachmann said. He approved the release of 30 million barrels, about 4 percent of the 727 million barrels stored in salt caverns along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. It's true that the U.S. normally taps the reserve for more dire emergencies than exist today, and that exposes Obama to criticism that he acted for political gain. But the reserve has never been fuller; it held 707 million barrels when last...