Do They Let Dogs Vote In Minnesota?
Because I find it hard to believe that sentient humans elected Michele Bachmann.
Thomas Lane blogs at TPM, "Bachmann: I Would Close Our (Non-Existent) Embassy In Iran":
Michele Bachmann has had her fair share of foreign policy stumbles, but she just hit a whole new level.According to a tweet from NBC News' Jamie Novogrod, Bachmann responded to the recent raiding of the British embassy in Iran by saying that if she was President, she would close down the U.S. embassy there.
There's just one problem: The U.S. has not had an embassy in Iran ever since the Iranian hostage crisis, when revolutionaries from the budding Islamic state held 52 Americans for 444 days. Indeed, frustration over this helped bring down Bachmann's bete noire Jimmy Carter by defining his presidency as weak. The two countries have not had official diplomatic relations since that time.
Oh, and PS, she's a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. (Where are they selecting from, the bottom of the barrel?) As long as she's there, they should rename it the House "Intelligence" Committee.
Yes, in America, it seems anyone can be elected to high office, and this is not always a good thing.
Umm, Bachmann serves in Minnesota. She is from Iowa. I don't care for her either, but the insult should be aimed at the people in Minnesota.
Abersouth at December 8, 2011 2:10 PM
"If I had an ambassador to Iran and he was gay, he wouldn't need fixing."
Steve Daniels at December 8, 2011 2:19 PM
"That was bad, intelligence. Very bad intelligence"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3F-WM8uK7Y
Ltw at December 8, 2011 3:00 PM
In my lifetime, the people of Minnesota have elected Al Franken to the US Senate, a professional wrestler to the governorship, tried to give us Walter Mondale as president, and tried to pass Garrison Keillor off as funny.
Seriously, is it something in the water? The long winters?
Conan the Grammarian at December 8, 2011 3:29 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/12/08/do_they_let_dog.html#comment-2842098">comment from Conan the GrammarianMinnesota. I knew that! Thanks. My brain was half-here -- Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election -- when I wrote the header to this blog item. Not that that's a good excuse but maybe it makes me sound a little more informed and less dim.
Amy Alkon
at December 8, 2011 3:35 PM
Did this really happen, or is it like the "see russia from my house" Palin quote? I find myself skeptical. But she is not my choice for the nomination, certainly.
momof4 at December 8, 2011 3:41 PM
dunno, this ranks right about the same as "57 States" in my book. Public speaking is a skill that some do better at than others. How much fun are we making of prez teleprompter? Oh, wait... I guess I kinda make fun of that a lot. :shrug:
Far more damning are her comments on Immunization which seem unreasoned and calculated to me. Prolly a moot point since she has fallen behind... and whoever falls behind, gets left behind.
SwissArmyD at December 8, 2011 4:53 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/12/08/do_they_let_dog.html#comment-2842360">comment from SwissArmyD57 states is like my putting in Idaho instead of Minnesota in the header here, when I know full well where Bachmann is from. Hers was a definitive statement.
Amy Alkon
at December 8, 2011 5:29 PM
Always read the actual quote, not just someone's interpretation. I'm not a Bachmann fan, but here's the quote:
Applauding the British for pulling their staff out of Iran she said, “That’s exactly what I would do. We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.”
There's nowhere in there where she says anything that would be interpreted as the US having an Iranian embassy that she would close. "That's what I would do" obviously refers to what she would do in the Brits' situation, and beyond that, she only says that she wouldn't have one.
Seems to me that the blogger(s) who quoted this are the idiots here, not Rep. Bachmann. To condemn her for this is really just plain stupid.
Lyssa at December 8, 2011 5:50 PM
"Seems to me that the blogger(s) who quoted this are the idiots here, not Rep. Bachmann. "
Given that it came from TPM, it was almost certainly an intentional misquote.
Cousin Dave at December 8, 2011 5:55 PM
I was just thinking to myself recently how amazing it is that the stuff Democrats say doesn't get called out even on a world stage. Consider this statement by Hillary calling for gay rights to a world assembly:
"Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT."
"Any group" doesn't include white males. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Obama recently said that Herbert Hoover cut spending during the great depression (wrong, he passed a stimulus similar to Obama's) The left can lie about history all the time and not get called on it.
And yes, as someone else pointed out, someone who doesn't know that the USA has 50 states either is mentally retarded or not born here. That's what the left elected last year. Apparently, it turned out to be the former.
PK at December 9, 2011 6:29 AM
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