Michele Bachmann's fevered imagination

Seeing Boehner, McCain et al denounce Bachmann's Islamaphobic witch hunt has made me feel a little better about the world.
 
Puppycow said:
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This episode has restored a little bit of my respect for mainstream Republicans. It's good that she could only find 4 other Republicans willing to co-sign her letter. I'm sure she would have liked to have had more co-signers. At least some things are still taboo, even in this hyperpartisan era.
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Cleon said:
Seeing Boehner, McCain et al denounce Bachmann's Islamaphobic witch hunt has made me feel a little better about the world.
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Me too. The bar has been set pretty damn low.

Daredelvis
 
i keep thinking that if this mccain had run for president, we may well have had a different outcome.

having said that, i think he owes obama the favor of introducing a resolution that says 'quit it, the man is a citizen', the same way that obama did for him.
 
Frank Gaffney's name comes up again:

In Tennessee, A Rising Star Targeted By Anti-Muslim Smears

On September 13, 2001, Vanderbilt University held a “Come Together” ceremony on campus, as the community was just starting to process the horror of the 9/11 attacks. At the ceremony, a junior political science major stood up in front of thousands of her fellow students to deliver a speech.

“When I saw my country’s buildings come tumbling down with thousands of my fellow citizens on Tuesday, I felt angry as an American at whoever did this,” Samar Ali said. She continued: “The other part of me felt upset as a Muslim… I want everyone to know that Arabs and Muslims around the world condemn this act… We cannot let these terrorists succeed and fill our hearts with hatred. We cannot allow them to split us apart as Americans.”

A few months later, Ali was elected president of Vanderbilt University’s Student Government Association, making her the school’s first Arab-Muslim student body president.

Fast forward a decade. Ali has graduated from Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Law School. She has been an associate with the law firm Hogan Lovells, where she helped set up the firm’s Abu Dhabi office. In 2010, she was named a White House Fellow. (Somewhere along the way she also found time to be a three-time Southeastern Tae Kwon Do Black Belt Champion.) In May 2012, Ali, now 30, was appointed international director of Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD).

A small but vocal number of conservatives and Tea Party activists in Tennessee and elsewhere have strongly opposed Ali’s appointment. Resolutions recently passed by several county Republican organizations have criticized Republican Gov. Bill Haslam for the appointment, and have ridiculously painted Ali as some kind of sleeper agent.

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Once again Frank Gaffney seems to be behind the smear campaign. It's patently ridiculous. Fortunately the Republican Gov. seems to have some common sense.

Gaffney should be persona non grata for all serious people and organizations on the right.
At least as recently as last year though he appeared on Fox News. Perhaps even more recently, although a brief search didn't turn up a more recent example.
 
Cleon said:
Seeing Boehner, McCain et al denounce Bachmann's Islamaphobic witch hunt has made me feel a little better about the world.
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It gives me an indication of how absolutely ludicrous her accusations are.

Listen, if you can't get John Boehner to participate in your vendetta against the Obama government and Hillary Clinton, you are pretty seriously out there.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
The NIA is a secret agency so secret that, if you just mention it in an Internet posting, the Men in Black will arrive at your house in Black Helicopters within 10 minutes and take you away to Area 13. From there you will transported though a secret underground tunnel to the secret Reptoid Base under Mount Shasta where you will anally probed until . . .

, , , wait . . . what's that wuppa-wuppa noise . . .

*$*4#&@ NO CARRIER

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Took you 10 minutes to type that?


:D
 
BenBurch said:
McCain rose in my respect with that.
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I was about to say, this whole scenario was a ploy for the republicans to make McCain look good for future elections, hoping maybe to get enough respect to replace Romney in the upcoming one.
 
joobie said:
i keep thinking that if this mccain had run for president, we may well have had a different outcome.

having said that, i think he owes obama the favor of introducing a resolution that says 'quit it, the man is a citizen', the same way that obama did for him.
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I know what you mean about "the wrong McCain" running, but McCain did the right thing while campaigning for president.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRq6Y4NmB6U
 
Bikewer said:
After being lambasted by all and sundry, and rather thoroughly demolished by Anderson Cooper, Bachman is sticking to her story...Though she's refusing interviews and almost ran from a CNN reporter.
To think this nut-job sits on several important committees is rather scary.
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Not almost, she did run away! Hilarious!



:)
 
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