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Proof Michele Bachmann is an idiot

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Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:34 PM

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"Obama's constitutional eligibility is probably the least important issue in the United States right now..."
-Michele Bachmann



http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/03/video-michele-bach
mann-obamas.html




Donald Trump Releases Official Birth Certificate
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/03/donald-trump-trump
s-idiots-in-media.html




Obama was born in Connecticutt says Social Security Administration
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/03/author-jack-cashil
l-discusses-obamas.html


Col. Hollister Facing Legal Trouble for Verifying that Obama's Social Security Number Reserved for Connecticut Applicants was Never Issued.
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/03/col-hollister-faci
ng-legal-trouble-for.html


Michelle Bachman goes from Birther to Traitor:


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Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:00 PM

PENGUIN


I am now ashamed to be from Iowa...





King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

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Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:08 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Sorry Penguin. But dinna fash yerself; NONE of us should be held responsible for the more assinine things our "representatives" do...they're all a bunch of asshat idiots nowadays anyway...

Just can't give up on it, can 'ya, PN? Betcha go to bed dreaming of birth certificates, then get up and race to the computer to see if you can find ANY articles to post on the subject. It IS a non-issue, except to crazies like you...and Trump...and the poor, deluded, pawn birthers...

Trump is a complete comb-over asshat...he asks why they're not asking him about other issues. It's because he's one of the only people out there MAKING an issue of the birther thing. If HE was talking about more important issues, maybe people would ASK him about more important issues...duh!

For someone who says now it's a non-issue, she was quick enough to TREAT it as a serious issue two weeks ago.
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“I’ll tell you one thing, if I was ever to run for President of the United States, I think the first thing I would do in the first debate is offer my birth certificate.
So now it's a non-issue. Lady needs to make up her mind or something.

That other video is assinine too. How do they KNOW what Obama had to document/produce in order to be on the ballot? Does anyone? To say he had to produce more for little league than Obama had (who has ALREADY produced his birth certificate for you nutwings) is stupid.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:55 PM

CANTTAKESKY


She has a "post-doctorate degree"? Does she know what a doctorate is? Does she know there is no such thing as a "post-doctorate degree," since a doctorate is the highest degree you can have in a field?

I did a little search, and all her bios say that. She has a "post-doctorate degree from the College of William and Mary Law School." What she actually got was an LLM, which is Master of Laws.

Apparently, in law, you can get a JD (Juris Doctor), which is considered a professional doctorate, though it is not a scholarly or academic doctorate. Then you can get a LLM to specialize in some branch of law, like Admiralty Law, or in her case, Tax Law. Then you can get a SJD (Scientiae Juridicae Doctor), which is comparable to a PhD in other fields.

When one says, "post-doctorate," he is usually referring to doing extra research and scholarship after getting the highest degree in the field--but this work doesn't lead to another degree, since he has already gotten the highest. In law, you have a professional doctorate, a specialization in your professional doctorate, and then yet another more scholarly, academic doctorate. It's not Bachmann's fault that the legal field does this, but having more two more degrees AFTER your doctorate dilutes the meaning and honor in the term.

What annoys me particularly is that she is self-aggrandizing enough to use that term, "post-doctorate degree." It annoys me that she is ignorant of the fact that "doctorate" or "post-doctorate" is a complete misnomer in the legal profession.

I know that relative to issues that really matter, this is nothing. But it grates me when politicians exaggerate their importance with empty, pompous terms. She could have just said she has a JD and a specialty degree in Tax Law. Brandishing the term "post-doctorate degree" is kind of like wanting to be addressed as "Dr. Bachmann." It would be pretentious and everyone knows it. For some reason, it bugs me that she doesn't.

Thanks for letting me vent on a completely trivial point.










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Sunday, April 3, 2011 7:30 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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it grates me when politicians exaggerate their importance with empty, pompous terms.
Moi aussi, and yes, it's a tiny matter, but it's not irrelevant. Many politicans do it, and some get caught at it, but to me it's so childish, when the tiniest bit of knowledge or research proves them false, just as you said.

Far as I'm concerned, getting her J.D. from Oral Roberts University is all I need to know about her. She also worked in a kibbutz...worthy enough in its own right, but it shows where her loyalty lies, to me.

I wonder most about money; where she got it and more. I wonder what happened after the FEC asked her fo an accounting:
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By Thursday the Federal Election Commission wants more information about where nearly $6 million in campaign donations to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., came from.

On January 6th, the FEC sent three letters to Andy Parish, Treasurer of the Bachmann for Congress campaign committee, demanding answers relating to donations made from July-November, 2010. The FEC said clarification was needed pertaining to un-itemized donations. Campaigns are required by law to submit the name and address of anyone giving a candidate for federal office $200 or more. The deadline for response is fast approaching.

Never heard more about that.

She also received a quarter of a million dollars in "farm subsidies" for corn and dairy on the farm her father-in-law was managing, the Bachmann Farm Family Limited Partnership. She makes a big deal out of "socialism", but what else are subsidies? She voted FOR farm subsidies, even for rich farmers--something that became an issue in 2007, when the Bush administration pushed for a $200,000 cap on farm-subsidy recipients. She voted against it, naturally.

How does this woman, who never misses an opportunity to stand before a rabble rousing crowd to condemn Obama for leading the nation down the path of socialism and leads prayer broadcasts asking God to smite the health care reform legislation, face herself in the mirror each day knowing she has benefitted so greatly from the very system she publicly condemns? We know the answer, of course, but it makes me sick. It's so easy for them to be against something yet, if anyone looks closely, realize they BENEFIT from exactly what they're against. Many politicans do it, fer shore, but I'd like to see a counting of how many who claim we're headed for socialism and they're gonna stop it actually GET federal money!




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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 2:42 AM

CANTTAKESKY


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Many politicans do it, and some get caught at it, but to me it's so childish, when the tiniest bit of knowledge or research proves them false, just as you said.

For being a Christian, she sure bends the truth, I mean lies, a lot.

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/04/michele_bachmann_lies_about
_he.php


The article is really long, so here is just an excerpt.

Quote:

Michele Bachmann Lies About Her Own Family History To Sound More Iowan

Here's the transcript:

"...I don't know how many of you know, but I was born in Iowa. I was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and grew up in Waterloo. I grew up in Cedar Falls. And actually, I'm not just an Iowan, I'm a very special kind of Iowan. I'm an 'Iwegian.' Now, who knows what an Iwegian is? Okay, there's a few of those. I'm actually even more than just an Iowan. I'm a 7th generation Iowan. Our family goes back to the 1850s to the first pioneers that came to Iowa from Sognfjord, Norway, where it was about two percent of the land was tillable. And these were not dumb Norwegians. They were very smart. They heard about Iowa, and they said, 'It's about a hundred percent fertile land there. Let's go to Iowa.'

"So they came to Iowa, and they literally felled the trees and built wagons and they plowed the fields. And they were godly people, because there were about eighty Norwegians that went ahead of them, and they got a letter back. It was called the Muskego manifesto, and in the Muskego manifesto it said, 'We find in America that we have civil and religious liberty, and here we can choose whatever profession we want, and noone tells us what profession we go in. This we consider more wonderful than riches.' And my great-great-great grandfather, Melchior and Martha Munson, read those words, along with other people in their valley, and they said, 'This is it. This is our ticket.' And they got in their mind and in their heart what we all now know as the American dream. And so they sold everything they had -- the farm, the land , the cattle, the livestock -- everything that they had. They were in their late forties. I looked up the family history. Their parents lived to be just about five years older than they were when they sold everything and took their five children and bought boat tickets to come to Iowa. Isn't this an amazing story? This is your story, too. It isn't just my story. This is the story of America.

"And so they literally had the clothes on their backs, a couple of belongings that they could hold. Thirteen weeks it took to get across the ocean, to get to Quebec. But once they got to Quebec, they took almost half as long again to make it overland to finally get to Iowa, where they encountered the worst winter in fifty years. Then the next year -- you had a winter like that -- the worst flooding in forty-two years. The next winter after that, they had the worst drought that anyone had ever recorded. Now, this is Iowa? They thought this was the land of milk and honey. Then, the year after that, locusts came and ate everything that was their crop. But they kept going, and they persevered, and they were people of faith, and they lived and cried and laughed, and started the first Lutheran church in their area, and they were wonderful, godly men and women of faith, and I am so proud of these people of whom I am descended from. And I'm so thankful for the faith that they faithfully brought down through the family, and now to the seventh generation here in the United States."


Since Bachmann said her great-great-great grandparents, whose names she provided, emigrated from Norway to Iowa in the 1850s, I searched the 1860 federal census for them. I started by searching for a Melchior Munson in Iowa, but came up empty. But, since unfamiliar foreign first names like Melchior were often misspelled or Americanized when written down by census workers, I didn't think it was unusual not to find him on the first shot. So I tried Martha Munson, Melchior's wife, since Martha was a common name that wouldn't be misspelled. Still nothing. So I broadened my search to include sound-alike last names for Munson, in case it was their last name that was misspelled. Still nothing. Giving my search one last shot, I removed all search parameters except the first name Martha and the last name Munson, including any sound-alike last names. It was only then that I found Melchior and Martha -- but not in Iowa. They were in Wisconsin.(1) So, there went that part of Bachmann's 'Iowanizing' of her family history. Her great-great-great grandparents hadn't gone from Quebec to Iowa. They had settled in Wisconsin.

And what about all those hardships that Bachmann says her ancestors persevered through during their first few years in Iowa -- the worst winter in fifty years, the worst flooding in forty-two years, the worst drought that anyone had ever recorded, and a plague of locusts to boot? Well, obviously, none of this happened in Iowa, because her ancestors weren't in Iowa. And it didn't happen in Wisconsin either. This all happened in the Dakota Territory. That's where Melchoir and Martha Munson and their children were from 1861 to 1864.(2) Like many Norwegian immigrants who had settled in Wisconsin, the Munsons set out for the Dakota Territory once Congress made it a territory in 1861.

A number of early histories of the Dakota Territory document that the winter of 1861-1862 was a bad one, which led to flooding when the ice in the Missouri River broke up and blocked the river in the spring of 1862; that the summer of 1863 was very dry, but the settlers still had a good harvest; and that 1864 was the year of the severe drought and the year that grasshoppers came.







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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 6:02 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Goodness, this surprises exactly WHICH intelligent person here? Her statements everyone calls "crazy" are actually carefully-crafted lies...unless she really IS crazy, which is very hard to imagine, for me. I don't know of any "mental disorder" which would account for them, and she wouldn't have gotten as far as she HAS if she were totally crazy.

So it has to be lies; and this one, like all the others, is manna to her base. I think arguing over Bachmann being crazy or an idiot or whatever is useless...what I see is someone blatantly playing to the furthest reaches of her base, and not giving a damn what the rest of us think. Let us call her crazy; she's been re-elected by those poor sods, and they're the only ones who would vote for her in a general election. I believe, after re-reading her statements and watching what's going on, that her "run" for Prez is a way to get attention so she can get re-elected. I wouldn't be surprised if she "decided" not to run for Prez for some undoubtedly "selfless" reason, and went for Senator again. The thing I don't get is exactly HOW many (remember Palin quitting as Gov.?) fools there have to be in her constituncy to keep sending her...to the SENATE of all places! We've got enough nutbags in Congress, and the Senate isn't all THAT much better, but really: Bachman??


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Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 1:00 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Proof that she's an idiot?

She's a registered Republican. 'Nuff said.

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