Bachmann: No reason to question Obama’s citizenship

Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Star Tribune Monday that she doesn’t question President Obama’s citizenship despite her upcoming appearance at an event organized by prominent “birther” Joseph Farah and featuring a half-dozen conservatives who question Obama’s citizenship. Farah defended Bachmann on Tuesday in an editorial on his news website, WorldNetDaily.com (WND), saying the Star Tribune is out to get Bachmann.

Bachmann’s campaign manager, Gina Countryman, told the Strib that she “has absolutely no reason to question the president’s citizenship, as much as her detractors wish was the case. She’s attending so she can share her passion for our nation’s founding and belief in fiscally responsible, limited government with those in attendance.”

Farah said the newspaper unfairly tarnished Bachmann for her appearance in a “Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger,” a documentary created by Coral Ridge Ministries which has come under fire from a Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League, for its statements about the Holocaust.

Farah wrote, “Rep. Michele Bachmann is a target of the local and national media for one very good reason – because she’s an extremely effective advocate of the uniquely American-style of liberty, justice and morality.”

He continued, “Bachmann, who will be a speaker at WND’s ‘Taking America Back’ conference this fall, is the real deal – guts, convictions, the ability to articulate the vision, fearless, uncompromising. We need to support incumbents like her when we take the Congress back in November.”