Bachmann announces presidential campaign
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7:00 am
Rep. Michele Bachmann announced her campaign for president during a presidential debate in New Hampshire Monday night. Bachmann, who has been saying for months that she’s “all in” for 2012, also released a video announcing her campaign as well as an email to supporters. She filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission earlier in the day on Monday, and she’s suspended her campaign for the 6th Congressional District.
“I filed today my paperwork to seek the office of the presidency of the United States, and I’ll very soon be making my formal announcement. So I wanted you to be the first to know,” Bachmann told CNN’s John King and the debate audience.
Shortly after, Bachmann’s campaign released a campaign video announcing her run for president. She said that it was “a historic day for our nation. This is the first day of taking our country back.”
And Bachmann sent an email to supporters asking for donations.
“Our country is in desperate need of a leader who will restore constitutional conservative values to our federal government,” Bachmann said. “President Obama must be held accountable for the far-left agenda he has implemented while in office. I intend to hold him accountable, and if elected I pledge to dismantle Obamacare, reduce our growing debt, provide the private sector with the resources needed to create jobs, and strengthen our national defense.”
17 Comments
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 8:36 am
Once again, do we want a President that believes Armageddon is inevitable and a good thing? Someone that believes God won’t let us destroy our environment? Or someone that believes God punishes our whole nation when some citizens don’t live they way she thinks God wants us to live? Bachmann is one Holy Ghost shy of pushing the proverbial button.
Praise Jebus, God hates freedom from religion, Amen.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 8:58 am
I don’t think Bachmann has the “specific gravity” needed to run a diverse country. There is just not enough intellectual depth in this individual.
Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 9:02 am
I love this, just when I needed a good face hurting laugh! thank you so much! lol
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 10:39 am
On her 2004 state capitol rally for a same-sex marriage ban amendment: “Listeners should rejoice right now, because there are believers all across your listening area that are praying now. And I would say that if you can’t attend the rally, you can pray. And God calls us to fall on our faces and our knees and cry out to Him and confess our sins. And I would just ask your listeners to do that now. Cry out to a Holy God. He wants to hear us, He will hear us if we will confess our sins and cry out to Him. Our children are worth it and obedience to God demands it.” — Senator Michele Bachmann, appearing as guest on radio program “Prophetic Views Behind The News”, hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.
And yet,
“The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. Its all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.” Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on global warming.
She needs to look up the definition of voodoo.
Praise Jebus, God hates a fact based knowledge system, Amen.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 12:33 pm
Great! Now if we can just get Palin to run, we’ll have all-out war and finally see who stupider. We’ll see who can evade facts better. We’ll see who can dodge question better. All that great stuff.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 1:25 pm
This circus won’t need Palin at all for Michele Bachmann to fall on her face. She has the male equivelant in Herman Cain and Rick Santorum for that.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 3:31 pm
Someone on Bachmann’s staff should alert her that this isn’t a Mrs Amercia contest. It’s for the position of POTUS. It’s very hard to take a woman serious with false eyelashes.
And once you scrape away all of the glam and fake smiles she’s just another hyper conservative who believes in FREEDOM for all—except for a woman’s right to control her destiny (birth control) and for folks who find themselves born a homosexual and want to commit to a lifelong partnership (same sex marriage)…
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 4:07 pm
Kate,
Didn’t no Bachmann was against birth control. I’m sure you meant abortion but didn’t want to say so.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 7:14 pm
Some advice for our Michele -Shallow needles for Botox —only!!!!! do not penetrate cranium with overly long needles- Ooops- Too Late !!
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 8:12 pm
In all fairness to Kate, Most feel birth control to be part of family planning. And yet Bachmann chose, in her infamous Planned Parenthood (PP) as Lenscrafter of abortions misquote, to replace the PP administrator’s phrase “family planning” with the phrase “big abortion.” Bachmann either considers family planning to be synonymous with (big) abortions or she was intentionally misleading her audience, formerly known as lying. She has been otherwise very quiet on the subject of specific birth control options she finds acceptable for others.
FWIW, There is no reference to birth control on her Congressional website and her Prez Campaign site is still under construction. An omission she should resolve soon.
Praise Jebus, God hates honesty, Amen.
Comment posted June 14, 2011 @ 8:46 pm
Thanks Carl for helping explain things to HG.
From thehill.com “Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) Thursday night called on members of the House to support an amendment to cut all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Bachmann and other Republicans have charged that Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, and that federal funds are inappropriate.”
So yes, HG, MB is against birth control which is the word I meant to use in previous posting. The majority of anti-abortion folk are against most forms of birth control—they see them as being an abortifacient. (“Because don’t ya know every sperm is sacred?”)
I’ve gone to PP and never had an abortion. They gave me birth control advice which interestingly enough was that I shouldn’t use birth control pills because of certain health risks I had. Since you hide behind your initials I can’t tell if you’re male or a female but your overall tone suggests you’re a person who doesn’t have a clue as to what it’s like to have the ability to become pregnant.
Comment posted June 15, 2011 @ 7:21 am
With a little help from the archbishops we can have our first woman president and massive tax cuts too.
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Our ancestors did not “discover” and conquer the native population just so the poor could have their needs met and reduce the economic choices for the rich.
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If God has “called” her to run, it must be good for our country. Go Michelle!
Comment posted June 15, 2011 @ 9:35 am
herb wrote, “Our ancestors did not “discover” and conquer the native population just so the poor could have their needs met and reduce the economic choices for the rich.”
True, centuries of brutality, lies and government sponsored ethnic cleansing would be wasted if such programs yielded a more just and fair society.
herb also wrote, “If God has “called” her to run, it must be good for our country. Go Michelle (sic)!”
However, what if God “calls” her to initiate global thermonuclear war? Many leaders with voices in their heads have caused others to lose theirs.
Praise Jebus, God hates history lessons, caring for the vulnerable and sanity, Amen
Comment posted June 15, 2011 @ 11:17 am
her voice is like nails on a blackboard……her positions are anti-american,and anti-freedom for ALL americans…well, not her kind anyways. This woman is a shrew to the enth degree……..and how come she never mentions ALL those subsidies she[s gotten from the gov’t? ..and she blathers on and on about those 23 foster kids….. (fostering – you get money from the state to take care of them $$$…….and speaking of…..who’s watching these kids?)
Comment posted June 16, 2011 @ 1:28 am
Conservatives no everything but know nothing.
I do not think anyone realistically expects the conservatives to raise taxes enough to even begin paying off the debt. Tellingly, it was the failure of the states to pay off the debt from the Revolutionary War that helped necessitate replacing the Articles of Confederation with a Constitution that defined a stronger central government.
More likely, they will tear the country so far apart that their agenda will lead us to civil war. Their extreme agenda is already facing rebellion in Wisconsin and Michigan. Three months of defying the constitution and dismantling the Republican form of government and democratic process was all it took.
The lines have been drawn between the Federalist progressives and the Dominionist Oligarchs.
Comment posted June 16, 2011 @ 8:36 am
Required reading
http://65.175.91.69/Reformation_net/default.htm
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