Bachmann blames Obama’s ‘weakness’ for the Arab Spring
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 8:51 pm
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At a campaign stop Thursday in North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann blamed Pres. Barack Obama for the outbreak of the Arab Spring, the wave of democracy uprisings across the Middle East.
“Just like Jimmy Carter in the 1970s didn’t have the back of the Shah of Iran, we saw the Shah fall and the rise of the Ayatollah, and we saw the rise and the beginnings of radical jihad, which have changed this world and changed this nation,” Bachmann said, according to a video posted by MSNBC. “So too under Barack Obama, we saw him put a lot of daylight between our relationship with our ally Israel.”
Bachmann linked the Arab Spring, which has resulted in pro-democracy uprisings in countries like Egypt, Syria and Libya, to the President’s earlier stance that negotiations between Israel and Palestine should begin at the 1967 boundaries.
“And when he called upon Israel to retreat to its indefensible 1967 borders, don’t think that message wasn’t lost to Israel’s 26 hostile neighbors,” Bachmann said. “You want to know why we have an Arab Spring. Barack Obama has laid the table for Arab Spring by demonstrating weakness from the United States of America.”
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Comment posted September 29, 2011 @ 9:33 pm
The Arab Spring is about a lot more than Obama, but if he gets the “blame” for it, he probably won’t complain.
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Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 1:11 am
My friends in Cairo want to know if she was a “silent wife” of Mubarek !!!
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 2:04 am
I will borrow Keith Olbermann’s comment about Sarah Palin and direct it towards Michele Bachmann…”THIS WOMAN IS AN IDIOT!”
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 6:49 am
Good to see Michele is talking about the Shah of IRAN,wonder if she ever looked back at the SHAH’S record in Iran.Mass killings and people disappearing from society,jailed without court trials…. her kinda guy
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 7:04 am
Blinded by establishing her theocracy at any cost, built on any bullshit, Bachmann is beyond asinine – she’s a dangerous and tenacious dictator in training.
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 8:56 am
The nerve of those Arabs, democratizing beFORE we bomb them into submission. Deplorable. I hope Obama wises up soon and starts using the tried-and-true tactics of the Bush regime.
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 10:40 am
It’s all about ginning up the hatred for the evil A-Rabs.
The evangelical Christians that she is pandering to, eat this up like corn from her . . . . .
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 11:26 am
There is self delusion and then there is Big Hair Bad Makeup Bachmann… a viewpoint only the angered and insane can accept.
Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN
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Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 2:50 pm
The hatred spewed towards Bachmann in the comments here is appalling.
What Bachman is referring to is the wisdom in assisting in the the ousting of regimes friendly to the US and and at peace with Israel, such as Mubarak’s and replacing them with Islamist Muslim Brotherhood influenced regimes which will cause problems much like the Iran’s theocratic regime has since the ousting of the Shah in 1979.
The “Arab Spring” is not about freedom and democracy. Instead, it will pave the way for an Islamist takeover, most likely led by Iran, in that whole region. That’s why Iran supports the “Arab Spring”. Michelle Bachmann gets it. It’s a shame that many others don’t.
Comment posted September 30, 2011 @ 3:00 pm
Maybe the ‘Arab Spring’ will result in some being worse off or better off. Personally I think it’s a risk worth the people over there taking. But it’s certainly not our place to prop up dictators oppressing their people just because it’s better for us. We didn’t do anything to help oust Mubarak. The Egyptian people did that all on their own and they resent us not helping.
Bachmann doesn’t get anything or do anything for that matter. She has been representing me at State and Federal level since I moved to into her district and I can’t list one tangible thing she has done for her constituents.
Comment posted October 1, 2011 @ 2:07 pm
Peter, I see indignation, not hatred in these posts. I agree with TSG: democracy is messy. It goes without saying (but here is saying it) that one can’t ask for democracy without accepting the possibility (probability?) of outcomes unfavorable to our point of view. After all, we have Bachmann serving in Congress.
Comment posted October 2, 2011 @ 3:45 am
Peter
I don’t understand your idea of freedom and democracy. The US had nothing to do with Egypt’s protests and eventual ousting of Mubarak. And that is exactly what democracy is. Nobody replaced the “friendly” government with Islamists. If the Muslim Brotherhood ends up as a ruling party it will be because that’s how Egypt’s people voted. NOT THE UNITED STATES.
BTW, I don’t hate Michele Bachmann, I actually envy her. Humiliation rolls off her like water off a duck’s back. How liberating that must be.
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