Bachmann Dodges Question On Whether God Uses Weather To Send Messages (VIDEO)

maybe there would be more intelligent conversation had the subject , Bachmann, actually had intelligence ??

what is sad ... is that there are many stupid people out there who believe her BS .

Michele Bachmann may be hosting the "Super Bowl of Freedom" but when it comes to telling the truth, she is on the losing team. Whether trying to scare people with outrageous claims or outright mislead them with lies – lies that can and have been disproven time and again – Michele Bachmann simply can't be trusted. In the competition for the truth, Michele Bachmann is 0-5, just check out a few of her tall tales below.

http://www.dccc.org/page/content/bachmannwatch

Michele Bachmann Lies About Profiting From Govt Subsidized Dairy Farm
http://www.politicususa.com/en/bachmann-dairy-farm

Michele Bachmann lies about own family reunion?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/15/1007311/-Michele-Bachmann-lies-about-own-family-reunion

Bachmann's Gaffes and Lies Mean She's Unfit for White House

Is there a dumbing down of America?

While in New Hampshire, she attributed the battle of the Minutemen in Lexington and Concord ("the shot heard 'round the world") as taking place there instead of Massachusetts.

She lied about profiting from government subsidized dairy farms. She also stated that she and her husband never made a penny from the family dairy farm, but her financial disclosure forms report that from 2006-2009 she made $32,503-$105,000 in profit from that farm.

She stated that then speaker Nancy Pelosi ran up a $100,000 bar bill on military jets when it actually totaled less than $7,000.

She stated Social Security is broke when it has a surplus.

She said that 30 percent of all doctors will leave their profession under Obamacare; not true.

She said that Acorn is a paid part of the Census Bureau; it is not.

She said that the president released all of the oil from the strategic oil reserve; he did not.

She also claimed that the president's policies have led to the price of groceries going up by 29 percent.

In an interview with George Stephanopolous on ABC, she stated (again) that our Founding Fathers fought to end slavery (although Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers were slave owners) and cited that John Quincy Adams was one of our Founding Fathers, although he was only nine when the Revolutionary War began. [Check out a roundup of political cartoons on the 2012 GOP primary.]

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/leslie-marshall/2011/06/29/bachmanns-gaffes-and-lies-mean-shes-unfit-for-white-house

She is absolute proof that our country has it's fair share of really stupid people.

Yep, and here's some and some more. Enjoy.

sorry VOL-no matter how much you try, the Republicans, especially the teabaggers, win the stupid award hands down.

Want to see dumbass comments or ignorant signs--go on you tube an look at a teabagger rally. Or watch a Sarah Palin interview. Or read 2.4 above for how smart Michelle Bachman is.

You should be proud! Stand tall, embrace it. Enjoy.

I am from KY and it was us he said it about, not Pennsylvania

Lynn is this is regards to the clinging to the bibles and religion thing? I can't tell because Rochester's comment was deleted.

Sorry that should have read the bibles and guns thing.

I can always come here for intelligent and refreshing conversation.

Welcome to Newsvine, oh ye new user, DangerousLiasons. Always is so permanent. Maybe that won't be the case here.

Little Sure Shot, Yes it was. But it was Bibles and Guns, sorry I saw your 2nd post after I typed this.

I always thought it was PA too, so I did some research and found this in an article from the Huffington Post.

"And when he spoke to a group of his wealthier Golden State backers at a San Francisco fund-raiser last Sunday, Barack Obama took a shot at explaining the yawning cultural gap that separates a Turkeyfoot from a Marin County."

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Let me rephrase for Michele 'I didn't mean what I said, I just needed more attention to gain more votes from the crazy voters".

LOL yea, she's targeting people like that old lady that spoke out during the McCain campaign about how she heard Obama was a Muslim, and even McCain had to correct her. Imagine that same woman at a Bachmann or Palin rally now. Bachmann would be confirming the woman's fear and probably even add to it with a bunch of other Bull@!$%#.

Imagine her surprise if ever she should get elected President, when she finds out that Constitutionally she can do even 1/8th, or less, of all the things she says she is going to do to our country herself as President. But, even with executive order the President has limited powers. The things she is talking about will require Congress to OK it, and hopefully, there will be a Democrat controlled Congress in order to keep the GOPTeaBags from completely dismantling our democracy and destroying our country even more than they have already. She is under this delusional idea that as President she can call all the shots and everyone will just run around and follow all her orders spit-spot with not arguments. She will disband Congress, and they won't be needed anymore, so there goes our democracy. This is the kind of lunacy Bachmann, Palin, and the other GOPTeaBags like them fantasize in.

One very big thing they forget, just how do they think they are going to be able to do that without declaring war on the America, because the majority of the American people will not tolerate it and will fight against. How much do the think the military will put up with it. They dream these lunatic dreams and fantasies and think it will just all fall into place just like the dream it will. They have the brains of demented idiot.

But ya know.....I am really curious as the what message Bachmann thinks God is speaking to Rick Perry as he dries it to the bone, then slowly burns up the entire state of Texas. Maybe he trying to tell him, "Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!" Or....maybe..."When you commit sinful acts in my name, there is Hell to pay. "

Imagine her surprise if ever she should get elected President, when she finds out that Constitutionally she can do even 1/8th, or less, of all the things she says she is going to do ...

That never stops a candidate from promising stuff.

How many of President Obama's promises were within the power of the President to enact compared to requiring Congress?

Here are his top 25 from politifact.

• Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners - NOPE
• Create a tax credit of $500 for workers - NOPE
• Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes - Sort of, could of just let it expire
• Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq - Yep
• Train and equip the Afghan army - Sort of (train yes, equip NOPE)
• End the use of torture - Yep,
• Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center - Yep
• Restrict warrantless wiretaps - Yep
• Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles - Weaselly, "seek"
• Centralize ethics and lobbying information for voters - NOPE, from where would he derive the authority?
• Require more disclosure and a waiting period for earmarks - NOPE
• Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials - Yep
• Secure the borders - Sort of, needs Congress to give him the money
• Provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants - NOPE
• Reform mandatory minimum sentences - NOPE
• Secure nuclear weapons materials in four years - Sort of
• Strengthen antitrust enforcement - Yep
• Create new financial regulations - Probably
• Sign a "universal" health care bill - Sort of "signing it sure, but Congress had to send it to him
• Create 5 million "green" jobs - NOPE

So of these 25, 13 he could do as President, although still not fully solo.

So making promises beyond what they have the direct authority to implement is hardly new.

smeagol,

the whole thing was a one-way conversation she had, with her doing all the talking (to God) the way kids talk to their dolls.

Kind of creepshow frightening but I'm confident the broad, Bachman, has more than proven she is like Palin, a ditz.

My question is what's up with her constituency to not also recognize that and support her?

Can't they see she is only in it for the money from big money donors for her campaign and self to enrich herself?

How many of her constituency have lost jobs or cannot find jobs because of her direct work with fellow schill republicans in congress whose priority is not jobs but only to conspire to make the president a one termer while American citizens suffer day in and day out?

Truth is Bachman doesn't give a damn about the American people.

Truth is Bachman is a babbling idiot like Palin with no ideas how to put Americans back to work. She is only lockstep hellbent on NOT working with the congress and president to solve problems but only cruising on the Teabag express and contributing to the downfall of the American people and in bed like the corporate whore she is with big money.

I really don't think the star-struck simpletons that rally for Palin, Bachmann, Coulter or even Perry fully understand the 'candidate's' logic' or lack thereoff. If Palin or Bachmann were...hmm, 'homely' they would have long been dismissed. But they 'look good' enough as talking heads, so the 'joe-the-plumbers' wrongly conclude they 'must be saying something smart'.

What elavates the likes of Palin and Bachmann is America's superficial fascination with 'pretty talking heads' and a widespread confusion about 'what is going on in the world' . My personal observations leads me to believe that these two witches of Eastwick appeal especially to those with contempt, mistrust or odd views or who 'struggle' with the following issues: science (can't be right), public and higher education (indoctrination), 'them new cars are no good', 'stupid' seat-belts and 'fancy' pollution controls, conspiracy theories, doomsday talk, half-truths, 'one-world-guvment', Elvis is alive, 'communists are out to get us', 'drill, drill, drill' (it will get ME cheap gas at the pump,)evolution ain't right, "creationism and a world only 6,000 years old', 'everybody wants MY stuff' , 'more trickle down economics'- caused it worked so well', 'I don't care what THEY say, I want to see the birth certificate myself' (whoa, that looks different that Hawaii thing. Is Hawaii a foreign country)... and they want gas for less than what the world market price is... sound familiar?

It's easier to sell candidates on fears and fiction, isn't it!?

The moderators know that if they ask serious questions and pressed too hard for definitive answers or detailed follow-ups, no one would come on their shows. This is ratings-based entertainment with corporate sponsors wanting to reach a demographic, not a probing, intelligent conversation about issues. It is what we have become since commercial and cable TV have blurred the line between news and entertainment. Bob Shieffer should have been wearing a clown suit. If you are looking for a fundamental reason why America is no longer the country it once was - and will probably never be again - dumbing down the public in exchange for filthy lucre is one of the principal reasons.

Allen, You are right!!! The thing about this bunch is when they begin evading things, either they do not know the subject matter (why would we think that?) or they cannot think up a lie quick enough. In this dingbats case, IMO its both!

Precisely why Matthews is on cable. He wouldn't last a minute on commercial TV and, even now, the people he needs to come on his show - the Perrys, the Bachmanns. the Romneys, the Palins, the Gingrichs, the Santorums, the Cains, etc., wouldn't even return his phone call, and he is left to debate the C- and D-listers on the TeaPublikan side and those "political strategists" who would do absolutely anything for face time on TV. That is exactly what I am talking about, and thank you for helping me prove my point.

bde, Kinda like your hero Father Beckerhead? He was booted as result of his own co-workers going to management and saying "you have to get rid of him, as what he says and does is reflecting on all of us, and we want nothing to do with that." Also since you seem to feel you know so much about who comes on the Chris Matthews show, what are you a staffer or just someone who gets on here, flinging out their opinions right & left? IMO its the latter.

bdebogota,

What I'd like to see on Chris Mathews is some of the supporters of the idiots. That itself would display similarities of what these people are about that they support.

You know, the ole' doorknobs beget doorknobs thing.

Lynn, I am totally a fan of Matthews and Maddow and, to a lesser extent, O'Donnell and Ed. I long for truly intelligent interviews from broadcasters on the Responsible Right (accent on "Responsible"). Unfortunately, all we have is Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh, so I just tune out. In particular, I think that Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh are to intelligent news and interviews what Superman is to law enforcement. I watch Matthews and Maddow on a daily basis and know who his interviews are. I used to watch Beck, O'Reilly and Hannity, but got tired of getting my intelligence insulted on a daily basis, and after my laughter stopped, there was no further reason to tune those fools in. Never will Bachmann, Perry, Romney, McConnell, Boehner or Cohen ever appear on Matthews's show. So, what's your point?

Steve, seeing the supporters gives their candidates wiggle room to disassociate from what they say. I want all candidates, Teapublikans and Democrats alike, have their feet held to the fire of intelligent, probing interviews, with no holds barred. Obama was interviewed by O'Reilly. Why can't any Teapublikan candidates accept a Matthews or Maddow challenge?

Very good points bde. Seeing all sides' feet to the fire is necessary to see through smoke, fire and liars. Those avoiding exposure is very telling.

Do you think if you interviewed for a job and answered questions the way they do, that you would get the job? I think not. They are being interviewed for a job, if they don't answer the questions they shouldn't get it.

What's your point, Dangerous? Are you suggesting that running for public office, especially POTUS, should provide you with the same EOE safeguards that one would get if running for burger-flipper at McDonalds, or a teacher, or CEO of Goldman Sachs? Hell, man, it's public office and, if you want it, your life is PROPERLY an open book, and honest, detailed answers is the absolute LEAST we, the people, should expect from our candidates. And the failure to provide those answers should be automatic grounds for disqualification, no? After all, if a candidate gives a non-answer or a partial answer or an evasive answer or an intellectually dishonest answer to a direct question, aren't we fair in assuming that the candidate is hiding something?

Of course. But that means two things of importance to me: (1) She is a prevaricator and so craven that getting elected is more important than standing up for her religious principles and beliefs; and (2) that having been said, she obviously has a hidden agenda which makes her - and her ilk and those who support her in the face of her cravenness - gravely dangerous to the Republic. Hell, even Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" for all to read and was always 100% clear about what he thought should be done and what he would do if given the power to do it! In that respect, one would have to conclude that Hitler was far more honest and transparent a person than Bachmann.

@bdebogota,

I never thought of that, but you're right!

Heck of a statement, too---to honestly be able to say that Der F&*^%#! Fuehrer was a more honest and transparent politician than Michelle Bachmann. For those of us who have "followed" her career, she is performing EXACTLY as expected---that is, melting down in front of the world.

Of course she side-stepped the question, then deflected to some other topic when pressed. It's her basic attempt at damage control, whenever she puts her foot in her mouth. Can't wait for someone to give this clown more foot-long corn dogs and send her back to Minnesota (sorry, Minnesotans).

not "bag" - she's a "two bagger" in case the first one falls off

Well.....ya know, my thoughts on the two Bachmann's is that, she says that you can pray away the gay. She liked him though, as he bought into all her religious BS, so seeing as it could be a years long effort to pray away the his gay, she married him. While they had 5 biological children, there is artificial insemination so there would be really be a need for a sexual union between them, and to the world they would appear to be a straight couple. It would seem that most of the foster children they had were females, and maybe that was because the Mrs. didn't trust Marcus with other males living in the house. It seems that most of the people were handled at the clinic by Counselors, however, we don't know their preferred orientation either. Sort of like, do as I say, not as I do.

Every thing about them is just creepy. Their actions reminded of the movie "The Body Snatchers." They look like humans, but, really are not of this world.

They are creepy....I imagine there are a lot of skeletons in their closets (not just her husband). It seems those who strive to look perfect in public, have the most screwed up, twisted things going on behind closed doors. Her husband is totally gay....it seems that only closeted gay people try to cure other gay people. While he is trying to cure the world of 'gay'....he is probably getting weekly body massages to relieve strees from some 25 year old guy named Juan, who wears tank tops and thongs!

wonder69 - "he is probably getting weekly body massages to relieve strees from some 25 year old guy named Juan, who wears tank tops and thongs!"

Now that is an image I could have gone all day without. :-)

Easily avoided - dont say them in the first place.

I dread to think what she could say as President to other world leaders - gives the shivers just thinking about it.

I wonder if she could let us know if God has a soprano voice or a tenor. Does he speak with an accent? Hmm.

HELLO! "I was speaking metaphorically" IS an answer.

You are right, to a point. That is an answer. Judging from many past statements she has made regarding her religious leanings however, I have to wonder if she really was speaking metaphorically.

She wants to be President.ANSWERS and her SOLUTIONS to the nation's problems are what we need,not metaphors.

Judging from many past statements she has made regarding her religious leanings however, I have to wonder if she really was speaking metaphorically

So would a World Leader listening to her as President. I shudder to think of the consequencies of her junior high school debating style representing the US.

At least some fuel savings can be made - as Air Force One would get parked up, wont be needed, she will just be ignored by world leaders. Love it or hate it, its a Global Economy and a Global Political scene, days are loooong gone when one Country can dominate it.

Serious question for those idle moments when staring at the ceiling, can anyone seriously see Bachmann representing the US on the World Stage? ..........

To put it more bluntly martypoo, having had batsh-tcrazy bachmann as a rep, I will state that when she said she was speaking metaphorically, she WAS KNOWNINGLY AND DELIBERATELY LYING THRU HER TEETH. Her every action and word since she first crawled out of the slime of some sewer along the St Croix has been whole heartedly extremist rightwing fascist christer in its intent, and until now she has at least stood by her fascist christer remarks. Now, like her forebearer in politics, Hitler, when put on the spot to actually defend her vile utterances and grunts and howls, she gets defensive and even offended that someone would actually take her sub-human grunt for what it actually meant.

Let's just hope the christer fascist b-tch never has the opportunity to do to her opponents what her political inspiration Hitler was able to do to his.

Ryoushi-- don't hold back. Now tell us how you really feel.

Hey feel free to disagree with her or even doubt her honesty. All I'm doing is pointing out that the title of this piece is dishonest, as is the content. It wasn't enough to be critical and then support that criticism with evidence. This author had to lie. But, like so many others on both sides of the political spectrum, he knows that as long as he is preaching to the partisan choir, the truth is not actually necessary.

Basically we had a controversy - albeit a very small one - about her comments. The question and answer should put that to bed. Then we can move on to important issues. Instead, this writer sought to keep the controversy alive by imagining that she dodged the question.

I tend to think that a pet rock is at least as intelligent as michelle. Even if she does have a law degree from rectal roberts u school of law and underwater basket weaving.

and Perry is also a top notch LOONY TOON

yes, and that is why they ask HER those questions....as opposed to this.

nobody either needs to or is required to impress you.

Truth? be told? - HER God.

If you think you can interprete or assume to understand the language of a politician, you are pitifully vulnerable to their hypocrisy and brain-washing tactic.

Faith is something you apparently do not understand or can not accept

However many pretend to accept some faith without understanding it. Because, in their plot to deceive others in order to fulfill their own agenda, they have to adopt a faith they do not live by, provided that doing so will earn them the support of those naive ones they want to exploit. Let your faith of the God you serve and believe in reflect in your daily actions, but not in your words. If we, the people, didn't have to vote, one would never hear the word "God" uttered by any politician.

As your multi cultural anit-ism anti- spiritual dogma hedonists would say in a universal voice... 'peace be with you".

Thank you, and Peace be with you too.

What was it Maude used to say...ah... "God'll get you for that..."