Worst Person: Michelle Bachmann wants credit for Obama's election
By David Neiwert Saturday Nov 08, 2008 7:00am
Have you noticed how all these right-wingers, like Bill Bennett, want to claim credit for Barack Obama's election as some kind of racial vindication for America, when they're the very people who were indulging the worst kind of dog-whistle stereotypes in their strenuous efforts to keep him from becoming president?
Keith Olbermann honored Rep. Michelle Bachmann, the Diva of the New McCarthyism, last night as the "Worst Person in the World" for the following remarks:
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told Politico Thursday that she was “extremely grateful that we have an African-American who has won this year.” She called his victory “a tremendous signal we sent.”
“I have not seen the United States as a racist nation,” said Bachmann, who represents Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, in the east-central part of the state. “In my district, I don’t sense racism, and that’s why I’m thankful that hopefully this will send a national signal across our country that America is not a nation made up of racists. ... On the same hand, I hope that the national media will not confuse disagreement with Obama’s policy positions with being consumed [by] racism.”
Yep, this is the same woman who thought that Obama was "anti-American." Only a day ago, she also said this:
It looks like the Sopranos. That is kind of what we are looking at. This is knuckle Chicago politics and that is what is going to be in the White House now. We have been, conservative Republicans, have felt the brunt of Rahm Emanuel this election cycle, last election cycle. It’s unlike anything anyone has ever seen or heard and now it’s going to come forth out of the White House.
Piece. Of. Work.
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in 2010, CongressCrank. Keep shooting off your bigoted mouth.
It was just a matter of time before these out of touch dimwits thought:
"aha! see, SEEEEE! We're not racists, no uh-uh, not us. Having a Black President prooooves it!"
I'm sure some of her bestest friends are Black too (insert rolling eyes here)
If she really believe what she says she's a moron.
If she is just practicing some right wing "base" spin then she's a fucking asshole.
..her district in MN - so I can't say if any of the people there are racist.
I can say, however, that they must be freakin' idiots to vote for this lady!!!! Again!!
totally agree with you.
n/t
I'm very familiar with her district: They are not racist, they are just very out of touch. I'm going to bet half of the voters didn't even know what she said, she put on very effective tv ads and appeared to be a very charming, graceful lady.
Bachmann's district is almost exclusively white and she's probably never had much contact with any racial minorities there. Its a band of suburbs adjacent to Mpls/St.Paul that's damned conservative: only 1.0% of her entire district is Black, 1.3% Hispanic and less than 1% Other Non-White.
Its fair to characterize her district as out-of-touch. It wasn't until her "unpatriotic" remarks hit the national news that her opponent's numbers soared. It took a huge wake-up call and some nation humiliation for her district to see the real Bachmann and for some to vote against her. Until then Tinklenberg didn't stand a chance. She only won by 3% in the end. But now they can all go back to sleep.
It's one thing to be isolated and ingnorant. It is quite another to hold public office and say such things. If I were from MN I would be very embarassed by her.
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More Related Multimedia »17 Oct 2006 // Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) complaint against the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, MN for violating IRS law by openly endorsing state Senator Michele Bachmann’s candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Churches, like Living Word Christian Center, are absolutely prohibited from intervening in elections for any public office. This prohibition is a condition of the very favorable tax benefits public charities receive under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.--------------CREW has filed two IRS complaints against her Minneapolis Church .
Good! I'd like to see every church which has enjoyed tax exempt status while overtly campaigning this election cycle stripped immediately of their tax exempt status.
This democracy and the rule of law needs to be cleaned up and I can't think of a better starting point then right here!
I did see petititons against Dobson's church and their 501(3)(c)and I'm sure that CREW and other agencies are filing complaints against others right now as well.
Bravo! And it's "about time" we nail these hypocritical thieves and make them pay just like everyone else.
It used to be said that "negative publicity is better than no publicity at all" - a tenet to which this sick woman obviously subscribes.
How dare this woman now attempt to spin her insidious, heinous allegations on national television as anything but what they were - a personal "hit job" on Barack Obama. She's shameful in now attempting to reap the rewards of an Obama victory.
Maybe we didn't rip this woman out of her seat this time, but woe to her the next time 'round. Bachman will not survive another term following this one.
Did she not accuse Obama of being anti-American? Did she not call for a McCarthyite investigation into which members of Congress were anti-American? Is she not of the party whose rallies included a racist oaf waving a monkey with an Obama sticker as headband? Did she not support Palin, who called small towns (20 percent of America) "real Americans" while the remaining 80 percent of us urbanites and suburbanites are in Palin's inference, "fake" Americans?
I very much doubt Bachmann voted for Barack Obama, so her "we" is indeed the majority of Americans, but NOT BACHMANN!!! I still can't believe she was reelected.
With today's technology, there is little doubt that all the IRS would need to disallow these tax ememptions would be to have the complaint lodged and then view the videotape (prima facie evidence). It should be a slam dunk to strip them of their tax exempt status.
We need a national movement regarding this as it is against the law if they enjoy the tax exempt status.
Post all petitions here so we can become involved and get the grass movement moving in the church direction.
As far as I remember the IRS has only gone after liberal churches. I hope that gets turned around now. The Catholic and Morman churches used their tax exempt monies to stop gay marriage in 3 states.
For what qualities are they voting when electing someone like this feculent, dripping, reeking bag of dogshit?
Didn't they elect a professional wrestler as governor a few years ago?? If so, then that tells you a lot about their collective stupidity.
We also gave you Humphrey and Wellsone.
Politics can be wacky here like anywhere. Even though I wasn't here when Jesse "The Body" Ventura was elected I would have voted for him. He got pegged as a stupid wrestler for his bizarre looks (even worse now) and flip remarks. He actually had a very progressive ideology.
He was pro-choice, pro-gay, for terrific mass-transit, education funding and lots more. He advocated decriminalizing some some forms of "drug" use (marijuana), also for decriminalization of the sex business, ie escorts (regulate it instead). What really sunk him was when he told some reporter something like "religion is for people who can't think for themselves".
ALL of them.
Since they all seem to be complicit in one way or another with the full-on attack on the Federal Constitution.
Keep your faith, like you genitals, zippered up, you miserable, goddam fucking hypocrites!
Enjoyed this post/rant very much!
Hoping you'll get your wish, btw
Someone posted a comment awhile back saying
" Keep your religion out of politics and I won't have sex in your church"
Or something very similar to that.
It rang true with me.
That's even better than "Don't teach creationism in my school and I won't teach evolution in your church."
Obama, on the other hand, seeks no credit for the re-election of Bachman.
you made me giggle.
I have an idea.
Why not just credit Bachmann with being an IDIOT voted in by other IDIOTS?
Kathleen Parker had a column in my paper today, reminiscing fondly on the black household employee that Kathleen didn't think of as "black", just as someone who loved her, and how Kathleen's been so horrified by racism all her life. Why weren't any of these conservatives writing these columns BEFORE the election, I wonder?
Why do I have a vision of Vivian Leigh waxing poetic over the memory of Hattie McDaniel?
the difference is, our Ruby is a part of our family.
I doubt it's the same with Kathleen. Ruby is my other mother.
She even took me to the hospital when I cut my foot.
She raised my baby brother (my parents had a retail business and
worked six days a week). I'll never forget my brother standing
next to her as she drove her big Oldsmobile, him in his white
trash ensemble of nothing but a cloth diaper with his arm
draped around her neck (way before car seats).
When Ruby's husband died, all of the people that she had worked
for raised money to buy him a tombstone, and then when we found out
that he had left her in debt with her home in jeopardy, everyone
chipped in to save her house.
Nothing makes me happier to see her and hear her talk about how I'm
her baby. Damn straight I am. She was never anything but someone
who loved us and was and is very much a part of our family. It was
certainly no leap to imagine a black man as the leader of my country.
who refused to give kids Hallowe'en treats if their parents voted for Obama.
But she has to go back to Congress and work with a Majority.
I hope they ostracize her. And make her Irrelevant.
..hers and Joe Lieberman's stinging tails together and throw them both into a raging river.
is one that scorpions would laugh at, then kill and eat.
They dont have to. she's already done it for them.
If they can find a any to spin it, they will. They have to, or they will end up like Walter Winchell in his last years (They may end up that way anyway, knock on wood). It reminds me of Rush the day after the 2006 congressional election, saying how relieved he was that he no longer has to "carry their water". Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, douchebags gotta.........?
Blaaaachman needs to be tagged and sent back into the wilds.
She called his victory “a tremendous signal we sent.”
Typical delusional, lying republiscum.
I happen to live in her district and this claim that she does not sense racism in her district probably has more to do with the fact that she spends almost no time IN the district. From Obama signs that have been defaced with the phrase "ni**er" to other less obvious statements, there is absolutely a segment of this district that is racist.
This district is 95.6% white, she saying there's no hint of racism. When I attended Anoka High School, it was being integrated with inner-city youth. The kids hated it. There were gangs like Anoka Brew Crew and others that proudly held their racism, and eventually even burned crosses. I think either Michelle is an ignoramous (guaranteed), and she is also either purposefully lying, or voluntarily remains uninformed. Either way, she don't know what she's talking about. Here's a couple links to racism in her district:
2007 Cross Burning
KKK sprayed on an Obama sign
Racism is alive and well in your district, take your head out of the sand. Though making comments like this to those that agree with you gratify's you, it doesn't make it true.
I'm sure most of you heard Caribou Barbie's rantings yesterday. She said that Alaska has true equality which "isn't seen in the lower 48 states".
Palin just doesn't know when to shut her yap.
Well, Palinista may be correct.Apparently still smarting from the true equality that led to her DEFEAT by a black woman in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant years ago!
I posted upthread the CREW complaints to the IRS about Bachmann's church. She also has done some VIDEOS ,filmed IN the church,called "Fool for Christ". They're on Youtube. However, something continues to nag at me about all this. Is there a Minnesota connection to the firm FLS-DCI? They are the folks who do the slime-a-thon robo calls. In fact, their St. Paul office shares the SAME address with Norm Coleman. The L in FLS is Jeff Larsen who-1.)Is Coleman's landlord in D.C. 2.)Was responsible for Wasilly's $$$ wardrobe.Now, is it too hard to connect the dots that maybe some of the influence of this GOP dominated robo firm may have had a hand in some of Bachmann's votes...or vote tallying? Just sayin'....
"Fool for Christ" - I've never understood why people wear this epithet proudly. I've read every word Jesus said and my impression is that he had an extremely low tolerance for fools.
Actually he was a bit of a stand-up comedian what with the camel and the eye of the needle. Once one of his apostles commented on how he drew a crowd, and he remarked carrion always attracts the vultures.
And of course he had to be popular at parties, turning water into wine.
(I was raised Mormon, they said it was grape juice. [They didn't appreciate it when I asked if it was Welches]).
Jesus Was Way Cool
A Piece. Of. Work,,,, who knows damn well she lucked out in getting elected this week, and furthermore has a an electoral bulls-eye on her back one thousand times the size of her pea brain. A bulls-eye that will mean big trouble getting re-elected in two short years.
as if she actually KNOWS ANYTHING about the things she's referring to. Christ does she need to be kept under wraps. Like Palin. But the repubs are too fuckin' stoopid even to do what's good for them. Just like their loyal voters. More KoolAid please.
I think its called letting your alligator nouth overload your hummingbird ass!
...what's in the water in her district of Minnesota? KoolAid?
FOOL-AID!
It could happen she had some sort of enlightenment-or just the sheer terror of upcoming unemployment with her nasty attitude changed her thinking. But another nasty GOP is Jean Schmidt of Ohio--did she keep her seat in congress?
I'm adjacent to it and know a few folks there. Here's an email excerpt I got from one of them:
"I wasn't going to vote for Bachmann....until I started listening to the ads and receiving mailings. The only thing the ads and the mailings said were regarding her comments that 'some candidates might have anti-American views'. Is that all they have to campaign against?!!!!! Bachmann's campaign was run with more meat on the table...her voting record against the government mortgage bailout, her voting record in support of gun laws, her voting record preserving marriage as a union between man and woman..etc. etc. I didn't get any of that from Tinklenberg nor any of his endorsements(Powell, Billary, etc.). I ended up voting for somone (Michele!) who has actually done something rather than just whine about something trivial."
Can you believe that? Fighting gay marriage is "meat on the table", but proposing a return to McCarthyism is "something trivial". I'll be sending him all her embarassing moments over the next 2 years to remind him of his vote.
This is what's important to the thin minded neocons these days....abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, NO taxes (regardless of whether or not OUR bridges are collapsing on us), "spreading democracy", "supporting the troops" (by sending them off to a needless war and watching them as they get ground into hamburger or worse so we can paste our little yellow ribbons on the back of our Humvees).....all such shallow priorities.
Don't try to explain "right to chose", regulation to prevent Wall Street from screwing the American public, gun control to keep weapons and automatic weapons out of the hands of crazies and criminals, etc. etc. It's just TOO COMPLICATED and CONFUSING for their simple minds.
I am so dusgusted with the right wing nut cakes. It's like arguing with a senile old fool that is just plain stubborn and stupid. We are a nation of morons...and we have the propaganda media to fertilize them.
I posted upthread the CREW complaints to the IRS about Bachmann's church. She also has done some VIDEOS ,filmed IN the church,called "Fool for Christ". They're on Youtube. However, something continues to nag at me about all this. Is there a Minnesota connection to the firm FLS-DCI? They are the folks who do the slime-a-thon robo calls. In fact, their St. Paul office shares the SAME address with Norm Coleman. The L in FLS is Jeff Larsen who-1.)Is Coleman's landlord in D.C. 2.)Was responsible for Wasilly's $$$ wardrobe.Now, is it too hard to connect the dots that maybe some of the influence of this GOP dominated robo firm may have had a hand in some of Bachmann's votes...or vote tallying? Just sayin'....
"fighting gay marriage" ..... "meat on the table" - something Freudian about her comment, no?
It's shameful that the residents of her district decided to send such an ignorant bitch to represent THEM in Congress. It's sort of like the fools in Connecticut sent joe the whiner, but hey, that's a republic in action. she represents THEM. Glad I'm not a resident of that district. I'd be ashamed of myself and my neighbors.
I live in her district and it's pure bred red with a lot of vieled racism. That said, she's still an embarrasment to us, the other half that live here.
That all said, I'm still struggling with how anyone, die hard repub. or not, voted for her. And I don't buy into the fact that the IP candidate stole democratic votes from Tinklenberg.
I have lived in Minnesota all my life and just cant understand how this loud Mouthed BIGOT! was voted back to Congress. I have noticed that the areas
that are North and South of the Twin Cities are more on the Red- (NECK) Side.
Listen: Earth vs Michele Bachmann
Insipidly stupid whore.
Here we go again.
First Hillary.
Next Sarah.
And now, the highly educated and liberated posters are back with plenty of "bitch" and "whore" to describe any woman politician with whom they may have a disagreement.
Yeah but, Michelle Bachmann was reelected!
So much for framing the election as a repudiation of conservatism.
Would that it were so.
Contrast Bachmann's comments against the fact that the Obama election campaign never held even a single meeting about race and the role it might, or might not, play in the election.
Dems are thrilled and euphoric because of the additional component of Obama's race in the election. To us - it's: "He won - and he's black!" -- re-Thugs are surprised by it. To them, it's: "he's black - and he won!"
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It's a very depressing that this woman won. I actually don't see how that could have happened in a fair election.
If it was indeed, basically a fair election - then I know something unsavory about Minnesota that I didn't realize before.
Let's hope they get a chance to redeem themselves with the Frankely/Coldman recount.
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She's just plain crazy as evidenced by a number of odd things she's done. Who can explain why on earth the people in her district reelected her? Supposedly she raised twenty-something foster children. It'd be interesting if any of them are adults to get their point of view of her.
Helmet hair, sprayed on makeup, angry mouth, ugly power suits? So glad she got kicked to the curb.
I didn't realize this bitch got re-elected but then, I don't slum.
re; Michele Bachman if you actually listened to mathews play the word gamme on her you would realize he had it all planned out to accomplish just what he did.
did you know she is a successful business person.(something
matthews never could be and BHO never tried to be)
Did you know her family fosterd scores of children (all races) in her home for many years?
She never killed a baby.
She never threw her preacher under the bus.
She never lied about who she is.
She believes in fiscal responsibility, too bad the Gov's.of Michigan & Wiconsin & California & Rhode Island don't.
She walked the walk, not just talk about what other people should do.
HMmmm, lets see what BHO has accomplished;
HE REALLY DIDN'T PLAY THE RACE CARD, NOT EVEN ONCE.
HE ACTUALLY HAS A LEGAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
HE REALLY DIDN'T THROUGH HIS PREACHER UNDER THE BUS.
HE REALLY DIDN'T CALL U.S. TROOPS "...BABY KILLERS".
HE REALLY DIDN'T SEAL HIS COLLEGE RECORDS.
HE REALLY DIDN'T RED FLAG HIS BACKGROUND W/ THE D.O.J.
HE REALLY DIDN'T ACCEPT NEARLY THE MOST FROM FANNIE MAE & FREDDIE MAC.
(WHICH IS AT THE CORE OF OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL MELT DOWN)
HE REALLY DIDN'T SAY "CALL ME I'LL BE THERE".
HE REALLY DIDN'T BLOCK REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO REGULATE FANNIE & FREDDIE.
HE REALLY DIDN'T COMMIT CAMPGIAN FINANCING FRAUD.
HE REALLY DID HAVE A REAL JOB, AT SOME POINT IN HIS LIFE.
HE REALLY DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SOL ALINSKY.
HE REALLY DIDN'T SCOFF AND SNEAR AT OUR CONSTUTITION.
HE REALLY COULD GET A REAL SECURITY CLEARENCE.
HE REALLY DOES NOT WANT TO CUT OUR MILITARY & INTELIGENCE AGENCIES IN A TIME OF WAR.
HE REALLY DOES NOT WANT TO EXPAND WELFARE.
HE DIDN' HIDE FROM REAL REPORTERS.
HE REALLY WAS VETTED BY THE PRESS.
HE REALLY DIDN'T VOTE 94 TIMES TO INCREASE TAXES ON US "THE MIDDLE CLASS".
HE REALLY DIDN'T VOTE TO CUT OFF MILITARY SPENDING AT A TIME OF HIGH ACIVETY.
HIS DISTRICT REALLY HAS THE BEST SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO.
HIS DISTRICT REALLY HAS THE LOWEST CRIM RATE IN CHICAGO.
HE REALLY DOES HELP IN BROTHER IN KENYA, WHO DOES NOT LIVE ON A $1.00 ADAY.
there's just too much that he really did....
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