Caught a few minutes of it, didn’t watch it. If I’d known Bachmann was on her meds I might have watched. ONe show doesn’t redeem her crazy/stupid/lunacy.

I’ve never laughed so hard in my life, reading that headline, was too funny. Good one Frances! Oh wait, you were serious. Let me laugh even harder.

She has something else in common with Palin. What’s with that voice? She’s not only stupid and a complete loon but, she too needs to go and practice her non regional diction and pitch. I can’t listen to her. She to makes my ears bleed. How do these people with awful voices even get into politics? The whole folksy way of speaking might excite the lunatic fringe that is the GOP but, it just sounds like they’re talking down to people. I guess they know their audience very well.

Sorry, that’s she too makes my ears bleed. I don’t ever want to be confused with teabaggers who can’t spell.

rox..did you ever answer that nagging question asked of you about people who can’t pronounce the word “ask”? Is that a regional diction problem?

snipz, you didn’t like the headline because it was accurate. Kind of throws you off base doesn’t it, that honesty thing?

Frances– That’s great that “she had a statistic.” Did you factcheck it? Is it accurate? On first glance, and just from my digging around, it seems like another lie. If it is a lie, wish you could have reported that to the audience.

Or, perhaps it’s better that someone other than yourself check that out, since you have already determined that she has ‘defended the Tea Party Movement with facts and statistics.’

Okay, timzank’s post 1up’d the headline in comedy. Can anyone top that?

Isn’t this the same brain stem who likes to say that the government now “owns 51% of the private economy?” The woman is a national embarrassment (along with her side-kick Curly, aka Sarah Palin) and that makes her a perfect fit for tea-baggers.

P.S . Wallace failed yet again to press her on issues like the bank bail-outs, but I’m sure she would have given some incoherent answer regardless, so I’ll give him a pass.

Saying that Michelle Bachmann had a moment of clarity and is, therefore, sane, is like saying that serial killers are decent people because they don’t kill everyone they meet.

timzank says:
April 11, 2010 at 6:44 pm
rox..did you ever answer that nagging question asked of you about people who can’t pronounce the word “ask”? Is that a regional diction problem?
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Why is it so important to keep asking a black person that question?

whats wrong with 49% private economy…we all so what 100% did. Just another dumb Palin with a less annoying voice.

roxsteady:

You think Bachmann is stupid? She was a very successful tax attorney. She has a J.D. and an L.L.M. (a masters of law). Out of curiosity, what’s your educational background?

Hey, the real john t, I heard KO is going to do a “Special Comment” attacking CBS for sponsoring the racially insensitive tournament named “The Masters.” In support of his contention, KO will show video showing that there were few minorities in the galleries, which MUST mean that CBS was sponsoring a “racist ” event.

BTW, how would anyone know or care about roxy’s race, except a liberal?

Frances– Nice work with the factchecking, Bachmann was only off by 51 percent (I rounded up): http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/156346/SOCIALISM.jpg

You’re the intern here, right?

since when is Bachmann the leader of the Tea party movement. Thats what you don’t get, there IS NO leader of the tea party movement…its grass roots

“You think Bachmann is stupid? She was a very successful tax attorney. She has a J.D. and an L.L.M. (a masters of law). Out of curiosity, what’s your educational background?”

Her J.D. is from a TTT.

Frances– Nice work with the factchecking, Bachmann was only off by 51 percent (I rounded up)”

So the govt. does no public spending that’s part of the economy, eh?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/28/ftn/main6341097.shtml

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis data since 1929, the highest percentage of government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product was during World War II when government spending was 47.9 percent (in 1944). The lowest level of government spending as a percent of GDP was 9 percent in 1929 at the outset of the Great Depression.

At no time during this period was the United States’ GDP 100 percent private.

The 2009 level of federal government spending was 20.6 percent.

“its grass roots”

No it isn’t. Grassroots would be the hippie movement of the 1960′s. Not something that has been sponsored multiple times by Fox News or republican politicians (And former politicians, and current lobbyists).

goodolgil, you live in a TTT.

finch,
Got to laugh at you defending Bachman by referring to her JD, since Palin and the tea partiers often criticize Obama for not being smart, notwithstanding his JD from Havard, and his status as a constitutional law professor at University of Chicago. I can’t count the number of times I have heard from the conservatives that Obama is stupid, etc. So then, finch, they are wrong on that, right?

“The lowest level of government spending as a percent of GDP was 9 percent in 1929 at the outset of the Great Depression.”

Yes, we need to go back to those days.

Agreed!

goodolgil:

Really? Do you agree that she’s “stupid”? If so, where’s your JD from?

Valk, everyone says crazy things even people who are Presidents. So let’s not act as though BHO is immune.

‘m here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.

Barack Obama
Speaking via satellite to Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008.

Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.

Barack Obama
Slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008.

Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.
Barack Obama
Referring to committee he is not on,

Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008.
Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack Obama

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Barack Obama
Does Obama see dead people?

I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to.
Barack Obama
At US presidential campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon.

Barack Obama
Asked a foreign policy question by reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania during 2008 US presidential campaign .

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.
Barack Obama
Explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters during 2008 US presidential campaign.

Valkyrie:

I’ve never said Obama is stupid. I have said his legal credentials are vastly overstated. For example, he was never a professor at U of C. He was a lecturer, which is part-time, non-tenure track position that doesn’t require any scholarship. And, in fact, Barack Obama has never published a piece of legal scholarship in his life–including when he was on the Harvard Law Review.

I don’t think Michelle Bachmann is “stupid,” but I certainly don’t think she is particularly smart. I’d peg her to be below the 25th percentile of all Congresswoman in terms of intelligence and her degree from a law school that doesn’t even exist anymore doesn’t change that.

For full disclosure, I don’t have a J.D., but will be pursuing one at the University of Michigan this fall.

“I have said his legal credentials are vastly overstated. For example, he was never a professor at U of C. He was a lecturer, which is part-time, non-tenure track position that doesn’t require any scholarship.”

I don’t wanna rehash another election-era debate, but it was established that “Senior Lecturer” was a very prestigious title at U of C, and his colleagues even referred to him respectfully as “Professor.” Of course he was never actually a “Professor of Law,” but terms like professor are often used casually (like most people when adressing their adjunct lecturer for English 101 still refer to them as “one of my professors”).

OK, Obama is not stupid, I will file that one away. So how is Bachman qualified to be a national level political spokesperson. She did tax law, had a term in the state legislature and has been a house member since 2006. Obama graduated from Harvard, was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, and was a teacher (part-time or otherwise) at another of the most prestigious schools in the world, University of Chicago. He served three terms in the the Illinois State Senate and four years in the U.S. Senate. I keep hearing how Obama is not qualified, yet there was your friend Hannity seeming to encourage Bachmann to run for President or vice President with Palin. If Obama is not qualified, as you repeatedly have said, how is Bachman qualified?

I actually think saying “conservatives think Obama is stupid” is a bit of straw man. They say just about everything else about him, but rarely that he’s stupid.

Goodolgil:

Good for you, and I mean that sincerely. Michigan is a great school. With any luck, by the time you graduate the market will have turned and large firms will actually be having summer associate programs and hiring first years again like they did in the boon years. Any idea what you want to do with yourself yet?

Val:

I’ve never said Obama is unqualified to be President. He is qualified. But I do think that the reports of his genius are greatly exaggerated.

TylerDurdin says:
April 11, 2010 at 8:27 pm
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Well I don’t know about attacking CBS. But being a person that thinks he know everything such as yourself I would think you’d know about Augusta National Golf Club where the Masters is held. It has one black member, the only reason is because the PGA told them to hold a major tournament they had to be racially diverse. Said they had to search for the right one. They don’t allow women to join. Before Finch or anyone else jumps on that. Yes they have women on the waiting list, since 2003. Before they were made to have a black as a member the head of the club said the only blacks that would be there would be the caddies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnny-benjamin/the-hypocrisy-of-augusta_b_529838.html

finch,
Thanks for that candid assessment. Fair enough. :-)

Thanks, Finch. I’m really interested in IP law, but the market seems so bad now I’m just hoping I get a job that can pay off my loans!

I’ve gathered from some of your posts that you’re in Biglaw, how’s that life?

goodolgil:

It depends on whether you’re a glass half-full or half-empty kind of person. Half-full: good money and really smart people everywhere you look. Half-empty: instead of law firms they are becoming soulless law factories (if not sweat shops). Pay off your loans, but don’t get seduced by the golden handcuffs.

goodolgil says:
April 11, 2010 at 8:46 pm

Her J.D. is from a TTT.
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Her JD is from Oral Roberts University.

http://www.nndb.com/people/017/000122648/

Michele Bachmann and Sarah just make me so proud to be a woman!!!!

I love how this woman considers the TARP, created under Bush and amounting to 700+ Billions with very few strings attached and no tax payer equity, counts as Obama having nationalized the banks. Her concept of 51% of the “private” economy as now nationalized is simply a bizarre, groundless piece of crying wolf that is all Bachmann has to offer.

This is hardly a thoughtful defense of the tea baggers. There really IS no thoughtful defense of a movement created by lobbyists (The Freedom Works end of it) and Fox News (The Beck 9-12 end of it) to pry on the anger, fear and – in many cases – bigotry of people too under informed to know better.

Rox is black, wow maybe that explains why he is so out of touch with the real America. Is he still calling other people stupid? Maybe he can explain how someone that speaks like Cong. John Lewis ever got elected. Maybe he can explain Donna Brazille or Jesse Jackson.
Maybe he be from the hood? Some people should keep their mouth shut when they come from a long line of people that can’t speak English.

Most of rox’s posts would make a Marine DI blush, and real john is offended when rox is questioned about the word ‘axe’. LOL.

Rox is black, wow maybe that explains why he is so out of touch with the real America.

So are you saying that black people are not real Americans?

Maybe he can explain how someone that speaks like Cong. John Lewis ever got elected. Maybe he can explain Donna Brazille or Jesse Jackson. Maybe he be from the hood? Some people should keep their mouth shut when they come from a long line of people that can’t speak English.

Wow! After all the posts on this site claiming the conservatives/tea partiers are not racists, this guy comes along and proves that they are.

Hey Durdin, you want to see a real racist, read this comment:

Gordon Bloyer says:
April 11, 2010 at 11:01 pm

writer says:
April 11, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Most of rox’s posts would make a Marine DI blush, and real john is offended when rox is questioned about the word ‘axe’. LOL.
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You know damn well where the word “axe” instead of “ask” comes from. So don’t play stupid, even know you are an ignorant fool.

Gordon Bloyer says:
April 11, 2010 at 11:01 pm
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Some people should keep there mouth shut when they come from a long line of racists ignorant fools.

there > their

I personally think that its indeed a brilliant analysis of just about everything which has been going wrong over the last some years and also helps us to explain why we have ended up here.The Tea Party movement is relatively well off and is overwhelmingly white and conservative.
m3 ds real

Hey valkyrie101
“his status as a constitutional law professor at University of Chicago”….your not up to date are you?
Obama is not now,and never was a “Professor” of anything, anywhere.
Do better research,or,shut up!

goodolgil,
Obama couldn`t practice law if he wanted to,and neither could his wife…they have no license to do so.

Just want to come at this from a down the line point of view, but I will be honest, I am a democrat who is moving independent very soon, and I have friends that are in the tea party. First off, lets go ahead and dispence the whole, there is no racists in the tea party. There are racists anywhere you go. From the democratitc party to the republican party. From white people to black people to hispanics to asians…. But that being said, it appears that people, and I could be wrong paint the entire tea party as racists… And well, that just is not fact, no matter how much you say it..

That would be like me saying all democrats or liberals want to take all my money and give it to another person, .. These are not a group of people like the KKK, or the Black Panthers.. They are people who are yes I will admit mostly republican, conservative, but also independents, and democrats. They are normal people, that happen to believe that what is happening by leadership right now is wrong, from taxes to how much is being spent. They are a group of people that feel like their voice is being snuffed out and ignored, some since Obama took office, others like me since Bush took office.. It was wrong for people to try and silence the protestors of the Iraq war calling them stupid, and unamerican.. And it is just as wrong for people to try and silence the tea party members now by calling them all stupid and painting the majority as racists.

Just because someone has a difference in opinion politically on how the country should be run, does not make them uneducated, or have less of a heart, it simply leaves them with a different opinion. Nothing more. Nothing less. Some of the smartest, and most caring people that I personally know Doctors, and nurses, are in the tea party… My boss, whom is African American, and is working on his law degree, does not like the way things are being run congress or the president.. He also wants to see term limits for the house set to 3, and the senate for 1.. Giving both a total of six years. And I happen to agree with him on that, simply because it gives less of a chance for someone to sit in Washington for the rest of their lives, and becoming corrupt on either side.

I do not happen to think that Obama and or Palin, or Bachmann are stupid… Frankly you do not become president of a nation, governor of an state, or a senator by being stupid. I absolutely do not agree with Obama in the way he is running our country, spending money hand over fist like Bush and stepping it up 5 notches, nor do I agree with him on healthcare. I would like to say I pray for the president and congress everyday, for them to make the right choices, and for them to be safe. Again I can disagree with you , protest this same president I pray for, and I believe most tea party people, such as the ones I know personally are rational people and want what is best for their country..

Is “Chris Wallace” a real person?
I can`t imagine being around such a “Robot”…Each time I see,or,hear the man, “Hanger 51″ comes to mind.
Has “Rupert”put something in the water,or,what?
Chris Wallace is a “Freak” of nature…..he has a “infomercial” mind set….tell him anything,pay him,and he`ll say it..good or bad..just pay him,and it`s said.
Try to imagine being on a 22 hr flight seated next to him the entire flight/TRIP.

Sammy Benoit says:
April 11, 2010 at 8:44 pm

since when is Bachmann the leader of the Tea party movement. Thats what you don’t get, there IS NO leader of the tea party movement…its grass roots

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San Augustine? Bermuda? Buffalo? Rye? I spent a portion of my Saturday pulling up Nut Grass. I bet that’s it. Annoying. Useless.

Um, Snipzor, what part of the hippie movement are you talking about? Where you there? Didn’t you know that all of these things you are saying about the Tea Party Movement were true about parts of the hippie movement. I remember on tv media hyped event that “hundreds of people” attended in Chicago. The tv camera crews did a very tight shot of about ten noisy demonstrators. The movement you talk about was full of “agent provacators” from various governments around the world, not to mention our own government.

Please attempt to use a fact once in a while.

By the way, yes I was there.

Rox is black, wow maybe that explains why he is so out of touch”

How do ya know rox is a he?

Goodolgil: “his colleagues even referred to him respectfully as “Professor.”

It is totally irrelevant as to what they referred to him as.

the real john t: “Some people should keep there mouth shut when they come from a long line of racists ignorant fools.”

Take your own advise!

Bachmann Rocks

the real john t says:
April 11, 2010 at 11:37 pm “Some people should keep there mouth shut when they come from a long line of racists ignorant fools.”

Race Baiting

The race baiting currently being perpetrated by the left is designed to stifle intelligent debate. When the left is forced to address facts and logical thought, they NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have a leg to stand. They attempt to change the subject or randomly claim racism for no apparent reason. It is a little like turrets syndrome, racism just pops out of their mouth randomly. America is wise to this. Racism does not carry the meaning it had a year ago.

Racist is now defined as the following
rac•ist [rey-sizt]
-adj
1. any American who’s beliefs differ from that of the current Communist President’s Administration or his lunatic Liberals followers

Charlotte Alexander says April 12, 2010 at 5:31 am “Obama couldn`t practice law if he wanted to,and neither could his wife…they have no license to do so.”

Wasn’t Michelle Obama aka Ru Paul disbarred? She is such a scumbag.

LOL. Me a racist, LOL. I just speak the truth, I don’t care about being PC. I have no fear of the racist label. I am not intimidated by black racists or white race baiters that want to keep people from telling the truth. I could have include many WHITE democrats in my list of people that can’t speak without a lisp or some goofy accent like Barney Frank and James Carville. I don’t think I should have to just to placated looney left racist police. I know before I ever post a word that the left will call me a racist and a homophobe just because I oppose them. It won’t work anymore.

Whoops a few corrections for the grammer police……..
LOL. Me a racist, LOL. I just speak the truth; I don’t care about being PC. I have no fear of the racist label. I am not intimidated by black racists or white race baiters that want to keep people from telling the truth. I could have included many WHITE democrats in my list of people that can’t speak without a lisp or some goofy accent like Barney Frank and James Carville. I don’t think I should have to; just to placate Looney left racist police. I know before I ever post a word that the left will call me a racist and a homophobe just because I oppose them. It won’t work anymore.

Me a racist, LOL. I just speak the truth;

Yes all racists claim that they speak the truth. But the truth is they are just racists.

JamesA1102 is a Race Baitor

The race baiting currently being perpetrated by the left is designed to stifle intelligent debate. When the left is forced to address facts and logical thought, they NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have a leg to stand. They attempt to change the subject or randomly claim racism for no apparent reason. It is a little like turrets syndrome, racism just pops out of their mouth randomly. America is wise to this. Racism does not carry the meaning it had a year ago.
Racist is now defined as the following
rac•ist [rey-sizt]
-adj
1. any American who’s beliefs differ from that of the current Communist President’s Administration or his lunatic Liberals followers

So Bachmann merely repeats that same insane rhetoric at a slow pace and suddenly she is spouting “facts and statistics”?

51%? She’s only off by about…..51%.

What an idiot.

Re: Rep. Bachmann being “stupid”: she practiced law as a tax attorney, reportedly with considerable knowledge and skill. A stupid person in such a practice quickly gets angry clients and, no doubt, becomes the subject of tort suits.

This conservative wrote a detailed refutation of the hate lie that Tea Party people are racists. I will skip that. Those who twist the comments of one or two and then seek to claim that any alleged error represents the “racism” of the whole ought to pause a moment. That sort of generalization is precisely what bigots do to prove their anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-black, and anti-evangelical Protestant prejudices–anti- any group of people that seeks to block their malign goals.

Leftists haul out their considerable bigotry and hate to smear people who disagree with them. They are as loathsome in their prejudices, beliefs, and practices as their fellow ideologues, the Nazis and Communists.

JamesA1102 is a Race Baitor. The race baiting currently being perpetrated by the left is designed to stifle intelligent debate.

I never brought up race. He did. So how is he a not a race baiter? Nice double standard you got there.

Leftists haul out their considerable bigotry and hate to smear people who disagree with them. They are as loathsome in their prejudices, beliefs, and practices as their fellow ideologues, the Nazis and Communists.

Wow both Nazis and Communists. You really have covered the whole political spectrum. But as far as hauling out bigotry and hate to smear people…let’s just say those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.