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LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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Holy cow this woman cracks me up. She is gold every time that trap opens.

FACT CHECK: Bachmann bomblets raising eyebrows - Yahoo! News

Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is at odds with her financial disclosure statements. They show tens of thousands in personal income from the operation.
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And, on a less substantive note, she flubbed her hometown history when declaring "John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa," and "that's the kind of spirit that I have, too," in running for president.
The actor was born nearly 150 miles away. It was the serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr. who lived, for a time, in Waterloo.
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This to go along with the founding fathers freeing the slaves, and John Quincey Adams not being a founding father.

Examining 24 of her statements, Politifact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, found just one to be fully true and 17 to be false (seven of them "pants on fire" false). No other Republican candidate whose statements have been vigorously vetted matched that record of inaccuracy.
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BACHMANN: "The farm is my father-in-law's farm. It's not my husband and my farm. It's my father-in-law's farm. And my husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm." — On "Fox News Sunday."
THE FACTS: In personal financial disclosure reports required annually from members of Congress, Bachmann reported that she holds an interest in a family farm in Independence, Wis., with her share worth between $100,000 and $250,000.
The farm, which was owned by her father-in-law, produced income for Bachmann of at least $32,500 and as much as $105,000 from 2006 through 2009, according to the reports she filed for that period. The farm also received federal crop and disaster subsidies, according to a database maintained by the Environmental Working Group. From 1995 through 2010, the farm got $259,332 in federal payments.
When asked about the subsidies and her income from the farm late last year, a spokesman for Bachmann said only that she wasn't involved in decisions about the running of the farm.
Bachmann told The Associated Press on Monday that her husband became a trustee of the farm because his father had dementia before he died two years ago, and "oversees the legal entity."
"Everything we do with those forms is in an abundance of caution," she said, insisting she and her husband receive no farm income despite the forms reporting it.
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BACHMANN: "Well what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too." — Speaking to Fox News on Sunday.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, nearly three hours away, and moved to California in his childhood. John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing 33 men and boys, was born in Chicago, moved to Waterloo to work in his father-in-law's chicken restaurants and first ran afoul of the law there, sentenced to 10 years for sodomy. He began his killing spree after his release, and his return to Illinois.
Bachmann told CNN on Tuesday her comments "were just misspeaking" and that her main intent was to show she identified with Wayne's patriotism.
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BACHMANN: "Overnight we are hearing that potentially 10 to 30,000 people could have been killed in the strike." — Criticizing Obama in May for the "foolish" U.S. intervention in Libya, and citing what she said were reports of a civilian death toll from a NATO strike as high as 30,000.
THE FACTS: The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz, said in late April that U.S. officials have seen reports that 10,000 to 30,000 people may have died in Moammar Gadhafi's crackdown on protesters and the fighting between rebels and pro-government forces, but it is hard to know if that is true. He was speaking about all casualties of the conflict; no one has attributed such a death toll to NATO bombing alone, much less to a single strike.
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BACHMANN: "It's ironic and sad that the president released all of the oil from the strategic oil reserve. ... There's only a limited amount of oil that we have in the strategic oil reserve. It's there for emergencies." — On CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
THE FACTS: Obama did not empty all the oil from the strategic reserve, as Bachmann said. He approved the release of 30 million barrels, about 4 percent of the 727 million barrels stored in salt caverns along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. It's true that the U.S. normally taps the reserve for more dire emergencies than exist today, and that exposes Obama to criticism that he acted for political gain. But the reserve has never been fuller; it held 707 million barrels when last tapped, after 2008 hurricanes.
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BACHMANN: "One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office." — Comment to a conservative conference in Iowa in March.
THE FACTS: The Obama administration issued more than 200 new drilling permits before the Gulf oil spill alone. Over the past year, since new safety standards were imposed, the administration has issued more than 60 shallow-water drilling permits. Since the deep water moratorium was lifted in October, nine new wells have been approved.
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God told her to run for Pres. So she is now exempt from any moronic statements.

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Rex_B said: ↑

God told her to run for Pres. So she is now exempt from any moronic statements.
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my favorite is the John Wayne thing. She says she has the same spirit, a spirit that comes from her hometown of Waterloo Iowa. Now does that mean she has the spirit of a guy who dressed as Pogo the clown to lure kids into a van where he could rape and kill them? Awesome.

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LaSalleAve said: ↑

Holy cow this woman cracks me up. She is gold every time that trap opens.

FACT CHECK: Bachmann bomblets raising eyebrows - Yahoo! News

This to go along with the founding fathers freeing the slaves, and John Quincey Adams not being a founding father.
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Why are you so focused on her? She's obviously an idiot with no chance of winning. The Republicans in the race are Pawlenty, Romney, and Rick Perry with Huntsman being a viable dark horse. The rest are just making noise.

Edit: I should add Ron Paul as a dark, dark horse whose only chance to win is if the economy really goes in the crapper and we need an austerity package.

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Why are you so focused on her? She's obviously an idiot with no chance of winning. The Republicans in the race are Pawlenty, Romney, and Rick Perry with Huntsman being a viable dark horse. The rest are just making noise.

Edit: I should add Ron Paul as a dark, dark horse whose only chance to win is if the economy really goes in the crapper and we need an austerity package.
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Look at the numbers. She is right on Romney's ass. Pawlenty doesn't hav a chance. Neither does Huntsman. It wouldn't shock me at all if Bachmann won the nomination.

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Congratulations. You and the media have now officially done more critical research on 1 of the 10 potential Republican candidates than the media have ever done on our sitting President.

Mainstream media covers up horrifying Obama mistake

No one in mainstream media seems inclined to mention Barack Obama’s horrifying mistake last Thursday when, speaking at Fort Drum, he said that SFC Jared Monti was “the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.” Alas, he was mistaken. He awarded the Medal of Honor to Jared Monti posthumously in 2009 and awarded the Medal of Honor in person to SSG Sal Giunta in person in 2011. Obama later apologized for this mistake, but it’s really dismaying that a president who spoke movingly and even eloquently in awarding the Medal of Honor made a mistake of this magnitude.

“It shouldn’t take a teleprompter for the C-in-C to get it right,” writes military blogger Black Five. It’s interesting that mainstream media journalists who are so eager to zing Michele Bachmann for getting John Wayne’s birthplace wrong, have not been interested in asking whether this was a mistake Obama made in ad libbing or whether the White House speechwriters and fact-checkers fell down on the job. You might think that their chief motive is to make Obama look good and to suppress facts that make him look bad.

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LaSalleAve said: ↑

Look at the numbers. She is right on Romney's ass. Pawlenty doesn't hav a chance. Neither does Huntsman. It wouldn't shock me at all if Bachmann won the nomination.
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I would have been open to her too before I watched the debate. She seems like a slightly polished Sarah Palin. She never answered a direct question. That will only last so long.

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Congratulations. You and the media have now officially done more critical research on 1 of the 10 potential Republican candidates than the media have ever done on our sitting President.
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I'm not the media. Just a random pot head on a message board.

LaSalleAve, Jun 28, 2011

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Let's be honest. Even if she's a clown she would still be better than the current clown.

I fully expect all candidates to be run through the mud as it will be very difficult for Obama to run on accomplishments when there's not much there.

They'll need to crucify the opposition to deflect attention from the facts...such as failed policies of this administration.

9.1% unemployment

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