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Bachmann Flubs Revolutionary War Geography in New Hampshire

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota stood before New Hampshire Republicans with a tea bag clutched in her hand Saturday, but her grasp on Revolutionary War geography wasn’t quite as tight.

Before headlining a GOP fundraiser, the possible presidential hopeful told a group of students and conservative activists in Manchester, “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord,” according to video posted online by WMUR-TV.

But those first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire. Though Bachmann probably wasn’t the first to confuse Concord, N.H., with Concord, Mass., her mistake was striking given her roots in the tea party movement, which takes its name from the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor by angry American colonists in December 1773, 16 months before the Battle of Lexington Green.

Some 30 miles to the north and with tea bag in hand, Bachmann was greeted with applause when she asked the crowd, “How about a United States president that gets what the American people want in 2012?” and later proclaimed, “Are you in for 2012? I’m in!”

She later clarified that she is committed to denying President Barack Obama a second term, not necessarily running herself. That decision will come by early summer, she said, adding that she was no closer to making it Saturday than she was before her first political trip to New Hampshire.

For the state that holds the earliest presidential primary, it was another day, another Minnesota politician with possible White House aspirations. Bachmann’s trip overlapped one day with former Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s latest visit, offering voters a glimpse of their contrasting styles.

Pawlenty, a former two-term governor, has taken a more tradition path to exploring a White House bid: traveling to key states, spreading money to potential allies through his political action committee and publishing a memoir as he left office. On Friday, he brushed off reporters’ attempts to get him to criticize fellow Republican Mitt Romney on health care, and in remarks at a New Hampshire hospital, offered subdued criticism of Obama’s national health care law saying “I know the country just had a huge debate about all of this, and my side lost, at least for now. But I hope we can have a continued discussion.”

To be sure, Pawlenty faced a roomful of skeptical physicians in one of the most liberal corners of the state, while Bachmann spoke before an enthusiastic, conservative crowd that included tea party groups from New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She called Obama’s health care overhaul the “ultimate example of arrogance.”

“The real problem is the arrogant elites in Washington, D.C., who think they know how to run your lives far better than you,” she said. “You can’t be trusted to run your lives, they have to run your lives for you.”

She said the bill included $105 billion in spending that Obama and Democrat leaders intentionally hid.

“Did he just forget to mention that, oh, by the way, we’ve got $105 billion in this bill that we’re going to implement socialized medicine? No, this was intentional.

“It needed to be implemented immediately to get its tentacles all through your lives and our government and our institutions so that no matter who was elected in the future, your franchise, your vote would be neutralized. Because they would get their way.”

Bachmann, who only recently has begun traveling to early nominating states, rose through the Minnesota ranks on social issues and is a favorite of the tea party in Congress, where she is in her third term. A formidable fundraiser, she’s also built a national following through her blunt commentary on cable news shows.

Her speech was briefly interrupted by protesters who had been allowed in the room after portraying themselves as civic-minded college students who wanted to hear Bachmann. Less than half an hour after they were publically welcomed by the event organizers, they marched across the conference room, holding signs and chanting “Michele Bachmann we insist, end the AIDS treatment waiting list.”

The protest was an apparent reference to the state- and federally-funded AIDS Drug Assistance Program. Many cash-strapped states have taken steps to cap enrollment, drop patients or institute waiting lists. Bachmann thanked them for the “love,” as they were quickly ushered out.

“We‘re seeing this kind of response because the left knows we’re coming and we’re serious about 2012,” she said.

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  • Spango
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:37pm

    Wow, that’s the first time a politician ever made a flub while speaking. I’m shocked.

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:37pm

    Maybe people should stick to what they know. Just explain what the problems are and how to fix them instead of grandstanding and trying to ride the wave. If you start relying on staffers to “inform” you and shape your policy, you’re going to make stupid mistakes.

    Speeches are overrated anyway. I’ve heard enough analogies, wordplay, and historical references to last a lifetime. It’s all just noise now. Chris Christie seems to be the only one who knows how to cut to the chase.

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  • hownowbrownmao
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:29pm

    Or Thomas Jefferson raping his female slave ? Or Ronald Reagan pooping his pants and giggling during long speaches?

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  • Waltermelon
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:28pm

    Her roots on the Tea Party movement? You mean her hijacking and usurpation? She is a political lizard.

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    • Waltermelon
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Unless of course you are OKAY with the Patriot Act, TSA, DHS…

      And if you are? You are NOT a conservative, and you do not deserve liberty.

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  • hownowbrownmao
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:26pm

    I think Bachmann just “Santorummed herself”

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  • SamAdams25
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:25pm

    Harry Reid said that if his cowboy poetry festival didn’t get taxpayer funding, then “10,000 people wouldn’t exist”. Would they all suddenly be vaporized, Harry, or totally erased from history altogether?

    Then there was Sheila Jackson-Lee’s rant in Rep. King’s hearing that made Charlie Sheen sound like a perfectly level-headed, well adjusted young man. We won’t even get into Alan Grayson or Joe Biden, it would be unfair over-kill.

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    • WHITE LOTUS2x
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:11pm

      Samadams25: Harry has never heard of private donations.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:38pm

      White Lotus: Harry does not believe in the fortitude of these cowboy artists and entertainers either. They will survive and thrive without his liberal artists funding. That festival will continue to draw more and more people every year…if Harry and all his liberal cohorts will get the heck out of the way regarding the economy.

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  • hownowbrownmao
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Yeah, a bigger and screechier and more moronic conservaturd than Sarah Palin! Go Libeerty, go Libertarianism, Go Ron Paul! The Best In Texas, put your fake republican money where your fake republican mouth is. Yer not skeered of Ron, are ya? Cuz he will tell all you rinos where to go, worthless Yankee trash.

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  • Rights of Man
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:23pm

    Watch Conservatives eat their own. Go ahead, GOP’ers, the commies are counting on it.

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  • dlmstl
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:21pm

    I hope you all remember Bluto comment in Animal House….’did we quit when the Germans attack Pearl Harbor?!!!’ I think in the epilog it stated he went on to become a US Senator!! LOL ( All time greatest flick)
    Could Bachman‘s comment be any worst than Obama’s saying he visited all 57 states or his reference to the White Sox have played in Cominski Park?

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    • DRSAVAGE24
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:56pm

      Sorry, it’s Comminski FIELD :) And he throws like a girl. I’d bet money Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann could both toss one in there with more heat than that Marxist.

      As far as I can see, Palin and Bachmann are the ONLY serious candidates for president among Republicans. Chris Christie is a liberal Republican. Just because he talks and acts tough on the budget and with public sector unions, that doesn‘t mean he’s good on anything else. Palin was right, it doesn‘t take courage to cut spending and play hardball with government unions when you’re broke and HAVE to make cuts. Anyone else curious where Chris Christie is on Obamacare? 28 states have sued in federal court, but not New Jersey. Hmmm. All we need is to elect a Republican house and senate in 2012 and then have a RINO president who won’t sign its repeal. How awful that would be.

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  • Keep the Faith
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:21pm

    I agree ~ I trust Michele Bachmann has America’s best interest at heart – which is more than I can say for many in Congress, or the Administration for that matter. The history flub is no big deal. As for the protesters–I bet Shariah law would get rid of AIDS in a hurry!

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    • Angelacw
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 6:21pm

      My husband was in Nashua at the event. Yes, it was a stupid mistake and he said it was a bit akward, but it doesn‘t change the substance of her message and at least SHE wasn’t intentionally insulting the America ppl. I think she can be forgiven.

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  • oldeagle101
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:21pm

    A Chris Christie and Allen west ticket for 2012 will destroy Obama…..

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:58pm

      A Micky mouse / bugs bunny ticket in 2012 would beat oboma…

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:16am

      I’d prefer Bugs Bunny on the top of that ticket.
      Wouldn’t you just love to hear Bonnie Fwank saying…… You wascally wabbit.

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  • FckKeithUberdouche
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:13pm

    No surprise here. She‘s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. She might be the least authentic member of the Tea Party movement. People, she was one of many RINOs who VOTED FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE PATRIOT ACT. Open your eyes. Beyond that, she’s not very smart. Sorry, but that’s the cold hard truth. She couldn’t hold her own in the interview with Chris Matthews, you think she’ll hold up in Presidential debates? Not way. The point I wanted to make is that she voted for the extension of the Patriot Act, which as we all know, is very unpatriotic.

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    • ron2win
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:46am

      She couden’t answer any questions from ChrisSpittle cause she was to busy dodgeing debre spewing from his rubber lips .

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  • GadsdenGurl
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:10pm

    Michele would never be caught DEAD doing something like this!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_ZUu33iEE

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  • martinrnelson
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:09pm

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Bachman is not ans should not be a presidential candidate. She has dodged question after question from both dems and libs. We need someone who speaks the truth at all times Michelle Bachman has dodged more questions than answered.

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  • SidneyDave
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:07pm

    I remember when Odumer claimed to have visited 57 states and had more to go. He was running for president and won, why couldn’t Bachmann? Could it be because she is a conservative and not a liberal?

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:12pm

      No it is because she makes her mistakes when she is fully rested – the President on that day was exhausted – do you really believe that he believes there are 57 states? Well, if you do just go on thinking that and wake up the day after the election next year with President Obama winning his second term .http://wp.me/pYLB7-JM

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    • 777jenn
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Walking with the likes of you and your kind——-walking off a cliff.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:56pm

      @walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:12pm
      No it is because she makes her mistakes when she is fully rested – the President on that day was exhausted – do you really believe that he believes there are 57 states? Well, if you do just go on thinking that and wake up the day after the election next year with President Obama winning his second term .http://wp.me/pYLB7-JM
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
      Give me a break! Obama grew up having “57 States” hammered into his skull. That’s the reason he said it, just like he said, “My Muslim faith” to George Stephanopoulos.

      Obama is no Christian. He’s a Muslim, and he’s on their side. He has stated as much.

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  • RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:06pm

    Its pronounced “Conkid, Na Hamsha” back there.

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    • Mainer forever
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:19pm

      Sounds like you have the accent down right. You been to new england much?

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:22pm

      And in Corcord, Massacusetts, it is pronounced “con-curd” (I should know — I was raised in the town). That background also helps me to know that the AP made its own historical error — they imply that “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” was fired at Lexington Green when it actually was fired at the North Bridge in Concord later in the day. Of course, the AP has never been tooo much of a stickler for accuracy, have they?

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  • 777jenn
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:03pm

    I weas there, in Manchester today, at Congresswoman Bachmann’s first stop. She was fantastic!! Although I did immediately notice the giant FLUB about Revolutionary War history!!!! That WAS an awkward moment. For a second, I thought she must be kidding, or that I should check my own facts, but no……that was bad. However……that does NOT take away, in ANY regard….her motivational, otherwise very informed and intelligent speech on our LIBERTIES….& the fact that we need to WAKE UP or we shall LOSE THEM ALL….and soon!!!! I genuinely like Michele Bachmann, and I do forgive this mistake in historical facts. In truth…while we were colonies, we were as ONE in winning our FREEDOM! Get over the stupid little stuff….and see that we do need a leader who can WIN American HEARTS with a true PASSION for LIBERTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:10pm

      I am sorry but Bachmann does not have the intelligence to be President – I do not trust her – I believe she wants a theocracy in our country. There is a slight arrogance about her that just gets in my face every time I listen to her give a speech! http://wp.me/pYLB7-JM

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    • 777jenn
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:19pm

      I have heard NOTHING even REMOTELY religious from her , not today or any day. Not sure why you believe she wants a theocracy…..Sure, she’s a Christian. So is MOST of our republic. She believes in liberty. Not a BIT of “arrogance”. You are very WRONG there. She was gracious and strong. If strong women make you nervous I am sorry. Get ready baby!

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    • FckKeithUberdouche
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:21pm

      Jen, as a true Conservative, I appreciate your enthusiasm on liberty. However, Michelle Bachmann cares nothing about liberty. She voted to extend the Patriot Act, which is as anti-liberty as it gets.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:03pm

      @walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:10pm
      I am sorry but Bachmann does not have the intelligence to be President – I do not trust her – I believe she wants a theocracy in our country. There is a slight arrogance about her that just gets in my face every time I listen to her give a speech!
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      BACHMANN doesn’t have the intelligence to be president?! BACHMANN?
      Do you think she could do any worse than that bag of doughnuts occupying the White House now?

      At least SHE has AMERICA at heart, which is more than I can say to that Muslim-bowing thing that is trying to bring America to her KNEES!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Maybe she should stand on the stage with her jaw jutting out like Barry’s jaw. No arrogance from Barry. ,,just supreme ,???? yeah ,,,,arrogance fits to a T

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  • RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:02pm

    She’s a politician getting revved up for 2012. She’s only telling you what you want to hear. And besides, most of us Americans suck at geography anyway. Many think New England is another country… the same with New Mexico.

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  • GadsdenGurl
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:58pm

    BACHMANNS speech was superb and full of facts. Someone let those kids in when they should not have. Who cares about the flub? Pawlenty supports UN controlling the classroom so he’s definitely OUT in NH. Bachmann made an excellent impression and she is IN.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:58pm

    I’m for Col. Allen West, if he will run.

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    • silcat
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:14pm

      Agree. Could he be our George Washington?

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    • ruthere
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:27pm

      I really like him but he got to congress and changed his mind on the large budget deductions. That worries me. There are only 12 that I hear are serious about sticking to their guns and cutting the budget. What Allen and others are doing is TINY little cuts which helps our children none. We need someone who is not afraid to go against his own fellow members for caving on what they campaigned on. Michele Bachmann has been fighting these guys for a long time and doing it publicly. She is not afraid to go against the machine if they are wrong. I do give her that. I like Allen West on the strong military front as he knows what he is talking about but the budget?? Not quite strong enough.

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  • thepatriotdave
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:57pm

    “She later clarified that she is committed to denying President Barack Obama a second term”
    —————————————————————————————————-
    Good for her. I don’t care how she does it, and I don’t care about minor mistakes she may make along the way. I only care that she is willing to do anything to help this country be rid of Obama!

    You go girl!

    Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
    http://www.americasteapartynews.com/tea-blog.php#/news/

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:56pm

    Want to witness a real FLUB just listen to Biden our Vice President

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    • GadsdenGurl
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:13pm

      NO one said a word about Obamas flub when he was saying 57 states… and even added “I think”. LOL

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:27pm

      Biden reminds me of Leslie Nielsen anymore. Given the off the wall things he has said I find him mostly harmless and rather entertaining, a blabbering idiot mind you but rather entertaining.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:35pm

      hifi74
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:27pm
      Biden reminds me of Leslie Nielsen
      ——————-
      Leslie Nielson
      or
      Frank Drebin ?

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    • LifeProject2012
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:11pm

      But Leslie Nielsen is dead…

      Oh, now I get your point…

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:46pm

      LifeProject2012
      What does it say about our electorate that the guy who is next in line to POTUS and goes around the world representing USA ,
      has an IQ less than
      a nutty dumb@$$ fictional character created for raunchy childish giggles ?

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    • LifeProject2012
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:56pm

      Oh, I don’t know…

      Maybe… Elections have CONSEQUENCES???

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:33pm

      LifeProject2012
      Oh, I don’t know…
      Maybe… Elections have CONSEQUENCES???
      ————–
      Do your comrades and fellow moochers a k a government workers in WI know that too ?

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    • LifeProject2012
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:15pm

      Ouch, Whiz….

      Where did that come from?

      The “comrades” and “moochers” wouldn’t understand an election if it bit them… Unless they wanted to steal it…

      I’m sure “they” hate my guts…

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:37pm

      @ LifeProject2012
      After all those stinky stoned parasitic thugs shrieking their lungs off chanting
      “ this is what democracy looks like ”
      in WI and all over the country ,
      and a HahaWad Constitutional Law Professor supporting them overtly and covertly,
      the words “ democracy ” and “ elections” seem to have been turned upside down in their meaning

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:25pm

      CHEEZWHIZ
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:35pm
      hifi74
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:27pm
      Biden reminds me of Leslie Nielsen
      ——————-
      Leslie Nielson
      or
      Frank Drebin ?

      ================================

      While I would say it would be closest to Lt. Frank Drebin most of Leslie Nielsens roles would fit the bill really. Lloyd Bridges would work too. All I know is every time I see Biden I either think of scenes from Naked Gun or from Hot Shots…

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:04am

      Obozo chose Biden as V-P – so that the Clown-in-Chief would appear smart.

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  • USA4liberty
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:56pm

    Can we get a real candidate? How about Herman Cain? He’s actually done something with his life OUTSIDE of politics!! And he isn’t a cult of personality…

    USA4Liberty

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    • 777jenn
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:11pm

      “DONE something with his life”???? Meaning Michele Bachmann has NOT?? How DARE you???? I do not calll raising 5 children successfully AND 23 foster children too, AND serving in the MN (God knows they need it!) Congress doing nothing. I like Cain too. But you are silly and in denial if you discount Congresswoman Bachmann’s contribution……….There.

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  • LifeProject2012
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:50pm

    I think her mistake was just an effort to diss Mitt Romney… Not that that is not a good ides…

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:50pm

    Her career is finished.

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    • hersey10
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Really ? She didn’t get caught performing a sex act , has to be tough being perfect like yourself .

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:55pm

      The people will decide.

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    • LifeProject2012
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:55pm

      I agree, now she won’t even make it thru the 57 states that Obummer did…

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:56pm

      Her career is finished.
      ————–
      In all the 57 states ?

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Oh, man, is this another Daniel Quayle “tomatoe” moment? You know what, it doesn’t matter to me. I’ve heard some pretty screwy statements about our history from others, so I’m willing to let this one go by the wayside.

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    • GadsdenGurl
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:00pm

      No it’s not.. She’s the best!

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:05pm

      It is not as bad as some of the Progressive Politicians have done. At least in the reference to the location of the Mexican Border to AZ. Plus I wonder if any of those kids actually noticed since our History books have been rewritten to reflect a more Progressive view of our founding.

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:07pm

      Funny, odumbo said we had 57 states (which is the bigger gaffe?) and he still made it; albeit with more help that Michele will get (ACORN, unions, spooky dude – if you get my drift).

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:11pm

      57 States … seeing DEAD on Memorial Day .. more and more Obama “flubs” … please if this were a Democrat it would be a career enhancement.

      No big deal .. at least she knew there was a “shot heard round the World”.. .. I would love to “test” BO on American History!

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:12pm

      That’s “potatoe,” Jack.

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    • 777jenn
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Oh REEEEEEAALLLLY??????…..You are mistaken.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:15pm

      I’ve heard some pretty screwy statements about our history from others, so I’m willing to let this one go by the wayside.
      ——————
      Oh yeah ?
      Have you heard that one about FDR getting on TV to speechify about the stock market crash ?
      Or Obama’s uncle liberating the Auschwitz and then crying about it for the rest of his life, stuck in an attic?
      What ?
      You have ?
      OK , my bad
      :D

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    • izzyt84
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:34pm

      I think Bachmann’s just warming up…you’re afraid she could beat Obama! Matter of fact, I believe Bachmann could beat Obama with one arm tied behind her back, just to make it fair. Plus, she’s got her birth certificate in hand. That alone is more, way more than Barry can say. It might even explain why he’s spent soo much money on lawyers to keep any possible birth certificate lawsuits nice and quiet. Hmm, I smell a rat.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:40pm

      NICK is right on the money. Bachman is now a demonstrable idiot to everyone who relies on the MSM. Just like Palin. Neither has a prayer as a presidential candidate.

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    • BlackMan
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Georgraphy? Didnt President BO think there were 57 States he visited during his campaign?
      ‘Nuff Said

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    • sooner12
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:02pm

      Obami stated that he visited 57 states and look where he ended up.

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    • streetrodder
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:22pm

      Hey broker0101 Bachman is still much smarter than you.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:25pm

      No, Obama’s regime has rewritten the history books!

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    • parmajohn
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:27pm

      Obamamo is golfing again while the world is burning Bet we hear more about this than that

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:28pm

      @hersey10

      Apparently you‘re not all that perfect either and can’t recognize sarcasm when you see it.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:33pm

      @broker0101
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:40pm
      NICK is right on the money. Bachman is now a demonstrable idiot to everyone who relies on the MSM. Just like Palin. Neither has a prayer as a presidential candidate.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
      I thought George Soros told you to give up Glenn Beck for Lent! This is Glenn Beck’s site.
      Shame! Shame! Shame!
      Shame! Shame! Shame!
      Shame! Shame! Shame!
      Shame! Shame! Shame!

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:34pm

      broker; I’m interested; how do I contact you?

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:40pm

      Why Not Give her a break – she is marching bravely into military history that many advisers feel will be essential when she is commander in chief. Does anyone remember the state where the famous Concord Grape Jelly originated? Or the “invention of the potato chip city” considered by some the turning point of the revolutionary war?

      Why is everybody picking on this one statement? Michelle has been a strong Conservative Voice to the right of Reagan, Nixon and Eisenhower!

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:00pm

      I mean, it’s not as bad as Obama confusing Kenya for Hawaii as his place of birth. I don’t know how he could confuse those….VERY different places.

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:01pm

      sleazyhippo;

      The progressives and rinos are afraid, and firing preemptive strikes – that’s all. It will pass quickly.

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    • Windsong
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:14pm

      I thought the same thing about Barack Obama, when he said he’d already visited 56 states……………………

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    • betterthantv
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:17pm

      @ NICk Surely you are be sarcastic? This isn‘t nearly as bad as Big O’s “57 states” gaffe.

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    • Drippy Fawcett
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:24pm

      The intellectual pool from Minnesota seems to be pretty shallow. This is the State that elected Jesse “The Joke” Ventura and Stuart Smally to high office. If somebody managed to get Bullwinkle on the ballot, he’d be a shoe-in. B(achmann) P(alin) O(’Donnell) is as stale as BTO, and Pawlenty’s got as much of a chance to win as a glass of milk, AND the milk’s more interesting. Bachmann! Are you copying this transmission? Put down the tea bag and pick up a book! When your name is being tossed around as a presidential candidate trying to defeat the Soros money machine, you can afford NO mistakes. Your SOTU response to the response pretty much ended whatever chance you may of had to win the Republican nomination, but, since Obama would obviously annihilate you in any debate, that’s a good thing. Please go join Palin at the bar and let the men handle this.

      Drippy Fawcett  
    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:26pm

      I will vote for her, I will campaign for her, I will raise money for her. Michele does have what it takes and She is NOT a Marxist!!!

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:38pm

      OK folks. Let’s think about this for a little while. In the famous Obama flub, Obama had meant to say he had campaigned in all 47 states (of the contiguous 48, which is why he says “one to go”). Bachmann actually went all the way to New Hampshire to say that thinks happened there that did not. Obama of course does not think that there are 57 states, but Bachmann seems to honestly think Lexington and Concord happened in NH. Is it so hard to see why these two flubs are no the same?

       
    • Drippy Fawcett
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:46pm

      Oops. Forgot to plug my “Western Art”.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:56pm

      PubliusPencilman
      Let’s think about this for a little while. In the famous Obama flub, Obama had meant to say he had campaigned in all 47 states (of the contiguous 48, which is why he says “one to go”).
      ———–
      Oh you are so wrong
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
      He said what he said and meant every word of it.
      He had no trouble saying it.
      There ARE 57 islamic states ( called OIC) and Hussain , inspite of all the training his handlers gave him to APPEAR American and Christian , and act like one of the folks, couldn’t hide what his brain has always believed and his heart has always desired .
      No wonder he hides his school records.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:03pm

      Grapes for jelly in NH! I like her, but it might be a glimmer of something that many of us don’t want to see!!! A typical politician!! I hope I’m wrong!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:06pm

      “…her mistake was striking given her roots in the tea party movement…”
      ————–
      Really? GASP!!

      Get some perspective, AP. The most striking mistake ever was voting for Obama, given his roots in Marxism.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:40pm

      As New Hampshire was one of the 57 original states. she’s still wrong. The Marine corpse should teach her a geography lesson. The No Fly Zone should be around Barry’s face.

      Notice how if a Republican makes an error they are Stupid, or Finished as a candidate, yet when a D makes an error it is a Resume enhancer.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:48pm

      @PubliusPencilman
      ==>Let’s think about this for a little while. In the famous Obama flub, Obama had meant to say he had campaigned in all 47 states (of the contiguous 48, which is why he says “one to go”).
      —–
      Nice try, PP. There are two problems with that explanation. First, he didn’t just blurt out the number “57”. He said “50” followed by a long recall pause, and then pronounced the “seven”. That means his memory was hanging on to the number “50” while he tried to recall the missing number. In other words, “57” was a painfully slow, broken-up response, the kind used by adults when they are uncertain of the correct number (he never self-corrected), or by children when they still don’t know how to count (in O‘bum’s case it’s probably both). Second, he ended the sentence in the same uncertain tone: “ I THINK one left to go” [emphasis added].

      The truth is he didn’t know, and his memory defaulted to his schooling in Indonesia: 57 Allah states. That’s our first un-American president – historic, indeed.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 8:51pm

      13th Imam
      As New Hampshire was one of the 57 original states. she’s still wrong. The Marine corpse should teach her a geography lesson. The No Fly Zone should be around Barry’s face.
      ——————
      We all sould be scared, verrrrry scared because if Obama gets hold of a breathalyzer, he will scare the cr@p out of us by sending AF1 to whiz over our skies on Memorial Day

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:03pm

      Cheese
      Being from Dark Blue Konnecticut Obama only scares me for what he is doing to our country and our children and grandchildren.. He is like the child molester that you know lives in your neighborhood but you can’t do anything to move him. 2012 can’t come soon enough. You and Show and Snow and others keep makin me pee my pants keep up the good work. Regards , 13th

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:04pm

      It was a simple flub up. Have you looked into her background? Do you know or agree with what she stands for? Don’t accept her or dismiss her for superficial reasons, that behavior got us the last president.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:17pm

      If Bachmann is nominated to run for POTUS she has my vote!!…anybody but who’s there NOW!!

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    • Mettag
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:28pm

      Did she ever have one? Other the being a joke?
      In all seriousness she can go away.

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    • 1Dave
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 9:30pm

      Hey “TOOTS” You know everything?
      She is so far beyond second best the others can’t even be seen!

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:14pm

      13th Imam
      What can I say ?
      We used to be Reagan country,
      now we starve our people and cut off their water supply to save a bait which may or may not even benefit from such atrocity on farmers .
      When I look at Obama voters / supporters/apologists I always know how miserable and pathetic their intelligence is , specially when even critters know the truth about him .
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivhwO_zWWg

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    • ClockKing
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:28pm

      95% of liberals don’t know ANY history. So a single mistake by Ms. Bachmann is no big deal to us. Why don’t you lefties go crawl back in the sewer that birthed you?

      ClockKing  
    • Taquoshi
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:31pm

      Reply to Laus Deo Posted on March 12, 2011 at 5:12pm

      That’s “potatoe,” Jack.

      LOL and that was test to see if anyone out there was paying attention. Good catch, Laus Deo!

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:06pm

      This does nothing to detract from the fact that Bachman is this country’s foremost expert on the Constitution and the opinions and philosophy of the Founding Fathers. She is a profound intellectual but, okay, she misspoke. Big deal. President Obama is no match for her in intelligence or for that matter of the Constitution. Obama is has no education in Constitution, he’s just a community organizer and we all know that organizing people is bad. If it is God’s will that she runs, she’ll win, unless Palin runs.

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    • CTHULHUWILLEATYOUFIRST
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 12:44am

      Bachmann sucks the green wienie.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 1:31am

      @DALE

      If you need to contact Broker, he works at the “Bowl – O – Rama” in Madison, Wisconsin

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    • Templar Knight
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:10am

      @Cheez

      How is your brother doing? Hope and pray you have been in contact with him and that he is ok and safe.

      For the story I am shocked the Bachmann came to my state without any indication of me knowing. It wasn’t posted on the local tea party events… sad I missed her speech. But as for history it’s no excuse that she should not have known the first shots happened in Mass not here in NH.

      I’ve been to the Boston harbor where the tea was dumped into the ocean and it is an amazing site to go to. Michelle Bachmann I have tremendous respect for you, but as a tea party patriot you should of known that. Though I know we are all not perfect and will not cast the first stone as so many have.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 3:44am

      Did she mention 57 states like the A hole you elected, a POS.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:57am

      Patriot act loving Witch !

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 10:38am

      There is no better representative of the Tea Party movement . . . whether she’s pounding the table against government largess while taking farm subsidies with the other . . . or claiming the mantel of American revolutionaries while clueless about their battles . . . or holding the founding fathers and the Confederacy as champions of abolition, not knowing that the founding fathers owned (and boinked!) slaves or slavery was written into the formation of the Confederacy. Whether it’s “Obama is spending $200 million per day to go to India“ or ”Speaker Pelosi racked up a $100K bar bill” this flagrant fraud is incapable of knowing or telling the truth.

      Palin/Bachmann/Gingrich 2012 . . pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 11:54am

      @GADSENGURL

      The best WHAT?????

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    • Joe Tuesday Dienstag
      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Say POP knuckle head!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:17am

      shot heard around the world was fired in massachusetts, too bad no one can hear it there now, if you want to hear freedom in the northeast, you do have to travel to new hampshire.you need several permits to dump tea into the harbor now, as well as envirmental and wet land studies, then a few kick backs to state senators, but don’t dress as an indian, it is a hate crime.

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    • abc
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:40am

      The conservatives who see no problem voting for someone as fact-challenged and obviously stupid as Bachmann really are too dumb to vote in my opinion. If they continue to insist that having a lack of command of the facts is okay for government leaders, then they should be forced to go to a plumber or witch doctor rather than a physician when they are sick. The harm they do to their country they should have inflicted on themselves. Then perhaps they will no longer take on that luxury of pretending that intelligence doesn’t matter.

      To say that you don’t need a base level of knowledge and intelligence to hold the most important and powerful job in the world is just idiocy. And there is no short supply of this amongst conservatives, whose very world view requires such ignorance. I hope they turn out in droves and nominate her. Obama will cruise to another four years.

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    • MUDFLAPS
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:01pm

      democrats can screw a dog in the town square and idiot dems will still love them… I guess the each have their own dogs the date…

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    • Navyveteran
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:10pm

      NickDeringer
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:50pm
      Her career is finished.
      ————————————————————————-
      like Rep. Hank Johnson’s career is finished by saying that the island of Guam would tip over and capsize from over population by the addition of 8,000 marines? Obama believes there are 60 states. He said he has been in 57 states and he has two more to go and one his campain will not allow him to go to. Let’s not start on the plethora of gaffes by the vice president, he is what we say in the military a target enriched environment.

      I find it amazing that progressives totally ignore the gaffes of other democrats or fellow progressives while calling the conservative or republican politicians stupid when they make gaffes.

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