Bachmann: Obama ‘Laid the Table’ for Arab Spring by ‘Demonstrating Weakness’ from the U.S.
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Republican Michele Bachmann is laying blame for the so-called “Arab Spring” on President Barack Obama. According to the GOP presidential contender, Obama’s stance on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks laid the groundwork for the uprisings against autocratic governments across the Arab world.
At a fundraiser Thursday in North Carolina, Bachmann traced the mass protests that sometimes turned deadly to Obama’s call for Israel to return to negotiations and pull back to the territory it held prior to the 1967 war with Egypt. According to NBC News, she compared Obama’s approach and policies to those of President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. She said:
“I am probably even more concerned about the foreign policy implications because of what Barack Obama has done to the nation.
Just like Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s didn’t have the back of the Shah of Iran, we saw the Shah fall and the rise of the Ayatollah. And we saw the rise and the beginnings of radical Jihad which have changed this world and changed this nation.”
Bachmann also said that the president “has laid the table for the Arab Spring by demonstrating weakness from the United States of America.” She continued:
“So too under Barack Obama, we saw him put a lot of daylight between our relationship with our ally Israel. And when he called on Israel to retreat to its indefensible 1967 borders, don‘t think that message wasn’t lost on Israel’s 26 hostile neighbors.”
Watch her comments, below:
The Arab spring protests stretched from Algeria in North Africa to Syria in the Middle East. Some led to political instability in nations with longstanding rulers.
Bachmann’s campaign did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press for elaboration.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (64)
abbygirl1994
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:26pmMichelle you got it right… but Obama nor Jimmy will ever accept any responsibility!
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 3:37amMichele not hitting 950………but shes close !
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 5:45amActually, obama may CLAIM the arab uprisings as laurels for his crown.
obama and his islamic, socialist, khalifate-loving democrat kindred, are PROUD of the uprisings, and obama even WANTS America to “rise up” the same way! If I recall, he has even CALLED FOR IT !
Report Post »truth-seeker2020
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:22pmObama was not setting the table for the Arab spring, he sent out invitations and opened the door – his staff set the table.
Report Post »Robert999
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:01pmThere is a lot of truth in what Bachmann says. These guys were dictators and tyrants, but they were friends of America and were willing to come to terms with Israel. Now we have these countries under the control of out of control Muslim mobs. People like them aren’t ready for democracy, and maybe they never will be.
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:30pm“Bachmann: Obama ‘Laid the Table’ for Arab Spring by ‘Demonstrating Weakness’ from the U.S.”
Report Post »I would go one step further, Obama did not only demonstrate a “weak US” but promoted an APOLOGETIC US TO OUR MUSLIM ENEMIES, including IRAN.
mauiboy1
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:24pmfirst it was Cuba and Al Queda and now Arab spring ?? she is for the dictators ??? I love her and her crazy train wow.. is she going to say we blew it in Iraq and should have kept Sadam in power ??? She is pushing the crazy train at full speed …
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 1:19am@mauiboy1
Report Post »Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:24pm
first it was Cuba and Al Queda and now Arab spring ?? she is for the dictators ??? I love her and her crazy train wow.. is she going to say we blew it in Iraq and should have kept Sadam in power ??? She is pushing the crazy train at full speed …
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Quit smoking that stuff, and use your brain! Muslim Terrorists and Dictators, ARE BULLIES TO THE nth DEGREE! Whenever you deal with bullies, YOU SHOW THEM YOUR NOT AFRAID OF THEM!! RUNNING AROUND TELLING THEM YOU‘RE SORRY FOR EVERYONE WHO’S EVER STOOD UP TO THEM, ONLY MAKES YOU A TARGET!! At one time Obama took credit for the Arab Spring! Jimmy Carter showed the world how tough America was by sending his MOTHER to be his personal envoy to many of them!! VERY TOUGH!!! JFK SAID UNLESS WE LEARN FROM HISTORY WE ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!!! History with the M E is that when Israel had the 67 borders ALL THE NATIONS AROUND THEM USED THE HIGH GROUND TO ATTACK THEM!
MB is VERY well versed in fact!!! You need to learn some of them before you criticize her!
godhead
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 5:59pmThen again, Marcus would make a fabulous First Lady.
Report Post »godhead
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 5:58pmAh the desperate barkings of a mad dog. “Please don’t forget me. Pleeeeease.”
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 1:26am@godhead
Report Post »Posted on September 30, 2011 at 5:58pm
Ah the desperate barkings of a mad dog. “Please don’t forget me. Pleeeeease.”
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Be Veeeewwwwwyyyy,veeeeewwwwyyyy, cawhful! Make fun of a MAD DOG and it tends to catch up with you, AND BITE YOU IN THE ____ (You know where!)!
TxMadMac
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:49pmWhatever you do michell, don‘t tell ’em you’ve been watching Beck !
Report Post »Just South Of Heaven
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:40pmI like how she tells it like it is. Lil’ ball-less Barry is weak and timid, unless of course he is scolding us Americans, on being soft!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:28pmThanks for revealing yourself as a Warmongering Neocon Poser, Michele!
Although I already knew what was up with you when you voted for the rights-trampling, unconstitutional Patriot Act Extension.
Disappear.
Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:08pmGo Michele!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:02pmshe is absolutely correct. he not only showed weakness, he made it clear that there would be no opposition to the muslim brotherhood taking over, as they will, in all the arab spring countries. our fabulous marxist muslim potus………………………………………………………………………
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:01pmShe is speaking the truth. Let‘s not forget it’s Hillary behind the scenes that’s behind a lot of this.
Report Post »Creating caos and doing everything they can to for the demise of Israel.The Jimmie Carter wing of the socialest party. Again the american jewish vote loves her….she is selling them out big time and they don’t even see it Just like sheep running off a cliff. . My beliefs are that these things are taking place as part of the coming armageden predicted in the bible. The U.S. is being weakend to the point that we won’t be able to viably protect Israel, at the same time these muslim countries are gaining strength. God is not going to allow His Israel to be overtaken completely. You Chistians out there remember….these are hard times to watch, things seem to be out of out control, but at what will be the lowest point and it will seem like the end for Israel, 144,000 jews are going to rise up with the Lord and lay waist to satan and his army of muslims….can’t wait to see that.. That’s all.
thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:53pmMichelle Bachmann is correct. I still like her. I think she would make a good president regardless of her numbers. I think they will rise again. I think when she had better percentages the press began hammering on her and making innuendos about her abilities. Just like they are still doing to Palin.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:02pmYou know, I like her understanding of the Constitution and history. Her problem is her personality is really flat. Watching her in Iowa, I saw more of her personality that I’d only noticed in glimpses, before.
She doesn’t come across as sharp and articulate. I know she’s not dumb, but she speaks slowly, and she responds slowly. No doubt, she’s carefully considering her responses before she speaks, but the time-lag makes her sound “slow”, as in she doesn’t “think on her feat”. She’s not incisive, and that’s not very inspiring for a leader.
I’m backing Herman Cain now. Sometimes he has the opposite problem. He’s a little brash, and sometimes speaks without fully considering his words, but he comes across as passionate, so it’s easy to forgive his minor miss-steps.
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:29pmMichelle, you go girl.
Report Post »On The Mark
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:52pmIt has already become clear that Bachmann is not ‘the guy’. So, her campaign notwithstanding, no harm is done by such reductionist sound bites.
Elections in Iraq subsequent to Bush’s overthrow of S. Hussein have inspired those seeking Representative government to overthrow oppressive, tyrannical regimes in their own countries. Thus, ‘Arab Spring’.
B. Hussein’s sympathy for anyone who is anti-American has encouraged oppressive, tyrannical movements to attempt to co-opt the ‘Arab Spring’. It remains to be seen whether and to what extent tyrants may succeed.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:29pmObama sure was sympathetic to Osama bin Laden and Al-Awlaki, wasn’t he?
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:36pmMichelle is certainly not afraid to stir up the left. You got to love her.
Report Post »THEUNKNOWNPATRIOT
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:31pmYea! What she said!
Report Post »MoDem
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:14pmIncreased drone attacks, ordered the attack that killed bin Laden inside Pakistan, just killed al-awlaki inside Yemen with another drone attack. Please explain to me how that is “weak”? What is he supposed to do; start 10 different unfunded wars to stop every uprising in the entire freakin’ world? That doen’t make any sense. We are all complaining about how broke we are but then saying we should be everywhere in the world to stop an uprising half-way across the world.
It is not intellectually consistent for anyone on this blog to scream for smaller government and decreased costs one second and the next saying we should go into Egypt and stop that uprising and spend the trillions of dollars necessary to prop up another democracy.
I say we sit back, get our house in order. Se what comes of this uprising, and if the new governments starts anything we can blow them to kingdom come then.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:38pmShe doesn’t believe in universal human rights and equality. She wants mass murdering torturing regimes in the mid east. She is as unamerican as any one can get. her mindset is as odious as those dictators the arabs are heroically trying to overthgrow. She is more like a nazi or soviet style dictator-some people should remain subjugated. She’s a 21stc anti-semite par excelence[against a billion arab/muslims this time].She is too brainwashed to realize how unamerican she in fact is.At least that mccain who supports the arab awakening has some unwashed braincells left.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:41pmYeah, I think she missed the memo. The US supports the overthrow of these dictatorships.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:53pmNot only do her comments indicate that she is fine with other people living under dictatorships as long as it helps us, her time is also off.
She claims Obama’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian border led to the Arab Spring. Let’s see, the Arab uprisings began in December 2010 while Obama made those comments in May of 2011.
So, not only does Michelle Bachmann not care about democracy or human suffering in other countries, once again she has shown that she is factually challenged.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:54pmSo far, I haven’t seen anyone state we should go into Egypt. That wasn’t what Michelle Bachman said.
The complaint was that Obama’s weakness, his loosening our ties with Israel, encouraged our enemies abroad. If you paid attention to the fact that most of the uprisings were instigated by unions, and that SIUE wrote a handbook (published in 2009) that showed up in the hands of Middle Eastern unions members during the uprisings – you‘d understand that Obama’s organizations are probably directly behind the Arab Spring.
You want to talk about unfunded wars? Are you in the camp that thinks that government spending increases economic prosperity? Did WWII pull us out of the Depression?
If so, then President Obama inherited a Progressive Utopia from President Bush. We should have walked into a golden age with Obama’s inauguration. Clearly, his continuation – and in many cases, his ramping up – of Bush’s progressive policies have shown Progressivism to be an abject failure.
George Bush and his crusade to police the world is the Nationalist Progressive ideal. Barack Obama is an Internationalist Progressive. The differences are really nuanced from my perspective. Both want massive entitlement spending, legislated morality, and government control of your life.
Wake up, dude.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:56pmWoot, look at that! A 3-fer!
3 Progressives posting in a row. Maybe it’s a sign.
I’m glad you guys comment here on a regular basis. It gives infrequent visitors an opportunity to compare/contrast ideologies. Keep on being Statist!
Thanks for your participation.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:16pm@Jaycen
Unions have a history of starting revolutions so it’s not that big of a surprise that they are behind some of these.
Your comparison to WWII is off. Although the war was not completely paid for, taxes rose significantly to pay for the war effort, which is the exact opposite of what happened under Bush. For WWII, revenue increased, under Bush it decreased.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:25pmFair enough, Godfather, but taxation has little to do with revenue historically. Spending has everything to do with it. In fact, I think most conservative (Austrian) economists would agree that lower taxation tends to increase revenue, as you get more economic growth with lower taxation. Growth increases revenue faster and in greater proportion than taxation does.
Report Post »Little Johnny
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 9:30pm@Jaycen,
A bit off-topic here, but here’s a link you might find enlightening on the deficits and debt.
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Click on any of the charts there for further explanation, and there’s a video at the bottom. Not sure how Bush’s tax cuts brought on any prosperity for the nation, myself. It sure brought a lot of prosperity for the wealthy overlords he served, there’s no doubt about that. But he bankrupted our country big-time.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 1:39am@rose-ellen
Report Post »Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:38pm
She doesn’t believe in universal human rights and equality. She wants mass murdering torturing regimes in the mid east. She is as unamerican as any one can get. her mindset is as odious as those dictators the arabs are heroically trying to overthgrow. She is more like a nazi or soviet style dictator-some people should remain subjugated. She’s a 21stc anti-semite par excelence[against a billion arab/muslims this time].She is too brainwashed to realize how unamerican she in fact is.At least that mccain who supports the arab awakening has some unwashed braincells left
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Your muslim male personality quirks are showing through!
fatjack
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:35pmRose dear, you bloom has wilted.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:09pmAll the colored revolutions are in furtherance of American foreign policy. Their only failure was in Iran, where the CIA found out too late that they would have to do more than just hand out cell phones. Like they tried in Iran, they (we) are continuing to choose regimes more repressive than already exist to assume power. That has been consistent American foreign policy for the past century.
Report Post »It looks like Ms. Bachmann has decided to stick to the script and promote this fiction.
steveh931
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:02pmHow many times in the last 5 months have you seen our President call for a leader of a foreign nation to step down. Here’s my request, Mr. Obama, please step down!
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:11pmBachmann has quite the set of b@lls for a lady. I love her !!!
Report Post »The left will flip over this – they cant handle the truth.
notmy planet
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:02pmwow
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:53pmYeah, I mean, how dare those people. Rising up against autocratic governments is just indefensible. People only get to be free once it passes our approval.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:44pmThe lady speaks the truth.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:30pmLike when she said an HPV vaccine will cause retardation? Like when she said Obama’s trip would cost $200 million a day? When she said swine flu only breaks out under Democrats?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:36pmNo, Godfather, like in this specific article in regards to making our country look weak through weak leadership.
I suppose you never say anything incorrect? You never make a mistake? Listen, the miss-spoken comments you just listed seem incredibly minor compared to emboldening the enemies of the United States and inciting them to chaos in their home countries.
I‘m just sayin’.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:34pmAnd do not forget the part he played in Libya and Egypt to give them over to the radicals, terrorists, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:43pmThe muslim brotherhood was an anti-western colonial defender of the people who were injustly subjugated by western backed regimes. They were a resistence movement and deserve their place in a new egypt.They are tolerant of a more progressive society then in the past though they may be more socially conservative then other parties. That’s their business.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:33pmI don’t know what your smoking rose ellen.. but it must be pretty darn good stuff… I mean if the muslim brotherhood were to knock on your door right now they would just as soon kill you than allow you to live.. its people like you who have been brainwashed into believing that these people want anything less than the death of all American’s.. You really need to get a life and take your rants to like minded people.. so we don;t have to read your asinine comments!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:29pmRight on,Right on, Right on, the money!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:48pmShe is a very dangerous american-as she is brainwashed and manipulated with anti-arab zionist propaganda. war-mass murder of millions of men women and children would not disturb her in the least- if they’re not of her professed religion.or zionists. As ugly ,as dumb and as dangerous as these brainwashed americans can get!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:24pmI see rose ellen is still flapping his worthless mouth.. he must have crawled out from under his rock..
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 1:53am@rose-ellen
Report Post »Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:48pm
She is a very dangerous american-as she is brainwashed and manipulated with anti-arab zionist propaganda. war-mass murder of millions of men women and children would not disturb her in the least- if they’re not of her professed religion.or zionists. As ugly ,as dumb and as dangerous as these brainwashed americans can get
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No, no,no, Rose Ellen, it‘s Michelle Bachmann we’re talking about not those features in that mirror!