Michelle Bachmann March to 2012

Cliffy

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It sure is! Visit Disney World and you can really go to Fantasy Land. I do not see how that is relevant here though.

Perhaps you can start a Disney World thread?
Because you live in Fantasy Land if you actually believe that nonsense you spouted about American politics.

"We live in a Republic... not a real democracy. Elected officials represent those that have elected them.

Why pray tell can a handfull of Republicans hold up a whole vote? Because they are bound to their promises to those that elected them. Cut back government...no new taxes. Compromise was an option but they chose to stand by their promises in this case."

Why? Because you live in a corporate dictatorship worse than ours. Your politics have as much validity as any so called "reality TV" show.
 

EagleSmack

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Because you live in Fantasy Land if you actually believe that nonsense you spouted about American politics.

"We live in a Republic... not a real democracy. Elected officials represent those that have elected them.

Why pray tell can a handfull of Republicans hold up a whole vote? Because they are bound to their promises to those that elected them. Cut back government...no new taxes. Compromise was an option but they chose to stand by their promises in this case."

Why? Because you live in a corporate dictatorship worse than ours. Your politics have as much validity as any so called "reality TV" show.

Uh huh, and all you can say is I live in a fantasy land and that we live in a corporate dictatorship. How silly.

Well that handfull of Republicans sure held things up. Why? Because they know if they backed down they'd be voted out. I guess votes really do count.

The only mistake I made in reading my post over was I should have said it is "not a TRUE democracy".
 

Ocean Breeze

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There is a simple reason for biennial and quadrennial political rituals in the USA.

The easiest way to control a population is with the tacit agreement of that population. Give people the illusion that what they think and how they vote really matters while controlling the real power from behind the scenes and they will willingly consent to be ruled by the establishment. Elections may be a charade, but they serve a real purpose; making voters believe that they actually live in a democracy.

Other methods of control such as those used in the USSR ultimately fail and are rather expensive and counter-productive as they require an extensive network of informers and secret police and tend to completely stifle initiative and creativity.

sounds about right....:-(
 

ironsides

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If the People like this woman get their way America will deflate and explode like a paper bag.
"she believes in the fundamentalist Christian, vision that the Holy Spirit is guiding the path of the social conservative
movement yadda yadda yadda."

This is what mainly turns me off about her. Do not like or trust religious zealots.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Do not like or trust religious zealots.

........me too. And when they mix their "beliefs" with politics...........they create a formula for the most irrational.

Would suggest that Tinkerbell would be a better candidate than this religious nutter.;-)
 

AbtFet

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Bachmann is literally wrong all the time. She's a circus clown, entertainment on television. The problem is there are human beings that support her as a leader of a country.
 

EagleSmack

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I bet she knows there are only 50 states in the US.

So what is worse... messing up Elvis's birthday or Obama saying that he's been to 57 states with one left to go?
 

AbtFet

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You would only have a point if that was Bachmann's only slip up. That's just one of hundreds.
 

Ocean Breeze

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THAT DOES IT!!!! One can tolerate cheating, lying, stealing and all kinds of character flaws from candidates and leaders. ...But not remembering the KING'S BIRTHDAY.......is crossing over that invisible boundary into deadly territory indeed. She might as well pack up her bags and head back to where she crawled out from.

8O:p

and NO , there is NOTHING she can do or say to redeem herself.
 

EagleSmack

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You would only have a point if that was Bachmann's only slip up. That's just one of hundreds.

Oh so Obama has only slipped up once?

I would think Obama would know what year it is. On May 24, 2011 Obama signed a guest book at Westminister Abbey "May 24, 2008".

So Michelle missed a birthday and Obama was off by 3 years.

Should we go on? There's plenty more.
 

gopher

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So what is worse... messing up Elvis's birthday or Obama saying that he's been to 57 states with one left to go? There's plenty more.

Geez, everybody's entitled to at least one miscalculation. After all, Bachmann's hero Bush was way off about WMD in Iraq and nobody objected.
 

Bar Sinister

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Oh so Obama has only slipped up once?

I would think Obama would know what year it is. On May 24, 2011 Obama signed a guest book at Westminister Abbey "May 24, 2008".

So Michelle missed a birthday and Obama was off by 3 years.

Should we go on? There's plenty more.

Pretty bad alright. The next thing we know he will be involving his country in useless and bloody land wars, trying to exit through locked doors, patting female foreign dignitaries on their backsides, and mispronouncing nuclear.