Michele Bachmann makes an embarrassing flub in NH

[Capt Caveman]

Thought this was funny. Is she planning on running against Palin as the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate? Sadly, she might still know more US History than Palin.

Michele Bachmann makes an embarrassing flub in NH

Tea party favorite Michele Bachmann appears increasingly serious about running for president in 2012, but she might want to bone up on her U.S. history before she launches a formal campaign.

As Scott Conroy reports at Real Clear Politics, Bachmann made a pretty big Revolutionary War gaffe while speaking at a GOP event in New Hampshire yesterday. "What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty," she said. "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord."

Actually, the Battles of Lexington and Concord took place in neighboring Massachusetts. Bachmann's gaffe might not sit well with fiercely loyal New Hampshire voters.

Bachmann later took to her Facebook page to defend the flub. "So I misplaced the battles Concord and Lexington by saying they were in New Hampshire. It was my mistake," she wrote. "And by the way... That will be the last time I borrow President Obama's teleprompter!"

Except, as the Minnesota Post reports, Bachmann made the same gaffe in a speech in New Hampshire on Friday night.

As Politico's Jonathan Martin and Kendra Marr write, this isn't the first time Bachmann has made a "puzzling gaffe" about history and public events. In January, she claimed the authors of the Declaration of Independence sought to end slavery. Last week, she said the country should rely on Gen. David Petraeus's advice about what to do with Libya—even though, as head of the commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Petraeus has no say in the country's policy toward Libya.

A little ironically, Conroy points out that Bachmann's speech also included a riff on public education, in which she talked about the importance of teaching the nation's school children basic facts.

"I don't think that our public schools are necessarily the place where one fixed set of political beliefs should be imposed on students," Bachmann said. "I think that knowledge, facts, and information should be on the table, and let students decide what their beliefs should be."

 

[Slick5150]

You could just title the thread "Michelle Bachmann makes an embarrassing flub in ___________" and the thread could more or less update itself regularly.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Those who do not learn from history...




...are destined to lead the Tea Party.

 

[Thump553]

Bachmann she probably doesn't consider Massachusetts to be part of "her" United States-damn revolutionary liberals are to be revered only long after they are buried.

 

[trenchfoot]

I don't blame her at all. It's her speech writers/coaches floating on clouds of MJ smoke punking her all the time and having giggle fits from it that are to blame.

It can't possibly be anything else, considering how dense she makes herself look. Well that and the idea that she's also having fun playing with recreational pharmaceuticals herself.

I can see her supporters reacting in two distinct ways when she lays these golden egg grenades: 95% roar in support and hang on her every word, and the rest start beating themselves about their heads with spiked baseball bats.

 

[CPA]

57 States.

 

[Pens1566]

You could just title the thread "Michelle Bachmann makes an embarrassing flub in ___________" and the thread could more or less update itself regularly.

I was going to suggest removing the last two words in the title and making it a sticky. But your suggestion works too.

 

[jhbball]

57 States.

Not even close to the same flub. Use your brain.

 

[xj0hnx]

Not even close to the same flub. Use your brain.

You're right, it's a MUCH worse one, Use you brain.

 

[kage69]

Why the hell is it so hard to find a conservative woman in politics that can act like she passed basic HS curriculum?

This preference for idiots is not doing the GOP any favors.

 

[soundforbjt]

57 States.

That's one vs how many by Bachmann? Not to mention she said it twice in two different speeches !

Didn't take very long for the apologists to get here.

Palin\Bachmann 2012 !!!

 

[jhbball]

You're right, it's a MUCH worse one, Use you brain.

You mad?

xxJhbbaALLzxx

 

[Macamus Prime]

That will be the last time I borrow President Obama's teleprompter!"

Because Obama is known for making errors like this?

 

[Fear No Evil]

Any concerns about her stances on issues or can I assume the OP agrees with her on those?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Any concerns about her stances on issues or can I assume the OP agrees with her on those?

I'm guessing you can't determine the tone of my post. Being anti-teaparty, no.

 

[Lemon law]

Come on Come on, this is sheer political genius on the part of Backmann. Just arbitrarily make the Concord a part of New Hampshire, the folks in New Hampshire gotta love in because they get extra cred in our revolutionary war. And with all the extra votes Backmann will get in the all improtant New Hampshire GOP primary, she a going to win the New Hampshire primary. And by the time the tail end charlie Massachusetts GOP primary rolls around, Backmann will have already have a wrap on the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination.

To guild the lily, now Michelle only has to figure out more creative ways to win the Iowa straw polls and a few other early primaries, but we all know Michelle Backmann is a creative type of girl and a well spring of ideas.

I mean, how can anyone doubt her, she will just point out no one who was at those early revolution war battles are still alive to bear witness or State the colony it was in. The defense rests.

Brilliant, simply Brilliant.

 

[jhu]

You could just title the thread "Michelle Bachmann makes an embarrassing flub in ___________" and the thread could more or less update itself regularly.

How about just "Michelle Bachman is an embarrassing flub" and sticky the thread until she leaves office?

 

[jonks]

You're right, it's a MUCH worse one, Use you brain.

Here's the slight difference, and by slight I mean not the same thing at all unless you are a blind partisan fool. If 5 seconds after his slip you asked Obama, "how many states are there?" he'd have said "um, 50, why?" Bachmann was making a factual statement she believed to be true, and said it more than once. You can blame her speech writers if you like, I think Obama would have looked at that if it was handed to him and said "er, Lexington and Concord guys? Wrong state fellas."

There's a difference between a verbal slip and repeating (more than once) incorrect factual information. Do you recognize this?

 

[soundforbjt]

Any concerns about her stances on issues or can I assume the OP agrees with her on those?

I'll answer. I agree with everything she says and think the GOP should adopt her views as their party platform for 2012 and beyond, and that she should be their de facto nominee, no primary needed.

 

[Skitzer]

Really, who gives a rats ass about anything she ever says or does??

 

[thraashman]

Here's the slight difference, and by slight I mean not the same thing at all unless you are a blind partisan fool. If 5 seconds after his slip you asked Obama, "how many states are there?" he'd have said "um, 50, why?" Bachmann was making a factual statement she believed to be true, and said it more than once. You can blame her speech writers if you like, I think Obama would have looked at that if it was handed to him and said "er, Lexington and Concord guys? Wrong state fellas."

There's a difference between a verbal slip and repeating (more than once) incorrect factual information. Do you recognize this?

You do realize you're asking one of the most unthinking and partisan posters on this board if he can recognize factual information that doesn't align perfectly with his very narrow views. I think the correct answer from him is that no, he can't recognize it.

 

[kage69]

Because Obama is known for making errors like this?

The teleprompter thing always cracks me up. The GOP hacks that derp about it really have no idea just how retarded it sounds for worshipers of King George to criticize anyone for a flub.

When I hear Obama say something like "There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again." ,then I'll start worrying.

 

[jonks]

You do realize you're asking one of the most unthinking and partisan posters on this board if he can recognize factual information that doesn't align perfectly with his very narrow views. I think the correct answer from him is that no, he can't recognize it.

Well, that's why I provided an explanation at the end of the first sentence for why someone might not be able to discern the difference.

 

[HomerJS]

Only Tea Baggers would back someone for president who doesn't have a grasp of american history. I would think most junior high school students would know that the founding fathers did not end slavery

 

[xj0hnx]

You mad?

xxJhbbaALLzxx

What would I have to be mad about? That Obama couldn't remember how many states are in the country he wanted to lead? I wouldn't say mad, more lol. You mad because this is a non-news story?