the thought of her within a hundred feet of the oval office should send shivers down the spine of anyone with a brain.

lol! Fartbama doesn't even know how many st...


...oh.

She's not qualified to take the White House TOUR without at least two home care aides, a drool pan and an extra-thick helmet.

Yet, there she was up on stage as a potential candidate for the GOP. Some may claim "she's just a sideshow" but there she was in the main tent doing something other than bite the heads off chickens and scrub off lonely farmers for six bits.

It's near the clitoris.

Barbigazi: It's near the clitoris.

The what?

Bachmann has been extremely consistent in her denouncement of democracy and her praise of despots.

It's more than you can say for Romney, but YIKES!

Seth'n'Spectrum: I hate effectively whiteknighting for Bachmann, but this is a non-story that is easily explainable. From a analytical standpoint, it's always been more useful to group the north African states with the Middle East. That's opposed to the sub-Saharan states, or Africa proper.

So it's not difficult to see why she made that slip.

I don't care if she said it was on the moon. She's a supporter of strongmen and autocrats.

Map shortages and such as...

Seth'n'Spectrum: From a analytical standpoint, it's always been more useful to group the north African states with the Middle East.

What about calling then "Near East", like they've always been called?

So according to Michele Bachmann -

Sending in troops to support dictators suffering from mass democratic protests of their people = good
Sending in troops to stop a Christian army that kidnaps kids, rapes women, and kills entire villages and burns them to the ground = bad

Meh, who cares. Herman Cain is the new hotness, especially among white folk.

I always say "North African" and "Sub-Saharan Africa". Not sure why that's so difficult.

Seth'n'Spectrum: I hate effectively whiteknighting for Bachmann, but this is a non-story that is easily explainable. From a analytical standpoint, it's always been more useful to group the north African states with the Middle East. That's opposed to the sub-Saharan states, or Africa proper.

So it's not difficult to see why she made that slip.

actually, i would normally agree with this - but with bachmann, i'm not so sure. i sincerely believe she is dumber than a bag of hammers and just says what she thinks people want to hear.

i guess i could google this... but what is the Lord's Resistance Army?
Sounds like an evangelical end of days cult.

Diogenes: She's a supporter of strongmen and autocrats.

So... Republicans?

Seth'n'Spectrum: I hate effectively whiteknighting for Bachmann, but this is a non-story that is easily explainable. From a analytical standpoint, it's always been more useful to group the north African states with the Middle East. That's opposed to the sub-Saharan states, or Africa proper.

So it's not difficult to see why she made that slip.

Yep. I give her a pass on this. A geographic slip is not the equivalent of a carefully crafted semi-articulate nonsensical politcal message.

Yeah Michelle, I think I'm going to go with Human Rights Watch on the whole let's help stop the massacre of civilians along with the rape of children and their use as soldiers thing, okay?

Meh, that's not much of a gaffe. But whatever, I don't care about her.

OMG - BACHMANN!

/fyi - she is dead last in the polls and ain't got a snowball's chance of nuttin

kbronsito: i guess i could google this... but what is the Lord's Resistance Army?
Sounds like an evangelical end of days cult.

Imagine pretty much any armed group in Africa and you can picture the LRA (child soldiers, rape, genocide, etc).

FlashHarry: the thought of her within a hundred feet of the oval office should send shivers down the spine of anyone with a brain.

meh
They elected bush, TWICE.
They nominated and voted for palin. FFS

plus the coont is worried that we are TOO spread out?
1) draft
2) your kind got us into afghanistan and iraq. so suck it

Brandyelf: EnviroDude: OMG - BACHMANN!

/fyi - she is dead last in the polls and ain't got a snowball's chance of nuttin

She might be a good choice for Romney's VP (from their perspective anyway), bringing in the derpy extreme of the party, and female to boot. From my perspective, watching a Bachmann/Biden debate would be epic lulz.

Romney actually has a working brain. (he is a flipflopper, but not stupid).
There is no chance in the universe that he would pick bachmann as vp. zero.

christie, huntsman (long shot), cain (look we have a black businessman!), perry for the dumb white religious southern anti mormon vote.

Yeah this could be explained away as the ol' 'people see Libya and north Africa in general as distinct from Africa proper'. However while that's a common view it's still wrong, but assuming we give her a pass for that for those reasons there's still this to contend with...

"Now with the president, he put us in Libya."

If anyone votes for someone who can say that sentence I will hunt you down and kill you myself, with a spoon, in honour of Alan Rickman and extra u's in words.

FlashHarry: the thought of her within a hundred feet of the oval office should send shivers down the spine of anyone with a brain.

Any worse than Rick Perry? I swear that dude scares the hell outta me. All I heard from the 'baggers was 'Obama thinks he's God' even though he's never even made a hint towards that

Rick Perry says stuff like he's 'God's Messenger' and the 'baggers clap and cheer

I'm actually a bit relieved. I first read that as "Obama put us in Liberia..." and was preparing to obliterate my phone out of my pure, blind hatred for that smarmy, ignorant shrew.

Then I re-read it and realized she was only half wrong. I can give her some credit for batting .500, can't I?

namatad: Brandyelf: EnviroDude: OMG - BACHMANN!

/fyi - she is dead last in the polls and ain't got a snowball's chance of nuttin

She might be a good choice for Romney's VP (from their perspective anyway), bringing in the derpy extreme of the party, and female to boot. From my perspective, watching a Bachmann/Biden debate would be epic lulz.

Romney actually has a working brain. (he is a flipflopper, but not stupid).
There is no chance in the universe that he would pick bachmann as vp. zero.

christie, huntsman (long shot), cain (look we have a black businessman!), perry for the dumb white religious southern anti mormon vote.

I dare you to go to youtube and find the Mitt Romney who let the dogs out video and then stand by your comment that he is not stupid. (i'd post the link but youtube is blocked at work).

i don't think he's pick huntsman... not even a longshot. two mormons on the same ticket ain't happening.

Jack Black 62: She sounds as stupid as the current president without a teleprompter.

wow, i cant believe it took over 20 posts before some idiot made a teleprompter "joke".

Brandyelf: She might be a good choice for Romney's VP (from their perspective anyway), bringing in the derpy extreme of the party, and female to boot. From my perspective, watching a Bachmann/Biden debate would be epic lulz.

McCain already tried nominating a feisty derpy woman as veep. Look how well that worked out for him.

kbronsito: i guess i could google this... but what is the Lord's Resistance Army?
Sounds like an evangelical end of days cult.

They are an experimental music collective from Brooklyn.

meanmutton: FlashHarry: Seth'n'Spectrum: I hate effectively whiteknighting for Bachmann, but this is a non-story that is easily explainable. From a analytical standpoint, it's always been more useful to group the north African states with the Middle East. That's opposed to the sub-Saharan states, or Africa proper.

So it's not difficult to see why she made that slip.

actually, i would normally agree with this - but with bachmann, i'm not so sure. i sincerely believe she is dumber than a bag of hammers and just says what she thinks people want to hear.

And yet still has more doctoral degrees than you do...

no, she doesn't. a JD isn't a "doctoral" degree, despite the wording. hence the existence of SJD in the States

/i also has a JD

The hell with that, she had the nerve to interrupt Anderson Cooper as he was about to close out that trainwreck because she absolutely had to get one final urgent message in.

That message: "The cake is bake."

Surely that will go down in history alongside "You're no Jack Kennedy," "There you go again," and "It's the economy, stupid."