For Michele Bachmann, A Pattern of Getting Facts Wrong [makes Palin look like Count Metternich]

Politico ^ | 3/12/11 9:48 PM EST | By JONATHAN MARTIN & KENDRA MARR

[fight_truth_decay]

Bachmann was also criticized for getting the Iwo Jima facts wrong back in February during her SOTU speech.

Bachmann playing off to her web camera instead of direct eye contact to the networks camera was a more minor WTF moment, as Sarah Palin might describe.

I seem to recall....

Obama: "I have now been in 57 states, [?] I think one one left to go...one left to go.. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to.. even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it"

Biden: "Stand up Chuck!..Oh God love ya, what am I talking about!! Stand up for Chuck!! Good to see ya buddy!!"

[Loud Mime]

What matters is her prudent applications of government, in all 57 States.

[GVnana]

Politicians are wise to have their stump speeches fact-checked before making them. (With the literacy level of the average public-schooled intern it still might go bad.)

[fight_truth_decay]

However, New Hampshire, COLONY OF, was for many years a dependent of Massachusetts, but first to form an independent State government (Jan. 5, 1776) as temporary, to last only during the war; a permanent State government was not established until June 4, 1784.

[Barnacle]

Making her first trek to New Hampshire as a 2012 prospect, Bachmann told a GOP crowd in Manchester: “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord.”

The Revolutionary War began, not in New Hampshire’s capital, but in the famous two towns more than 50 miles away in Massachusetts.

Big deal. The sad fact of things is that 9 of 10 Americans would not recognize this as a mistake. There is only local impact on this gaff.

[tsowellfan]

Once you’re the incumbant it doesn’t matter how many gaffes you make.

[tsowellfan]

Once you’re the incumbent it doesn’t matter how many gaffes you make.

[Dilbert San Diego]

If you are a good Democrat, it doesn’t matter what gaffes you make and how many. Only Repulicans are held to strict standards in this regard.

[Recovering_Democrat]

These asswipe morons at the politico are drooling Hussein cultists...because any fair, objective CHECK on the gaffe meter would show the Kenyan Communist knows less about some basic facts than Michele Bachmann on any given subject.

Naval Corpsemen, the effects of capital gains taxes, and the 3000% percent raise, are the first examples that come to mind of the verbal idiocy displayed by the man-child occupant of the top of the executive branch.

But the “journalists” at the politico obviously have their noses buried so far up Hussein’s backside, they can’t hear him speak.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder who filled in little Jonathan and Kendra about Concord and Lexington. I doubt they even knew about those two towns until someone pointed out Michelle’s mistake to them.

[tsowellfan]

Only Repulicans are held to strict standards in this regard.

Yes, they are by the liberal media.

For republicans or democrats, when they see a candidate in the primaries known to make gaffes it should be a red flag. Last thing we want to see is for a gaffe making nominee going up against a gaffe making incumbent.

[FrankR]

While the facts are important, I really can't buy into the "Katic Couric" plan that presidential candidates be potential "Jeopardy" winners.

A leader should possess many things other than rote memorization of historic dates, times and places.

The most needed quality for a leader for America right now is courage. With countless advisors at hand, not to mention a tireless staff, any situation required historical accuracy can be researched at a moment's notice, just like obama's teleprompter writers do.

Governor Scott Walker is a perfect example of a leader - courage and integrity beyond reproach. Knowing the right thing, and doing...damn the torpedoes.

Fixing all of America's ills will be a be a gigantuan task; it will take a super hero just to undo obama's messes. But now that the left has had a taste of unbridled power, they are not going gently into that good night, we have a fight on our hands.

The upcoming battle is not for the faint of heart like Jimmy Carter, nor the appeasers, like John McCain. The left has a lot of good "intimidators"...who use terrorist-like scare tactics to weaken our resolve. They hope that fear will keep us from fighting, as they don't really want a fight. It's like the old schoolyard saying, "One is scared, and the other one is glad of it.".

Whichever candidate, or potential presidental candidate comes forward, the left if going to leash the Kracken on them with their favorite weapon, the politics of personal destruction. With their screwy policies and liberal/socialist ideology, it's the only thing they have...well, except cheating at the ballot box.

However, i disagree with the notion that our side must pass a pop quiz in history and adhere to Courics approved reading list to be a president - especially looking at what we have in office now.

[fight_truth_decay]

Would it not be refreshing if they just spoke "straight from the heart".. and especially not give history lessons to those in states, where the speaker does not live. Safer that way. They stray away their comfort zone. It becomes unnatural and that turns off a voter.

Mrs. Clinton stumping in Maine as a Democratic candidate made me laugh when she said that when she drove by the Maine mills inactive, they should get up and running [words to that effect]... they should be burning wood- with all the trees in Maine. It was in her speech in Lewiston, Maine; but never reported. I could just picture little Leprechaun laborers lugging logs to an enormous wood fired furnace all day long..for what purpose?

[aquila48]

And supporting those brave corpsemen!

[gwilhelm56]

only makes politico seem PETTY and SMALL!

[mmercier]

Concord NH is kind of close to Lexington MA.

Not that close but... Whatnot, when you are talking to the retarded.

I have been on the Concord green many times. I can walk from my house to where a band of 200 men mustered and walked 16 miles to fight that day at Concord MA. Most of them never survived the war.

If you are living in a housing project in Manchester NH, any Concord may as well be on Mars... Just get out and vote in November. There are rides available for you too...

[Joe 6-pack]

"Would it not be refreshing if they just spoke "straight from the heart".. and especially not give history lessons to those in states, where the speaker does not live."

It would be refreshing if a pol knew American history intimately enough to stir local crowds by speaking to their unique American inheritance. I would want a Pennsylvania speech to rally the community to the sacrifices of Valley Forge, a Texas crowd to the Alamo, an Hawaiian crowd to Pearl Harbor, etc. For somebody conversant with, and passionate about our history, those types of things are straight from the heart.

[fight_truth_decay]

The sad fact of things is that 9 of 10 Americans would not recognize this as a mistake

Ah...but in New England voters of a more adult age with roots in the same..take pride in the history of our 13 colonies [and still fly the flag on the 4th] as so we are often related to the early founders, governors, Tories, etc. Maine was an exclave of Massachusetts until 1820.

Now once I spoke to a customer service person [and not India] and she asked if New England was in Europe..so...lol will give you that.

Plus, remember you can't fool a 5th grader!!

[fight_truth_decay]

Is Aunt Zeituni allowed to vote?

[fight_truth_decay]

if a pol knew American history intimately enough to stir local crowds by speaking to their unique American inheritance

Newt's strong suit..to bad his other suits are soiled.