Posted on 07/18/2011 8:13:54 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA
In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman.
Dziok had worked for Bachmann for two and a half years, a relatively long period by the standards of her office, and was leaving on good terms.
Staff turnover can frustrate any employer, but Bachmann responded more dramatically. Dziok’s departure triggered a debilitating medical episode that landed the congresswoman in urgent care.
“Within 24 hours she was in the hospital,” a former aide says.
Bachmann was admitted to a Washington, D.C. hospital on Friday, July 30, and released that same day. She flew home to Minnesota to recuperate, missing a scheduled campaign event with Sen. Roy Blunt.
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I want to run for public office. This is true. But I won’t because my past is not pure. The media would make mincemeat of me.
As they are doing now with Bachman.
I don’t care what she’s done, what ugliness they bring up, I’m for her.
Are we going to let the left decide for us again? Use our “morals” against us? There is nothing so degrading in her past that a liberal has not done and been proud of it.
Screw them. This is WAR.
If her migraines are as serious as the article implies, she would not be able to serve as POTUS effectively. We cannot have a POTUS out of commission with an intense migraine for 24+ hours once a week. That's unreasonable and unacceptable. Her staff would be making decisions instead of her.
Great point!!!! I’m sick of all of this bashing. Just let me have the meat of what they are going to do and their voting record. All this he said, she said, sounds to much like gossip, it’s petty back biting, and childish.
In and out of a hospital on the same day, once. This is hardly a pattern, and there are many reasons one might visit an emergency room that have nothing to do with chronic debilitating conditions.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, “the cake lady” and “the dairy queen”...but not the “dairy fairy.” haha
While there are over the counter, aspirinless pills that do work on migraines and stress headaches, those who have severe migraine,cluster,or stress headaches are prescribed more potent meds.
What is surprising, if true, is that at her age and after having five children, she still gets such overpowering headaches.
And before anyone tries to go after me for the above factual statement, men who suffer from migraine or cluster ( which are even worse than migraines ) headaches also get some relief ( not as many and/or a lessening of pain levels ) as the reach a certain age.
I'd rather have a POTUS with legitimate health problems that some friggin Marxist Golf-boy.
The DC agreed to provide the sources anonymity because they were providing information only a select group of people could know, at great professional risk. Two sources independently provided detailed accounts of Bachmann’s condition. A third source confirmed that Bachmann frequently suffers from debilitating headache episodes.
If this is true, these people are going to be immediately known by the Bachmann team. How many people are privy to this type of medical info IF TRUE?
I think the Romney people took some bits and pieces of intel to make this story up. We all know this will be front page with the Lamestream for the rest of the week whether or not it is true. Meanwhile Myth goes about his lying and BS tour unhampered.
FUMR
I seriously doubt she has a serious migraine problem, at least one that can’t be successfully addressed with non-narcotic medication. It would have become an issue long before she officially declared. So if she has an aspirin or Tylenol habit — who gives a hey nonny?
You are so full of it..everyone gets a headache now and then. This entire hyperbolic story isn't even tabloid worthy...it's as powerful as a wet noodle.
And bambi does not handle the constitution very well.
I choose Bachmann.
“The more she gets bashed the more I think she is who Zero is afraid of.”
She is.
But this is not likely Obama’s doing. This shot is not from the Left, but from the dying Center. Toward its successfully charging Right.
Obama is in no hurry for a comparison of records between he and her. Medical, school, job performance... you name it.
It’s not the bashers, it’s the old media. Ho Hum, really ... Michele is (un)cool. Conservatives are the new ‘rebellion’. The old media is dead. That is the point of this story. Dead old media. The new media is getting the stories out, they are objective. How do so many people know what’s going on? It’s not O’liberal. We are all listening to other sources. My 83 year old dad listens to Rush.
“The more she gets bashed the more I think she is who Zero is afraid of.”
She is.
But this is not likely Obama’s doing. This shot is not from the Left, but from the dying Center. Toward its successfully charging Right.
Obama is in no hurry for a comparison of records between he and her. Medical, school, job performance... you name it.
Who first alleged she had “incapacitating” headaches at all? I don’t believe the furry tailed, whiskered rumor mills. All they have to say is “meow.” If she has these headaches she sure does a yeoman’s job of plowing on through them, as she is booked for many appearances right now.
That didn’t take long. She must be tracking well.
Maybe she should try prayer for a cure?
More like 5 minutes if you're in Washington and an enemy boomer launches an SLBM. Ten minutes later, the White House would be turned to plasma.
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