Tonight, the Bachmann campaign has released the following statement: “Congresswoman Bachmann is a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and is fully aware that we do not have an embassy in Iran and have not had one since 1980. She was agreeing with the actions taken by the British to secure their embassy personnel and was speaking in the hypothetical, that if she was President of the United States and if we had an embassy in Iran, she would have taken the same actions as the British.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/us-embassy-in-iran-michele-bachmanns-oops-moment/
But we do, it’s called Columbia University.
I believe her. She is on the select intelligence committee after all.
Sigh
Too bad really. I agree with Bachmann on near 100% of the issues. She’s just not quite ready for prime time and doesn’t come across as very presidential. She really exploded her campaign with her hysterical reaction to the HPV thing. Maybe in 2016 or 2020.
No one cares about foreign policy gaffes, unless it’s Herman Cain of course.
Embassy for what?.. Irainian propaganda?..
So “we” don’t appear to be a paper tiger.?
Guess she is the “ONLY ONE” that doesn’t know we have no embassy in Iran. Bet Sarah Palin knows.
Who cares about any of this? I’d still take her over ANY DemonRat. Hmm, Jeremiah Wright or forgetting that we don’t have an Iranian embassy? What to do?
She’s had a few slips, but it’s nothing compared to gaffe-a-minute Slow-Joe Biden, the man who proves that ANYBODY can have a power position in govt. if they’re rich and have friends in high places.
“She ... was speaking in the hypothetical, that if she was President of the United States and if we had an embassy in Iran ...”
Painful. I really wish she would withdraw.
Is this true? If it is, kind of a big gaff for a member of the intelligence committee. She was old enough to know about the Iranian take over and holding of our diplomats as hostages. This was a major issue for the start of the Reagan presidency.
Maybe she didn’t mean what it sounds like or maybe she was confusing Iran with another country?
That is the only thing the MSM is going to report on the GOP side people, “gaffes” and “scandals”. That is all. Get used to it.
She never said this.
Bump
I don’t get the problem here. She validated the UK move in the hypothetical context.
Seriously folks, get a grip.
I would argue that with anyone.
Well, thanks to Dick Obama, we don’t have an English Embassy in Washington.
And, it’s also his fault that the Austrians no longer speak Austrian.
Lame.
She knows how many states are in the U.S.; this trumps obamao’s intellect.