COMMENTARY | Just what is it with Michele Bachmann and her propensity for making odd gaffes, Freudian-esque mental errors that align her with those of a darker nature? Apparently the Minnesota congresswoman, on yet another swing through her home state of Iowa, thanked a radio caller during an appearance on a conservative talk show on Des Moines-based WHO Radio. But according to Huffington Post, Bachmann thanked a guy who had just told her he would rather vote for Charles Manson than Barack Obama.
The caller, who told Bachmann that President Obama was a "walking nightmare" and was "blowing up our country," wanted the three-term legislator to know just how strongly he felt about the current president. "I would vote for Charles Manson before this guy," he told her. "But I'm pulling for you big time, all the way, go Michele!"
To which Bachmann replied: "Thank you for saying that."
Giving the congresswoman the benefit of the doubt, one could note she was probably thanking him for his support and not the fact he had just announced he would vote for a delusional psychopathic known to have orchestrated several murders rather than cast a vote for the incumbent president. But, then, it could be argued that she may have been thanking him for both.
Bachmann is known for her outlandish verbal forays, her extreme positions, her penchant for repeating proven falsehoods and her often historically inaccurate gaffes. And thanking the Iowa caller for his Manson comment pushes to the fore her gaffe from just prior to her formal announcement of running for president.
She was in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, when she noted she had the "spirit" of John Wayne who once lived in Waterloo. The problem? Although she meant John Wayne the patriotic actor, who was from a nearby Iowa city, her words actually invoked the "spirit" of John Wayne Gacy, the famed clown serial killer, who had lived in Waterloo just prior to moving to the Chicago area and going on his decades-long murder odyssey.
Although she appeared on the radio talk show on Sept. 26, the reports have only now just surfaced, the latest slip making headlines just days after Bachmann made an odd comment in North Carolina insinuating the Arab Spring uprisings were actually a bad thing and the result of President Obama's weakness.
Bachmann, who is seen as wanting in areas of executive government experience and foreign policy matters, did not elaborate on what made Obama weak and how said weakness actually tied into the populist movements in several Arab nations that had seen demonstrations and oustings of established governments.
She did voice her concern that the Arab Spring had given rise to radical elements and that American ally Israel could suffer because of the overall unrest. What she did not explain, other than that they could somehow bring harm to the state of Israel, was how a massive movement of primarily peaceful political uprisings in northern Africa and the Middle East were such a terrible thing, especially when those populist movements were unseating dictators and authoritarian regimes that had oppressed, imprisoned, and killed tens of thousands over the decades of their collective rule.
Bachmann appears to have an affinity for the darker side, even if that affinity exists only as gaffes, misstatements, and poorly informed opinions. But those verbal slips and comments keep putting her on the side of serial killers, psychopaths, and cruel despots.
And at least one guy in Iowa who would vote for one of them.
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