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locopolitico

(788 posts) Sat Jun 1, 2013, 02:02 PM Jun 2013

Craziest Michele Bachmann Quotes Ever

Craziest Michele Bachmann Quotes Ever

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-michele-bachmann-quotes.htm

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Craziest Michele Bachmann Quotes Ever (Original Post) locopolitico Jun 2013 OP

My favorite: tblue Jun 2013 #1

And a classic: Rhiannon12866 Jun 2013 #2

tblue

(16,350 posts)

1. My favorite:

Reply to locopolitico (Original post)

Sat Jun 1, 2013, 02:12 PM

Jun 2013

''(Gay marriage) is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that.''

—Michele Bachmann, March 2004

Rhiannon12866

(205,467 posts)

2. And a classic:

Reply to locopolitico (Original post)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 05:15 AM

Jun 2013

''But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.''
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, speaking at an Iowan's for Tax Relief event, Jan. 23, 2011 (The Founding Fathers did not work to end slavery, and John Quincy Adams was not one of the Founding Fathers)

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