Bachmann is Crazy: Swine Flu caused by Jimmy Carter

[Botany]

This New Yorker article about Bachmann is just wild.

Having a Democrat as President caused swine flu? :wow:


Bachmann, a two-term member of Congress from Stillwater, Minnesota, is an ideologue of the Christian-conservative movement. Her appeal, along with her rapid ascent in the polls, is based on a collection
of right-wing convictions, beliefs, and resentments that she has regularly broadcast from television studios and podiums since 2006, when she was first elected to Congress. Often, she will say something
outrageous and follow it with a cheerful disclaimer. During the last Presidential campaign, she told Chris Matthews, on MSNBC, that Barack Obama held “anti-American views” and then admitted, “I made a
misstatement.” (In 2010, she said that she had been right about Obama’s views all along: “Now I look like Nostradamus.”) In the spring of 2009, during what appeared to be the beginnings of a swine-flu
epidemic, Bachmann said, “I find it interesting that it was back in the nineteen-seventies that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter*. And I’m not blaming this on
President Obama—I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza#ixzz1Wbsuzqpm



* FYI The swine flu outbreak started when Gerry Ford was President.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. One of her earlier statements was close to correct

She looks like NostraDUMBASS.

[polmaven]

10. Ooo, Ooo, Ooo!

That is FABULOUS!!! :lmao:

I may (ahem) "borrow" that in the future!

[Cirque du So-What]

13. It's not mine

but I didn't see a copyright attached to it when I appropriated it ;-)

[Submariner]

2. Are presidential candidates drug tested?

If not, we should require it. Especially this Bachmann idiot.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Smirk." - Gerry Ford (R - Flu Dude)

[TwilightGardener]

8. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[Enthusiast]

4. It's becoming clear that Bachmann

is not going to be a major factor in the Republican primary. Even the nuts think she is too batshit.

[NBachers]

5. All the swine flu activity was done by Republican Gerald Ford in 1976 before Carter was even elected

http://www.capitalcentury.com/1976.html

[BadgerKid]

6. Only a coincidence??? NOOOOOOO!!!!

:crazy: How about levying a tax on her frivolous use of oxygen?

[iamthebandfanman]

7. if that were true about jimmy..

didnt she work and vote for jimmy (self admitted), so wouldnt she be just a responsible if it were true?

[frylock]

9. she looks more like nostradumbass

[boxman15]

11. She is hilarious.

I hope she gets the nomination only so I can get a good laugh everyday and LOL when I watch the Daily Show, Colbert, SNL, etc. mock her mercilessly.

[Puzzler]

12. ... and AIDS was "discovered" in Reagan's time. Coincidence?

[BlueIris]

14. Plus SARS was a Bush era "discovery." Also coincidental?

Now I hate Bush for giving me SARS, too.

:sarcasm: