Bachmann: Americans Fear 'the Rise of the Soviet Union'
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Thursday that Americans are alarmed that President Barack Obama may cut defense spending at a time when the Soviet Union is becoming a power in the world.
"When you are traveling -- I know you are in South Carolina now, you're obviously in Iowa, you're up in New Hampshire -- are you hearing different things in these states?" Christian radio host Jay Sekulow asked the candidate.
"I would say it's a unified message," Bachmann explained. "It really is about jobs and the economy. That doesn't mean people haven't [sic] forgotten about protecting life and marriage and the sanctity of the family. People are very concerned about that as well."
"But what people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward. And especially with this very bad debt ceiling bill, what we have done is given a favor to President Obama and the first thing he'll whack is five hundred billion out of the military defense at a time when we're fighting three wars. People recognize that."
The Soviet Union collapsed and was formally dissolved on December 26, 1991 after Gorbachev resigned as President and the Supreme Soviet ended.
(H/T: Right Wing Watch)
Does she mean Russia? Because I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union collapsed a while ago.
Does ANYTHING about this ninny give you the impression she knows what decade she's in?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
She watched "Red Dawn" last night and thinks it just came out.
Remake was supposed to be released last year, but they moved it up to sometime this year.
Does this mean we'll have another generation of ex-high school quarterbacks and cheerleaders who think they'll be able to fight off an invasion of Ruskies?
I know people who worship that movie.
Lower the retirement age.
The Russians fought Nazi Germany to defeat. "Red Dawn" was typical American PROPAGANDA. As much as the Rethugs and Conservitards like to criticize Hollywood, they are pretty effective at doing the government's propaganda work.
Witness USA Network's new show, "Covert Affairs", a show I like to watch. The CIA are all heroes and over 100 of them have died "serving" the corporate elite, I mean their country. And the environmental terrorists have already showed up on a show, armed with automatic weapons and kiling many in the cause. Different group, but they are all affiliated, right, of environmental killers showed up on "Burn Notice", another USA Network show I enjoy watching. And I can watch them, because I boycott ALL of their advertisers, without exception (easy for a poor Vegan with an old PU truck).
The show's are amusing, but the not so hidden message is insidious. Sort of like reading the NY Times--read between the lines and it is a good rag. Otherwise, spokesmouth of the criminally corrupt elite.
YEP. Red Dawn = MIC Propaganda.
'Covert Affairs' sounds like propaganda too. I read the description and decided to pass, even though i like intrigue. 'Rubicon' on AMC last year was great! - It was all about corruption in the national security racket. I guess that's why they cancelled it after one season...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
that them Sovietskis sent in the Cubanos as their cannon fodder?
All these Mejicanos and other Latino's have been advance guard to make us used to hearing that Spanish gibberish on our streets. And to get the street signs printed in Bilingual so they know where they are without GPS.
"3 protesters barely on our property chained to a...drum...not causing any problems so I told the guys to just monitor them and let them freeze."
Shocking document revealing Fed attack on Occupy Portland 11/6/11
had the job of interogating German prisons. he was asked by one prisoner where he came from, and the German,in perfect English, replied, " oh, that's were the Whatevernamed River is" and the US soldier's mind was blown, because it was more of a creek than river, and relatively obscure.
When he asked the German how he knew so much about US geograpy, the German told him that they were trained for the invasion of the USA, well trained, to know the country and details.
The Cubans likely aren't going to be needing any road signs when they "invade".
But if they invade, it will probably be with doctors, nurses and medical supplies, because, as a rapidly deteriorating second-to-third world country, we really need public health/medical help most.
...it just might work! omg, you're right! advanced recon! they've even got Central and South Americans in on it. So THATS how they're are getting through Mexico! I bet Chavez is behind it, with his ties to the Soviet Union and all. So diabolical!
The remake was shot with the Chinese invading the US. However, after they finished shooting, someone at the studio said, "Holy crap! What if this offends the Chinese? We'll never be able to release it there!"
So, they re-edited it to make it the North Koreans.
Yeah.
She thinks it's a documentary.
Actually, she thinks that "Red Dawn" is a documentary.
Snark? or do you need to study up too?
I'm saddened that you would even ask. Who do you think I am, Michelle Bachmann or something?
I'm pretty sure there is a substantial part of the US population who hasn't gotten the news and still think of Russia as the Soviet Union. Just as there are still people out there who refer to China as Red China.
red china IS still red china. it is an officially communist country, with an officially communist government, in spite of their forays into capitalism. if you want to get anywhere in china, you'd be well advised to be a party member.
Scary, scary, scary...
That some find legitimacy with this "me-tard"
.. the US is the ONLY major power AT WAR right now ..
.. spending TRILLIONS on current & future wars (gotta plan for those "future wars") ..
.. US's biggest enemy is ITSELF ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Her words:
"But what people recognize is that there's a fear that they see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward"
WTF why does this douche think that "our loss of military going forward" and our "unstoppable decline" give rise to the comment that " the United States is in an unstoppable decline"
US Imperialism is strong with this one.
A dumb mal-educated(and I don't give a shit how many degrees this skank has) end-timer fag-hag psychopath running for President.
You fucks are simply un-American subversives Hell-bent on destroying this Nation.
What about Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum?
Or, how about Rick the preacherman Parry, denier of evolution and climate change?
Sounds pretty good to me!
I bet Dr. Marcus will make Michele choose Santorum as a running mate; because he seems fun!
I know Left. It's downright offensive that this is what passes for a presidential candidate. This country has gone terminally fucking stupid.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
I am petrified that as a taxpaying American that the Soviets will invade our country and take the jobs that true Americans won't take.
I keep hearing that bachmann is having trouble finding a campaign song. Well, there's an old song that has the line, "Don't know much about history". Maybe that one is available.
Michelle doesn't seem to understand when something is gone, it's gone. First it was Elvis and now it's the Soviet Union.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"Don't know much about history"
is good, but I prefer this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_kSs69NlHs
while looking at this: http://bachmanneyezed.tumblr.com/page/2
enjoy(?)
Up voted!
Dueling banjos ? Maybe the score form one flew over the cuckoo's nest ?
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4
Politicians, money changers, and other wallet packers don't count their "success" by counting cash. They "weigh-in"...
The STOOPID! It BURNS.......!
WWFSMD?
Who the hell "fears the rise of the Soviet Union"? This is just crappy McCarthyist red-baiting. Get your head out of the 60's, you idiot.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
When bachmann utters two sentences in a row that make sense will someone let me know? She seems to just say random words whenever she speaks and then try to connect them later, and always to no avail.
I don't think saying that she is ill informed or just plain dumb is overstating the case.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Doesn't look like you have to worry about that. Nobody ever will tell you that.
I think she's that one monkey from the infinite monkey problem.
So Bachmann's role model for how government can improve a nation's economy is the People's Republic of China, and she frets about the rise of the Soviet Union looming on the horizon. Can she see it coming from her house? (Palin can …)
Forgive her America, for she knows not of what she speaks.
Bachmann and Palin share fundamental character flaws -- both have a propensity toward making snide, petty comments about those with whom they disagree, neither does her homework before making public comments regarding important social and historical events, neither is capable of extemporaneously elaborating on their mundane, superficial talking points, and neither is mature enough to accept responsibility for her own mistakes, failures, and shortcomings.
One of her teachers must have written:
"This child has hit rock bottom and has started to dig."
I am so scared that the gOdless theism of "merica" might be overcome with blind "faith" and rational thought...
That robot is an idiot.
NOBODY 2012
Is that why we have to beg Russia to take our astronauts into space now?
If legislation is for sale, it always goes to the highest bidder.
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
Blame her voters for her stupidity.
typical of bachmann using the Fear Factor to push for the military industrial complex. bachmann will never understand this is also BIG government/big spending. the real enemy in my opinion is the global financial elites/investors/speculators.
Bill Maher said that these people embrace their stupidity. Michele Bachman is sending a coded message to the Tea party people "I am just like you."
You're right. They're cliques, not political parties. "See those condescending brainiac Dems making fun of me for calling Russia the Soviet Union!? They're so mean! Can't they see the bigger picture like me? How God is calling us to repent --uh reform-- the US before its too late? We need to stand up to these smarty pants' and show them that stupid people can succeed too! Over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Who's with me! Lets Gooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"
Animal House reference!
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
Of course he is right , why do you think the Republican party is purposely running the dumbest and craziest they can come up with ? They know who their supporters are , psychology 101 , birds of a feather , ignorant and dumb people are more comfortable with and trusting of people who are just like themselves . The Repugs are running candidates who will be nothing more than hood ornaments , with Norquist , powerful Reich wing groups and people like the Koch brothers running the country .They only want a hood ornament, which is why they won't let Ron Paul get anywhere and why they are not so hot on Romney . .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
that smart people are all part of an elitist cadre that wants to enslave real Americans and march them into collectives?
...I might have to giver her a pass on this one. I have made THIS mistake a few times, and it is damned easy to when you grow up much your life saying "Soviet Union" instead of Russia. I know it's Bachman, but it happens.
to be fair bachmann does this often.
it's been 20 years. It's not like writing 2010 on a check you write in 2011. And this is a person running for the president of the United States!
not all martyrs see divinity
To some extent you are right, but, remember, this is Bachmann, one who has made it a habit of calling Obama a "socialist."
It's generous of you, this innocent slip-of-habit exoneration. But anyone who has conversed thoughtfully about it will have heard/used the phrase the former Soviet Union countless times. "The former..." would have been second nature.
Ignorance is mother to religion.
Religion is mother to Hate.
http://home.comcast.net/~fuksnickityclam/
I'd giver a pass too, except she's running for the fucking presidency of the united states, not just some idiot bloviating on the Internet tubes. She is supremely unfit and unqualified for the job. period.
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what is worse, ignorance or indifference?
I don't know and I don't care!
Bingo!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Bachman is only fifty , she didn't grown up " much of her life " crawling under school desks and practicing air raid drills , being brainwashed with American propaganda , she would not remember personally experiencing the Cuban missile crisis , the crack is playing to her base , pure and simple . Sickening as can be , a Republican Politician claiming to be a Christian , pretty much an oxymoron I would say .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
...and a Dominionist, carefully keeping that fact under wraps. This is a problem - one that the media had bloody well better not ignore.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Americans fear not being number one (which is a very condescending assertion). We're already not number one in any positive area. Solution? Propose polices that drop us further down the list.
Setting aside the fact that she seems unaware of the fact that there hasn't been a Soviet Union for 20 years, Bachman sees a threat to US economic dominance by the increasing economic might of China, India, and Russia, and concludes that the US need to invest even more in its military. Does she plan on invading these countries to destroy their economies? Perhaps part of the problem is that the lion's share of the treasury is going to pointless military adventures, leaving nothing to invest domestically in things like infrastructure, education, and health care that might actual put the US on a stronger economic footing.
The meme is that only lazy people rely on government investment in infrastructure, education, and health care.
Doesn't China want their money back? Personally, I don't fear China because I love Chinese food.
The Commies are coming, build bomb shelters, hide under your bed and your desks at school! This is what tea-baggers do, to try and point the finger of fear and blame elsewhere, take to focus off themselves and their FUXXED ups, when they are our very own, homegrown, enemies from within!
Be very AFRAID of these nutz, the Bachmanns.
The Repubs got 98% of what they wanted, which is to spend money on items they already approved. To her, the President can unilaterally cut whatever he wants from the budget.
PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT.
How fucking stupid are the people that she encounters?
Damn Russkies! Where's Slim Pickens when you need him?
I think Michelle was in "Dr. Strangelove". She played George C. Scott's secretary.
"Bucky, I'm not tired either!"
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Substitute Michelle Bachmann (or anyone in the GOP) in place of Bob Rumson, and it applies just as well to real life politics as it did to The American President.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Was Dreyfuss not superb as Dick Cheney in "W"? I'll bet he relished playing that part.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
She knows her world history too. What an indiot, almost as stoopid as the asswipes who vote for her.
Damned Kaiser deserves a sound thrashing! The little Corsican is on the rise again, as well! To arms!
i'm convinced that the (r)'s like perpetual war. i believe it provides a more conservative culture in this country. it moves people right in the political/social spectrum. they want "blowback" it provides capitalistic opportunity.
Can't you just hear the cacophony of clicks as all the Bachmann supporters head over to the Wikipedia "Soviet Union" page with their additions about how the Commies didn't really end the Soviet Union, they just went into hiding and now they are BACK!!!!
And when someone calls her on yet another butchering of history, we'll get the pouty face and the sexism charges, followed by an hour of softball questions from Sean Hannity.
And round & round we go...
When Mrs. Looney Tune weighs in about two more upcoming threats, the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Ottoman Turks.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
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Ignorance is mother to religion.
Religion is mother to Hate.
http://home.comcast.net/~fuksnickityclam/
the Boers and the Boxers?
that she would quit making all these stupid statements. Otherwise she may NOT get the nomination. And I soooo want her to get the nomination! That would do two things. 1) It would insure an Obama win and more importantly 2) it would make the collective heads of the GOP explode. I'm not sure which I would like to see more.
And, of course, the Soviets were Saint Ronnie's major foe. Perfect!
I'd like for someone in the audience to ask "Senator, I fear the rebirth of the Ottoman Empire. Your comments?"
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
... that will impose sharia law on us.
and by mania, I mean Wrestlemania! I think we can settle all of this with a steal cage match between Nikolai Volkoff, the Iron Sheik, and Sgt. Slaughter. Heck, lets let the Ultimate Warrior represent the "Right-wing nutjob" faction.
Can you believe that this ninny aqctually homeschooled her children?
joined Teach America.
She needs to keep on talking.
"When you are traveling -- I know you are in South Carolina now, you're obviously in Iowa, you're up in New Hampshire -- are you hearing different things in these states?" Damn, that's one hell of a trip.
it almost hurt. The Russia has been quietly working on its arsenal since 1995. We are totally convinced that we are the ones who call the shots in the world. We are in for a surprise just like Bush was surprised in Georgia. First, he instigated the Georgians to attack the Russians, when they reacted and kicked Georgia's ass, Bush played dumb. The Russians are in no place in the world like America (735 military installations around the world). They make no political comments about anything. They don't get involved in anything. They stay to themselves. I met lots of them in Phuket, Thailand. Pleasant friendly. But when I said I was American, I saw this little flint in their eyes. The women are simply beautiful, sexy and domineering. Yes!! One of this days they will make their move. I think they are waiting until we bankrupt ourselves into oblivion. Then, we'll here about it.
One very dangerous man in Russia: Wladimir Wolfowitsch Shirinowski.
Or should be.
"3 protesters barely on our property chained to a...drum...not causing any problems so I told the guys to just monitor them and let them freeze."
Shocking document revealing Fed attack on Occupy Portland 11/6/11
Does that mean congress authorized war against Libya? Or am I missing something. Iraq and Afghanistan obviously are wars, but I can't think of the third one we are fighting. Help me out if I'm just being ignorant of something.
funny, I never heard about a formal declaration of war, just some sort of congressional "authorization" to use force. Is that now the same thing?
yes, I'm splitting hairs a little bit, but I think it's an important distinction. Congress seems to have shirked their responsibility to declare wars half a dozen times or more since WWII, but now that the situation for police actions has become the defacto normal, they're upset about a far more limited involvement in Libya? Pot, meet Kettle.
Not that I'm happy about Libya - far from it. But I think congresspeople bitching about it is a little weak.
not all martyrs see divinity
if he just hadn't added isolationism to his otherwise crazy cant.
"3 protesters barely on our property chained to a...drum...not causing any problems so I told the guys to just monitor them and let them freeze."
Shocking document revealing Fed attack on Occupy Portland 11/6/11
What I fear most are the corpora-fascists and banksters who bankroll, control and literally own these idiot Repuke candidates (and a lot of Dims as well).
I'm also concerned that the Reps have been dredging up and promoting these brain-dead women (O'Donnell, Angle and Palin come to mind) and putting them out on the campaign trail as viable candidates for high office.
This plants the notion in the minds of many Americans that 'All Women' are unacceptable as future presidential candidates ....and we know that Repukes and Fundies are not keen on the idea of allowing the 'little women' out of the house and being able to make decisions about controlling their own reproductive lives.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
But never underestimate the utter Psychosis of these Reconstructionist Dominoinists. They believe fervently that christians, and only christians have legitimacy to rule.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
These brain-dead women are not to be feared. They, and their supporters, know that it is their duty to be submissive to men. They are just the Cover Girls, prettier puppets than GW Bush could have ever been.
non sequitur alert----
can you believe O'Donnell has gotten herself back in the media spotlight? How does this s*** happen? Sure, O'Donnell, Bachmann, and Palin are decent-looking in a MILFy kind of way, but its not like they have anything interesting to say. In short, they are not newsworthy. I guess pretty female clowns are more entertaining than the usual suspect white males. hmmm, guess it wasn't a non sequitur after all.
The GOP strategy is so naked, so blatant. Rich corporations using "grassroots" morons to spread hate and fear, all to gain power.
Machiavelli would be proud.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
It isn't the commies I am worried about, it's the capitalists.
I think this just cements the fact that the tea party troglodytes are simply the John Birch Society 2.0.
The commies were the favorite booger man of the Birchers, and since most of them are old enough to have been actual Birchers, it's not surprising their lingo would carry over. What's amazing is that they've had 20 years to upgrade their memory chips, yet they're still just a blinking DOS prompt.
the computer is thinking...
not all martyrs see divinity
for an ignorant audience that's never heard of them in the first place.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
This skank is out of her fucking mind!
...ought to be that this blank seeks the highest nation in the land and just might end up taking it.
O'Donnell Ticket?......stay tuned.....
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
that would set up the Milky Way as a 'Black Hole' nursery.
me-oww!
Has she been asleep for thirty years, is she drunk, drugged or is her migraine more than just a mingraine?
....The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it.--P.J. O'ROURKE, Holidays in Hell
If youth is wasted on the young, then money is definitely wasted on the rich.
Bachman is a Dominionist western version of sharia law
We;re spending trillions in endless wars and growing our military --that is what is causing the death cycle, same as it did to the Soviet Union, Michele. Jeebus, get a clue.
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what is worse, ignorance or indifference?
I don't know and I don't care!
...and did you hear about that Sputnik satellite? They're beating us into space as well!!
thats why they cancelled the space program.
Its embarrassing and shameful what retards the US puts up as Presidential candidates these days (esp. the current Repub crop). What makes it deeply troubling and scary is that these aren't out-of-nowhere "the rents too damn high" candidates; these space cadets have actually been elected to high office -- multiple times! That means tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions think these are capable leaders, or what has become closer to "rulers". Somehow, even the hyperbolic term "yikes!" doesn't quite capture the feeling. I'm starting to think maybe al qaeda has succeeded in tampering with our water supply.
Have you ever tasted one of those things?
Janek
Seriously, look who they keep voting into office.
I don't fear the rise of the Soviet Union; I fear the rise of Michelle Bachmann.
I have no doubt that tea baggers are afraid of the rise of the Soviet Union.
and the soviet union collapsed in 1991! but that's only because that's what THEY want you to think!
I'm looking forward to the day when a journalist responds to such ridiculous lunacy with a 'No they're not. Stop wasting our time. Moving on to our next story." Bachmann's microphone turned off and the Camera never returns.
Oh man, this is a ditz-job one can never live down.
Hey Rocky Racoon, your mascara has given you pea-brain cancer.
and he has such a pretty mouth.
Since Bachmann lives in her own world, maybe she can be President there too. While the rest of us enjoy a long break from her.
This dumb woman must think everyone is a moron. With candidates like her around we have more to fear at home than in the Urals. As the old Pogo cartoon once put it, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
...and you should too.
We had enough of religunuts making decisions of life and death from 01-09.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
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