H/T to Crooks And Liars! Their transcript, below.
“A sizable number of GOP primary voters are questioning President Obama’s faith and citizenship,” Stephanopoulos noted. “Can you state very clearly that President Obama is a Christian and he is a citizen of the United States?”
“Well, that isn’t for me to state. That’s for the president to state,” Bachmann said.
“Do you believe it?” Stephanopoulos pressed.
The Minnesota congresswoman continued to dodge the question.
“When the president makes his statements, I think they need to stand for their own,” she said.
“You can’t just sit there and declare the president’s a citizen and he is a Christian?” the ABC host asked again.
“You know, what I focus on today, George, is today is the two-year anniversary of the stimulus program, where we spent $1 trillion to make sure that unemployment wouldn’t go above 8 percent,” she replied.
Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive; you can’t make it up!
Again, H/T to the fine folk at CrooksAndLiars.com.
(cross posted to MnProgressiveProject; comments welcome there)
The GOP Playbook: “She/He really isn’t a ___ (fill in the blank)”
D*ck Cheney is still in the news; the subject is the outing of CIA Agent Valerie Plame and Bush The Lesser’s refusal to pardon Scooter Libby for Scotter’s role (something Bush got right). David Corn has an article on CQ.com about his appearance on Chris Matthew’s Hardball show on MSNBC discussing that issue and Time Magazine’s story concerning the last days in the misAdministration of Bush The Lesser.
That’s not the point of this post; the point of this post is how the GOP deals with their “enemies”.
And former Ambassador Joe Wilson was considered an enemy of the GOP for his speaking out about the Niger yellowcake BS. So, what play out of the GOP playbook did they run? The ol’ smear play, directed at his wife:
“Valerie Plame wasn’t really a CIA Agent; whe was just a secretary.”
Remember that? The GOP played that one over and Over and OVER, and to this day there are rightwingnuts that still firmly believe Valerie Plame “wasn’t really a CIA Agent; she was a secretary, no, wait – just a glorified coffee go-fer.”
Take the Not-So-SwiftBoat veterans: “John Kerry isn’t really a Purple Heart recipient; all it took were some bandaids.
Disgusting. Then again, coming from GOP “leadership” – it’s to be expected.
These days, the smear machine is going after President Obama:
“He really isn’t an American; he was born in the slums of Kenya.”
Unbelievable. You really have to watch:
GOP Party “Leadership” doesn’t care that it’s simply not true; what they care is that voters think it is.
The GOP Party “Leadership” uses surrogate mouthpieces like G. Gordon Liddy to spread their filth.
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
