The GOP field, beyond the glare and noise.
Photos by Melina Mara (The Washington Post)
“Marion, don’t look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don’t look at it, no matter what happens!”
Take your pick.
Well there’s that. I just hope people are intelligent enough to reelect Obama. He’s not perfect (well no one is) and I have disagreed with a lot of the things he’s done, but he’s a million times better than the Republican candidates.
Michele Bachmann Gets Owned By An 8-Year-Old
GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann learned that protesters often come in adorable packages. A video captures the Minnesota congresswoman greeting 8-year-old Elijah and his mom at a signing event for Bachmann’s book, “Core of Conviction: My Story,” in South Carolina.
The candidate, who is an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, met her match with the soft-spoken, pint-sized activist. The video shows Bachmann leaning in to listen closely as the youngster whispers, “My mommy’s gay, but she doesn’t need fixing.”
Bachmann bolts back up and manages a “bye bye” as mother and son walk away.
This isn’t the first time that Bachmann has faced challenges to her stand on gay rights from the younger set. Last week, Bachmann was questioned by a teen about her opposition to gay marriage.
You can watch the video of Bachmann and 8-year-old Elijah in the video above.
Michele Bachman gets things straight on gay marriage
(Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Jane Schmidt, a student at Waverly High School, in Waverly, Iowa, recently asked Michele Bachmann, “Why can’t same-sex couples get married?”
“They can get married,” Bachmann responded, “but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.”
(In Iowa, same-sex marriage is the law, at least for now, but never mind that.)
She later expanded on this in a response to someone else: “Every American citizen has the right to avail themselves to marriage but they have to follow what the laws are. And the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex.”
Really?
This is the sound of a thousand heads hitting a thousand desks.
(by Alexandra Petri)
Accumulating random crap since 1976! Mostly strange humor, fountain pens, history, politics, LGBT issues, art, odd pictures from my iPhoto library, and irrelevant status updates. I'm an ESTJ. In my day job I'm a scientist or something. And I like boys.
Let ‘em all speak!
wisconsinforward: