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Politicians say the darndest things

that only through faith in an otherworldly power, are humans able to be released from their animalistic ambitions.
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No one is released from their animalistic "ambitions". (I'd probably use the word "drives")
 
Dumbest politican in America?

Oh my god. This guy is unbelievable. So amazingly fucking dumb. Georgians should be ashamed of themselves for electing this clown.

Townhall Republican - Take Care Of Yourself!

Watch the video first. The text doesn't show his smug, holier than thou attitude. I just included this because the video is kind of hard to understand.
Rob Woodall Won't Give Up Government Health Care 'Because It's Free'

WASHINGTON -- Moments after preaching extreme self-reliance to one of his constituents, a Georgia Republican told a gathering in his district that he will continue to rely on government-subsidized health care "because it's free."

Freshman Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), who served as chief of staff to his predecessor, made national news earlier this week for comments he made, captured on video by Patch.com, to a retired constituent who told him her company does not provide retiree benefits.

"Hear yourself, ma'am. Hear yourself," Woodall told the woman. "You want the government to take care of you, because your employer decided not to take care of you. My question is, 'When do I decide I'm going to take care of me?'"

The exchange continued. In video provided to HuffPost by another constituent, Woodall was asked why -- if he believes in such self reliance -- he doesn't forgo his government health care plan.

"I have a question about taking care of you. You have government subsidized health care, but you are not obligated to take that if you don't want to. Why aren't you going out on the fee market in the state where you're a resident and buy your own health care? Be an example," said a constituent in the new video.

"Your question is," Woodall responded, "my government's willing to give me lots and lots of stuff for free and why don't I take it?"

The woman followed up. "Why aren't you leading by example, and go and get it in a single-subscriber plan, like you want everybody else to have, because you want to end employer-sponsored health plans and government-sponsored health plans. You said so in a letter to me, that your goal is to get rid of the employer-sponsored health care [system]. So why aren't you leading by example and go out yourself, decline the government health plan and go to Blue Cross/Blue Shield or whoever, and get one for yourself and see how tough it is," she said. "You don't have any pre-existing conditions, I guess, you haven't had any life-threatening illnesses like I had last year."

Woodall responded that "this is why it's good to have these conversations, because there's some bad information out there."

But his constituent presses him further. "Answer the question: Why haven't you gone out and got it?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I did. It's because it's free. It's because it's free," he said. "The same reason I went out to Walgreen's and bought ActivOn and I don't have any arthritis pain: Because it's free. Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them."
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from the republican presidential debate, june 13 2011:

michelle bachmann said:
I'm running for the presidency of the United States. And I don't see that it's the role of a president to go into states and interfere with their state laws.
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michelle bachmann said:
John, I do support a constitutional amendment on -- on marriage between a man and a woman...
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alasdair
 
Romney: ‘I’m Also Unemployed’
Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own.

“I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.”

He chuckled.
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marsmellow said:
Romney: ‘I’m Also Unemployed’
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I thought I'd <mostly>escaped this dude since I'm in FL right now, but the idiocy made it to my new state :|

SubDude said:
Oh my gosh those insensitive, dumb idiot repubs... how can they ever match up to Obama and his greatness?
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LOfuckingL
/obama's "greatness"?!? I'd say "elaborate", but not interested in derailing here.
//wouldn't take back my vote for him, FUCK palin being a heartbeat away. Best vote I coulda made :\
///oh, obama IS a republican. NM that'll probably fall into the 'derailing' problem ;P
 
Here's a new nice and damning interview with Michele Bachmann that's almost painful to read. If you want a textbook definition of "dodging the issue" this interview would make a good political classroom analysis. On a side note, either Michele Bachmann is a pathological liar, or she's really that dense. It's one or the other.

Schieffer asks Bachmann about her record for accuracy

By Bill Adair
Published on Monday, June 27th, 2011 at 7:28 a.m.

On Face the Nation on Sunday, Bob Schiffer asked Rep. Michele Bachmann about her PolitiFact report card. We'll be posting fact-checks of some of her statements later today, but in the meantime, here's the exchange.

SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth.

You know, the PolitiFact, which is a website that won a Pulitzer, did an analysis of 23 statements that you made recently. Of these 23, only one they said was completely true. Seven they call "pants on fire" kind of falsehoods. Four were "barely true" and two were "half- true."

How do you answer that criticism?

Because here's one of them. You know, you said on the record there had been only one offshore oil drilling permit during the Obama administration. And in fact, at that time, there had been 270. How do you explain that?

BACHMANN: Well, you know, I think that what's clear more than anything is the fact that President Obama has not been issuing the permits that he should have been issuing on offshore drilling. That's why we're in the problems we're in.

SCHIEFFER: But it has to be more than 300 now. At that time, there had been 200-and-something, and you said there had been only one.

BACHMANN: But, as far as drilling goes, we hadn't been drilling what we need to. That's why we just saw this week...

SCHIEFFER: But that's different, isn't it?

BACHMANN: Well, that's why, this week, it's ironic and sad that the president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve because the president doesn't have an energy policy.

SCHIEFFER: Do you think that was a good move?

BACHMANN: He has a politically correct environmental policy.

SCHIEFFER: Was that a good thing?

BACHMANN: It was a very bad move. It put -- it has made the United States more vulnerable. There's only a limited amount of oil that we have in the Strategic Oil Reserve. It's there for emergencies.

We do not -- the emergency that we have is the fact that the -- the president of the United States has failed to give the American people an energy policy.

Here's the good news that a lot of Americans don't even realize. We are the number one energy-resource-rich nation in the world, according to the Congressional Research Service. But the president of the United States has unfortunately put American energy resources off- limits. We need to open those up so we can bring down the price of gasoline at
the pump. The president has it exactly wrong when it comes to energy.

SCHIEFFER: Just quickly, though, the original question I asked you is all of these statements that you have made that have later proven to be sort of true or totally false in some cases -- what's your answer when people say that to you? Do you feel you have misled people?

BACHMANN: No, I haven't misled people at all. I think the question would be asked of President Obama, when you told the American people that, if we borrow $1 trillion from other countries and spend it on a stimulus, that we won't have unemployment go above 8 percent, and today, as we are sitting here, it's 9.1 percent and the economy is tanking -- that is what's serious. That's a very serious statement that the president made.

Did he mislead the American people? Not only did he mislead the American people, he's caused our economy to go down to depths that we haven't seen. That's what's serious.

SCHIEFFER: Again, I have to say, Congresswoman, I asked you a question and you -- to my knowledge, I don't believe you answered it. But I want to thank you. I know you're -- you're very excited about what happened out in Iowa and we wish you the best. Hope to see you down the trail.

BACHMANN: Thank you, Bob.

SCHIEFFER: Thank you.
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from Politifact.com
 
^ Republicans are compulsive liars. They are addicted to lying. I'm not joking or exaggerating at all. You can be sure that almost all of what any republican says, is a lie. Or at least a half truth.

That interview really isn't all that bad. It's just how republicans are, at this point. The only thing that makes it special, is that the interviewer is pushing her a little bit, and actually asking decent questions. 95% of the media does not do that.
 
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Every politician dances around questions from time to time, but Michele Bachmann is a pro. I noticed that about her during the coverage of the 2010 elections, where she was being interviewed at her Tea Party victory party. She literally answered every single question with "The American people sent a message here tonight, and in 2012 Barak Obama will be a one term president". When asked about medicare and social security, she answered with the same response. When asked about the deficit it was the same response.

During that same Face the Nation interview above, she was asked about benefiting from government subsidies including farm subsidies that totaled $250,000 over a 10 year period ie- her family is a beneficiary of big government. She responded with the rise of limo usage among politicians over the last few years.
 
Its sad that Romney is slipping in the polls because he is a mormon and the polls are taking place in heavily christian areas (who loathe mormons). Regardless of who wins in 2012 I would much rather see Romney vs Obama so we could actually have an intelligent discussion about the problems in this country. Bachmann vs Obama would be a total mudslinging circus act.

Issue based politics is dead in this country.
 
^Has politics in this country ever been based on the real issues? With my understanding of history elections have always been mudslinging circus acts. Yellow journalism, personal attacks, ect have always played a role in politics. Atleast since the early 19th century.
 
Bardo5 said:
^Has politics in this country ever been based on the real issues? With my understanding of history elections have always been mudslinging circus acts. Yellow journalism, personal attacks, ect have always played a role in politics. Atleast since the early 19th century.
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The lincoln-douglas debates seem pretty erudite and issue-driven. :\
 
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