Michele Bachmann Does Not Understand "Negative Rights"

[babylonsister]

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Here's Michelle Bachman calling President Obama infantile because he used the term negative rights. Wait until you hear what she thinks it means.

It's a carnival of misinformation. Can we see the problem with this?

[The Northerner]

1. If I understand correctly, a negative right is the right to do something without interference?

I'll have to check.

According to one sentence from Wiki (I know): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights

"According to this view, positive rights permit or oblige action, whereas negative rights permit or oblige inaction".

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Get back to us when you know what you're taliking about, Sweetie

!!

[awoke_in_2003]

5. We could only hope...

because then we would never hear from her again :)

[lumpy]

3. There is a growing segment of US women who have taken

their hard-won rights and have turned to prostitution, political and otherwise.Bachman is just another one who has joined the club.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Yep.a negative right is a right not to be subjected to an action of another person or group

[johnnyplankton]

6. Infantilism?

At the end of her incoherent rant, she describes something as
"infantilism". Is that David Vitter's hobby with
hookers?

From Wikipedia: Infantilism - involves a sexual attraction to
diapers, and sometimes includes fantasies of a return to
infancy. Sometimes referred to as autonepiophilia.

Speaking of Vitter, does anybody have a picture of the
horrified look on his wife's face when he fesses up about the
hookers? I would say it was priceless, until I remember that
nobody deserves to be dumped on like that (pun intended).

[Bette Noir]

7. Is there anyone left in the Republican Party with an IQ over 80?

[mymomwasright]

8. Yuck!!

Diaper Lady!!