How can Michele Bachmann be president if she won't release her birth certificate?

[meegbear]

"The first thing I would do in the first debate is offer my birth certificate so we can get that off the table," Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said last week when asked about a potential presidential run. Bachmann, who recently came out as birther-curious, has been toying with the idea of mounting one of those fake presidential campaigns lately, because it would bring her attention and money, and attention and money are what she lives for.

Bachmann claims to have been born in Waterloo, Iowa, but when the Minneapolis City Pages asked to see her birth certificate, her office did not produce it. So I guess we'll just have to take her word for it that she was born in the United States.

But, Talking Points Memo reports, that uncertainty about her place of birth is not stopping some fans of Michele's from trying to push her into the ring. The people behind the campaign to get Bachmann elected speaker of the House -- a campaign that grew to encompass "nearly 1,000 supporters" -- are now launching a petition urging Bachmann to run for president. Because she really needs convincing before she decides to get a tremendous amount of unearned press and campaign donations.

Bachmann has already been spending a great deal of time in New Hampshire, counting all the members of the MSM, and in Iowa, where she will speak to a home-schooling group about the dozens of children she has home-schooled to believe in complete nonsense.

The National Review's Rich Lowry says there's no downside to Bachmann running! "Any showing that beats low expectations will help her, and she could be a real force in Iowa." Lowry avoids expressing his own feelings toward Bachmann, but some NRO commenters seem to like her: "Bachmann is not my preferred candidate, but I welcome her into the field. She is better than Romney, Daniels, Pawlenty and Huntsman by a wide margin in my opinion." (There is some consensus that her various egregious misstatements of historical fact and other flubs were actually somehow caused by the "MSM.")

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http://www.salon.com/news/michele_bachmann/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/17/bachmann_birth_certificate

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I don't think they issue birth certificates in the underworld.

Just look for the 666 on her head.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Where is her SANITY CERTIFICATE?.WE NEED to make sure she is SANE...LOL

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Her elevator don't go all the way to the top floor I don't think.

Oral Roberts couldn't even heal her substandard mind.

Edit...I'd Certify that she's Certifiable!

[opihimoimoi]

24. What is it about the GOPer Women that they have a COMMANALITY OF STUPID???

Palin, Bachmann, Witless, Angle, ODonnel, etc etc come to mind....they ALL are mental midgets.....

[Hubert Flottz]

25. Take a look at the GOPer "Men"

pure :puke: as far as the eye can see! You could name one loser after another among the ranks of the GOP. The only way they can win is to lie, cheat and steal. "Winning" is all that matters to the fools.

[opihimoimoi]

27. Intimidate....Dominate... .Subjugate... .what is this old philosophy doing in these Modern Times..Ya

would thimk they would conform with Reason and Sanity

Tis a bit sad they continue the Fantasy they harbor...To Fool is To RULE

How archaic

[EstimatedProphet]

2. She's not black, so it doesn't matter.

[davidpdx]

3. Republican double standard

[Richardo]

4. "birther-curious"

:rofl:

[hlthe2b]

6. I'd prefer to see her medical records of birth...

I have a bet going on how many times they dropped her on her pointy little head. :evilgrin:

[yesphan]

15. I'm afraid

She's the victim of one (or more) too many lawn dart accidents.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. This won't help her, either.. >>>

She's not too bright.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110313/pl_yblog_theticket/michele-bachmann-makes-an-embarrassing-flub-in-nh

[RKP5637]

8. I've always thought of her as a displaced alien that rode in on a meteor from far

out in space, like really spaced out in space. I seriously doubt she has a birth certificate from planet earth.

[obxhead]

10. Fuck the BC, I want to see the IQ test. nt

[yellowcanine]

11. Longform vault copy please. And notarized certificate of humanness as well.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Has anyone ever seen her and Palin in the same room?

I swear they are one and the same.

[LeftinOH]

13. Whatever birth certificate she provides will not be sufficient proof of citizenship;

we need to see the original long-form COLB with a raised seal and signatures of all persons present, etc, etc. :sarcasm:

[Deep13]

14. Forget that, I want to see her psychiatric records. nt

[pinboy3niner]

16. She doesn't need one--she has been thoroughly vetted by...

[L. Coyote]

17. How can anyone mention "Michele Bachmann" and "be president" in the same sentence?

To answer my own question, someone has to lower the bar sufficiently for Palin to get the nomination :rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

18. I think the law makes an exception

for candidates who can prove they were hatched under a rock.

[ehrnst]

19. She's just certifiable. (nt)

[lonestarnot]

20. hatchlings don't get birth certificates.

[Angry Dragon]

21. People see more of her in Iowa than the people in her district

[Frustratedlady]

22. Oh, please, oh, please, oh, please...find her certificate from any other state...

but Iowa.

I sure don't claim any connection with her and I was here FIRST.

Also, any "attention" she receives will be out of curiosity. I can't believe she will get any support from people in Iowa. They will probably treat it like a sideshow...comedy routine.

Speaking of comedy routines, where's Palin? She has sure been scarce...not that I'm complaining.

[meegbear]

23. kick

[forty6]

26. I don't know, she lives up there in one of them there Northern midwest states...I bet..

she's REALLY a Canadian by birth, not an Iowan!

Apologies to Canada for that snarky remark, but no wonder Canada got rid of her early on, they can't afford that kind of crazy up there.

Besides, most Canadians know about Concord and Lexington...they are smart people.

[mstinamotorcity]

28. Are they really still talking about this

Foster Care Queen of Minnesota???a.k.a. "Pimping the State Michele Bachmann"