Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann Declares ‘I Am An Iowan’

[marmar]

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Congresswoman Michele Bachmann represents Minnesota’s sixth Congressional district, but lately she sounds a lot like she’s looking to relocate.

Bachmann, who was born in Iowa and appears to be setting herself up for a presidential bid, played up her local roots at a forum for potential 2012 Republican candidates here on Saturday.

“I am an Iowan,” she declared before a cheering crowd, noting that she was born in Waterloo in 1956. “I am a seventh generation Iowan -- that’s even better.”

Bachmann said her “forebears were big, tall, strapping” Norwegians. “I don’t know where I came from in the DNA chain,” she joked. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/03/minnesota-congresswoman-michele-bachmann-declares-i-am-an-iowan.html

[MadMaddie]

1. What is she doing for MN?

[onehandle]

2. Is she calling Iowans morons?

Because she most certainly is, a classic moron.

[VoteProgressive]

9. LOL....good one

[sakabatou]

3. If she's trying to channel Kennedy

She's failed on so many levels

[marmar]

4. 'Ich bin ein Idiot'

[gadjitfreek]

6. Omigod

Thank you!!!! I needed a laugh!!!!

[SpiralHawk]

31. We are all Iowidiots now.

[kickysnana]

5. Oh, I can't help myself. Born in Iowa? Oh, that explains her!

Half of my grandparents and most of my great-granparents where born in Iowa so that makes me a son-of-an-Iowan.

[LawnKorn]

7. She's got nuthin' on the lady that can see Russia from her back yard

[jmowreader]

14. I think I'm going to become a birther on this...

Sarah Palin claims she can see Russia from her front porch.

Considering that there's a mountain range to the west of Wasilla, Wasilla is fairly far from the western coastline of Alaska and mainland Russia is over the horizon from Alaska anyway, the only thing I can see is Sarah Palin uses her X-ray vision to see through the earth's crust.

This means Sarah Palin had to have been born on the Planet Krypton. Either that, or she was part of a bizarre Army experiment. Either way, I want to see the vault copy of her birth certificate.

[LawnKorn]

30. Could be terrestrial

[jmowreader]

32. It's very possible...

but I don't think either the Professor or Magneto would want someone on their team whose only superpower is the ability to put her foot in her mouth at the speed of sound.

[Chipper Chat]

8. A fukin SCARY Iowan.

Mee-shell, ma belle,
You are such a fukin ih-dee-it, my Michele

Mee-shell, ma belle
so you want to run for press-e-dent, so you hint.

(sorry John)

[Ilsa]

10. Sounds like a good excuse to toss her from the House. :-) nt

[MrsMatt]

11. then ffs, take her back!

we don't need any flippin carpet bagger.

[Bluzmann57]

17. Take her back?!

NO! We don;t need any more stone idiots. King is more than enough.

[RickFromMN]

12. A Republican Primary debate with Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin--Something to look forward to.

[Bluzmann57]

20. You know, in a drinking game between those two

I think a person would get serious alcohol poisoning especially if one did a shot every time they said something stupid. So do not drink if they ever debate.

[lib2DaBone]

13. How can this whack-job continue to function? What gives?

[Bluebear]

15. Way to insult the State in which you are speaking, crazy-eyes. nt

[Bluzmann57]

16. NO NO NO!

We cannot claim her, nor will we.
Her saying that she is an Iowan is kind of like me saying like I an Illinoisan because I was born in Illinois. Except I go to Illinois a whole lot more than she comes to Iowa. Until now. Damn! I hope she doesn't infect our great state permanently. Otherwise, I may very well become an actual Illinoisan.

[rurallib]

18. you know,Bluz, hearing she's from Iowa is enough to make me move

America, Iowa is sorry for King, Bchmann and HFCS.

[Sal Minella]

23. Also Chuckles Grassley and the Great Ethanol Boondoggle . . .

But we can make it up to everybody by getting Bruce Braley to run for President . . .

[Sonicwall]

22. I think the proper word is Illini

not Illinoisian

:hi: (was in Chicago last week)

[Bluzmann57]

19. And one more comment...

It is quite likely that nobody knows where she came from in the DNA chain. In other words, the human chain.

[LiberalFighter]

21. How does one considered themselves to be an Iowan

when she probably remembers little of that time? Her parents moved with her from Iowa to Minnesota when she was young. Sometime before 6th grade. She's been a Minnesotan for over 40 years.

[Urban Prairie]

24. “I don’t know where I came from in the DNA chain,”

Most likely the Neanderthal, Whackmann.

:silly: :crazy: :dunce:

[glinda]

25. Perhaps she meant "I am an alien".

[Canuckistanian]

26. Oh, yeah

That'll go over well with her MN constituents.

On second thought, her constituents are brain-dead morans. They don't even read newspapers or browse the web. If they did, they wouldn't have voted in someone dumber than they are.

Wait, I take that back. Maybe there IS an advantage to voting in someone dumber than yourself. It makes YOU look like a Harvard Rhodes Scholar.

[Historic NY]

27. An Iowan what?

[FLAprogressive]

28. Wonder what her Minnesota consituents think of that?

[Zoeisright]

29. Then leave Minnesota, you stupid fuck.

Her DNA chain is mostly mutations.