Today in GOP Presidential Candidate Gaffes: Michele Bachmann Thinks We Have an Embassy in Iran
Another day, another dumb-ass failure by someone who thinks they’re ready to lead the country.
Michele Bachmann has joined Rick Perry in sharing the dubious honor of being the only two GOP candidates for president who now only get media attention when they say something really dumb. To be fair, I guess this is a better position than Herman Cain, who mostly gets attention for accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Rick Perry outdid his most famous “oops” moment — forgetting his own platform in a national debate — by goofing on the national voting age earlier this week.
Michele Bachmann added to her list of gaffes today by insisting that if elected, she’d shut down the US embassy in Iran, just like England did. Problem is, we don’t have an embassy in Iran. We haven’t had one since 1979, when Iranian militants held a group of US embassy workers hostage for over a year.
Appearing in Waverly, Iowa today, Bachmann spoke about UK’s recent shutdown of its Iranian embassy: “That’s exactly what I would do [if I were president],” said Bachmann. “We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.”
Sure, it might not be as bad as Dan Quayle telling an elementary-schooler that potato is spelled “potatoe,” but knowing the status of US diplomatic relations with Iran seems like something you’d definitely want in running for the White House.
Combine this with Bachmann’s other foreign policy gaffes, like not knowing Libya is in Africa, as well as plain old dumb goofs, such as wishing Elvis a happy birthday on the anniversary of his death and saying vaccinations cause “retardation,” and you’ve got a doozy of a candidate on your hands.
Of course Bachmann’s camp instantly tried to spin the gaffe into a misunderstanding, insisting what she meant is that in a hypothetical world, if she were president and there were an Iranian embassy, she would shut it down. Bachmann, “is fully aware that we do not have an embassy in Iran and have not had one since 1980″ her spokesman said.
Luckily this hypothetical world of Bachmann’s presidency is all but guaranteed to remain hypothetical.
Welcome back to the spotlight, Ms. Bachmann.
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December 01, 2011 at 3:42 pm, Brett Cottrell said:
Her flub about the embassy in Iran was the SMARTEST thing she said in her speech. For example…
“Obama’s socialist trade policies have allowed Canada to glut the winter market with their surplus snow! It completely undercuts the economy of the great state of Green Bay.”
http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/bachmanns-nonexistant-embassy-was-only.html
December 02, 2011 at 12:45 pm, cma cma said:
The media, and Obama’s paid trolls, are on 24/7 Bachmann watch for the most trivial gaffes and non-gaffres, but the really serious gaffes by Obama are ignored. Bachmann has made fewer misstatements than the average politician. However, Team Obama media jackals have made a career of perverting and distorting her statements to turn them into gaffes. These Team Obama jackals have ignored Obama’s continual lies and gaffes, to wit:
Barack Obama said that he campaigned “in all 57 states;” that our country was founded “20 centuries ago;” pronounced Navy Corpsman “corpseman;” called “Austrian” a foreign language; and referred to “The President of Canada” and to Europe as “a country.” Speaking in Hawaii, Obama said “Here in Asia…”
There are 50 States in the USA. But there are 57 Muslim States in the world: a Freudian slip by Barack Hussein Obama.
More significantly, Obama lied about his relationship with convicted terrorist Bill Ayers, whom Obama called “some guy in the neighborhood.” Ayers was an early Obama political supporter. Obama began his campaign for the Illinois State Senate at a fundraiser at Ayers’ house.
December 02, 2011 at 12:45 pm, cma cma said:
The media, and Obama’s paid trolls, are on 24/7 Bachmann watch for the most trivial gaffes and non-gaffres, but the really serious gaffes by Obama are ignored. Bachmann has made fewer misstatements than the average politician. However, Team Obama media jackals have made a career of perverting and distorting her statements to turn them into gaffes. These Team Obama jackals have ignored Obama’s continual lies and gaffes, to wit:
Barack Obama said that he campaigned “in all 57 states;” that our country was founded “20 centuries ago;” pronounced Navy Corpsman “corpseman;” called “Austrian” a foreign language; and referred to “The President of Canada” and to Europe as “a country.” Speaking in Hawaii, Obama said “Here in Asia…”
There are 50 States in the USA. But there are 57 Muslim States in the world: a Freudian slip by Barack Hussein Obama.
More significantly, Obama lied about his relationship with convicted terrorist Bill Ayers, whom Obama called “some guy in the neighborhood.” Ayers was an early Obama political supporter. Obama began his campaign for the Illinois State Senate at a fundraiser at Ayers’ house.
December 08, 2011 at 1:54 pm, J said:
You cut+pasted this comment on several news websites. GOP spambot?
December 05, 2011 at 11:33 pm, Anonymous said:
Oh God, please make Screech Bachman go away.