Comments on: Today is the Iowa Caucus. We are rooting for Michele Bachmann! https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Art https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/#comment-19091 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:55:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1810#comment-19091 Bachmann has a lot of poise and confidence. But, given that her God tells her what to think and her husband tells her exactly what to say, how to act, what to wear, she can have the confidence of one with no free will. An axe cleaving wood has no doubts, conscience, regrets, questions, judgment, concerns. It can just be an axe. Bachmann can focus on just being.

This is the Zen of fascism, fanaticism, and fundamentalism where people give up judgment and fee will to become the more perfect tool for leader, party, God.

]]> By: Lorax https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/#comment-19090 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:10:36 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1810#comment-19090 @jamessweet Hate to break it to you but Obama is a democratic president by having a (D) after his name not based on policy decisions or platforms. (He talks a good talk though so I guess there’s that.)

]]> By: jamessweet https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/#comment-19089 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:53:43 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1810#comment-19089 Sadly, it looks like Romney will win the nomination, which means Obama will probably lose, barring some miracle for the economy or some other unpredictable event. Sigh.

Go, Bachmann, go! You’re our only hope for a Democratic president in 2012!

]]> By: Tony https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/#comment-19088 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:44:11 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1810#comment-19088 I don’t think dodging a question is handling it better than someone who fumbles or gets defensive. I also can’t believe that’s she’s so incredibly naive and/or idiotic to think that the social issues that she rambles incoherently on about shouldn’t be spoken about before, on, or following the caucus. Perhaps she’s not so stupid that she doesn’t realize how bad an idea it would be to air her non-progressive, backwards views on a day when people are deciding which candidate they like.

]]> By: Gwynnyd https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/#comment-19087 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:21:53 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1810#comment-19087 For all that I loathe Michelle’s positions, I am forced to admit she handles questions like this much better than Mitt. Every time I’ve heard him questioned on something he does not want to discuss, he gets very defensive body language and fumbles around not really knowing how to give a glib answer that will still get him back on the script he wants to use.

Gah. I am already so tired of the parade of the idiots.

]]> By: Rich Stage https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/03/today-is-the-iowa-straw-poll-we-are-rooting-for-michele-bachmann/#comment-19086 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:21:40 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1810#comment-19086 Iowa takes center stage
hoping to soon turn the page.
They raise a ruckus
running their caucus
with ideas from the stone age.

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