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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she regrets using the term "anti-American" while discussing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's views, a remark that could threaten her re-election bid. Bachmann told the St. Cloud Times on Tuesday that she "made a big ...
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Minn.'s Bachmann: `I made a big mistake'
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... on Friday. Her statement that Obama "may have anti-American views" drew condemnation and helped her opponent, Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg, raise more than $1 million in just a few days. Bachmann says she walked into a trap and did not bring up the term "anti-American." She says she does not believe that Obama is anti-American or that members of Congress should be investigated for their views on America. She says, "I deeply regret it because that is not what I meant." Read more: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=52...
WAAAHHHHH: Bachmann Continues to Pirouette
Hoffmania! —
... Lying between the tears - still. And Jeebus on a popsicle stick, she never watched Hardball before? She dances pretty well for a Republican. Sadly for her, not well enough to escape her own words. ...
Michele Bachmann: Chris Matthews Made Me Say It
Comments from Left Field —
Michele Bachmann accepts responsibility with one hand and rejects it with the other (emphasis in original):
Speaking with the St. Cloud Times on Tuesday, Bachmann said she regretted suggesting that Barack Obama held “anti-American” views. Referencing Chris Matthews by name 12 times in a 6 minute interview, Bachmann portrayed herself as the victim of a clever ploy devised by the MSNBC host:
Chris Matthews laid a trap, and I walked into it. […]
Chris Matthews was using the term over and over, and I should not have used it. […]
This was Chris Matthews. I made ...
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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann “is one of four at-risk Republican incumbents left to fend for themselves by a cash-strapped House campaign arm in the crucial final days of the campaign amid a tough political environment for the GOP," the AP writes. ...
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