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CBS reports:
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says that she prayed to God about whether or not to run for political office and that those prayers provided her with a “sense from God” of “assurance about the direction” she was taking.
In a Sunday morning appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Bachmann – who will formally announce her presidential campaign in Iowa on Monday – responded to questions about statements she has made in the past that God “called me to run for the United States Congress.”
“I am a Christian, as is my husband. I became a Christian when I was 16 years old. I gave my heart to Jesus Christ,” Bachmann told CBS’ Bob Schieffer. “Since that time, I’ve been a person of prayer. And so when I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer.
“That’s what a calling is,” continued the Tea Party favorite. “If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.”
Bachmann says she asked God about running for political office.
If she were the nominee how many house and senate seats would the Democrats get as collateral damage? I may switch registration next year just so I can vote for her in the primary.
Then again, she has better political skills than she is given credit for. She was just enough ahead of the Obama birth certificate reveal to seem reasonable. She doesn’t always double down on her gaffe’s, after the Concord thing she said it was a mistake and that she can’t always remember every detail of history perfectly (I’m paraphrasing). Her answer to Chris Wallace’s question about her company and farm receiving federal money was excellent. In the New Hampshire debate, she was the only one who quoted Senator Obama to make her case against raising the debt ceiling, it was a sweet sweet move. Of course she neglected to say President Obama has said he was wrong to vote against raising the debt ceiling and that he did it because of the partisan tradition of the minority party voting against it.
On the subject of God talking to you, that’s just you talking to yourself. Go convince a police officer that “God is talking to you” and see what happens.
God never seems to tell people to do things that they don’t already want to do.
I suppose the issue now will be ‘Will God tell enough voters to vote for her?’
God spends way too much time talking to crazy people.
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God’s political judgement ain’t whats its cracked up to be. He/she continually seems to tell whack jobs to run for office. What’s with that? Maybe it’s a test?
“She doesn’t always double down on her gaffe’s, after the Concord thing she said it was a mistake and that she can’t always remember every detail of history perfectly (I’m paraphrasing).”
I don’t know if that’s true. Did she ever issue a correction for the claim that Obama’s trip cost $200 million a day?
It’s right out of the Conservative Candidate’s Handbook: When all else fails, engage in shameless pandering to the Religious Right by suggesting that you are working at the behest of “God”.
– Bachmann: God “Called Me To Run” -
interesting, the same one that told Alaskan Joe Miller to run?
Madeline is right, if God does anything it is to tell us what not to do via our conscience.
By the way, if Obama asked God if he should run and God said “yes” and since Obama then went on to win, doesn’t it mean that God supports Obama? Is Bachmann saying God made a mistake?
And she didn’t give her heart to Jesus, she gave it to her own sense of being divine.
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Would that be the same God , who was held responsible for 9/11?
Maybe the Devil made her do it. Why are we subjected to this insanity of Bachman’s?
labman57 said… It’s right out of the Conservative Candidate’s Handbook: When all else fails, engage in shameless pandering to the Religious Right by suggesting that you are working at the behest of “God”.
Labman, there is no pandering here. When she says that God picked her to for office, she actually believes it. That’s the really scary part. She’s a good politician who is is bats*** crazy. If she were to somehow become President, we’d have somebody who is even less tethered to reality and facts than George W., if you can imagine that.
Not one reporter has ever asked her to explain her statement that the “Founding Fathers worked tirelessly until they eradicated slavery. Men like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams”. Of course no one on Fox News will ever ask her to explain anything, but why someone else doesn’t ask her about that one as well as all the other loony statements she’s made over the years is beyond me.
CentristNYer, off the top of my head, I can only think of the Obama birth issue and her Concord mea culpa to offer as evidence that she “doesn’t always double down”. But that’s enough to show that she doesn’t pathologically deny goofs and that she has the political nimbleness to realize the Obama birther issue wasn’t going to remain a good attack for long. Sunday she was softening her anti-gay marriage stance saying it’s a state issue but then kind of confused it by saying she backs a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. She also used it to say she wouldn’t appoint activist judges which since Bush v Gore and Citizens United is no longer an effective argument.
God told her to run. OK.
God never told her she’s win. Perhaps God’s purpose is to give Obama and the Dems an overwhelming advantage in 2012 so that the Tea Baggers, whose “me first”, obstructionist, selfish manifesto indicates they’ve rejected the teachings of Christ, are driven from the Temple by the jawbone of an ass – Hers, as it never seems to stop talking.
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