Michelle Bachmann's Head is a Novelty Fishbowl

[UtahDan]

I don't care for Bachman or her views on the issues, but is that avatar really necessary?

I think it is in poor taste too. BD, can you come up with something less suggestive of fellatio?

[pellegrino]

The "Christian Manifesto" video? I'm listening to it now.

Early report: he's crazy.

(Now I'm too distracted by his repeated mispronunciation of 'inalienable')

FWIW, the "man is the measure of all things" line didn't come out of the French enlightenment - it's from an ancient Greek philosopher named Protagoras.

This is the second time recently where I've come across a condemnation of the humanism of the Renaissance/Enlightenment and a yearning for the church-state "harmony" of the Middle Ages (an "invented tradition" if there ever was one). Makes me scratch my head, esp. when the founders of the USA are held up as anti-Enlightenment Christians.

It's interesting how close some of his arguments are to Skousen's 5,000 Year Leap. So much of that early 1980s rhetoric was rooted so strongly in the Cold War that it seems foreign and dated today.

Final report: chilling.

There's an element of extremism and fanaticism in this message that scares me.

I was talking about the "How Should We Live" one, if that's the Christian manifesto then, yes.

the dude is so whacked I don't know what to make of it. It scared me too, that's for sure. To think that many evangelicals Bachman's age and younger have been influenced by this guy just makes my stomach sick, especially so considering the fact that evangelical politics basically originated with Schaeffer and his world view.


What stood out to me was his analysis of the early Christian church and its purity, claiming that there were no syncretisms whatsoever. It's clear to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of ancient Christianity that many, many syncretisms creeped in as early as 100 A.C. Humans are, by nature, syncretic beings.

[Borderline Divine]

I think it is in poor taste too. BD, can you come up with something less suggestive of fellatio?

I confess the fellatio angle evaded me. I've lived rather a sheltered life.

[YOhio]

I confess the fellatio angle evaded me. I've lived rather a sheltered life.

UD has kind of a dirty mind.

[Borderline Divine]

Now you too can have Michele Bachmann eyes! Thats right! Amaze your friends! Be the hit of your next tea party. New from Ronco.

"we use only 100% Michele Bachmann eyes"

http://bachmanneyezed.tumblr.com/post/8946165421/the-founding-fathers-with-michele-bachmann-eyes

[LA Ute]

Now you too can have Michele Bachmann eyes! Thats right! Amaze your friends! Be the hit of your next tea party. New from Ronco.

"we use only 100% Michele Bachmann eyes"

http://bachmanneyezed.tumblr.com/pos...-bachmann-eyes

[Borderline Divine]

True, the Medusa effect is lessened if she isn't looking in your direction.

[Jeff Lebowski]

BD, would you mind changing back to the fellatio version? That robotic stare gives me the creeps. TIA.

[YOhio]

Does anyone else not like her in the off-chance she's related to Tal (by marriage, of course)?

[Borderline Divine]

Does anyone else not like her in the off-chance she's related to Tal (by marriage, of course)?

Finally a single redeeming quality in the woman. Or the off chance of one.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Finally a single redeeming quality in the woman. Or the off chance of one.

She's not a terrorist.

[Babs]

Good lord you guys hit below the belt when it comes to women in politics. Do we have any word on Michele's frigidity factor?

[Borderline Divine]

The Onion on Rep. Bachmann.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/somebodys-got-to-save-this-country-from-certain-do,21135/

[Borderline Divine]

[QUOTE=Babs;635300]Good lord you guys hit below the belt when it comes to women in politics. Do we have any word on Michele's frigidity factor?[/QUOTE]

We've got no evidence either way but that two handed move on the foot long corndog has me thinking the Congresswoman is a lusty soul.

[LA Ute]

Good lord you guys hit below the belt when it comes to women in politics. Do we have any word on Michele's frigidity factor?

Nothing freaks out liberal men more than a strong charismatic conservative woman who begins to develop a following. Maggie Thatcher was the first. Irrational hatred for her persists to this day.