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***** BLOG = Michele Bachmann Press Conference = LIVE Stream ****** (Original Post) L. Coyote Jan 2012 OP
Some entertainment value will be lost with Michele gone... kentuck Jan 2012 #1
"My name is Michele Bachmann" L. Coyote Jan 2012 #2
VIDEO: Michele Bachmann drops out of presidential race L. Coyote Jan 2012 #34
Damn this is another disaster malaise Jan 2012 #3
Clowns L. Coyote Jan 2012 #5
She's not a politician malaise Jan 2012 #10
I give him credit, that is one nice tie snooper2 Jan 2012 #4
He looks faaabulous! n/t lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #11
She's rockin' those fake eye lashes! jenmito Jan 2012 #6
I have never really NOTICED them before, but today, they just jumped out at me! They're almost gateley Jan 2012 #16
Someone on MSNBC mentioned them a week or so ago. I hadn't noticed it 'til today, either. jenmito Jan 2012 #27
A la Tammy Faye Baker. nt gateley Jan 2012 #28
Yup. n/t jenmito Jan 2012 #31
She is nuts... Hepburn Jan 2012 #7
Why hasn't she memorized this speech yet? tridim Jan 2012 #8
Health care is an "entitlement"???? Skidmore Jan 2012 #9
She's a one trick pony LOL snooper2 Jan 2012 #13
Reading that bad script is not easy L. Coyote Jan 2012 #12
They put too many big words in it apparently snooper2 Jan 2012 #15
What a moron she is. MineralMan Jan 2012 #14
Never. Will. nt gateley Jan 2012 #17
All this crap before saying that she's pulling out malaise Jan 2012 #19
Thomas (I REALLY like him!) said she mentioned Obama Care ELEVEN times, and didn't gateley Jan 2012 #29
I think "socialist" was mentioned even more often. ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2012 #32
another moron. Whisp Jan 2012 #18
Even her exit speech is whiny. She makes my skin crawl. nt gateley Jan 2012 #20
"My faith in the Lord God Almighty is unshakable" L. Coyote Jan 2012 #21
Pretty perfunctory kiss with Marcus... brooklynite Jan 2012 #22
I'm heartbroken :( ecstatic Jan 2012 #23
The anti-climax was unbearable L. Coyote Jan 2012 #24
Umm, doesn't a Press Conference involve, you know, answering questions from the press? brooklynite Jan 2012 #25
Thank the stars that even the too white, too rural and too evangelical Burge Jan 2012 #26
Her speech was weird mainstreetonce Jan 2012 #30
Depression has set in in a big way L. Coyote Jan 2012 #33

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
1. Some entertainment value will be lost with Michele gone...
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:21 PM
Jan 2012

If Rick Perry drops out also, it will be very, very boring.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
34. VIDEO: Michele Bachmann drops out of presidential race
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 04:17 PM
Jan 2012

" ... we are encompassed about ...." by a really lame speech writer

gateley

(62,683 posts)
16. I have never really NOTICED them before, but today, they just jumped out at me! They're almost
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:28 PM
Jan 2012

comical.

jenmito

(37,326 posts)
27. Someone on MSNBC mentioned them a week or so ago. I hadn't noticed it 'til today, either.
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 01:01 PM
Jan 2012

But the way she kept looking down to read her speech it was sooo obvious (and over-the-top).

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
12. Reading that bad script is not easy
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:26 PM
Jan 2012

as we can easily see.

Meanwhile, Bush's global economic disaster is being blamed on "Obamacare"

gateley

(62,683 posts)
29. Thomas (I REALLY like him!) said she mentioned Obama Care ELEVEN times, and didn't
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 01:11 PM
Jan 2012

even get to the meat of the statement until 10 minutes in!

I am so sincerely grateful we won't have to be seeing/hearing her much anymore. In the beginning it was intolerable. I hope we don't hear from her until Marcus gets busted in the Baths.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
21. "My faith in the Lord God Almighty is unshakable"
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:32 PM
Jan 2012

Of course it is, because God's plan made you the big loser in Iowa

 

Burge

(17 posts)
26. Thank the stars that even the too white, too rural and too evangelical
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 12:46 PM
Jan 2012

Goppers of Iowa saw through this loon and listened to us!

But how does a cult following Mormon get that much support in that state?

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
33. Depression has set in in a big way
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 01:58 PM
Jan 2012

because, the Lord's voice in her head told her she would be the President in 2013.

How do you reconcile that? Is God playing tricks on me?

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